Don't you just love when a texture mod throws in a bunch of "other changes" to gameplay just to fuck with you?

"Stalker 1 is going to be coming out pretty soon" - someone in 2004

Vanilla STALKER, hell yeah Well, that mechanic with random ammo is stupid. It should be removed because it adds nothing but frustration. Also it's very weird with damage balance. 9×18 is one shot for the head, but 5.45×39 is 2 or 3. Body shots remained the same from vanilla

I love how we are basically in sync with each other. I start playing into the radius, then the next day you start playing it. Yesterday I decided to revisit SoC, and now you're doing it too!

21:12 missed opportunity to get his silenced AK

We reaching the Wish Granter with this one🗣️🗣️🗣️🗿

The only mod for SoC is ZRP

Repeatedly letting Bes die hits me right in the nostalgia, I had to load that mission SO MANY TIMES first time I played this jank ass game on my dad's horrible laptop in 2009.

Don't forget the combat suit hidden in the Rookie Village

Coof tip - you get better reward for clearing car park from bandits alone. Nades and Fort pistol and more. 23:51 oh look - modders gonna modders and they can't help, but make weird and stupid changes to the game. Bonus point if mod shouldn't change gameplay much. Remember Complete Mod? Same deal. There was a mod that wanted to introduce hand-loaded mags called "Zone of Alienation" and it was a bugged mess. We came REALLY long way since then to Escape from Pripyat I tell you what. Maybe to fix that "pseudo mags system" is to put all ammo in stash/body and take it back to reset?

Epic combat montage at the end :D Yeah you wanna use the barracks as a small-time base when taking out the base. BTW You can sneak up on the base at night and you can sneak the documents AFAIK.

nooo what serious i love you for this

Yo I'm back, my phone broke and just got it fixed today, anyways good video, always love good old shadow of chernobyl Here's a story though, when I played shadow of chernobyl, I had to watch the death truck scene in like 2 fps

YES THE ORIGINAL CLUNKY AHH GAME!

Man why did you upload this just at the eve of the midsummer holiday in Finland :( I'm gonna have to watch it in clips... But anyways, awesome video!

Nice, was thinking of doing some vanilla runs

Nostalgia is gonna be hard with this one. I remember being like 8 years looking at the amazon page for this game... Later bought it brand new for like 15€, because PC games we're actually decently priced in the 10s

29:55 Well in this game it just hurts you, not them 😂

hell yeah

I remember replaying SoC a while back in preperation for STALKER 2 I haven't finished it yet because I feel too lazy for a hell simulator... Edit: I'm too hooked to Anomaly, it's more relaxing. And I ironically wanna play a mod over the original game where I choose not to play with any mods. Am big weird.

Legendary game

Thanks!

WOW WOW WOW

Its wild to see the enhancements subsequent games had. SoC seems to have way more of that stagger effect when youre shooting dudes where as far as I can tell CS and CoP dont do that as much and anomaly dudes just be dropping. Going from just playing SoC for a decade cuz it was such a slog, i never had the emotional energy to play the others until recently and they did feel easier to play because of the less frequent staggering and that they dont force you into labs.

Lets ducking gooo!!!

Um... Did you forget about the escape ladder on the roof of the military base at Agroprom? It leads out to a hole in the wall opposite from where enemies are coming from, as you might recall. Also, yeah, the cheese reloading punishment is bullshit. At least go the EFP route where you do deliberately load ammo into visible magazines instead, since you can prep yourself and consider the reloading carefully, but be rewarded by acquiring bigger mags.

21:05 That's the Fast Shooting AK that Bes dropped if I'm not mistaken, unique weapon, u could've just picked it up :D

Knife gonna see a lot of action here I think lol

Daaaaamn, brother, choosing the path of pain. Rocking an AK to clear that first bandit camp though?!!! Who did you murder to get that? Here I am clearing it with a sawed-off like some hobo shmuck.😆 It's interesting to watch someone else play SoC. You're raging at exactly the same areas I did in my latest runs. SoC has always had spongey enemies and frustrating gunplay until the mid-game (usually around the time you slap a scope on something). AHD2023 appears to make things a little easier. Have you tried Autumn Aurora or Radiophobia 3? Both solid modpacks, though Aurora is more faithful to vanilla.

funny how I just started a replay of the trilogy aswell

yoooo this is sick, you doing a full trilogy play through for Stalker 2?

I did another playthru of this not too long ago. After playing GAMMA for hundreds of hours it feels like a weird fever dream. Other than that I was surprised at how well it still holds up.

