100%. Just unload and leave red weapons. The economy in this game is absurd. 40,000 to buy armor means 7,000 to sell, these merchants must be hella rich 😅
Yep, that’s what I’ve been doing too. I’m picking up yellow durability weapons to sell for a decent profit - weapon depending. But, I’ve been just sinking coupons buying ammo. Trying to get better at ammo management in firefights.
Economy is pretty cooked lol but if you do find some gear to sell it will earn you bank. I've upgraded all my guns to max and you do feel a difference.
I was just in Rookie village in cordon and walked into the medics to see him patching up a Rookie The medic chastised him and told him to stop repairing his gear with duct tape The Rookie replied along the lines of "are you kidding me have you SEEN the prices?" Preaching to the choir stalker 😂
Saw someone's tip of loading up a dead body with all of your loot, and then carrying him around when you have to go back to the merchant. Haven't tested it but if it works, my pack mule will be named Wilson and I will be talking to him on the long treks in the zone
It definitely works, tho it takes seemingly forever as you can’t sprint and it makes you walk very slowly when carrying a body. But if you need the extra 30kg of space and don’t mind the smell the bandit body backpack is the perfect way to get all that juicy loot back to town.
when they fix A-life, ai in general and stealth, this game will be so good The quests are very well done and cutscenes are probably one of the best i've seen in first person shooters
Tbh I’d count on mods to implement something like A-life before the devs to. They even removed A-life from the steam page which isn’t a good sign Luckily Stalker mod community is huge
I have a feeling this is gonna be like starfield. Just mod it now. Otherwise you're gonna wait 6 months for a patch that fixed 70% of what people wanted.
@@JappaChow did you notice that price for your stuff in inventory is lesser then when you selling them? It seems like a bug, because there is a way to sell it for full price - just press right click on weapon when it placed on a sell window and then press on a empty space of that same window, and you will see that the price of selling is increased to its inventory value. If you want to sell for this price, just drop some stackable items to sell window to triger "chose quantity window" and then press by left click the sell button (F) - you will sell it for full price. In that case you can make profit from repairing broken guns and selling them.
Went on a journey to Skadovsk today, but it turned into a rescue mission for some former Monolith guys who were being bullied by a Controller. Probably needed 20 shots from the shotgun to take that sucker down.
Not sure why this wasn’t mentioned, but another thing the game doesn’t tell you is the location of the dread pirate 7 Toe Bill’s buried treasure which has been missing for centuries.
@@CrabsJohnson I can understand what you're saying but when they're shooting at you through walls it's a bit much. They know where you are at all times.
@buxmell its a bug. They already stated that. Even with light off and crouch they will find u behind walls far off. Its crazy how they home in on u. Never seen any game like that except games where they literally do come at u as part of the game
@barronwiles4192 which newcomers to the game will not understand what that means me in the beginning thought that meant it gave us radiation protection.
@@Shinzon23 there are artifacts that take away radiation. They must be used together with those that emit radiation to compensate. Upgraded rad protection of suit won't do it
@@eliotcole663 Honestly, go down to the easy difficulty and put the aim assist on. Your game will be much more manageable while maintaining a level of difficulty. Got me to stop ripping my hair out.
Highly recommend playing with a headset on. Full immersion and on Veteran it’s a necessity to know if a party is trying to flank you or if there is someone about to take a corner.
During the prologue before the cut scene that takes you in the title screen for the game. If you drop your weapons you’ve collected during the prologue before the cutscene plays out after the cut scene you can go back and pick them up. It’s not massively important as you’ll find more very quickly but if you want to make things easier that’s an option. Although unique and interesting weapons such as a sop mod can be found almost the moment you arrive into the game.
16 hours in, hopefully this helps someone: Mutants=Shotgun. Don't waste other ammo. Rats go down with a single pistol/smg shot(single fire mode). Humans=Single shot at range, burst fire(when available) close, full auto/shotguns for emergencies. For KB+M players, bind weapon mode toggle to mouse 5 for quick switching between single/burst/auto modes on the fly. Don't use health packs at the end of a firefight. Instead while looting corpses, eat whatever food/use the bandages they have on them to gain health back(and not add weight to inventory). Additional benefit of staving off hunger. Didn't find artefacts(so far) to be of much use, instead sell them and use the coupons to upgrade armour. Much more useful in firefights. Keep atleast 1 scoped weapon in inventory(AK-47S you get near the beginning is worth upgrading,very easy to get headshots with fully upgraded gun). Stash any ammo you're not using in personal stash. Same for utilities: don't walk around with 30 grenades/food rations. Keep it to around 10,stash the rest. You get enough from corpses and scavenging around and the weight adds up pretty quickly(I was walking around with 4kgs of bread,fml). Pick up yellow wear weapons if you have enough room, they fetch some quick bucks at weapon vendors. I also grab any PDA I find to sell. Skif's Pistol costs nothing to repair. Even after upgrading, the repair is pretty cheap.
One thing (i scrolled a bit and didnt see it so might aswell add it). Trading as well as repairing is massively cheaper/better (higher sale prices for your stuff) when done at traders that are marked green on your PDA. This means that they are "allied" aka your faction rep is high enough. Since green marked guides are also cheap i usually go into a base nearby, travel to a green one, sell my stuff and travel back to where i was. Massive profits and waaaaay lower repair costs.
