Can I Beat the Most Difficult Challenge Ever Made? ☢️ S.T.A.L.K.E.R. GAMMA Invictus - Ep.1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ต.ค. 2023
- This new playthrough has been two months in the making. So many tries, mistakes, deaths, to eventually end on this new ironman run.
I'm not gonna give any spoilers or reveal if I made it our not, why ruin the fun? Let's just say it was my best, and most entertaining run after 27 attempts (yes, 27!). We're in for a long, probably 10+ video series, so sit back and enjoy, because I'm not attempting this again anytime soon! - เกม
11:13 “Hope he’s not rushing me.” *immediately gets rushed* works every time!
The new update made them so much more aggressive I love it (and hate it too🙃)
@@CheekiBreekiTvpain is mandatory
@@CheekiBreekiTv every time i see you with a predator suit i get envy early game its the best light armor ;P
Finds early KS-23 with green barrel in a stash, says "Nothing really interesting in that stash". You are a mad man 😄For me that would be a dream start. It's very strong and butcher sells ammo.
yeah there's these guns you never really try for some reason and it becomes kind of a habit to ignore them, the ks23 is definitely one of those for me, I really need to give it a chance one day!
i was about to write that😆 such a good find.
I use ks23 in every run, 23mm shotguns are the best close range weapons in the game. the ks23 can launch bloodsuckers, and the chimera hunter can destroy any mutant easily.
@@datboi2882has its cons though - only 4 shots in barrel as well as reload after every shot😢
@@weawer1709 the damage more than makes up for the ammo count. If you're using Mags Redux its even a positive trait to be able to load individual shells.
On my 52 invictus run now. I got into this sinkhole because of you, most fun I've had in ages.
And I though I was the crazy one at 28 runs, but yeah it's strangely addicting! I'm going back to soulslike tho for a while now! I find it to be a pretty good balance to just play & chill
8:43 i like how unphased he is about the other stalkers freaking out about his weapon being out.
For the record, Cheeki is not dealing with:
Dogs. Boars. Fighting. Using ammo. Using medicine. Checkpoints. Anomalies. Buying things from Sidorovich. Nighttime. Radiation. The swamps. 😂
After 27 failed attempts, I don't blame him at all. Also, this is why I don't play Iron Man; I would have to avoid dangerous situations I otherwise like to face. But it makes good content for YT, because we the viewers know the stakes are high.
@tomigun5180 I suggest an Ironman-lite , give your self lots of lives and the wish granter lives after a few days. It really does change up how you play. A gunfight you would otherwise just reload becomes a frantic, chaotic fight for survival.
@13:01 "nothing really interesting in that stash" gets a KS23 with a mint barrel... 🤣
Awesome to see you going for it again! Your run inspired me to try invictus as well, and even drop some vids on it. I salute you, fellow stalker!
This is how you do a channel plug without being a dickhead. Well done
I remember when i had the UNISG faction patch as my profile picture on steam.
@@osk4ro777 yeah, it's an awesome patch. Though i hope to style it a bit differently in the future
Hi!
Is it mandatory to disable miracle machine before going to red forest?
I'm gonna leave that for evening watch. Can't wait to see how did you do. Thanks for all your Stalker content bro!
Ahahh sweet! Enjoy!
37:26 They "Clear Sky base" is such a trap. Very often you'll find yourself running in feeling safe, happy to see some friendly faces and all that but just find some Renegades squatting at the campfire. Had to learn that lesson twice :-D
How this shit happened?😂
Great to see you make another (another) attempt, hopefully this time it is a success! Thanks for posting, looking forward to more in the series!
oh my god ive started loving operator dreskis long form stalker videos but after watching this its not OD magic its stalker gamma magic. love these long form videos, theres a lot of tactics to learn and its super entertaining for me. keep it up and i also subbed!
Glad you like them!
Both you guys are great stalker TH-camrs
I never got the guts to go for invictus, but I am slowly learning the game and I think at one point it will surely be the final challenge. You're an inspiration, good job!
Aaah great to have you back with another series. Loving it.
I just died on ironman taking on the brain scorcher. Perfect timing! I loved your commentary style on the last series.
If you're into early game artifact hunting in Cordon, the tunnel with burnt fuzz anomalies is a great risk-free spawn for perk artifacts
my earlygame ironman routine is just artefact hunting in all spots then sleep back in the village
Witch artefacts are needed to craft the stone flower?
@@dje7917no idea how you can craft artifacts but ive found plenty stone flowers in dark valley (near the gas station) and red forest i think (dont remember where)... thats on anomaly...
@@mjm5899 Thank you my friend
I`m so exited to watch a new Ironman GAMMA run on this no doubts one the most great English speaking Stalker-channels on TH-cam!
