There was a door on the first or second floor that you could have unlocked with a safe. You could also get into one of the locked rooms by going through a broken wall and onto a beam. There's also more stuff in the basement; it's just a pain with what you had on to get it. Some electric anomalies and floating bubbles will follow you if you have artifacts on your belt, take them off your belt and they will follow thier normal pathing.
Thank you Gopher for thinking of us during the Christmas and holiday season. I look forward to every upload on all 3 of your current Lets Plays. Wishing you and your family a wonderful new year.
@@wolfhors3_660 You can use artifacts as Gopher did to provide extra capability. Some negate radiation, some increase carry weight, others provide protection. The most common are close to useless though providing an increase of about 3-4% being "weak" to the rare 50% being "Strong". For what a Stalker needs, most are sales trash.
@wolfhors3_660 some of the Artifacts offer good protection against being killed by certain anomalies, most of the suits have belt slots that can be upgraded with lead containers to null negative effects like radiation
for artifacts i have a mod on called less shy artifacts, it causes arrifacts to appear when ur nearer them so u dont go mad having to have ur cursor directly over them to make them appear.
The default Echo detector is horrible. There are several other much better detectors that can be bought, found or gotten as quest rewards. I'm currently using the Bear detector which makes things MUCH easier, as it show the direction and distance to the artifact.
Great episode, actually surprised how well at first the stealth worked for you. One thing I have noticed, those "at ease" and similar call outs are a complete lie :D You cant trust them :D
I dont know if its intentional because of struggle for future doing this path of story, but game gave him four 37k (around 15k to sell) armors, I would have dropped everything and starwed just to sell that and become rich 😅
I know had issues and some bugs but this game looks so good. The NPCs move so fluidly and life like. Plus when you were talking to the captive I saw someone go by the window behind him, so I watched and it was a tree branch blowing in the wind. That just hit me as really cool. I might actually play this on easy mode if there is one.
Gopher consider going back to the detention center basement when better equiped. It is worth it even if you get burned a bit. In both of my playthtroughs I had some good drops there. The fact the artifact did not immediately appear as you would expect is because higher quality ones are harder to detect unless you are nearly standing on them.
Got lucky that the poltergeist in the detention center basement was already dead for some reason. It's normally alive and quite problematic to deal with. I remember also being very annoyed with those thermal anomalies damaging my armor. In the end I just stripped naked and ran in healing as I went. Since the key is a quest item (if you talked to the other guy in the room with Star he'd have given the side-quest to you) it'll be stuck in your inventory forever unless you go back and do the quest or use console commands/mods. Having gotten the key before getting the quest, I'm not sure you can even get the quest now. You'll eventually have a couple of kilos of bugged quest items stuck in your pack unless the devs fix it. That room you first entered in the Factory? It's pitch black at night, when I did this mission. And if you turn your light on, those two guys you nearly ran into notice. So I had to carefully navigate that room in the dark, while avoiding all the broken glass. Fun times. You were so close to successfully stealthing in. If you'd followed after that guy who nearly caught you on the ground floor, the lab entrance was right there. Though there's the matter of the two guys down there that you have to quickly duck out of the way of. I'm a bit surprised you went off so half-cocked with that stealth mission. You're normally pretty patient when it comes to that sort of thing. Getting the lay of the land and learning all the guard routes before acting. Guess that's not the type of character you're playing this time? The Mercenary Light Suit is unique, for what that's worth. If you don't go back for those Convoy suits after you clear the lab, or at least find a stash and store them, I might actually lose my mind. Upgrading and repairing even mid-game stuff can easily run tens of thousands. Four suits of Convoy armor would be a hell of a nest egg, especially with all the loot you left behind in the Lesser Zone. A fun fact about marked stashes, the pda marker only goes away if you empty the stash. So you can find it, and store a bunch of loot in it, then it'll remain marked on your map and you can come back for it as several trips if necessary.
I feel the chance to get a really good artifact outweighs the price of having to use medkits and repairing your armor, someone else also mentioned you can run into places naked which is kind of funny.
Good old lab X-18. Such a nice feeling to see it again in the new game. :) Interesting, is the place still full of snorks and other old, khm, "friends"?
Definitely need to have someone make you a pack mule mod. I can see the faces of the Ward soldiers later on "we arent really sure what to make of this sir, but i think we just got resupplied!"
The loot runs could be done out of video but I've found that I get distracted by something on the way back from loot drops or get attacked partway to the stash. I also started dropping weapon that was lower in value than 2k. If I hadn't picked up an artifact that gives me a 40kg boost I'd be using that for yellows and ignoring reds. However, you could always put things in the stashes and say you're going to come back at some later date and then ignore them ;). TBH I'm fine with you doing nothing different, I was merely replying to Diremouse42.
