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Yeah the RAM-2 is cool as well! Looted it from a patrol at one point, still have it in my "gun collection". I might need to look at fully upgrading it to see what its max potential is.

Upgrades for the Saiga aren't cheap, that's for sure! What other weapon are you thinking about?

you don't actually need the weird nut because the hypercube is more than enough. that hit to hp regen rate when using healing item is a bad tradeoff for passive bleeding heal and there are a ton of bandages available everywhere.

Thanks for the feedback! About the shotgun, I see what I did wrong: I studied material on different shotguns, most notably the Remington M870 DM, the Benelli M3 and the AK Saiga and somewhere in the mix with the main point being about having a faster reload time I made it into a conversion but it's the Benelli that's convertable instead of the Remington. Thank you for pointing it out.

I suppose not that many people get it at a time during their playthrough where it makes a difference in comparison to whatever weapon they were using before so by the time they do get it, they already have the Saiga and maybe even upgraded it so statistically the Sledgehammer will be less impressive but also; the pump-action vs semi-automatic also weighs in for people at some point.

I think damage-wise, the Sledgehammer will definitely feel like a better shotgun over the Cracker and for some maybe even over a regular Saiga because those small chances are almost impossible to feel. But once you start upgrading/improving weapons you can really tell the difference.

@SirStefanGaming I use the Sledgehammer for end game over the Saiga. I used to run 100% saiga until I found it. I have more control over ammo and it forces me to think about my shots rather that spamming the trigger. And, I am probably imagining this, it seems like it stuns enemies more.

the only reason most people do not use the sledgehammer is because you can get a saiga well before you get to rostok. there is no point in using the sledgehammer if you have a saiga. even if i was still using the cracker from the main quest stash, i still wouldn't swap it out because between mag fed vs manual reloading it's a no brainer when fighting 3 bloodsuckers at once.

@@SirStefanGaming I just looked at the stats. The Sledghammer is slightly better than the Saiga. The regular spsa is not anywhere near as good.

If that means I can kill it in one go....I will 😋

Good one as I did not try that, I just went straight for the obstacle course to record how to get there (for making a larger stash location guide video I'm considering). Thanks for sharing!

That sucks. Yeah in that regard one might say you're getting the nostalgic, classic Stalker experience :) I have to say I never tried hunting for artifacts without gear on, I usually run into patrols and other stuff along the way where I would be taking too much damage without wearing it.

throw your gun/armor at their feet to move them

@@SirStefanGaming yepp. Classic stalker lol. PS: I just remove the gear "on site" when getting artifacts, then put it back on. Takes 5 sec and saves me thousands.

I might have to start stripping down on site as well, especially late game...repair costs are nuts and I don't want to waste time on mandatory Coupon excursions.

Yes! Ive been doing this too since easrly play through!

Top tip! The quest is "The Price Goes Up" and you get a modified M860 Cracker (and a cool cutscene + view as well!)

Its a main story quest...lol you can get a Spas12 in cordon very close, right after the Sphere mission in Lesser Zone.

Depends on who you ask I guess? 😂 I think you deserve an achievement for being to stay below 50kg to even notice this haha.

Something I need to practice on with these guys; the faster you can take them down the better because they always make a run for it.

If memory serves me correct then it loses it's quest item status AFTER you actually keep it for yourself.

@@SirStefanGaming time to do a stalker 2 myth busters type video ;) that would be sick

​@@SirStefanGamingwhat if you never take the quest

@KB8Killa You can just take the AK without ever initiating the quest. As soon as you pick it up the NPC will ask you to return it but you can just ignore him and take the AK with you. Within a certain range of Slag Heap the AK will then still be flagged as a quest item but as soon as you leave that perimeter, the entire quest is auto-resolved: the NPC disappears and with him, the quest item flag on the AK. So if you encounter a Burer after that, he WILL be able to pull that Drowned AK out of your hands.

I stand corrected 😄 Wait! There's a meta of vodka drinking? I did not know this! 😁At a certain point I did had enough of swaying back and forth...

