The zombies is actually creepy af. They are a brainwashed stalkers, that relieving their memories from before they became this, stuck in a loop from leftovers of a life and attack you against their own will. Their idle voice lines is just that dreadful. "A little bit left... To go. I'm just need... To find a way" "Daughter, dear, dad soon will be home" "Spring is coming soon. So warm. Just like at home." "Please, don't hurt me, dont, it hurts" "Blood, bleeding, i'm bleeding... Mommy" It's like the last stages of dementia, absolutely gutwrenching stuff. Beautiful game, even if it is a jankfest.
@@samvimes9510 no, no, you didn't get the point - it WASN'T translated. Like, the whole game was, but not the zombies' cries, so it's clearly something that was not intended neither by Valve nor by localisation teams. It just happens to be that reversed "AHHH, HELP ME GOD" sounds like russian "ЕБАТЬ, БЛЯЯЯЯ, АААААААА" (FUCK, SHIIIIT, AAHHHHH).
ALife works in mysterious, and unmedicated ways. The wheels really come off the wagon later in the game, after you're basically done with the system. If you backtrack before entering the final stretch, you'll see ALife going completely batshit insane in the earlier regions.
There is a resident blood sucker that spawns in that area with out a mission trigger. I traveled several times between yantar and the bar and he'll show up occasionally. If you drop into the radiation house to grab the high level armor in there, he'll spawn too.
I love how every weird moment in the Stalker, that would normaly broke the other game, feels like: It s a Zone man, weird shit is happenning all the time
Not really random. That's how all good jokes are made - thematic and "AHA" moment of experiments. The reward our brains get from "OOOOH I GET WHY IT'S RUSSIAN"
@@lordmontymord8701 It's not really that random, you're exaggerating. Probably because you never actually played it, just like most people who parrot memes from this franchise
@@johnhighway7399 And you are probably wrong, because i played all of the STALKER-games multiple times. But you are right, i'm exaggerating. Was really hard to see that, wasn't it?
I remember the X-16 laboratory, which I went through as a child when I played Stalker, then it seemed scary to me. I was still trying to shoot at this gigantic brain in jar, and it suddenly turned sharply in my direction.
Also - Civvie - the reason you "spraying" bullets doesn't work is because the bullets spread the more you spray them, indicated by the "Handling" stat (which literally means how "comfortable" or "handy" the weapon is to shoot) They even have drop off and bouncing off the floor ricochet mechachincs, so accurate 1 tap shots are just... better, as you've already seen.
I remember trying go trough Lab X16 without psi protection using whole bunch of high grade medikits, but I failed anyway after bunch of trials and deaths, was a lot of fun tho ;)
Hey, not all of them ran - there are smarter and not so smart zombies, just like regular humans 😁 Let's just assume they are learning like the ones from Day of the Dead, which is why they use guns.
Smh Civvie avoided one of the most horror-inducing scenes in Chernobyl, where Kruglov just runs straight through the anomaly tunnel bravely ramming fire streams with his glass faceplate and you just helplessly watch him and hope he won't die (tbh he wouldn't, his suit is really something.)
To be frank, civvie got very lucky... most of the time Krug likes to run straight into those mercs and get himself several ((hundred)) new go-faster holes in his body :/.... God I hated doing that bit lol LOTS of artifacts in that tunnel though, make thousands from it.
Just wait till powerplant to see some real shit. By the way, funny thing: that Duty squad at the farm, I don't think you get negative rep with Duty for killing them. If you go to the leader of Duty, he'll give you a quest to kill them, since they've gone rogue and acting against his orders. To reassure you I tell that you're at the point when guns are at the point where guns are getting good, with all that "being able to actually hit the target" functionality.
@@dimitar4y well, AK variants can be decently accurate. But only after you find a scope. And there's a noticeable bullet fall-off at a distance. But it's manageable, as long as you fire 1 or 2 bullets at a time while doublecrouching.
The Duty leader actually gives you a quest to infiltrate Freedom base and steal a greande launcher from them, and he gives you a permission to kill off the rogue Duty squad if necessary
05:46 this green goo anomaly was my favorite friend, in my version, i used to feed it with bodies i brought to it and it sometimes spawned artefact becouse of it. Good times, but now when i think about it, i had to be a weird kid to even come with this idea lol.
@@yosefyonin6824 It's an American Federal agency. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. There is a joke about them shooting people's dogs when they come to visit
You are getting better with the game! Now you crouch, lean and pre-fire everything that moves or seems like moving like a real Stalker. Btw, you missed the Ghosts corpse with the medical armour that will save you a lot of hassle in the future (its near the last Contoller in the lab) and also Gordon Freemans corpse in the Wild Territory with a nice PDA entry and the best pistol in the game. I recommend you to get them.
@@ChromeXk vintar is the mvp of the guns in this game, but at this stage there is too few ammo for it (if you are not g3n0c1ding the Duty), so NATO guns are more viable until the Radar. However, at this stage there is also SVD with the AK ammo mod if I'm not mistaken. It rules if you play safe and engage only from medium and long distances (so it's not for CV)
@@ChromeXk there are some people who prefer NATO guns and jerk off to FN-2000. But I always disliked the closed scope and how it handles. It just feels weird to shoot, I dunno why. Even the trc-301 which CV uses in this video feels better (even jumping out of hands like a freshly caught fish)
Civvie's Pro epsiodes represent an evolution of the let's play format. He's got us watching him play an entire video game but with clever editing, perfect cuts, witty dialogue, and an absolute mastery of situational framing. No one does it like this, and if they're trying, no one does it nearly as good. Now gimme more Petty Thief, pls and thx
Bro, between the last episode and this one, I've managed to play through every single STALKER game, as well as get married, have kids, become old, die, wake up to Vishnu looking at me, and subsequently waking up in time for this episode.
