Top 15 Things You Need To STOP DOING In Stalker 2 | Advanced Tips Guide

[@DomsRoundtable]

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[@betif00]

Liquid Rock is a MAX radiation protection artifact. x2 better than urchin. Found in the same type of anomaly. 1 of the 4 60k value artifact

[@Dylan-tp3sx]

Melee smash ammo crates and health crates! I'm sitting on over 2000 of each ammo type(except for grenades and gauss ammo).

[@Prof.Pwnalot]

Cringe that Fatshark sponsored versus. The gamemode sucks and has caused issues with the servers for the past year and a half especially when its on trial gamemode. Alpha / beta. Also cringe that you took the sponsorship. Who cares if you enjoy the game. Most of your content is clickbaity and it diminishes your credibility.

[@Slybby]

the fact that you talking about "MIDGAME" wearing a seva suite and still dont have lead artefact slots and talking about negiering artefact radiations. I mean ? why its not even needed in this gamestate. if you put a MAXIMUM rad artefact in a LEAD slot its only the positiv.

[@SnakEyes23]

Excellent tips mate! Thanks 🙏

[@fiashee]

Killing Pomor is both the right choice as well as moral and ethical choice. The guy is a fucking monster. He has been luring rookies into the field, then looting them. When you’re hallucinating you hear Caesar begging Pomor to help one of the guys who fell asleep by feeding him energy drink, Pomor refuses and later you find Caesar in the basement with a bullet in his head. Not asleep - killed. The guy has a detailed map that allows you to avoid petals and 100% not die as he’s been doing it for years. Mityay was right when he said “only a psycho would choose to live there”.

[@TheCountess666]

Luring them in? He's extremely up front about the dangers of the field and about what to do to avoid them, and he's very clear about what he does for a living further reinforcing that yes the field is indeed very dangerous. That's not exactly a sales pitch to go in. As for the conversation with caesar you hear him saying that the guy is beyond help and that they should get out of there before the field overwhelms them as well.

[@fiashee]

@ that entire quest is about him and to tell you what kind of monster you're dealing with and that the real monsters in the Zone are humans. All the dialogue during the teleportations, the clues about good guy Ceasar who was truly trying to help a rookie who was still alive and Pomor convincing him he was dead. A bullet in the head of Ceasar in the basement as a result. You know, when you die in the Poppie Field, you fall asleep, you don't die from a bullet in your skull. Who do you think put that bullet in him? And also the fact that Pomor wants the icon. What do you think he's going to do with it given that icon has brought him tons of profit? And don't forget the map that he has that helps avoid the danger altogether. I'm heartbroken how devs put all this effort to tell this horrifying story and all the gamers are just missing it. Update: as for him "helping" - given the full information that he has and the map, he's only giving you the impression of being informed and hoping you'd die anyway because he promised Ragman to fulfill the order in two weeks after all. He has the map so he can easily and safely collect the bodies, yet he sends you clearly hoping you'd add to the pile.

[@ResistantPig69]

@@fiashee I’m not trying to argue with you but it seems like you’re implying the religious icon brought him a bunch of people but it was specifically something from Mityay’s family lmao not something that random stalkers all over would know about 😂

[@Sparten7F4]

@@ResistantPig69 To weigh in- The Icon is why most PLAYERS are there too. On the job, to get the Icon. An Icon he knows the location of and could easily have taken to turn in himself. Yet he never tries, even though the dude in Vasil is being VERY LOUD about wanting Stalkers to go and get it. You're telling me he doesn't know? Further, yeah, he has the area mapped out completely and wants the bodies looted. Why would he BOTHER paying you to do the thing he could already do? In fact, by going for the bodies, you actively risk death. And becoming a body he'd loot. There is room for interpretation, to be clear. But in context of Stalker, and how often the game makes it clear that EVERYONE is trying to kill you for your stuff, more or less, the more stronng interpretation imo is that the dude wants you to die to add to his loot pile later.

[@Jaddico]

WTF DOES HE NEED THE ICON FOR ALSO?!

[@Disable-Gamer]

Something new stalker players don’t know but you need to sleep every 4 nights or your aim is off. The heavy armor and hunger makes you less stealth. Hunger attracts mutants.

[@bxsupreme3429]

Ah is that why I swear I keep missing even tho my reticle is on there head

[@MadZprod23]

Is this actually true !?

[@colindeavy3234]

Not true I have never slept sounds like a skill issue

[@xRoeJogan]

Really??? Is the aim off as in “your sights are in target and you miss” or aim is off meaning it’s harder to put the reticle itself on target?” I can’t put a reticle on a head to save my life and figured it was the controller dead zone issue people have been talking about

[@xRoeJogan]

@@colindeavy3234guy on a “Things You Need to Stop Doing in a Video Game” video talking about skill issues 😂. Reddit is in a whole different application bro.

[@FelisImpurrator]

Dom, please. You don't need to get halfway through the game to get to Rostok. You can head there literally as soon as you're allowed to leave Lesser. So at that point you can start dragging broken guns to the nearest personal stash at any time and throwing them in, then selling them to Ragman whenever you're near Rostok.

[@Stansdad420]

Does Ragman give you better price for weapon?

[@lordsithis937]

@@Stansdad420 worse prices actually for everything but he buys weapons with the red broken low (below 40) durability icon so only sell those to him.

[@FelisImpurrator]

@Stansdad420 No. He gives trash prices. Worthless for anything... Except broken (red shield) weapons, which he will buy, unlike any other merchant.

[@travisyoung6587]

Thank u

[@loganparry2676]

I think what he means is you get told to go there if you are going through the main story

[@denysskreporub3960]

Ammo types are clear to identify: white are regular, black are for armoured enemies, blue are for long-distance shots, yellow are for non-armoured enemies (ideally for mutants)

[@FelisImpurrator]

Not quite. Due to some screwball balance decisions, mutants have extremely high physical resistance and somehow die faster to AP ammo. Go figure.

[@NarutoMagicCyclops]

@@FelisImpurrator it's because physical resistance in this game translates as armor, in prior stalkers there were 3 different types of physical damage(blunt, rupture and bullet/piercing can't remember the 3rd but it affected primarily damage you received from other stalkers shooting you), so it makes sense AP does more damage as it's reducing the physical resistance gap the mutants have. Highly suggest that everyone get's one of the several durability reduction mods, vanilla durability is absolute ass to deal with currently.

[@justicedemocrat9357]

I wouldn't bother using different ammo types on mutants they are ridiculously expensive to buy and are super scarce you'll run out very quickly just stick to normal ammo unless you're fighting a chimera or a pseudo giant but those mutants are also super rare I've only fought a pseudo giant once.

