I watched all of Tarkovsky' Stalker in one sitting. Did not find it as boring as some ppl make it out to be but definitely not something u watch multiple times a year or even decade.
2:30 in the video. My tip: use GoG for old games. Most of them have the "fan" stability patches already installed or sometime even the GoG team themselves patched the games for current hardware. Saves you a lot of trouble and time. Also better mod compatibility.
You should shave switched to *SEMIAUTO* when shooting from a distance, if you want to hit something and preserve ammo. Sure the early weapons are gargabe either way and mosty only effective at closer range. But as soon as you get any of the more decent guns, using semiauto together with low crouch can be very effective. It really should have been the default setting on a lot of the rifels.
@@TimeSpaceWanderer with my key layout it's 9 (or possibly 9 and 0, 9 for prev. fire mode, 0 for next fire mode) But you can change it to whatever on the key binds menu in options.
Might be less janky as it is published by Microsoft and is going to be released on Xbox too, so there are probably some standards to adhere to. My hope is that the jank spirit will live though in voice acting and atmosphere.
If you are going to play, as you said, counter-strike-like, then yes, stalker difficulty is the way to go. Master is much more rewarding, but you have to completely change your play style to stealth. If you are getting oneshot on the stalker already, it will be easier to deal with the enemies. Grind to buy military armor or exoskeleton in the Bar. Use a pistol more, don't rely solely on rifles, save the ammo. Carry a sniper rifle. Use more grenades, they are deadly as fuck on master. Get used to peak around every corner given that you have a decent peak option with Q and E. Use your binoculars more, it can help highlight enemies. Plan your every move. Edit: turn on the toggle crouch option, boy
This, bullets are SUPPOSED to be instantly lethal. You don't play STALKER like it's Doom, you play it like you're a serial killer sneaking up on people.
There's lots of problems with how you play the game. Most noticeably was the combat. I rarely even see you peeking from cover, which reduces the space they can hit you. Second is the fact you're aiming at their body, armor exists, and theres not a lot of ammo, and you're shooting center mass. If you actually go for headshots, you'll notice they go down in like 2-3 shots, and your gun will be less damaged cause you shot less bullets than spraying down.
I havent played stalker in atleast like 10-12 years. But i dont remember aiming being so hard. If i remember it was just like burst everyones heads and its always like 1 shot kill. Felt like the first shot or two always hit exactly where your crosshair was.
same here. and when i got the silenced sniper rifle i was walking death, that & the odd grenade to flush enemies out of cover made the game a doddle imo.
@@Pmurder3 that's a wide spread rumor, iirc difficulty only affects how much damage you take. Master is definitely the way to go, because STALKER, imo, is best played when you actually feel you could die at any moment if you're careless, instead of "bunny hopping around like cs".
@@Pmurder3 Yes, and no. So the problem with Stalker's difficulty is the killing. The lower the difficulty, the harder it is for you to die, but they are also harder to kill. To the tune of multiple direct shotgun blast directly to the head of a bandit at point blank not killing him. On master its different, you are a squishy man made of meat of blood, but so are all you're enemies. A headshot is a headshot regardless. Its more lethal but also entirely fair. So the combat is punishing, but for everyone. You can be killed at the snap of your fingers, but so too can all enemies. Its a much, much better play on Master. The only issue is its very difficult early game, but the moment you get a rifle and some ok gear you're good.
the exoskeleton dudes are not that tanky, they can tank an entire mag, but if you hit headshots you can kill them in like 3 bullets, if you can't, that's skill issue
Try Stalker "Lost Alpha". It's essentially what S.T.A.L.K.E.R was supposed to be, before alot of content was cut. People worked on it for like a decade. Oh, and it's free.
Isn't that the one that takes 5 minutes to load and crashes constantly? One really has to have the patience of a monk to endure that pain, especially considering Lost Alpha is even harder.
NO! Stay AWAY from this mod. It is HORRIBLY paced, and I mean HORRIBLY, maps are awful. If you want a decent cut content mod play OLR 2.5 or RMA Shadows Addon. Have fun
The atmosphere of stalker is truly masterful, it's janky as fuck in all other aspects (tho i appreciate some of it), but i loved the game just because of it's atmosphere
Check how S.T.A.L.K.E.R. veterans play. Now compare it with your gameplay. Sorry, but your just not playing it the way you should. Gunplay is crushing. Taking cover, leaning, taping and bursting headshots its the only way you can survive. Honestly, S.T.AL.K.E.R. is just not for casual players. That's why its a real cult classic. Underneath all the bugs and jank, this is one of the most original FPS titles ever made and truly a underrated masterpiece. You won't find the same atmosphere in any other video game. The story and the lore is simple, yet unique and captivating. The moding community is huge and still very active.
