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I totally agree about the divide. I started playing STALKER on the day it released (bugs and all) but have always viewed it as an experience of being “in the zone” (as in the Tarkovsky film) where you can savour the environment.
What you mentioned made me think of STALKER Gamma where by everything was torturous like weapons that broke after every shot and needed many hours to try and find parts to fix to the extent that I stuck with the weapons I got at the start.
I totally get why people want it to be hard core but also we play games cos it’s fun - otherwise I might as well play a root canal simulator while filling in my tax return form!
I think the only game I did not play for fun was Half life Hazardous course 2 XD God I don't know how I did that.
I am thinking after this mayybe I just need to rework my; channel. Not do LP, but literally just 'challenge' shit ya put it like that and people get hard.
You do you girl, no one should dictate how others play a game, just do what you enjoy. But when making content for an audience, you'll always get the backseat gamers.
So very true, that always happens but in STALKER it feels the MOST prevalent which I think is interesting haha.
I watch your stalker stuff cos your commentary is funny. You have a really good way with words, don't sweat the geeky mechanics just enjoy playing & be yourself.
Glad you like! Mostly swear words
Apologies if I've ever come across as upset about your playstyle. If I disliked how you play I wouldn't be here. I typically play pretty carefully, but I know there's times when being aggressive or unpredictable or both can win the fight much faster than hiding behind cover. So you've definitely taught me a few things about disregarding safety to win.
I definitely enjoy the struggle of more hardcore games, and yeah there's definitely a sense of satisfaction from managing to overcome the really difficult challenges where you have to use everything and anything you can just to survive.
I'd say you're pretty badass, I've been impressed more than once with your tenacity. I get frustrated a bit too easily to keep slamming my head against the wall as long as you. I have to take a break or switch tactics.
As for duty vs Freedom, I'm definitely more of an anarchist than a loyalist, lol.
Lol oh no you are totally fine, you give me a lot of advice, and told me what the Daddy token was which I needed to know so bad XD
My frustration is always under-weighted to my desire to conquer. I just GOTTA it like when ya walk past rice and ya gotta smack it or ya know other things of the like ya just GOTTA haha
Hell yeah mean!
I play the same way. LOTS of random exploration and going into areas where your not supposed to be for a while and love games that allow you to do that. Or kill NPC's that break the quest line (Bethesda LOVES to make annoying people unlikable😡) etc. I go back though and do different style playthroughs as well. One of my partners bounces around like a puppy straight into anomalies and such and that annoys me, but just do what makes you happy. That's all that matters 😁
Oh man I can sympathize with ya partner. I run blindly into them a lot while checking my inventory XD
Hit the nail on the head with how divided the community is when it comes to dictating how everyone should enjoy a 15-year old game series that's been bastardized six ways to Sunday. I've never once thought of the Duty - Freedom comparison for the community but it's actually scarily accurate hahaha.
Definitely a Freedomer here. I was always a fan of Call of Chernobyl and STALKER Complete before the rise of Anomaly, and even gave both of those a playthrough about four years back just for the hell of it. People hated that I wanted to go and play those older modpacks due to "better" ones existing. Any time I bring up what weapon packs I'm running, what shaders I use, my overall gameplay/world settings, etc etc etc people just whine that they're the wrong ones. I personally feel that the best way to play Anomaly in particular is to just let it FLOW, and not just try to rush through it all to get to the Wish Granter or accomplish one big specific goal, as it ruins the feeling of the living, persistent world and replayability that Anomaly has.
Even a good chunk of the STALKER content creators I've interacted with act entitled because they play Anomaly the "right way", that usually being GAMMA or EFT with some boring weapon packs, mediocre animations, and other visual and cosmetic mods that just seem way too clean for stuff that would be found in the Zone. I personally despise both GAMMA and EFT for the needlessly complicated (and frankly boring) mechanics and the out-of-place UI and health system they add, respectively. Don't even get me started on the Ironman purists LOL. If you want to keep dying every 15 minutes and starting over without experiencing the great moments and amazing long-term progression that Anomaly can bring, you do you. I'll just be here smoking doobies and listening to reggae.
See I can't even do Ironman cuz of that! Like people think I am insane but that is just like a TOTALLL Waste to me! To those who do it though power to them! If they like it and want that hardddcore challenge fuck yeah but nah man I can't have the patience for THAT.
It is an interesting STALKER world but MAYBE once the new game is out all the vets will unite
Here's a challenge (done in Oblivion Lost 2010) that can't be done in Anomaly since it doesn't allow dodging pseudostomps with timed jumps.
