Before going to bed, always try to grab one of the missions to clear dangerous mutants or similar. Every time you sleep an emission occurs, and wipes them out. This completes the mission for you, so you just have to turn it in when you wake up.
Something i learned just recently, the messages you see about people finding artifacts are actually real. Multiple times ive seen familiar names say they found an artifact and when i kill them, they will have those in their inventory. I haven't gone much in depth on how it exactly works, but it seems like the characters that send those messages are usually in your current area. So thats an alternative to artifact hunting i guess :)
I was searching for an artefact once in an anomaly that I saw on my detector. A clear sky member next to me got it first and announced it on the public messages you see in game. I talked to him and the name matched the message. I then (for testing purposes only of course *cough*) proceeded to kill and loot him and voila, he had the artefact on him.
That happened to me the other day it was so unexpected because I assumed those were just random messages. Some guy was saying on the pda "just found a new artifact! Dislocated an arm doing it though!" then like a good 5-10 minutes later same guy was like "just found another artifact it's my lucky day!". 20-30 minutes later I'm like heading back towards camp and some random loner from another faction started shooting me. I killed him, he had the same name, looted him and he had all the same artifacts he mentioned, cool stuff! lol
once a free stalker 'my friend' found a flame and mama beads i was woundering around and found his corpse he was killed by bandits and guess what? the bandits didnt loot him and the artefacts were still there
bro I just had the best luck with this. Walking back from rostok to rookie village, halfway through cordon near the farmstead I get four consecutive messages about a mercenary finding artifacts. I'm thinking in my head, damn, imagine how great it would be if I could find him and kill him. Maybe there's some system in game to help me track him down? As I'm thinking about this the fucking guy pops right out of from behind a car on the road and blasts me in the face. Luckily I survived and got his loot, but I was wondering where did he even find four artifacts right in a row in that area?
Might be already known to many people but: Tools "include" their previous tiers, so when you have advanced tools, you dont need to carry basic tools, and with expert tools you dont need advanced tools anymore. Saves you a bit of weight in the inventory^^
@frenekel I may be wrong, but last I heard they were reverting back since that made it too easy, or something. If anything, I think they should make it a toggle.
@@AbyssalLeporidae What a silly change. All that does is increase time wasted on inventory management make-work, forcing you to pull more tools from your stash every time you craft.
If I could give you 100 likes I would, I never even bothered to check if that was possible in this mod. I remember modding Call of Pripyat and messing with the equipment slots forever ago, haha
Even better, you can carry any 1 handed gun in the melee or vision slot, so p90 or mp7 also work there. I have 4 guns in my loadout, and if you keep the knife in your inventory you can still use it with the quick melee button.
Whenever a stalker messages that they need help and is being attacked by whatever enemy, that means one of their squad has died. If you quickly run over to them you can loot the dead squad member before they loot him. Very useful early game.
Nowadays stalkers can't loot dead bodies, that function was disabled in the modpack in recent update cuz of performance issues, so you can take your time if want
Looting a weapon with a repairable barrel (60% or above) can be fully repaired without the appropriate repair kit,( meaning that you can have a saiga 12 ISG when you are in hobo phase). You just need to switch the parts by draging them in the weapon.
5:14 - Just a Tip about the Hunter's Kit bonus for extra Mutant Parts. Whether or not you actually _need_ to have it equipped for the bonus is actually determined by a setting within either Gameplay or Progression difficulty (tbh i can't remember right now exactly where it is, or if it begins turned on or off by default, i think that changes based on the diffuclty you choose), but yeah; If you want to be able to make use of the Hunter's Kit Bonus while still wearing your Combat/Tourist Bag, make sure you actually have the setting enabled in the options that allows the bonus to be applied even if you've got the Hunter's Bag shoved into your worn backpack of choice. Cheers.
You can also equip a random Stalker's pda and find stashes on it(not guaranteed of course). I highly recommend you check all of the pdas you come across before you dissasemble or sell them. Great video btw I learned many new things to help me travel to the heart of the Zone!
This doesn't always happen, but I frequently 'View' found PDAs, and when opened they just appear to be my own PDA, i.e., they just show the local map view. When I go back to inventory, they're no longer visible, but apparently still there as the prompt appears at Sid to sell them. Is this a bug, or just something I'm not understanding about how they work? Other PDAs will also show actual stash locations or just personal notes, and some are encrypted (can be decrypted by a Tech and then viewed). But like I said, some don't show anything and then just disappear from inventory.
@@uzer_zero they show like the battery is dead? Or you can't even view them(look at it from your hands)? Not sure if it was also in GAMMA but I've found some with "k*ll Strelok" on it, he didn't want them :)
@@CheekiBreekiTvyou disassemble them with multi tool in the example, I hope groom kits and such also work? I also always sell them, I think that's an old Anomaly habit where it improved your relations a bit, not sure that is a thing in GAMMA.
@@lukasgroot Nope. I usually remove batteries before viewing any PDA. After doing this I will see one of three different behaviors when I right-click and select 'view'. 1: a list of the previous owner's 'notes', sometimes including stash coordinates; 2: "Not Accessible", which I take to a tech for decryption, after which I see #1; 3: the screen that appears looks like *MY* PDA, i.e., a map of the local area. In case #3, when I immediately close it and go back to inventory, the PDA itself has disappeared; HOWEVER, if I then visit Sid, the prompt to sell him the PDA is there, even though the PDA wasn't visible in inventory. Weird.
Few tips I use most of the times: 1. Do not complete second stage of Fanatics quest (where you are suppose to get the artifact). You have a free early companion (he does have higher carry capacity as well to normal stalkers). To access his inventory use C menu. 2. I recently found that if you give a backpack to companion their carry capacity increases. Does not work for armors as far as I can tell. 3. Giving fully repaired weapons to companions degrade their overall durability, BUT NOT the parts durability. Which means you can strip it and put the parts back (with tool kit only) to bring it back to full quality. 4. When you have your PDA out you can press reload key to lower it and hold it like a minimap. You can turn around a look around in that mode and bring PDA up with the same key. Useful if you do not like to play with minimap.
My biggest tip would be: shoot the birds. They drop boatloads of armour piercing ammo parts. It's kinda fun too. You'll need to actually hold your knife when gutting them, unlike all other mutants
"unlike all other mutants" , actually its the other way around, you DONT need to use a knife for all other mutants. Since GAMMA is based on Anomaly, where you need a knife for every mutant, this just makes it clear gamma devs forgot about the crows.
@@petrkdn8224 Well I've never seen someone so confidentally wrong lmao. And idk if it's just a skill issue but I feel like birds are way harder to shoot for me. even when aiming exactly on them the bullets never hit. After emissions birds fall to the ground and I literally stood RIGHT next to a bird and shot it a bunch of times and none of them hit
Powder Can can be disassembled for gun powder If you are in need of duck tape, textolite or mil-spec textiles you can disassemble various repair set to obtain them. like Emergency repair set or Hoppe's
When it comes to the detectors it really boils down to preference. I like the Veles because you see the anomalies which can make navigating them in a pickle alot safer.
I think you mean the Svarog? The Veles shows the precise location of artifacts; the Svarog scientific detector (next step up) is the one that shows anomalies.
All things being equal, where you are hoboing in fields that will kill you outright, early game, of coursae the grizzly is fantastic, later on, you upgrade to a svarog, (keep the grizzly tho: nvg's drop kinda often)
here is a little shortcut for streloks hideout in agroprom enter the underground via the stairs southwest of the stalker camp. the one with the little hut and a stash right next to it. from ther its "just" downstairs over a fruitpunch and down the hall. good hunt stalkers
There are some missions where you have to recover stuff from dead stalkers, their corpses generally carry good condition weapons loaded with ammo! so, if you don't want the gun, always check if it has ammo loaded on it!
Yes, Sid's package is good example most of the time it will send you somewhere with high rad or something, but the loot is sweet. I got Mossberg in perfect condition, which was a blast at the start.
If you need to repair armor, craft a repair kit. make sure to disassemble every armor set you don't need/want and keep the components stashed away. Swapping out damaged armor components actually _increases the durability percentage_ and can get you past the threshold to use other repair items. This is something that I was told in only *_one_* armor/repair system tutorial out of the ten I watched.
