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That's the neat part! You don't. ...Ever. The Euruskan Grabber, Mother Courage, Orgamech and others are literally unkillable. Think of them all as this game's BTR; avoid them at all costs. Retreat, hide, escape.

@@anomalousinsect But it's so hard to resist their cuteness. Specially when they show their bellies. A deadly trap.

@@timidbunny6331 Death by cuteness?

Amen, brother! 🤘😁

Yesss. That's actually my usual play but figured I would try something different. 😂 So glad you are enjoying this!!

@anomalousinsect What is fascinating is how much some VR games have taken from these original games.

Oh yes! Hehe. There is another that I am going to play here called Tunguska: The Visitation, which has even more similarities...

Another unforgiving game. One wrong move and you have lost everything you worked on. Still get some XP and have to restart your run. Geiger clicks for menu highlights is a nice touch

Yeah, I'm looking forward to playing it more! Mwahahaha.

Oh that rocks. I put Stalker 2 on the back burner for now to simmer for updates, to focus on finishing this series and play the GAMMA update..haha.

@@anomalousinsect I wondered over to Yantar not fully remembering how it was in the old game. Ran across the field NW (toward x-16 exit) and was greeted with more of a "I should not be here right now." Lots of Snorks like the old game

Ahaa, that's some good info, good to know!

@anomalousinsect there's a bug for repairing broken guns too. Find a pistol carrying zombie (common in yantar near x16), throw the gun you want fixing in front of it, wait for it to get picked up, then shoot zombie & get gun back. The gun will be in better condition after. Btw professor sakharov has a mission for ghost's armour, give it him & the reward is a much better armour. Best all round suit in the game imo. Also, you can enter the duty Base at rostok now i think, the commander has some cool missions with good rewards, plus there's another trader in there hidden away to the side. Good hunting, stalker!

I appreciate all the tips, stalker! It's looking like I need to take a trip back to Yantar sooner than I thought I would.

Check the mercenaries on the top of the building in wild territory (seen at 49:25 here) if they spawn, they often carry scoped 5.56mm nato rifles better than the one you got. They take a grenade launcher attachment too.

Yesssss

Stalker 2 is so boring & empty. The way huge gangs of npcs just spawn in from nowhere completely breaks immersion too.

Oh, 100% to all of this. I think Stalker 2 gets a lot of things right, but it's still got a ways to go... the difference in A-life (or lack thereof) is really noticeable... and good lord, I can't talk bad enough about the enemy spawns. The most egregious one I've had so far was me coming out of a dead end tunnel. I hear yelling behind me and a group of bandits spawned in... at the back of said dead-end tunnel. I can only chalk so much of this crap up to anomalies! Haha.

This is the PCVR version running on a Meta Quest 3 over Virtual Desktop (wireless connection), and I own TWD:SS through both Meta and Steam because it was my 'let's see what the experience is like on different stores' test-game when I first got into the medium. Unfortunately the Steam version of this game has a lot of issues with Meta headsets. The controls are completely broken when you run it through SteamVR because for some reason it thinks you're using Vive controllers, which obviously has completely different mapping. There are a handful of other games with are totally borked when they are run through SteamVR as well, but mileage will vary; some still allow you to launch through the Oculus runtime (circumventing 'most' problems) and others won't, it just varies from game to game depending on what the developer puts up there options wise. Some titles are just broken with no recourse because they were never updated to work with the newer stuff. I've unfortunately had to return a few. It's not all doom and gloom, though! I played Half Life: Alyx, Valve's amazing first-party VR title, with zero problems. For TWD:SS though, if you do end up landing on buying a Meta Quest, it's better to get it through Meta as doing so gives you both the standalone and PCVR versions of the game through their cross-buy system. You should also definitely pick up Virtual Desktop, as it runs PCVR titles WAY better than the built-in Quest Link/Air Link. It's an extra twenty bucks USD, but worth every cent. You should also look into Quest Games Optimizer to get way more out of the standalone titles. Now as far as the best headset to buy goes, I have only ever owned the Quest so I am not a good person to ask objectively. I can say that I've had great luck with mine overall minus some hiccups like those mentioned above, and can play the vast majority of PCVR titles with no problems. Outside of that, there is a massive market for native titles that run directly off of the headset versus requiring a wired connection. The downside of those is that they tend (for the most part) to be nowhere near as high quality as their PCVR brethren. Taking Saints & Sinners into account specifically, you can look up Native Quest vs PCVR video comparisons here on TH-cam to see for yourself how much worse it is natively. Also look at two other games: Green Hell and Into the Radius. Look at the difference between the native and PCVR versions... it's a MASSIVE night and day gulf, but a lot of the industry is moving toward standalone titles because of the trend of the market right now. I have played and finished the PCVR and standalone versions of all three of these games and taken for what they are they are still quite good on their own. Hope this helps!