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I think you can dodge pseudostomps in GAMMA, so as long it still has a spawn menu/debug mode like standard-issue Anomaly, this challenge would be possible in GAMMA-go-nuts.
I'm a play as you want kind of person, but I think I understand. When you know an absolute ton about something and really love it, it's hard not to try and step in. Just like someone watching their favorite movie with you saying oh watch this part, this is hilarious! Like yeah I'm watching the movie, how about you shut it. People don't know when to sit back and not say something when they're passionate, that extends to everything, games, movies, home improvement projects, literally anything people love. It's a lesson everyone needs to learn including myself, when to shut up.
Good way to put it that is very true. Hard to fight back the let me show ya how it done mentality or something of that nature.
I've been watching since Metro 10 years ago. Play as you like, it's always entertaining, sometimes funny AF, on occasions you have made me eject my drink out of my nose when you have a jump scare and squeal, but I always watch when you upload 🙂🙂
Glad you enjoy man! GOtta love the game can still scare the shit out of you. Half the time it is enemies flanking you silently.
The power of S is the freedom. The game doesn't even have character and skill progression. It's insane how much freedom it gives in achieving it's goals. It's genius. Thanks for the great rant.
Great Video, thanks for the upload! Freedom!
Salutations
I think it's different routes for one goal : pleasure.
Some find pleasure into following rules, choosing the better way, etc. Others find pleasure by "YOLO" it. The former look to find pleasure before (the preparation phase is the crucial point in overcoming the obstacles to the end): the completion of the task is the end to the meaning . The second look to find pleasure after (the overcoming sensation is the goal, the end, no matter what): the completion of the task is the meaning of the end.....or maybe the former are controlling-freaks, and the second impatient reckless !
Anyhow, it's all about pleasure. No right or wrong way of attaining it. It's not like it's a moral issue, isn't it !
Take care, Taryn.
Oh I do like how you put it because that is so true. I do not VALUE almost ANY setup stage in ANYGAME. I will skip tutorials and hit the ground going. The set up is wasting time (to an extent in my eyes), it isn't the mission, it isn't the action, it is not part of the drive. It is just the means. I am very much when I GET there I will assess the situation and then make a plan, route based on what is going on. I got SOOOOO annoyed the other day doing a mission in a game with another dude who took 20 fucking minutes to set up their kit! Bro I was done in less than 5 I was like WTF are you doing just grab some shit and lets goooooooooooooooooooo fuck
Nah, fuck the gate keeping. You play Stalker the way you want to play it. That's part of the beauty of gaming.
You do your thing. Game is a sandbox play the way you want to play
Having gone through gamma hard/surv blind i'd say there are definitely some "tiers" and milestones than can make the experience less of a quickload 56 times or a "bruh you ate 137 bullets in the head...just kewl over and give up on life". That being said thinking like a robot unfun the game, part of the joy ride is discovering things, stronger opponents and beating them with what youv'e got. I'd say walking the middle road here could be the most fun option as having at least on par equipment can substantially make the game less frustrating as you move north in the zone. There's also no reason to not do something crazy, if it's fun it's worth doing it(in a videogame ofc).
Good point, a middle ground really wouldn't be a bad idea. I honestly been thinking of restructuring.
"The Way of the Samurai is one of immediacy, and it is best to dash in headlong." This is why your power should be feared.
I keep forgetting to get a copy of Hagakure, so I have to go back to Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai by Jim Jarmusch. I love that movie.
I like the way you think! I'll keep you for sure!
Love you. @@WTFSexyHeadphones
I'm a "man of balance." SVOBODOLG! I don't think I'd make it in a real-world Duty faction. I'm more like the character "Guide" from 'Shadow of Chernobyl'. Btw, some of the principles you discuss are also applicable to the Borderlands games, especially the first one.
4:03 It might not be that, per se'. It's more that they've already experienced it, so from their point of view, they're trying to give you pointers on how to make tough tasks less of a hassle so you can have more fun (of course, to some, figuring out that stuff is part of the fun, but that's also why some have fun explaining it to others, hopefully in a strategy guide sort of way). One thing I figured out on my first character in Anomaly was that I might encounter a chimera or a pseudogiant at any moment, so I'd better get muh mitts on a grenade launcher and some 40-mils as quickly as I can manage. My first character was an ecologist who I named "Hound." Very first time I ventured from Yantar, I encountered a chimera in the Wild Territory. Had to rely on a merc to fight it, but it killed him to Deth. He landed at least one shot with his bolt-action NATO sniper rifle, though. I had a Glock, a Kiparis, and a sawed-off TOZ-66. Managed to take down the chimera, but it took everything I had. Didn't want a repeat of that, so I figured out an equipment-gathering strategy that I used on the next character I built (Squid the loner) and it worked.