Paying for cease fire is not a good idea. If you go too close to them they will shoot you. If you repair an armor (or use the clear sky armor you get from Cold) you can walk just in to dead city without being shot at
@@unkon129 you can. You have to repair it to a good condition (ideally max) and have a mask that covers your face. I made friends with loners as a merc in a CS armor ;)
idk if it was mentioned already, but you can buy tools like RF receiver, Anomaly Detector, etc. from your merchants and dismantle them. All of them give you 2 of each material for like 4k, which is probably the cheapest quick way to get materials. Also, a quick way to get lvl 5 suppliers is just by going into a general area of where a lot of stalkers are (Clear Sky base for Clear Sky, Rookie Village for Loners, Bar for Duty\Loners, etc.) and accept all the small quests like "Give me one dog meat", reload the safe when none found. Usually, areas when different factions are present are better, for the reason of contributing almost always to all of them. (For example, Clear Sky base also often gives rep for Ecologists). You won't get much money, but I've got 400+ rep in one in game day for factions like Clear Sky and Ecologists doing this. Pretty good quests are the ones with RF reader, they drop 3-4 bodies with full loot for you just to grab and typically yield 10k+ reward on hardest difficulty (also the locations of the bodies are the same, so you don't even need to look for them next time). After that are the docs ones and all the ones that give you stashes, mainly for loot. Then check the overlapping ones, or quests that can be completed by sleeping (mutant hunts or stalker hunts). Use Med crafting kit, not the best for low tier meds, but can be used to craft very good meds for way cheaper than buying, and even some that are extremely hard to get (like final drug that heals you completely and knocks you out) (also has an easy way to craft epinephrine). So yeah, collect vodka and other raw materials for that. Try to get a sniper rifle (even in bad conditions if the DMG% is above 80), they can shoot a couple of times before jamming, and you can craft bullets for relatively cheap with the ammo kit. Is an easy way to kill targets like military within the start of the game (yea Cordon military camp is the main target, don't use pistol like me). Also for the same reason, if you manage to find a weapon that can hold a grenade launcher, take it, as military have a decent chance of dropping one with some rounds, so may be also an easy way to do some hunting. Quick tip for the Clear Sky enjoyers like myself, accept the Ecologist companion quest and all the hunt quests (both mutant and people) for Swamps, then use the ecologist as a strong companion. Usually they spawn with good weapons, and can help you easily do the missions.
Hihi yes it says so in the description in pda and there is also an option for it in settings ;) They made it weigh only 1kg to do this which is great compared to the 4+kg (I think) in vanilla Anomaly.
Paying/Bribe for a ceasefire will not let you enter an enemy base. It just means that faction's stalkers will not shoot on sight. As soon as you get too close, they will open up. Also, some named/important NPCs will shoot at you anyway. So, e.g. you cannot pay to get access to the Merc base as a Dutyer. You need a disguise.
The bloody game tells you that disguises don't work if you get close to enemies. You need to literally walk up and talk to Aslan to use the lottery. So a disguise shouldn't work. You're telling me it does and the game lied??!
You can also get basic tools for Hip's TOZ-194 mission If you get lucky to get one from bandits within first maybe 2 hours of gameplay, thats a good and reliable way to start. Since TOZ-194 (if im correct its that exact model) is quite popular so yeah, I think thats a good tip too Also in MCM menu you can customize ammo, outfiits, stalker or stashes loot quite a bit in ZCP -) Loot and Outfit Drops Since I discovered it I play only invictus with like 3 or 5x ammo a lot higher % for outfits and more meds or repair kits. Cheating or not it saves a lot of headache whilst still keeping it hardcore
@@rmcgowa1987 that's the second quest you get from Hip. The first is still TOZ 194 and 20 rounds of buckshot which gets you the basic tools. The 8 snork hands get you Hip as companion.
I'd not say "cheating". Making it easier, yeah, but it basically just minimizes the grind you have to do, I for one just enjoy a little faster gameplay and thus increase some drop rates, especially economy can be so tough and it's just a matter of time if you have to do 10 or 20 missions to get what you want, that's not something I'd consider "difficulty" rather than just "progression speed".
Only tip I am ashamed I didn’t know personally is that in your PDA you can go to taskboard and it shows all the missions around you instead of running to every seperate trader
It's an option. You can make it so you have to wear it for the bonus. It is off by default. It's under Settings > Gameplay > General all the way at the bottom.
I really liked the blur on aiming affect but it tends to not work properly and focus bad specially when aiming to corners or trees so it's good to be able to disable it
Fun fact: the Generators don’t have the ability to have an emission occur outside of one instance in Mortal Sin, meaning that if you barricade a house a little like I did, you can genuinely vibe there!
Not sure if this counts, but i found that the best way to deal with gravity anomaly is just to sprint and jump straight trough, pick up the artifact and sprint jump the same way
Very cheesy, but (works with base Anomaly too) if you wanna give a gun to a companion you can field strip all its parts and they'll still work. That way you only have to deal with its base condition and barrel degradation when maintaining it, and you get free parts. Even more cheesy is you can unload them every once in a while to get their ammo. Useful if it's a rare ammo type or the same one you're using. Upgrade your binoculars zoom ASAP. It's cheap with technicians. Bandages also give some limb health (though I can't remember what limbs exactly). Can be situationally useful to save your other meds. As much as possible, take tasks like lost frequency in Meadow. Map is very small, pretty safe, and bodies are easy to find (for me they're usually in the industrial compound in the northeast). You can probably do it even without the RF receiver. For beginners, I highly recommend you practice your headshots on zombies. In base Anomaly they can actually drop meds too, not as much in GAMMA which has a very different item table. More of a warning, but as I found recently, do not take the Prof. Semenov hunting quest in Yantar. It's currently broken.
Yeah exactly that last sentence. I spent like hour and 15 minutes, went through multiple maps, didn't touch any mutant just to find out that the quest is bugged. Now I need to draw him everywhere I go because I can't get rid of him 😅
It is not broken, he is just following you for a long time (I think he followed me for like 2-3 days in-game) until he finally decided to leave the group. He will then galivant all the way back to Yantar where you will be able to complete the job.
Meadow is about 95% of my Lost Signal missions for the reasons you mentioned. Small, safe, and there are only three specific locations where the bodies could be: in the warehouse in that industrial complex to the north, outside said same warehouse in said complex, or in the small village to the south. I find Wild Territory Lost Signal missions okay, too. Three locations as well where bodies could be: at the Merc Sniper Nest, near the crashed helicopter by the railroads, or the burning tunnel. There are Mercs at the construction site and near the exit to Rostok, but being friends with the Swamp Boys and getting their uniform will cover you when it comes to being around Mercs. I turn down Lost Signal missions set anywhere else as anywhere else has maps that are either too big or too dangerous.
Always takes Delivery quest for friendly faction, sometime after you give the package, if the stalker die he will not despawn and you can take the package from them. I usually takes Delivery to the Egghead in Yantar, they often wandering behind the plant entrance and got killed by the snork.
@@petrkdn8224 No, I check it out. The package is delivered to the guy, few more day, I went to the back of lab entrance. I saw a dead body on the ground. He was the guy I delivered package to, 3 package total still on the body and not thing got looted! I open package and my reputation still the same since I've already delivered mean the quest is completed. The previous version of Gamma is work exactly as this but their body mostly got looted except the package!
For the poltergeist you can walk backwards or low crouch walk (if you want to keep moving) . In the swamps or any other vegetation are safe spaces for avoiding the mutant attacks (works for me in A.R.E.A)
thats propably a bug, it should find you when you make ANY sound, not just move, this includes jumping and low crouch (though, the low crouch makes far less noise so you need to be close to it for it to find you)
@@petrkdn8224 Seems less like a bug and more like you're just moving slowly and quietly enough that it can't sense you unless you're directly under it. The only time the low crouch didnt work for me was in Agroprom on an early run where a poltergiest flew over my head about a foot over and noticed me.
the veles detector has been a godsend for me specifically for burner anomalies and electrical field anomalies because visually their "tells" are very vague and i wind up taking alot of damage from them. with the veles detector you see exactly where the point of trigger is and it makes avoiding them sooo much easier.
about the Night Vision Devices... i think the point with the NVD and the detectors is just the same as with your PDA. Its just a little logical feature for all of us who loves this kind of love in games. Electrical devices project the picture on their screen through light, which i assume, causes a little problem for NVD's (too much light). I have to turn off my NV-Device as soon as i take out my PDA and the same thing counts for the detectors. The upgrades of your devices just comes with the same cost as in reallife when you put too much trust in technology. It may goes south at some point. The thing with the grizzly detector you noticed would be a personal favor/tipp/discovery which i really like that you concluded it in this video. Long may the sun shine upon you.
As an OG Stalker player, I had no idea you could go north by just having a psy-helm. I thought you had to disable Brain Scorcher first, but no. All you need is a psy helm,
@spoing bo if you were an OG stalker you'd know that's only changed because of mods, base game stalkers you HAD to disable the scorcher to advance the story and allow other stalkers (not just you) to move north
@@TheDwarfishjoe Well in the base game I teleported north past that spot and found stalkers there but still killed me so it seems stalkers are there as well, you just can't go until you disable.
You can repair weapon parts inside the gun with designated cleaning tool, the one that have >10 icon on it, without using tools or repair kit. For example it's "aurora .. something" for shotguns or "rifle.. something" (don't remember, sorry) for assault guns like ak-74 or m4. It work exactly as repair tool kit (right click on gun>maintenance parts) but cheaper :) and every lvl 1 mechanic sells them. Works only on green parts inside gun, including barrel.
Maintaining gun parts this way will also increase the overall condition of the gun. Bump it over 50% and than you can max it out by using cheap Dvoika gun lube combaied with facerug as a supporing material...