I’m playing this on the series x. I’ve heard of people having that issue but haven’t had it myself as of yet. Supposedly there is a way to fix it but don’t remember what was said. Have you tried adjusting stick dead zones maybe?
@codythompson9035 you're so lucky not to be experiencing that. Ive tried a couple things. Dead zone fixes, unplugging other peripherals. Nothing worked. I bought it on pc but I still use controller because I work from home and I'm on a keyboard and mouse all day.
@DanielGarcia-ss1te I had this issue. Used the kids white series s controller and the problem went away. Nothing wrong with my x controller on every other game I have. Super weird issue
Or, alternatively, don't watch this video, or any video like it, and jump into the game completely blind, and figure it all out by yourself. Bugs and all. For a true Stalker experience.
I'm a few hours in and really enjoying it, despite getting things wrong or not really understanding everything properly. I was hesitant to watch this video and after reading your comment I wont. I'll just jump straight back as i was, thanks. :D
At first I was struggling but after getting the hang of the game I find myself wining 1v20s in open fields, btw there’s a achievement for 5 headshots in under 10 seconds
it costs 17k to repair a broken SVD i found. that’s more than i could have made if i accepted every available quest to me about 6 hours in at the starting town. i find that a bit ridiculous. i’m expecting the game to be hard but i don’t wanna be using an mp5 and a pistol for my first 10 hours
The economy is complete crap and so is firearm durability. I found a nice AK, 100% condition, 5 minutes later I get jumped by two flesh? the big pig things... I burn through one magazine killing them and the gun is at 37% condition. 30 rounds took 63% off? An AK? The legendary rifle that's proven it's reliability over 50 years nearly breaks in one magazine?
@@barrylinkiewich9688 That's gotta be a bug. The game definitely has its issues but I've been using the AK for over 30 hours of my playthrough so far and one mag hasn't taken off more than 5% durability for me.
@@barrylinkiewich9688 that's because you tried to kill mutants with an AR, a shotgun is way more efficient for killing mutants. Use slugs on armoured mutants like chimeras and buckshot on fleshy ones. Not sure about the durability burn on the AK though, that sounds odd. Maybe you were using AP rounds which significantly increase durability burn
Was at a location yesterday where those turkey/pig looking things just wouldn't stop. I went though so much ammo before I realized what was going on. Even after I reloaded the save it just kept going. Couldn't even loot the bodies of the soldiers I watched trying to kill them. One or 2 is manageable. But I had 5 of these things taking turns knocking me down. Couldn't shoot, couldn't reload, couldn't even use healing. I hope they fix soon because I'm not going to progress the game until then.
This will only help when you start the game but before you finish the prologue at the last scanner spot put all your gear in the safes nearby and you can look all your gear when you go back to that spot
The game runs really well for me outside of the towns. It also runs great in towns...until I get close to and look at the npcs where it slows down to 10 or less fps! When I look away I'm hitting 60+ again. Such an annoying thing.
Thats wild what hardware do you guys have. I am playing on 1080p but on epic settings. My framerate has never dropped below 54 and steadily at 70-90+ its run great for me tbh
Also to add to the high ground. If any enemy that have grenades have a much harder time throwing them at you if your on a roof. I had a group of 7 banits and 2 of them kept hurling nades at me but not a 1 made it to the roof
Great video. One of the best tips for me was that ammo actually highlights when hover over a gun, I hadn't realized this, so I was trying to read all the different calibers and also trying to remember what names goes with which gun. Had anyone else encountered the problem with bullets not being available for the long shotgun? I just remembered that I might have upgraded it so maybe thats the problem...??? Holographic sights isn't available in the first section right?
All the shotguns use 12 gauge that I've come across (they might canonically be 10 gauge since the system in that part of the world is different but that's firearm semantics), there are different types of 12 gauge ammo, but they should all work on any shotgun unless you changed the caliber which wouldn't make much sense and I don't know if you can do that for those. They should've been fine. In the lesser zone I didn't come across a holographic sight. If you want to make a trek into the next region to the north when you clear the checkpoints, the shop owner there had one for sale, think it was around 3500 iirc.
@@MegadethTillDeth Thanks for the info. It was a facepalm moment for me, in my exitment over having coupons to upgrade I apparently apgrade me shotty barrel in a way which alters the caliber in some way so the normal shotgun ammo cant be used in that weapon any longer. And I cant reverse the upgrade any longer so I had to buy a new Toz.
Also definitely install mods that reduce the health of mutants and reduce the repair cost, it feels like the repair system was never actually play tested.
At the 10 minute mark when you talk about pistols and noise. If you have your pistol equipped a silencer and you have your aim on you make zero noise. The blue bar doesn’t even show up.