[@FelisImpurrator]

A (mostly) complete guide to artifact farming: There are five types of anomaly: Chemical, Electrical, Gravitational, Thermal, and the Arch-Anomalies (or Anomalous Regions, marked with a special vortex icon on the map). The first four, the elemental ones, are designed to be farmed; they spawn a random elemental artifact, determined when you get within ~70-80m of them, from Common to Legendary. These respawn at a fixed interval; some people say it's 48h of ingame time, others say it's just whenever Emissions end, but I'm not sure which it is. Some people claim Arch-Anomalies also have respawning artifacts, but I haven't verified that. Those give the Weird artifacts, altered items with powerful (or at least very unique) effects but very strange downsides that can be hard to deal with. Each requires actually finding the artifact manually, usually by solving a puzzle or just scouring the area, because they won't show on a detector at all. And yes, every Arch-Anomaly has an Arch-Artifact. There are four detectors: Echo, Hilka, Bear, and Veles. Echo is trash and just beeps in a hot and cold fashion, with a tiny range. Hilka has the longest range according to the game, but its interface is a proximity sensor in meters, so you don't get direction either. Bear has a direction indicator that fills up in green the closer you get. And Veles just shows you every anomaly in a smaller radius, by type, with a red dot pinpointing the exact location of the artifact. Obviously, Veles is the best one, but even a Hilka or a Bear is good enough. Some are obtainable from sidequests or in the world, but the most reliable way to get a Veles is to go to late game vendors like the one in Yaniv (save before talking to them; the inventories are randomized on first interaction and reset at some fixed interval like the anomalies). 10k is well worth it - anomaly hunting and selling every dupe is the way to rack up coupons very quickly. There are multiple subtypes of anomaly, such as the chemical bubbles and pools, the electrical bursts and seeking ball lightning, the gravitational bubbles and whirligigs (fun fact: popping a bubble with a bolt at the very edge of its radius will catapult you forward at the cost of most of your health, but it's a useful way to travel fast if you have lots of healing), and the thermal jets and tracking "lava streams". There are also two special types of random anomaly that don't trigger PDA beeps, and only one shows on the Veles; the glass shards (which do show up) that inflict bleed if you don't crouch and walk slowly through them, and the exploding flash anomalies (they don't) that appear suddenly and deal tons of damage. Neither can provide an artifact if I'm not mistaken. There's also a few weird areas that are anomalous in unique ways but not considered Arch-Anomalies, like the unfinished building in Concrete Factory (there's loot up there, it's worth checking regardless, but no artifact) or the Stone Village (which gives elemental artifacts but inflicts a Psi debuff). And lastly there's the bouncy cushion, a cloud of blue mist with pebbles floating in it. These are good, harmless, and will let you survive a fall of any height. Plus there's an achievement for jumping on one from high up. There's only one artifact of each element that qualifies as Legendary. Chemical is Liquid Rock (max chem and radio protection, no downside), Electrical is Thunderberry (max endurance, max rad inflict), Gravitational is Compass (max phys resist, max rad inflict), and Thermal is Hypercube (max thermal and bleed resist, max rad inflict). Sadly, there are no Maximum Electrical Resist or Maximum Weight artifacts with no downsides. (Some sources claim the Weird Bolt gives electrical resist, but it says it just resists anomaly damage in general and needs recharging with anomalous energy; Weird Water gives 40 carry weight but makes you randomly drunk sway). TL;DR edition: -Get anything that's not an Echo asap, preferably Veles if you can get to Yaniv up north and have 10k coupons. -You can farm element anomalies at fixed intervals, and even savescum if you save past 80m away from the anomaly. -The legendary elemental artifacts are Liquid Rock (chem), Thunderberry (elec), Compass (grav), and Hypercube (fire). If you want elec resist or weight cap, the best are Rare tier.

[@darklotus6595]

Hope you have a fantastic holiday. Thank you so much for the info my dood!

[@Cirwlos]

Do you have any data on the rainbow disco lights that disappear when you get close in one of the Pripyat buildings? What's his name so it can be googled, it's an anomaly or a poltergeist.

[@FelisImpurrator]

​@@CirwlosI have zero clue. I am nowhere near Prypiat being unlocked. Currently still have the objective to go to Wild Island.

[@Eagl3xStrik3]

The ball with the gravity one 100% respawns

[@HJK242]

I think the drunk effect of weird water comes on in the point when you would be slowed down if you didn't wear it. it's really good artifact, I always carry it with me.

[@djsalamon]

In regards to the emissions - your primary/story mission changes to "get to shelter" and you have your primary quest marker (orange) showing you the nearest shelter.

[@The1stDukeDroklar]

Ah good tip, did not notice that.

[@RockoBam1]

Occasionally it's bugged and doesn't warn you or put up a marker. Happened to me twice last night.

[@branchrickey9123]

@@RockoBam1 I’ve also had the recommended shelter not actually protect me and die to exposure

[@pitcheung5354]

and if you arrive a good shelter it become "finished" so you will know the place you stand is fine. Some people still die in shelter, maybe they keep walking around and become too close to holes or windows....

[@branchrickey9123]

@@pitcheung5354 only once I arrived at a quest marker recommended shelter, and it did not protect me.

[@TheIcemanCometh]

I never knew I needed a sausage-to-koupon ratio in my life, and I'm here for it.

[@DoctorDeathFPS]

I find it helpful to repair armor while it’s still above 80% I try and fix mine before it gets below 90% it’s so much cheaper to keep it in good shape than wait till it’s at 60%

[@bryon29able]

Yeah me too except when it gets below 60 I just sell it cuz I'm not going to spend $27,000 to fix it the repair prices are ridiculous it would be nice if they fixed it

[@randomdude2546]

Its not , its the same cost overall

[@jeambeam3173]

​@@bryon29ablenot to mention the difference isnt much. The durability can be at 90 percent and it will cost 16,000 coupons

[@RileyNewcomb]

@@randomdude2546it is not. Your stuff will break faster and faster as its durability goes down. Keeping them up above 80 will drastic save you money overall

[@randomdude2546]

@@RileyNewcomb repair weapon at 90% 3 times will costthe same amount of money as reapiring weapon at 70% 1 time only thing affecting the price is weapon/armor base value , and no weapon in yellow durability wont be broken faster than in green

[@MarakMocam]

"Don't upgrade your weapons..." - while showing the Mercenary Light Suit. That thing upgrades to 0.0 kg weight. Seriously, it starts at 2.0 kg and there are two -1 weight upgrades for it. At zero weight, you can carry it with you as backup for no weight cost. See for yourself - at 20:36 in, that bottom first upgrade and the last upgrade on the series are both weight reductions of 1 each - for a 2.0 weight armor to lose 2 weight.

[@zombie113]

Mercenary Light Suit also has an upgrade that gives +10% (+8 kg) of maximum carrying weight, that is, it can be carried with you for those moments when you need to take all the loot home after a big shootout

[@Deznaj666]

His whole argument is that when upgraded items costs more money to repair. Money is absolutely not an issue in this game though, unless you only follow the main quest and nothing else. Loot guns/items and sell them, find artifacts and sell those you don't need, fulfill contracts, explore and find weapons and armors you don't need and sell them for big money, etc.

[@garrettgutierrez2677]

I don't know if you mentioned it in another video, but anomalies will do a large amount of damage to weapons and armors, but only if you have them equipped. Because of this when artifact hunting I highly recommend going into the anomaly field naked if you want to make the most profit.

[@giygas9305]

Oh thanks for the tip

[@red1670]

Lex the legend over here

[@Z_DiZ]

the only downsides to this that you also die faster if you accidentally stepped on the anomalies. having armor and artifacts on is an insurance in case this type of thing happens. a few wear and tear wont affect you much especially if you fix your equipments quite often.

[@garrettgutierrez2677]

​@@Z_DiZ It isn't as bad now. Before the update that decreased repair costs and increased anomaly sell prices walking into just a few anomalies was enough to almost completely undo your profits from anomaly collecting if you carried around good gear. I know this from experience. Would sell 20k worth of anomalies and spend 18k in repairs. Taking off weapons and armor would drop repairs to something like 2k.

[@ronsenzel9056]

During an emission, the main quest icon on your compass will change to the closest shelter to your location. This way you don’t have to try remembering where a good shelter against an emission is located

[@DraconX3]

Keep in mind, the costs of repairs are something the coming patch is supposed to address, as it is a bit wild at the moment.

[@The1stDukeDroklar]

I hope so this is ridiculous.

[@branchrickey9123]

@@The1stDukeDroklar luckily the money glitches are easy to do. No regrets

[@DanTheReaperMann]

The whole game needs patching. Between the bugs, Damage sponge mutants, broken AI, spawning issues & lack of features from previous games it's ridiculous.

[@jackmarston2515]

​@@DanTheReaperMannthe fact that 5 center mass shots don't drop human npcs is unbalanced trash too.