I unironically think the shooting in stalker games (at least chernobyl and pripyat) is about as real feeling as games can get outside of vr. Almost feels ARMA like in that you cant really tell what's going on where you're shooting and you can seemingly spray down a fella but hes running around still. Just makes it even more immersive when you notice their breathing is strained, or they limp away I love these games
0:00 yeah, Stalker developement wasn't that great but at least their boss (Sergiey) could buy more Pepsi gadgets and sport car(s) while rest of the developers barely earned a scarps... Nice you tested some mods. Everybody and their babushkas tell you to play with Complete mod because it makes the game looks better. What they will not tell you are gameplay changes. Pity that MooZe is not responsible for the soundtrack for STALKER 2,
Funny how many people day that about the Complete mod. I've heard like 10 times more people say its shitty and a waste of time than actual recommendations.
I only played S.t.a.l.k.e.r Call of Pripyat, I liked it and played it for 10 or so hours(?). A few years later I started playing Anomaly and never looked back.
@Eriko. Oy As a Russian I can tell you many minor mods would come with fixes, but the base game was pretty stable on the latest official patch. Thou I might be remembering things wrong as it's been forever since I played vanilla.
I bought it twice as someone sqatted on my first copy, with a few mods it's a atmospheric masterpiece that has a special kind of mystery to it's world and setting
@@chillhour6155 Totally agree. I don't tend to call it my favorite game, and yet between the 3 instalments and various mods, I've played through it well over 100 times.
Some people say there's a "magic bullet" system which kind of means you can only do good headshots if you wait one second between shots (I believe this time period is a variable somewhere in the game files). If you shoot sooner, your bullet isn't magic, and you can't do good headshot damage. So maybe that could be why bursts don't work too well while onetapping everyone in the head sometimes does. Some people also said that some parts of the npcs bodies don't take any damage, like toes and fingers. So when an npc is staggered and puts their hand in front of their chest? There's a higher chance to hit the arms for less damage, or fingers for no damage.
Did he forget the q and e keys? Honestly I only use master difficulty,one headshot kills anything and less resources makes fights more tense and makes you buying stuff more thoughtful,end game was not so good with fights to be honest,it was fun shooting guys with eltric sniper hit hax but it doesn't hold a candle to the other gunfights I play stalker vanilla and modded and I just can't get enough
Autumn Aurora 2.1 is the best mod for Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl albeit it doesn't run very well on modern hardware (Maybe just me) I love hardcore mods. Also, small tidbit but I've always found that playing without the crosshair enabled immensely improves immersion. Also, I don't want to disagree with your opinion but I do believe master is probably the best difficulty option. The enemies are less bullet spongey than in the gameplay of your vid and accuracy atleast felt more accurate to me over the course of 100's of hours of gameplay alternating between vanilla/modded and stalker/master difficulty. I might be misremembering the accuracy of weapons in vanilla however as I personally haven't played vanilla SoC in a pr long time now.
I beat the whole game on Master and never had any problems with aiming, bullet sponges etc. All you have to do is switch to single-fire mode at mid to long range and aim for the head and you can take most guys out with 1 or 2 bullets. Save automatic for closer range encounters or mutants.
BTW in 1:44 the map is a bit off, there's no Galicia anymore for example, now it's divided between Poland and Ukraine, Poland also regained another little parts it used to own. Other eastern euro countires have a bit different borders too, It's the pre-world war map, not sure which century now, but there were lots of changes the last few hundred year, lot's of blood spilled over those borders. There're few unifying things, one of which is our love of crpgs and clunky design, for example Gothic series and Stalker series were huuuge bestsellers in central and eastern Europe, as well as infinity engine games.
To be honest, I watched Tarkovskys Stalker before ever hearing about this game, I've watched it 3 times total, never having a break in the middle of the movie. I'm also a big fan of his other work like Solaris & Andrei Rublev
I only played the game at max difficulty. My style was being crouched everywhwere, and 1 shot killed almost everything with sniper rifles at max view distance. I wasn't used to bullet drop caused by gravity, but that was not a problem by the end. The game conditioned me to aim so high that targets were not visible through the scope. The most extreme case was probably aiming 20' over the target at my max draw distance. Gaining skill at sniping heads lead to a huge surplus of ammo, because I used only 1 bullet per target.
No pistols, no shotguns, just VSS Vintorez, VLA, FN2000 and Groza. I felt the game was fine on Master difficulty, I liked it alot. Sometimes sniper rifles were fine, but the occasions to really use them are just too are, to run around with an extra 12 kg in your backpack.
Shadow of CHernobyl has the most quotable line in the series, when the guy just outside the bandit base at the beginning says "Come men, it is time to go and be heroes." No matter what happens after that, it'll all come down to the ammo : medkits & bandages ratio. And in the end, that super-duper heavily modified custom rifle you spent all your money on will be lying on the ground somewhere while you carry on with one of the enemy's guns because you don't have any ammo left for your own. Also, in regard to bullet-sponges, I used to think the enemies were all super-spongey too, but then I discovered armour piercing ammunition. Now they're only moderately spongey.
I’m genuinely worried that if STALKER 2 drops and ISN’T an over-ambitious technical mess, it’ll paradoxically feel like it’s broken because I’ve spent years playing in accordance with the game’s fucked up moon logic (zone logic?). If the enemy AI doesn’t have their xray specs set to shrubbery mode or their magic bullet-fuck-you-through-the-level-geometry gloves, I don’t know if I’ll be able to adjust. What if the pseudogiant’s ground-pound attack doesn’t somehow shoot up vertically to damage me while I’m far above it on a suspended catwalk? This IP’s brand identity is glitches. Ambition, atmosphere, but also a fuckton of glitches. It’s a bit of a development quandary.