@@arithmetikmilitantpoetry9548 I'm playing G.A.M.M.A. right now, and let me tell you, the progression is fucking brutal. Traders don't sell suits or weapons anymore, so you can only obtain them by looting corpses or stashes. But hold up, gear looted from corpses/stashes is ALWAYS at like 10% condition or less, making it completely useless until you fix it up. So you find a mechanic, but hold up, the mechanics can only repair the item's overall condition, which no longer matters because suits and weapons now have parts which have their OWN condition bars, and mechanics can't repair these. So you need to repair the parts yourself using other items, or buy new parts in good condition, but hold up, you can't actually swap them out without toolkits (that is, the Basic, Fine and Calibration tools from Call of Pripyat). Can you buy these toolkits, or find them in specific locations? Fuck no, they spawn completely randomly in stashes, of course. And how do you get stashes? By completing tasks, looting PDAs from corpses, or just straight-up paying traders for stash locations. And remember, this is a complete lottery - you could find a toolkit in your very first stash, but you're just as likely to grind the game for hours, searching dozens of stashes, and not get a single one. But at least you can grind up money by collecting and selling artifacts so you can just buy stash locations until you get a toolkit, right? Of course not, silly, artifacts ALSO have condition bars now, and pretty much ALL of them spawn in low condition meaning you can't sell them. Apparently, you're supposed to buy a device called the "Artifact Melter" from Ecologists, which lets you literally melt artifacts together to increase their condition, and THEN you can sell them. But what if you can't afford it, or don't have the gear to survive long enough to reach either Yantar or Jupiter, which is the whole fucking reason why you want to grind artifacts in the first place? Well, then you're shit outta luck, and you simply don't GET to collect and sell artifacts even though that's the main reason why people trespass into the Zone in the first place. TL;DR: Just play vanilla Anomaly instead, or manually install a handful of addons that you like. Don't touch G.A.M.M.A. unless you're a seasoned S.T.A.L.K.E.R. veteran looking for a new, challenging experience, and/or want to suffer because pain is the only thing that makes you feel alive anymore.
One of the things I like best about STALKER is how it portrays a really underrated geographical setting (swampy marshy bog type of areas) and the sort of muckiness and grime of it all starts to rub off on you and harden you. And whoever made the lighting systems knew what they were doing to make some amazing mood lighting and settings. At times STALKER reminds me of the way German Expressionism/Batman The animated series "paints" with shadows.
Does anyone else realize that Civvie missed the Half-Life easter egg in a certain underpass near where you first meet the scientist being attacked by mercenaries? The pistols he gets from it are a *lot* better than his current peashooter.
Only like the best handgun in the entire Game(s) 😮 Luv the way recipients on the other end just f'kin CRUMPLE to hell Like it Breaks the shitty early 2000s ragdoll
Sniper rifles 1 tap enemies in this game. the reason civvie "spraying" bullets doesn't work out for him because the bullets spread the more you spray them, indicated by the "Handling" stat. They even have drop off and bouncing off the floor ricochet mechachincs, so accurate 1 tap shots are just... better, as you've already seen.@@21Malkavian
Starfield surprised me! After going through the full romance arc with Sarah, falling in love, doing the I love you. lines, hitting a bed like 100 times to her all her post-coitus innuendos, and then marrying her... I took her to the end of the game where you DO THE THING and her reaction was an utterly emotionless "Yeah, I suppose you would." with NO OTHER EMOTION WHATSOEVER you would think during ending thing the love of your life who constantly spouts how happy you make her, who you have said to her face you're spending the rest of your life with her, WHEN YOU DO THE MARRIAGE THE BETHESDA TEXT IS [COMMITMENT] next to the option, might be a bit more incensed during THE THING. I would have at least expected a blub.
After the original ending of the third Fallout, when you have to choose which of the heroes will die from radiation, while there is a companion super mutant, immune to radiation, and when you offer him to go he says something like "No, I think you have to make this choice, it's your fate..." - I don't have a lot of faith in Bethesda's narrative abilities.
@@LargenirGK Also a ghoul, also a robot, also a literal slave. All of which you couldn't send to do the job. Yeah, Bethesda has narrative and character consistency issues.
Yeah, the dog horde's a bug with area repopulation. NPCs spawn in certain locations and have to physically travel to their destination, often on the other side of maps. Wild Territory and Agroprom are especially notorious for spawning giant hordes of hostile NPCs. Shotgun and grenades make short work of dogs, though you need to be mindful to the Duty camp that's set up nearby, angering Duty or Freedom makes the game basically unplayable.
@@GhoulRUSva depending on when you decide to visit an area, it can happen. If you do like civvie did and leave Yantar when Wild Territory is repopulating after you depopulated it and switching from "scripted events to aLife events" you get the horde of dogs.
The funny thing is that the quest where you got attacked by a swarm of dogs even though killing the lone one completed the mission, maybe that was a bug or maybe it was not. In STALKER you can never be quite sure.
@@НиколайБубнов-ч4х One that even trancends space and time ... the death count of over 12.000 Stalkers was probably right, the game counted kills from Civvies all over the Multiverse.
Magical. I've played this game once a year, every year since it was released and seeing it through the fresh eyes of someone I don't detest is the vicarious love-in I've needed for at least a decade. I will say tho, you have run into a few of the rarest bugs I know about. Shit I've seen maybe 2 or 3 times since 2007. Lucky guy. The mass spawn of critters that are meant to run off and repopulate the map is a common one though, hilarious, but in some maps it's a real issue.
I always loved the sections in all S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games where you work with scientists and delve in strange places and laboratories. Seeing how different these places were in the beta (especially the bar and lake yantar) through the Oblivion Lost Remake mod was really refreshing!
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is eternal. Years goes by and still nothing compares. From OG games i like Clear Sky the most (also probably my favourite game of all times in terms of visuals), and overall i love Anomaly and Lost Alpha the most.
12:33 Ah yes. The A-Life is what drew me into loving the stalker series. The way the AI interacts with the world around them was always awesome. I've sat there watching mutants drag off fresh kills to be eaten.
