Any tips on how to convince the voices to stop after losing an iron man run that lasted more than 12 minutes?

Nah what

Hat's off to you man, that is some serious dedication... or madness, maybe a bit of both:D

At that point your “I think” is only a 3 precent more actual thoughts, then an zombified stalker have.

he obviously save scummed the players that play ironman even laugh when you bring up save scumming cause they all do it and then they act like its so hard to play @@smejkoondrejko

Also if you hover your cursor over the different resistances long enough and don't move it, it'll display what resistance it is and information about it.

I think the radiation builds up over time. Like it'll be white for a while when standing on water then turn yellow then red and will damage your hp.

i wish i had the patience to play it like that

I had no idea about the fast travel, thank you so much

ah! Red Forest.. the place I won't touch until I can maintain 10KGs of bandages, med kits, ibuprofen, coke and morphine at all times.

@@kebubas you know you’re going to the red forest when you’re more equipped with meds you’ll burn through in five minutes than the ammo you’ll need to compensate for all the fighting you’ll be doing.

I ended up in the red forest, thinking it would be a shortcut. What a surprise that turned out to be

@@josedorsaith5261 I mean it did save your character like 40 years of life

Also the bottom right corner on the screen is a zoom in and out buttons

you can also use R

i needed to read this so long ago

Thank you

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It’s also seamless as shit. If you fast travel within the same area it’s instant. I was shocked when I first did it. Cause you literally just put the pda down and you’re there.

if its gamma, its not in the "settings" but MCM, it's called Fair Fast Travel. The one from the settings will bug the game

@@skyjr13Ik I’m late but I also like how it still depletes health

100% agree. it's amazing what they were able to achieve

From realistic point of view GAMMA makes much more sense because if getting powerfull equipment was so easy, then why all of the stalkers wearing shit like homeless (they are homeless, but still)

@@kordroll1955 It doesn't makes much sense in the OG games either. You are in the #1 country of armaments Black Market in Europe, and no one is able to buy some old soggy ass AK-47? Most of the guns Shadow of Chernobyl offers you at the start are actually harder to find. It's just game design philosophy and it works, because the OG stalker games are not meant to be milsims. But when you get to make a milsim, forcing this artificial boundary on the player for gameplay's sake just breaks immersion, then excusing it that it has anything to do with common sense or logic is just plain stupid.

@@StalkerQtya well, expecting logic from a video game based on fictional book is already stupid. I'm just saying if player can get equipment so easily than why NPCs doesn't have it. I'm not talking about main character bs from CoP, CS or SoC where player is "one man army". In GAMMA you are just a regular stalker so fact that regular stalker (player) can get much better equipment than other regular stalkers (NPCs) in less than a week is quite ridiculous

@@kordroll1955 That's game balance thing and you have to count on the game will be a game to some point. I say, that arguing about OG game stalkers not advancing and getting better gear is due to the game not being an overly realistic milsim, but a game with a clear progress-route in mind from the devs, that you should not be able to get high-end gear at the starting zone and very few NPC's should have gear what could make the game overly difficult at the start to you or offer a way to give the player mid-game gear right off the start. Similar problem you can find in Fallout 4, where Bethesda just drops you a fully functional, pre-war power armour at the beginning of the game and keeps throwing at you pre-war weapons, making makeshift power armour and pipe weapons meaningless. GAMMA does not make sense. They have a very clear definition of forcing the player to scavenge and engage with the crafting system, to make the game harder and slow down progress. That's it. There is no reason why you shouldn't be able to just do regular Anomaly route and if you want to spend more money just to avoid crafting do that. The mod would be perfectly fine without the forced crafting system. And it's not even an optional feature, it's built into the mod and you can not turn it off.

It also gets cheaper to buy items & use services as you level up your trust with a faction

i love how it feels like an rpg, i hate the crafting too at first but when you get kited out it feels so satosfying

It's even better on ironman. The feeling of progress and narrowly surviving all odds, and the tension that forms as you get further and further in, afraid to lose EVERYTHING if you die really makes it far more immersive in my opinion than just being able to go back on old saves. I'm an ironman junkie at this point lmao. It's all I play.

It ieven better, because you feel like you actually assembled the weapon yourself, you put the time and care into making a great tool that you can use

There’s no high like finding a weapon that requires a toolkit you don’t have the tools for with a green barrel love fixing advanced/type D weapons with nothing but basic tools

Actually, you don't even need to make it to Expert tools - cleaning kits can repair guns above 15-25% condition IIRC (can't recall the exact value), and these are sold from the getgo. That's how I got my fully upgraded Steyr SSG in Cordon in the bum phase :) Seriously, when I found out you don't need weapon repair kits (like in hellhole Misery) life opened up to me in such a way I cannot describe with words.