@@StratEdgyProductions When you play Call of Pripyat, you should take a look at the Misery mod. Really changes up the experience. By changes up I mean that the game will bend you over and go in dry. I remember when I spawned in for the first time and got mauled by a pack of ravenous dogs... good times.
Hey strat thanks for making this.. ive been watching your videos and its been helping me getting threw my cat being sick and having to be put down. Your videos always put a smile on my face
The Brain Scorcher was made unintentionally easy in Anomaly. I dropped about 40 IEDs through the rooms and as soon as I pulled the lever, about half of the enemies died.
This was sooner that I expected. And you're right, the film was very difficult to watch for me on first viewing, but something about it's eeriness grew on me.
When I was big into film I loved stalker, solaris, Ran, Ikiru stuff like that. I still do but try to watch a three hour movie with kids. Not a fun experience.
Truly recommend the ZRP patch for Soc and CS, especially for CS. Think of them as the unofficial patches for the Elder Scrolls game. You can play vanilla but sooner or later the issues will get to ya.
Last time I played Stalker it was Master and I was very careful in the opening hours, after getting some solid gear and a scope things got heaps better. I didn't have issues with ammo after I started collecting goods to sell and stock up on Heal Kits and ammo but I did have to almost exclusively headshot so over time that helped to reduce ammo consumption. Unfortunately I got distracted and didn't finish.
Hey Strat! If you're ever in the mood to punish your brain with this game again, here are 2 tricks to make your time a little more bearable: - 1) Use cover that you peek over to shoot. If you have to side peek, use the lean function. You only take 20% damage from a headshot. You take 100% damage if you get hit even in your little toe. So stick your neck out in this game but keep everything else in cover. 2) If you want accuracy, ADS only after a half-second after stopping your movement. The engine is a little slow, and if you ADS too quickly after changing movement speeds it doesn't update the parameters and you'll have the same level of accuracy as your last movement. So good luck hitting anything if you're quick scoping from a full sprint. So generally, sprint to cover/stop/peek over and shoot, and you'll probably have an easier time with those gun battles. I spent about 2 years modding Stalker to weed out many of the issues you've pointed out because the AI and atmosphere offered so much potential. During that time modding, I noticed the absolutely ridiculous character damage chart used in the vanilla game. Give it a try!
Pro tip and spoiler maybe. In the army warehouse area in an attic of a building you get one of the best sniper weapon and the Duty missions in rail yard bar area give you ammo for it.
I almost never use automatic fire. Single shots always. Since ammo is scarce and firing on auto jolts the firearm around really bad. Firing single shots keeps the recoil low and lets you control the firefight easier. Since you aren't waiting to reload so much or wasting much needed ammo. Also, the Stalker film is excellent. Kind of bitter in my interpretation. But overall a fantastic movie.
I have the same love-hate relationship with the game. It was hyped as a ground breaking survival rpg experience and came out as a half baked shooter, which took a lot of endurance and determination not to quit after couple of hours in and I went through entire movie in one go so I’m not a quitter lol
I loved the atmosphere and I nearly finished Shadow of Chernobyl, but then I reached a city filled with bullet spongey jumping zombies and campy fuckers that one-shotted me waiting for me behind every corner and so I just gave up.
Wow a blast from the past. Still have my brick and mortar store bought small box copy (I miss the big boxes. It's like when CDs started coming out and it was bye bye Big Sleeve Vinyl albums ). Then again, I still have all the boxed games I ever bought for decades now. I'm gunna need a bigger room. 😁
Now play it with mods like Anomaly. In Anomaly you can choose your faction from the start, game is a lot more open and focused on free roaming, locations from all games are avalible, plenty of new weapons, graphical improvements and so on. Its a competly different experience, superior imo. I cant go back to unmodded Starlker games.
Satlker is one of the very few movies where 2 hour long dolly shots of a tree are not only acceptable but they're also necessary, сука. Also, people actually died from cancer while filming it, have some respect. But seriously, look up it's production history. Crazy stuff. Anyway, good video man.
lol the movie is pleasant to fall asleep to, you mentioned it's like the OG R6 but you haven't used any of the tactics that you would need to pass those games
I love how this game is still relevant. GSC truly created something incredible. Edit: After watching the video, I must suggest using ZRP mod and Arsenal Overhaul mod. ZRP helps a TON with bugfixes and making the game more enjoyable to play overall. The Arsenal Overhaul replaces all guns in game with higher textured, real life variants of weapons that feel much more authentic to use. If you had those 2 mods installed, almost every complaint you made in this video would not have been made.