Great video as always, mate...!! You know that you're one of only two content creators on UA-cam that is actually entertaining, informative and hilarious. Most have one or two of those qualities, but not all three. Please keep doing what you're doing, my friend...!!
RE: The Series; Excellent idea for a longer-form treatment of the classic, unmodded STALKER. IMO, it's probably the finest computer game of its type from its period, and it was up against stiff competition. Notice just how much it resembles something Bethesda might have conceived but never ever delivered on, and while it has RPG elements it ends up being more about understanding the underlying Jank of the in-game universe. The next time you play through, you'll notice a big difference during the opening acts as you make your way to the Barkeep for the first time (again). Couple of quick items I'm a little surprised about. Item: No mention yet about the ambitious level design, taking whole square kilometers of real-world geography and stitching them together with loading screens, mostly without breaking the illusion too much. The Zone is what the film "Stalker" called it; the game devs decided on putting the center of the Zone in Chernobyl. And Item: for some reason, I remember Strelok's gun having an integrated sight (and I checked the wikis to see that was a false memory) and also being buffed against damage from use. Downside: there are better guns firing better ammunition, as you've revealed.
"Is Civvie dangerous in STALKER?" "You mean in comparison to the nuclear event that created the Zone? The Bubonic Plague? I don't know, ask 12 thousand dead Stalkers..." 😂
There is a sneaky way to steal the documents from the military base, where you sneak into the base at night and find most of the guards sleeping while only two of them are on guard. Obviously Civvie didn´t knew that way. ^^
I love how, in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., an enemy can get you with one burst of rifle fire to your torso, but you can put multiple perfectly accurate rounds into an enemy's head to no apparent effect. What are their skulls made of?!
I hope Civvie does STALKER: Call of Pripyat sometime down the road. While still janky as fuck, it fixed a lot of issues with vanilla STALKER. I wrote the series off, until I found myself in Afghanistan with a potato for a laptop. The midget in the Ghazni bazaar actually recommended Call of Pripyat to me, and sold it to me on a blank CD-R with "Stalking COP" written on it. To this day, one of the best purchases I ever made.
Ah, I see you've used my favourite part of the Wild Territory - the pipe highway. I always enjoyed Jantar and its atmosphere, but getting in and out to Bar was my least favourite part, mainly because everything respawned upon each visit. The pipes were the MVP, allowing for quicker routing and ignoring most of the aggressive fauna. Good times.
2:44 You can wait till 24-00 or 1-00 (time) something, sneak through minefield left of the outpost, jump through window, quietly grab the box and sneak out with no firefight. Easy. As always, great video Civvie.
This is about as far as I ever got in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. so thank you for this series. If nothing else, this game got me into Tarkovsky and the Strugatsky brothers.
Man, you've really gotten the vibe of the game now so far. Also, I know it's your first and blind playthrough, Civvie, but I just want to say one thing: right in the tunnels where you ended the video, you can find a Stalker's corpse. Keep looting and quick save-loading till you get a stash location notification that says something like "Fang's Stash" or something (don't remember the exact words lol). The stash points to a grave in Pripyat that has a special Exoskeleton. Might help you out in late-game in Pripyat and onwards.
Couple things that I absolutely must say, even despite the desire to play completely blind. - There are hotkey bindings in the options menu to quickly use medkits and bandages. [ and ] by default. - You can right-click guns to unload them, good to strip ammo from fallen enemies' weapons.
My single greatest moment in the STALKER series was the third or fourth time I made the trip from the mobile lab back to the bar. My own megapack of dogs came over the hill beside me right as I was approaching the burner anomaly maze. I fired off a couple shots, and then a hasty calculation about costs and resources lead me to turn and *sprint* into the invisible death maze instead. I ran the first 10 meters of the maze purely by memory, then turned to see a couple charred doggo corpses and the rest of the pack turning to flee. Victory over the Zone through knowledge of the Zone. It was a perfect little procedural moment.
Skulls duty squad at the army warehouses actually does not lower faction reputation, they effectively have ignored their truce and the orders of their leader so there is no penalty for killing them. Obviously too late to do much about it but useful tidbit.
Regarding the military outpost and stealing the docs. You can sneak in if you hug the left most boundary fence and use a fallen tree to hop the outpost perimeter fence. If you go in at night most guards will be asleep and you can legit sneak in through a room of snoring grunts and steal the docs. It's like the one true example of a stealth mission in STALKER. But normally a single guard will spot you as you sneak into the barracks and all hell breaks loose. Good times.
re: 11:30 : NPCs have access to invisible 'ladders' that help them move above areas the player has access to. It gets more obvious in later areas. If you manage to catch it on the binoculars, it looks like the character is just moving vertically for no discernable reason until they reach the end of the 'ladder' and then resume activity as normal after they reach their destination.
When a sniper is on a high position that no obvious way or ladder leads to, I'd presume they did a maneuver called "climbing". One of the most useful skills for a sniper.
Finally!! 3 episodes and 15 minutes in, and CV has learned the Rat strategy! ive done this on pretty much every mission in stalker, works like a charm every time.
Hay hay it's Stalker in the morning with Civvie! Don't touch that dial! Only on 1.11 AM. *Random radio sound effects such as honking, a burp, and a bart Simpson quote*
2:10 Monolith hates the player (and every other faction) by default in all three games and there is no way to improve the reputation. The only exception to this is in the third game where a small squad of Monolith will be neutral to the player and their leader will ask you to help them get into the area's central hub. The player can ask either Duty or Freedom (whichever you have better reputation with) to let them join their faction. This side mission is important as the squad's leader will be useful to the player during the story mission in which you get to Pripyat.
Ah the dog swarm right outside the bar. I have died to that horde at least 8 times. You can't really grenade them reliably either because they are way too quick and also, the grenade can bounce off of them and back at you. I've never considered using an RPG on them though.
12:34- Ha! That's the game's "A-Life" AI system, where wild animals would actually drag corpses off and eat them. I was pretty gobsmacked the first time I saw it happen (and also pretty dead, since it was my corpse). The devs bragged that they had to rein in the AI because NPCs would actually beat the game before the player could.