@GophersVids better suits have higher weigh you can carry, plus finding the right Artifacts that lower weigh helps. And if you want use a mod that lowers the weight of carried items, Barr armour, and weapons. I thought you were going to cry, having to leave those suits behind, believe me we have all felt it.
The thing that keeps weighing you down is the drinks you are carrying, each one is like a pound i think. You only need 4 vodka's for emergencies and your energy drinks, any water or beer you find isn't worth the carry weight.
This is why any game I play, if I can, I get rid of weight issues and I never lockpick anymore. I mod those features out, if I can. I've done all that annoying shit for too long. I hate it. So I modded it all out in one game and I have never enjoyed a game more. So I do it with all games and my gaming life has become a balm and an escape from the real world. And isn't that what their supposed to be? Stress management? I also never play inventory tetris. I get why they do it but I really really hate it. But while I have a great time when I play, you wouldn't want to watch it 🤣🤣🤣 But that's just me and what I look for in a game. If you enjoy the struggle, have at it. At one time, I did too. but after all these years, I'm just over it. It's not fun for me amymore. I doubt I'll play any of the stalker games. And really, I don't play a lot of the games Gopher does. But I watch all his role play ones. It's better than most of the movie/series that have come out in the past few years. I mean how many times have you seen the " we'll just slip in and slip out, " Then they end up killing everybody? Kinda like this vid except that's a written script. This happens "organically".
Question - can you put the over burdened loot in the stash boxes and come back later? Not sure if the stashes are a one-time container or stay in the world.
32:37 - now, that was a manly war cry - what dignify way to die ! 😂 And Gopher was snaking like a ninja...if ninja was an elephant in a china shop !😂
The lighting and the weather systems are impressive in this game. It feels so cozy when it rains
Yeah, the pain of looting in these games is very, very real.
32:37 That scream! LOL!
There was a door on the first or second floor that you could have unlocked with a safe. You could also get into one of the locked rooms by going through a broken wall and onto a beam. There's also more stuff in the basement; it's just a pain with what you had on to get it.
Some electric anomalies and floating bubbles will follow you if you have artifacts on your belt, take them off your belt and they will follow thier normal pathing.
The thing that moves in the detention center basement is a creature. In Gophers playthough it already died I noticed.
That would be a Poltergeist. They're normally invisible and throw things at you
"squeak" 🤣
Thank you Gopher for thinking of us during the Christmas and holiday season. I look forward to every upload on all 3 of your current Lets Plays. Wishing you and your family a wonderful new year.
Seems like artifact was in last room not that one with lava fountain.
Barrel fire spout.
I been watching this whole series but somehow I missed what artifacts are for. Are they just for selling?
"Zero to homicidal in a heartbeat" it's called being a soldier.😂😂😂
@@wolfhors3_660 You can use artifacts as Gopher did to provide extra capability. Some negate radiation, some increase carry weight, others provide protection. The most common are close to useless though providing an increase of about 3-4% being "weak" to the rare 50% being "Strong". For what a Stalker needs, most are sales trash.
@wolfhors3_660 some of the Artifacts offer good protection against being killed by certain anomalies, most of the suits have belt slots that can be upgraded with lead containers to null negative effects like radiation
for artifacts i have a mod on called less shy artifacts, it causes arrifacts to appear when ur nearer them so u dont go mad having to have ur cursor directly over them to make them appear.
The default Echo detector is horrible. There are several other much better detectors that can be bought, found or gotten as quest rewards. I'm currently using the Bear detector which makes things MUCH easier, as it show the direction and distance to the artifact.
Great episode, actually surprised how well at first the stealth worked for you. One thing I have noticed, those "at ease" and similar call outs are a complete lie :D You cant trust them :D
That soldiers scream lol 🤣🤣
Like a little girl Amirite?
@woolenthreads ikr. I was drinking a soda and that happened and I almost choked lol. I was not expecting that at all 🤣🤣
34:47 the worst decision made in history of gaming 🤣
I dont know if its intentional because of struggle for future doing this path of story, but game gave him four 37k (around 15k to sell) armors, I would have dropped everything and starwed just to sell that and become rich 😅
A panicked Gopher is an entertaining Gopher
Freakin artifact was definitely not where the lava fountain was...the beeping clearly lessened
Stay cheeki breeki
I know had issues and some bugs but this game looks so good. The NPCs move so fluidly and life like. Plus when you were talking to the captive I saw someone go by the window behind him, so I watched and it was a tree branch blowing in the wind. That just hit me as really cool. I might actually play this on easy mode if there is one.
Gopher consider going back to the detention center basement when better equiped. It is worth it even if you get burned a bit. In both of my playthtroughs I had some good drops there. The fact the artifact did not immediately appear as you would expect is because higher quality ones are harder to detect unless you are nearly standing on them.