The poltergeist thing is really interesting. Also, not sure if this is well known, but if you left+alt and drag the artifact melter into an artifact it... melts the artifact and the equipment gets a lot more uses. Very good when you're on a streak creating artifacts and your melter's running low.
Completing a technician's tool quests, and a doctor's drug making kit quest allows you both free access to the workbench AND the aforementioned toolkits. Besides that it's also a very easy way to make money. Medics and ecologists are also the best places to buy meds, or med making supplies as they both sell more of them, and ask less for them. The average armour level of most factions is between 3-5 from mid to late game (with duty and bandit/renegade being lower in general). buying low level devices like headlamp[s and echo detectors is a very cheap way to get upgrade parts for your own devices. In military runs, duty and ecologist are your friends. They sell better stuff than your own faction, and are way more widely spread across the map.
If you buy a workbench or build one with the gunsmithing tools and put all your repair kits inside, you don't have to keep re-buying them, you can use them infinitely!
@Rexhunterj I'd say Rostok or the Freedom Base in Army Warehouses are the best safe starting locations since you don't get harassed by mutants/have a lot of open buildings to build in. Cordon is a bit too far from northern areas IMO but has the Northern Farm which is close to teleport spots. You can even try the Factory in Agoprom or Train Hangar in Garbage. Late game I like to set up in Jupiter at the Freedom base because it's closer to more important spots (there's a shortcut to Outskirts) and there's a nice basement to set-up storage.
how does this work exactly? i think you are confused, the repair kits arent "used" when you use them to swap out parts in firearms. even if you use the technicians workbench it wont use up the repair kits for the workbench "repair" aka swapping out parts. if i am wrong let me know
I learned the poltergeist thing naturally. I’m like a deer that stops immediately when they hear or see something they don’t like. Going after Strelok’s hideout in Agroprom, my screen started turning blue and I stopped immediately. It went away. I start walking again and it does it again so I stop. Took a few times, but it stuck finally. Deer have a nice system of threat detection.
Cheaper fast travel: When you're going to fast travel first of all use a guide in your safe zone so it's cheaper, but also check the taskboard (default: J) to see if there's a package delivery mission for your destination. It often covers the travel cost and then some. Great way to save huge amounts of time and money over the long run
Work for the mercs. If you survived the Pseudogiant attack at the base when you first started, then you will surely manage to get those documents Dushman told you to find in the Deserted Hospital as your fist job
If you right click other stalker PDA's you can also view them. Most are encrypted and you can decrypt them at most technicians. This is a great way to find extra stashes.
Im pretty sure you can get the expert tools by doing the quest "Snitch" gives you in the bar. Its the one where you have to kill some of the top 10 stalkers.
not from him, ive had other traders give me the task to kill top 10. And also it has variable rewards. They are still good rewards, it just doesnt guarantee expert tools
problem being that several of the top 10 will be Monolith Legends that are likely in the CNPP, where you'd really want to be wearing an exoskeleton, which requires expert tools to repair. Personally on the two runs I've played of GAMMA so far, both my Expert toolkits have been from white stashes in Radar. I don't think the chance is especially high compared to other northern zones, but it's suspicious I've only ever found them there.
@Dr. TeaRex i haven't played gamma, but I've managed to sneak into Pripyat, climbed up the stadium stealthily, and sniped one of the guys that I was supposed to kill. Left without being noticed. They shot at me after I killed him, but I managed to get to cover quick and exited swiftly behind cover. All that took me around 15 min sneaking around. (Entered from Jupiter)
@@petrkdn8224 Yeah it's definitely just a case of who you have to kill and where. And it's got a randomised aspect. In my playthrough about 4 of them were deep in the CNPP and had an army of Monolith and high tier mutants between me and them. All of them died during the raid on the powerplant as part of GAMMA/Anomaly's main storyline. Because at that point I had expert tools, a fully upgraded exoskeleton, top tier weaponry and 5 people backing me up and it was a breeze. But if I'd had to go in there in medium armour, low level Warsaw Pact weapons and just a couple of companions who were more fragile than I was? Yeah, odds are I wouldn't've had nearly as much success. Especially true when you consider how much higher the lethality is in GAMMA over base Anomaly. Any singular bullet is likely to end you if you're not wearing a heavily armoured Exoskeleton-tier helmet, and in the CNPP you're looking at virtually a wall of bullets.
@Dr. TeaRex gamma is far from realistic, and also, I'm running only a few realism mods (none affect combat) yet you can still often die from one shot even with quite good gear. You are propably one of the people that came from Drewski, and hadn't tried base anomaly. You die just as much as in GAMMA.
I'm looking forward to crafting weapons in this mod! In Anomaly I didn't bother much I would upgrade a couple of guns, a semi-auto shotty and a twin-shot AK94. However, I've just played 'True Stalker' which is a scripted, story-driven mod, and I'm eager to get back to stuff that is more engaging.
here's a tip i learned by myself and dont see many people talking much often: instead of leaving a gun or armor that has bad condition just disassemble it and sell the parts to any technician, it's not alot but it might be handy very early in game.
In anomaly i always pick the first pump action shotgun i find no matter its condition. Because they are pump action they won't jam, so it's very good for the beginning. You just have to repair it before it gets to 0% or loot another one. I think it doesnt apply for gamma however and it obviously doesnt apply for semi-auto shotguns.
I don't know if they patched yet or not and it's a little more on the cheat side but you can drag weapon components from the technicians to your gun and it won't cost you anything
kinda nonbrainer but if you are just starting, if you find ANY weapon with barrel at 60%+ condition, TAKE IT, you can just swap out the rest of the weapon parts when you find ones that are over 60% and clening the gun is easy, you can have best weapons in the game without the need for a tool set if you find them with good barrel
In certain areas such as the Great Swamp the radiation levels are high everywhere just about so you need a lot of antiradiation meds, vodka and even cigarettes to stay alive but once they run out you will slowly die and in most cases not be able to finish all your objectives in that area before you finally croak.
If a weapons barrel is >60% and the weapons parts are functional and the overall percentage of the weapon is low u can clean the weapon up to 100% even with the cheapest cleaning kit BUT if u add kerosin it will add 15% which safe on cleaning kits and kerosin is common with every trader. Even works with your knife and disassembling tools.
I turned on stashes have a chance for extra stash loot from Anomaly in the mod settings. I got the second tier backpack from the first stash I searched. I turned it back off because I was getting some seriously good stuff. It was almost too much cheese for me. I guess this is a good setting for those who don’t want to have to buy repair items as much, knives, backpacks and other stuff. I’ve gotten at least four of the Bayo’s that are capable of cutting thick skin in the first four hours of the playthrough I started. I think I’d be happier if you could turn off certain types of items it drops in the setting. I don’t mind getting an extra gluetube here and there or a handful of rounds, but skipping tiers on equipment for me is a bit much. Some may find this more than acceptable so I can’t say it’s just a bad thing. Just bad for those who want to scav for most everything, but always have the option if they feel like it or just want to do a chill fun run
I played this game years ago and wanted to pick back up where I left off, which was pretty far into game, but realized I can't rem how to play it at all lmao might need to start fresh but don't wanna delete my old save. It's stacked.
I play EFP and tools there come in only purple stashes and they’ll always go: basic, advanced, expert, med, gunsmithing. Also I don’t know if this is a case in gamma but in EFP a single dragon buck round will kill a Chimera.
I am so mad that I didn't know about Aslan till just now... I've been carrying around hundreds of patches just trying to get fetch quests for them... and all this time I could just have done this...
Right now with 9.3 and before with 9.2 guns with magazines in stashes are fully loaded with ammo. PPsH gives 71. AKM gives 30 rounds. Enjoy looting now. With "U" you will can unload magazines faster in the stash menu.
When i start a game and want some challenge i don't pick any item and leave my points unused. When i want a faster start i pick the SKS and respirator the scope can be bought with around 12 000 rubble and with it you will be able to get nice armor from cold's main quest as well as high level weaponry by killing military south of cordon. while the armor obtain through quest will be in pristine state, the weapons not so much. Many good rifles and shotgun will require the Army Rifle repair kit to replace the parts and you might find yourself unable to repair the bad condition. except as long as the weapon's overall condition is above 10% And with a barrel condition above 60% that can be cleaned inside the gun, you can still repair it fully without any toolkit. First you will need to find a weapon with condition of 10 or more And with a barrel condition above 60%. then you need to find parts with >60% condition. if you possess the right set for the type of weapon ( progress, valupro or aurora) Right clic the weapon and use Maintain Parts to clean the parts inside the gun. not only will it repair the parts but it will also grant +15% overall condition. Cleaning any parts inside the gun this way will allow you to repair it above 30% condition where Hoppe's will do the rest. so in conclusion if you have found a weapon with a barrel already in pristine condition but only 12% overall condition, find the rest of the parts with a condition >60% and be sure to NOT repair all of them entirely before putting them in your gun. You want them still damaged to repair them inside your gun and raise the gun's overall condition by cleaning the parts inside the gun. if you can't find parts above 60% you still have the option of the Universal weapon cleaning kit to repair parts above 20% but this one is costly
You aren't damaging the gun, you're dirtying it up, the condition of the weapon is less durability and more of a representation of operability of the weapon, is it clean enough to work or is the task of cleaning it too much? Canonically in the Zone weapons degrade faster thanks to the anomalous environment, even food apparently loses its taste or rots more quickly in the Zone.