To everybody saying he missed this or that collectible, pickup, legendary gear, secret stash or body.. his playthru might just be bugged to hell and back; to a point where he never doesnt even know what he's missing. In short: exactly what makes Stalker so damn replayable 😅
What a cool gameplay! I really like the fact, when you didn't feel like fighting more zombie, you left the Yantar area and went to chill with the boys. No forced gameplay; just vibes, and jank
This is basically the first thing you can do in the game once you get a pistol from Wolf - I like to kite the military guys from safe distance so they eventually reach the noob village. Usually not all of them come, but thats fine. Once the noobs and military notice each other - boy its on. And if you are quick and lucky, the noobs actually survive the shootening.
Just for reference, in Clear Sky, the sequel, gunplay feels much more substantial and your bullets feel like they actually hit their target. I still love this game.
This games locations are almost identical to the area where i grew up, some of my fondest memories were when we got the boys together and went explorin and playin and talkin, very nostalgic game
Fun fact: The reason you were able to drop that snork with one shot was because he was minding his business and you're a heartless monster.
#justiceforsnork
The zombies is actually creepy af. They are a brainwashed stalkers, that relieving their memories from before they became this, stuck in a loop from leftovers of a life and attack you against their own will. Their idle voice lines is just that dreadful.
"A little bit left... To go. I'm just need... To find a way"
"Daughter, dear, dad soon will be home"
"Spring is coming soon. So warm. Just like at home."
"Please, don't hurt me, dont, it hurts"
"Blood, bleeding, i'm bleeding... Mommy"
It's like the last stages of dementia, absolutely gutwrenching stuff.
Beautiful game, even if it is a jankfest.
Damn, I didn't know that's what they are saying. That is utterly creepy. STALKER was a good game, there was so much soul in it.
Same vibes as the headcrab zombies in Half Life 2. I was greatly disturbed when I found out they're screaming "oh god help, help me!" backwards.
@@samvimes9510headcrab zombies are really different for me, 'cuz in russian the stuff they say is really similiar to "AH SHIT, OH FUCK".
@@stardy316 wait really? that's a lame translation, takes the horror right out of it.
@@samvimes9510 no, no, you didn't get the point - it WASN'T translated. Like, the whole game was, but not the zombies' cries, so it's clearly something that was not intended neither by Valve nor by localisation teams. It just happens to be that reversed "AHHH, HELP ME GOD" sounds like russian "ЕБАТЬ, БЛЯЯЯЯ, АААААААА" (FUCK, SHIIIIT, AAHHHHH).
the fecking bloodsucker showing up in the middle of the doggo swarm is peak stalker jank. Full 'you know what, screw you' energy.
ALife works in mysterious, and unmedicated ways. The wheels really come off the wagon later in the game, after you're basically done with the system. If you backtrack before entering the final stretch, you'll see ALife going completely batshit insane in the earlier regions.
hey DrWhite i didn't know you watched Civvie.
@@StarkeRealm Yeah once you shut down the brain scorcher, don't all the AI stalkers start B-lining towards the north?
There is a resident blood sucker that spawns in that area with out a mission trigger. I traveled several times between yantar and the bar and he'll show up occasionally. If you drop into the radiation house to grab the high level armor in there, he'll spawn too.
OOOOOOH IT'S DR WHIIIIITE
When is the Tib 3 video coming, boy?
That wasn't a pack of dogs. That was an ARMY of dogs.
if you see one - there's more coming, but you don't see them... yet
So those were Dog Soldiers (2002) ?
Twenty thousands are ready and another one hundred thousand is in the making © dog army breeder to random dude who come to inspect how the army building goes.
I love how every weird moment in the Stalker, that would normaly broke the other game, feels like: It s a Zone man, weird shit is happenning all the time
Those were the Gamma Dogs from the Hulk once fought, I'm sure.
The Russian Beetlejuice was just random enough it got a good laugh outta me. Thanks for that.
хонк хонк
Not really random. That's how all good jokes are made - thematic and "AHA" moment of experiments.
The reward our brains get from "OOOOH I GET WHY IT'S RUSSIAN"
We need Russian Ramsay now. :)
Why Russian, if the game is Ukrainian?) more correctly Russian-speaking Beetlejuice)
@@0bstrctdmvmnt You mean сигналить сигналить? Nice f'in subs...
"If I have to hear any more Starfield discourse, I'm gonna eat lead."
Here, catch! *You're toast.*
PRONOUUUUUUNS, IN MY FUCKING STARFIELD?!?! CRIIIIIIIINGE!
I threw up in my mouth writing that I'm sorry.
eat, eat lead.
They're gonna bury you in a lunch box!
They gonna bury you in a lunchbag
@@WTFisTingispingis to be fair, there are way too many gay black people in space for my liking. Like, at least 2. /s
Warms my heart that even a famous UA-camr plays the game exactly the same "no plans, just vibes" way I did.
The way it was intended to play ... because if you make a plan, STALKERs random stuff would make you go crazy.
@@lordmontymord8701
It's not really that random, you're exaggerating. Probably because you never actually played it, just like most people who parrot memes from this franchise
@@johnhighway7399 And you are probably wrong, because i played all of the STALKER-games multiple times. But you are right, i'm exaggerating. Was really hard to see that, wasn't it?
I remember the X-16 laboratory, which I went through as a child when I played Stalker, then it seemed scary to me. I was still trying to shoot at this gigantic brain in jar, and it suddenly turned sharply in my direction.
Also - Civvie - the reason you "spraying" bullets doesn't work is because the bullets spread the more you spray them, indicated by the "Handling" stat (which literally means how "comfortable" or "handy" the weapon is to shoot)
They even have drop off and bouncing off the floor ricochet mechachincs, so accurate 1 tap shots are just... better, as you've already seen.