I was in Nantes for a couple of days for a wedding, and whenever I saw croissants or baguettes in the bakeries, you kept popping into my head Monsieur Cheeki! Awesome video, thanks!!!
Oh no, everytime I watch your playthroughs it makes me replay GAMMA.... *croissant*!
i've been waiting for this!!
i love you content man, keep uploading good videos like this
i really appreciate the time and effort you put into these videos. i play stalker overy once in a while and really enjoy it, but i am waaay to impatient to succeed in any kind of ironman. believe me, i tried... but it is awesome to see you playing like that. and also i think your accent and way of speaking is really comforting. so yea. thanks i guess
Great to see you being at it again! I'm stuck at Brain Scorcher (the lab level) at the moment. There's just so many of those dudes... Sometimes the first door does not open, either, and then I can just wait for my demise. Really looking forward to seeing how you dealt with it.
Yay another Invictus from you. Will be great to watch.
Salute to you my brother. I don't even have the patience for this kinda run but I do show respect for the people who try.
Amazing content as always ❤
Just suscribed, loving the Gamma content
Started playing GAMMA and jesus its good! I haven't had this much fun in years. These videos are great to watch while at work lol. Waiting to get home and feed my addiction.
Only negative is the AI zoning me through walls and bushes sometimes. Other than that I won't change a thing.
I was looking forward to see you try again. Best of luck and good hunting, Stalker.
Let's gooo! Finally a long video from u bro, I love ur videos
Enjoyed this very much!
YES! Been waiting for this day. Oh boy
Can't wait for the next parts of this series, I'm already addicted
J'avais maté ton playthrough Ironman y'a quelques mois et j'étais justement en train de me dire ce serait cool que t'en fasses un sur le nouveau patch. Ben voila mes voeux sont exaucés merci :D
Great video man, it's nice to spend time watching your productions 😁 Pozdrawiam z Polski 💪
Invictus is fun AF, it's all I play on my channel. I don't normally like ironman save-deleting games, but for Stalker I think the higher stakes just adds to the gameplay experience. Actually, I don't even play non-Invictus even when I'm not recording anymore lmao. The cold sweats are 100% peak immersion.
REALLY Hard mode: only go out after dark. Check out my Night Stalker series if you wanna see me get snu-snu'd by snorks at night and squeal-shriek-scream like a little girl in a Whirligig lol.
Those are some brutal settings! This is gonna be a good video.
"Just need to make sure no one is coming on my back" 😂😂
YES BRO, i been waiting so long for another one.
Have you ever thought about maybe giving streaming a shot?
absolute banger of a video
one thing i like about Cordon now that ive moved on: If i have a disastrous streak of events, run out of money, supplies, etc...i can always go back to cordon, do a bunch of super simple missions and rebuild my funds/supplies in short order.
I had a disastrous adventure in the great swamp early on. went in with ammo, medical, and like 80k rubles. After a few days in nights in the swamp, i left with 3k rubles, no medical supplies at all, a broken leg, almost no ammo. I literally limped my way back to cordon, and got myself back up to well over 130k rubles and fully stocked up in a few days. TLDR Cordon is a nice safety net to recover when things go tits up
Honestly, I don't know how you could struggle in the swamps. I'm playing a new clear sky character rn and it's nothing hard, just bandits and mutants. Maybe you played some earlier version, and they tweaked the difficulty in later patches
@@iamtakingapiss7916 it was a mix of some severe bad luck with mutant spawns, environmental damage and The last Dawn questline. Those 2 big fights are a nightmare early on. The first one in the south is made difficult due to there being no real good line of approach from the west so the bandits have a strong base of defense that you have to kind of assault from the open.
I got through it and it was fun in the end but boy did i get put through the ringer those first few days in the swamp lol
I knew i recognized your voice your the one that passive aggressively helped me instal this game :)
Definitely going to copy those artifact settings. The grind on gamma is insane
YES! I've finished your "20 days" series literally two hours ago. Bullseye!
Happened to most of us I guess sometimes it’s debug time.
Great vid as always
Nice video. I got jump scared twice when were surprised and almost died.
Gamma invictus is great. Can be challenging the first time but if you know the main questline it can be done with mosin and no expert tools. I honestly cant play without invictus now. Sometimes soul mod but definitely invictus it is just so satisfying.
Keep pushing for that W!!
HES BACK!!! LOVE IT!!!
Great Video, keep this going
Always nice watching a pro play Stalker. Iam not into every game mechanic and dont have that much time. But the game is very configurable and iam not ashamed to use the debug console every now and then. I try Ironmode If I just want to play for one hour or so :)
Eyyy I just started my own Invictus series!....and it's not going well LOL. Especially since I'm using a roulette wheel to decide my faction, weapon, spawn, etc. Lurker's were also one of my deaths! At the Garbage Train station, towards the tunnel, there were 2x dead Loner's with 1x Lurker standing on top. Keep in mind I just started this run like 1hr ago so I go "Nope, I'm just gonna make my way down to Cordon". And around 6hrs+ of in-game time I FINALLY come back to Garbage and realize I had a package to deliver to Yantar, so I go over where those Lurkers were originally, wasn't paying attention, and then BOOM 2x Lurkers and I think a PseudoDog.