For me the Veles detector doesn't even work, and the Zvarog shows the locations of anomalys too, so you can navigate them without needing bolts or casings.
I get so annoyed with stalker gamma. Because I always have to eat food. Even if I have a sausage or a can of meat. 10 minutes later I have to eat again. Any mods for that?
Eat better food, get a gas cooking kit with a gas balloon and some white label vodka, cook some mutant with the green icon. You're eating so much cause those foods don't recover much hunger.
The vodka for basic toolkit is very good. Just started playing and Got no Green stashes since only those drop basic toolkits in the newest version. Hope it works in Gamma 0.9.1...
Through all my play through over the years, vanilla or modded. I have never actually bothered with the velles, the bear or grizzly was always good enough
-Wolf and sidrovich are money cows dont forget to milk them -remember best weapon is the weapon which looks cool or the weapon which you can fire -dont use double barrels they leave u in a terrible situations and they kinda bug out too during reload -follow the tip from the video about getting basic tools and go to a techinian near your home base and give it to him always best to have supply lv2 at the start -final tip setuo your base at the middle of the map and never let your equipment go below 80 percent condition the more you wait the more expensive it gets to repair
@Cheeki Breeki pretty sure Grizzly detector only detects all artifacts known to science it even says so in it's tool tip the svarog detector detects all artifacts known to science and all artifacts not known to science it can also be used with night vision. So the grizzly detector is just a far better Veles detector the only downside is that the grizzly can't be upgraded to a svarog you still need a veles detector.
If you kill Strlocks old friend who lives in Tulza tunnel in great swamp (First main quest in Cordon) he has a key on him for a hotel room, no idea whats inside though. Might have to go find outnon my current playthrough
yeah... Svarog Detector can detect tier 1 to tier 4 artifact and anomalies. Death Lamp is a Tier 4 Artifact but it's a risk to carry around because even with Lead lined container it still burn through and give you radiation... and it also increase the chance of getting hunt by the Bounty hunter squad!
Since last update i didn't get any bounty Hunters on my head which happened pretty often before, something changed or just something crashed on my game after that, cuz i have a lot of game freezing errors nowadays? Like one for each 2 hours of playing.
@@PablooWT sometime, It's the problem with the companion. They often don't want to follow you and start aiming at nothing or aim at the ground. When I go a little too far from them, the game freeze longer than usual and crash.
3:00 hi cheeki...a fantastic vid as always🎉 Ive been looking all over the internet for a fix regarding the stutter/frame skipping issue...that you can clearly see at this time stamp...the characters seem to jitter ever 2 seconds and aswell when moving...aswell you can see it when you were walking in that radiated area...how were you able to fix this?
When I watched Drewskis videos, when in the mod launcher where it shows all the mods (not the gamma launcher), if you search "stutter" there should be a mod you can tick that will specifically fix that
personnaly i never go out without a saiga 12 and slug, it can kill any mutant fast, even the pseudo giant die in about 10 to 12 headshot, chimera is 2 or 3 and anything else is 1 shot and for some reason i cant seem to acheive that with other shotgun
Old weapons like SKS could be upgraded by the technician WITHOUT any toolboxes to MAX, yes, even lvl 3 when usually expert tools given to technician is needed. It works for, mosin, KAR98, TOZ, PM, SKS and probably some others.
You can steal weapon parts from Techs by dragging them to a weapon in your inventory - it won't work with barrels but everything else is fair (unfair) game
When you have a Advanced Toolkit you don't need to hang on to the Basic one anymore. Same when you get the Expert one, then you don't need to keep the Advanced. Sell to technicians for rubels or hand them in for rep and rubels.
It's a good idea to complete technician's quests for tools (unless you don't already have more than one of the requested toolkit of course). Also, after that, by keeping basic tools and crafting advanced ones you can also complete the technician's quests for advanced tools. At least that's what I like to do with extra toolkits. Also, Drug-making kits can be given to Medics NPCs too.
You only ever need to keep the highest tier crafting kit for yourself, so if you only have Advanced tier, you can get rid of you basic tier to a technician as the advanced tier lets you craft basic tier recipes.
@@Rexhunterj I know but you won`t be able to complete the techninans quests that give goodwill and some rewards. It can be a good idea to stash the Basic and Advanced Tools to give them to a technician afterwards.
You should always disassemble upgraded weapons and armor, there's a small chance you'll get an upgrade kit out of it.
Yes! This I knew, I think I even talk about it in my previous video. Very good tip nonetheless!
!! I think this is how I've gotten about half of my upgrade kits. Need a separate box just to hold them all now... ;-)
Then what weapon i will use wjen i dissasemble?
@@Goxus95 I believe Bobby meant to disassemble the upgraded weapons and armor you LOOT, not the ones you've upgraded yourself. ;-)
@@Goxus95 the one you start with?
Before going to bed, always try to grab one of the missions to clear dangerous mutants or similar. Every time you sleep an emission occurs, and wipes them out. This completes the mission for you, so you just have to turn it in when you wake up.
haven't tried this yet, seems hella cool tho
Will try this out
Found this out on accident lol
Lmao that’s actually funny
You can adjust emissions frequency in options btw. For example set it to each 2-4 days and breath freely.
That bonus tip was perfect!
Something i learned just recently, the messages you see about people finding artifacts are actually real. Multiple times ive seen familiar names say they found an artifact and when i kill them, they will have those in their inventory. I haven't gone much in depth on how it exactly works, but it seems like the characters that send those messages are usually in your current area. So thats an alternative to artifact hunting i guess :)
I was searching for an artefact once in an anomaly that I saw on my detector. A clear sky member next to me got it first and announced it on the public messages you see in game. I talked to him and the name matched the message.
I then (for testing purposes only of course *cough*) proceeded to kill and loot him and voila, he had the artefact on him.
That happened to me the other day it was so unexpected because I assumed those were just random messages. Some guy was saying on the pda "just found a new artifact! Dislocated an arm doing it though!" then like a good 5-10 minutes later same guy was like "just found another artifact it's my lucky day!". 20-30 minutes later I'm like heading back towards camp and some random loner from another faction started shooting me. I killed him, he had the same name, looted him and he had all the same artifacts he mentioned, cool stuff! lol
Perfect for bandits)
once a free stalker 'my friend' found a flame and mama beads i was woundering around and found his corpse he was killed by bandits and guess what? the bandits didnt loot him and the artefacts were still there
bro I just had the best luck with this. Walking back from rostok to rookie village, halfway through cordon near the farmstead I get four consecutive messages about a mercenary finding artifacts. I'm thinking in my head, damn, imagine how great it would be if I could find him and kill him. Maybe there's some system in game to help me track him down? As I'm thinking about this the fucking guy pops right out of from behind a car on the road and blasts me in the face. Luckily I survived and got his loot, but I was wondering where did he even find four artifacts right in a row in that area?
Might be already known to many people but: Tools "include" their previous tiers, so when you have advanced tools, you dont need to carry basic tools, and with expert tools you dont need advanced tools anymore. Saves you a bit of weight in the inventory^^
This will be changing soon, and won't be the case anymore. Enjoy it while it lasts!
@@AbyssalLeporidae Oh cmon for real now? I just discovered this like last week :D
@frenekel I may be wrong, but last I heard they were reverting back since that made it too easy, or something. If anything, I think they should make it a toggle.
@@AbyssalLeporidae What a silly change. All that does is increase time wasted on inventory management make-work, forcing you to pull more tools from your stash every time you craft.
@@CatspawAdventures
You can store all the tools and materials in your bench and craft without taking them out.
Capacity is 300kg
Don t disassemble the pda immediately right clik on then and press view some time it will give you a stash
You can also try PDA Hacking mod,it's awesome 👌
WHAT
Sometime, you will find a PDA that only has "Kill Strelok" on it. It really rare, they will pay a lot for it
Yeah when i finished the game i sold 3 PDAs and the trader said "what the hell this ones just says Kill strelok"
I played anomaly for ~500 hours, one day I looted a crow’s beak and a “kill strelok” pda from a dead monolith wearing power armor
Streloks own PDA? I am sure its rare, I wonder if he will like it back, or will he just accept it and shoot himself, controllya style?
I accidentally sold that PDA and was sad. I wanted to keep it just a cool reference to the OG games.
I thought you were making a joke, but these replies make it seem real. That’s pretty damn cool.
you can equip pistols & light smgs in your Melee Slot. And the Knife in the seconds vision slot.
so then you can carry 2 big & 1 small gun
If I could give you 100 likes I would, I never even bothered to check if that was possible in this mod. I remember modding Call of Pripyat and messing with the equipment slots forever ago, haha
Even better, you can carry any 1 handed gun in the melee or vision slot, so p90 or mp7 also work there. I have 4 guns in my loadout, and if you keep the knife in your inventory you can still use it with the quick melee button.