My first stalker game. Buggy… but I’ve never been happier since I’ve discovered kingdom come deliverance. This is an amazing piece of… art. This is art
I'm 8 hours into the game, having finished the Azimuth mission, I ask: why is it that when I go to the technicians, no option appears for me to be able to fix weapons and clothing? That is, I only get the option on ‘’Listen to news about the Zone‘’ . Thanks I'm on SX
on pc when you start a conversation with a tech or trader you get a prompt on the right side of the conversation options to upgrade which is Q .... and a trader is E .... so whatever the button you use for your first quick slot would be what you would press to enter the upgrade/repair window
Early game sell yellow guns and store all red aks and non double barrel shotguns in your stash, then when you get to rostok sell all red guns to Ragman. Nice little nest egg.
Im 12 hours in on rookie and ive only died 9 times, all my deaths have been from radiation and fall damage💀, but as a stalker old time fan and similar firefight games, mutants are tanks, do approach with shotgun, utilise grenades their tactically amaizing for outnumbered firefights once you get use to, and approach all firefights thoughtfully and stacked on ammo, taking cover and thinking through your firefights slightly tacticslly will win all your fights, oh and i reccomend getting use to headshotting
It's brutal on xbox, no clue why they thought making it 1/4 the size of your invent or equipped items screens. Super annoying I agree, also annoying that it rearranges the stuff you put in there no matter what, I want all my damn ammo together lol
I just can't see where I'm getting shot from sometimes and controller definitely wasn't refined before release. Other than that, I'm just ass at this game. Loving it so far!
Playing on the hardest difficulty honestly ammo conservation isn’t that big a deal. I constantly find myself putting more ammo away than I take with me to save weight knowing I’ll pick more up as I go
it won’t let me sell yellow durability weapons literally at all. Do you repair them first then sell them? You seem to spend more in repairing than you get in selling. And this is on the easiet difficulty (I didn’t wanna deal with stupid bs like bullet sponge mutants) with a green faction like the trader and tech are green which I’m pretty sure means I spend less to repair and the trader gives me more when I sell. What I’ve been doing is finding guns I like and repairing those. While trying to save money by using my pistol when I can and picking up yellow smg and shotguns to kill enemies and using my Ak and pump shotgun when I need a more powerful weapon. I’ll usually head out with my pistol and 2 primaries the zilmar ak and a shotgun or smg depending. And I try to use the yellow guns I pickup so I can spend the cheap smg ammo and also not damage my main guns. I think carrying 2 full primaries might be too much maybe I should only carry one fully repaired and one yellow that I how away when it goes red. Any tips for what I should upgrade first? Frankly my biggest issue is weight I need so much more. Secondary is like physical and bleed resist and then like radiation and stuff.
A shame the hardest mode in this game is a joke. Yeah sure, it's harder than the others, but making human enemies and myself alike bullet sponges kinda kills it for me.
In arena when u get seva suit and the .308 i know how to keep both and they're sick. Took me 45 minutes of loading and saving but I got it to where I snuck out and kept them. I can write it here if anyone interested. 4 artifact slots default on the armor
Anyone know how to use the other 2 quick access items on Xbox? Can't seem to use them and you have to have the items in those slots or the items slide left to fill in order.
They really need to fix flickering wall textures. Im at a point where i have to speak to a doctor & commander and litterally every wall inside the building flashes, seeing this stuff for the first time whilst having a 4090 gave me a mini heart attack, hope the hotfixes adresses the textures..
Bastard. Ive just realised ive missed an artifact in an early side mission. The one underground where you patch the guy up. Those manaic boars waiting outside for me distracted me.
Recent nvidia driver update smoothened my experience substantially.. but I just can’t get into the game overall! I can see the appeal, but just can’t get into it man! The story just isn’t gripping me, at all. Seems like one of those stories that ramps up mid way though, so I’ll push through 😢
@@SILVER_JP this game isn't much about story. Never has been. It's there. But the real game comes from the world. Just experience it for everything it can offer.
@ yeah not usually my type of game, but reviews I watched spoke highly of the story, when it comes together. I’ll probably give it a miss if the story is lacking, as that’s my main interest when it comes to gaming now. *Story, gameplay, characters.. 🙏
Ppl one shot on hardest mode. Veteran. Learn to aim. Also if u can aim, guns and ammo types matter. Use a shotty like the toz for mutants. Single shots in head for humans
@@Alberto-xw8vx It is ok with 4060 (1080p of course), but what you realy need is 32 gb ram because of memory leaks. At 16 gb it is playable for half an hour then needs a restart to get back the performance.
Another thing that they don't tell you is that there are invincible enemies who can't die and all you can do is die truly some bs and not realistic at all
Similar in a lot of ways, but different in just as many. The metro series is really good at making the world feel alive in the setpieces it has, though most of it is more linear (including exodus to a much lesser extent) Stalker 2 has a lot more post-apocalyptic space magic happening, but both have those sorts of themes to some extent. However, stalker also has a lot of very scary moments that are much harder to expect (though oftentimes that's because the air itself or invisible enemies can jumpscare you). I also found the story in metro to be incredibly engaging, but that's in large part due to a fantastic writer
@glentaker metro is a great game series, well worth playing. Exodus, the most recent is particularly good. It'll be in fine condition now also after a few years of patches.
Metro developer are ex gsc crew. After stalker call of prypyat they split up. Metro choose to be more arcade, like call of duty, while stalker more to role playing and tactical. Personally I like stalker more.