This is honestly one of the best games I ever played, and yes, it is meant to be played in a high dificulty. Your problem is you treat it like a shooter, this game IS NOT supposed to be a shooter, it's an rpg. The first guns are supposed to have high spread since your character is not a trained soldier with perfect aim. If you go up against 3 armed bandits without any kind of strategy or gear, you are supposed to lose that fight and get killed. If you get shot in the head or a couple of times in the chest you are supposed to die, just like you would in real life. At the start of the game, where you are low on gear you are meant to engage gunfights extremely carefully, using stealth, grenades and advantageous positioning, or just outright avoid them. I found myself running away from many gunfights when I played this game for the first time. If you are just running around while shooting down everything you see, you are not playing the game the way it's meant to be played, and you will never really understand how great this game really is. The zone is supposed to be a threat, if you don't want it to feel that way, then you are better off playing a different game.
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He is not leaning.
Why is he not leaning?
LEAN, BOY. LEEEAAAN!
Leaning, aiming down the sights, going for headshots and turning off the reticle make for a much better gameplay experience in my opinion.
@@mungojerrie86 Absolutely agree
8:44
@@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012
I think the *car's* position is leaning, not him.
If you lean is it impossible for bots to target you if your body is hidden from view?
>there's something wrong with the audio
No, the audio is now perfect Товарищ
In this video I learned that Strat is not ready for the world of eurojank. Now I wait for the EYE video.
Oh, how I wish he would do a video on EYE
He’s a real messiah of rodents in this video.
or Boiling Point - Road to Hell
wish they released it already on Steam...
Oh, YES an EYE video would be amazing
@@Glassandcandy I await him telling Jian that he'll wear their fucking moron face as a party mask.
Why would anyone NOT want to hear russian in STALKER as default?! wtf
@Henrique the game have subtitles and you can see them in the video
Because then you wouldn't get to hear such gold as
"Get out of here Stalker!"
And
"I said come in! Don't stand there."
Because Wankers
@@vahlok1426 but what you will hear is an even more glorious and iconic "Иди своей дорогой, сталкер!"
@@laughing_monk_ hehe
In a perfect world....
men like me would not exist...
but this is not a perfect world.
I watched all of Tarkovsky' Stalker in one sitting. Did not find it as boring as some ppl make it out to be but definitely not something u watch multiple times a year or even decade.
Tarkovsky is mesmerizing. But best enjoyed alone at night, definitely not party movies
He should watch Satantango
He should watch Satantango
Like the Director himself said about Solaris, he made first hour of the movie boring on purpose so all the dumb people would leave the cinema.
I've watched all his movies. I love them, but I can't watch them in one sitting. ADD is a bitch my dudes. Solaris is better...
2:30 in the video. My tip: use GoG for old games. Most of them have the "fan" stability patches already installed or sometime even the GoG team themselves patched the games for current hardware. Saves you a lot of trouble and time.
Also better mod compatibility.
Q and E will allow you to actually lean around corners instead of sidestepping in and out like ive seen in your gameplay
Like at 6:00?
He is using lean but nowhere near as much as he should.
He also go full auto, never go full auto.
He did lean at 8:44, probably forgot or something
Leaning op
You should shave switched to *SEMIAUTO* when shooting from a distance, if you want to hit something and preserve ammo.
Sure the early weapons are gargabe either way and mosty only effective at closer range. But as soon as you get any of the more decent guns, using semiauto together with low crouch can be very effective.
It really should have been the default setting on a lot of the rifels.
how do you do that?
@@billnyethespy3641 press 0
@@TimeSpaceWanderer with my key layout it's 9 (or possibly 9 and 0, 9 for prev. fire mode, 0 for next fire mode) But you can change it to whatever on the key binds menu in options.
"trash or treasure"
Treasure
If stalker 2 isn't a janky shitfest it's getting a 0/10 outta me my man
It’s Russian. Of course it’s gonna be a janky shitfest. Albeit a GOOD janky shitfest, but one none the less.
Might be less janky as it is published by Microsoft and is going to be released on Xbox too, so there are probably some standards to adhere to. My hope is that the jank spirit will live though in voice acting and atmosphere.
@@Glassandcandy it's ukrainian not russian, but close enuff
@@Hakumen_Gaming oh. Well if things keep going like they are it’ll be Russia in 20 years or so anyway 🤷
@@Glassandcandy well , metro 2033 is good game it’s Russian
Now play Stalker Anomaly
Now play Stalker Anomaly
Yes.
Yes
Yes
I second this
the engine and AI were so ahead of their time, game has atmosphere like no other and the modding scene for it is hot. 15 years after
Tweaking this game is like an arcane art using forbidden slavic magic, and once you become somewhat adept it is the most empowering feeling ever.
ukrainians are turkish or something
If you are going to play, as you said, counter-strike-like, then yes, stalker difficulty is the way to go. Master is much more rewarding, but you have to completely change your play style to stealth. If you are getting oneshot on the stalker already, it will be easier to deal with the enemies. Grind to buy military armor or exoskeleton in the Bar. Use a pistol more, don't rely solely on rifles, save the ammo. Carry a sniper rifle. Use more grenades, they are deadly as fuck on master. Get used to peak around every corner given that you have a decent peak option with Q and E. Use your binoculars more, it can help highlight enemies. Plan your every move.