Yeah after I figured this out I never stopped. Plus you really don't even need the knife equipped at all since you can use a keybind to do quick melee
You can even just have your knife in your inventory and just use the quick melee keybind to use your knife .
Whenever a stalker messages that they need help and is being attacked by whatever enemy, that means one of their squad has died. If you quickly run over to them you can loot the dead squad member before they loot him. Very useful early game.
Nowadays stalkers can't loot dead bodies, that function was disabled in the modpack in recent update cuz of performance issues, so you can take your time if want
@@Casto3924 what? I've seen stalkers kneel down to a body then when I check it most of the stuff is gone. Seems like it's still there for me
@@Casto3924 that's not true at all
Looting a weapon with a repairable barrel (60% or above) can be fully repaired without the appropriate repair kit,( meaning that you can have a saiga 12 ISG when you are in hobo phase). You just need to switch the parts by draging them in the weapon.
and if the weapons durability is too low you that you cant repair go to the technician and repair for money
Well this is huge for those who can't find the damn expert tools.
I have dragging parts a go earlier and was kind of amazed because of course it would let me do that, I just never thought to
5:14 - Just a Tip about the Hunter's Kit bonus for extra Mutant Parts. Whether or not you actually _need_ to have it equipped for the bonus is actually determined by a setting within either Gameplay or Progression difficulty (tbh i can't remember right now exactly where it is, or if it begins turned on or off by default, i think that changes based on the diffuclty you choose), but yeah; If you want to be able to make use of the Hunter's Kit Bonus while still wearing your Combat/Tourist Bag, make sure you actually have the setting enabled in the options that allows the bonus to be applied even if you've got the Hunter's Bag shoved into your worn backpack of choice.
Cheers.
I was just coming to post this one, thanks for beating me to it, saves a lot of typing :)
same. lol.
I know it doesn't need to be equipped but it does need to be on you right?
@@bradenhagen7977 Correct, you gotta have it in your inventory to get the bonus.
You can also equip a random Stalker's pda and find stashes on it(not guaranteed of course). I highly recommend you check all of the pdas you come across before you dissasemble or sell them.
Great video btw I learned many new things to help me travel to the heart of the Zone!
Oh yeah that's right! Would have been a perfect tip to add in the PDA section. Damn.
This doesn't always happen, but I frequently 'View' found PDAs, and when opened they just appear to be my own PDA, i.e., they just show the local map view. When I go back to inventory, they're no longer visible, but apparently still there as the prompt appears at Sid to sell them. Is this a bug, or just something I'm not understanding about how they work? Other PDAs will also show actual stash locations or just personal notes, and some are encrypted (can be decrypted by a Tech and then viewed). But like I said, some don't show anything and then just disappear from inventory.
@@uzer_zero they show like the battery is dead? Or you can't even view them(look at it from your hands)?
Not sure if it was also in GAMMA but I've found some with "k*ll Strelok" on it, he didn't want them :)
@@CheekiBreekiTvyou disassemble them with multi tool in the example, I hope groom kits and such also work?
I also always sell them, I think that's an old Anomaly habit where it improved your relations a bit, not sure that is a thing in GAMMA.
@@lukasgroot Nope. I usually remove batteries before viewing any PDA. After doing this I will see one of three different behaviors when I right-click and select 'view'. 1: a list of the previous owner's 'notes', sometimes including stash coordinates; 2: "Not Accessible", which I take to a tech for decryption, after which I see #1; 3: the screen that appears looks like *MY* PDA, i.e., a map of the local area. In case #3, when I immediately close it and go back to inventory, the PDA itself has disappeared; HOWEVER, if I then visit Sid, the prompt to sell him the PDA is there, even though the PDA wasn't visible in inventory. Weird.
Few tips I use most of the times:
1. Do not complete second stage of Fanatics quest (where you are suppose to get the artifact). You have a free early companion (he does have higher carry capacity as well to normal stalkers). To access his inventory use C menu.
2. I recently found that if you give a backpack to companion their carry capacity increases. Does not work for armors as far as I can tell.
3. Giving fully repaired weapons to companions degrade their overall durability, BUT NOT the parts durability. Which means you can strip it and put the parts back (with tool kit only) to bring it back to full quality.
4. When you have your PDA out you can press reload key to lower it and hold it like a minimap. You can turn around a look around in that mode and bring PDA up with the same key. Useful if you do not like to play with minimap.
I used to know about the PDA trick for lowering but I forgot how and you just reminded me after so long! Thank you lol.
My biggest tip would be: shoot the birds. They drop boatloads of armour piercing ammo parts. It's kinda fun too.
You'll need to actually hold your knife when gutting them, unlike all other mutants
"unlike all other mutants" , actually its the other way around, you DONT need to use a knife for all other mutants. Since GAMMA is based on Anomaly, where you need a knife for every mutant, this just makes it clear gamma devs forgot about the crows.
@@petrkdn8224 He literally said it correctly, he said you need knife for crow UNLIKE all other mutants so your correction was unnecessary lmao
@@petrkdn8224 Well I've never seen someone so confidentally wrong lmao. And idk if it's just a skill issue but I feel like birds are way harder to shoot for me. even when aiming exactly on them the bullets never hit. After emissions birds fall to the ground and I literally stood RIGHT next to a bird and shot it a bunch of times and none of them hit
Powder Can can be disassembled for gun powder
If you are in need of duck tape, textolite or mil-spec textiles you can disassemble various repair set to obtain them. like Emergency repair set or Hoppe's
When it comes to the detectors it really boils down to preference. I like the Veles because you see the anomalies which can make navigating them in a pickle alot safer.
I think you mean the Svarog? The Veles shows the precise location of artifacts; the Svarog scientific detector (next step up) is the one that shows anomalies.
All things being equal, where you are hoboing in fields that will kill you outright, early game, of coursae the grizzly is fantastic, later on, you upgrade to a svarog, (keep the grizzly tho: nvg's drop kinda often)
here is a little shortcut for streloks hideout in agroprom enter the underground via the stairs southwest of the stalker camp. the one with the little hut and a stash right next to it. from ther its "just" downstairs over a fruitpunch and down the hall. good hunt stalkers
Just did this yesterday. I gotta add one thing. Dont go down the fiery, curved hallway. Its full of snorks and leads to an exit.
5:51 Some PDAs are locked but Technicians can unlock them. Remember that before selling/dissassembling them
There are some missions where you have to recover stuff from dead stalkers, their corpses generally carry good condition weapons loaded with ammo! so, if you don't want the gun, always check if it has ammo loaded on it!
Yes, Sid's package is good example most of the time it will send you somewhere with high rad or something, but the loot is sweet. I got Mossberg in perfect condition, which was a blast at the start.
If you need to repair armor, craft a repair kit. make sure to disassemble every armor set you don't need/want and keep the components stashed away. Swapping out damaged armor components actually _increases the durability percentage_ and can get you past the threshold to use other repair items. This is something that I was told in only *_one_* armor/repair system tutorial out of the ten I watched.
Paying for cease fire is not a good idea. If you go too close to them they will shoot you. If you repair an armor (or use the clear sky armor you get from Cold) you can walk just in to dead city without being shot at
wonder if you can buy stashes at rookie village if you're hostile to Loners that way
Breeki tried it with cease fire and it didn't work out
@@unkon129 you can. You have to repair it to a good condition (ideally max) and have a mask that covers your face.
I made friends with loners as a merc in a CS armor ;)
This is better. However, you should also use a NATO weapon as well because I believe that affects the chance of them finding out you in disguise.
@@Prince_Sharming I’m not sure about that. Best is to walk around with a holsteted weapon. I was never caught
@@viktorkovacs5873 Fair enough. I didn't consider that.
idk if it was mentioned already, but you can buy tools like RF receiver, Anomaly Detector, etc. from your merchants and dismantle them. All of them give you 2 of each material for like 4k, which is probably the cheapest quick way to get materials.
Also, a quick way to get lvl 5 suppliers is just by going into a general area of where a lot of stalkers are (Clear Sky base for Clear Sky, Rookie Village for Loners, Bar for Duty\Loners, etc.) and accept all the small quests like "Give me one dog meat", reload the safe when none found. Usually, areas when different factions are present are better, for the reason of contributing almost always to all of them. (For example, Clear Sky base also often gives rep for Ecologists). You won't get much money, but I've got 400+ rep in one in game day for factions like Clear Sky and Ecologists doing this.
Pretty good quests are the ones with RF reader, they drop 3-4 bodies with full loot for you just to grab and typically yield 10k+ reward on hardest difficulty (also the locations of the bodies are the same, so you don't even need to look for them next time). After that are the docs ones and all the ones that give you stashes, mainly for loot. Then check the overlapping ones, or quests that can be completed by sleeping (mutant hunts or stalker hunts).