Im pretty sure repairs from red durability cost more then you get selling them. Just unload and drop any red weapons you find
100%. Just unload and leave red weapons. The economy in this game is absurd. 40,000 to buy armor means 7,000 to sell, these merchants must be hella rich 😅
Yep, that’s what I’ve been doing too. I’m picking up yellow durability weapons to sell for a decent profit - weapon depending. But, I’ve been just sinking coupons buying ammo. Trying to get better at ammo management in firefights.
Agree, without the ability to repair things yourself for free it's better to just drop broken guns
Economy is pretty cooked lol but if you do find some gear to sell it will earn you bank. I've upgraded all my guns to max and you do feel a difference.
I was just in Rookie village in cordon and walked into the medics to see him patching up a Rookie
The medic chastised him and told him to stop repairing his gear with duct tape
The Rookie replied along the lines of "are you kidding me have you SEEN the prices?"
Preaching to the choir stalker 😂
Saw someone's tip of loading up a dead body with all of your loot, and then carrying him around when you have to go back to the merchant. Haven't tested it but if it works, my pack mule will be named Wilson and I will be talking to him on the long treks in the zone
@@Noazzark it does but you can only walk, no running... So it's very slow
@@Noazzark Yup, been doing that forever in the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games as well as Fallout and Elder scrolls
It definitely works, tho it takes seemingly forever as you can’t sprint and it makes you walk very slowly when carrying a body. But if you need the extra 30kg of space and don’t mind the smell the bandit body backpack is the perfect way to get all that juicy loot back to town.
@@JustSumGeek meh so not much better than just being in the red of encumbrance then, might do it just because its slightly funnier
@@Noazzark exactly. I would suggest don't do that method and instead stock up on energy drinks and just run like the wind back and forth.
when they fix A-life, ai in general and stealth, this game will be so good
The quests are very well done and cutscenes are probably one of the best i've seen in first person shooters
@@LeateqOfficial mods are gonna make this game even better
Tbh I’d count on mods to implement something like A-life before the devs to. They even removed A-life from the steam page which isn’t a good sign
Luckily Stalker mod community is huge
@@NoShow001 Heard in another video that they only removed the term "A-life" and phrased it differently. Because of the many newcomers.
@@MrJokertjee official news, the system is in the game, just broken atm
I have a feeling this is gonna be like starfield. Just mod it now. Otherwise you're gonna wait 6 months for a patch that fixed 70% of what people wanted.
Besides the bugs requiring me to restart from my last save, the game is absolutely amazing. 9/10
I have not had any bugs in 6hours or so playtime what type of bugs did you incounter
Haven't ran into any so far (fingers crossed) but I love this game. I'm not even a Horror or Survival fan but they hit it big with this one imo.
especialy perfomance and Blurry lol
@@youknowwhyyourhere531 settings maxed out ?
Gunna assume on pc. Xbox isn't getting bugs, if so are rare rare. Pc has more like flying bodies
The best combination for atmosphere is Ukrainian audio and English subs
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It's pretty off-putting that with Ukrainian voices the mouths are still synced to English.
@@Khvylovy nah, makes more sense for it to be in English. If there is money to made, people from all over would have come to be stalkers
@@TheWedlakes all over the world but people all speak English? Not even the native language no that wouldn't make sense
That first advice 💀
NEVER EVER repair a weapon just to sell it, you will lose a TON of money
Ya im curious who spread that rumor. Its not even close to making profit
@@JappaChow did you notice that price for your stuff in inventory is lesser then when you selling them? It seems like a bug, because there is a way to sell it for full price - just press right click on weapon when it placed on a sell window and then press on a empty space of that same window, and you will see that the price of selling is increased to its inventory value. If you want to sell for this price, just drop some stackable items to sell window to triger "chose quantity window" and then press by left click the sell button (F) - you will sell it for full price. In that case you can make profit from repairing broken guns and selling them.
@@JappaChow probably sidorowich
It’s IGN ofc they’re spreading BS 😂😂
I died 50 times all before I left the lesser zone. Pretty sure I've made every mistake possible 😅
On a similar trajectory
I'm on 72 deaths...still in the lesser zone .
Welcome to the zone rookies, veteran stalker here i was you in 2009
82 and I just got the key out
Went on a journey to Skadovsk today, but it turned into a rescue mission for some former Monolith guys who were being bullied by a Controller. Probably needed 20 shots from the shotgun to take that sucker down.
Not sure why this wasn’t mentioned, but another thing the game doesn’t tell you is the location of the dread pirate 7 Toe Bill’s buried treasure which has been missing for centuries.
Clearly, you haven't progressed far in the story since you're saying that.
Enemies are way too accurate when shooting at you.
The difficulty just lower it
@@ahoosifoou4211it's not like the old games where difficulty changed bullet spread.
@saucemaster2 Good, if I can accurate shots on them they should be able to land accurate shots on me
@@CrabsJohnson yeah I like that about this game it makes them intimidating
@@CrabsJohnson I can understand what you're saying but when they're shooting at you through walls it's a bit much. They know where you are at all times.
