WON'T GET BLUM'D AGAIN: BLIND S.T.A.L.K.E.R. #4

[@vinoirma8225]

Considering the main objective is to Kill strelok, every enemy in this game is your most loyal friend.

[@hazukichanx408]

C-Consciousness might not be so incompetent after all. Surely they simply used their godlike powers to ascertain that the surest way to kill a character in this game would be to simply have them exist in the game world... with its magically variable weapon accuracy and three or four magnetic boomerang grenades flying at you any time you're in cover for more than 0.1 seconds. The only two things they failed to consider... were Quicksave and Quickload.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

​@@hazukichanx408Ah, yes, timelooping. Gotta thank Phil Connors, Hououin Kyouma, Homura Akemi, and William Cage for that.

[@themonarchserupt4051]

stalker speedrun where you just try to kill yourself as fast as possible

[@cURLybOi]

that's why his reputation was so terrible. he basically prevented his friends from helping him succeed in life. so toxic

[@RazorsharpLT]

Civvie not looking at the stats of stuff and constatly using shitty weapons and guns is killing me The AS Val is a one hit kill machine, so is the Groza, or anything in 9x39. The G3 is also amazing, so is the FN2000 the best gun in the game. Oh, and the armor Civvie is using? The "scientist suit" that is only good against... anomalies, and not bullets? Optimally by the Red forest you should of had a SEVA suit with the fancy night vision.

[@PhantomTheMate]

Civvie's weapon constantly jamming when fighting a blood sucker is the ultimate S.T.A.L.K.E.R. experience

[@lucasportasio]

The brand new upgraded rifle you're dying to use jamming and getting you killed is also a certified stalker moment

[@genuz]

Well you can pick up a fresh weapon with 100% duration and the first sign of a bloodsucker or pseudodog it will jam :)

[@Claymann71]

Hey, Civvie-11! You played the new Robocop: Rogue City? I know it's no A+ like Turbo Overkill but it's a solid B+ Indy game!

[@zchris13]

certified L86A1 moment

[@D0NU75]

that's basically my every experience with a new character in STALKER: Anomaly

[@Pineappled1987]

Can't wait for Blind Clear Sky so civvie can tear his hair out when he discovers that guns hit even LESS.

[@Gatorade69]

Oh, they do ? No wonder why I put the game down.

[@Wanky_Woop]

Unless he picks up Vintorez of course

[@eugenedmarchenko]

They did it to balance the upgrades. Fully upgraded weapons hit precisely from 300+ metres

[@TheHalogen131]

I don't know... It was difficult in the beginning, but when I got a silenced pistol, it became very easy.

[@albanesdesempregado7080]

​@@TheHalogen131Pistol spread in that game is lower than a rifle one

[@GldnClaw]

3:21, I like to call the "crouch more" button Slavsquat mode. Imagine Strelok performing a Cossack dance to invoke the greater accuracy of boolet.

[@Claymann71]

_Potis spencer here!_ _Laughs in Heavy Weapons Guy Minigun_ *WHO TOUCHED SASHA??!!*

[@judsongaiden9878]

@@Claymann71 You can get a minigun in some mods, including but not limited to some versions of Oblivion Lost.

[@Concerned_Custodian]

​@@Claymann71There it is guys, the most original tf2 joke.

[@CrizzyEyes]

I always assumed it was prone with a bad translation, but it is a very curious inclusion in this game.

[@snyperwulffgaming9575]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/f2bJaHShhq6Ih8ksi=fr83dPe7H6WfgOjT The only acceptable form of crouch more button.

[@rodakscreens]

Perilous Warp being used as a unit of financial measurement is a great running gag

[@truemisto]

the problem with the stashes is that they contain nothing until you find the info that marks them on your map

[@Civvie11]

I understand this, and people have enjoyed pointing it out, but I have to say that this is also an insane design decision.

[@Valkod23]

@@Civvie11 It absolutely is, which is why stashes got changed for Call of Pripyat to instead be items placed out in the world in specific locations to be picked up upon finding them. I have no idea if there's a mod to make the stashes auto-spawn with loot without the need to find a PDA though, and I have zero damn clue about how Clear Sky handles stashes.

[@bogdankl2000]

@@Civvie11 yes but if the stashes are always filled don't you think there's no point in actually doing the quests since you can just look up the stash locations in a guide? pretty sure that was possible even when this game came out

[@insanejughead]

I personally love this style. It keeps me from just going to certain stashes and getting the game's best gear.

[@achoosnifsniff]

@@bogdankl2000whats stopping u from doing that anyways? just find the pda location online and then go to the stash.

[@yourmanjimbo]

Civvie carrying meat chunk artifacts that actively harm you all the way through the game is definitely one of the moments of all time.

[@RazorsharpLT]

I think everyone warned him too, multiple times, but hey - it's honestly STALKER's fault for not fixing it I think he's playing without Zone reclamation too.

