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I just searched your channel because I thought it was odd I didn’t see any ITR2 content from you. Lo and behold it didn’t show up in my algorithm for some reason. This game is awesome. Checking your vids out now.

if you have the time during combat, press and hold the mag release it will retain the magazine, exceptions may include certain rifles, but for handguns it works it will allow you to grab it and not lose it.

I don't have much free time to spend on TH-cam but I really like to spend it listening your journal and discovering this amazing game. I am a total follower of your "politic view": live and let live. Haters gona hate it but... who cares! Just enjoy your life and help others to be happy. Big hugs Pesty!

I wonder if grenades can destroy these shock anomalies...

Truth always angers fools.

Only 16 off my number!

With all respect, can you please exclude IRL things, in reality we all equally hate, ok ? Thank you

hi Pest, really enjoyed the vid, great content. Thanks.

I don't like election year stuff. Too much shitting on the other guy from both sides. - Vote for me because that guy bad * what are your policies? - Does it matter? As I'm still the better candidate * That doesn't answer anything - I approve this message because that guy bad

I'm on the road for a holiday, I'll watch the episode when I'm home, but I saw the upload ^^

As usual, some thoughts of mine, in no particular order or context: If it feels like you're definitely faster you definitely are! Having the starter gear on hits you with 520 item weight right out of the gate, not counting for the item on your left arm or a weapon you have drawn, putting you instantly at -20% run speed. As far as keeping your head on a swivel, you're still Security Level 1, and the Zone is always changing... 😈 It's been so darn long since I've been on a road trip. Last one I took was with my brother about six years ago, and I'd love to see a different state again. Abridged opinion: Social media is a toilet. As stated on some other vids (maybe even yours? hard to keep track...) the shotguns are so good now. Even buckshot puts in the work, and overall they play really smooth; especially compared to ITR1. That awesome fight on the peninsula was just a taste! The craziest fight thus far I had was out there in the forest at night (not that much of a spoiler since there's literally only two zones right now). Reposition, reposition, reposition! The AI is much better in this game and that works both for and against them (and you). I think the word that you used, 'fair', sums it up pretty darn good with rare exception given to glitches here and there. Early access being early access, and whatnot. They are actually working on the mag grab by guns. They adjusted / fixed (in the case of some that were broken in 1.10.2) a few of them in the latest 1.10.3 patch, and it feels a step closer to how snappy ITR1 was with it. I just try to be good to people. Life is short. Had a health scare a few years ago and it changed a lot of my perspectives on things. Changing habits, losing weight, slowly fixing things that I just let go and fester over the years. It's too late to regain some things, but I am going to strive to make the best of the time that I have left on this planet. That and bring as much happiness I can to the lives of people that I cherish before I punch my ticket... I guess in the end that's all any of us can really do. Some of those anomaly nests are wicked... geez. If you find one particularly difficult to navigate, give it another Tide unless you're stubborn. Politicians, companies and corporations; it always vexes me how people can get so invested in those. I made a point in one of Spike's (or Bunbun's? They're both great.) videos that people seem to latch onto these things and begin to view their love of them as a core part of their own personality even though said entity doesn't even realize they exist. As such they take any slight against those things as a personal slight against themselves. It's absolutely mental. "I wasted a lot of time being mad about things I can't control". That in this context of talking it out, good sir, is called 'venting frustration'. Just like the run and the water mane, it's an important means of relieving pressure in a way that physical activity cannot. You can run all you want, but it'll never help you sort through what you're feeling. Venting to others is a way to give some sort of semi-tangible form to the alphabet soup of thoughts and feelings swirling around in your head so that it can be analyzed by you and others around you with in an attempt to gain a clearer vision of what it represents, both so that they make more sense to you as well as to get the opinions (requested or otherwise) of others to see if you're really as off base as you think you are; just like we're doing right now. Opinions may vary, of course, and you'll have to take all of it with a grain of salt. Sometimes it isn't as bad as you think it is, but other times it could actually be worse (For an extreme example, take an abused spouse that has no idea that they are being abused because it's all that they've ever known). Others may also have similar stories or feelings in ways that you couldn't have possibly imagined, but you'd never know that if you didn't at least begin the dialogue. Interpersonal communication and understanding is one of the most difficult things we can engage in, but just like any other aspect of increased survival in groups I believe that it is important to come together and work on these things as a collective for the betterment of everyone. Sometimes differences can be irreconcilable, but I truly believe that we'd be better off as a species if we could all at least try to come to mutual understanding before brandishing torches and pitchforks. There are many roadblocks to this of course, including mental illness and a slew of other things, but that's a deeper rabbit hole than I'm willing to dive into today. As far as my opinions of your opinions, well... refer to my comment about social media. It's a double edged sword. The Forest is actually larger than any single zone in ITR1 (not counting 1.0)... so freakin' gigantic, and I can't wait to see what else they have in store for us! Regarding the new shock and reflector anomalies, I also love how you can 'hear' most anomalies before running into them. The sound design is SO good. Also, spicy water is spicy. I am constantly surprised with how mobile the new mimics are. They can flank you in the span of a heartbeat! Save those slugs for shotgun sniping. Mwahahaha. Take a closer look at the zone map transition popup. You'll notice that the first three zones (Facility 27, Forest and Peninsula) all have a line connecting them... but the fourth zone is only 'connected' to the Forest, and the zone past that (and subsequently, the Radius) only lead directly into each other. I won't spoil some things that I found at the edges of the Forest, but there rest assured there are Things there. This could of course all change in due time with development, but if they stick with that I'm thinking that while the first zones will be immediately accessible, deeper excursions into the Zone will come with greater investment of resources and time; as well as returning from them, especially if a Tide hits in between. You can put the cigarette straight from the pack into your mouth without grabbing it now. I'm glad you're loving this! I've already sunk an embarrassing amount of time into it, hahaha. You did in fact hear a dog! If you keep an ear out, that won't be the only thing you hear. It's not something that you experience a lot (read: at all) in ITR1 but there's a 2-5 mile (I forget the exact number, it's short) 'Goldilocks Zone' between the Radius and the rest of the world that both the Changed as well as outside people can exist within without experiencing annihilation. This is a thing covered in some of the tapes from the original game and the CM Games TH-cam. All of this is of course subject, of course, if what the UNPSC tells us is to be completely believed. That's another conversation entirely. Online versus in person personalities... I've been told I'm a fun person to be around in real life. Typing over the internet, I'm definitely an insufferable git. Finally...please, please, please stay out in the Radius for one Tide, at least. Be close to a shelter, and duck in shortly before it hits. Don't sleep through it. You will start noticing the Tide's effects 7 'hours' (~14 mins now, after they extended the time scale in the first patch) before it hits. Soak it in. You will not regret it. At least, as long as you're inside. Cheers, good people. 🍻