I completely agree. The crafting system in GAMMA seems overwhelming at first glance, but once you realize it clearly tells you what you need to craft each and every thing you want, as well as going as far to highlight anything you are carrying, the vendor is selling, or you have in your stash that is related to that crafting, the experience becomes so much easier. It gives a real sense of satisfaction when you manage to repair a gun you've had your eye on using or a great armor you found and been working towards repairing, much more so than just slaving away at missions for a couple hours until you've collected enough money to buy a full set of gear.

instead we slave away at missions to get stash coordinates xD@@Apoxias

Just started playing GAMMA and after many deaths and a few hours of playing, I still have barely made it out of the starting area in Cordon. By this point in a normal or oblivion lost playthrough, id be at the junkyard by now. Even 2v1 Combat is punishing if you go about it wrong, and everything is very dangerous, even a dog. Maybe im going about things the wrong way, but I barely walk down the road and get ganked. Personally, I like it, its an extremely tactical approach to stalker that requires proactive thinking and planning. For the record, all of my settings are on default out of the box. Maybe my loadout is shit, maybe im just an idiot, but im having fun and extremely captivated playing the dark souls of stalker and thats all that matters.

I really like the Artifact melter. I have three locker boxes next to the Yantar bunker and I pour all my artifacts into it. STALKERs, Mutants and Anomolies stand no chance.

​@@Polaf3456 GAMMA is a cake walk compared to misery, and progresses as fast as you want it to. I know someone who got expert tools in pripyat in 5 ingame days

one thing to note; true stalker uses openxray which runs 10000000x better (64 bit engine with less slavic jank)

@@prodalumi true! I have not encountered a single crash yet, and i'm halfway through zar.. zra.. er, the military dude's part

i loved it but the ending broke me :(

@@Blap7 chapter 7 i believe

@@prodalumi So does Anomaly. Pretty sure they both use the exact same Monolith engine.

It would be nice if more creative story mods outside of freeplay mods got more attention.

"more people seeing thing i like" is good on paper but you can see the fruits of that particular idea when you take a peek at the gamma community. A horde of tarkov rejects that dismiss nearly everything that makes stalker what it is, cherry pick the few functions they like and expand upon those in their own perspective (grindy, hard and complicated or alternatively upping the polygon count of everything in an effort to 'enhance' the atmosphere) then belittle the players that prefer og trilogies story oriented gameplay. Oh yeah and most of these people didnt even touch any of the original games, how nice.. Gamma and by extension anomalies communities have brutal doom syndrome in my opinion, BD community is notorious for being droolers that want every doom mod to have compatibility with their "definitive" way of playing. Shoutouts to operator slopski for milking his tarkov rejects with gamma, hes getting that bag

​​@@gemtownMANCHURIA Gamma and anomaly players betlittle OG players" *10 seconds later* "dem Tarkov Rejects ruining my game bc putting 40 years old Soviet optics on a AKM is too much tacticool milsim tryhard, and fk operator drewski he didn't do anything wrong except he committed the ultimate sin of being a popular youtuber covering a mod that suited his personal taste, he should have covered instead that niche 2009 slav mod that made an eurojank game even jankier because that's the true way of experience this abstract form of intellectual easter european art". Bruh... the moment that Stalker received any kind of renewed attention during the last few years, it was a sect of OG players that started a Circlejerk about "Le Real Stalker" targeting anything Anomaly Related over doomer feelings that Stalker 2 was going to be influenced by the "Anomaly Tacticool larpers" and the general knee jerk reaction that a underrated semi forgotten franchise get a little a bit love but no because the og games, instead a different interpretation which in the OG players sect it sparked the "people like B so they must hate A" brainrot. On the other hand some of these reaction are understandable because half of newcomers flooded the subreddit and other every stalker forum with dumb questions about lore that were explained in the og games, and SOMEHOW these same newcomers didn't notice that anomaly it's a mod and not a canon game. But besides that, the reason anomaly it's so popular to newcomers it's that: 1) It's Free 2) Gameplay Generally Feels Good 3) compared to OG games anomaly it's easier to get into without having to deal with the acquired taste elements of the OG games (Clear Sky Gunplay it's a perfect example of what I'm talking about) Generally speaking OG Elistists treat the original series with extremely rose tinted glasses ignoring that at least the first two games are really wonky and require patience to get into (even for the time they released)CoP is mostly fine though to the story feels like a fever dream. I mean Even E.Y.E Divine Cybermancy (another Eurojank Gem) feels better to play that Stalker SoC/CS... and also generally Elistists discredit every new interpretation of the formula because it's not of their personal taste so that means it's bad and it must be rejected because if not stalker 2 is gonna be Tarkov 2, which is never going to happen considering how different these two games are. Funny that you mentioned the old Brutal Doom drama... because after a few years both communities (the purist Prboom and Chocolate Doom players against the Gzdoom players ) managed to coexist without any controversy at all, keep in mind that nobody gatekeeps doom (almost impossible to do) and the majority of people just enjoy both, it came without the expense of neither of one and the most aggravating group (the "I only play gzdoom mods" players) are a joke and nobody takes them seriously, in fact vanilla Doom is perfecly thriving alongside the popular gzdoom mods like Brutal Doom, PB, LITdoom etc. I don't understand why you pull "Brutal Doom ruined Doom Community" as an analogy to what gamma and anomaly are in relation to OG trilogy Stalker.