@ Just joking actually. On some random steam or reddit thread this joke occurred. It immediately landed so deep in my heart deep. I now treat Weird Water’s intoxication as the main gain and the other factors as „nice to have” 🥴

Weird Water does provide radiation protection, stand near almost any radiation source and despite your counter getting as loud as an orchrestra in your face you'll recieve no damage, it also gets rid of accumulated radiation almost instantly, unequip it while using all the legendary artifacts you have and before dying equip it again accumulated radiation will disappear in less than 5 seconds. All and all, Weird Water it's so broken between giving 50% more weight (This means it ups any weight modifier by half of its values, this includes artifacts OFC but also carry upgrades for armor) and completely making rads a complete non issue for like 90% of the time, it's literally the best artifact.

Also, the drunkness effect is not random, it gives 20% drunkness when you have 50kg or more on your inventory, which I find to be not much (But I carry like 200 bullets for each weapon because in the Zone you never know), I also beilive the drunkness gets bigger the more weight you carry, but it could just be my imagination, still, best artifact hands down.

Im not so sure about that, i was looting a downed helicopter that spammed my rads, I jumped away and equiped WW and I was able to walk around with no rad increase.

Nice one!

Some people say the jankiness is part of the charm.

No they won't :)

My pleasure! Another Zone-mystery solved 😄

Yeah there's a lot of things we don't know yet, for example how deep mechanics go to keep people coming back. I'll cover this in a review!

Between you and me....I'll just run straight for cover instead of prolonging my time being exposed 😋

Meaning what?

@ what

@@Definitelyhuman-y8r yes

**oblivion music plays**

@@Samila009 You're never too old to be playing games 😊

When you say "moving slowly"...do you mean "don't run" or "press X to walk slowly"? Either way, I'll go back and test this again because at first I could only get out without taking damage by running instead of walking.

@@SirStefanGaming I mean it's easier to react to these appearing anomalies when you move not sprinting, but anyway this anomaly is kinda weird, because once you stop, it will be hitting you instantly, it's hard to stay and loot in the area with this type of anomaly, it makes you move all the time to not get hurt 🙂

@@SirStefanGaming This anomaly appears strictly in direction you move

I think this anomaly will go a long way in being the least favorite anomaly of most players 🙂

@@SirStefanGaming 💯

Good one, thanks for sharing!

Fun fact you cannot do this if it barrel stuffs you, terrain can greatly impact this anomaly and can result in the anomaly spawning directly one you, this happened the most to me in the red forest

It's a good tip but I politely disagree due to the frequency of that occurring. It's more often that people have to repair their weapons than that you encounter loads of Brurers. Don't get me wrong, as soon as I hear those little Quasimodo Jedi I switch to Skif's pistol or take a first shot with an M701 but it's not that much of an inconvenience.

This has been patched out (at least for crouching, I have to double-check for standing still and walking) with patch 1.1: "Fixed when player's equipment was damaged while player was crouching in Razor"

Like an actual scope or red dot?

@SirStefanGaming scope

Who knows, maybe GSC will add more attachments in one of the expansion packs. You can always hope for a scope :)

Lol a scope on a pm, let's not get carried away😂

Let the man dream! 😌

But...but...what about all the loot in that place? :)

@@SirStefanGaming Well that's one thing this game isn't short of. Loot.

Bread, sausages and vodka aplenty!

Great addition, thanks!

I would consider that early game, heading to mid as far as the main missions go.

In a Tier list of all shotguns then the Saiga is definitely a high roller; I'll smuggle it into my next vid with some further analysis

Second this, Also the the Saiga reloads with a magazine instead of feeding cartridges, much faster to reload.

​@jcortest Saiga is very expensive to repair and I found just one technician who can upgrade it. You will get it first time before swamps, no reason specifically look for this weapon beforehand

Oh yeah it's easy to lose track of time and just put in over an hour of just playing these battles; I know I did!

I would argue it has gotten significantly less after the first few patches, although I did run into a couple of main mission bugs a few times that still haven't been solved/fixed.

@ bugged at zaylissa 3 times on different playthroughs on newest fixed patch. Talk about having a bad time…..

Oh you mean the one where the town is all empty but you do hear all the radio chatter with gunfire ect?

@ that happened once. Then two times the gaffer just said the thing where he gives you 1000 coupons each time, then when you leave it auto fails. Somehow this led to no scar at Rostock when you take the emitter…

Man that's so frustrating. I've experienced that loading a save from before your current mission sometimes resets these kind of issues, although I'm not sure this counts for this particular mission since a lot of people are complaining about this particular bug.

Thanks!

um, no

you cant have a picnic. sorry. :D

Interesting, I see the reload time coming back as a reason for picking the Cracker over the SPSA. Out of curiosity, are you using combat reloads during a fight?

