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well done Blondie we did it, We made it to the bitter end! I enjoyed the unique story, See you for a STALKER 2 playthrough SOON.

Loved the Golden Eye reference

Great video thanks so much!

Hey… Hey Blondie… S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is out… I would start playing it before things get weird…

I know im tardy to the party. I just found this channel. Is there a way i could find out what band or song that is? I'm digging the episodes, by the way. Great stuff.

Whoa, what mod does the light flickering in foresters place during psi storms? Ive never heard of that feature before. Thats a great touch.

Looking forward to Stalker 2. I remember when I got SoC; I loaded in and it was raining. I had no idea what I was doing, left camp and was mauled by a pack of dogs. I hope it has the same oppressive feeling loading 2 for the first time. Really looking forward to your play through b

Totally stoked!

Sin are the only faction to "use" artifacts. Thats why they are hard to kill. They are monsters when wearing heavy armour and exosuits. Edit: 1.15.18...this is why I carry at least one ied. A nice bottleneck in that tunnel, even if it only gets one of a squad, at least I know someone is behind me.

The vyraj armour should have been a clue to where they were. Not a bad exosuit. I always thought the Sin and UNISG armour colouration are the coolest.

Really looking forward to the Stalker 2 playthrough!

I'm fairly certain it'll be great! I know I'll enjoy it and even if it's not quite my "perfect" cup of tea just you wait, mods will be pouring in and then we'll be able to curate the game to whatever manner we want.

For how many times you complained about not having auto-stacking, and seeing you dragging items around with the mouse, I'm surprised and disappointed that there were no comments a year ago telling you about the inventory shortcuts like ctrl+click. I feel so sorry for past you! Although maybe someone else might think I'm doing things the hard way myself for not properly utilizing the "newer" shortcut of holding E on a chest to add to stacks. I do also feel a little sorry for the devs. The precarious balance between fighting UI blindness versus not being too obnoxious with control prompts is no joke. Mostly their comprehensive controls guide at the bottom gets thoroughly ignored xD

Blondie, what is the loadout (armour, weapons, belt attachments etc.) that you are working towards? Thanks! (I often ose track of where you are when you fast travel because I am not always looking at the screen.)

Professor Sakharov is now armed (1:57:30)? I hadn't noticed that earlier. :D

Thanks for doing this. GG brother

1:08:48 Yum, tasty black mold! I think it's kinda pointless to think about GOTY before I've gotten my hands on it, if ever at all. That said, I know that, barring any major issues, I am going to enjoy it. I'm so excited to see the artifacts in Stalker 2. Actually seeing them in my hands, watching them glow and do all sorts of anomalous stuff, it's gonna be rad.

Capacitors are ALWAYS the bottleneck. I basically "buy" them indirectly by going to traders and buying cheap starter items like the flashlight, geiger counter, PDA 1.0, and Echo detector. These tend to be fairly cheap, and once disassembled, basically amount to buying capacitors for a few thousand rubles each. You can recoup some of the cost by selling back the excess transistors, fasteners etc.

You can sorta "force" NPCs to trade with you by pressing either X or Left Shift. Learned that one in Gamma and it seems to work in Anomaly too - good way to get electronic devices for parts.

I'm fairly certain that the number of tasks you can accept at any given time is a vanilla options menu setting.

I hope there's a mission in stalker 2 where you bring sid or barman a duffel bag full of 'Anomaly' junk and they just tell you to fuck off and go get something valuable

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Check the menu settings, you can tweak the faction and trader missions there, and when you are there, please look at the trader prices setting. It is absolutely disgusting to see those prices so high. Edit: Planning for a sortie...easy....Think of everything that can go wrong, multiply it by 2 and there you go...plan made, and don't forget the grenades. Usually I go with 450 AP rounds, 50 sniper rounds, 10 grenades for the underbarrel launcher, 6 frags, 6 pineapples and 2 ieds(depending on the map). I find that it is enough to wipe all the enemies from the map with enough left over for the muties. That way I can stroll at my leisure to all the stash points on the map, set up a stash and fast travel point and get out before the map repopulates. Edit 2: If you wanted to, you could cheese the kill a stalker missions in RF by setting up a fast travel point just inside the transit point. Next time you get a kill order for a stalker in RF, just fast travel to the stash and just chill there until the target is killed by an enemy or mutant.

Missions From Ukraine with love are extraction mission. One of these bandits is your disguised friend and to know wich one you need to check in mission what weapon is he carrying. You remove other bandits and 3rd one will become your companion to take back to base

Wooo Hooo!!! Red Forest! The map I actively avoid! Let's go!!!

Yummy, grilled snork hand!

28:05 Pretty sure you only get attacked by some Poltergeists and Pyrogesists here if you're playing Story Mode. If you have that disabled then that room is largely empty of threats other than a psi-field and a chemical anomaly.

I always thought that the Meadows was a lost opportunity. If the Military was based there and let the Loners or Ecologists take control of the Agroprom, it would make for a better game storywise. Then when you had to raid the Military for the documents, the Meadows would make for a better raid. Trying to dodge helicopter and foot patrols would make for a lot more fun.

1.29.26...The building in front of you is one perfect place for a base, and it counts as shelter from emission and psystorms. Edit: It is a magazine and it is probably a coffin magazine to be able to hold 40 rounds. Clips or a stripper clip were used on rifles like the Garand and early Enfields and were the precursor to the magazine. I hope that makes sense.

57:59 Same bro

Yeah, the percentage chance for the ore spires to sink, was too high per hit, glitching the reset was fine, this biome is already overly grindy without getting screwed by that.

I can't wait to play it, been intentionally ignoring everything so I can go in and have everything be fresh and new.

"I don't know how long it's gonna be before the next emission." Too bad you didn't notice the message indicating two hours to the next blowout, that popped up less than 5 minutes before. :/ I cringed when the warning showed up and you didn't see it, I'm typing this right after you said the above so I'm sure I'll see how things turn out soon here.

You're a wizard Harry XD Testing the shield out is good, but a fire staff in a biome where everything is already burned? Hmm, it feels like there's a better combo.

If you replaced the thumbnail image with a troll from Oblivion nobody would *ever* know. Idk why but everytime I see that brown/yellow border trim for your thumbnail I think Oblivion 😆 Good stuff though.

I feel targeted this episode haha! So very excited for stalker 2!!

I just find the swamp uninteresting aside from the military checkpoint. So much open space might be more interesting if there was more to do in it. We need you to keep practicing your snork sidestep. It doesn't feel like I have as many frustrations with them as you do. :D

Just think of all the noobs that are gonna suffer when 2 drops 😂😂😂😂

"WHAT IS THAT?!" "...it's a rock." "It's directly to my right" *Turns left* Very entertaining episode. :D

Blondie, have you looked at Anomaly 1.5.3? It has some interesting little tweaks in the base game (ie. you can view captured PDAs without having to equip them).

Yyeeah! Right on Blondie! The Fort 500 will not only slaughter mutants but you'll do it in style good sir! Yeah that's a tea time moment for SOMEONE in the zone...

The only good thing about the swamps is the fact that 99% of the mutants will not follow you into the water. Edit: You are right about the reroll after reloading. Most times mutants are either change or are gone and all stalkers do a 180 and walk back the way they came. Really annoying if you are after a bounty and get ambushed and killed before completing the bounty.