4:57 For some us, using strategy to match the right weapons and equipment to differing scenarios is a fun challenge. Think of it as creative problem solving. Here's an example: ua-cam.com/video/H9ShD3p_ThQ/v-deo.html
6:08 Here's a fun challenge (also a cathartic way to deal with chimeras):
GP-25: ua-cam.com/video/-UkZCRU6PtU/v-deo.html
M-203: ua-cam.com/video/yUcNLvXAXL0/v-deo.html
6:30 🙃 ua-cam.com/video/JroSZsZlqhc/v-deo.html
7:43 Not everyone's a masochist. Some of us like to do the MegaMan thing where we find just the right weapon for each enemy.
7:54 Ironically, some of those Gatekeepers probably see themselves as Keymasters, offering the "key" to a method of accomplishing a task you might not have thought of. That's one reason why those of us who enjoy-joy watching other people play games like this sort of thing. For one, it offers a venue for sharing ideas between players and viewers (or between viewers in chat). For two, the viewer can garner ideas from the player they're watching. I used to watch a lot of Borderlands 1 streams, and I noticed that a lot of people who started out with Borderlands 2 had a hard time when they tried to get into BL1. So I'd do my Alphys thing (with my knowledge, I can safely "Gaide" you through blah, blah, blah). And they were really appreciative! I even joined in with one group, taking the role of their Brick (the Tank character). They were led by Cheetah13. I taught them how to match their level to missions and side quests. By that, I mean how close to the level of the mission-quest-thing you should be. You can't beat Headstone Mine if you're Lv.13 and have nothing but Lv.7 or lower weapons and gear. That's not just masochistic. That's futile. I also taught them how to streamline their loadout and match tools to the task. So I guess that's kind of a Duty-like mindset. But if I'm a Gatekeeper, I'd like to think that I'm a Lawful Good one, but I see myself as more of a Keymaster.
Note: Technically, my D&D alignment is Neutral Good with Lawful tendencies. And I'm a Hufflepuff. >///w///<
8:31 Roleplay as Jason Voorhees! ua-cam.com/video/htdckal0v28/v-deo.html
8:46 Or strategist versus tactician. You're more of a tactician. I'm a logistics guy, so I like to facilitate both. Another archetypal comparison would be Michelangelo versus Donatello. Or "party guy" versus "problem solver." Again, a person of balance would have elements of both. Among muh friends IRL, though, I'm known to be much more of a Mikey type person. 😁
9:15 Just like in the games, I get along with both Freedom and Duty. I like to see people succeed, but I also like to see them have fun. Hufflepuff, represent! Also, I like to have as many trading partners as possible, and I'm satisfied only doing battle with Monolith (as above...) and bandits (...so below).
10:36 No, but I do recognize that a zoner's toolbox should contain tools that are up to the task at hand, whatever that might be. If that requires recon first to assess a situation, well, that falls within the purview of strategy (information gathering). That reminds me, another archetypal example that fits this argument is the characters from 'Tremors'. You're a Val, whereas I'm a Burt. You think on your feet and adapt to the situation, whereas I like to plan and strategize. An effective team should have both elements. What's your Hogwarts house, btw? I get you're a Gryffindor. Technically, I'm a Huffleclaw (Hufflepuff first, Ravenclaw second).
Took me a hot minute to get to this one.
Gunna touch on the KEY(master hehe) points. Feels like most ultimately comes down to what ya mentioned in the last paragraph. Some are Val, some are Burt (great reference!), some like to plan out and be prepared and ready, others are going to adapt to the situation and ride it out. Both would indeed be great to have, sadly the zone be a solo show and that just leaves me Valing it up like a psychopath with not as much charm XD. I rarely have the mind to sit down and strat, one of my buds I play games with often has the patience's of a saint. He will tell me to do a tutorial or warm up/practice before a certain game and I just like no. Jumped into a game like "Space Tarkov" skipping the entire tutorial just landed on the planet like...hmm what can I do nowwww. I just CANT take the time, I CANT it kills me inside to slow down I am like...I can figure it out as I go. I can get it done. If anything you should fucking Zone challenge me with some example of a run that is like 'tactical or logistic' and it would be the most annoying thing to me. I'd struggle I think or just be like -_-
As far as gatekeeper vs keymaster as you say, I see what ya mean. I got a dude who gives me a lot of advice on my videos and I don't see him as a gatekeeper but as you would say a keymaster. He gives me a lot of advice on shit I just didn't know with my recent playthrough it helps a lot. IN this I am talking about the people who just are telling you you are completely wrong for your play choice. Like brah I am still getting mission complete so how am I wrong?! XD
As for the potter stuff, I liked the movies never delved further than that and I don't follow it much. So if I recall Ravenclaw is like nerdy brains yeah? Or something? Idk shit about them honestly. Slithern are like dicks, and, Grydor be like your normal people who just idk chill and follow the straight path. Then Jifflypuff be like...idk squishy push overs? With my amazing knowledge I'd put myself between the gry-slith. :D Probs more the former.