Edit: turn on the toggle crouch option, boy
good advice, especially re. grenades. i'll add binding bandages/medkits to hotkeys to your list, can save your life in ambushes or mutant attacks.
This is bullshit to me, in master enemies need 2 headshots to fucking die
@@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012 depends on your enemy, if hes a guy in exoskeleton then yeah they take few headshots to die
@@bolan4185 i seen stalker in stalker suit takes 2 shot to kill with headshots
@@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012 Then you didn't shoot them in the head.
I never imagined anyone could have so many problems with that game. I just started it... and played it....and everything was fine
Master difficulty > Stalker difficulty
This, bullets are SUPPOSED to be instantly lethal. You don't play STALKER like it's Doom, you play it like you're a serial killer sneaking up on people.
Yes
There's lots of problems with how you play the game. Most noticeably was the combat. I rarely even see you peeking from cover, which reduces the space they can hit you. Second is the fact you're aiming at their body, armor exists, and theres not a lot of ammo, and you're shooting center mass. If you actually go for headshots, you'll notice they go down in like 2-3 shots, and your gun will be less damaged cause you shot less bullets than spraying down.
Stalker is one of those games I know I need to play and that I know I’ll grow to love but still haven’t just out of sheer intimidation.
Best. Game. Ever. Just go for it
The aim dispersion is just immersion. Since you are roleplaying as a drunken vatnik searching for vodka money, your aim will naturally wander.
Do you mean gopnik
I havent played stalker in atleast like 10-12 years. But i dont remember aiming being so hard. If i remember it was just like burst everyones heads and its always like 1 shot kill. Felt like the first shot or two always hit exactly where your crosshair was.
same here. and when i got the silenced sniper rifle i was walking death, that & the odd grenade to flush enemies out of cover made the game a doddle imo.
"If you play it on any other difficulty other then stalker"
Wrong. Master is literally the only way to fucking play.
As someone whos never played stalker before, I 100% agree
Isn't it easier on master, because enemies takes less bullets to kill?
@@Pmurder3 that's a wide spread rumor, iirc difficulty only affects how much damage you take. Master is definitely the way to go, because STALKER, imo, is best played when you actually feel you could die at any moment if you're careless, instead of "bunny hopping around like cs".
@@Pmurder3 Yes, and no. So the problem with Stalker's difficulty is the killing. The lower the difficulty, the harder it is for you to die, but they are also harder to kill. To the tune of multiple direct shotgun blast directly to the head of a bandit at point blank not killing him. On master its different, you are a squishy man made of meat of blood, but so are all you're enemies. A headshot is a headshot regardless. Its more lethal but also entirely fair. So the combat is punishing, but for everyone. You can be killed at the snap of your fingers, but so too can all enemies. Its a much, much better play on Master. The only issue is its very difficult early game, but the moment you get a rifle and some ok gear you're good.
the exoskeleton dudes are not that tanky, they can tank an entire mag, but if you hit headshots you can kill them in like 3 bullets, if you can't, that's skill issue
Try Stalker "Lost Alpha". It's essentially what S.T.A.L.K.E.R was supposed to be, before alot of content was cut. People worked on it for like a decade. Oh, and it's free.
Isn't that the one that takes 5 minutes to load and crashes constantly?
One really has to have the patience of a monk to endure that pain, especially considering Lost Alpha is even harder.
@@OfficialDJSoru It worked extremely well for me on my mid - range setup. But that was pretty long ago and I've never finished it.
DONT. try it.
@@doggo1813 do not TRY IT. you should 'not' *TRY IT NOW!*
NO! Stay AWAY from this mod. It is HORRIBLY paced, and I mean HORRIBLY, maps are awful. If you want a decent cut content mod play OLR 2.5 or RMA Shadows Addon. Have fun
The atmosphere of stalker is truly masterful, it's janky as fuck in all other aspects (tho i appreciate some of it), but i loved the game just because of it's atmosphere
Check how S.T.A.L.K.E.R. veterans play. Now compare it with your gameplay.
Sorry, but your just not playing it the way you should. Gunplay is crushing. Taking cover, leaning, taping and bursting headshots its the only way you can survive.
Honestly, S.T.AL.K.E.R. is just not for casual players. That's why its a real cult classic. Underneath all the bugs and jank, this is one of the most original FPS titles ever made and truly a underrated masterpiece.
You won't find the same atmosphere in any other video game. The story and the lore is simple, yet unique and captivating. The moding community is huge and still very active.
Master difficulty is the only one that exists. Get out of here Stalker.
Literally this
Honestly, the guns feel like super soakers shooting acid. It hurts... eventually.
modding it so the player and the enemies are one-shotty is the way to go
I unironically think the shooting in stalker games (at least chernobyl and pripyat) is about as real feeling as games can get outside of vr. Almost feels ARMA like in that you cant really tell what's going on where you're shooting and you can seemingly spray down a fella but hes running around still. Just makes it even more immersive when you notice their breathing is strained, or they limp away
I love these games
0:00 yeah, Stalker developement wasn't that great but at least their boss (Sergiey) could buy more Pepsi gadgets and sport car(s) while rest of the developers barely earned a scarps...