A game so dark you can't see any enemies but they have no issue seeing you
turn off the flashlight
@buxmell its a bug. They already stated that. Even with light off and crouch they will find u behind walls far off. Its crazy how they home in on u. Never seen any game like that except games where they literally do come at u as part of the game
I had to turn the brightness up a bit. It was way too dark even with the flashlight
@@JappaChow Yeah ive had that happen a bunch too. Suddenly youre just being detected by a dude maybe 200m away behind a building.
You really should have listed that most Artifacts emit radiation when equipped; this tripped me and my friends up when we were starting out.
@@Shinzon23 the game definitely tells you that artifacts give you radiation damage. It says “weak/medium/strong radiation” in red or green
@Shinzon23 lol so that's why I was taking rads
@barronwiles4192 which newcomers to the game will not understand what that means me in the beginning thought that meant it gave us radiation protection.
Frrrrrr, went through all my rads till i became an alcoholic, got a new artifact then realized red must mean bad 😅
@@Shinzon23 there are artifacts that take away radiation. They must be used together with those that emit radiation to compensate. Upgraded rad protection of suit won't do it
I don’t think I have played an fps this hard before, but it’s addictive and I love it
Im sure repairs from red durability cost more then you get selling them. Just unload and drop any red weapons you find
Very fun game, but hard af
@@eliotcole663 Honestly, go down to the easy difficulty and put the aim assist on. Your game will be much more manageable while maintaining a level of difficulty. Got me to stop ripping my hair out.
You’ll get used to it. Just think of it kinda like a shooter dark souls
Don't rush it's super easy. Glhf
It gets easier when you get good gear: exoskeletons, better sniper rifles, and shotguns. You will walk like a tank, at least against humans.
Once you stock up a decent amount of heals and ammo it gets a lot easier
Highly recommend playing with a headset on. Full immersion and on Veteran it’s a necessity to know if a party is trying to flank you or if there is someone about to take a corner.
and hear nades landing
@@2g4u7y audio in the game specially of humans is broken. On headset you sometimes hear them shouting behind you but theres no one there
@@confusionTX that’s just an anomaly
@@WJBWOZ1993hilarious.
@@confusionTXa headset doesn't really use sound behind you. Get a surround set
During the prologue before the cut scene that takes you in the title screen for the game.
If you drop your weapons you’ve collected during the prologue before the cutscene plays out after the cut scene you can go back and pick them up.
It’s not massively important as you’ll find more very quickly but if you want to make things easier that’s an option.
Although unique and interesting weapons such as a sop mod can be found almost the moment you arrive into the game.
Damn I don’t want to restart but that’s cool!
There is a safe in one of the buildings, I think the one where you get ambushed that you can just dump the sht in
I'm going to struggle with that last one, I like to loot and pick up EVERYTHING I come across incase it's important or I can sell it 😂
16 hours in, hopefully this helps someone:
Mutants=Shotgun. Don't waste other ammo. Rats go down with a single pistol/smg shot(single fire mode).
Humans=Single shot at range, burst fire(when available) close, full auto/shotguns for emergencies.
For KB+M players, bind weapon mode toggle to mouse 5 for quick switching between single/burst/auto modes on the fly.
Don't use health packs at the end of a firefight. Instead while looting corpses, eat whatever food/use the bandages they have on them to gain health back(and not add weight to inventory). Additional benefit of staving off hunger.
Didn't find artefacts(so far) to be of much use, instead sell them and use the coupons to upgrade armour. Much more useful in firefights.
Keep atleast 1 scoped weapon in inventory(AK-47S you get near the beginning is worth upgrading,very easy to get headshots with fully upgraded gun).
Stash any ammo you're not using in personal stash.
Same for utilities: don't walk around with 30 grenades/food rations. Keep it to around 10,stash the rest. You get enough from corpses and scavenging around and the weight adds up pretty quickly(I was walking around with 4kgs of bread,fml).
Pick up yellow wear weapons if you have enough room, they fetch some quick bucks at weapon vendors. I also grab any PDA I find to sell.
Skif's Pistol costs nothing to repair. Even after upgrading, the repair is pretty cheap.
No: 20: When you see a hole or a tunnel F5 is your friend 😊
One thing (i scrolled a bit and didnt see it so might aswell add it). Trading as well as repairing is massively cheaper/better (higher sale prices for your stuff) when done at traders that are marked green on your PDA. This means that they are "allied" aka your faction rep is high enough. Since green marked guides are also cheap i usually go into a base nearby, travel to a green one, sell my stuff and travel back to where i was. Massive profits and waaaaay lower repair costs.
It doesn't tell you if you play with controller you will have infinite stick drift.
I’m playing this on the series x. I’ve heard of people having that issue but haven’t had it myself as of yet. Supposedly there is a way to fix it but don’t remember what was said.
Have you tried adjusting stick dead zones maybe?
@codythompson9035 you're so lucky not to be experiencing that. Ive tried a couple things. Dead zone fixes, unplugging other peripherals. Nothing worked. I bought it on pc but I still use controller because I work from home and I'm on a keyboard and mouse all day.
Bro I was scared cuz my controller is brand new. Thanks for the heads up.
@DanielGarcia-ss1te I had this issue. Used the kids white series s controller and the problem went away. Nothing wrong with my x controller on every other game I have. Super weird issue
@kennyhunter4432 hmmm i should try another controller. Are you playing on pc?