[@RMDetho]

About the Nice guy thing... I play my games for escapism, Everyone and their mother in the real world want to skin the flesh of my bones, exploiting me wherever and however, and I'm sure they would've sold me things just to kill me to get both the money and the thing back if they could (I guess that's kind of what Live service gaming is now that I think about it) And it's finally refreshing to live through the stalker world knowing I'm missing out on things because I'm being nice. That's the whole POINT of being nice. it has 0 value when youre nice because you'll get what you want anyway, it IS the challenge of the game to be decent despite that.. So I don't understand this need/want to play through stalker with this modernist hustle culture bullshit where you have to just meta everything because heaven's forbid you don't sell out your morality for a loaf of bread and a dusty makarov. It's kinda sad really, if you ask me, what A-Life really needs is a proper morality system where people don't want to deal with you if you're a scumbag. (Not saying you can't kill anyone, but at least you'd have to be smart about it.. When I killed that Babay guy in slag heap, the first thing I did was pick his ass up and carry him into an anomaly.. (Would've been nice if I got commended by the game for being extra, and unfortunately the body just flopped down and nothing happened, but this is the type of stuff I want to see in a game, so being the asshole isn't the most convenient and also most beneficial course of action..

[@davesmith1588]

I'm generally being a good guy in this playthrough because even though it's not an RPG as such, there is a role playing aspect. I'm not the bad guy, I'm not going around murdering everyone for no reason. In fact every time I've been given a choice to kill or spare someone in a cutscene I've spared them. Also I suspect there are faction relations in the background even though you can't see them in the PDA this time. Killing everyone might be making things more expensive for him. Personally I'm finding repair costs high but manageable, especially if I pick up a few artifacts to sell. I'm not desparate enough to lug broken guns to Rostock.

[@RMDetho]

​@@davesmith1588 Could be, there definitely are some differences, and relationships do exist in some form (maybe not fleshed out properly). As far as repair costs.. I definitely think they should be nerfed. the durability lost is usually not my fault, but either shitty fps, especially with frame generation that makes it impossible to aim properly, odd bugs here and there and the likes. I never not had money for a repair, but at this point, this is literally the only "real" use for the money at all..

[@ohnoitisnt666]

I’m with you man. I enjoy playing the lone antihero gunman with morals in a world full of backstabbers. To hell with min maxing the outcome. The joy is in the journey.

[@toonix]

The only reason I don't kill everything that moves is that dead people cannot give me any quests. It's my biggest issue with RPGs and the like - killing people minimizes the content; which is kinda obvious but frustrating anyway.

[@theponecastlive2793]

Most games that lets you be good/bad reward the good path 9 times out of ten. Kotor, Fallout, Infamous, Baldur's Gate, Bioshock, Fable etc. The only two games I can think of the top of my head that rewards you more for being mean is Stalker 2 (Debatable considering Pomor has killed countless rookies for their loot and Solder helps you out later if you spare him at no cost to you) and Tyranny, where the entire point of the game was to be an underling to an all powerful overlord.

[@Thijs-f8g]

so far shotgun is the ultimate weapon buckshot you get from almost every mob and its great for suprice atacks by hogs ect

[@CardinalCake]

For shotties use slugs, it bypasses mutants armour the most since it’s AP, cuz big brains at GSC decided every mutant wears an invisible vest.

[@acewolfgang276]

​@@CardinalCakethanks for the tip. I figured buckshot would be better but once this game is updated I'll hop back in the zone with AP

[@DanTheReaperMann]

@@CardinalCake Yeah the mutants are a mess currently. Way to spongy & the AI is braindead. (Sat on a box no bigger than a hog & the AI just froze in place for me to shoot them (13 shots to the head with a AK......)

[@zacbranch2083]

The Nice Guy/Trading section is wild to me lol, all I've heard about this series before the game came out was "actions have consequences. If you loot someone's allies they won't trade with you." I've been extra cautious to make sure I haven't killed friendlies if possible because I have worried about the repercussions.

[@branchrickey9123]

Yeah all of that was marketing lies apparently

[@FUBARGunpla]

@@branchrickey9123 it was not, having finished the game i can attest there are more than a few people and places i can no longer talk or deal with because i killed certain people. hell killing randoms has occasionally net pda's that led me on goose chases where i ended up having to deal with them (whatever bullshit that was before they died) or their friends. the issue is a lot of that has to do with A life which is bugged at the moment.

[@branchrickey9123]

@@FUBARGunpla I sure hope so. I can deal with all of the other quirks until they iron it out, but this just doesn’t really feel like Stalker to me without functioning A-life. Hope they can implement it

[@serithraz2255]

I don't kill wandering traders because I don't want to hurt the AI's feelings lol, I did kill Pomor though during the religious icon quest just cause he was a dick to me lol.

[@qpmkro]

If nobody sees you kill somebody why would anybody know ?

[@FelisImpurrator]

There's a way better unique shotgun than the one Dom shouted out in the Tyrant segment, if you're willing to take a trek. It will also put you on the path to the earliest possible source of a top tier exoskeleton (with a little bit of physics exploiting), and Yaniv settlement where you can get the Veles detector off a merchant (by chance, but savescumming merchants before talking to them is easy). The easiest way is to start from Rostok and head west to Yantar. After that, you need to head north through the Red Forest, and into the Yaniv region. When you get there, stick to the center of the map region and you'll find the Spark Base, a locked science bunker. If you can push a few crates or barrels up to the edge of the bunker and jump on them, it's possible to break the physics and get onto the roof before the main quest brings you there, and there's a Diamond Exoskeleton just sitting there for free. It's the best one in the game and has no blueprint locks on its important upgrades like sprinting and lead pockets. Worth breaking physics for, easily. Then you head north to Yaniv settlement. They already had green relationships with me, possibly because I accidentally helped their faction a bunch (not sure what side they're on, maybe Loners or Spark?) and the food vendor also sells artifacts and detectors. The tech can also upgrade almost anything except scientific armor (which might require the tech at Malachite, or maybe SIRCAA if they have one), and the merchant carries high end guns like the Dnipro, Kharod, and RAM. Don't buy any guns though - there are better sources of that tier of weapon for free, like the main one this guide is for. Just take a lot of shotgun ammo. From Yaniv, head northeast to the very edge of Prypiat, through Jupiter. You don't need to go anywhere else, just below and to the right of the V-shaped indent in the Jupiter region. There's an Abandoned Science Complex with three scientific bunkers, one of which is open, and an angry pseudogiant outside. Rush past it into the open bunker, and inside is the Texan - a unique tan RAM shotgun with bonus accuracy. Congrats, you have the best shotgun in the game bar none. Not even a contest. It's just that good. Its base mag is 14, it loads two shells at a time while firing one at a time, and it's so accurate you can land headshots on a mutant at close to midrange. Load it, use it to take down the pseudogiant, and walk home with the best gun that doesn't require any story progression or special effort. A drum mag on a Saiga or SPSA might offer more sustained fire but the RAM's stats are too good to ignore. You can literally do this fresh out of the Lesser Zone. Screw dealing with Tyrant.

[@Grape59735]

Do u know how to get the drum mag for Saiga I know there’s one with it at the end of the game is there one in the open world though

[@FelisImpurrator]

@Grape59735 I don't know of any one outside of Prypiat, sorry.

[@Grape59735]

@@FelisImpurrator do you mean the extended mag in Prypiat that’s 12 rounds or is there the 21 round one like the modded one in X7 labs at the end

[@FelisImpurrator]

@Grape59735 I have no clue. I haven't gotten to the Wild Island story mission early on. I just went around collecting the best items in the open world beforehand.

[@artinotsoparty]

Good tips. Especially the exoskeleton. Concerning the weapon i still prefer the Saiga or its unique version the Margach D-12MT. Upgraded its superior to an upgraded Texan and thanks to the mag or the exetnded version, the reload is faster.