[@RazorsharpLT]

Nevermind... He's carrying *2 OF THEM*

[@yourmanjimbo]

@@RazorsharpLT Tbh the actual meat chunk is balanced, it’s just got a weird description. Plus civvie said in the comments he was doing it for the health regen, despite the damage increase

[@RazorsharpLT]

No it isn't 100% health regen is nothing in the game. Literally - you can watch how fast the health "Regens" like watching paint dry. I recommend stacking health artifacts only temporarily to restore health, then unequipping them. But he's clearly using them in combat. So of course he's dying from 1 hit even with his cool military stalker suit@@yourmanjimbo

[@Painkiller1189]

​@@yourmanjimboKeep the meat chunks for easy cash with barkeep, get 1 or 2 Souls for faster healing while not fighting and you are good to go

[@Taldaris]

You don't seek the Blum, but the Blum will always seek you, there's no avoiding it.

[@KingLich451]

He is Steve Blum, voicing Steve Blum, Steve Blum and Lord Steve Blum the Inheritor.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Note to self, the guy needs more unconventional roles not unlike Gurren Lagaan's Leeron.

[@ItsAllGoodGames]

That friend part made me chuckle and think of the government

[@herbion6117]

I read somewhere a very long time ago that "control humanity" Monolith ending means that the Monolith wiped out all of humanity leaving Strelok the only human alive making him basically the whole humaity that Strelok can completely control. On my first playthrough i got "i want the Zone to disappear" ending and in literally every other playthroughs i got "i wanna be rich" ending, not counting true endings of course.

[@cinnamontoast1586]

I always got "get rich" monolith ending because i just couldn't stop selling loot

[@OCTO358]

Well, it didn't wipe out anything, the Monolyth is just an illusion, it doesn't have that kind of power. It just locked Strelok inside his head, in real world he was probably zombified.

[@generalrubbish9513]

@@cinnamontoast1586 Same, honestly. The money requirement for the "I want to be rich" ending is way too low, it's actually pretty easy to accumulate 50,000 RU throughout a normal playthrough even if you aren't actively trying to. Part of it could be because the game is quite generous with the loot between the stashes and the corpses of all the people you kill. I always played on Veteran difficulty (largely because of the misinfo about weapon damage), yet I don't remember ever really having to buy medkits, bandages, anti-rads or food, in fact I always had too much of them and had to leave them behind in stashes so I wouldn't be constantly overloaded. Guns and ammo are similarly easy to come by unless you're looking for something specific, and even armor can be easily obtained for free if you know where to look. So you end up in this endless feedback loop of collecting shit because you might need it later, then selling it to make space, then collecting more shit while the money just kinda sits in your pocket because you hardly ever need to BUY anything with all this loot you're always hauling around. What makes it even worse is that you don't even have to have 50,000 on your person when you make your wish, you only need to hit that number ONCE in your playthrough and it trips the flag. Which, by the way, also overrides any other ending, even if you complete the requirements for it (have max/min reputation, kill the leaders of both Duty and Freedom, etc). As a result, I had no idea there were other Wish Granter endings besides "I want to be rich" until I read the wiki.

[@ArdCypher]

Yes, in the original Strelok wishes for humanity to be destroyed

[@Biodeamon]

"this game is making me rethink my stance on animal cruelty" "oh hey there civvie!"

[@arsebiscuitsandwine]

*heavy sigh* Hi cancer mouse.

[@TheKarabanera]

Fun fact - reputations only remains as "Terrbile" as long as you have an active hit contract. It returns to good as soon as you finish whatever hit quest you have.

[@crazytim8256]

The sheer volume of bullet sponge enemies right up to the very last firefight in Chernobyl is staggering. I almost thought Civvie would debate giving up - but then he picked up the railgun

[@genuz]

You really need the VINTAR BC or the modified sniper TRs 301 to dispatch the exo skeleton monolith dudes easily. Both can be looted freely guaranteed in Army Warehouses. TRs is against a busstop bench in the north west outpost and VINTAR is on the floor in the eastmost barracks. Sniper TRs can be turned in for a Duty quest that rewards a VINTAR, but they don't mind if you use it (a lot) before you turn it in.

[@tomorbataar5922]

@@genuz VINTAR my beloved.

[@flanovskiydtauskiy5870]

Yeah during the last stretch it got to the point where the chore of picking up ammo from the corpses (often 20 or 30 at a time) was taking up as much time as actual gameplay. I don't think I've seen anything like the last stretch of Stalker SoC in an FPS as far as sheer density of combat and looting goes, save for something like Serious Sam. It really was crazy.

[@tomorbataar5922]

@@flanovskiydtauskiy5870 Ye that last stretch is something out of a legend. Only played it through once, never again.

[@Liam.Lacoste]

This is NOTHING compared to Clear Sky. Now THAT game is filled with bullet sponges.

[@Xavier-d1u]

"I am hungry, i am irradiated, but i am still alive" that is so fxcking badass.

[@TheMC1102]

"I'm trying, I'm trying so hard to come!" We've all been there.