The noise meter is amazing thank you for that I have over 10 hrs in the game so far and I didn’t even know that 😭😂
2:40 the way you freeze when you hear that trap is great lmao
Or, alternatively, don't watch this video, or any video like it, and jump into the game completely blind, and figure it all out by yourself. Bugs and all. For a true Stalker experience.
I'm a few hours in and really enjoying it, despite getting things wrong or not really understanding everything properly. I was hesitant to watch this video and after reading your comment I wont. I'll just jump straight back as i was, thanks. :D
Getting a jump in pointer isnt going to make u perfect. But it will shave alot of learning processing time down
No. Real life was hard already
This is the way
How to be annoyed that you don't know something your character already does 101
At first I was struggling but after getting the hang of the game I find myself wining 1v20s in open fields, btw there’s a achievement for 5 headshots in under 10 seconds
it costs 17k to repair a broken SVD i found. that’s more than i could have made if i accepted every available quest to me about 6 hours in at the starting town. i find that a bit ridiculous. i’m expecting the game to be hard but i don’t wanna be using an mp5 and a pistol for my first 10 hours
@@sunvro8341 sell special types of ammo for big $$
The economy is complete crap and so is firearm durability. I found a nice AK, 100% condition, 5 minutes later I get jumped by two flesh? the big pig things... I burn through one magazine killing them and the gun is at 37% condition.
30 rounds took 63% off? An AK? The legendary rifle that's proven it's reliability over 50 years nearly breaks in one magazine?
@@barrylinkiewich9688 That's gotta be a bug. The game definitely has its issues but I've been using the AK for over 30 hours of my playthrough so far and one mag hasn't taken off more than 5% durability for me.
@@barrylinkiewich9688 that's because you tried to kill mutants with an AR, a shotgun is way more efficient for killing mutants. Use slugs on armoured mutants like chimeras and buckshot on fleshy ones. Not sure about the durability burn on the AK though, that sounds odd. Maybe you were using AP rounds which significantly increase durability burn
@@sunvro8341 i havent left first area and have new suit+ gasmask, fully upgraded pistol and ak74s too. Still have 6 k left. Difficulty lvl stalker
It doesn't tell you about the silly enemy respawn rate 😳
Yeah that's a bug of the A-Life system that GSC has confirmed they're working on.
That because the a-life is broken
Thats fine more loot
I'm hoping it's a bug that they will fix. We can only hope. Other than that I think it's a really fun game so far
Was at a location yesterday where those turkey/pig looking things just wouldn't stop. I went though so much ammo before I realized what was going on. Even after I reloaded the save it just kept going. Couldn't even loot the bodies of the soldiers I watched trying to kill them. One or 2 is manageable. But I had 5 of these things taking turns knocking me down. Couldn't shoot, couldn't reload, couldn't even use healing. I hope they fix soon because I'm not going to progress the game until then.
Not a perfect game but it has been fun so far.. To me it’s like a day z / fallout hybrid.
... and discovering all this in-game is part of the experience !
This will only help when you start the game but before you finish the prologue at the last scanner spot put all your gear in the safes nearby and you can look all your gear when you go back to that spot
On pc it ate my guns
@@JappaChow nothing lost. You lose them anyway
The game runs really well for me outside of the towns. It also runs great in towns...until I get close to and look at the npcs where it slows down to 10 or less fps! When I look away I'm hitting 60+ again. Such an annoying thing.
If I interact with any item it goes down to like 3 FPS for like 20 seconds
Thats wild what hardware do you guys have. I am playing on 1080p but on epic settings. My framerate has never dropped below 54 and steadily at 70-90+ its run great for me tbh
Thank you for the weapon unload tip for broken guns!
Also to add to the high ground. If any enemy that have grenades have a much harder time throwing them at you if your on a roof. I had a group of 7 banits and 2 of them kept hurling nades at me but not a 1 made it to the roof
The game is just perfect!
No it's not
It will in a few months or a year tho
lol
Stop supporting bugged games
The copium is insane with this game lol.
The games not bugged it's a feature @@blueboozle774
remembered a few tricks from CoP back in 2010 and applied here
This is great! Super helpful.
Quick save is the best advice 😏 It will definitely help you a lot!
Ok! I'm definitely playing the game after watching this. Awesome!
Great video. One of the best tips for me was that ammo actually highlights when hover over a gun, I hadn't realized this, so I was trying to read all the different calibers and also trying to remember what names goes with which gun.
Had anyone else encountered the problem with bullets not being available for the long shotgun? I just remembered that I might have upgraded it so maybe thats the problem...???
Holographic sights isn't available in the first section right?
You need the gun mod to use the sight
All the shotguns use 12 gauge that I've come across (they might canonically be 10 gauge since the system in that part of the world is different but that's firearm semantics), there are different types of 12 gauge ammo, but they should all work on any shotgun unless you changed the caliber which wouldn't make much sense and I don't know if you can do that for those. They should've been fine. In the lesser zone I didn't come across a holographic sight. If you want to make a trek into the next region to the north when you clear the checkpoints, the shop owner there had one for sale, think it was around 3500 iirc.
