He is not leaning. Why is he not leaning? LEAN, BOY. LEEEAAAN!

>there's something wrong with the audio No, the audio is now perfect Товарищ

In this video I learned that Strat is not ready for the world of eurojank. Now I wait for the EYE video.

In a perfect world.... men like me would not exist... but this is not a perfect world.

Why would anyone NOT want to hear russian in STALKER as default?! wtf

"trash or treasure" Treasure If stalker 2 isn't a janky shitfest it's getting a 0/10 outta me my man

I watched all of Tarkovsky' Stalker in one sitting. Did not find it as boring as some ppl make it out to be but definitely not something u watch multiple times a year or even decade.

2:30 in the video. My tip: use GoG for old games. Most of them have the "fan" stability patches already installed or sometime even the GoG team themselves patched the games for current hardware. Saves you a lot of trouble and time. Also better mod compatibility.

Q and E will allow you to actually lean around corners instead of sidestepping in and out like ive seen in your gameplay

You should shave switched to *SEMIAUTO* when shooting from a distance, if you want to hit something and preserve ammo. Sure the early weapons are gargabe either way and mosty only effective at closer range. But as soon as you get any of the more decent guns, using semiauto together with low crouch can be very effective. It really should have been the default setting on a lot of the rifels.

Now play Stalker Anomaly

Tweaking this game is like an arcane art using forbidden slavic magic, and once you become somewhat adept it is the most empowering feeling ever.

the engine and AI were so ahead of their time, game has atmosphere like no other and the modding scene for it is hot. 15 years after

Master difficulty > Stalker difficulty

Stalker is one of those games I know I need to play and that I know I’ll grow to love but still haven’t just out of sheer intimidation.

If you are going to play, as you said, counter-strike-like, then yes, stalker difficulty is the way to go. Master is much more rewarding, but you have to completely change your play style to stealth. If you are getting oneshot on the stalker already, it will be easier to deal with the enemies. Grind to buy military armor or exoskeleton in the Bar. Use a pistol more, don't rely solely on rifles, save the ammo. Carry a sniper rifle. Use more grenades, they are deadly as fuck on master. Get used to peak around every corner given that you have a decent peak option with Q and E. Use your binoculars more, it can help highlight enemies. Plan your every move. Edit: turn on the toggle crouch option, boy

There's lots of problems with how you play the game. Most noticeably was the combat. I rarely even see you peeking from cover, which reduces the space they can hit you. Second is the fact you're aiming at their body, armor exists, and theres not a lot of ammo, and you're shooting center mass. If you actually go for headshots, you'll notice they go down in like 2-3 shots, and your gun will be less damaged cause you shot less bullets than spraying down.

I havent played stalker in atleast like 10-12 years. But i dont remember aiming being so hard. If i remember it was just like burst everyones heads and its always like 1 shot kill. Felt like the first shot or two always hit exactly where your crosshair was.

The aim dispersion is just immersion. Since you are roleplaying as a drunken vatnik searching for vodka money, your aim will naturally wander.

Switching weapons to semi-auto does a lot to help accuracy issues.

I only played S.t.a.l.k.e.r Call of Pripyat, I liked it and played it for 10 or so hours(?). A few years later I started playing Anomaly and never looked back.

0:00 yeah, Stalker developement wasn't that great but at least their boss (Sergiey) could buy more Pepsi gadgets and sport car(s) while rest of the developers barely earned a scarps... Nice you tested some mods. Everybody and their babushkas tell you to play with Complete mod because it makes the game looks better. What they will not tell you are gameplay changes. Pity that MooZe is not responsible for the soundtrack for STALKER 2,

>steam doesn't delete the contents of the STALKER folder even when uninstalling the game Ah, just like Dead Island Riptide

modding it so the player and the enemies are one-shotty is the way to go

The atmosphere of stalker is truly masterful, it's janky as fuck in all other aspects (tho i appreciate some of it), but i loved the game just because of it's atmosphere

This is one of the few game related channel i still watch. The content is par excellence

Master difficulty is the only one that exists. Get out of here Stalker.

I unironically think the shooting in stalker games (at least chernobyl and pripyat) is about as real feeling as games can get outside of vr. Almost feels ARMA like in that you cant really tell what's going on where you're shooting and you can seemingly spray down a fella but hes running around still. Just makes it even more immersive when you notice their breathing is strained, or they limp away I love these games

Man I pirated these games and didn't have as many issues as you did

Steam doesn't delete folders added by mods. Thats why Autumn Aurora was still installed after you re-download.