@@WTFSexyHeadphones I really like how Toby Fox illustrates this exact sort of thing in Undertale and Deltarune. I'm definitely an Alphys/Ralsei type person.
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Lol I had a few veterans tell me they didn't like that I jumped into Gamma as my first stalker game without doing the trilogy or vanilla anomaly first. I am literally learning as I go and loving it.
I play STALKER the way I want, as I do with any other survival game be it Sp or, MP. You play like you want to and don't worry about comments and unneeded advice unless, you're looking/asking for it. I played all 3 of them from start to finish on Veteran mode and had no idea about what I was to do next. I just went in and chose the missions for/from whomever, at my pace, not anyone else's. Save, save, save, that's the best advice anyone can give you. You can always go back to an earlier save and do the mission that are so-called, failed mission, because you were too involved in another mission...trying to complete it. When you go back, you will do that mission and the rest, to continue what has already been done so, you know what's happening and you then, get to experience it in a different direction and strategy.
By-the-way, you look great! 😘🥰🙃
Hey man thanks! Oh man I really hate failing missions I can't tell you how much I do! In my most recent recording of GAMMA, I was got back to Cordon and was like OKAY I am going to chill in Cordon and do some small stuff so I can regain a bit of money. I get a mission to find some asshole in the Swamps. I go to sleep through the night cuz I don't have a headlamp, and the mission fails. SHIT! I go back to prior to sleeping and am like...I have no choice...I have to go into the swamps in the dark to find this guy...and that is what I did....I haven't made it out yet....ugh.
@@WTFSexyHeadphones That's the mission where that crazy Stalker is hiding in some sort of fishing hut? Yes, it's a night time mission.
He isn't in a hut he is like by some concrete and shit. Mission was like we lost our scout north swamps he has to be by the road. So I started at the very top and just kinda started trailing down and he was off to the side surrounded by fucking bloodsuckers! @@HfknK
@@WTFSexyHeadphones This must be in the Anomaly mod then. Never played it but, the Stalker I was talking about was in vanilla. My bad. Maybe I'm wrong, altogether, idk.
OHHH mb then don't listen to me! nah ignore me I def get things like vanilla and mods confused all the time! I got the brain of a squirrel @@HfknK
Challenge runs would be cool to see honestly in stalker and something I hope to see in the future. I myself started a series where I was trying to do an anomaly run in hardcore aim with autosaves only. I still hope to do a series like that at some point
I was thinking of doing some challenge stuff again. Most of my 'challenge' shit is just how I play in general, I make it a bigger challenge. HOWEVER people only really like it if you brand it that way and shorten it up it would seem.
Fuck only auto saves though shittttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt.
@@WTFSexyHeadphones I found it made the playthrough pretty wild, but it made some parts way more difficult. Might work better for a short series
I had too many hdd issues at the time to complete the series and lost that save.
Ooff yeah that is the killer is how stale will the game stay? A common issue in stalker. One of my LPs of MISERY I was at the VERY end of my LP, in the Kindergarten. The game kept crashing when I went to save the dude in the locker or whatever he was in. I hit up the MISERY dev team. They give me a fix for it but it will ruin all of my saves. I literally have to start from the beginning when I am almost at the very end of my Let's Play. XDDD Ohhhh man stalker had a WEIRD way of punishing you. @@intecrisis
Zone Sportsmanship Challenge: ua-cam.com/play/PL3C86UcPO_CbvCM12VhBB_lSJRCc5gKsr.html
Roleplaying as TF2 characters: ua-cam.com/play/PL3C86UcPO_CaR8y3uza2vtESUyvBkhm8z.html
Whatever you call this sort of thing: ua-cam.com/play/PL3C86UcPO_CaBJcNhVEyGmMW0xz8b4VGY.html
Or it could be like allegiance runs in Borderlands. In the Zone, that would translate into choosing a specific nationality or manufacturer for you weapons (for example, German weapons only or FN-made weapons only). As for armor, you can only wear armors of your faction. Or you can be more style-based, like only using weapons that have wood stocks (and knives and axes with wood grips) and can only wear armors that are green or have a camo pattern. Or you can only use weapons chambered for calibers in the 7.62 family (7.62x25, 7.62x39, 7.62x51, 7.62x54, etc.).