[@generalrubbish9513]

10:16 "The Red Forest is a real place, basically 10 square kilometers of wilderness in the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone" You've neglected to mention the most important detail - the reason why it's called the RED forest is because after the Chornobyl Disaster, a large amount of radioactive fallout collected in it and killed all the trees, causing their leaves to turn red in the middle of spring. It remains one of the most radioactive areas in the Exclusion Zone and in the world in general to this very day. Oh, and during the Recent Historically Significant Event (tm), some dumbfuck Russian officer ordered his men to dig trenches in it.

[@EnclaveSOC-102]

"Recent Historically Significant Event" I like how you called it that to avoid getting your comment removed by the algorithm for obvious reasons.

[@voxdraconia4035]

"Recent Historically Significant Event. Recent Historically Significant Event never changes...." - hmm kinda lacks the punch I'd say...

[@War0tter]

"I'm trying. I'm trying so hard to come." This will be Civvie's epitaph.

[@insanejughead]

Kill the Strelok Mission achieved: 872 times. Good job, Civvie.

[@vespenegas261]

Prypyat' is the coolest location in the entire game! Not to mention "Energetik" where Monolyth's main base is located. If I remember correctly you can find a sort of a totem there, two stories tall with goons all around it bowing to the damn thing. Creepy as hell.

[@AshGorall]

Ah yes, the culture center in Pripyat. Definitely was a fuckin creepy scene to witness when I walked in and saw all of the monolith dudes doing that weird head rotation shit sitting in a circle around it.

[@intecrisis]

I like to think of it as the person making the stash didn't make it until after you saw it first time

[@bubbadumps3747]

Stashes are permanent fixtures, but you need to find the coordinates to actually spawn things inside the stash. it's to imply that unless you know for sure that something is in that stash, its most likely empty or something

[@1ancevance]

just a cut mechanics, because GSC changed it later in CoP, allowing to find stashes without getting the cordinates

[@jackknifevideoworks]

Schrodinger's stash then?

[@Lucios1995]

There's also a mod called Stash Filler for Shadow of Chernobyl that doesn't require you to get the coordinates first

[@MalcolmPL]

There's a bug where sometimes if you don't loot a stash before leaving the area or reloading a save, the game will glitch and the stash will permanently have no contents.

[@whuzzzup]

It's simply a bs mechanic you should fix with ZRP.

[@Chamomileable]

I honestly really love what the game's finale does with the narrative. The last obstacle being down and all the factions just making a mad dash to the sarcophagus, with Monolith and the military creating an unintentional crossfire, with Monolith trying to protect their home base and the military trying to protect the secrets of the Zone. It's horribly janky and not executed very well but I love the spirit.

[@urbansekkt6355]

Me, a stalker fan since the early alphas were announced, watching civvie hit the wall and stoically overcome it: He's beginning to believe...

[@fattiger6957]

I never thought I'd hear MJF's entrance theme in a Civvie video

[@MoonSpiritChannel]

Indeed. From the looks of how jank this game is, you have to be on the level of the Devil to go thru this hell

[@og_proztate]

H3 used MJF's theme in that Vape Nation video too before AEW was a thing

[@TheThingNG]

But used at the exact right time - when he needed to show that he was better than you, and you know it

[@PlantNamedEmma]

Weapon jammed Civvie calls the plot point like litterally everyone does. I love these games.

[@KingOhmni]

Civvie my dude, health regen artifacts are for outside of combat as they knock huge chunks out of your armour properties. The higher the tier artifact the harsher it's penalties get and -impact is a deadly stat during the guntlet. Which I personally enjoyed as it felt like a suitibly deadly adventure to find the only really chill ending.

[@CrizzyEyes]

Yeah... That's the ironic part about trying to rush through a game that you don't like. The reason you don't like it is usually indirectly due to the fact that you're rushing through it. There are quite a few things he could have done that would have made his playthrough easier.

[@estefencosta1835]

lmao the Chaser callback. That was one of my favorite episodes, it was so delightfully stupid.

[@CaptainRasmot]

The need for a claw grip with this game is honestly the most on-point thing about S.T.A.L.K.E.R and games like it as a whole xD;; Just a constant need of "stay low, and always outscope your enemy by 3,000 kilometers out".

[@hazukichanx408]

I can't believe Civvie actually managed to complete that one quest with the tailing and the shooting of the two guys _in a specific order_ while they wander way out of the area they're supposed to be in for literally no damn reason whatsoever. While I was younger and less patient at the time, I just straight-up gave up after following the guy all the way to the meeting, shooting him after he met his contact, and getting "Congratulations, you have failed" popping up as a big middle finger to all my wasted time. Game design!

[@telefrag.]

I think the "Monolith" endings are all "monkey paw" kind of wish granting, they just change depending on what you do during your playthrough.

[@vespenegas261]

In my Monolith ending I wished to be rich. I had a vision of coins raining from the sky, in reality though it was the roof of the sarcophagus crashing down on me. The Monolith was designed to lure in stalkers who made it dangerously close to the vault. Strelok was just the only person who survived.

