Stalker 2 is gonna be so fire

After getting one-shotted literally hundreds of time in OP 2 Ive come to appreciate the bullet spongers of classic SOC

Dunno what mods you're using but they appear to be messing up the settings. Enemies shouldn't be that hard to kill.

Recommendation, get a punching bag, the poor desk its crying from the amount of abuse that it gets

Kruglov's always a pain in the ass :D

I was literally playing Clear Sky, man vanilla clear sky... the guns.. the enemies.. well I recommend stockpiling on bandages and upgrading the weapons IF YOU decide to play clear sky, it's pretty important! either way I love STALKER videos, you make the best ones man!

I like that we've been spoiled by how Call of Pripyat had much more realistic damage that we've gladly forgotten how much damage enemies can take in OG SOC PS: Surprised that you forgot that you could Trade a proper rifle for Kruglov, because when he's equipped with one he's an actual BEAST

Well, now people will not call NPC's on vanilla games bullet sponges. They way too tanky. Good episode by the way

My god, i don’t remember the enemies being that bullet spongey…

Friend, I watched this video and I have to give some advice and comments, so - you are in too much of a hurry, and you go on missions not equipped and armed enough, you also ignore the many free caches, with meds, I also advise you to assign to the "hotkey" a quick the use of a first aid kit, for example, on the side keys of the mouse, optical sights for assault rifles will help not only save your ammunition, but will generally increase your combat effectiveness, few people know, but in the vanilla Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl, there is a hidden mechanic, yes, if an NPC gets injured , and falls, releasing the weapon from his hands, then in 99% this weapon will be completely new, (1% that it will be damaged by an accidental shot or an explosion), as when searching a corpse you do not find cartridges for the main weapon, (shotgun , assault or sniper rifle), then carefully examine the weapon next to him - there is a good chance to get an intact weapon. I see you are playing with a mod, based on OGSR, this mod has one interesting thing - the loot in the caches that drop out when searching the corpses varies depending on the level of the killed - from the "newbie" and from the "master" the same cache contains loot of different levels.

Feel free to install any damage mods or edit the files yourself, since the mods you are using make the enemies bullet spongier. Also the stash in the cellar is at the attic iirc.

Tbh, I find that when enemies are in CQC and they don't go down to a gun within seconds, I swap to my knife and go for the face. Works every time from OG STALKER to modded COP to Anomaly to Wind of Time Never underestimate an actual melee weapon. Might help a lot here too, I feel, even with bullet spongy enemies. If nothing else, might stunlock to death (like how I killed Monolith Masters in Anomaly early game)

the game plays a lot more tactically when you modify the damage numbers to be around 1.8. This makes the enemy react in a more believable way to damage and lowers the time to kill. Best to use Anomaly for this. Also, play on the hardest difficulty as this reduces the enemy's health/increases damage.

Wavey you missed the best pistol in the game? There's a unique pistol where you found the family rifle/freeman body in a box literally shoots rifle rounds. Best of luck stalker!

I know this because I played this game 2 months ago with only 2 mods that enhances only the guns and the characters' 3d models but not the game mechanics. Your enemies in shaddow of chernobyl are bullet sponges, on hard difficulty, it will take you 6 head shots to register a death. 25 rounds to the body parts to drop them dead. I had 800 9mm rounds that I took from the boxes on the tower of the vehicle cemetery, I used them all in garbage and the dark valley.

Lets go another banger

I used to run circles around this game on master difficulty as a pre teen, theres 0 chance this game is not modded to be this hard, they should not be such bullet sponges heheh

Strelok has Glassen eyes, so water just rolls off it like off a marble

I usually stash excess loot in the nearby stash (mostly near the exit to the next location) and then may later return to it. Might check that mod because it let you fill stashes with loot instead of getting them randomly from corpses. Balance in this mod is wack and sorry that you have to suffer through this... That stash in the car park in Cordon was under the roof, no idea why it was badly translated.

28:02 wtf💀

i think you should do master difficulty or try another mod, this shit is fucked lol

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Sry I've forgot to ask - how did you fixed that ammo pool mess? Which file and line?

you know what...

Dude this mod is fucked lmao

Hoo-boy! Maybe you should take a break, play something easy and relaxing? Like Elden Ring.

Just a heads-up, the original games and mods are designed around the "master" difficulty, so if you want to avoid bullet sponge enemies, try playing at the highest difficulty. You'll die more quickly, but your enemies will too. But great video man can't wait for you to play Call of Pripyat ❤