Nice you tested some mods. Everybody and their babushkas tell you to play with Complete mod because it makes the game looks better. What they will not tell you are gameplay changes.
Pity that MooZe is not responsible for the soundtrack for STALKER 2,
Yeah, that sucks.
Funny how many people day that about the Complete mod. I've heard like 10 times more people say its shitty and a waste of time than actual recommendations.
Lolwat complete mod has been unanimously ragged on since 2012 my g who tf
the new ost sound amazing tho
This is one of the few game related channel i still watch. The content is par excellence
Steam doesn't delete folders added by mods. Thats why Autumn Aurora was still installed after you re-download.
Switching weapons to semi-auto does a lot to help accuracy issues.
So does keeping weapons in decent shape
Call of Chernobyl is where its at. I love me some StalkerCoC!! Especially with the added dynamic factions, missions, and weapons mods.
>steam doesn't delete the contents of the STALKER folder even when uninstalling the game
Ah, just like Dead Island Riptide
Oh it does remove files that steam added in. Anything else like mods, maybe saves, stay behind.
I only played S.t.a.l.k.e.r Call of Pripyat, I liked it and played it for 10 or so hours(?). A few years later I started playing Anomaly and never looked back.
Good lad
Imo, Anomaly is the definitive stalker experience. Everyone has their favorite poison though.
@@fuzzydunlop7928 for example i like Misery mod... because i'm a masochist
Call of Pripyat is easily the best official release.
@@StarkeRealm anomaly
Man I pirated these games and didn't have as many issues as you did
@Eriko. Oy As a Russian I can tell you many minor mods would come with fixes, but the base game was pretty stable on the latest official patch. Thou I might be remembering things wrong as it's been forever since I played vanilla.
I remember playing original Clear Sky with no CD fix that would prevent Hog NPC from speaking. Nobody knew why.
because you played the game as intended :V
I bought it twice as someone sqatted on my first copy, with a few mods it's a atmospheric masterpiece that has a special kind of mystery to it's world and setting
@@chillhour6155 Totally agree. I don't tend to call it my favorite game, and yet between the 3 instalments and various mods, I've played through it well over 100 times.
Played this when it first came out. I was like 16. Always liked it. My 16 year old brain was like “derr Russian fallout”
cheeki breeki intensifies ...
Yes! I asked for this, so happy you did it. I know it's rough my man
Some people say there's a "magic bullet" system which kind of means you can only do good headshots if you wait one second between shots (I believe this time period is a variable somewhere in the game files). If you shoot sooner, your bullet isn't magic, and you can't do good headshot damage. So maybe that could be why bursts don't work too well while onetapping everyone in the head sometimes does.
Some people also said that some parts of the npcs bodies don't take any damage, like toes and fingers. So when an npc is staggered and puts their hand in front of their chest? There's a higher chance to hit the arms for less damage, or fingers for no damage.
Did he forget the q and e keys?
Honestly I only use master difficulty,one headshot kills anything and less resources makes fights more tense and makes you buying stuff more thoughtful,end game was not so good with fights to be honest,it was fun shooting guys with eltric sniper hit hax but it doesn't hold a candle to the other gunfights
I play stalker vanilla and modded and I just can't get enough
I use the lean key constantly in the game. You probably just can't notice it.
@@StratEdgyProductions yhea,you spent half the video peeking CS GO style and the other half peeking,sorry mate
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Autumn Aurora 2.1 is the best mod for Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl albeit it doesn't run very well on modern hardware (Maybe just me) I love hardcore mods.
Also, small tidbit but I've always found that playing without the crosshair enabled immensely improves immersion. Also, I don't want to disagree with your opinion but I do believe master is probably the best difficulty option. The enemies are less bullet spongey than in the gameplay of your vid and accuracy atleast felt more accurate to me over the course of 100's of hours of gameplay alternating between vanilla/modded and stalker/master difficulty. I might be misremembering the accuracy of weapons in vanilla however as I personally haven't played vanilla SoC in a pr long time now.
OGSR, Lost Alpha DC, Anomaly. Here. Good luck with that Mr.Eurojunk
They should have put some sort of safe spot / base / ammo dump at the Brain Scorcher. It’s videogamey, but it works.
I beat the whole game on Master and never had any problems with aiming, bullet sponges etc. All you have to do is switch to single-fire mode at mid to long range and aim for the head and you can take most guys out with 1 or 2 bullets. Save automatic for closer range encounters or mutants.
BTW in 1:44 the map is a bit off, there's no Galicia anymore for example, now it's divided between Poland and Ukraine, Poland also regained another little parts it used to own. Other eastern euro countires have a bit different borders too, It's the pre-world war map, not sure which century now, but there were lots of changes the last few hundred year, lot's of blood spilled over those borders. There're few unifying things, one of which is our love of crpgs and clunky design, for example Gothic series and Stalker series were huuuge bestsellers in central and eastern Europe, as well as infinity engine games.