[@Smokestacktics]

Another tip for scanners. Hilka is the longest range. Keep it after tou upgrade. Run with it out. Follow it from 100 to 40 or so meters then let your bettter scannner take over

[@drakeaustin12]

I only use AP 9x18mm ammo in skiffs pistol because it's super plentyful, and many traders sell it. It makes your already good pistol even better. With AP, it's actually a good gun. You can use it to save durability on your main guns.

[@techracoon7180]

Weird. It's like we are playing two different games. I am on stalker difficulty, though. For me, the tips are simple: - Always check anomaly fields for artifacts. - Don't upgrade your stuff until you find that the new equipment will be significantly better. - Do upgrade your current equipment because, a lot of the time, simple stuff can get you far while still being much more cost-efficient than better, unupgraded stuff. - Do side quests. Really, most of them lead you to places where you can find good stuff or stash info. - Grab the Saiga from that guy in the cave once he drops it. For me, that's the best shotgun in the game. The only downside is that I haven't found a technician yet who can upgrade it. - Hoard and sell stuff that actually gives you great money. For example, antirad, completely functional weapons and suits, and artifacts. - Go for stashes that sound interesting and ignore those with repeating descriptions, such as "I will laugh at you" or "If you read this, screw you." Look for things like "life savings," which are unique, because those are not random stashes with some vodka and ammo.

[@danielvazquez3885]

God yes finding a tech that can upgrade the saiga is a PAIN I havent explored the north of the map yet so i assume is over there ? And yeah i absolutely agree that your main weapon should be something cheap to repair,i like the "special" the silenced AK74U thst you get in the cordon but the "spitter" is also pretty cheap to fix plus it uses 9x18mm ammo

[@magicmario8314]

Im not a hundred % Sure but both tecnicians above the Red forrest schould be able to help you out with the saiga just go trough mid or left of the red forrest the right side is highly radioaktiv befor you have the quest to search the Doktor

[@danielvazquez3885]

@@magicmario8314 yeah i found her already,i feel a lack of side missions in the north though

[@Deznaj666]

Thanks. This is the basic STALKER stuff and it makes the game much easier. My guess is the creator of this video mainly did the main mission and thus ran out of money when repairing and such.

[@thed3m0n0id9]

Malachite and Cement Factory will for sure work on the Saiga for you, Yaniv also.

[@skippzz]

Here are some extra tips I want to add: 1) Stand still to regain stamina faster. Moving around a bit will slow down the regen 2) Later in the game, you want to maximize your profits. Some guns are worth more than others so you definitely want to dump AKs for ARs or GPs if you have the option. 3) This relates to tip 2 but you should always prioritize selling bucket S-2 Smgs. They only weigh like 2kgs and sell for quite a lot. This allows you to carry even more loot to sell. Correct me if I am wrong but they seem to have the highest selling price per kg.

[@el_kuks]

Two top dogs on price to kg is APBS pistol and antirads. Buket also has pretty good price to weight ratio which is roughly same as Grom, VSS, Lavina, Kharod and Dnipro. Integral cost more per kg that mentioned rifles, but it is much more rare to find in good condition

[@jwatty8429]

YOU CAN KEEP THE ARENA WEAPONS! - Follow these steps: At the end of the round, open the door and drop the item inside the room where the guy asks you to return all kit Shoot the weapon on the ground to move it further into the room with any ammo left over with your secondary (or other red weapons dropped by mobs) Speak to the guy and 'return' the kit Open the door leading into the room with the safe, and retrieve all your items. Pick up the weapon. (Make sure to retrieve items FIRST from safe before picking up! -Enjoy your bolt action sniper, sledgehammer shotgun x2! and magnum.

[@justicedemocrat9357]

You don't even need to shoot the weapons you just need to look up a little bit and then drop the weapon and the weapons will be well inside the room and just pick it them up afterwards.

[@Slybby]

Bonus Tip for scanning artefacts: Use the HILKA detector. (the antenna one) its range is around 100 Meters. Bear only have around 20. Switch if your close and you get much better results if you running around randomly and looking for artefact locations. and it even saves time if you go t o known locations because you dont need to go close or even "IN" the anomaly.

[@jeraldbuechler2360]

I'm curtain bear is 50m. So hilka to find long range, then bear to easily focus in on when you get within 50m.

[@randomosity459]

bear is 50M i run Hilka/Bear switch to bear at 50 and it'll show up

[@5kittles652]

Just look for a bunch of Anomalys and put out ur best detector... with an Open eye u always find ur artifacts and after u found 1 u know the location so why u should do this hustle to swap detectors and have extra weight on it?

[@el_kuks]

IDK why so many players are speaking about having not much koupons. I currently have 100 hours of gameplay and 1.6million fairly looted koupons and probably around extra 2 million spent by this time. Find artifact for maximum stamina - it would reduce stamina regeneration time after sprint to full stamina bar from 30 to 10 seconds without stopping. Max cap is 7 seconds of regeneration. It would reduce your frustration on time spent while moving around especially with overweigh. Get yourself two strong carrying weight boosting artifacts. Upgrade your costume to have +8kg carrying weight. It would give you maximum weight around 106kg (don`t remeber exactly) Pick arch-artifact Weird water and replace one of weight boosting artifacts when having overload - it woul give you maximum possible in game carryind weigh of 140kg for trade off of being lightly drunk. It`s not a broblem while running straight to trader. Tips on gettin less weight on your regular equip (I have 39 to 42 kgs while having heavy 9kg costume, assault rifle with 400 bullets and shotgun with 150 bullets): -Tune your weapons and costume to weight reduction - Don`t bring with you too much meds. I regulary carry 20 healkits and 30 bandages. Realistically you can carry half of that because there many of them in wild and on looted bodies - As pistol Skif`s pistol with 30-40 bulets is enough. Especially on later stages you don`t use it that much because of enemies and mutants being strong - Don`t carry around any food or drinks. Energy drinks are not required because of stamina artifact and food can be used for health regen while looting bodies When there are too much loot use stashes. If you put there your items they will stay there. So if you had big battle with many dead NPCs you can loot all weapons and ammo and put them to stash to collect later if that would be needed. Or make two journeys to trader. You can mark your stashes on map to not loose track of them. Take note on price for kg ratio. Among best: APBS pistol, antirads, bandages, Buket, VSS and Lavina, Grom, Integral, Dnipro, Kharod, RPM ammo (I personally don`t sell it beacuse still didn`t find some for sale), 5.56x45 ammo, 9x39 ammo Among worst: Vipers, shotguns, pistols (except APBS), food and drinks, pistol ammo, F1 granades, granade luncher ammo One sally with coming back with with 130-140kg gives 40 to 120 grand worth of koupons while spending 15 to 30 grand on equipment repairs

[@Deznaj666]

This. Money isn't an issue in this game. Being lazy is the issue.

[@justicedemocrat9357]

Lol you probably did the exploit.

[@el_kuks]

@@justicedemocrat9357 nah, only fair looting. By the end of game with 200h played had 4+ mil on balance

[@frankkrumnow7194]

With higher repair and lower sell prices in veteran I'd say in veteran you can easily on some trips end up loosing money. On many central story missions where you have to shoot lots of enemies and don't want to go overweight or drunk. So you have to do some painfully slow collection runs where you basically crawl back to base using all artifacts and maybe hercules drug and still be in the red with weigtht. But that is to be expected with a Stalker game they don't want to have fast travel or have to much other convienience and loose immersion. I think a moderate amount of energy drinks are nice (like 6-10) - they add up with the thunderberry artefact and without having diamond exo yet I need to swap out the thunderberry for a second night star sometimes :) Everything else I totally second: don't even pick up a yellow Viper after finishing lesser zone. I like price > 1000 * kg (say 2700 for your typical Ak74 U) If yellow gun is same price per kilo as red gun throw away the red as Ragman's price will be much lower. Has anyone computed how much Ragman Prices are reduced (to better compare red vs yellow)?