Is it just me that thinks that random Ward soldier sounds like Patrick Star? "EXPLOSIONS! GET DOWN!"
Got lucky that the poltergeist in the detention center basement was already dead for some reason. It's normally alive and quite problematic to deal with. I remember also being very annoyed with those thermal anomalies damaging my armor. In the end I just stripped naked and ran in healing as I went. Since the key is a quest item (if you talked to the other guy in the room with Star he'd have given the side-quest to you) it'll be stuck in your inventory forever unless you go back and do the quest or use console commands/mods. Having gotten the key before getting the quest, I'm not sure you can even get the quest now. You'll eventually have a couple of kilos of bugged quest items stuck in your pack unless the devs fix it.
That room you first entered in the Factory? It's pitch black at night, when I did this mission. And if you turn your light on, those two guys you nearly ran into notice. So I had to carefully navigate that room in the dark, while avoiding all the broken glass. Fun times. You were so close to successfully stealthing in. If you'd followed after that guy who nearly caught you on the ground floor, the lab entrance was right there. Though there's the matter of the two guys down there that you have to quickly duck out of the way of. I'm a bit surprised you went off so half-cocked with that stealth mission. You're normally pretty patient when it comes to that sort of thing. Getting the lay of the land and learning all the guard routes before acting. Guess that's not the type of character you're playing this time?
The Mercenary Light Suit is unique, for what that's worth. If you don't go back for those Convoy suits after you clear the lab, or at least find a stash and store them, I might actually lose my mind. Upgrading and repairing even mid-game stuff can easily run tens of thousands. Four suits of Convoy armor would be a hell of a nest egg, especially with all the loot you left behind in the Lesser Zone. A fun fact about marked stashes, the pda marker only goes away if you empty the stash. So you can find it, and store a bunch of loot in it, then it'll remain marked on your map and you can come back for it as several trips if necessary.
I feel the chance to get a really good artifact outweighs the price of having to use medkits and repairing your armor, someone else also mentioned you can run into places naked which is kind of funny.
Good old lab X-18. Such a nice feeling to see it again in the new game. :) Interesting, is the place still full of snorks and other old, khm, "friends"?
Fashion fighter fop 🤣🤣🤣...but I get it.
«I am not Thor, god of Storms, okay? Just Saiyan..»
..Sorry. I will show myself out now🙂↕️
Definitely need to have someone make you a pack mule mod. I can see the faces of the Ward soldiers later on "we arent really sure what to make of this sir, but i think we just got resupplied!"
Nah, he just needs to start using the stashes as Storage drops and then do loot runs to pick them up from the stashes.
Cos loot runs would make riveting viewing :)
The loot runs could be done out of video but I've found that I get distracted by something on the way back from loot drops or get attacked partway to the stash. I also started dropping weapon that was lower in value than 2k. If I hadn't picked up an artifact that gives me a 40kg boost I'd be using that for yellows and ignoring reds. However, you could always put things in the stashes and say you're going to come back at some later date and then ignore them ;).
TBH I'm fine with you doing nothing different, I was merely replying to Diremouse42.
@GophersVids better suits have higher weigh you can carry, plus finding the right Artifacts that lower weigh helps. And if you want use a mod that lowers the weight of carried items, Barr armour, and weapons. I thought you were going to cry, having to leave those suits behind, believe me we have all felt it.
If it weren't for the blood sucker's the long walk of the looter is something the zone would get used to seeing.
episode can be summed up as; let's look at all the loot i cant carry with me x)
The thing that keeps weighing you down is the drinks you are carrying, each one is like a pound i think.
You only need 4 vodka's for emergencies and your energy drinks, any water or beer you find isn't worth the carry weight.
At this point You dont need vodka at all, 1-3 energy drinks.
28:16 LOL
This is why any game I play, if I can, I get rid of weight issues and I never lockpick anymore. I mod those features out, if I can. I've done all that annoying shit for too long. I hate it. So I modded it all out in one game and I have never enjoyed a game more. So I do it with all games and my gaming life has become a balm and an escape from the real world. And isn't that what their supposed to be? Stress management? I also never play inventory tetris. I get why they do it but I really really hate it. But while I have a great time when I play, you wouldn't want to watch it 🤣🤣🤣
But that's just me and what I look for in a game. If you enjoy the struggle, have at it. At one time, I did too. but after all these years, I'm just over it. It's not fun for me amymore.
I doubt I'll play any of the stalker games. And really, I don't play a lot of the games Gopher does. But I watch all his role play ones. It's better than most of the movie/series that have come out in the past few years. I mean how many times have you seen the " we'll just slip in and slip out, " Then they end up killing everybody? Kinda like this vid except that's a written script. This happens "organically".
Question - can you put the over burdened loot in the stash boxes and come back later? Not sure if the stashes are a one-time container or stay in the world.
my greetings, and good hunting stalker