To be honest, I watched Tarkovskys Stalker before ever hearing about this game, I've watched it 3 times total, never having a break in the middle of the movie. I'm also a big fan of his other work like Solaris & Andrei Rublev
I only played the game at max difficulty. My style was being crouched everywhwere, and 1 shot killed almost everything with sniper rifles at max view distance. I wasn't used to bullet drop caused by gravity, but that was not a problem by the end. The game conditioned me to aim so high that targets were not visible through the scope. The most extreme case was probably aiming 20' over the target at my max draw distance. Gaining skill at sniping heads lead to a huge surplus of ammo, because I used only 1 bullet per target.
Just go for headshots and all your bullet-sponge issues will vanish. Like, wtf.
Lean and Head-shot, that's all you need to learn about the combat basic
No pistols, no shotguns, just VSS Vintorez, VLA, FN2000 and Groza. I felt the game was fine on Master difficulty, I liked it alot. Sometimes sniper rifles were fine, but the occasions to really use them are just too are, to run around with an extra 12 kg in your backpack.
One does not need mods to appreciate the treasure that is STALKER
Shadow of CHernobyl has the most quotable line in the series, when the guy just outside the bandit base at the beginning says "Come men, it is time to go and be heroes."
No matter what happens after that, it'll all come down to the ammo : medkits & bandages ratio. And in the end, that super-duper heavily modified custom rifle you spent all your money on will be lying on the ground somewhere while you carry on with one of the enemy's guns because you don't have any ammo left for your own.
Also, in regard to bullet-sponges, I used to think the enemies were all super-spongey too, but then I discovered armour piercing ammunition. Now they're only moderately spongey.
He didn't even talk about the knife, it basically does what the sledge in red faction guerrilla does, but in a single hit.
I’m genuinely worried that if STALKER 2 drops and ISN’T an over-ambitious technical mess, it’ll paradoxically feel like it’s broken because I’ve spent years playing in accordance with the game’s fucked up moon logic (zone logic?). If the enemy AI doesn’t have their xray specs set to shrubbery mode or their magic bullet-fuck-you-through-the-level-geometry gloves, I don’t know if I’ll be able to adjust.
What if the pseudogiant’s ground-pound attack doesn’t somehow shoot up vertically to damage me while I’m far above it on a suspended catwalk? This IP’s brand identity is glitches. Ambition, atmosphere, but also a fuckton of glitches. It’s a bit of a development quandary.
Call of Pripyat next? Maybe even Clear Sky?
All the stalkers, then stalker 2 whenever it comes out.
@@StratEdgyProductions have you tried/are you going to cover any of the mods like Anomaly?
@@StratEdgyProductions Ever think about doing a video on the Metro series?
@@StratEdgyProductions Nice! Can't wait. You plan on doing Clear Sky or Call of Pripyat first?
@@StratEdgyProductions When you play Call of Pripyat, you should take a look at the Misery mod. Really changes up the experience.
By changes up I mean that the game will bend you over and go in dry. I remember when I spawned in for the first time and got mauled by a pack of ravenous dogs... good times.
one of my favorite games of all time.
Hey strat thanks for making this.. ive been watching your videos and its been helping me getting threw my cat being sick and having to be put down. Your videos always put a smile on my face
Yep still holds up, playing and loving in 2024
Short, controlled burst.
The Brain Scorcher was made unintentionally easy in Anomaly. I dropped about 40 IEDs through the rooms and as soon as I pulled the lever, about half of the enemies died.
power of todd can effect other post apocalyptic games too
or fantasy maybe
This is the grizzled grandfather of Tarkov.
I have the vanilla disc and some how it runs amazing on my shity computer
If you find a few Mama's Bead Artifacts you will become quite bulletspongey.
This was sooner that I expected. And you're right, the film was very difficult to watch for me on first viewing, but something about it's eeriness grew on me.
When I was big into film I loved stalker, solaris, Ran, Ikiru stuff like that. I still do but try to watch a three hour movie with kids. Not a fun experience.
@@StratEdgyProductions my condolences
Try the book,easy to read and the story is great
Truly recommend the ZRP patch for Soc and CS, especially for CS. Think of them as the unofficial patches for the Elder Scrolls game. You can play vanilla but sooner or later the issues will get to ya.
I hope youve been happier since you left EA. Really enjoying your channel!
Last time I played Stalker it was Master and I was very careful in the opening hours, after getting some solid gear and a scope things got heaps better.
I didn't have issues with ammo after I started collecting goods to sell and stock up on Heal Kits and ammo but I did have to almost exclusively headshot so over time that helped to reduce ammo consumption.
Unfortunately I got distracted and didn't finish.
Well, GSC old office was in a former factory, so you got that one right.
Hey Strat! If you're ever in the mood to punish your brain with this game again, here are 2 tricks to make your time a little more bearable: -
1) Use cover that you peek over to shoot. If you have to side peek, use the lean function.
You only take 20% damage from a headshot. You take 100% damage if you get hit even in your little toe. So stick your neck out in this game but keep everything else in cover.
2) If you want accuracy, ADS only after a half-second after stopping your movement.