[@Sepuku78]

Max stamina regen is about 4 seconds if you have the right artifact and an exo with 5% stamina bonus

[@birjarualin890]

9:38 so instead of being a loner, start being a member of the bandit faction or something that even the bandits despise

[@adamaj74]

The incoming repair cost nerf will take care of many of the points in this video.

[@whangadude]

Are they actually going to do that? Coz that'd be great, it really does seem like they screwd it up somehow when designing the game, like when play testing they had infinite cash and forgot that players wont have that lol

[@fluxcapacitor05]

Legit? I've heard so many rumors of coming patches but they're so all over the place I don't know what to think.

[@timtams5283]

Bro, what do you mean repair cost NERF?! The economy is already so broken and youre already constantly broke with repair cost costing in the thousands (for each damaged equipment!) while you're only earning 2.5k for every mission

[@LainiWeiz]

@@timtams5283 Nerfing the cost to repair items means the price will go down.

[@Babagadouche117]

Gonna have to “nerf” this whole game cause it sucks ass lmao

[@Jcewazhere]

There's a neat mod that adds "AP" "FMJ" or whatever to the ammo box icon, very handy for IDing what you have equipped. I never even noticed those dots, at least the fire rate selector is clear.

[@fairplayer916]

One thing I'll add on the bit about armor, thoroughly explore the anomalous zones. The ones with unique icons like the poppy field. Trust me, it's worth it. Way better armor flexibility afterwards

[@DemonGroover]

The current trader glitch where you get much more when you sell items is the best way to alleviate the stupid repair costs atm. Until both are patched.

[@riandickson5130]

and the more it gets mentioned, the higher chance it gets patched sooner rather than later. it's why I haven't mentioned it outside of private discord servers.

[@GameDevNulman]

I mean, if you want to glitch stuff, just get UETools or mods and just get rid of the issue.

[@fernandobarbosa220]

@@riandickson5130 And thats why i allready have 1 million😊

[@ligmalady]

It's patched

[@DanTheReaperMann]

@@ligmalady Love how the devs patch an exploit in a singleplayer game but don't fix basic problems first....

[@The1stDukeDroklar]

I'm not far enough to get try the better detectors but I use the Hilka detector as my walking-around detector since it has a long range. Once I get to within 50 ft I switch to the Bear detector for easier locating. They really need to lower the repair costs. It's absurd right now.

[@gingyplays9843]

I think everyone that is repairing their guns often dont realize that headshots and penetration are important

[@gingyplays9843]

I've only repaired my guns 4 times in the 24hrs I've played

[@TheHyggeHaus]

Are you saying that repairing your gun makes headshots and penetration do less damage? I don’t understand your comment. I repair every run because it’s cheap.

[@branchrickey9123]

@@TheHyggeHaus less shots = less repairs

[@TheHyggeHaus]

@@branchrickey9123 Makes sense now! The game makes the headshot super valuable. I can't believe how spongy enemies are with torso shots

[@branchrickey9123]

@ Yeah enemies are very spongey. Head shots and AP ammo help a lot

[@Alex-sl9dc]

First thing I did was get an artifact that lowered my rad, so that I could use the weight+ artifacts. Now I travel with light meds/ammo and able to carry plenty of good sell-able weapons/armor, have 300k now and can upgrade anything and repair as needed. Also on repairing and selling. Try to do so in a camp that as green icons for you, better prices.

[@kaiburns4257]

To mitigate the durability thing, i find its cheapest to repair weapons at around 65% durability or higher, preferably before 75%. typically, ill just go artifact hunting with some jank gear to repair my good stuff after a main mission. its best to not let your gear get the yellow damaged icon on it. preventative maintenance works really well in real life, and it translates into this game.

[@Retnaburn]

Two things. 1: There are probably multiple endings tied to your choices. 2: The game has an invisible faction system. This means you probably don't want to be an asshole (unless you're doing an asshole playthrough), and you probably don't want to kill people you trade with (unless you're doing an asshole playthrough).

[@shawnofdadead1805]

Sadly he doesn't know this effects prices of things...

[@careyunknown3449]

Personally..idc about the ending. I just want to finish this hard ass game

[@davesmith1588]

That's what I was thinking, you might be closing off potential late game options/endings by being a dick. It did affect what ending you got if you went to the wish granter in the first game

[@udtojanpestillos2094]

I have 1x compass artifact and 3x magic cube artifact. Now i m a complete bullet sponge and absolutely mutant tank.

[@centrallplays]

AP version ammunition always has some black detail on the box, a black stripe or even more depending on the ammunition, it is not so easy to see in the icon at the bottom right, but in general I can notice it.

[@yellowflash7696]

Yeah i noticed it right away. Fmj is white

[@firedemon387]

One tip I found is that the three white dots next to the ammo type will indicate ammo. Top dot highlighted is standard ammo second button is armor piercing and I haven't figured out bottom dot yet.

[@FelisImpurrator]

​@@firedemon387That's expanding or flat ammo.

[@jeambeam3173]

I do wish on the weapon wheel it would tell you because I basically have to check my bag to double check and make sure I have the right one equipped

[@91donwilson]

I love it when you crouch and knock a container off a big drop when you're trying to open it lol

[@wampir66]

You can use special bullets on special occasions - Like a on Monolithians :P If you repair your guns after every raid the cost is really low. Now after the update even less, same goes for the armor. You need to update the video :D

[@lionelarystar8746]

The repair cost is no joke lol, after a long main quest session most of my gear are down to 50%, cost me almost 100k to repair everything. Luckily i have some spare artifacts i can sell to get some money back.

[@acewolfgang276]

Was the long Main quest the SIRRCA section? I really wish they had a tech and stash in there or at least let me leave so I can sell stuff and repair my guns and armor

[@acewolfgang276]

Was the long Main quest the SIRRCA section? I really wish they had a tech and stash in there or at least let me leave so I can sell stuff and repair my guns and armor

[@lionelarystar8746]

@acewolfgang276 had to give up so much loot too, half the time I spend during that compound is inventory management so I don't reach over 60kg (doesn't have artifact to increase weight when I do the quest), the whole quest is quite a frustrating experience.

[@madskills6387]

On the topic of not being a nice guy you can keep the gear you get from the arena in Rostok by dropping the gear on the doorway before talk to wheezer and he takes everything away, after his dialogue pick up the gear back then drop them again on the doorway before you head back to the safe to retrieve your gear, after you walk past the doorway pick it all back up then you can keep it. I recommend you do this after the third fight then you can get some high end gear early on. This works both ways to sneak in extra gear like medkits and such by dropping gear then picking it back up after your own gear gets taken away. Make sure to save before doing it because you could lose your own gear if done wrong because it can get taken away as if it were arena gear. Do with this information what you will.

[@AdamStankard]

patched out. the weapons despawn when you leave the room now. even if they are in your inventory.

[@drvivekmallan]

​@@AdamStankardi did it yesterday

[@trapmouth]

Still works. Drop them AFTER talking to the guy, into the next room (in front of the blue safe)

[@Butterflyewski]

On the contrary, be nice and polite to the dominant function in the area, and when they like you, you will pay less for repairs. When you have a green reputation with a faction, you will get a discount on services and goods. Do missions for the faction (killing dogs, searching for artifacts, etc.) help in side missions to increase your reputation.

[@MaxDeckard]

My tip: observe, dont always kill.