I remember trying go trough Lab X16 without psi protection using whole bunch of high grade medikits, but I failed anyway after bunch of trials and deaths, was a lot of fun tho ;)
@@podfuk Those were the times ... still don't know how i made it through the game, since i wasn't that stress resistant in my youth.
qt elf
I played SOC for the first time in 2021 and x-16 was still scary, especially the controller at ghosts body
That guy in the tower probably climbs his way up there with a rope, which he pulls back up there so you can't take his vantage point post-mortem.
I didn't think of that. Doh !!
10:15 I freaking died there... Very good effort for a few russian speaking fans here.
would охуиенный be the correct form cause 'model' is masculine? i am still learning btw
ФЙЮ!!? How dare you!
You have no idea, have you, comrade?
unexpected, yet quite hilarious lol
Took me way too long to realize they said "Имел я ваш макет!" For a while I thought it was something in Polish or related. 🤡сигналить сигналить
There are a few funny bugs in this game, but 16:14 the zombies sprinting away from the grenade was pure gold 😂
Hey, not all of them ran - there are smarter and not so smart zombies, just like regular humans 😁
Let's just assume they are learning like the ones from Day of the Dead, which is why they use guns.
Smh Civvie avoided one of the most horror-inducing scenes in Chernobyl, where Kruglov just runs straight through the anomaly tunnel bravely ramming fire streams with his glass faceplate and you just helplessly watch him and hope he won't die (tbh he wouldn't, his suit is really something.)
To be frank, civvie got very lucky... most of the time Krug likes to run straight into those mercs and get himself several ((hundred)) new go-faster holes in his body :/.... God I hated doing that bit lol LOTS of artifacts in that tunnel though, make thousands from it.
Kudos to the editor. Happy you are continuing the series instead of scrapping it.
Katie is a class act
@@GeekMasterGames Her editing is somehow just getting better and better.
@@st0nedpenguin something about editing 150+ Civvie videos... but yeah, somehow...
@@jong2359 Kinda missed the point there Chief.
TrackTribe's "Drop the Tapes" never gets old.
Just wait till powerplant to see some real shit.
By the way, funny thing: that Duty squad at the farm, I don't think you get negative rep with Duty for killing them. If you go to the leader of Duty, he'll give you a quest to kill them, since they've gone rogue and acting against his orders.
To reassure you I tell that you're at the point when guns are at the point where guns are getting good, with all that "being able to actually hit the target" functionality.
they do be spitting sideways...
@@dimitar4y well, AK variants can be decently accurate. But only after you find a scope. And there's a noticeable bullet fall-off at a distance. But it's manageable, as long as you fire 1 or 2 bullets at a time while doublecrouching.
the f2000 gameplay is about to start
@@user-ct8dm7ez4r the fun of stalker is it doesnt hold your hand, gotta figure that shit yourself out.
The Duty leader actually gives you a quest to infiltrate Freedom base and steal a greande launcher from them, and he gives you a permission to kill off the rogue Duty squad if necessary
05:46 this green goo anomaly was my favorite friend, in my version, i used to feed it with bodies i brought to it and it sometimes spawned artefact becouse of it. Good times, but now when i think about it, i had to be a weird kid to even come with this idea lol.
Oh man, I forgot about the tight spot Civvie was in when we last left off.
Honestly I think this is some of the best stuff on UA-cam
Today, Civvie deals with an ATF agent's worst nightmare
😂
Cops kill 30 dogs a day.
what's ATF?
|AAA the fuck???" ?
@@yosefyonin6824 It's an American Federal agency. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. There is a joke about them shooting people's dogs when they come to visit
@@yosefyonin6824Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. It's a federal bureau in the US that's infamous for shooting people's dogs
You are getting better with the game! Now you crouch, lean and pre-fire everything that moves or seems like moving like a real Stalker. Btw, you missed the Ghosts corpse with the medical armour that will save you a lot of hassle in the future (its near the last Contoller in the lab) and also Gordon Freemans corpse in the Wild Territory with a nice PDA entry and the best pistol in the game. I recommend you to get them.
Tbh might just not've spawned for him unmodded o.g. ShoC is an abominable jankfest
@@arithmetikmilitantpoetry9548Nah they'll always spawn
Very true, as an addition the vintar bc in the roof in the old building inside the freedom base
@@ChromeXk vintar is the mvp of the guns in this game, but at this stage there is too few ammo for it (if you are not g3n0c1ding the Duty), so NATO guns are more viable until the Radar. However, at this stage there is also SVD with the AK ammo mod if I'm not mistaken. It rules if you play safe and engage only from medium and long distances (so it's not for CV)
@@ChromeXk there are some people who prefer NATO guns and jerk off to FN-2000. But I always disliked the closed scope and how it handles. It just feels weird to shoot, I dunno why. Even the trc-301 which CV uses in this video feels better (even jumping out of hands like a freshly caught fish)
Civvie's Pro epsiodes represent an evolution of the let's play format. He's got us watching him play an entire video game but with clever editing, perfect cuts, witty dialogue, and an absolute mastery of situational framing. No one does it like this, and if they're trying, no one does it nearly as good. Now gimme more Petty Thief, pls and thx
Bro, between the last episode and this one, I've managed to play through every single STALKER game, as well as get married, have kids, become old, die, wake up to Vishnu looking at me, and subsequently waking up in time for this episode.
Same here lol! Have yet to do Anomaly/Gamma/Anthology Mods tho.. (fingers crossed) they'll be gentle 😅
@@arithmetikmilitantpoetry9548 I'm playing G.A.M.M.A. right now, and let me tell you, the progression is fucking brutal.
Traders don't sell suits or weapons anymore, so you can only obtain them by looting corpses or stashes.
But hold up, gear looted from corpses/stashes is ALWAYS at like 10% condition or less, making it completely useless until you fix it up.
So you find a mechanic, but hold up, the mechanics can only repair the item's overall condition, which no longer matters because suits and weapons now have parts which have their OWN condition bars, and mechanics can't repair these.
So you need to repair the parts yourself using other items, or buy new parts in good condition, but hold up, you can't actually swap them out without toolkits (that is, the Basic, Fine and Calibration tools from Call of Pripyat).