I will say, I can get frustrated when people put down the game due to the "percieved difficulty" instead of finding how to advance, as the beginning grind is the hardest part of stalker. I have a few friends who are just getting into stalker getting stuck at beginning because it seems like such a hump to them.
I say as long as you're playing that's a win. The only way to lose is not play.
I myself am playing stalker lost alpha extended on master with only stalker jacket and gasmask, and beating the karliks and controller in bandit mine was literally a nightmare. If I had a proper suit (and nvgs like I was supposed to buy for night mission) it wouldn't be so hard, but I know I am going to keep going.
It can be frustrating to see someone struggling and then giving up, because they don't know there is a better way, but as long as you're pushing forward I don't see the issue.
My opinion on gatekeeping in general is, as long as you play and don't limit yourself (grok is wrong about gamma/anomaly being the only active stalker community or mod out there) its fine. Play anomaly first, if you want, how you want, as long as you use it as a stepping stone to get into the rest of series, wherever you start.
Very nicely put man! I don't like to lose out to 'difficulty' I like to push forward based on just seeing if it can be done.
Granted I should get a little more middle ground as another person mentioned and I get that. If i can't progress then I will give in but I usually tend to be able to progress some way or another ^^
Keep it up 🖤
I shall!
In my game, Maplestory, I used to my Lv18 to fight LV 60 monster. I was levelling so fast. Maplestory was fucking stupid to lesser reduce the exp gain because of more than 10 level player Vs monster level. Another old MMORPG, CABAL, whenever we go to a new map, go straight to the furthest corner where the highest level monster are, a challenge but it feels great because we are getting good exp. I think CABAL didn't do the stupid reduction exp of player Vs monster level, we were given more freedom to kill on whatever monster
That is definitely also my hope! Now Anomaly and Gamma unfortunately don't give you much reward for going further than you should be so to speak. You get better weapons but they are also broken to pieces. Never the less I am like, if I kill these higher up guys they are bound to have better things and if I can overcome them it will be great! Usually in STALKER they still have some better stuff but everything can be broken.
I play it regular way (crafting, weapon repairing, armor, ammo and weapon scavenging) but I don't give a damn how everyone else is playing it
Everyone, be more like dreixler, plays the opposite, doesn't give a fuck!
I just fully heartedly lack the patience for that part. I LOVE scavenging, don't like crafting, repairing, that mess.
Russian language stalker community has one mega mod called Cumulative Pack 2, Cumulative Pack 2.2 in now days, but difference is huge between those. Mod has anti cheat system, if player adds some tweaks with game data folder mod flags save files with red words "save is made in developer mode". If player goes in mod support page with flagged save files, mod creators goes a bit sad for that. Just for feeling, one play through takes at least 1k hours. Everybody loves that mod and everybody hates it. Watching how people go hot headed with some anomaly mod makes me shrug. Sorry if somebody gets hurt abut my comment, just not played anomaly yet, maybe it's a great mod and has own good challenges. Stalker modding community is big like galaxy, where every star is a different mod.
I think I heard of that and maybe even was told to try it, but of course everything in a language I can not speak would make things harder in other ways. Not that i probably need to fully understand what is going on to at least get the missions but still. What a lot are mentioning is the hype around Anomaly and GAMMA, how many are shunning the classic experience now as a lesser one which is interesting to me.
@@WTFSexyHeadphones I have played Don't Starve Together 5k hours, mostly in public servers. Sleepless nights arguing about strategies updates, characters and players, even going on forums with that, getting ban. Stalker is oasis of peace for me. Even the craziest Russian mods are like the nicest buzzing in my ears. Seeing people with Duty characteristics telling another how to play stalker, leaves me with wide opened eyes. Is the same happening in Skyrim? Can single player community become salty? Now, I remember when DST in the past was sp. People in forums were like freedom guys. Helping with good advice, helping with modding and code. Always running like sprinters just for help, just ask the word! When online came in, well, I got ban because got taunted all time. Being try hard in stalker ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@WTFSexyHeadphones op -2.2 cumulative pack 2.2 is available in English, but I don't know about UA-cam guides in ENG. Never saw one.