Good to see you know how to play classic stalker well. Og trilogy is pretty easy apart from clear sky. The best game in the trilogy. Fight me

34:40 - ❤

H E L L Y E A H

Oh yeah, OG STALKER SoC is pretty fun in its own right still, even if a bit easy now if you know what to do already---once you relearn the jank

I am playing the Russian modified version of this game called new arsenal 6, it's like the op 2.2.

at around 15:40, they Only turn Hostile when you engaged conversation with them, either that or game went Spaghetti Code there for a second

I never aimed for head in this game unless i got GP37 or any other 5.56 rifles.

oh yeah, trip down the memory lane. Played it on my Pentium 4 on lowest setting 😂 hooked on S.T.A.L.K.E.R G.A.M.M.A at the moment

There should be an FPS game that parodies video game logic and lame tropes like aiming over the rear sight instead of through it with the muzzle tilted up, cocking guns with a round already chambered, ditching mags with every reload, leaving folding or collapsible stocks in their storage position for no reason, and all that sort of thing. And it should have the effect it would have IRL. 6:09 Of course, they ruined the sawed-off TOZ-66 by doing it Clear Sky/CoP-style. Why'd they do that?! The way it was in 'nilla ShoC was correct. Even better in older versions of Lost Alpha. You aimed straight down the rib and thumbed the hammers back with yer thumb. Yer not 'sposed ta palm those hammers back with the palm. They're shaped for being thumbed back with the thumb. I'll never understand why they screwed that up, and I'll never understand why some modders or whoever else think that that's how it should be done. The oldness or the newness of a methodology, technique, etc. isn't what matters. What matters is correctness, results, substance. And yeah, I know that totally sounds like a Duty-like perspective. Well, so be it! Note: On top of that, you palm the hammers back BEFORE shutting the barrels! I've never even seen the fuddest of fudds do that! 8:18 And 40-mils too! "It's 40-Miller time!" 14:38 What's even the point of using a shotgun?! How and why did they screw it up like that?! Let me guess. They made it so you HAVE to use rifles against human enemies, and you HAVE to use shotguns against mutants. And slugs and darts are basically pointless. So buckshot only. 16:20 Knife more effective than gun. That's beyond video game logic! 18:07 Bes dun got hisself cacked! If recall, it was hard to keep him alive in Oblivion Lost 2010. 19:59 Clip size?! CLIP size?!! Seriously?! How insulting! A clip is a device, other than a speedloader, used for loading a magazine or cylinder. 22:19 It has to have at least one round in it for NPC A.I. to recognize it as usable. There are other parameters too, but they're hard to explain. Not really hard, but it requires an essay to explain it, and I've already written an essay here. 23:40 How insulting to be punished by people who refer to magazines as clips. 31:04 Confirmation on what I speculated on at timestamp [ 14:38 ]. So basically MegaMan rules. Specific weapons (and/or ammo types) for specific enemies. 32:16 "It's like Christmas!" ~Roland, Borderlands 1 32:36 Was there no box in the corner of Strelok's hideout? In OG 'nilla ShoC, there's a box that contains a stalker suit. 36:20 Let me guess. They added in all these CoP-style animations, but they didn't add weapon or armor repair (even though other ShoC mods add that). 37:46 Turned into TF2 Scout for a moment there. 🙃 39:04 "Catch you on the flip-flop." ~Bruce Campbell

Wavey, how did you record this. Maybe streaming is different than a game capture but i cannot record SoC video with OBS, it shows black screen. Or you using a different recording software?

You listened to me for once.

My advice to you is to break every single box you come across, it will contain hidden loot, if the mods that you added didn't touch the content of these boxes, also when you reach the wild territory, if you go to the tunnel with the electro anomalies you will find 2 black kites (desert eagles) and ammunition for it near the body of Gordon Freeman.

got the same mod as you but for some reason when first talking with wolf at the start, I get 90 milion rubles, seva and an ak. How to fix it? Cannot find as of why it would be like that. Also its a steam version of stalker but seems to work

If you want to kill in 1 or 2 headshot you have to play in master difficulty.

You should've installed the mods that fixes most of the bugs but keeps it vanilla

You should play OGSR at some point, along with oblivion lost remake 3.0 (or 2.5 if 3.0 is too hard)

Not as hard as I am right now

Wonder if you will get the true ending ❤

That magazine mechanic is kind dumb because there's no way your to "unload" those used magazines also, you should've gone master difficulty

Hah theres no way this game was this hard when I played it last at Master difficulty, you definitely did some modding to make it this way eh? Because at Master difficulty youre just as good at killing them as they are at you, should be no bullet sponges.

Idk why that mod just fucked your game like that but I highly recommend you just complete mod and maaaaaaaybe a weapon mod

have to say it, speaker in english is waaay worse then polish or russian one lol