Sadly, live and let live, which I share fully, is too often now considered an extreme position. The world makes me sad. i only watched up to your journey to the Forest. Bun Bun and I haven't made it that far yet.

Games are bad for you. Go for a run lol

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Dev diaries for the most part are just updates, addressing player concerns, fixes, replacements or flatout removal of things if they don't work out. Unfortunately they don't tell of bugs that might come in an update if that comes along with a developer diary (example all handguns were removed from player's inventory if it was in a holster after the first patch) Nothing in relation to story/lore

For those creeps just wait until they stop moving and then crouch, they will miss you almost always, ways that doesn't work would be like if you're on higher ground than it.

As far as I know, spawns have 35 HP. A Beretta's 36 damage will help. Glock takes 2 since it's 30 damage

The ribbon and scissor boi is going to get you.

We're glad to have you back! Also glad to see that you're having fun with this stuff. Gotta take things at your own pace, burnout is a real thing even with things we love doing. I didn't mean to just throw you into 5th gear with all the info in the last comment, probably should have been a bit more general straight away. We all yammer in our own ways, I guess... haha. All that said, I'm about to do it again anyway. You won't be hurting my feelings at all if you don't read all of my babbling nonsense. Even in EA, this game is absolutely dense with stuff. The reflector anomalies actually underwent an update with the first patch. The sound they used to make was this high-pitched ring that was pretty tinnitus-y, so I definitely don't miss it. Now if you sit and listen to it, they sound like ocean waves... which fits in very nicely thematically with the Tide. Excellent design decision there, even if it was in response to a (very valid) criticism. This is just one example why Early Access is a great way to develop things. I remember hearing or reading somewhere that the new Spawn are called "Creepers". I can't seem to find it again so I might be talking out of my butt on that one, but it's an apt name for sure (given their new mechanics...some of which you haven't yet seen). Little bundles of VHS tape and scissors. Absolute BASTARDS. That said, they do tend to want to hug your face directly. If only there were some way to suddenly lower your center of gravity in the short moment before they do that... The new mimics are ALSO bastards and they will only get tougher; and come at you in greater and greater numbers. All that said, you can use your own tactics to counter-balance this. Reposition, reposition, reposition. They will use that against you and work together to try to flank or box you in and take you down, but you can leverage your own movements and the environment turn the tables on them as well. You can make excellent use of stealth even in the middle of a huge firefight; they took feedback from the first game to heart and it really shows. The glowing scarves make them easier to locate in the dead of night, but you'll find that instead of making them 'easy' it instead just makes it 'possible' to engage them in low light conditions. It took a while for it to show itself, but they also put in an easter egg reference to the ITR1 mimics. I cackled when I first heard it. Dev diary wise, they have not covered ANY story elements outside of pinpointing where you are in the current timeline and the UNPSC's attitude toward the usefulness of explorers and the Zone. It's the reason why we have an advanced-looking base versus the ramshackle one from before. The diaries eschew detailed breakdowns in favor of general overviews of upcoming concepts and mechanics including the ultimate use for Ash (converting it to money is a placeholder), how artifacts are going to work in regard to your overall character 'build' along with your choice of rig, backpack and weapon, etc. One of the diaries goes over loot, and they specifically call out what you were talking about with the fiddly cabinets. Instead of having to open a billion doors to find say, a bullet or two, they are instead placing loot into smaller loot chests; the green and blue ones that you've been finding actual boxes of ammo and med shots in, as well as the larger cases, all of which are every bit as random as they were in ITR1. Take a wider look at the inside of the shop. Look up. Notice how little space it takes up compared to how GIGANTIC