[@telefrag.]

@@vespenegas261 that's the one I've got too, I had a ton of money on me that I haven't spent when I've reached the end.

[@gabrieldarkwind5866]

It's the most popular ending because it requires to have about 200000 rubles(i think). So you basicaly need to not to sell too much stuff @@vespenegas261

[@bluegum6438]

@@vespenegas261 Yeah the Monolith is a bug zapper to protect the C-Consciousness, its only purpose is to brainwash or kill invaders

[@vespenegas261]

Yeah man, back in the days I remember thinking it was a factor, restarted the game and went on spending binge just before the point of no return. The f*cking thing turned me blind instead, so after that I was like "Okay, I tryed to be nice but now we're shutting this whole place down" P.S.: I'm pretty sure you are aware of the novel that spawned the game, the "Roadside picnic" one. There was an artifact with simillar properties, yet you didn't get to wish, it just gave your most desired thing or development, no matter how impropable and even if you didn't know about it. That is why Red, the protagonist of the novel, cries at the end: "Happines... for everyone! For free! And let none go unsatisfied!", beacause he knows that is not what to accure... Edit: What made it more horrifying is an inevitable human sacrifice to get to it.

[@TheShkar]

Guys, I think he's ready. Can you hear the Call of Pripyat, Civvie?

[@MrRattlebones640]

He would probably enjoy that game a lot more - More shooty shooty less desperation.

[@1738-l1j]

@@MrRattlebones640 he needs to endure through clear sky first

[@RazorsharpLT]

Dude carried meat chunk artefacts until the end of the game Until he learns how to read the weapon stats - i doubt he's going to play CoP. Too hard for this old boomer.

[@MrRattlebones640]

@@RazorsharpLT It's literally the easiest stalker game in the series. You can get good equipment very easily and quickly just by doing quests and learning stash locations from them.

[@RazorsharpLT]

I mean yeah - it's the easiest and the best due to being the most refined, but after civvie's experience with SoC i doubt it. He f*cked himself over by not reading the item descriptions and stats, or the internet descriptions. It's not like the item descriptions and wikis have spoilers to the game or anything I would say the wiki on SoC is actually needed to explain some of the mechanics which are not explained in the game. @@MrRattlebones640

[@Warbringer95]

I might've said this on previous Blind S.T.A.L.K.E.R. episodes, but that intro work for this series has been slick.

[@MeatSnax]

As somebody who played SoC relatively around release, the amount of effort it takes to get to the end of the game on the hardest difficulty without fixing the broken nonsense with any number of fantastic and readily accessible mods isn't lost on me. I played through the trilogy 5 or 6 years ago and I don't think I even got to the end of Cordon without installing the weapon mod that fixes the aim and damage calculation (Gunslinger maybe? Idk I'm an Anomaly guy now). It's kinda sad that mods are such an integral part of the experience, but much less sad than the game going unfixed through the years, and never picking up the reputation it's got now. It's really impressive just how well the tone and atmosphere hold up, even after playing AAA modpacks on top of already good modpacks.

[@Canada407]

First time seeing a full S.T.A.L.K.E.R. playthrough is from my favorite prisoner

[@lukedufaur5368]

The plot's big reveal was so shocking that it briefly turned Civvie into Osaka

[@scarlettNET]

HELLO EVERYNYAN

[@quint3ssent1a]

​@@scarlettNET OH MAH GAHHH

[@gordonfreeman1163]

@@quint3ssent1a HOW ARE YOU? FINE, THANK YOU

[@EnclaveSOC-102]

Here's to hoping that Civvie will eventually play Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat someday.

[@Zikar]

How are Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat? I liked STALKER but I can't with that level of jank any more. Are the others more polished?

[@karenpojar2514]

Call of Pripyat is polished. There is a bug here and there, but it is perfectly fine to play without mods. Clear Sky... is legendarily janky. Like, "pistol bullets despawn after 30 ft" and "enemies have laser accurate grenades at 200 meters due to a bad config file setting" level of jank. And the faction war mechanic (the whole purpose of the game) doesn't work.

[@vahdoom]

Pripyat is pretty good, Clear Sky needs mods to function properly

[@PeeOfFury]

Call of Pripyat is *chef's kiss*. The best in the series. Very polished and fun. It's more exploration-focused and open than the other titles. Clear Sky on the other hand is even more jank than SoC. Would only recommend that one if you're REALLY desperate for more Stalker.

[@LazyBuddyBan]

@@Zikar Call of Pripyat is the Fallout:New Vegas of east europe, pretty much. Probably the best way to experience Stalker if you gonna play only 1

[@arkgaharandan5881]

the part about the rubble price collapse is scary until you realize that pretty much every currency has collapsed since 2007 due to mass inflation.

[@MrGoodGoy]

Except for the shekel, weird how that works!

[@emanuelgottig9068]

Civvie getting some of that Ross Scott's Gamer Dementia in the intro

[@OrionsTale]

When Civvie found out he was Strelok the whole time, I was expecting a callback to Chaser. The predictive algorithm in my fucked-up brain is growing, and I'm not sure if it'll be for the best.