@@veronicacampos1294damn i aint reading allat shit, none of my opinions are meant to be objective so yes FUCK TARKOV REJECTS FUCK OPERATOR SLOPSKI and FUCK CLEAR SKY!! GATEKEEP EVERYTHING.

If I remember correctly, STALKER always had one of the most gatekeeping puritan communities since all the way back to SoC. Even if a minority, they were the vocal ones. I'm a STALKER veteran and still I say GAMMA is THE definitive way to play STALKER these days with the amount of options/settings it provides, even though the missions get repetitive, esp if you are like me and like to hoard coveted mission items like drugs, mutant parts, ciggies and porn mags.

Last Day was the base for Anomaly. But god be damned, whoever developed the 64-bit Anomaly engine didn't choose CoC as a base, instead he chose a random mod of it. If it wasn't for that, Anomaly would have been even more moddable than it currently is.

As far as I'm aware, besides maybe Pokemon, no other game series has this many fanmade, fully complete standalone games.

@@xXMapleVodkaXx I'd agree with you. There are massive flow charts you can look up for exactly what kind of experience you want in stalker and there are at the very least like 40 full game modifications out there, not all in English though.

why ppl love it? oh boy... who's gonna tell him thats only the youtube guys that like gamma.... you go to more degenerate places on the internet like discord, reddit, or 4chan (especially 4chan the stalker fans there dont even like stuff like lost alpha or coc) and people HATE it

@@nomenium it has quite good stats and double optics. In my second playthrough I used AKS+74U Tactician until I found AK-12 Monolith

How did you install gamma? I keep getting an error during extracting it

@@nomenium I hate to break it to you bud but looking at people's opinions on message boards and obscure discord groups populated by terminally online mentally ill people who refuse to seek professional help isn't really the best metric for measuring the popularity of a thing. Matter of fact if you go ask 4chan pretty much everything, including taking showers, talking to people, touching grass, going outside in general and cleaning your disgusting house, sucks ass. I would know because I used to frequent the place back when I was a terminally online mentally ill person who refused to seek professional help.

@@k1llerlunat1c78 What kind of error? Did you playtest it despite this? How many mods do you have active on MO2? Generally the discord has everything you need to know, I'd recommend asking there as well, don't forget to properly describe your exact issue though, those people get A LOT of requests for help, and they barely have time to respond as it is, so it helps immensely to have all the basics covered. Most issues I've had were network related, you may need to re-download / re check your installation. As long as you have the correct amount of mods activated after installation everything should be fine.

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hearing that one track in the soundrack with the cat "meow" still makes me twitch... although the crows.. the crows gave me legitimate PTSD, as my heart would skip a beat every time I heard a crow IRL after playing GAMMA for a few days.

Overall quality is quite mediocre though, hence "strongest" and not "biggest". Anomaly aims to be the definitive experience; which won't mean including everything by everyone.

@@ArchOfficial Well it is an acquired taste, but I find Anomaly incredibly shallow and boring compared to soup mods like OP. Anomaly doesn't aim to be the "definitive" stalker experience because aimless freeplay with randomly generated quests are as far from the main games as you can get. It's like saying Garry's Mod is the definitive Half-life 2 experience

@@tonic503 Yeah, correction, they claim "customizable", not definitive. Coulda sworn that was the line before. Bit more accurate this way, anyway. I'd argue STALKER's core is in the overworld A-life interaction and underworld dungeons. Both are retained in Anomaly and improved. The story is just fluff on top of that IMO. Most story missions in STALKER are just CoD-y action shoot em up sections with highly scripted gameplay. The only interesting part is the text delivered story. This is largely how True Stalker is as well. Anomaly also retains a lot of the text based story, it's just not as extensive. There's nothing wrong with being linear and setpiece based, but it doesn't play to the strengths of the IP. I found Metro 2033 underwhelming due to precisely that. Now before someone argues something about the novel or the film, the games have nothing in common and retain zero of the aesthetic or atmosphere.

@@ArchOfficial Perhaps this is the way English speaking fans see it, I've never realized it before. I think the English translation in the OG games is extremely subpar in terms of conveying the atmosphere, which is why it's no wonder that most western fans disregard the plot as fluff. I personally was always encapsulated by the story and setting, seeing the gameplay as an accessory. This is also probably why there are hundreds of fan books for Stalker in russian and like two natively in English. I've also just now realized that this is the reason western Stalker fanfiction most often centers around survival and jobbing instead of grand action movie plots lol

@@tonic503 The plot is interesting; the story is fluff. It's not so important that the Marked One talks to this Duty guy and shoots this Bandit to me. It doesn't even matter who the main character is or if there is any at all. A lot of people seem to agree which is why Anomaly has succeeded. The plot in Anomaly is quite in-line with the maingames, but it has less story, if that makes sense. Although I would argue 99% of Anomaly players don't actually know the story either way. As someone who does and has played all the mainline games I still see it as secondary to the interactive elements, though. Maybe the translation is bad as you say. The dialogue sure is.

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