[@FATxAZZxGONExCRAZZZY]

Some thoughts on the tips in order of appearance: 1. Specialty bullets are only good in the early game.. with a few caveats, i find keeping something like 30 expansive shotgun shells around for "Oh sh*t" mutant moments to be quite helpful at all stages of the game. Later in the game the gun stats offset the need for AP ammo and i find the flat ammo to be pointless since you'll practically never be fighting at ranges that matter for it. 2. Everything can be sold, including broken guns, always bring as much loot back as you can and chuck it in the stash if you cant sell it then or if you cant get a good price at current location. 3. Always keep your Hilka detector out, then switch to Veles for safer retrival ^^ 4. Yes, just be careful not to piss factions off, it can be a doucey. 5. Cant be bothered with this personally. 6. On top of your tip id say try not to sell unless youre friendly (green icons) with the trader as well. 7. Sledgehammer is legit! 8. Works on medical boxes too, sometimes the items can fall through and land on the floor so glance down when popping open breakable containers. 9. Gotta love unloading 200 broken guns on ragman in the span off 10 minutes lol. 10. When sheltered and standing in a safe spot always quick safe, just in case (particularly if youre like me and wanna look at the lights :P). 11. I made a point out of going on stash runs several times, i wish they were less generic since at some point you just end up dumping most of the stuff on the floor. 12. Even before more portals spawn, the ones that already exists in the world tend to lead to good stuff. 13. You only need a psi and physical set, the psi set is going to work against anomalies too and radiation is by far the easiest to negate using an artifact with radio protection or two, 14. Since the economy balance recently i have had zero problem maintaining fully upgraded, late game gear. Maybe its all the artifact hunting i do, dunno. 15. The ammo icon changes too. Light color = regular, black trim = AP, Yellow = Expansive and Blue = Flat. scaling the UI up helps making it easier to see the colors at a glance.

[@BIOSHOCKFOXX]

Who the hell sells ammo :D I only sell food and drinks if I have too much and I know what is my playstyle, as well as grenades, since I do not use them that much. I do not know about mid-game or late-game situation, maybe I will need those grenades, but early on I scavenge quite a lot of those that I can sell for thousand or a bit more. Ammo is the only thing I wont ever sell, I loot every weapon and unload it, and then, if it's not critically damaged, I take it and sell it off. I hope they will fix the durability, as there is no use upgrading your favorite weapon if it degrades too fast, and it's quite unrealistic for it to degrade that fast, depending when it is manufactured of course, or how well it was taken care of before you got it, but a game shouldn't take these real life factors into consideration. Another thing which was weird you mentioned, the detector, you are suggesting not using detector at all if you don't have that particular later model? It's quite a weird suggestion.

[@giorgioosiris3216]

I've started selling ammo that I have a full stack of already, for instance, I'm never gonna shoot 900 pistol bullets so I keep the stack in my box and sell excess...

[@ohnoitisnt666]

@@giorgioosiris3216this is the way.

[@Katojana]

I sell ammo for weapons I dont use (SMGs for example)

[@Mipianer]

Ammunition packs can be distinguished by the colored edges: black edge = armour-piercing, light edge = Holspitz, single-colored ammunition pack = usual. The colored edges differ for different calibers, the example is based on the pistol ammunition

[@tylersimplot13]

For the ammo types the box type changes in teh bottom right to, so you need to remember the type of ammo from teh description in the backpack and then you will know what it is on your play screen. Notches work too

[@cakekilla101]

I have some critiques of this video: 1. Won't killing random friendly stalkers in the field damage your trader/technician rep which far outweighs a little extra coupons. 2. The trader difference you're talking about is only between those that are barkeeps and actual traders, provided you have the same rep for both. 3. I have found only certain AP rounds damage weapon integrity quicker 4. Honestly if you check the online interactive stalker map it will show you where artifacts are that u can farm, so you wouldn't need the detector out at all times.

[@rick5078]

the further I get in this video, the more bullsh*t the "advice" gets. better off not listening to this dude.

[@robsinternationalmusicbox]

Dude 8:50 why? This is so wrong …

[@jityjedi]

For the section where you were talking about ammo there is another indicator of what ammo you are using. It’s the pic of the ammo box. All the ammo boxes are a different color. The color indicates the ammo type. The AR ammo is more easy to explain. The basic ammo is just a blue box, the armor piercing has a black stip going across the box and the flat has a different color blue strip across the box. If you pay attention to all the ammo box color variations you can tell what ammo you’re using at a glance. Hope this tip helps. Love the content 👍

[@RotGodKing]

The tip about staying still while in a building during an emission is true. I decided i might as well explore a building while i was waiting for the emission to end and ended up dying during it because it just randomly killed me

[@Eagl3xStrik3]

I stood still in a corner with no wi down anywhere near me in a solid building and still died.

[@branchrickey9123]

@@Eagl3xStrik3 not all buildings will protect you

[@rvatola9170]

An emission takes down about 15% condition on everything you have equipped (not even out) per second as well, so even if you survive for a few seconds your pda coupon account will not!

[@MalJong-do1zn]

One thing I might add and this I learned by doing when I decided to start the game new for a second time. Try to avoid going out in the zone at night. Sleep till it is early morning, then you go out. Try to do one mission at a time, and for the rest of the time before night, look for some stash. Once you did that, whatever loot you have to sell or store, go back to the settlement and repeat the cycle. By doing this, you don't rush through the storyline, and you are also collecting enough resources for late game.

[@EvilTim1911]

I wish the game had some sort of reputation system, at least a hidden one. I noticed several opportunities to screw quest givers over and end up with much better rewards but your character is basically a scumbag then. I don't think there are any consequences for this but it would be cool IMO if this sort of thing gave you a bad reputation which increased shop prices or something. There's a quest in Garbage where you are asked to put vodka in three stashes. These stashes have some really amazing loot but you are of course asked not to steal from them. I stayed honest here thinking there must be a really awesome reward if you resist temptation, but nope. You get like 1000 coupons and are even criticized by the quest givers for apparently doing a bad job, despite doing exactly as told. Maybe there's a payoff somewhere later down the line. So as it stands, the "don't be nice" tip in this video should be followed but I really think that should have some repercussions, since in the real world you'd definitely be labeled as untrustworthy

[@NarutoMagicCyclops]

tbh that's really the only quest in which I outright decided to take their shit, easy way to get a better detector and some artifacts to sell(for me at least, I got a couple legendary artifacts early on)

[@irishwoop9062]

So right after the sircca quest if you do the saving zalissya side quest and go through the big monolith fight at the end go look in the room to the left of gaffer when he gives the victory speech. There are 3 people in seva suits and they all have their suits in their inventory. Great little money boost or good armor to just have on hand

[@magicpyroninja]

The game gets harder towards the end. Does that mean there'll be hundreds of dogs every time I go anywhere instead of dozens?😅

[@anthonyduffy6953]

The dogs are worse than the vampire mutant things

[@magicpyroninja]

@anthonyduffy6953 I haven't even gone to the communications Sphere building I'm still pretty early on in the campaign but I had to have killed at least a hundred dogs by now I was walking and I saw a tower in the middle of a field and I was like that. Looks like a good place for some loot to be climbed up there. Did find something went to go back down and there was like 30 dogs surrounding. It died like eight times to this situation

[@anthonyduffy6953]

@@magicpyroninja was that the tower in the mission with the bull type enemies at the bottom with the dogs near it? With the guy in the top?I was doing that yesterday. i literally got to the sphere today, there is loads of dudes round there watch out.

[@magicpyroninja]

@anthonyduffy6953 just a random two-story wood Tower in the middle of a field

[@magicpyroninja]

There were a ton of regular dogs but there were also these weird kind of ghost dogs that would pop when I shot them

[@zackthebear7873]

If you look at the corner. Special ammo is darker. For example pistol 9mm ammo. Standard is green with white background. Armor piercing is green with black background. Almost always armor piercing has a darker coloring

[@shoehat6874]

Thanks!