Hey strat thanks for making this.. ive been watching your videos and its been helping me getting threw my cat being sick and having to be put down. Your videos always put a smile on my face

Try Stalker "Lost Alpha". It's essentially what S.T.A.L.K.E.R was supposed to be, before alot of content was cut. People worked on it for like a decade. Oh, and it's free.

Call of Chernobyl is where its at. I love me some StalkerCoC!! Especially with the added dynamic factions, missions, and weapons mods.

Played this when it first came out. I was like 16. Always liked it. My 16 year old brain was like “derr Russian fallout”

cheeki breeki intensifies ...

Did he forget the q and e keys? Honestly I only use master difficulty,one headshot kills anything and less resources makes fights more tense and makes you buying stuff more thoughtful,end game was not so good with fights to be honest,it was fun shooting guys with eltric sniper hit hax but it doesn't hold a candle to the other gunfights I play stalker vanilla and modded and I just can't get enough

Yes! I asked for this, so happy you did it. I know it's rough my man

"If you play it on any other difficulty other then stalker" Wrong. Master is literally the only way to fucking play.

Some people say there's a "magic bullet" system which kind of means you can only do good headshots if you wait one second between shots (I believe this time period is a variable somewhere in the game files). If you shoot sooner, your bullet isn't magic, and you can't do good headshot damage. So maybe that could be why bursts don't work too well while onetapping everyone in the head sometimes does. Some people also said that some parts of the npcs bodies don't take any damage, like toes and fingers. So when an npc is staggered and puts their hand in front of their chest? There's a higher chance to hit the arms for less damage, or fingers for no damage.

OGSR, Lost Alpha DC, Anomaly. Here. Good luck with that Mr.Eurojunk

Today we download stalker, tomorrow, we install 49.7gb of mods

the exoskeleton dudes are not that tanky, they can tank an entire mag, but if you hit headshots you can kill them in like 3 bullets, if you can't, that's skill issue

To be honest, I watched Tarkovskys Stalker before ever hearing about this game, I've watched it 3 times total, never having a break in the middle of the movie. I'm also a big fan of his other work like Solaris & Andrei Rublev

Check how S.T.A.L.K.E.R. veterans play. Now compare it with your gameplay. Sorry, but your just not playing it the way you should. Gunplay is crushing. Taking cover, leaning, taping and bursting headshots its the only way you can survive. Honestly, S.T.AL.K.E.R. is just not for casual players. That's why its a real cult classic. Underneath all the bugs and jank, this is one of the most original FPS titles ever made and truly a underrated masterpiece. You won't find the same atmosphere in any other video game. The story and the lore is simple, yet unique and captivating. The moding community is huge and still very active.

They should have put some sort of safe spot / base / ammo dump at the Brain Scorcher. It’s videogamey, but it works.

I beat the whole game on Master and never had any problems with aiming, bullet sponges etc. All you have to do is switch to single-fire mode at mid to long range and aim for the head and you can take most guys out with 1 or 2 bullets. Save automatic for closer range encounters or mutants.

Call of Pripyat next? Maybe even Clear Sky?

He didn't even talk about the knife, it basically does what the sledge in red faction guerrilla does, but in a single hit.

Thanks for the fixed re-upload!

I only played the game at max difficulty. My style was being crouched everywhwere, and 1 shot killed almost everything with sniper rifles at max view distance. I wasn't used to bullet drop caused by gravity, but that was not a problem by the end. The game conditioned me to aim so high that targets were not visible through the scope. The most extreme case was probably aiming 20' over the target at my max draw distance. Gaining skill at sniping heads lead to a huge surplus of ammo, because I used only 1 bullet per target.

The Brain Scorcher was made unintentionally easy in Anomaly. I dropped about 40 IEDs through the rooms and as soon as I pulled the lever, about half of the enemies died.

I hope youve been happier since you left EA. Really enjoying your channel!

Another entertaining and informative video regarding a cool game I don't have a PC to play on

Truly recommend the ZRP patch for Soc and CS, especially for CS. Think of them as the unofficial patches for the Elder Scrolls game. You can play vanilla but sooner or later the issues will get to ya.

Lean and Head-shot, that's all you need to learn about the combat basic

Last time I played Stalker it was Master and I was very careful in the opening hours, after getting some solid gear and a scope things got heaps better. I didn't have issues with ammo after I started collecting goods to sell and stock up on Heal Kits and ammo but I did have to almost exclusively headshot so over time that helped to reduce ammo consumption. Unfortunately I got distracted and didn't finish.