@@MegadethTillDeth Thanks for the info. It was a facepalm moment for me, in my exitment over having coupons to upgrade I apparently apgrade me shotty barrel in a way which alters the caliber in some way so the normal shotgun ammo cant be used in that weapon any longer. And I cant reverse the upgrade any longer so I had to buy a new Toz.
The boxes that show medical and ammo logos are breakable which I found out yesterday
Also the brown one with the fragile icon on the side. They contain food stuffs
Also definitely install mods that reduce the health of mutants and reduce the repair cost, it feels like the repair system was never actually play tested.
At the 10 minute mark when you talk about pistols and noise. If you have your pistol equipped a silencer and you have your aim on you make zero noise. The blue bar doesn’t even show up.
Tks for the tip n.16. I didn’t what that was for!
8:47 no. Shotgun for mutants, Rifle ammo for Humans. Flesh and wild pigs take about 3-4 shotgun rounds. While theyll tank 3 Magazines of 5.45
One of the best games I ever played
My first stalker game.
Buggy… but I’ve never been happier since I’ve discovered kingdom come deliverance. This is an amazing piece of… art. This is art
@@DerDop both such amazing games
Never played Stalker. Digging 2 so far. Very cool atmosphere.
You can actually eat for health, and it does stack. I tested this with bread, meat and tuna.
I'm 8 hours into the game, having finished the Azimuth mission, I ask: why is it that when I go to the technicians, no option appears for me to be able to fix weapons and clothing? That is, I only get the option on ‘’Listen to news about the Zone‘’ . Thanks I'm on SX
on pc when you start a conversation with a tech or trader you get a prompt on the right side of the conversation options to upgrade which is Q .... and a trader is E .... so whatever the button you use for your first quick slot would be what you would press to enter the upgrade/repair window
Early game sell yellow guns and store all red aks and non double barrel shotguns in your stash, then when you get to rostok sell all red guns to Ragman. Nice little nest egg.
the thing is, they made the design of their game so well, that a-life is just ...(wait..) a life!
Mistake 1: playing it before enough patches come out lol. I love the game but the performance on console is rough. Will patiently wait
Im 12 hours in on rookie and ive only died 9 times, all my deaths have been from radiation and fall damage💀, but as a stalker old time fan and similar firefight games, mutants are tanks, do approach with shotgun, utilise grenades their tactically amaizing for outnumbered firefights once you get use to, and approach all firefights thoughtfully and stacked on ammo, taking cover and thinking through your firefights slightly tacticslly will win all your fights, oh and i reccomend getting use to headshotting
wish the stash box was bigger when you open it i had such a hard time placing them in it and keeping it organized
It's brutal on xbox, no clue why they thought making it 1/4 the size of your invent or equipped items screens. Super annoying I agree, also annoying that it rearranges the stuff you put in there no matter what, I want all my damn ammo together lol
How about the quest icons on equipment. There is a little yellow symbol in the top left corner of items that are quest related. Don’t sell those
I just can't see where I'm getting shot from sometimes and controller definitely wasn't refined before release. Other than that, I'm just ass at this game. Loving it so far!
A lot of good tips!...thx
Mostly, it's not worth repairing a weapon to sell it for a loss
Playing on the hardest difficulty honestly ammo conservation isn’t that big a deal. I constantly find myself putting more ammo away than I take with me to save weight knowing I’ll pick more up as I go
What I want to know is there any point to reviving down to NPCs or does it just waste your med kits
it used to improve your rep with that faction - no idea if it has that effect in stalker 2
I just figured out that if you press y while you are aiming it switches the fire type
it won’t let me sell yellow durability weapons literally at all. Do you repair them first then sell them?
You seem to spend more in repairing than you get in selling. And this is on the easiet difficulty (I didn’t wanna deal with stupid bs like bullet sponge mutants) with a green faction like the trader and tech are green which I’m pretty sure means I spend less to repair and the trader gives me more when I sell.
What I’ve been doing is finding guns I like and repairing those. While trying to save money by using my pistol when I can and picking up yellow smg and shotguns to kill enemies and using my Ak and pump shotgun when I need a more powerful weapon.
I’ll usually head out with my pistol and 2 primaries the zilmar ak and a shotgun or smg depending. And I try to use the yellow guns I pickup so I can spend the cheap smg ammo and also not damage my main guns. I think carrying 2 full primaries might be too much maybe I should only carry one fully repaired and one yellow that I how away when it goes red.
Any tips for what I should upgrade first? Frankly my biggest issue is weight I need so much more. Secondary is like physical and bleed resist and then like radiation and stuff.
I hate that I have no time to play 😢 this game is fantastic even with the bugs
The detector thing is explained in the tutorial stage.
What is that crouching animation at 9:58 😂
@@ahsans3277 bruh. I lost it when I first seen that while playing. 😂
Where can I find the silencer for the Scoper AK ?
A shame the hardest mode in this game is a joke. Yeah sure, it's harder than the others, but making human enemies and myself alike bullet sponges kinda kills it for me.
Anyone know the solution for this? Where can i check my reputation standings with the different factions?
