3:00 When you aim at someone down left you see a little faction badge. The guy was a bandit who are enemies of your faction, the free stalkers. Faction relations you can check in your pda.
@@wookziein the settings you can move it. I put it an inch or two below my crosshairs so i don't have to look so far away from where i'm aiming to see it.
Welcome to STALKER. GAMMA is the best, most fulfilling way to play, imo. You'll keep coming back to this game, it has great replayability. It is best to figure it out on your own, that's part of the fun and experience, but I'll give some very basic tips so you don't get frustrated. 1) Save often, both routine hardsaves and quicksaves. Any campfire, ally building, any undeground area allow for saving. Always carry a few matches to light the campfires. You can buy firewood and place campfires as well (not much need until the North, though). Not all maps have as many campfires, or they are not conveniently placed. Save before doing anything major (leaving base, sleeping, taking on a big fight, crafting). You can freely heal at campfires while crouched, passively. Sleeping restores some body part health, top to bottom. If your vitals (head, chest) go to zero you'll die instantly, even if you had high general HP. 2) Loot anything and everything but don't run around with it all on you. Use the blue chests to store stuff. Then work to consolidate your loot in a convenient single stash. Your primary, overall journey will be from south to north. Farm in Cordon is the best early game stash location. Hangar in Garbage is an intermediate one and Bar in Rostok will be your main hideout/stash area for a long time. Limansk, Red Forest, Radar, Jupiter, Zaton, Pripyat, Outskirts, CNPP (plus Generators, Abandoned Hospital) are all part of the North. Any other map is in the South. Expert Tools are ONLY found in the North. 3) Don't rush main quests (yellow ones). You can take your time. This game is much more sandbox than story or quest based. Don't make big trips if you're not confident you are prepared for it. This includes water, radiation-removal items, a few med items. Buffs don't stack. Drinking vodka and then immediately a cigarette will be a waste of the vodka. You can track buff duration bottom left. 4) Pick up and stash some of the better weapons that have green barrels early on as they can be fixed much more easily and earlier, but still stash anything you know will be good. A good shotgun goes a very long way in this game, even a crappy one is still effective and efficient early game. Get one asap. SMGs just aren't good. Shottie+AR/DMR is the best loadout. 5) Technicians pay the best for weapon and armor parts, attachments, magazines, ammo, explosives, various tech stuff, maps, glowsticks. Faction traders pay the best for valuables like jewellery, watches, and other junk that has no use in the game. Barmen tend to pay most for food and drink. Butcher in Garbage the most for mutant parts (not the meat though), followed by Ecologist scientists (who pay most for artefacts). Butcher also has the cheapest ammo prices. 6) Every 7-8 tasks you will get a yellow stash as an extra reward. These are guaranteed to spawn: a set of tools (general crafting) or a drug-making kit or gusmithing tools (ammo crafting). Stashes will always be on the same map or on adjacent or connected maps to where you got the reward. 7) Mutants are much more active at night. Beware! Try to stick to your biological clock. 06:00-22:00 or so is a good cycle. Caffeine/Coffee and Sleeping Pills can aid you with this. Most other items have minimal effect. You will become sleepy when you're under three bars. Sorry if some of these are rather obvious to you and I also hope I didn't spoil too much.
@@memedbengul4350 holy hell man what an in depth response, i really appreciate that information since i dont know jack about this game. thank you for the tips!
@@wookzie My pleasure. Some advice that can be given are spoilers, but others may not ever become obvious to someone; the game doesn't tell you everything. For example, superior toolkits make inferior ones redundant. If you have Expert Tools, you no longer need Basic and Advanced. And don't give the technicians your Basic Tools when he wants to give you that task, unless you have an extra one or a superior one. Some other vital things: -Your goodwill with a faction is basically faction reputation. The higher your rep, the higher the "trader supply level". Just like Tarkov. You gain mostly by doing tasks and quests for them, and you lose by failing tasks or killing their members. You gain trader level at every 500 points. -There are two faction types: Warsaw Pact and NATO. Most factions have one or more neutrals from both types. WP won't sell or have as gear anything exclusively NATO, and vice versa. WP: Loners, Bandits, Renegades, Military, Duty, Sin, and Monolith (these guys can also have NATO gear on them, though) NATO: Clear Sky, Freedom, Mercenaries, Ecologists, and UNISG You don't want to dilute your goodwill point gains across two factions of the same type, and instead concentrate your efforts to level up one of each type (although you don't absolutely have to). Since you are a Loner, I highly suggest you grind in Cordon for WP and later on, perhaps simultaneously, with Freedom for NATO. I highly advise against Clear Sky at the Swamps. You do get great money rewards (and decent enough items) for tasks, so doing tasks for anybody you can is a good idea. If priority is Trader Level, concentrate on one. If priority is money, then it doesn't matter. Honestly, it's debatable as to which is more important. RNG, among other things, is a factor. I do think late game access to bulk 7.62*51mm AP is reason enough to grind NATO at some point, not that 7.62*39 AP isn't viable, but the latter is easier to craft. Cordon-Garbage-Rostok-AW is the best basic gameplay loop for running tasks. Pretty quick and safe traversal as well.
Nice video. Hopefully I can catch your stream someday. Btw on the left bottom corner of your screen, you can see faction patch of the person you are aiming at. Should help you figure out who is friendly or not. You might already know that by now, if so don´t mind me. 😀
3:00 When you aim at someone down left you see a little faction badge. The guy was a bandit who are enemies of your faction, the free stalkers. Faction relations you can check in your pda.