[@DomsRoundtable]

Thank you so much for your Super Thanks! 😁

[@standardmax4373]

If you open the inventory wheel you can see the ammo type your gun is equipped with. Only difference on the ammo boxes is the color, white is regular and black is armor piercing

[@Enigmatic..]

If you're going for head shots (which you should be) then it matters not the type of round.

[@FelisImpurrator]

Helmets require higher penetration. But that's when you need to start upgrading to better guns. Also, mutants have ridiculous physical resist, meaning armor piercing ammo is actually better for them than expansive or flat.

[@Sepuku78]

Selling logic is quite simple - sell items to those who sell similar items. Sell food and drinks to bartenders, guns to traders and medkits to medics. Some locations like Rostok have more than one trader - then choose who gives more.

[@benboberg3156]

He always mentions lacking coupons, but i am just hanging out with 1.3 million coupons. I literally cannot spend all them, even with repairing all the time.

[@thelankylemur]

You came in after the economy update.

[@benboberg3156]

@thelankylemur994 I've literally been playing the game since release? It's not hard to have money all the time if you actually manage the game well. Hunt artifacts, sell the guns you don't want. Even the little thing.

[@acewolfgang276]

​@@benboberg3156been doing that and still find myself broke after repairs and upgrades but it's worth it

[@el_kuks]

Same here. Having 100 hours of gameplay and 1.6 million. Probably people don`t bother with getting overweight and slowly moving to trader fully loaded with loot. With stamina and carrying weight artifact boosts paired with weight reduction tunes and incresed carrying capacity tune for costume you can easily make up to 120 thousands of coupons in one 140kg load

[@shagrathofcirithungol9010]

Quite nice guide! But I have to mention that if you sell all the exceccive gear that you find in stashes and also sell all the spare medkits/antirads/food/drinks and RGD-5 hand grenades - you`ll get enough kupons to repair 55-70% damaged equipment every single return to camp

[@Sicklebeaner]

The starting scanner is not hard to use. Use it to hunt artifacts. The coupons are always worth it. Telling people not to use it is bad advice

[@jeambeam3173]

It is if there's literally better ones

[@Sicklebeaner]

@jeambeam3173 But you can't get the better ones till later in the game, first 10 to 20 hours, you are locked with the starting scanner. Use it.

[@pale2502]

Just started my second play through and I’ve found five artifacts with the first scanner in lesser zone

[@FelisImpurrator]

​@@SicklebeanerNo you aren't. The quest Budmo has a free Hilka if you go to the right stash and don't mind being a dick (and you don't get anything worthwhile for being nice there anyway), Bear can be in the vendors as early as Concrete Factory and I think lying around in a couple places, and Veles can be bought at Yaniv up north with no story progression outside of leaving the Lesser Zone.

[@riandickson5130]

I think the not using echo is specifically for the idea of just having it out while you're travelling just in case. def use it if you're actively going into an anomaly to hunt artifacts, but the range on it is so small that you shouldn't use it for "idle" artifact hunting.

[@IN5ane22]

There's quite some Mods out already that help, like a mod that shows you what ammo you are using, or an economy rebalancing mod, just check the mods on nexus mods, also some mods help get rid of those fps drops i saw you experiencing.

[@Kinkkis]

22:18 and defrent color ammo boxes😂

[@MrRismm]

I believe in the tab menu it is the most clear way to figure out ammo type

[@henrycastle6584]

Im like halfway through the video when I post this so im sorry if you say the same thing later, but for me, Lens, the tech at the starting area, is by far the cheapest when it comes to repairs. You can save thousands from a full kit repair by going to that guy. I always find the nearest guy and have him tp me there. Also weirdly, the trader on the same area, gives you less than other traders so keep that in mind :D.

[@Enigmatic..]

Dude you don't need your scanner out all the time, its kind of obvious where they are. Anywhere you find a large concentration of anomalies you'll normally find an artifact.

[@Retnaburn]

There are underground artifacts, and there are loose artifacts found hovering over a loner's corpse. You're screwing yourself.

[@pale2502]

Not true. I’ve found three or four off of scientists that were dead in pretty random spots

[@The1stDukeDroklar]

If you keep the Hirka detector out, it will detect artifacts at about 90 out when you cannot see an anomaly fields. I switch to the Bear detector when within 50 ft. I have found many artifacts I would've missed if not for the Hirka detector being out while I was traveling.

[@GameDevNulman]

You can also find artifacts outside of anomalies, there are corpses around the map with an artifact next to the corpse.

[@Enigmatic..]

@@GameDevNulman Very true

[@Omnispleesh]

The way you tell ammo types apart is by the color of the label on the ammo box, standard has white label, AP has black label.

[@pr0faker]

make life easier and get the ammo type mod from nexus. gives you colored dot to do so. A lot of ammo types are almost the same, especially ak ammo and 9x18 rounds. its retarded how stupidly they implemented that feature to see what ammo type you use in order to keep hud minimal.

[@Delc0]

For the ammo types, I've noticed that most ammo boxes with a black stripe on them are armor piercing and thus the ones without a black stripe are regular. Unsure of the expansive ammo boxes but the only one I've seen was a light brown/gold color box.

[@serenekaos2k10]

White = Generic Ammo Black = Armor Piercing Blue = Flat Yellow = Expansive

[@TomKraus]

One note about broken items and the Stash. Since you can sell broken (red) gear like weapons and armor to Ragman in Rostok. There are tons of battles around settlements with your stash, it's worth while going around and dropping all broken items in the stash after those battles and at some point have multiple runs in Rostok from your stash to Ragman. This makes for a good cash flow and I wished I knew it earlier before I discarded all the broken guns.

[@soldier660]

7:03 NEVER !!!

[@monkeycake2612]

I didn't find a bear detector until 86 hrs in, and by then i had a massive number of artifacts being a STALKER veteran helps so much

[@NukeOverlord]

Tip, install the mod that reduces repair costs down to 20% of the original value. Now the economy is interactable!

[@enzopastrana9043]

A suggestion I would make is to always have AP ammo on skif's pistol, if you fully upgrade it, it would be easily one of the top pistols of the game

[@GingaNinja121]

Turn music OFF! Listen to the zone, you'll hear a lot more going on around you without the constant music in the background

[@WillyWylde1919]

But the music is so good and adds more atmosphere imo.

[@Nekminute]

The Saiga shotgun is better since it is magazine fed, you can also find a bigger magazine for it. You can drop a bloodsucker in a single charge

[@giga_alphachino]

Saiga is basically the best weapon in the game for close/medium ranges because of its dps. On the plus side, it also has cheap ammo, cool upgrades and faster magazine reload

[@judashellenthur]

Translation: The Coupon economy and repair costs are terribly balanced so mod the game to fix it. Got it lol

[@ukaszjaworski1844]

During emmision, your main quest marker switches and it points to the nearest emission-proof shelter, so just follow that and you will get into safe shelter

[@randomdude2546]

Top things you should stop doing , 1. stop playing the game without a mod to reduce repair cost cause devs didnt think economy thru at all

[@intox8867]

Repair costs should be adjusted in the coming patches

[@Retnaburn]

I'm walking around with a 200k surplus, fully upgraded and repaired, without mods, and I just got to SIRCA. Git good.

[@pale2502]

@@intox8867game should have been finished already. Economy is the most basic thing and it takes very little time to tell that something is wrong.

[@randomdude2546]

@@pale2502 not to mention massive FPS drops when coming near a town with like 10 NPCS , It feels like they relased an alpha build and you need at least 3 mods to make this playeable 1 for the game to fucking run at all ,2 for repair and 3 to make enemies not spawn 5 meters behind your back at random for no reason (cp 2077 police flashback )

[@johngaynor4363]

@@pale2502 dude this game was developed during a war, the lead dev was killed, and they had to move things out of Ukraine.