I’m so happy you are posting your playthroughs! I love this game so much. I always play iron man 1 life?
I started play anomaly two days Ago, now I just seeing your vídeos and preparing myself for this challenge too
I always found taking all the kill the bandit missions the best way to make friends. They normally die within a few days without any effort on my part
A new Cheeki series? Fuckkkk yes, we're falling asleep comfy tonight.
13:01 "Nothing really interesting in that stash" while overlooking that it had a KS-23 in it. XD
I mean yeah, good luck repairing it early game, but that's still kind of a wild find. LMAO
Great run, keep up the fun videos. Question: what mod are you using to get your stash icons that size? The icons in my game are tiny and very hard to spot!
"Hope he's not rushing me"
Famous last words - Cheeki Breeki 😂
Do it on one life! It feels like a different game. (Thank you for these.)
i was hoping for another one of these
I NEED PART 2 CHEEKBREEK
tomorrow 😁
😭😭 okay
I found this channel and video at the worst time… I want to binge the series but it just released!
I use scar all the time, without savescumming, this is how you do it without dying:
1) unequip grenades
2) unequp weapons if you are close to anyone at all
3) If the spy voices start talking, that means that scar is trying to kill you, so you need to take damage in any form to stop the psy health from decreasing - fall damage, radiation, anomaly damage, firearm, mutant, even low health limb damage when you run and it damages you beause your leg is broken.
That will stop the psy health from decreasing and will reset the artifact immediately, and it will start healing you again.
Yup, number 3 is way too dangerous and random imo to be worth playing with in an ironman run. I like to chill by a campfire instead, even if it takes longer to achieve the same effect :)
@@CheekiBreekiTvany thing that is unhealthy can work,in my experience a pack of old meat is fastest,and cigarettes are slow (maybe alcohol is also fast)
fk yeah, been waiting for this :D You can do it, you can win, you are great :D but refrain from killing story crucial npc´s this time, like Barman "Bird" Beard, Rogue, Sakharov, and i think thats it.
I freakin killed Gatekeeper on accident while playing mercenary. Didn't realize at the time, kept playing, became one of my best run, realized my mistake 40+hrs in just after doing the wishgranter and getting stuck in the questline. I almost cried ahahh. All my runs after that (including this one) I played loner.
oh man that rough. almost lost my run today by getting sandwitched between a pseudogiant and a controller in a "corridor" on the new map town "Yuzhniy". first time i killed a pseudogiant in melee, was my only option, thankfully it already ate 8 Ks23 rounds. Invictus is so damn fun, truly the best stalker has to offer.@@CheekiBreekiTv
@@Eladnav1 I never use the Ks23, force of habit I guess, but I keep hearing its a great weapon, really need to give it a try
do it, you´ll thank all those who recommended it as soon as you see the first monolith fly 20 ft :D@@CheekiBreekiTv
Hey man I love your videos, the editing and commentary are perfect for following your journey without the boring bits. I think you're one of the best Stalker creators on TH-cam for sure!
I was wondering if you would recommend any other modpacks similar to Gamma but where it's easier to acquire weapons and suits without just becoming a millionaire? I'm not sure if I'm ready for the grind of Gamma and all the complicated crafting etc, although I like the health system and difficulty etc. Are there certain settings you can choose to customise the difficulty and how complicated things are?
Thanks and I look forward to more videos!
Well the beauty of GAMMA, like Anomaly, is that it's completely modular... you can change all the settings to your liking, item drop chance, quest rewards (more money, more rep), your character resistance etc... You can make the game very easy and not grindy at all if you want to.
Or try to mod your own version of Anomaly t your liking, or try something like the NOMAD modpack, specifically designed for people who want a chill experience
@@CheekiBreekiTv Thanks bro Ididn't know it was so modular like that or about NOMAD, much appreciated!
efp is nice too@@RichardVSmall
I've always liked your vids, just wondering what mods your using?
its pretty entertaining. i usually rush anomaly pretty much and die pretty often :D i will take my time now and play safe :D
Là ça devient du masochisme! Toujours un plaisir de te suivre.
Hon hon hon je suis une baguette.
baguette bonjour
That was the guy with the reward 😂 haha also happens sometimes to me 😅
Can't wait for the nexts videos dude
Using Scar is perfectly safe, just be in some place safe and unequip all your weapons + granades and pay attention to your psy health. On top of that, I always pick up bread early game as it is free 1k rubbles from Sid. Nice vid!