the warehouse actually is. Curious to see how they will end up expanding on this in the future. Instead of what to buy weapon wise, I'll instead tell you what NOT to buy: the GSh-18. You can find one out there in a specific spot in the Peninsula. It's in a place that I know I'd love to just go and retreat from the world, relax and just fire some shots into the void. Right now there are five gun stashes that I've found out there between the Peninsula and Forest, which can get you things available at Sec Level 2 and 3 straight away if you only know where to look. Happy hunting! As far as the rest of your gear goes, think of the second bag / rig is an essential upgrade to be bought ASAP. The starting backpack and chest rig are inefficient and terrible by design. It's extra-extra heavy if you look at its loadout points (on the backpack it's 250 vs... 50, with double the capacity and an extra pouch / large weapon slot), and doesn't have nearly as much capacity as the ones you buy for 1000SC. The new gear will also put you well into the white loadout weight, so you will no longer be under the innate 20% movement speed de-buff that you have with the starting gear. You'll immediately notice the difference once you shed those extra pounds, and your movement will feel a LOT snappier. Careful when buying a rig, though; instead of it being a toggle in the options menu, they have left- and right- handed purchasable variants of each. They're literally just mirror images of each other. You can try them on and re-kit yourself out before hitting the buy button, so see which feels best for you in regard to magazine / hip pouch placement. The 500SC model trades the sidearm slot for a single primary slot. The two 1000SC models are identical statistically (loadout points, capacity), but the camo one makes you lose one chest slot in favor of having the chest sidearm placement and making the primary placement feel closer to something like Onward/Zero Caliber. They're going to be adding in more in the future so I'm curious to see how that evolves! Additionally, you can place small 'primary' weapons such as the short double barrel and the PP-91 Kedr both in your general back pack space and pistol holsters. I miss the knives too. Agh! Hopefully they make a comeback. There are no head items yet either. Regarding that shotgun and ammo usage, you had the right idea by putting it into the rig pouch but you can place them directly from the box into the pouch like in the first game. It's a bit fiddly, though - if you just tap and release the trigger it'll fall through and just clatter to the ground, but if you hold trigger for a half-second before releasing it'll 'stick' in the pouch just like it did in Radius 1. From there it's super easy to just grab one and shove it into the break action, versus fiddling with that box again. Overall the shotty feels waaaay better than ITR1's by a huge margin. They had shell holders on the side in an earlier pre-release build but they were removed. I am hoping they'll make a comeback when weapon modding is delved into deeper. Also in regard to your closing, thank you too. We can't control what other people do to us, but we can still try to make things better bit by bit for those that we cherish in our own ways. A smile, a hug, an uplifting word... life's about all those silly little nothings, and all they can do to keep us going!

Buy KEDR and A-LOT of 9x18 ammunition you can

great to see you back Pest, fab content, jus like ol times,,,Hell Yeah!

Didn't even know this game was out yet. I heard something about scavenging being removed after i checked the steam reviews but i assume its just not implemented yet?

Also... Mimics talk now?!

I am *loving* the new interactions with your gear ^^

Not FIRST lol

First 🙏

5:00 the mag pouch locations feel off. Like way to high up on the chest over ITR 1. I wish way to adjust that .

Ok, the mimic flying and disintegrating was *cool*

Overall, I think they have a great start. They fixed a few things like the death ladders so our next session should be fun. Looking forward to your videos. Glad your back but I understand about burning out on games. I can barely play anything but VR. I think the overload of sensory information in VR is so high that anything under that is "dull".

man....i might wanna fix my vive to play this one

It's so good to ear you again!! I saw a lot of people playing the game but I was waiting for you to enter the Radius again. I cannot play the game because of my potato PC so I will discover it earing your rants ;) Big hugs Pesty!