I feel you are the Miles Morales from Spiderman Across the spider verse. You are super wicked cool. A good game should offer different ways to play the game. It is okay to be an anomaly. Be a Miles Morales. Go save Uncle Ben. Go save your Captain police father.
Beautiful I love it man!
Been playing the games and mods since release.. And I swear. Everyone keeps sucking up to the GAMMA mod and as soon as you have slight criticism to the setup and features that it forces by default.. They immediately try to belittle you and act as if they are superior somehow and telling me how I'm and idiot and I won't get the "true" stalker experience while most of them haven't even played all of the games or any other mods and can't comprehend how life, guns, mechanics actually work (since I'm personally looking for the hardcore immersive, realistic and gritty feel). Seems like it's just a lot of people parroting stuff they hear from some streamers or friends. Because when you actually start talking with them, you find out that they don't know that much. And then when the cover is blown they try to throw you some insults and run away.
So.. Long story short. I'd add one more and call those people the Monolith.. Braindead shells who formed a cult and keep fighting you no matter what you may think or say. :D
Heh Monolith.
That is another very good point It kind of makes me think of the old 'you're not a real gamer...' debate. Like if you play only say Nintendo you are not a real gamer. This stuff is you are not a real stalker unless you play what people consider to be the 'true' experience. Brah that true experience is vanilla with all the bugs! Hop to it! XD
OH man when I started my pure vanilla CoP PT I kept stressing PUREEEEEEEEEEE no mods and even then. Well I'd really recommend you at LEAST get this for weapons or whatever and it like NO what part of PUREEEEEEEEE do we not understand? It dead ass kills some stalkers that you don't do their way
I would say SIN. Monolith is just doing their own thing while SIN is actualy trying to lecture everybody how they're gonna save humanity.
Great points tho as a vet myself i fully agree. Especialy on the fact that most of them haven't played vanila games.
It does surprise me how many people haven't played the vanilla. I can't imagine not doing that first! @@damianstalker4266
Duty was Great.
All u do is Idiot but it works😅 at least and, I like when u yelling at fail over the time😅 so funny. But great job. 🎉 Yeey u made it in hard core way😅
Did u change hair color. Cool.
I not gunna lie I do love the duty base and the items man ya can't argue with the good shit! I just don't mentally do them haha
Yes I redyed it red!
I have not been able to touch anything stalker since the f-ing invasion but ...
This reminds me some "stupid hard" run of Lost Alpha where I was doing some gamebreaking stuff on purpose. IIRC I was breaking out of the x18 via texture clip and weapon throws (having done the "correct" sequence hundreds of times by that point) and some dude started commenting with sincere advice and how-to. Like - No shit, that's not how this should work, that's the whole point of my footage :D
Shit man I am really sorry to hear that, I hope you are doing okay!
Ya know, I wonder if what part of it is, stalker has been out so long, maybe everyone expects those who play it to ultimately 'know it' and do it that way. SO when someone does it differently perhaps their first thought is to think or assume the person never played and is new? No idea man it is wild! Speaking of the agroprom underground, after talking about it I was like..I need to go back and get that done. Just finished that part with a jacket and picking up guns along the way cuz I was running out of pistol ammo XD
Oh, quite okay, thank you :) (I live in Estonia.) Just anxious & stuff.
I don't blame you, you have good reason to be! I hope the best for everyone man! You guys keep being strong for you are all badasses! @@fafafabigben
Never had time to enjoy the more complex modes like Misery or Anomaly or whatever there is now, so I am in no pisition to judge. Which one should I try before Stalker 2 arrives?
Sooo this is going to be like a majority of the community will probably disagree with me, but if you don't have time for the big mods, MISERY. I say this because MISERY gives you a huge experience, but you are still doing CoP so you won't exactly get caught in an endlessness. That is I guess if you worry about completion or progress. If ya just wanna dick around...most say anomaly but as it stands I always been a misery fan.
For somethimg simpler i would suggest Gunslinger. It's still CoP but expanded on gunplay and mutants.
For freeroam and less complex than Anomaly i really recomand fenomenal Road to The North. (Mod requires CoP) IT expanding a lot on the feeling of the Zone and adds few cool survival mechanics but nowhere near as complex as GAMMA
you can play anomaly with the old world addon if you want a vanilla-ish experience with less bloat and all
Oh thank you for the recommendation. I got someone who was actually asking me about GAMMA and said they wanted to try it...but they struggled with Vanilla so I was like...no you can't try GAMMA XD They were like BUT IT IS SO PRETTTY lmao.