[@sergeyfilinsky5398]

Upgrading weapons and armor does increase their sell cost, but doesn't increase repair cost because it's based on base price of item. So definitely go in and upgrade them to max, and especially do wear off reduction ones because you'll save bunch of money on it. If you want to test yourself - take a bit damaged piece of armor that you can repair, save, upgrade it and compare repair prices before and after upgrade :)

[@CryptoChristopher]

Skip the fluff. Video starts at 0:52

[@ecobasetech4558]

Less than a minute for an intro out of a 23 minute video is hardly "fluff"

[@meep1755]

Thanks dude as I don’t care about the fluff.

[@iamzotiyac]

Fried attention span

[@TheTexansnake]

On the ammo, when you switch types, the box emblem will change as well. So just make note of which is which and you are good to go.

[@UnrealHotShot]

I really appreciate the aversion to spoilers, I don't watch these types of videos to create a checklist of everything I need to do doing and everywhere I need to be going. I watch to maybe learn a mechanic I wasn't aware of. The rest of the game I like to play at my own pace (which is very slow) and just emerse myself. So thank you.

[@R4ymisteryo]

I would say there is a fair compromise with the bullets. Sure the regular type wears the gun down less, but in case of mutants or exo suit enemies you are going to chew thru your regular ammo in which case you might wear down the weapon more. Upgraded weapons do not wear down that much and if you gotta choose to either 2 shot a Bloodsucker with even a Boomstick or 3-4 shot with an AK or get rid of a Chimera quick, which takes mags to the face even from the Saiga using regular ammo, then you see the point of using special bullets. Even more so on Veteran diff. Unless you wanna chew thru your medkits and regular ammo, and you will still have to repair your gun and armor.

[@victorrotaolsson9916]

If you open your weapons wheel you can check what type of ammo you are using aswell as change to singel fire, burst (if thats a option) and auto and change your ammo type

[@mcrispywerewolf]

so firstly the color of ammo boxes helps to see which ammo your using and then i stash ALL looted items and only carry a pistol,5 nades , smg/rifle, full body suit,2 ammo boxes of 100 each (regular),bear detector, energy drinks x7,3x different foods,4 health kits,10 bandages and 4 rad pills. saves me carry cap for whenever i go out artifact hunting.(always try to get the bouncy ball artifact as soon as possible since it REALLY aids your recovery. Lastly always run anomalies! hoard them and only sell when you have about 20 stashed that your not using!(dont sell the strange artifacts like blue poppy or bouncy ball etc,they are too valuable and aid you better! and remember to do artifact quests for the shopkeepers to unlock more variants that only spawn after using the thingamabob like "Petal" and once those are done they spawn later in anomalies to sell or use.)this way i've saved up nearly 5mil coupons and always use "skiff pistol" as if comletely damaged it still is super cheap to repair and also note it gets cheaper and upgrades too if the faction is green in good standings with the player.explore and go crazy once you have reached the "garbage zone area" and forget about main mission as now the whole zone is open for missions! and on the left of garbage is Rostok so you can go there,do missions and then sell the broken red looted and unnamed gear.once there you can run missions for freedom bartender that pays really well after you have rested.(PRO TIP:GET THE BLUE POPPY FLOWER! makes traversing the zone easier)

[@averageanne2969]

The ammo box icon will also change when switching ammo, but it's not the easiest to tell and does not follow consistent/obvious color/label patterns between different calibers.

[@vladi2092]

In first part where about bullets, for avoiding of electro attack, just remove artefacts to your backpack, and electro will ignore you)

[@NarutoMagicCyclops]

wait that's literally it? wish I knew that, then some monolithians would be alive right now lol

[@Slaying_Games]

To see ammo type, open weapon wheel. In the center you can cycle your ammo. The boxes with more coloring are the hollow point and armor piercing rounds. The more basic, bland boxes are the regular ammo

[@Panda165YouTube]

Dons Roundtable is to STALKER 2 As Angry Turtle is to FO‘76. Brilliant guides.

[@jesseplouvier6374]

It is pretty easy to recognize what ammo type you're using based on the color of the ammo box. Armor piercing has more black on the box, flat is blue, expansive is yellow. You didn't talk about it, but those stupid electric anomalies won't follow you if you have no artifacts equipped.

[@robertknight6676]

I just started the game yesterday and I’m hooked, I just love this game and still learning about the game, love these tips dude 👍

[@danbrowning4000]

On the emission issue, when you're in Cordon it tells you to go to a shelter you can't access yet, instead head to the vehicle park past the broken train bridge which allows you shelter in the top floor on the left of the main entrance, took me 5 deaths to realise I couldn't reach the indicated shelter, I even tried spamming medkits while hiding in the pig farm, no good

[@XHero1330]

For the ammo types, yeah, they need to make it more clear what is what but the icon for the box can help ID it at slightly more than a glance. More commonly, I end up opening inventory and checking what I have at that amount.

[@EVIL_THOUGHTS]

*Ammo types have different color codes, black, yellow, blue, you'll recognize it even on the small picture at the bottom right of your screen with a little bit of training.*

[@Ksix1]

The tip on selling your gear and then killing the buyer made me laugh. I'm gonna do that as often as possible lol

[@LainiWeiz]

I noticed the different prices at different vendors thing but I meant to check if it was a case of ya know like a barkeep will pay more for food than weapons whereas a gunsmith would be the opposite. Nice to know it's as simple as comparing one item at each vendor and going with the highest.

[@djarthurlooby]

I normally don't even bother upgrading regular weapons just the names and special ones. U can find basically in the lesser zone two names guns that can carry u almost easy through the whole game. And they normally already come pretty upgraded when u get them.

[@Pliskin2894]

I subbed for the Sausage to Coupon ratio bit alone lol. Also, I know that emission tip first hand, literally died in a shelter myself by getting to close to the windows 🤣🤣

[@009013M3]

This might seem like a novel concept to some, but you need to preserve your weapons and armor to limit repair and maintenance costs. In a fight, use cover aggressively, stay low, make use of the hold-breath key for longer ranged shots, prioritize head shots, and look for weapons that have a high penetration value to limit the effectiveness of enemy cover and armor. You don't need a ton of power to kill a human enemy with a headshot, but insufficient penetration will let them shrug your rounds off like spitballs if they're behind cover ro wearing armor. The less you get shot and blown up, the less damage your armor will take, and the less you will need to spend on repairs. Run and explore with your detector out, not your gun. The environment causes damage to your weapon while exposed, but not while slung or holstered. You should be situationally aware enough not to be surprised at close range by enemies to where the time it takes to put away your Hilka causes significant danger. Use the bolts to stay out of anomalies. They will damage both your weapon and your armor. Firing your weapon causes damage to it, so reduce the number of shots you fire. This also extends your exploration range and limits the amount of ammo you have to carry, while also increasing the volume of loot you can bring back. You can enhance the durability of your guns to reduce the number of times you have to go back for repairs, and you can in many cases enhance penetration value to reduce the need for AP ammunition. This also allows you to shoot through increasingly heavy cover with progressively less damage dropoff. In every playthrough I see, people try to play the game like Calladooty and then complain that STALKER is not only copying aforementioned games, but also not doing a good job of it.

[@rick5078]

this guy.. ^_^ better advice than any given in the video. with these tactics you can even take the sphere head on with just the beginner scoped ak-74s and beginner armor. Take out the sniper up in the tower at the entrance of the complex, go up to his perch and use that to eliminate the patrol of 5-6 soldiers, go down to the next building and use cover to eliminate the rest of the patrols and you can waltz right in the front door if you wanted to. Did that for fun when I went to grab the journalist's stash there. had maybe 15% wear on my gun by the end of it.

[@D3ST72]

There is a good mod, that assigns letters or colours to ammo, FMJ, HP, etc. Etc.