Use Med crafting kit, not the best for low tier meds, but can be used to craft very good meds for way cheaper than buying, and even some that are extremely hard to get (like final drug that heals you completely and knocks you out) (also has an easy way to craft epinephrine). So yeah, collect vodka and other raw materials for that.
Try to get a sniper rifle (even in bad conditions if the DMG% is above 80), they can shoot a couple of times before jamming, and you can craft bullets for relatively cheap with the ammo kit. Is an easy way to kill targets like military within the start of the game (yea Cordon military camp is the main target, don't use pistol like me). Also for the same reason, if you manage to find a weapon that can hold a grenade launcher, take it, as military have a decent chance of dropping one with some rounds, so may be also an easy way to do some hunting.
Quick tip for the Clear Sky enjoyers like myself, accept the Ecologist companion quest and all the hunt quests (both mutant and people) for Swamps, then use the ecologist as a strong companion. Usually they spawn with good weapons, and can help you easily do the missions.
The hunter`s backpack bonus while in inventory is a game changer :) thanks for sharing
Hihi yes it says so in the description in pda and there is also an option for it in settings ;)
They made it weigh only 1kg to do this which is great compared to the 4+kg (I think) in vanilla Anomaly.
Pda guide section is mad useful and I read every character entry and anomaly as I get them
Paying/Bribe for a ceasefire will not let you enter an enemy base. It just means that faction's stalkers will not shoot on sight. As soon as you get too close, they will open up. Also, some named/important NPCs will shoot at you anyway. So, e.g. you cannot pay to get access to the Merc base as a Dutyer. You need a disguise.
The bloody game tells you that disguises don't work if you get close to enemies.
You need to literally walk up and talk to Aslan to use the lottery.
So a disguise shouldn't work.
You're telling me it does and the game lied??!
FatPaws in a cheeky video big pog energy 😮
@@BallsOfPureDiamond well.....
Well that explains, Dushman came at me unprovoked from 100m away and well, no more mercs now.
You can also get basic tools for Hip's TOZ-194 mission
If you get lucky to get one from bandits within first maybe 2 hours of gameplay, thats a good and reliable way to start. Since TOZ-194 (if im correct its that exact model) is quite popular so yeah, I think thats a good tip too
Also in MCM menu you can customize ammo, outfiits, stalker or stashes loot quite a bit in ZCP -) Loot and Outfit Drops
Since I discovered it I play only invictus with like 3 or 5x ammo a lot higher % for outfits and more meds or repair kits. Cheating or not it saves a lot of headache whilst still keeping it hardcore
You need 8 snork hands for hip's quest with gamma so that method is not that great anymore.
@@rmcgowa1987 that's the second quest you get from Hip. The first is still TOZ 194 and 20 rounds of buckshot which gets you the basic tools. The 8 snork hands get you Hip as companion.
I'd not say "cheating". Making it easier, yeah, but it basically just minimizes the grind you have to do, I for one just enjoy a little faster gameplay and thus increase some drop rates, especially economy can be so tough and it's just a matter of time if you have to do 10 or 20 missions to get what you want, that's not something I'd consider "difficulty" rather than just "progression speed".
I think TOZ-194 is quite rare. Its the Mossberg 590 which is far more common. (at least in my gameplay)
I've only ever seen 2 Toz 194s in my 1000 hours of gamma, what's your secret?
Only tip I am ashamed I didn’t know personally is that in your PDA you can go to taskboard and it shows all the missions around you instead of running to every seperate trader
Does anyone know the mod that does that? It isn't part of vanilla
The thing about the Hunter's Kit, I remember that in Anomaly you HAD to wear it, so it seems that Grok has changed it in GAMMA
It's an option. You can make it so you have to wear it for the bonus. It is off by default. It's under Settings > Gameplay > General all the way at the bottom.
there was always an option for that in gameplay mennu I think
Yeah that's probably where I got the "you have to equip it for it to work" feeling!
I really liked the blur on aiming affect but it tends to not work properly and focus bad specially when aiming to corners or trees so it's good to be able to disable it
Horde the PDAs, the more you sell at the same time increases the trader offer price exponentially. Ex. 1 pda is 100, 2 is 210, 3 is 350.
Good to see you back! :)
Fun fact: the Generators don’t have the ability to have an emission occur outside of one instance in Mortal Sin, meaning that if you barricade a house a little like I did, you can genuinely vibe there!
Not sure if this counts, but i found that the best way to deal with gravity anomaly is just to sprint and jump straight trough, pick up the artifact and sprint jump the same way
It doesn’t work for me :(
Is that springboard or whirligig? The former is pretty easy to run around or jump over but the latter will suck you into itself.
Very cheesy, but (works with base Anomaly too) if you wanna give a gun to a companion you can field strip all its parts and they'll still work. That way you only have to deal with its base condition and barrel degradation when maintaining it, and you get free parts.
Even more cheesy is you can unload them every once in a while to get their ammo. Useful if it's a rare ammo type or the same one you're using.
Upgrade your binoculars zoom ASAP. It's cheap with technicians.
Bandages also give some limb health (though I can't remember what limbs exactly). Can be situationally useful to save your other meds.
As much as possible, take tasks like lost frequency in Meadow. Map is very small, pretty safe, and bodies are easy to find (for me they're usually in the industrial compound in the northeast). You can probably do it even without the RF receiver.
For beginners, I highly recommend you practice your headshots on zombies. In base Anomaly they can actually drop meds too, not as much in GAMMA which has a very different item table.
More of a warning, but as I found recently, do not take the Prof. Semenov hunting quest in Yantar. It's currently broken.
Yeah exactly that last sentence. I spent like hour and 15 minutes, went through multiple maps, didn't touch any mutant just to find out that the quest is bugged. Now I need to draw him everywhere I go because I can't get rid of him 😅
It is not broken, he is just following you for a long time (I think he followed me for like 2-3 days in-game) until he finally decided to leave the group. He will then galivant all the way back to Yantar where you will be able to complete the job.
Some of the lost frequencies on bigger maps are bugged too. I'll never take truck cemetery again
@@rodneykowalski8588 oh man truck cemetery just isn't worth it however tempting it is
Meadow is about 95% of my Lost Signal missions for the reasons you mentioned. Small, safe, and there are only three specific locations where the bodies could be: in the warehouse in that industrial complex to the north, outside said same warehouse in said complex, or in the small village to the south.
I find Wild Territory Lost Signal missions okay, too. Three locations as well where bodies could be: at the Merc Sniper Nest, near the crashed helicopter by the railroads, or the burning tunnel. There are Mercs at the construction site and near the exit to Rostok, but being friends with the Swamp Boys and getting their uniform will cover you when it comes to being around Mercs.
I turn down Lost Signal missions set anywhere else as anywhere else has maps that are either too big or too dangerous.
Always takes Delivery quest for friendly faction, sometime after you give the package, if the stalker die he will not despawn and you can take the package from them. I usually takes Delivery to the Egghead in Yantar, they often wandering behind the plant entrance and got killed by the snork.
you still lose reputation, might as well open the package immidietely without waiting for the guy to die lol
@@petrkdn8224 No, I check it out. The package is delivered to the guy, few more day, I went to the back of lab entrance. I saw a dead body on the ground. He was the guy I delivered package to, 3 package total still on the body and not thing got looted! I open package and my reputation still the same since I've already delivered mean the quest is completed.
The previous version of Gamma is work exactly as this but their body mostly got looted except the package!
For the poltergeist you can walk backwards or low crouch walk (if you want to keep moving) . In the swamps or any other vegetation are safe spaces for avoiding the mutant attacks (works for me in A.R.E.A)
thats propably a bug, it should find you when you make ANY sound, not just move, this includes jumping and low crouch (though, the low crouch makes far less noise so you need to be close to it for it to find you)
@@petrkdn8224 a good bug xd
@@petrkdn8224 Seems less like a bug and more like you're just moving slowly and quietly enough that it can't sense you unless you're directly under it. The only time the low crouch didnt work for me was in Agroprom on an early run where a poltergiest flew over my head about a foot over and noticed me.
Actually if you crouch around a poltergeist they wont notice, crouching is better cus then you dont need to stop walking every sek
If you just press low crouch/walk when you're standing that works too
the veles detector has been a godsend for me specifically for burner anomalies and electrical field anomalies because visually their "tells" are very vague and i wind up taking alot of damage from them. with the veles detector you see exactly where the point of trigger is and it makes avoiding them sooo much easier.
about the Night Vision Devices...
i think the point with the NVD and the detectors is just the same as with your PDA. Its just a little logical feature for all of us who loves this kind of love in games. Electrical devices project the picture on their screen through light, which i assume, causes a little problem for NVD's (too much light). I have to turn off my NV-Device as soon as i take out my PDA and the same thing counts for the detectors. The upgrades of your devices just comes with the same cost as in reallife when you put too much trust in technology. It may goes south at some point. The thing with the grizzly detector you noticed would be a personal favor/tipp/discovery which i really like that you concluded it in this video.
Long may the sun shine upon you.