@@SirStefanGaming Yes, sir.

just use the saiga. better stats than both and has a mag

@@squaisheynugget3777 To be certain. But first, I need to find it.

@nathangregory_ I got you! I'm working on a new video right now where you'll get more info on the Saiga. I should have it done either tomorrow or Monday.

Do you mean ammo or fire mode?

@SirStefanGaming Fire mode. Automatic, Burst, Semi

I applaud your ability to press and hold RMB, aim, fire, analyze what effect your ROF has AND be able to press B to switch lol. I could never!

@@SirStefanGaming All you have to do is hold left trigger (aim down sights) and press Y. Skif then simply flips the switch on the firearm. It's simple. Unless of course you are mocking me.

No mate, definitely not mocking you. I'm on PC and with the default settings, I'm bad at doing 5 things at the same time but I think you're on Xbox so you can move and hold trigger with 1 hand and press Y with the other.

Thanks for sharing! Did you get a chance to test the Glass Cloud trick with a Bloodsucker?

Yep insta death ✌️

Interesting! I haven't seen that happen yet!

I think it was during that Mission in the swamps, before the Emission strikes. 🤔

Certain artifacts give you more weight capacity, they let you carry more weight

I'm most definitely not using cheat codes, I'm already a god-like gamer without them...so with them would be double-cheating! 😛😅 No seriously; I have a few artifacts that increase the weight carry limit plus on most gear I purchase any weight reduction upgrade. At what time in the video did you see this, maybe I can clarify what you're seeing.

@NIGHTMXRE5 .. Yes, I know, but his max weight capacity shows 80kg, pretty average without anomalies, and he's carrying 5 - 6 heavy weapons a pistol plus stash, and it only shows 65kg(?), also his weight icon is still yellow. When I'm at 80kg max, my max carry is like 4 heavy weapons, plus stash, anymore, and I can't even walk.. When I use an anomaly, you can see the max rate go up like later on in his video it shows 120kg.. 🤷‍♂️ Maybe I'm carrying too many bullets. 😆 There is a nexus mod for weight capacity, though..

@@justventing Unless youre carrying like 300 bullets for each gun it doesnt really make a difference, could be just artifact stacking, also some armors are lighter and some let you upgrade them to make them lighter and give you more weight for ammo and stuff

@SirStefanGaming .. 2:05.. Sorry, it's overweight by .5 or .9 (blurry) and you load weight isn't 65.1... But for all that in your inventory including 5 pieces of armor and all the weapons and gear to only weigh 80.5 - .9kg with a Max weight of 80kg just seems off. 🤷‍♂️.. Oh and only one anomaly on..

Thanks for the tips! Doesn't your weapon get damaged though when you use it for opening boxes? That's why I use my knife all the time.

@ haha, you got me there. I have no idea how I didn’t think of weapon durability being used by melee attacks, as it clearly is. Scratch that tip off :D I just wanted to help and ended up with a unhelpful til :)

You really did help & don't get me wrong, I really appreciate you spending time to share your tips! And it's not like whether or not an action influences weapon durability is the be-all-end-all of things...if you care more about time than Coupons then I would just use a weapon to open boxes: easier, faster. Plus if you happen to walk around with Skif's pistol more than anything else then you can just use that to strike with since repair costs for it are almost none-existent.

@@SirStefanGaming btw, I love your style of content and data-hunting similar to Dark Souls/Elden Ring so I'll gladly drop more tips if I come across some :)

That's very nice to hear, thanks!

I did this in the beginning but quickly found out that most threats required something much bigger than a pistol to deal with effectively (plus I suck at neutralizing NPCs over 20m+ away with a pistol, all the while they are peppering me with lethal accuracy haha)

@@SirStefanGaming There's not too much that mag dumping a APSB loaded with AP rounds is not going to at least inconvenience. But it's really just for things that pop up in your face. If they're 20m+ away then you have time to switch to a long gun. And anyway, if the choice is scanner plus bolt or scanner plus pistol you might as well have the pistol.

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Guys I don’t think it’s finished yet idk tho

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Press "B" on keyboard to change fire modes!

@SirStefanGaming oh thank you :)

My pleasure!!

Yeah those shotguns are something else! I have that too sometimes but only when I'm not up close and center behind it; when you get near the edge you can get clipped.