[@jonezones]

as a huge fan of this series, this was some of your best work yet! the psudodog with the "friend' status had me dying laughing

[@MoodyBlues2077]

Civvie starts a stalker series right as I start getting into STALKER, get out of my head government psyop.

[@GhostKill88]

Right! I started a playthrough Right about the time the first vid went up, and I got suspicious lmao!

[@happyghecko8201]

Enjoy you stay and once the itch for an improved version sets in give Stalker Anomaly and its various modpacks a try.

[@intecrisis]

Make sure you move on to stalker mods (also anomaly isn't the end all be all, OGSR OWR and many others are better)

[@OCTO358]

@@happyghecko8201 calling it "improved version" is a stretch. It's like calling Fallout: Frontier an improved version of Fallout New Vegas.

[@happyghecko8201]

@@OCTO358 playing the original stalker and playing a modpack like Gamma side to side seems like a clear improvement to me, feels and plays way better. But i guess thats more a subjective feel then a straight fact. Perhaps i should have called it an "alternative"?

[@intecrisis]

I wonder how much better of a time civvie would have had if he figured out how powerful the lean and crouch mechanics are for minimizing exposure during battles. It really is an impressive amount of player body control

[@YiNdeMiiD]

You thought it's over, Civvie? There is two more chapters in a series. God bless your claw-hand, you gonna need it a lot.

[@jclindsay007]

soon to be three more, as Stalker 2 is about to come out

[@maynardburger]

I have a feeling he's not gonna play the two sequels. Maybe the new one, though. The originals are just so tedious and frustrating.

[@evad997]

Civvie is going to love the 'near-perfect enemy grenade accuracy' bug in the sequel. Or when the game overwrites your autosaves just before you get brained

[@kingcaesar3693]

Everytime you upload one of these I get strong urge to replay all 3 games. The zones call is stronger every day.

[@DukeNukem2417]

20:56 - Civvie getting those MJF vibes

[@option3590]

Yeah WTF was that lmao Is he a fan, or is the theme based on something else? Edit: nevermind, just looked up the credit. Turns out Max’s been using a royalty free piece as his theme for 4 years lol. What a wonderful carny.

[@robotorch]

@@option3590 Who or what is MJF EDIT: Nevermind, wrestler. Found it.

[@ingekoshmidder9926]

One of the hardest Games I've ever played. The Quicksave Button was burning.

[@disgorgingconsciousness2250]

This was just the most magical playthrough, thank you civvie, it's been a long while coming! Honestly kind of sad to see the series end. Easily one of my favourites you've done. Much love civvie, thank you for your years of suffering jank x

[@corvus4350]

Can you imagine Civvie struggling through Pathologic?

[@theuselessknight6021]

Pathologic is the final boss of this channel.

[@johngleeman8347]

That would be great. That series is right up his alley.

[@faraaz144]

Pro Pathologic leeets gooooooooooooo

[@Shenaldrac]

I would happily pay several thousands of dollars to get Civvie to play and do videos of Pathologic 1 and 2.

[@mage6614]

he would lose his mind

[@chris92945]

This series perfectly encapsulates my love-hate relationship with this game (especially the last part), and it makes me sad that it had the same fate as Petty Thief.

[@HalfLifeHalfDead]

What do you mean by it having the same fate?

[@Ravelord]

@@HalfLifeHalfDead it ends

[@HalfLifeHalfDead]

@@Ravelord Well that I can totally relate to, fair enough.

[@genericadjectivenounname9001]

Some tips for unmodded STALKER that would make things significantly less painful: AP rounds tear through armor, and the armor an enemy has is tied to the character model they have. The models have the same armor values as what you have if you are wearing that armor. You don't 'need' to use AP unless you're fighting Monolith, military stalkers, Duty, or exoskeletons of any faction. AP 9x39 SP-6 (black stripe box) drops exo's in 3-5 round bursts, while SP-5 (orange stripe) and AP 5.56 are not far behind. Limbs take less damage than torso hits, while headshots deal so much bonus damage that even exoskeletons can be killed with trash guns and trash ammo quickly. The 9x18/19 and 5.45 early game is significantly easier if you get good at headshots. Mutants do not have armor values so AP is always wasted on them. Mutants can also be headshot. For 'optimal' play, shotguns are for mutants, rifles are for people. Using shotguns on humans beyond low armor bandits is undesirable. Upgraded shotguns in Call of Pripyat fare much better, but are still not great. Guns in the sequels are atrocious without upgrades. In unmodded Clear Sky, you can actually upgrade some guns so far with recoil reduction mods that the recoil rolls over and they start recoiling downwards. Also in Clear Sky, pistol and shotgun rounds disappear within 30-50 feet so you are forced into extremely close combat until you get an AK. shooting from end to end of a clearing in the swamp isn't even possible with them without a mod to fix the game. Also Clear Sky is just a broken game. Durability bars are misleading. Warsaw pact guns jam less frequently until their bar gets pretty low, while NATO guns start to jam frequently as soon as the bar hits like 75%. The crosshairs (that you turned off) are pretty accurate to bullet spread, so you may notice (if you turn them back on) that hipfiring is far easier than actually aiming when going for bodyshots. Spread bloom from hipfire is minimal so there really isn't much of a penalty, and you get to skip the visual recoil. Also, the ironsights are misaligned on some guns. Artifacts are the key to money, always. You can sell off every gun you come across, but that is a painful use of your time. Artifacts are also the key to not dying in one hit. In SoC, if you find the various mamma's beads that give +5% bullet resist, you can tank shots easily during the end of the game instead of dying instantly every time you walk around a corner. The artifact names get shuffled around in the sequels, but same same. Bleed reduction artifacts are also great because you can just ignore bandages and only carry medkits. Health regen artifacts are kind of trash, honestly. .45 ACP weighs too much. Just use a 9x19 handgun. Or don't carry a pistol at all. In the sequels you can carry two primaries at once, making sidearms significantly less necessary. You should play STALKER Anomaly after finishing the original games.