WELCOME BACK!! Now that I'm finally home, I was able to finish the video and comment. Huzzah! They added an option in the patch that snaps the body rotation to your headset, and now it's on by default. They left the old method in there as "Hybrid" where you can look down at your rig without it locking to the view instantly, and it's closer to how the original ITR worked. As mentioned in the discord the exploding chairs are called 'porcupines' and the mimics in this game are also COMPLETE bastards. Despite the occasional they weirdness generally have far, far better AI than in ITR1. They will work together, too...and are crack shots. There's actually a ton of stuff in this early access... nowhere near as much as ITR1 of course, but the second area is pretty huge and bigger than any one zone in ITR1's 2.0 (but not 1.0, obviously). Story elements will come in later; they're 100% focused on tightening the screws on game mechanics starting out. Even the tutorial will be overhauled with story elements in time. Co-op is starting out with two players, but they will work up to 4. Also, the audio design in the game so far is top notch. They changed the sound that the reflector anomalies make in the patch; it used to be this high-pitched whine, but now it sounds like the ocean. You can attune your hearing to it by getting close to one, and if you're not sprinting everywhere you can actually stop before running into one even if you don't see the chimes. I agree with you that I love love LOVE a lot of the new stuff they added. The shop is particularly amazing as you can just build a gun and kit it out with attachments, then just... put it into your holder, buy it, and walk out. Feels so good! Skip to the last line if you don't want any more info. Otherwise, answering a few things you were wondering about (spoiler-free, just explaining mechanics): The exploding glass from the mirror cage does damage you if you're too close to it! The way loadout points work is kind of interesting. Let's use your starter backpack there as an example. It has 220 loadout points, with a capacity of 400. Anything you place inside of the pack up to 400 points is 'free' in terms of loadout points, so as long as you have less than 400 points of gear stashed in the backpack it will only add 220 loadout points to your overall weight. Everything you stuff in there past the listed capacity affects your overall loadout weight cumulatively... so if you have 450/400 points inside of it, the backpack would instead contribute 270 to your overall encumbrance. The speed threshold for loadout points is 500 (20% slower), 750 (40% slower) and 1400 (FAT MODE), and is the sum of what you see from the gray numbers next to the lock icons. One way this affects gameplay is, let's say you have a weapon that ways 500 stashed in a chest rig that can hold 900. As long as the weapon is in the holster it doesn't affect your weight at all; but if you're just under 500 and you pull that weapon out into your hands, all that weight is transferred to that overall value and you are suddenly moving 40% slower because you have blown past the 750 mark. You can stash your weapon to move at full speed, or move a bit slower while fighting or having the weapon at the ready. Alternatively you could pull out a pistol instead of a rifle and maintain either full mobility or just take a 20% movement speed hit due to its small encumbrance. Overall this new system sees you moving through the zone faster more often, so despite it being weird on the surface I think it's a net improvement over the flat weight progression of the original. Spend the 2000 to upgrade your rig and pack as soon as you can! The starting stuff is actually freakin' terrible, haha. The first backpack upgrade only has a loadout weight of 50, with a capacity of 1000... it also has a weapon slot and an extra pouch on the back. On that note... You can place consumables on the inside 'lid' of the backpack. The first two backpacks can hold two, and the bigger ones can hold four! Great for stuff like the syringes, probes, or even your cigarettes and lighter so they don't get lost in the pack somewhere. Weapon cleaning isn't in the game yet, nor is hunger... so the cigs and crackers are just placeholders. What else... ah! They updated the boomstick in the patch as well. You know how in ITR1 the break actions always did that weird jiggly thing? They actually had that here as well but fixed it by increasing the threshold of movement required to close it again. Feels SUPER solid now. Just make sure you throw the shells into the pouch ahead of time so that you can grab and load, fiddling with the box as a middleman just feels terrible, haha. Lastly, as I told Spike in one of his videos, I don't MEAN to write a comment thesis, it just kind of happens. One of these days I'll manage to just say "Great video!" and move on, but that day is not today. Co-op is janky as heck but I'd definitely be up for giving it a shot at some point. I've probably played too much of this game already but man, it's just... so good, even in the nascent state it's in right now. Beyond all that, run on, Pest! Physical health is important, said by someone who's very very bad at maintaining it himself... but we've all got our own journey there, and we're all cheering for ya!

Yay. I missed your channel :)

Pest back in the radius! Woooo! Cheers dude, hope you are well

Hell yeah.

Welcome back, been waiting for your reaction to the new one!

Glad you're back!

Not calling it In2 the Radius feels like a lost opportunity

Pest! How are you doing, my friend? Edit: I'm dumb and didn't notice this is ItR TWO, not one xD

welcome back to ITR. Any plans to play coop?

That off-roading stuff sounds really fun, you've got this 👍

I’ve been looking forward to seeing this.

Yay finally

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hey can i have your pc spec? i wanna buy laptop fr vr since im a student and need mobility over performance but i still wanna vr pc gaming eventhough on lower graphic