One more thing: you can actually repair weapon parts below 60% with Part Repair Toolkit.
Way too expensive
@@AosaBid Ive looted them from stashes before, probably one of the best finds
As an OG Stalker player, I had no idea you could go north by just having a psy-helm. I thought you had to disable Brain Scorcher first, but no. All you need is a psy helm,
Lol i didnt know that either thats a game changer
@spoing bo if you were an OG stalker you'd know that's only changed because of mods, base game stalkers you HAD to disable the scorcher to advance the story and allow other stalkers (not just you) to move north
@@TheDwarfishjoe Well in the base game I teleported north past that spot and found stalkers there but still killed me so it seems stalkers are there as well, you just can't go until you disable.
You can repair weapon parts inside the gun with designated cleaning tool, the one that have >10 icon on it, without using tools or repair kit. For example it's "aurora .. something" for shotguns or "rifle.. something" (don't remember, sorry) for assault guns like ak-74 or m4. It work exactly as repair tool kit (right click on gun>maintenance parts) but cheaper :) and every lvl 1 mechanic sells them. Works only on green parts inside gun, including barrel.
Maintaining gun parts this way will also increase the overall condition of the gun. Bump it over 50% and than you can max it out by using cheap Dvoika gun lube combaied with facerug as a supporing material...
I am not sure how it compares to skinflint, but some bases medics will also give you a mission for drug making kits
amazing video! I learned a lot! thanks!
The poltergeist thing is really interesting.
Also, not sure if this is well known, but if you left+alt and drag the artifact melter into an artifact it... melts the artifact and the equipment gets a lot more uses. Very good when you're on a streak creating artifacts and your melter's running low.
Completing a technician's tool quests, and a doctor's drug making kit quest allows you both free access to the workbench AND the aforementioned toolkits. Besides that it's also a very easy way to make money. Medics and ecologists are also the best places to buy meds, or med making supplies as they both sell more of them, and ask less for them.
The average armour level of most factions is between 3-5 from mid to late game (with duty and bandit/renegade being lower in general).
buying low level devices like headlamp[s and echo detectors is a very cheap way to get upgrade parts for your own devices.
In military runs, duty and ecologist are your friends. They sell better stuff than your own faction, and are way more widely spread across the map.
If you buy a workbench or build one with the gunsmithing tools and put all your repair kits inside, you don't have to keep re-buying them, you can use them infinitely!
I'd like to know a list of good locations to build hideouts in that are safe from storms but in key locations between safe areas.
@Rexhunterj I'd say Rostok or the Freedom Base in Army Warehouses are the best safe starting locations since you don't get harassed by mutants/have a lot of open buildings to build in. Cordon is a bit too far from northern areas IMO but has the Northern Farm which is close to teleport spots. You can even try the Factory in Agoprom or Train Hangar in Garbage. Late game I like to set up in Jupiter at the Freedom base because it's closer to more important spots (there's a shortcut to Outskirts) and there's a nice basement to set-up storage.
I just shot a message to Strelok that I'm borrowing his hideout under Agroprom. He was chill about it. Great guy.
You can just right click your tools and open the workbench
how does this work exactly? i think you are confused, the repair kits arent "used" when you use them to swap out parts in firearms. even if you use the technicians workbench it wont use up the repair kits for the workbench "repair" aka swapping out parts. if i am wrong let me know
I learned the poltergeist thing naturally. I’m like a deer that stops immediately when they hear or see something they don’t like. Going after Strelok’s hideout in Agroprom, my screen started turning blue and I stopped immediately. It went away. I start walking again and it does it again so I stop. Took a few times, but it stuck finally.
Deer have a nice system of threat detection.
Cheaper fast travel: When you're going to fast travel first of all use a guide in your safe zone so it's cheaper, but also check the taskboard (default: J) to see if there's a package delivery mission for your destination. It often covers the travel cost and then some. Great way to save huge amounts of time and money over the long run
This is still my favourite shooter game never gets old !!
You can crawl under or slowly walk through the burning fuzz (the braids that hang from the ceiling), without taking damage.
Work for the mercs. If you survived the Pseudogiant attack at the base when you first started, then you will surely manage to get those documents Dushman told you to find in the Deserted Hospital as your fist job
If you right click other stalker PDA's you can also view them. Most are encrypted and you can decrypt them at most technicians. This is a great way to find extra stashes.
another graphical tip is enabling "sun_details" in the console. makes grass look amazing in sun and moonlight.
my man these spreadsheets are what i needed ty
Im pretty sure you can get the expert tools by doing the quest "Snitch" gives you in the bar. Its the one where you have to kill some of the top 10 stalkers.
not from him, ive had other traders give me the task to kill top 10. And also it has variable rewards. They are still good rewards, it just doesnt guarantee expert tools
problem being that several of the top 10 will be Monolith Legends that are likely in the CNPP, where you'd really want to be wearing an exoskeleton, which requires expert tools to repair.
Personally on the two runs I've played of GAMMA so far, both my Expert toolkits have been from white stashes in Radar. I don't think the chance is especially high compared to other northern zones, but it's suspicious I've only ever found them there.
@Dr. TeaRex i haven't played gamma, but I've managed to sneak into Pripyat, climbed up the stadium stealthily, and sniped one of the guys that I was supposed to kill. Left without being noticed. They shot at me after I killed him, but I managed to get to cover quick and exited swiftly behind cover. All that took me around 15 min sneaking around. (Entered from Jupiter)
@@petrkdn8224 Yeah it's definitely just a case of who you have to kill and where. And it's got a randomised aspect. In my playthrough about 4 of them were deep in the CNPP and had an army of Monolith and high tier mutants between me and them. All of them died during the raid on the powerplant as part of GAMMA/Anomaly's main storyline. Because at that point I had expert tools, a fully upgraded exoskeleton, top tier weaponry and 5 people backing me up and it was a breeze. But if I'd had to go in there in medium armour, low level Warsaw Pact weapons and just a couple of companions who were more fragile than I was? Yeah, odds are I wouldn't've had nearly as much success. Especially true when you consider how much higher the lethality is in GAMMA over base Anomaly. Any singular bullet is likely to end you if you're not wearing a heavily armoured Exoskeleton-tier helmet, and in the CNPP you're looking at virtually a wall of bullets.
@Dr. TeaRex gamma is far from realistic, and also, I'm running only a few realism mods (none affect combat) yet you can still often die from one shot even with quite good gear. You are propably one of the people that came from Drewski, and hadn't tried base anomaly. You die just as much as in GAMMA.
I'm looking forward to crafting weapons in this mod! In Anomaly I didn't bother much I would upgrade a couple of guns, a semi-auto shotty and a twin-shot AK94. However, I've just played 'True Stalker' which is a scripted, story-driven mod, and I'm eager to get back to stuff that is more engaging.
here's a tip i learned by myself and dont see many people talking much often: instead of leaving a gun or armor that has bad condition just disassemble it and sell the parts to any technician, it's not alot but it might be handy very early in game.
In anomaly i always pick the first pump action shotgun i find no matter its condition. Because they are pump action they won't jam, so it's very good for the beginning. You just have to repair it before it gets to 0% or loot another one. I think it doesnt apply for gamma however and it obviously doesnt apply for semi-auto shotguns.
I don't know if they patched yet or not and it's a little more on the cheat side but you can drag weapon components from the technicians to your gun and it won't cost you anything
kinda nonbrainer but if you are just starting, if you find ANY weapon with barrel at 60%+ condition, TAKE IT, you can just swap out the rest of the weapon parts when you find ones that are over 60% and clening the gun is easy, you can have best weapons in the game without the need for a tool set if you find them with good barrel
In certain areas such as the Great Swamp the radiation levels are high everywhere just about so you need a lot of antiradiation meds, vodka and even cigarettes to stay alive but once they run out you will slowly die and in most cases not be able to finish all your objectives in that area before you finally croak.
If a weapons barrel is >60% and the weapons parts are functional and the overall percentage of the weapon is low u can clean the weapon up to 100% even with the cheapest cleaning kit BUT if u add kerosin it will add 15% which safe on cleaning kits and kerosin is common with every trader.
Even works with your knife and disassembling tools.
omg I kept looking for a prices spreadsheet when I was playing, now I can die in ironman richer!
Lol
I turned on stashes have a chance for extra stash loot from Anomaly in the mod settings. I got the second tier backpack from the first stash I searched. I turned it back off because I was getting some seriously good stuff. It was almost too much cheese for me.
I guess this is a good setting for those who don’t want to have to buy repair items as much, knives, backpacks and other stuff. I’ve gotten at least four of the Bayo’s that are capable of cutting thick skin in the first four hours of the playthrough I started.
I think I’d be happier if you could turn off certain types of items it drops in the setting. I don’t mind getting an extra gluetube here and there or a handful of rounds, but skipping tiers on equipment for me is a bit much. Some may find this more than acceptable so I can’t say it’s just a bad thing. Just bad for those who want to scav for most everything, but always have the option if they feel like it or just want to do a chill fun run
You can arm companions that have rookie weapons with a better weapon regardless of condition and they can use it with unlimited ammo.