[@harbingerofdoom66627]

My favorite thing about channels like Civvie's, are that I feel a sense of real lore develop with every video he drops. Like each game he plays has a significant connection to that specific point in time of his, and by extension, our lives. Its the sort of connection with Creator and Observer that old Television would accomplish with a well written narrative that was fake on every level. The way Civvie tells of reaching the Monolith, I feel like I've just watched the latest Samurai anime and it hit too close to home. That's special. That's beautiful.

[@Emu0181]

I like how a "perilous warp" is now a unit of value (currently 1PW=$14.99)

[@pamew]

Props to Civvie for highlighting just how insanely the game escalates in challenge around the brainsorcher quest. It's an absolutely brutal difficulty wall that you claw your way out of like it's goddamn vietnam, baby.

[@SMV-CC88]

"Two Stalkers are standing infront of lake, one says "You know what they said about radiation? Lies, all lies, all I question is why my tail is shedding"" -STALKER NPC

[@ineptgamer3814]

Highly entertaining and hilarious as always. Thanks for another cool video, Civvie...! 👍🏻

[@lukasgroot]

My wish is actually granted by Civvie doing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. And boy how he did it! Thanks Civvie and greets to Cancer Mouse.

[@Frost_1___0]

It's so cool seeing a KZbinr I love playing I video game series I adore

[@melo-melos]

In the time between part 3 and 4 i played the trilogy, thanks civvie

[@lipeckih]

That was some impressively accurate shooting, given the game's ballistic mechanics. A pleasure to watch, thank you for your hard work!

[@christiankirkenes5922]

I love how he never realised that the armoured enemies need to be shot with ap rounds after all that time 😅

[@cbu1058]

Exactly

[@papalegba6796]

Didn't find the Vintar or the best artefacts either, or get how the stash system worked. Rushed through it tho, so fair enough.

[@Jetsetlemming]

Nah as far as I can tell he absolutely was, he even mentions using slugs. It's just that he's playing on hardest with the vanilla game, and vanilla SoC is just Like That by the end. I think us veterans tend to forget just how much the mods we all install do to make STALKER more playable lol.

[@rookiecf3399]

@@JetsetlemmingI replay SoC vanilla on master all the time, the issue here is that unless you’re only using AP rounds, 5.56 guns (except Sniper TRS) become basically useless in the endgame as they dont have enough power to reliably one headshot kill late game monolith. 9x39 guns such as VLA, Vintar and Tunder are much more powerful and effective against heavily armored monolith.

[@RazorsharpLT]

Civvie not looking at the stats of stuff and constatly using shitty weapons and guns is killing me The AS Val is a one hit kill machine, so is the Groza, or anything in 9x39. The G3 is also amazing, so is the FN2000 the best gun in the game. Oh, and the armor Civvie is using? The "scientist suit" that is only good against... anomalies, and not bullets? Optimally by the Red forest you should of had a SEVA suit with the fancy night vision.

[@RazorsharpLT]

Oh, and also carrying the "Meat Chunk" artefact, which is not health, but helth REGEN basically making you overall weaker.

[@Fang.1]

I just love how you put in all of your deaths. It's so funny to see how you struggled with this (quite outdated but amazing) game.

[@revenantproxy9100]

Trapped within the infamous house of Blum

[@triplecastsleep1924]

House of the Rising Blum

[@protostar5946]

Wonder how a Pro episode on an immersive sim like System Shock or Deus Ex would work out. Anyway, thanks for all the funny videos, really appreciate them!

[@cinnamontoast1586]

The day civvie uploads deus ex playthrough is the day i can die a happy man. This games jank, gameplay and politics fits so well for his style

[@Cleaverbomb]

Great playthrough! I got the greed ending first time. The ceiling rains debris, but Strelok envisions it as gold. You get it for being an absolute business copo-type.