Can you buy these toolkits, or find them in specific locations? Fuck no, they spawn completely randomly in stashes, of course.
And how do you get stashes? By completing tasks, looting PDAs from corpses, or just straight-up paying traders for stash locations. And remember, this is a complete lottery - you could find a toolkit in your very first stash, but you're just as likely to grind the game for hours, searching dozens of stashes, and not get a single one.
But at least you can grind up money by collecting and selling artifacts so you can just buy stash locations until you get a toolkit, right?
Of course not, silly, artifacts ALSO have condition bars now, and pretty much ALL of them spawn in low condition meaning you can't sell them. Apparently, you're supposed to buy a device called the "Artifact Melter" from Ecologists, which lets you literally melt artifacts together to increase their condition, and THEN you can sell them.
But what if you can't afford it, or don't have the gear to survive long enough to reach either Yantar or Jupiter, which is the whole fucking reason why you want to grind artifacts in the first place? Well, then you're shit outta luck, and you simply don't GET to collect and sell artifacts even though that's the main reason why people trespass into the Zone in the first place.
TL;DR: Just play vanilla Anomaly instead, or manually install a handful of addons that you like. Don't touch G.A.M.M.A. unless you're a seasoned S.T.A.L.K.E.R. veteran looking for a new, challenging experience, and/or want to suffer because pain is the only thing that makes you feel alive anymore.
@@arithmetikmilitantpoetry9548hahahahhaaha gentle, uh huh definitely they're super gentle
What took you so long?
Unfortunately we are all still alive to be forced to watch him play this shit game that is only rivaled by this game's shit fans.
Day just got x3 times better. Thanks Civvie !
Just watched the other two last night and was wondering when the third one would come out. Praise be our legendary Stalker Civvie!
No one cares about your personal habits
One of the things I like best about STALKER is how it portrays a really underrated geographical setting (swampy marshy bog type of areas) and the sort of muckiness and grime of it all starts to rub off on you and harden you. And whoever made the lighting systems knew what they were doing to make some amazing mood lighting and settings. At times STALKER reminds me of the way German Expressionism/Batman The animated series "paints" with shadows.
Oh man that comment about appreciating how Kruglov stayed put, and hoping he'd keep that up was some top tier foreshadowing
Does anyone else realize that Civvie missed the Half-Life easter egg in a certain underpass near where you first meet the scientist being attacked by mercenaries? The pistols he gets from it are a *lot* better than his current peashooter.
Only like the best handgun in the entire Game(s) 😮 Luv the way recipients on the other end just f'kin CRUMPLE to hell Like it Breaks the shitty early 2000s ragdoll
@@arithmetikmilitantpoetry9548 Or outright breaks them into spaghetti code with some of the footage I've seen.
@@arithmetikmilitantpoetry9548 given it shoots rifle rounds, itd wanna be special!
@nomad_boreal As opposed to most shotguns, sniper rifles and anomalies in this game?
Sniper rifles 1 tap enemies in this game.
the reason civvie "spraying" bullets doesn't work out for him because the bullets spread the more you spray them, indicated by the "Handling" stat.
They even have drop off and bouncing off the floor ricochet mechachincs, so accurate 1 tap shots are just... better, as you've already seen.@@21Malkavian
Starfield surprised me! After going through the full romance arc with Sarah, falling in love, doing the I love you. lines, hitting a bed like 100 times to her all her post-coitus innuendos, and then marrying her... I took her to the end of the game where you DO THE THING
and her reaction was an utterly emotionless "Yeah, I suppose you would." with NO OTHER EMOTION WHATSOEVER
you would think during ending thing the love of your life who constantly spouts how happy you make her, who you have said to her face you're spending the rest of your life with her, WHEN YOU DO THE MARRIAGE THE BETHESDA TEXT IS [COMMITMENT] next to the option, might be a bit more incensed during THE THING. I would have at least expected a blub.
After the original ending of the third Fallout, when you have to choose which of the heroes will die from radiation, while there is a companion super mutant, immune to radiation, and when you offer him to go he says something like "No, I think you have to make this choice, it's your fate..." - I don't have a lot of faith in Bethesda's narrative abilities.
@@LargenirGKTo give Bethesda the absolute minimal amount of credit they deserve, they did add an option to send Fawkes in there with a patch.
Just be happy they don't turn her into a Paarthurnax.
@@B_Skizzleyeah and the ending calls you a pussy for it
@@LargenirGK Also a ghoul, also a robot, also a literal slave. All of which you couldn't send to do the job. Yeah, Bethesda has narrative and character consistency issues.
“You only have a rat-powered generator? I have a fully nuclear powered rodent!”
Civvie doing his bit for the environment.
Yeah, the dog horde's a bug with area repopulation. NPCs spawn in certain locations and have to physically travel to their destination, often on the other side of maps. Wild Territory and Agroprom are especially notorious for spawning giant hordes of hostile NPCs. Shotgun and grenades make short work of dogs, though you need to be mindful to the Duty camp that's set up nearby, angering Duty or Freedom makes the game basically unplayable.
This is the first time I hear about this bug and I never encounter this many mutants in vanilla stalker. And I've played it since 2007 XD
this is why Anomaly/Gamma made some changes to avoid these situations
@@GhoulRUSva depending on when you decide to visit an area, it can happen. If you do like civvie did and leave Yantar when Wild Territory is repopulating after you depopulated it and switching from "scripted events to aLife events" you get the horde of dogs.
it's called an anomaly, not a bug. kids these days...
My cousin fumbled both duty and freedom on accident. Still finished it, but just barely and not on true ending.
The good: Civvie found the rotary nade launcher
The bad: he missed the RPG
Nah, in this or last vid, he finds it but choses not bringing it along for the ride because of inventory reasons
@@danielwordsworth1843 Fair that thing does weigh a ton.
i dont think i could get tired of the "nice fucking model *honk honk*" bit.
and if it doesnt go into beetlejuice 2, im gonna be sad
Good hunting, Stalkers
The funny thing is that the quest where you got attacked by a swarm of dogs even though killing the lone one completed the mission, maybe that was a bug or maybe it was not. In STALKER you can never be quite sure.