Changed the ammo type on a rare shotgun and it would not take the new or old ammo.. had to sell it for 22k coupons 😪
In arena when u get seva suit and the .308 i know how to keep both and they're sick. Took me 45 minutes of loading and saving but I got it to where I snuck out and kept them. I can write it here if anyone interested. 4 artifact slots default on the armor
Anyone know how to use the other 2 quick access items on Xbox? Can't seem to use them and you have to have the items in those slots or the items slide left to fill in order.
Hold the buttons
Hold left or right on d pad.
I dont have a controller but left one is the button. Right one is hold that button
Save your red durability weapons if you want and you can sell them at rostok
They really need to fix flickering wall textures. Im at a point where i have to speak to a doctor & commander and litterally every wall inside the building flashes, seeing this stuff for the first time whilst having a 4090 gave me a mini heart attack, hope the hotfixes adresses the textures..
U have the drivers from the 12th? Im on 4090 and have not seen that problem yet
You can find ragman in Rostok and sell broken weapons there. Dont sell anything else to him - his prices suck.
So this game is like into the radius?
Bastard. Ive just realised ive missed an artifact in an early side mission. The one underground where you patch the guy up. Those manaic boars waiting outside for me distracted me.
I uninstalled when I couldn’t use my flashlight, pressed every button
I feel like the repair cost is to much. If not change that at least let us sell the red shield guns.
“Red durability” its 45% and remember to unload ur gun before selling it
The biggest threat in this game are the bugs and crashes!
3:10 the "Pig blob things" are called Flesh. Theyre mutated house pigs.
I want 1000 things the game hasn't told me
1:10 I keep seeing in different videos that the stash is a tip? Are ppl really that oblivious to the only highlighted container next to a shop/bed?
Recent nvidia driver update smoothened my experience substantially.. but I just can’t get into the game overall!
I can see the appeal, but just can’t get into it man! The story just isn’t gripping me, at all. Seems like one of those stories that ramps up mid way though, so I’ll push through 😢
@@SILVER_JP this game isn't much about story. Never has been. It's there. But the real game comes from the world. Just experience it for everything it can offer.
@ yeah not usually my type of game, but reviews I watched spoke highly of the story, when it comes together.
I’ll probably give it a miss if the story is lacking, as that’s my main interest when it comes to gaming now.
*Story, gameplay, characters.. 🙏
@Nion8six I'd agree here, its worth pushing through.
@@jumblestiltskin1365 🙏 yeah
the enemies hp levels are outrageous. not realistic nor fun. thank god there r mods that fix it
Ppl one shot on hardest mode. Veteran. Learn to aim. Also if u can aim, guns and ammo types matter. Use a shotty like the toz for mutants. Single shots in head for humans
Don't worry I am going to play this game 😊
What doesn't tell you is you need a 4090 to run it properly 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@Alberto-xw8vx It is ok with 4060 (1080p of course), but what you realy need is 32 gb ram because of memory leaks. At 16 gb it is playable for half an hour then needs a restart to get back the performance.
Playing on 3070 in 1440p med/high and almost always have around 60fps. Just be sure to check out "Optimized Tweaks" mod on nexus - its a gamechanger.
that's because you don't, it's been running on 1661ti on highs for 40+ hours for me
I don’t know why I’m just not fond of the game. I think it’s to me. It’s 142 GB savings space.
Mistake 1 buying the game.. all other mistakes pale in this comparison 😂😂😂
Dont make this mistake and buy it after two years
Another thing that they don't tell you is that there are invincible enemies who can't die and all you can do is die truly some bs and not realistic at all
the hardest enemy ive faced in the game so far is fall damage
Did you say "head detector"? What's that ?
Im dying to play but wanted to wait a few months first. I'm tired of buying a game at release and it being all fucked up
nice video!
which game's better? Stalker or Metro Exodus? they both seems so much alike!
Similar in a lot of ways, but different in just as many. The metro series is really good at making the world feel alive in the setpieces it has, though most of it is more linear (including exodus to a much lesser extent) Stalker 2 has a lot more post-apocalyptic space magic happening, but both have those sorts of themes to some extent. However, stalker also has a lot of very scary moments that are much harder to expect (though oftentimes that's because the air itself or invisible enemies can jumpscare you). I also found the story in metro to be incredibly engaging, but that's in large part due to a fantastic writer
@ wow thank you for the detailed explanation my dear friend!
@glentaker metro is a great game series, well worth playing. Exodus, the most recent is particularly good. It'll be in fine condition now also after a few years of patches.
Metro developer are ex gsc crew. After stalker call of prypyat they split up. Metro choose to be more arcade, like call of duty, while stalker more to role playing and tactical. Personally I like stalker more.
Personally I Like Metro better but only bc the performance is better atm and the crafting system is peak. But I still LOOOVE S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
IGN doesn't tell you how they rate the game
Boys, is A-Life 2.0 really that busted and just spawns enemies like in FarCry and what not? Huge disappointment if so…
IGN: “Things the game doesn’t tell you! You can save scum in a game with manual saves!”
IGN’s audience: 🤯🤯🤯🤯
My game goes down to like 2 FPS every 30 seconds or if i interact with any item.
Mistake 1: Buying this right now.