@@ungeimpfterrusslandtroll7155 awesome tip thank you, and thanks for watching
@@wookziein the settings you can move it. I put it an inch or two below my crosshairs so i don't have to look so far away from where i'm aiming to see it.
Welcome to STALKER. GAMMA is the best, most fulfilling way to play, imo. You'll keep coming back to this game, it has great replayability.
It is best to figure it out on your own, that's part of the fun and experience, but I'll give some very basic tips so you don't get frustrated.
1) Save often, both routine hardsaves and quicksaves. Any campfire, ally building, any undeground area allow for saving. Always carry a few matches to light the campfires. You can buy firewood and place campfires as well (not much need until the North, though). Not all maps have as many campfires, or they are not conveniently placed. Save before doing anything major (leaving base, sleeping, taking on a big fight, crafting). You can freely heal at campfires while crouched, passively. Sleeping restores some body part health, top to bottom. If your vitals (head, chest) go to zero you'll die instantly, even if you had high general HP.
2) Loot anything and everything but don't run around with it all on you. Use the blue chests to store stuff. Then work to consolidate your loot in a convenient single stash. Your primary, overall journey will be from south to north. Farm in Cordon is the best early game stash location. Hangar in Garbage is an intermediate one and Bar in Rostok will be your main hideout/stash area for a long time.
Limansk, Red Forest, Radar, Jupiter, Zaton, Pripyat, Outskirts, CNPP (plus Generators, Abandoned Hospital) are all part of the North. Any other map is in the South. Expert Tools are ONLY found in the North.
3) Don't rush main quests (yellow ones). You can take your time. This game is much more sandbox than story or quest based. Don't make big trips if you're not confident you are prepared for it. This includes water, radiation-removal items, a few med items. Buffs don't stack. Drinking vodka and then immediately a cigarette will be a waste of the vodka. You can track buff duration bottom left.
4) Pick up and stash some of the better weapons that have green barrels early on as they can be fixed much more easily and earlier, but still stash anything you know will be good. A good shotgun goes a very long way in this game, even a crappy one is still effective and efficient early game. Get one asap. SMGs just aren't good. Shottie+AR/DMR is the best loadout.
5) Technicians pay the best for weapon and armor parts, attachments, magazines, ammo, explosives, various tech stuff, maps, glowsticks. Faction traders pay the best for valuables like jewellery, watches, and other junk that has no use in the game. Barmen tend to pay most for food and drink. Butcher in Garbage the most for mutant parts (not the meat though), followed by Ecologist scientists (who pay most for artefacts). Butcher also has the cheapest ammo prices.
6) Every 7-8 tasks you will get a yellow stash as an extra reward. These are guaranteed to spawn: a set of tools (general crafting) or a drug-making kit or gusmithing tools (ammo crafting).
Stashes will always be on the same map or on adjacent or connected maps to where you got the reward.
7) Mutants are much more active at night. Beware! Try to stick to your biological clock. 06:00-22:00 or so is a good cycle. Caffeine/Coffee and Sleeping Pills can aid you with this. Most other items have minimal effect. You will become sleepy when you're under three bars.
Sorry if some of these are rather obvious to you and I also hope I didn't spoil too much.
@@memedbengul4350 holy hell man what an in depth response, i really appreciate that information since i dont know jack about this game. thank you for the tips!
@@wookzie My pleasure. Some advice that can be given are spoilers, but others may not ever become obvious to someone; the game doesn't tell you everything. For example, superior toolkits make inferior ones redundant. If you have Expert Tools, you no longer need Basic and Advanced. And don't give the technicians your Basic Tools when he wants to give you that task, unless you have an extra one or a superior one.
Some other vital things:
-Your goodwill with a faction is basically faction reputation. The higher your rep, the higher the "trader supply level". Just like Tarkov. You gain mostly by doing tasks and quests for them, and you lose by failing tasks or killing their members. You gain trader level at every 500 points.
-There are two faction types: Warsaw Pact and NATO. Most factions have one or more neutrals from both types. WP won't sell or have as gear anything exclusively NATO, and vice versa.
WP: Loners, Bandits, Renegades, Military, Duty, Sin, and Monolith (these guys can also have NATO gear on them, though)
NATO: Clear Sky, Freedom, Mercenaries, Ecologists, and UNISG
You don't want to dilute your goodwill point gains across two factions of the same type, and instead concentrate your efforts to level up one of each type (although you don't absolutely have to). Since you are a Loner, I highly suggest you grind in Cordon for WP and later on, perhaps simultaneously, with Freedom for NATO. I highly advise against Clear Sky at the Swamps.
You do get great money rewards (and decent enough items) for tasks, so doing tasks for anybody you can is a good idea. If priority is Trader Level, concentrate on one. If priority is money, then it doesn't matter. Honestly, it's debatable as to which is more important. RNG, among other things, is a factor. I do think late game access to bulk 7.62*51mm AP is reason enough to grind NATO at some point, not that 7.62*39 AP isn't viable, but the latter is easier to craft.
Cordon-Garbage-Rostok-AW is the best basic gameplay loop for running tasks. Pretty quick and safe traversal as well.
good video man
@@markkashchenko628 thanks man appreciate you watching
Nice video. Hopefully I can catch your stream someday.
Btw on the left bottom corner of your screen, you can see faction patch of the person you are aiming at. Should help you figure out who is friendly or not. You might already know that by now, if so don´t mind me. 😀
@@Archangel_012 Man i didnt even think about the patch thing ive just been selling them i think LOL thank you for the tip and thanks for watching
rule #1. You don't go out at night
@@visionaryfirearmsllc9999 some lessons are learned the hard way haha thanks for watching