There are no bugs in STALKER, only anomalies
@@W4iteFlame Stalker is a one big anomaly😊
@@НиколайБубнов-ч4х One that even trancends space and time ... the death count of over 12.000 Stalkers was probably right, the game counted kills from Civvies all over the Multiverse.
10:28 I never thought about how extreme that delivery was, "RUN MARKED ONE, HELL IS ABOUT TO BREAK LOOSE!"
Oh god I laughed so hard at the dogs episode. Pure Civvie, top quality.
The horde of freedom dudes breathing heavily as you roll out from the base really brings me back to 2008 when I first played this game
Magical. I've played this game once a year, every year since it was released and seeing it through the fresh eyes of someone I don't detest is the vicarious love-in I've needed for at least a decade.
I will say tho, you have run into a few of the rarest bugs I know about. Shit I've seen maybe 2 or 3 times since 2007. Lucky guy. The mass spawn of critters that are meant to run off and repopulate the map is a common one though, hilarious, but in some maps it's a real issue.
Seeing you make a series out of this game now makes me really regret not sticking with it all those years ago.
Perhaps it’s time for a revisit.
This series is so good that I don’t feel the time when watching and boom it’s the outro
I was LOLing and chuckling throughout the entire ride of the valkyries + freedom quest bit
Who knew we needed a Russian Beetlejuice meme?
Civvie playing Stalker is the pinnacle of entertainment
Couldn't agree more!
I thought that was Capstone Software?
Not even Civvie can make this shit game enjoyable to watch.
Nice comment, but did you have to take out half of LA with it?
I always loved the sections in all S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games where you work with scientists and delve in strange places and laboratories.
Seeing how different these places were in the beta (especially the bar and lake yantar) through the Oblivion Lost Remake mod was really refreshing!
Always a good day when civ uploads, thank you civ
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is eternal. Years goes by and still nothing compares.
From OG games i like Clear Sky the most (also probably my favourite game of all times in terms of visuals), and overall i love Anomaly and Lost Alpha the most.
12:33 Ah yes. The A-Life is what drew me into loving the stalker series. The way the AI interacts with the world around them was always awesome. I've sat there watching mutants drag off fresh kills to be eaten.
Civvie you don't even know how many Polish people you've made happy because of the runtime of this episode
Well, it shows 21:36 for me. So close, yet so far.
Welcome back to the zone Civvie!
Great video as always, mate...!!
You know that you're one of only two content creators on
UA-cam that is actually entertaining, informative and hilarious.
Most have one or two of those qualities, but not all three.
Please keep doing what you're doing, my friend...!!
RE: The Series; Excellent idea for a longer-form treatment of the classic, unmodded STALKER. IMO, it's probably the finest computer game of its type from its period, and it was up against stiff competition. Notice just how much it resembles something Bethesda might have conceived but never ever delivered on, and while it has RPG elements it ends up being more about understanding the underlying Jank of the in-game universe. The next time you play through, you'll notice a big difference during the opening acts as you make your way to the Barkeep for the first time (again).
Couple of quick items I'm a little surprised about. Item: No mention yet about the ambitious level design, taking whole square kilometers of real-world geography and stitching them together with loading screens, mostly without breaking the illusion too much. The Zone is what the film "Stalker" called it; the game devs decided on putting the center of the Zone in Chernobyl. And Item: for some reason, I remember Strelok's gun having an integrated sight (and I checked the wikis to see that was a false memory) and also being buffed against damage from use. Downside: there are better guns firing better ammunition, as you've revealed.
Gonna be funny enough seeing in the next part that Civvie goes back to X-16 lab cause he didnt take documents in a room with controller.
"Is Civvie dangerous in STALKER?"
"You mean in comparison to the nuclear event that created the Zone? The Bubonic Plague? I don't know, ask 12 thousand dead Stalkers..." 😂
There is a sneaky way to steal the documents from the military base, where you sneak into the base at night and find most of the guards sleeping while only two of them are on guard. Obviously Civvie didn´t knew that way. ^^
Even despite all the jank, the game still somehow captivates.
its why its remembered, it and Call of Pripyat, also very advanced texture work for back in the day.
I love how, in S.T.A.L.K.E.R., an enemy can get you with one burst of rifle fire to your torso, but you can put multiple perfectly accurate rounds into an enemy's head to no apparent effect. What are their skulls made of?!
Ahh yes. I remember my first run of X16 where by the end I had less than a dozen bullets and maybe four shot shells remaining. And a pseudogiant.
The Caine Mutiny chapter title pun gets a like from me.
I hope Civvie does STALKER: Call of Pripyat sometime down the road. While still janky as fuck, it fixed a lot of issues with vanilla STALKER.
I wrote the series off, until I found myself in Afghanistan with a potato for a laptop. The midget in the Ghazni bazaar actually recommended Call of Pripyat to me, and sold it to me on a blank CD-R with "Stalking COP" written on it. To this day, one of the best purchases I ever made.
This series has been fantastic. Can't wait for the spooky stuff next month!
That intro! Chef's Kiss 🤌 So cool.
Ah, I see you've used my favourite part of the Wild Territory - the pipe highway. I always enjoyed Jantar and its atmosphere, but getting in and out to Bar was my least favourite part, mainly because everything respawned upon each visit. The pipes were the MVP, allowing for quicker routing and ignoring most of the aggressive fauna. Good times.
3:07 You know its a good grenade launcher when it hurts you as much as it does the enemies!
2:44 You can wait till 24-00 or 1-00 (time) something, sneak through minefield left of the outpost, jump through window, quietly grab the box and sneak out with no firefight. Easy. As always, great video Civvie.
This is about as far as I ever got in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. so thank you for this series. If nothing else, this game got me into Tarkovsky and the Strugatsky brothers.