Wow a blast from the past. Still have my brick and mortar store bought small box copy (I miss the big boxes. It's like when CDs started coming out and it was bye bye Big Sleeve Vinyl albums ). Then again, I still have all the boxed games I ever bought for decades now. I'm gunna need a bigger room. 😁

Just go for headshots and all your bullet-sponge issues will vanish. Like, wtf.

I love these games. Though my one complaint is the "time to aim" aspect of weapon damage.

Shadow of CHernobyl has the most quotable line in the series, when the guy just outside the bandit base at the beginning says "Come men, it is time to go and be heroes." No matter what happens after that, it'll all come down to the ammo : medkits & bandages ratio. And in the end, that super-duper heavily modified custom rifle you spent all your money on will be lying on the ground somewhere while you carry on with one of the enemy's guns because you don't have any ammo left for your own. Also, in regard to bullet-sponges, I used to think the enemies were all super-spongey too, but then I discovered armour piercing ammunition. Now they're only moderately spongey.

Love your work man. You are excellent.

No pistols, no shotguns, just VSS Vintorez, VLA, FN2000 and Groza. I felt the game was fine on Master difficulty, I liked it alot. Sometimes sniper rifles were fine, but the occasions to really use them are just too are, to run around with an extra 12 kg in your backpack.

Well, GSC old office was in a former factory, so you got that one right.

I am new to stratgey productions and I have to say I binged watched everry single video some videos I watched 2 to even 10 times(usually when I want to go to sleep lol) And after every game here exclduing thief , I go for a instintly reinstall the game while moding the games to hell And seeing the next video and doing it all again, and I just want to say thank you strat for the amazing life I have now where I feel less empty and more happy because of this while watching your bg2 video for the 11th time right before I go to sleep.

one of my favorite games of all time.

I never imagined anyone could have so many problems with that game. I just started it... and played it....and everything was fine

Yep still holds up, playing and loving in 2024

I know for sure that your channel is treasure!

I’m genuinely worried that if STALKER 2 drops and ISN’T an over-ambitious technical mess, it’ll paradoxically feel like it’s broken because I’ve spent years playing in accordance with the game’s fucked up moon logic (zone logic?). If the enemy AI doesn’t have their xray specs set to shrubbery mode or their magic bullet-fuck-you-through-the-level-geometry gloves, I don’t know if I’ll be able to adjust. What if the pseudogiant’s ground-pound attack doesn’t somehow shoot up vertically to damage me while I’m far above it on a suspended catwalk? This IP’s brand identity is glitches. Ambition, atmosphere, but also a fuckton of glitches. It’s a bit of a development quandary.

power of todd can effect other post apocalyptic games too or fantasy maybe

Pro tip and spoiler maybe. In the army warehouse area in an attic of a building you get one of the best sniper weapon and the Duty missions in rail yard bar area give you ammo for it.

Why was the Generation Kill clip so low res? That's funny

This is the grizzled grandfather of Tarkov.

Can’t wait for Strat to do a review of Heart of Chernobyl

Pro tip: Buy the third installment Stalker: Call of Pripyat, slap the Gunslinger mod on it and enjoy one of the best looking and animated games even in 2021. If you are only a bit interested in the whole Stalker thing but the jankiness holds you back, just do it! *The gunslinger mod is almost completely in English although the mod site says that there is no English translation! (Some story-line radio calls are in Russian without subtitles. Maybe that's what they meant.

Pls do Anomaly someday, it’s the best iteration of stalker to date and it’s free

I love how this game is still relevant. GSC truly created something incredible. Edit: After watching the video, I must suggest using ZRP mod and Arsenal Overhaul mod. ZRP helps a TON with bugfixes and making the game more enjoyable to play overall. The Arsenal Overhaul replaces all guns in game with higher textured, real life variants of weapons that feel much more authentic to use. If you had those 2 mods installed, almost every complaint you made in this video would not have been made.

wait, you don't use the lean key? q or e?

BTW in 1:44 the map is a bit off, there's no Galicia anymore for example, now it's divided between Poland and Ukraine, Poland also regained another little parts it used to own. Other eastern euro countires have a bit different borders too, It's the pre-world war map, not sure which century now, but there were lots of changes the last few hundred year, lot's of blood spilled over those borders. There're few unifying things, one of which is our love of crpgs and clunky design, for example Gothic series and Stalker series were huuuge bestsellers in central and eastern Europe, as well as infinity engine games.