And if you take it back from them, sometimes you have the option to unload and it'll give you some free ammo.
I played this game years ago and wanted to pick back up where I left off, which was pretty far into game, but realized I can't rem how to play it at all lmao might need to start fresh but don't wanna delete my old save. It's stacked.
I play EFP and tools there come in only purple stashes and they’ll always go: basic, advanced, expert, med, gunsmithing.
Also I don’t know if this is a case in gamma but in EFP a single dragon buck round will kill a Chimera.
I am so mad that I didn't know about Aslan till just now... I've been carrying around hundreds of patches just trying to get fetch quests for them... and all this time I could just have done this...
You can repair the barrel whit the weapon cleaner kit whitout dissasemblin the gun
Right now with 9.3 and before with 9.2 guns with magazines in stashes are fully loaded with ammo. PPsH gives 71. AKM gives 30 rounds. Enjoy looting now. With "U" you will can unload magazines faster in the stash menu.
Quel délicieux accent :3 tu parles très bien anglais quand même ^^
When i start a game and want some challenge i don't pick any item and leave my points unused.
When i want a faster start i pick the SKS and respirator
the scope can be bought with around 12 000 rubble and with it you will be able to get nice armor from cold's main quest as well as high level weaponry by killing military south of cordon.
while the armor obtain through quest will be in pristine state, the weapons not so much. Many good rifles and shotgun will require the Army Rifle repair kit to replace the parts and you might find yourself unable to repair the bad condition.
except as long as the weapon's overall condition is above 10% And with a barrel condition above 60% that can be cleaned inside the gun, you can still repair it fully without any toolkit.
First you will need to find a weapon with condition of 10 or more And with a barrel condition above 60%. then you need to find parts with >60% condition.
if you possess the right set for the type of weapon ( progress, valupro or aurora) Right clic the weapon and use Maintain Parts to clean the parts inside the gun. not only will it repair the parts but it will also grant +15% overall condition. Cleaning any parts inside the gun this way will allow you to repair it above 30% condition where Hoppe's will do the rest.
so in conclusion if you have found a weapon with a barrel already in pristine condition but only 12% overall condition, find the rest of the parts with a condition >60% and be sure to NOT repair all of them entirely before putting them in your gun. You want them still damaged to repair them inside your gun and raise the gun's overall condition by cleaning the parts inside the gun.
if you can't find parts above 60% you still have the option of the Universal weapon cleaning kit to repair parts above 20% but this one is costly
I am new to the game so something that wasnt obvious to me at first was, if you put parts inside a gun without the crafting kit, it damages the gun.
I am pretty sure its not damage the gun
You aren't damaging the gun, you're dirtying it up, the condition of the weapon is less durability and more of a representation of operability of the weapon, is it clean enough to work or is the task of cleaning it too much?
Canonically in the Zone weapons degrade faster thanks to the anomalous environment, even food apparently loses its taste or rots more quickly in the Zone.
You can actually repair weapon parts below 60% with "Part Repair Toolkit"... but that thing is expensive!
Yes insane
For me the Veles detector doesn't even work, and the Zvarog shows the locations of anomalys too, so you can navigate them without needing bolts or casings.
I get so annoyed with stalker gamma. Because I always have to eat food. Even if I have a sausage or a can of meat. 10 minutes later I have to eat again. Any mods for that?
I want a deeper cooking mod so bad
Eat better food, get a gas cooking kit with a gas balloon and some white label vodka, cook some mutant with the green icon. You're eating so much cause those foods don't recover much hunger.
The vodka for basic toolkit is very good. Just started playing and Got no Green stashes since only those drop basic toolkits in the newest version. Hope it works in Gamma 0.9.1...
it's ok bro, at the end of the day we're all bro stalkers helping each other and having fun 😁
I sold an artifact melter I found in army warehouses in my first couple hours of play lol.
Through all my play through over the years, vanilla or modded. I have never actually bothered with the velles, the bear or grizzly was always good enough
-Wolf and sidrovich are money cows dont forget to milk them
-remember best weapon is the weapon which looks cool or the weapon which you can fire
-dont use double barrels they leave u in a terrible situations and they kinda bug out too during reload
-follow the tip from the video about getting basic tools and go to a techinian near your home base and give it to him always best to have supply lv2 at the start
-final tip setuo your base at the middle of the map and never let your equipment go below 80 percent condition the more you wait the more expensive it gets to repair
@Cheeki Breeki pretty sure Grizzly detector only detects all artifacts known to science it even says so in it's tool tip the svarog detector detects all artifacts known to science and all artifacts not known to science it can also be used with night vision. So the grizzly detector is just a far better Veles detector the only downside is that the grizzly can't be upgraded to a svarog you still need a veles detector.
keep at lest one anabiotic on you in case you can't find shelter during a psy-storm or an emission.
more of these !! i had no idea aslan even had a gambling thing 💀
If you kill Strlocks old friend who lives in Tulza tunnel in great swamp (First main quest in Cordon) he has a key on him for a hotel room, no idea whats inside though. Might have to go find outnon my current playthrough
Any updates?
@@MrEvans1 I'm still on the same playthrough 😂
DAMN THAT VECTOR LOOKS GOOD
Can you share your graphic and alife settings? And what reshade preset do you use with gamma?
yeah... Svarog Detector can detect tier 1 to tier 4 artifact and anomalies. Death Lamp is a Tier 4 Artifact but it's a risk to carry around because even with Lead lined container it still burn through and give you radiation... and it also increase the chance of getting hunt by the Bounty hunter squad!
Since last update i didn't get any bounty Hunters on my head which happened pretty often before, something changed or just something crashed on my game after that, cuz i have a lot of game freezing errors nowadays? Like one for each 2 hours of playing.
@@PablooWT sometime, It's the problem with the companion. They often don't want to follow you and start aiming at nothing or aim at the ground. When I go a little too far from them, the game freeze longer than usual and crash.
3:00 hi cheeki...a fantastic vid as always🎉
Ive been looking all over the internet for a fix regarding the stutter/frame skipping issue...that you can clearly see at this time stamp...the characters seem to jitter ever 2 seconds and aswell when moving...aswell you can see it when you were walking in that radiated area...how were you able to fix this?
When I watched Drewskis videos, when in the mod launcher where it shows all the mods (not the gamma launcher), if you search "stutter" there should be a mod you can tick that will specifically fix that
haha crazy difference the sun shadows make huh. almost no hit to the GPU either.
Wait. How do you get the technicians to repair your weapons and give you upgrades?
How you can set the tree and grass green like the beginning of video? Mine don't look like that
personnaly i never go out without a saiga 12 and slug, it can kill any mutant fast, even the pseudo giant die in about 10 to 12 headshot, chimera is 2 or 3 and anything else is 1 shot and for some reason i cant seem to acheive that with other shotgun
What's your mod for all that greenery in garbage there? Looks so lush!
Old weapons like SKS could be upgraded by the technician WITHOUT any toolboxes to MAX, yes, even lvl 3 when usually expert tools given to technician is needed. It works for, mosin, KAR98, TOZ, PM, SKS and probably some others.
"Historic" weapons that use the historic repair kit seem to be in this category.
Man if you get an SKS early that's so OP.
@@Rexhunterj Also almost semiauto KAR98 is OP
You can steal weapon parts from Techs by dragging them to a weapon in your inventory - it won't work with barrels but everything else is fair (unfair) game
Ahahahh really? A bit unethical but its pretty funny :D
Hey, how do you get rid of the absolutely blinding red flash when injured?
Tone it down to the intensity seen here or something,
The poltergeist thing is an OG game mechanic
Man I've just went through labs with brute force and luck against poltergeists sprinting haha, wont do that again.
When you have a Advanced Toolkit you don't need to hang on to the Basic one anymore. Same when you get the Expert one, then you don't need to keep the Advanced. Sell to technicians for rubels or hand them in for rep and rubels.
@@dizzyav Do you know exactly what it said? I usually keep track on whats posted in the to-do channel, but can't remember reading that.
@@TheUnum Remove toolkits retro compatibility (02.05.2023)
This will be removed in the next release. 😢
@@TheUnum Gigantic Grok - 02/05/2023 09:25
Remove toolkits retro compatibility
edit: oops didnt notice it was already posted
@@dizzyav That's sad news indeed.
It's a good idea to complete technician's quests for tools (unless you don't already have more than one of the requested toolkit of course). Also, after that, by keeping basic tools and crafting advanced ones you can also complete the technician's quests for advanced tools.
At least that's what I like to do with extra toolkits. Also, Drug-making kits can be given to Medics NPCs too.
You only ever need to keep the highest tier crafting kit for yourself, so if you only have Advanced tier, you can get rid of you basic tier to a technician as the advanced tier lets you craft basic tier recipes.
@@Rexhunterj I know but you won`t be able to complete the techninans quests that give goodwill and some rewards. It can be a good idea to stash the Basic and Advanced Tools to give them to a technician afterwards.