[@dannyboi5887]

25:55 My brain is so warped by memes that It feels weird to see this part without a grenade going off behind Sidorovich.

[@Numbers225]

definitely one of my favorite civvie series

[@sunbleachedangel]

Whenever Civvie uploads stalker is a great event for us

[@sunbleachedangel]

@@PeteSugondese cry about it

[@sunbleachedangel]

@@PeteSugondese cry about it

[@cinnamontoast1586]

I actually love gunplay in stalker, as janky as it is. The spread is sometimes unfair, but once you get used to it, it gets very satisfying. I remember putting a scope on ak74 and using it in single shots, turning it into a pretty good early marksman rifle. And then i get vintorez, and thats where real fun begins.

[@eugenedmarchenko]

The gunplay in Stalker is really cool because every gun feels and handles differently, so you can learn each weapons quirks and love them. It's Abakan's jumping recoil, Vintarez's zigzags, TRc's nervous dancing, etc., etc

[@psychopathmedia]

13:48 Mutants show the status of the last human NPC. So the last NPC you interacted with was friendly, so the mutant corpse says friendly. It's weird but also adds a layer of atmosphere to the game, to imagine mutants that "like you" still attacking you anyway. There's probably some existentialist commentary in there somewhere

[@Lemon_Inspector]

I was guessing it showed the status of the corpse, which would always be friendly, since corpses don't attack you.

[@ericschaab5135]

The ending I had, you wish for the zone to dissapear, and the character ends up blind.

[@TheXell]

ngl I didn't know Steve was in this game, he sounds really different. He gets meme'd on a lot but he generally does good work in my opinion.

[@unnamedenemy9]

oh he's a really good voice actor -- he's just in *everything*

[@OCTO358]

He sounds like Makarov from COD.

[@herczegmarton9972]

Yeah he sounds very different, hard to figure out its him. The voice acting for his character is pretty good too.

[@samb_air]

This isn't even a remotely new opinion, but Cowboy Bebop is one of the few animes where I think the English dub is significantly better than the subs, and Steve Blum's performance is a big part of that.

[@517342]

He's a very good voice actor with a wide voice range. The problem is that everyone wants him to do THAT ONE voice and nothing else.

[@satnav1980]

A game I have never played. But that is because I am cheaper than a pack of potato chips and game on consoles. I love the Sumatran Rat Monkey reference. Good film that.

[@SoFZlodei24]

Civvie made the game hard himself. The yellow artifact which grants "health" and lowers all resistances does not in fact give you health, but hp regen, very very small hp regen. So he basically killed his armor bullet resistance for nothing, this is why the game was so hard for him.

[@Civvie11]

I absolutely did it for the health regen, which did help outside of combat quite a bit. Probably saved me a bunch of medkits after firefights.

[@Orzorn]

@@Civvie11One technique is to equip it post-firefight, then unequip it once you're healed up.

[@achoosnifsniff]

“civvie made the game hard himself by doing something the game misinformed him into doing” 😂 its like saying you make a game hard yourself by not knowing pressing the “normal” difficulty is actually the hard difficulty and the game just has it labelled wrong and *youre* the idiot for not knowing. the fact ppl play mental gymnastics with this game so hard with shit like this is ridiculous dude. the game is made like dogshit and barely works and is only saved by the cool environments and what the game is about

[@Rushi486]

@@achoosnifsniff Bruh where did you conjure that "game misinformed" from ? Nobody said that ? Its a straight up item description with nothing hidden. You hover over the item then lo and behold there's the item description: Meat Chunk Health +400% Impact -10% Rupture -10% Bulletproof cap -10%

[@RaikoTechnologies]

Tbh he used L-86 half of the game, the worst rifle in the game and irl.

[@jimdee5319]

After the playthrough is complete please make a single video with all of them together so I can listen to it while I sleep. S.T.A.L.K.E.R SoC changed my life. I built my first gaming computer just to play it and it never let me down. Call of Pripyat is still my greatest game of all time (and the later mods that combine all 3 game maps and up the difficulty are amazing too) So relaxing. Thank you.

[@Zekyb0y]

Oh no, he is using slugs against heavy armour.

[@DAS_k1ishEe]

Stalker has some very serious RPG mechanics most games wont go down to. Combined with the atmosphere it ends up being one of the most terriffying experiences I've ever played. Thank god the modding community exist to keep this game alive and more playable.

[@Legion563]

Obligatory you tried* G.A.M.M.A yet? Ed:Typo lol.

[@DAS_k1ishEe]

@@Legion563 No, I am not tired of G.A.M.M.A. yet.

[@Legion563]

@@DAS_k1ishEe Ahh shit was menna be tried, not tired lol...late night comment brain fat for the win lol.

[@kingmoo]

Let these videos be a warning to others: Master/Realistic difficulty does *not* make the game easier. The posts you see about player damage being lower on lower difficulties were disproved long ago.

[@dallesamllhals9161]

Lost Alpha dc?