Hey Strat! If you're ever in the mood to punish your brain with this game again, here are 2 tricks to make your time a little more bearable: - 1) Use cover that you peek over to shoot. If you have to side peek, use the lean function. You only take 20% damage from a headshot. You take 100% damage if you get hit even in your little toe. So stick your neck out in this game but keep everything else in cover. 2) If you want accuracy, ADS only after a half-second after stopping your movement. The engine is a little slow, and if you ADS too quickly after changing movement speeds it doesn't update the parameters and you'll have the same level of accuracy as your last movement. So good luck hitting anything if you're quick scoping from a full sprint. So generally, sprint to cover/stop/peek over and shoot, and you'll probably have an easier time with those gun battles. I spent about 2 years modding Stalker to weed out many of the issues you've pointed out because the AI and atmosphere offered so much potential. During that time modding, I noticed the absolutely ridiculous character damage chart used in the vanilla game. Give it a try!

I have the same love-hate relationship with the game. It was hyped as a ground breaking survival rpg experience and came out as a half baked shooter, which took a lot of endurance and determination not to quit after couple of hours in and I went through entire movie in one go so I’m not a quitter lol

This was sooner that I expected. And you're right, the film was very difficult to watch for me on first viewing, but something about it's eeriness grew on me.

Got the series on the steam sale cuz saw the stalker2 trailer and was like i need to play the first 3 and so just finished the first game and ran into the same issue you mentioned with horrible armor and low amo and guns jamming at the end lol pissed me off but still loved the game lol

My man is playing Cogmind I see, nice, really a great game

If you find a few Mama's Bead Artifacts you will become quite bulletspongey.

lol the movie is pleasant to fall asleep to, you mentioned it's like the OG R6 but you haven't used any of the tactics that you would need to pass those games

i still play this game to this day

Soooo...Gothic next ? I love first two Gothics and i would love your review.

I have the vanilla disc and some how it runs amazing on my shity computer

One does not need mods to appreciate the treasure that is STALKER

For Clear Sky I would recommend the Mystery Mod 2.0 OGSM 1.8 combo, Mystery for the graphical overhaul, but also OGSM if you want it to feel real punishing. (There's also manually making Mystery 2.0 + Zone Reclamation Project if you want to have it be less punishing and not need to apply bandages every 5 seconds. Also contains a lot more bug fixes. There's also a guy who remade the shaders for all the STALKER games which gave them a lot more depth here sites.google.com/site/kingo64ssite/Home/optimised-game-shaders/stalker-shaders-max---clear-sky

There´s only one difficulty - Master! And make sure, to keep your weapons on single fire most of the time. Makes you headshot easier. Neat side effect - you will never run out of ammo ;)

Autumn Aurora 2.1 is the best mod for Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl albeit it doesn't run very well on modern hardware (Maybe just me) I love hardcore mods. Also, small tidbit but I've always found that playing without the crosshair enabled immensely improves immersion. Also, I don't want to disagree with your opinion but I do believe master is probably the best difficulty option. The enemies are less bullet spongey than in the gameplay of your vid and accuracy atleast felt more accurate to me over the course of 100's of hours of gameplay alternating between vanilla/modded and stalker/master difficulty. I might be misremembering the accuracy of weapons in vanilla however as I personally haven't played vanilla SoC in a pr long time now.

its a treasure disguised as trash. but its the best trash out there youll never be the same after playing it

can you make a video about kotor 2?

As a seasoned stalker player i never had a problem with ammo. I never even bought ammo in any game from trilogy in my numerous playtrhoughs

I loved the atmosphere and I nearly finished Shadow of Chernobyl, but then I reached a city filled with bullet spongey jumping zombies and campy fuckers that one-shotted me waiting for me behind every corner and so I just gave up.

Now play it with mods like Anomaly. In Anomaly you can choose your faction from the start, game is a lot more open and focused on free roaming, locations from all games are avalible, plenty of new weapons, graphical improvements and so on. Its a competly different experience, superior imo. I cant go back to unmodded Starlker games.

Satlker is one of the very few movies where 2 hour long dolly shots of a tree are not only acceptable but they're also necessary, сука. Also, people actually died from cancer while filming it, have some respect. But seriously, look up it's production history. Crazy stuff. Anyway, good video man.

Video uploaded 57 seconds ago. What a rush of euphoria!