@anomalousinsect Fantastic detail, thanks for all your insight, already had my eye on the quest 3, I just wasn't sure. Great content by the way, keep it up.

@@electro7435 Thank you so much! 🤘 And yes, I think that the Quest 3 is probably one of the better ones on the market right now for a number of reasons. They just dropped the price a bit as well if I remember correctly, you can get the 512GB model for the same price the 128GB was earlier this year. I'll say that as well; if I knew then what I know now, I would have shelled out the extra cash for the 512GB. I am constantly having to shuffle what I have installed; 128GB doesn't go very far at all.

Bwahahahaha, oil for dayyyys

@ too much oil and radius dust makes the reliability bad

I regret to inform you red dead 2 came out six years ago

@electro7435 this game is not even close to red dead 2

@@electro7435 wdym btw

New players are still rolling around to playing it! That's actually the whole reason I made this; to show some friends of mine a couple of fun things. 😁

@@anomalousinsect I have had this game for three years, it's definitely a great game. The sequel however is just straight up terrible

I was about to make a joke in extremely poor taste, but instead I'll just say that's probably true.

Gratzie!

Doh! Even sooo, welcome!

You are first to say first still

@@Mr_Nuggins Yay!

@@Mr_Nuggins Exactly, that still counts.

Yeah that tracks. What you're seeing here is WITH DLSS frame generation turned on, though it actually looks way worse in the recording than it was when playing it for some reason. Here's hoping they can fix it soon.

​@@anomalousinsect Game runs great for about and hour for me then starts to slowly get worse and worse till a restart is needed

@@Mr_Nuggins Oof ... yeah. They JUST posted some upcoming notes regarding the patch this week, and memory leaks are on the menu. We'll see how it does...

Mmhmm. Gotta take your time, and show it appreciation. ♥

Oh yeah... it's a great take on it, and you can tell exactly how long you have before they reform.

Heck yeah! It even uses the same 'core destruction' sound effect. I should upload one with the Phantoms, too; they're arguably a lot freakier, even though they die way easier.

Yesss, if you haven't played it before then pleeeease don't spoil yourself to the story too much. Just focus on finding and killing that Strelok.

Yeeeah... not going to forget that any time soon, hahaha.

Welcome back! Glad you think so. 😁

@anomalousinsect hope you finish it, you're getting to the best bit of the game imo. Lots of cool side quests on top of the main mission, plus much better guns & armour. You start to feel like the hunter more than the hunted lol.

YEAH, exactly!

Looks like me after getting up for the 3rd time in a single night to pee.

@@mynameisspike4086 Nah, you look like Sugar Bear

You is!