If you get what I call the 'controller sound' it doesn't matter, your psy health will drain and you will die, no matter how fast you remove the artifact from your belt etc... It happens rarely, but still a risk you can't take in ironman... the only thing you can do is quickly load your last save, and as I say in the video I don't like save scumming.
And if you never had the 'controller sound', just the random messing around with guns, grenades etc... you havn't used the scar enough :)
Maybe there's a way to stop this guaranteed 'controller death' but I never found anything that works yet
When peeking against shotgunners like you did in Corden, next time back off from the wall. That way if someone springs around the corner you still have effective space between you two while nothing else functionally changes about the peeking (no disadvantages in other words).
Btw, if you happen to do 8 missions before you get a rare stash it sets the spawn of basic tools to 99%. This only applies to rare stashes and is progression based afterwards, so advanced tools 99% after one main story line mission + 8 side missions.
Fresh supply of Cheeki Breeki hot off the presses!
Your risk assessment is so random it makes me lose my mind 😂😂😂
Yeah boi I’d never play the game this way again as I would cry but I’ll watch it
nooooooo, not again, stop gamma, stop calling me. I see videos the new of gamma, the new maps, now i will play COOP with my friend and NOW this video XD i never do a Invictus Run, in my last playthrough i go Renegade and what i remember i die like 3 times (but when i touch almost endgame well :v die a lot for careless)
I love your content, have a like up front :)
24:58 I was watching the minimap knowing this guy would rush around the corner xD
That's what I call Hardcore play my friend
this video is amazing, im gonna try it out, just wondering if you could upload a mod list please.
A more difficult shift up: adding Mags Redux. But definitely agree that Invictus is a gauntlet test of skill and one's understanding of STALKER.
Edit: Also, I have never in the entirety of Stalker since the OG's release thought of jumping that tractor in Cordon Farmhouse to check who owned/was stationed there. I felt like such an idiot seeing that lol. Also: sleeping is a means to restore limb condition in Gamma, regardless of Difficulty I believe. There's also a very gradual healing mechanic from fire but I feel like you know that. I've been using sleep and fire a lot more in my most recent game (same diffs, just not ironman) and it helps keep costs down on meds/saves my Yadulin for when I'm deep in the field away from safe spots that I can sit on to heal.
can't wait for the second ep
Hey Cheeki, I noticed you always prioritize meds and guns, but wouldn't starting with the better armor actually allow you to survive a hit? Just wondering your thought process. Love your videos.
dude, how many times i sneaked to "contract" missions like you did :D and in the end its just a reward mission :D
invictus is the main reason im still in the stalker community- so addictive to me
This is so immersive, really nice to watch in 4k. What GPU are you using ? Im on a 1080ti and run about 35 fps in 4k sadly, your framerate is a dream.
10:46 I NEED A BIG WHEEPOON SOOOORRR THATS A BIG BOOOLLEET SOOOR
Letssss goooooo!!! 🎉
Love you’re content and thanks for the video on how to download stalker gamma been having a blast but be careful around 1:24-1:26 the use of the baguette to censor the curse word just now sound like the f slur.
Yeah you're not the first to tell me that I'm gonna need to be more careful ahahhh
@@CheekiBreekiTv
gud luck sometime its like stepping in an anomaly
NEVER GIVE UP
BAGUETTE CROISSANT. Dude continue a faire sa c’est tellement drole🤣🤣
I have been waiting for this
Good hunting stalker
Dont be afraid to abuse scar artefact. unequip all weapons, and occasionally your cheeki will get breeki, but it's a free way to heal static health, just make sure it doesn't drain sanity to death
finally a new serie
It`s great to see new invictus run from you) 16:00 - Doesn`t changing settings prevent you from getting invictus? It was written in the beggining of the video and yet you are doing it.
You can't change the base settings of the game, changing the mods settings that GAMMA adds (or even turn some on or off) is fine
Why do you hate the swamps? Also, what’s your stalker population set to? Sorry for the questions. Really enjoying the series btw!
Stuttering, bushes mod , oinvictus plan , artefacts
I always take the camp assault and kill the stalker missions, they often complete on their own for free loot and rep even if I don't go after them right away.
Hey Cheeki, that was a nice vid. I tried anomaly for the first time a week ago and oh god it swallowed me, so I beat the game as a loner on mid difficulty with easy eco, then I started as a bandit being more experienced... and I got best mil helmet (restored it) day 1, beril m5 day 2, and by the finish of the 3d day I bought an exosuit so it feels easy...
I wanna some challenge and try to ironman run like this, but I feel I need gamma and mods you have, can you please shortly say me the steps to do? Is there some mod manager to start with? Thanks in advance.