The engine is a little slow, and if you ADS too quickly after changing movement speeds it doesn't update the parameters and you'll have the same level of accuracy as your last movement. So good luck hitting anything if you're quick scoping from a full sprint.
So generally, sprint to cover/stop/peek over and shoot, and you'll probably have an easier time with those gun battles.
I spent about 2 years modding Stalker to weed out many of the issues you've pointed out because the AI and atmosphere offered so much potential. During that time modding, I noticed the absolutely ridiculous character damage chart used in the vanilla game. Give it a try!
Soooo...Gothic next ? I love first two Gothics and i would love your review.
I love these games. Though my one complaint is the "time to aim" aspect of weapon damage.
If you close the lid the Gatorade bottles don't smell
Pro tip and spoiler maybe.
In the army warehouse area in an attic of a building you get one of the best sniper weapon and the Duty missions in rail yard bar area give you ammo for it.
I almost never use automatic fire. Single shots always. Since ammo is scarce and firing on auto jolts the firearm around really bad. Firing single shots keeps the recoil low and lets you control the firefight easier. Since you aren't waiting to reload so much or wasting much needed ammo.
Also, the Stalker film is excellent. Kind of bitter in my interpretation. But overall a fantastic movie.
Best played in original language with subs
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I must be Mr. Nooneinthehistoryofever
I have the same love-hate relationship with the game. It was hyped as a ground breaking survival rpg experience and came out as a half baked shooter, which took a lot of endurance and determination not to quit after couple of hours in and I went through entire movie in one go so I’m not a quitter lol
"I never seem to have ammo!"
>400 clips of Strat firing on full auto and bursts instead of semi auto
lmoa
Pls do Anomaly someday, it’s the best iteration of stalker to date and it’s free
modded call of chernobyl my dude
its a treasure disguised as trash. but its the best trash out there
youll never be the same after playing it
Stalker Gamma is still one of the only games I play to this day. Its just that good
I loved the atmosphere and I nearly finished Shadow of Chernobyl, but then I reached a city filled with bullet spongey jumping zombies and campy fuckers that one-shotted me waiting for me behind every corner and so I just gave up.
Wow a blast from the past. Still have my brick and mortar store bought small box copy (I miss the big boxes. It's like when CDs started coming out and it was bye bye Big Sleeve Vinyl albums ). Then again, I still have all the boxed games I ever bought for decades now. I'm gunna need a bigger room. 😁
Why was the Generation Kill clip so low res? That's funny
Can’t wait for Strat to do a review of Heart of Chernobyl
i still play this game to this day
The most op artefact in shadow of Chernobyl is mama's bread,5% bullet Res with 0 downsize,super rare tho only ever found 2.
Now play it with mods like Anomaly. In Anomaly you can choose your faction from the start, game is a lot more open and focused on free roaming, locations from all games are avalible, plenty of new weapons, graphical improvements and so on. Its a competly different experience, superior imo. I cant go back to unmodded Starlker games.
I know for sure that your channel is treasure!
As a seasoned stalker player i never had a problem with ammo. I never even bought ammo in any game from trilogy in my numerous playtrhoughs
Thanks for the fixed re-upload!
Satlker is one of the very few movies where 2 hour long dolly shots of a tree are not only acceptable but they're also necessary, сука.
Also, people actually died from cancer while filming it, have some respect. But seriously, look up it's production history. Crazy stuff.
Anyway, good video man.
It's a joke, bruv. I love Tarkovsky.
@@StratEdgyProductions no worries, I was being cheeky too. Guess it doesn't come across very well in writing, lol.
lol the movie is pleasant to fall asleep to, you mentioned it's like the OG R6 but you haven't used any of the tactics that you would need to pass those games
No offence Strat, but any difficulty other than master shows you haven't embraced the zone.
Another entertaining and informative video regarding a cool game I don't have a PC to play on
seems like a very interesting game
I love how this game is still relevant. GSC truly created something incredible.
Edit: After watching the video, I must suggest using ZRP mod and Arsenal Overhaul mod. ZRP helps a TON with bugfixes and making the game more enjoyable to play overall. The Arsenal Overhaul replaces all guns in game with higher textured, real life variants of weapons that feel much more authentic to use. If you had those 2 mods installed, almost every complaint you made in this video would not have been made.
This is honestly one of the best games I ever played, and yes, it is meant to be played in a high dificulty. Your problem is you treat it like a shooter, this game IS NOT supposed to be a shooter, it's an rpg. The first guns are supposed to have high spread since your character is not a trained soldier with perfect aim. If you go up against 3 armed bandits without any kind of strategy or gear, you are supposed to lose that fight and get killed. If you get shot in the head or a couple of times in the chest you are supposed to die, just like you would in real life. At the start of the game, where you are low on gear you are meant to engage gunfights extremely carefully, using stealth, grenades and advantageous positioning, or just outright avoid them. I found myself running away from many gunfights when I played this game for the first time. If you are just running around while shooting down everything you see, you are not playing the game the way it's meant to be played, and you will never really understand how great this game really is. The zone is supposed to be a threat, if you don't want it to feel that way, then you are better off playing a different game.