15:44 Somehow I get Silent Hill atmosphere type vibes for that environment. Stalker is masterpiece.
I can't believe how hard the dog part had me laughing lol
Goddamnit such a tight episode, stellar stuff. That Mutual Benefits step program was brilliant.
Man, you've really gotten the vibe of the game now so far.
Also, I know it's your first and blind playthrough, Civvie, but I just want to say one thing: right in the tunnels where you ended the video, you can find a Stalker's corpse. Keep looting and quick save-loading till you get a stash location notification that says something like "Fang's Stash" or something (don't remember the exact words lol). The stash points to a grave in Pripyat that has a special Exoskeleton. Might help you out in late-game in Pripyat and onwards.
I can't wait for the Emission and Monolyth showing up to the party. Save your ammo, Civvie, you're going to need it.
I'm glad you're starting to really see why people love this game so much
Love this stalker serie. I did my first play through with no psi-helmet
GREAT Closed Captioning on this one. I had it on by incident, but I noticed its quality, and this was great
Thanks. 👍
this series is my beloved
Its real cool to see you playing it and (possibly) enjoying it
Did you find and loot up Ghost's corpse in the lab?
Couple things that I absolutely must say, even despite the desire to play completely blind.
- There are hotkey bindings in the options menu to quickly use medkits and bandages. [ and ] by default.
- You can right-click guns to unload them, good to strip ammo from fallen enemies' weapons.
My single greatest moment in the STALKER series was the third or fourth time I made the trip from the mobile lab back to the bar. My own megapack of dogs came over the hill beside me right as I was approaching the burner anomaly maze. I fired off a couple shots, and then a hasty calculation about costs and resources lead me to turn and *sprint* into the invisible death maze instead. I ran the first 10 meters of the maze purely by memory, then turned to see a couple charred doggo corpses and the rest of the pack turning to flee.
Victory over the Zone through knowledge of the Zone. It was a perfect little procedural moment.
Skulls duty squad at the army warehouses actually does not lower faction reputation, they effectively have ignored their truce and the orders of their leader so there is no penalty for killing them.
Obviously too late to do much about it but useful tidbit.
Regarding the military outpost and stealing the docs. You can sneak in if you hug the left most boundary fence and use a fallen tree to hop the outpost perimeter fence. If you go in at night most guards will be asleep and you can legit sneak in through a room of snoring grunts and steal the docs. It's like the one true example of a stealth mission in STALKER.
But normally a single guard will spot you as you sneak into the barracks and all hell breaks loose. Good times.
re: 11:30 : NPCs have access to invisible 'ladders' that help them move above areas the player has access to. It gets more obvious in later areas. If you manage to catch it on the binoculars, it looks like the character is just moving vertically for no discernable reason until they reach the end of the 'ladder' and then resume activity as normal after they reach their destination.
When a sniper is on a high position that no obvious way or ladder leads to, I'd presume they did a maneuver called "climbing". One of the most useful skills for a sniper.
Finally!! 3 episodes and 15 minutes in, and CV has learned the Rat strategy! ive done this on pretty much every mission in stalker, works like a charm every time.
Hay hay it's Stalker in the morning with Civvie! Don't touch that dial! Only on 1.11 AM. *Random radio sound effects such as honking, a burp, and a bart Simpson quote*
Snorks are one of the most terrifying things in any game, ever.
glad this series is back, I'm really loving blind stalker
Lovin this series
19:54 - Remember! Switching to your Tokarev is always faster than reloading your Kalashnikov! xD
2:10 Monolith hates the player (and every other faction) by default in all three games and there is no way to improve the reputation.
The only exception to this is in the third game where a small squad of Monolith will be neutral to the player and their leader will ask you to help them get into the area's central hub. The player can ask either Duty or Freedom (whichever you have better reputation with) to let them join their faction. This side mission is important as the squad's leader will be useful to the player during the story mission in which you get to Pripyat.
The Day of the Dead music kicking in for the zombie fight brought be back to being a child watching that at 1AM with my family. Uncomfortably.
Ah the dog swarm right outside the bar. I have died to that horde at least 8 times. You can't really grenade them reliably either because they are way too quick and also, the grenade can bounce off of them and back at you. I've never considered using an RPG on them though.
12:34- Ha! That's the game's "A-Life" AI system, where wild animals would actually drag corpses off and eat them. I was pretty gobsmacked the first time I saw it happen (and also pretty dead, since it was my corpse). The devs bragged that they had to rein in the AI because NPCs would actually beat the game before the player could.
Hell yeah more С.Т.А.Л.К.Е.Р.
To everybody saying he missed this or that collectible, pickup, legendary gear, secret stash or body.. his playthru might just be bugged to hell and back; to a point where he never doesnt even know what he's missing. In short: exactly what makes Stalker so damn replayable 😅
What a cool gameplay! I really like the fact, when you didn't feel like fighting more zombie, you left the Yantar area and went to chill with the boys. No forced gameplay; just vibes, and jank
This is basically the first thing you can do in the game once you get a pistol from Wolf - I like to kite the military guys from safe distance so they eventually reach the noob village. Usually not all of them come, but thats fine. Once the noobs and military notice each other - boy its on.
And if you are quick and lucky, the noobs actually survive the shootening.
Genuinely one of the funniest vids you've done. The STALKER series is amazing. I hope you do Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat as well!
Just for reference, in Clear Sky, the sequel, gunplay feels much more substantial and your bullets feel like they actually hit their target.
I still love this game.
They really captured how the "zombies" behave in the original book. Never got this far in the game.
This games locations are almost identical to the area where i grew up, some of my fondest memories were when we got the boys together and went explorin and playin and talkin, very nostalgic game
I love how zombies still have some residue of humanity in this game, and how they use it as bait to catch other people.
The way civvie plays this game makes me think he's an American tourist lost in the zone.
10:14 I really liked the Russian BeatleJuice edit. It's the little things that count. Also, it's great to have Katie back. We were getting worried.