[@Skeledom]

The MJF theme being used was the cherry on top. Brilliant video

[@BlackBulletRave]

Fresh Civvie for breakfast when I wake up? Say it ain't so.

[@quint3ssent1a]

> and ghosts, for some reason Ghosts are the real effect of the brain scorcher, piss filter is just a side effect.

[@FPoP1911]

fun fact, the character voice by blum here is canonically an ancestor of spike spiegel and shinichiro watanabe confirmed it in a now deleted tweet.

[@MrJackHagan]

Best and most casual Brain Dead/Dead Alive reference I've ever heard. Bravo, Civvie.

[@CAPT6875]

26:51 EAT LEAD! EAT, EAT, EAT, EAT, TOAST!!😂

[@deptofcarstereorepair]

these STALKER episodes have been one of my favorites. Thanks, Civvie 11!!! ;)

[@roolaing]

The morphing hand joke made me lol and is your finest yet, Civvie. Well done.

[@CatWithSambrero]

It's a shame you missed Gordon's PDA and his magnum

[@MrLordNeptune]

Desert Eagle is overrated

[@Gatorade69]

While that is technically Cat with Sombrero it's really Tequila cat.

[@SpecShadow]

@@MrLordNeptune in vanilla - sure. The stiff animations simulating massive knockback are awful. And damage is still bad. And good luck aiming with that thing. Hipfire? Nah... But in modern projects like Anomaly? It's proper weapon now.

[@SpikeVike27]

​@@MrLordNeptune9x39 version isn't. Bastard hits like a truck, staggering even exoskeleton guy with one hit, and, while having huge recoil, is actually pretty accurate, which is rare for this game. Best sidearm in SoC, just don't ask how they've fit Vintorez round into a pistol

[@cinnamontoast1586]

​@@SpikeVike27strelok got really long palms, thats how

[@ronan8517]

Call of Pripyat has a mechanic character who you also have to get him to drink to repair anything iirc he also explains why there are Railguns in the zone

[@lollercoaster2010]

Watched this one while taking a hot bath. It was glorious.

[@diamondhamster4320]

Top 10 Quotes from Civvie Videos of all time - "I am trying... I am trying so hard to COOM"

[@ryanmcamis7419]

This has 100% more shooting and action than the movie. Also, I'm sure making this didn't kill half the development team. Can't say the same for the movie cast, crew, the director, and his wife.

[@OCTO358]

Why would anyone expect the movie to have ANY shooting at all?

[@Lemon_Inspector]

@@OCTO358 Because in Soviet Russia, movie shoots you!

[@HYBRIDZHQ]

The movie was shot on camera so take that atheists

[@onepunchgirl7152]

I enjoyed the storytelling and jokes thru this stalker series. Had a great time watching. Keep up the incredible work Civvie

[@lamb-mz2sd]

Damn this video really brings back memories.

[@lamb-mz2sd]

And the fact that I remember those locations and the encounters but zero idea how I did get thru those... I guess younger me had way more determination than me right now. xD

[@ExiStrife]

The railgun in this game is absolutely one of the most rewarding guns to fire, given its insta-kill headshot and pinpoint accuracy. It's such a power trip and I love it.

[@mex_I.M]

its nice to see CV completing a chalage run with those artifacts. Having your armor nefted from by itself or by more then a half is quite something.

[@Edgariki]

To show how really awful last stretch to Stalker true ending i gather: 2 sets of armor(3 including one in the stash) AS-VAL and 1300 ammo for it (300 from them are armor piercing) Over 100 medkits, 50 antiradin, ridicilous amount of bandages Grenade launcher from quest (there is like 2-3 in the game), 15 grenades And its still wasnt enough resources to reach final destination.

[@JACloudy]

Can't wait for Civvie to play the sequels.

[@gargean1671]

Civvie: cries that he has to spent all his money on ammo Also Civvie: refuses to take up enemy weapons to unload ammo from them

[@Tulah]

Sure the game is basically made of jank, but it's still one of my favourite games of the era. Right there with Temple of Elemental Evil and VtM: Bloodlines of which former was somehow jankier than Stalker (and in true Troika fashion both were unplayable at launch). Wonder if you'll try the next installment of the series which is probably even more jankier than the original?

[@Goldenhordemilo]

this game is a deep part of my life. after too completing the game im now playing the gamma mod it will last long after im gone.

[@winiary_taniegruzy]

I wonder how many stalker games civvie has to play before he manages to put the armor on.

[@darkcheaker]

it's for the MEMES, you know. because bitching about getting killed by everything while wearing early game armor is supposed to be funny.

[@notagged]

If i remember correctly, there is a bug in the vanilla version of the game, which is unequipping your armor after loading save game.

[@judsongaiden9878]

You don't always see the actual armor you're wearing in third-person. So when you die, it might look like you're wearing a rookie's jacket when you're actually wearing a SEVA suit. If you take the armor off and put it back on, it gets rid of that. "Have you tried taking it off and putting it on again?"

[@OverwatchSniper]

It's just a visual bug, you actually have the protection still.