Oooo, great info! Thanks for that! Just another reason this game slaps... also explains why the dude hit like a small truck. 😁

@anomalousinsect lol right. Streloks fast shooting ak is as good imo & can also be fitted with launcher/scope, but you can use the obokan instead & do the quest when you have a rifle you prefer. Another really good upgraded gun is the 5.45mm Tunder belonging to a duty member called Barin, shreds everything using cheap ammo & has built in grenade launcher. He hangs round Rostok & wild territory, sometimes you can assassinate him with a knife if nobody looking, or he may get attacked by dogs if you lucky. If you do all the duty leader in rostoks quests, he'll give you 2 of the best guns in the game too, & some neat armour. Vanilla SOC doesn't have as many guns as other stalker games, & you can't upgrade the ones you have, so it's worth hunting out the best ones imo.

Thanks again for the advice. I'll likely hold onto it for now and spend some time chatting up the locals. Lots of opportunity in the Zone for stalkers willing to look under a rock or three...

Yeah, it took me .. a literal decade to get into even just this, hahaha.

@@anomalousinsect My public speaking is shit and even though this is me doing recordings I'm still not fully with it. My enunciation kinda trails off after the first 20 min and I catch it in the editing.

@@Mr_Nuggins Yeeeah, I think my biggest thing is I start to read stuff in my head and I start nmbulumhunhah'ing some words here and there.. hahaha. I also tend to lean on my S'es at the end of sentencessss. Something to work on! Can't do much about the lack of personality, though, I'm just going to have to power through that one. 🤔

@@anomalousinsect I like the somewhat 'monotonous' style. It comes off as kind of deadpan and funny at times. Entertaining.

Right!? It feels so nostalgic, too, at least for me...

@@anomalousinsect SOC was 2007 So freshman year of university played it like crazy that summer break

😁

Oh, sweet! Awesome that you decided to dive back in... welcome back to the Zone. 😀

@anomalousinsect You inspired me. I'm amazed how much Radius and Zona 'borrowed' from Stalker.

@@mynameisspike4086 Huzzah! And yup. Igor even uses the same text font as Stalker (which I also use for the area name popups in my video here), and the layout of the church in the abandoned town is identical to the one in the Great Swamp west of Cordon (not a location in the first game though). The smaller canned 'meat' in Radius is literally called "Tourist's Delight". The artifact detector in Radius and Origin works just like in the later Stalker games, too (whereas the artifacts just 'being out there' like in SoC was how it was approached in Project X).

Thanks yo!! 😊

Thank you! ❤‍🔥

Yeah... I thought about playing one of the mods that overhaul the game considerably but opted against it. I'm running the ZRP (Zone Reclamation Project) and weapon texture mods, as well as a Reshade; everything else is stock.

@@anomalousinsect Doing Clear Sky Complete mod with it. Mostly textures and bug fixes.

Darn right!

Heck yeah! 😁

Thanks so much!! I'm looking forward/hoping to doing more of this stuff.

Thanks!!🤘 First actual role literally anywhere... it's pretty fun. 😁

Hehehe... that's both funny and apropos.

It's what we call the "Sadako Special".

@@anomalousinsect Creepy!

Yeeeeah, thanks to that mod that removes the overlay in the moment I forget it's there, haha. ...You can still smoke with it on, though, which is hilarious for a number of reasons.

Also, that Seeker wanted to turn it into a porno, but I wasn't having it. 🚫

Thank you! ♥ I also agree... the Quest standalone has a bunch of issues. ☹ Would love to have seen an actual better version for the Quest 3. As it stands the Q3 enhancements were kind of meh, especially since they straight up BROKE the long range scopes in that version and haven't fixed them at all even after all this time. 😠 ...that didn't stop me from playing it a lot, though. (cough)

Somehow the long range scopes started working again in mine. I love using the scopes

@@rayisom8865 Huuuuhhh... I might have to give it another look. Agreed, I am a massive fan of engaging those bastards when there's zero chance they can retaliate. ☠

Ahhh, MOICHANDIZING - where the REAL money's made! 💰

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it. 😁

It seems it was! The graboids of youtube are officially appeased. Also, according to the squiggly red underline, they don't like that I didn't capitalize 'graboid' or 'youtube'. But they can just deal with it.