I'll pass this along thank you! @@damianstalker4266
Ohhh that sounds actually pretty cool! It would be interesting seeing a mix of the old and new! @@Sh0ckV
You do you, there is no ‘right way’ to play it. There is an ‘easier’ way to play it but if you want the difficulty do it with crappy gear.
(Or play Last Day 1.3, in which case it stays insanely difficult no matter how good your gear is 😎)
Ohh good way to put it, there is an easier way! Heck yeah.
Easy, play as you wish.
I prefer playing as the F5/F9 wouldn't exist, which means no stroll in the Red Forest with a leather jacket for me.
Oohh yeah very fair! Now I doubt I can do that with Gamma to be honest since it is campfire saves. Yet I am still trying to underground I think I can make that work haha
I mean anything is possible in the zone..
I'm a big misery fan and I remember how I did the facepalm while watching you clearing the merc camp with the starting rifle. But you figured it out in the end.
I pretty much regretted that once I fricking realized the lack of range that weapon had! God that made me so mad! @@matijakucek9998
It's only game. Why you have to be mad?
Is that a Zarya quote? Did you just Zarya quote me? XD
@SnifferRiffle I saw your comment via my email notification, youtube must have deleted it because you linked to another youtube video, so dumb XD
Thankfully the notification has the link in the email. That is awesome I did not know that, it is even better that video his tone is perfect.
I like to just kinda do shit. Usually when I plan a raid or something it goes tits up in about 5 seconds anyway so why not just be loose with it. I also still have no idea how the crafting and repair system works even tho theyve been in since like the misery days, Ive got no time for all that ill just take some broken ak and just rock with that till I can buy a new one. Also Exo wearers are tryhards
Yesss yess exactly! If I make a plan it isn't going to work ever, never. So I just freeball it because even when I Plan nothing goes as planned so I might as well adapt always.
That is the other thing too, I'm impatient, I get that it is best to do the repair and get everything, trust me, I love trying to get any money I can in stalker and picking up anything I can, but it does get too tedious after a long play
Sandbox much? My current anomaly guy is ecologist named ‘Bloody Tourist.’
Also, would you consider Contraband Police to be S.T.A.K.E.R. like?
I had to go look it up, has the look for sure lmao. Funny you concept being a checkpoint guy.
i play hardcore mods mostly but just scum save until i break the whole game engine
The way it should be XD n
Are you still doing OF's content?
Yep!
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And thus the best by the rules of the web
consider this: a lot of people that discoveder stalker in these years are just kids-grown kids that can't play a game without reading stuff or guides on the internet, even more if they're playing some hardcore modpacks like gamma
my advice is: fu.ck off these kids, just play the way you want, the zone will judge your playthrough, non these kids.
Another person did make that point, the younger gens want the quicker to the point content which mine is sooo opposite.
G.A.M.M.A. is amazing. One of the best first person, survival horror games out there. Best advice I can give? Play it how you want, but definitely keep an eye out for armor with high bullet defense and a helmet with good external rad resistance. I have over 400,000 RU and I'm still in Cordon. Building up armor and a good weapon is an amazing feeling. Zombies have a high chance of dropping medication and the defend the Barrier quest can have insane loot drops. Almost got an Apocalypse helm but got greedy and died before I finished the fight. Even if I have them, if I have the cash, I tend to buy extra medical supplies, and then use my spares to make Military grade meds. Tend to pick up 80-90% weapon and armor repair items as well and let them stack up. I'm currently on the road to Expert tools. Got a Ranger helm with 60% external rad resistance and a Hybrid Armor Suit waiting to get fixed. Good luck Stalker.
Nice thanks for the tips man! I am all for tips and stuff which some are not understanding here. I don't mind having some tips and taking what ones I like, but I am not gunna play the 'right' way.
I can't believe ya got that much and are in Cordon! How the hell do you have all that patience?! I'll have to keep that in mind about the zombies! That is good to know! Thanks man!
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To be fair I don't think it's a divide in the stalker community you are seeing, so much as the divide between people who play video games and the people who want to WATCH people play video games. People who want to play let everyone do their own, while people who want to be watches.. are looking to be entertained. Watching somebody beat their head against a near unwinnable scenario over and over again isn't entertaining to watch for most folks.
Hmm so what you are saying is, if I do me maybe I need to shorter it up when I take too long.
It's definitely the radiation 😂I've never seen Stalker as a yolo-ing friendly game but it does work nonetheless! The world isn't open enough for it, never really done mods that change the game that much but I know Stalker inside out and no matter what I've done I've always sort of followed the story. I've tried pistol only runs, they're very doable and not as tricky as one would think... I feel like sticking to NATO/Russian weapons is much tougher because of the ammo drops. But all in all, do whatever you want, I started doing those type of challenges because of how well I know the game and what's in certain areas. I mostly tend to remain a loner but if I need to choose a side I'll go more towards Duty. At the end of the day, have fun, try stuff, do whatever you want, it's your gameplay ☺
Total rad poisoning got me a long time ago man haha.
You got got great knowledge of this game so I can def see why you branch out the way you do!
мала не комплексуй, у кожного - своя Зона, у кожного - свій Сталкер, граю з 2007 року... )
саме за Свободою йдуть грати в цю гру, але з часом втомлюються і стають Обо'язком - нудним та зверхнім
Amen to that!
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Good hunting stalker ☺️👍
Dear Taryn,
at first I want to say You look stunning good today!
Second I want to apologize for my earlier comments. I was blind, I was foolish, I was dumb for judging Your playstile on the current Anomaly-Run. Yes, I commented like a retarded fool would do on a newbee. And yes, I am sorry for that. I simply forgot Your veteranstatus and Your right to free decide whatever the f**k You want to do in this greatest game of all times, at any time You like to. But let me explaine.
Like I told You before, after I played the three originals and fell deepp in love with the zone, it was You that later brought me into it again, by playing Misery. Wow, a nearly lifechanging experience! By the way thank You for stealing my life for several month - me only playing Misery. The outstanding micromanagement with gear, armour, medical devices, weapons, maintaining and all that stuff, sucked me so deep into the STALKER world, that I am still stuck in there today by playing GAMMA and EFP over and over again. Simply seems to be my unconditionally love for the game, that seduced me to talk that s**t to You.
WIth this Video You opened my eyes again for the countless possibilities and options the game has, to seek and find Your own challeging way to play and I really appreciate it.
Some weeks ago I had plenty of time and binge watched Your Videos on the channel from the very firts day one. It was so much fun to feel all those memorys again. Just want to say thank You for all Your good entertainement and as long as Your channel keeps running, I will be here too!
Love You, keep on going, sincerly Yours,
GringoCuleado
More stalkers should be more like freedom - play the game however you want with whatever mods you want. It's not like you playing the game in a way I never would is going to affect me and my gaming experience. I think it's just silly to dictate how to play the game to others.
You are just playing it in a diffrent way
I've watched you for a while and I am definitely on the side of Freedom after I played vanilla and got addicted to Misery mod.
Oh hell yeah man!
Constant elitistic arguing about "EFP/G.A.M.M.A. iS tHe PrOpEr ExPeRiEnCe" is what pushed me away from our community. THe whole point of Anomaly is to customize each of the playthrous to your individual needs (not even mentioning modpacks) even more so OPEN WORLD GAME! (Semi-open in case of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.)
I have 2 active playthroughs in both gamma and EFP and they are completly different in tearms of mods, settings and my own roleplay.
There is NO only one way to play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Altho Road to The North imo is The best depiction of the Zone itself (scary af)
Btw i love your comparisement to DUTY and FREEDOM. Fuck dudy! All they do is getting killed by dogs "deffending" Rostok lol
SVABODA!!
Yeah I always find it kind of interesting how our community is realistically really small, and yet part of it is so divided. Some are master vet gotta be like this or ya might as well be a rookie XD
The way I see it is, the game has been out so long you gotta just do things different to shake it up. A long time ago I played a BIT more carefully but man who needs that now!
@@WTFSexyHeadphones I bet a lot of these "specialists" only came after GAMMA got big and now they're pretending to be vets themselfs for comunity credits. At the end of the day each stalker is following it's own path through the Zone and you had been one of the biggest one in our community for a long time. So you just do you and ignore them.
I been hearing Anomaly and Gamma is what all are doing and nothing else. I get it is popular and really expands it, but I can't imagine not trying how it 'should' be in the basics. I ran through SoC multiple times in vanilla before hitting the mods! @@damianstalker4266
It's a game, play how you want. Now, is it frustrating to watch someone do everything the hard way? Sure. Are people free to not watch, or watch some other streamer that plays the way they would? Absolutely. You do what you want, they should do what they want, but telling other people how to live is fascist bullshit.
Clear Sky for life, yo!
I do like Clear sky but it gotta be Loner!
So true, the community loves giving advice and it is not always bad. Everyone wants to help, but some are like ya GOTTA be like this haha.