50:02 Mikhal, a Bandit, killed by a boar. Minutes later: Styopka, also a Bandit, mentions running into boars and needing some help. I WONDER IF THESE TWO EVENTS ARE CORELATED!? XD
Having the equivalent of Halfman's Rags to Riches in Anomaly is quite nice, and with 100 episodes in total... That's a lot of content :D I started playing Gamma recently and the crafting seemed a bit overwhelming, but it's nice to see that it is not that hard to understand :)
I try to catch Halfman where I can but I’m pretty busy with my own content these days. He’s still going with the challenges though which is awesome to see. Crafting in GAMMA is somewhat streamlined - many of the recipes have been tweaked from vanilla to require less rare components.
Task, quest, mission, I really don't care what you call them. I'm trying to download Anomaly. And learning a lot from watching this series. Thank you for explaining things as you go. New subscriber.
I got a mod called azariels campfires I think. It increases the save range by 300% around fires so you don't have to roast yourself to save. Also passes about 20 minutes in game to simulate a rest
Yeah, I think this was suggested by someone else too and it sounds good. We’re gonna run vanilla for S1, but we’ll mod up for S2. In the meantime we’ll have to risk singeing the fuzzies for a save. 😳
Another suggestion is "Yet Another Campfire Saving Addon", slightly increases the campfire radius (where it's within reason), also is MCM compatible (in that you can turn it off to quick save (if need be), there's also some token feature called mommy/daddy mode which allows for emergency saves for when your kid needs some attention (the description for that feature, under that mod is pretty funny, imho) that allows a 5 minute grace period before allowing you to do said Emergency quick save with shift + F5). It also adds the feature to simply save in friendly bases, without needing to find a campfire, the bed icon in the hud is used to denote that, though as a Merc so far only the Dead City base allows that, there might be other bases, but that's the only one I've found in my run).
I’ve played with YACS through GAMMA. I like it, but the boot back to desktop after an emergency save is silly, and I’m not confident that Anomaly will be running stable enough to use it with confidence. It’s a good suggestion that we might use for a future season.
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie I personally haven't tried the E save feature with the token thing, if I have to save (generally for IRL stuff), I simply disable the campfire saving and quick save, then reenable the campfire saving when I'm done and continue on until I manage to campfire save or do the turning off again (my laptop can keep Anom running when I close the lid and run to the bathroom, though having to muck around with my headset/mouse USB cables (generally have to unplug the splitter they're both on to make it easier for myself) makes having to run to the bathroom an affair with either careful cable management or just an easy quick save and quitting to desktop (as unplugging that splitter generally mutes the game afterwards (all STALKER games do this, might be an engine thing of the time, as older games do this too (like OG Deus Ex, System Shock 2, to name just a couple). I don't have that much confidence in it running seamlessly (even though I don't have many mods for it to potentially conflict with), at the very least the less compatible (imo) features can be easily tweaked or turned off (though there isn't many features to tweak for it to really matter much anyways).
I love how you talk to everyone man thats good to see on TH-cam :D Loving the series so far (Yes i got some hours left to go xD) Are you looking forward to Stalker 2?
Cheers 👍 The channel may reach a size where replying to everyone isn’t possible, which makes me both happy and sad. 😅 I *was* looking forward to Stalker 2, but after the NFT drama I’m holding my enthusiasm in check. Keep in mind that the trailer showed us nothing, it was highly curated.
Only recently got into S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly and somehow my TH-cam algorithm found out without me telling it. Enjoying the hell out of these videos, even if the full Season 1 list is daunting in its length. Can't wait for more. Sad to see that Hip bit it, though, she's best girl.
Google knows which sites you visit 😉 It’s a nice casual longplay, absorb at your own pace, no stress. Cheers for the support 👍 We weren’t even around to try and save Hip. I think the entire camp was slaughtered except for key NPC’s. Place was a ghost town for quite a while. Probably military.
after watching this I decided to do a run like it as well, try to get used to the crafting system as I usually avoid it and easily so too. But I added an extra rule that I'm only allowed to eat food I've cooked myself. AKA mutant meals. Also I rushed getting hip due to an imortality mod, being a good companion and a 30kg walking backpack.
Mutant meals as well, nice work 👍 The higher tier meats do give you some nice buffs. We’ve deliberately stayed away from cooking, but it’ll be more prominent in season 2.
15:35 “i did that again… I…” Has happened so many times to me now, sometimes because my traitorous companions push me in… the bastards. So I learned to circumvent the fire a bit before saving
@@vvolfbelorven7084 This would make squad plays a tense game of suspicion. We still don't know anything about the gameplay features that Stalker 2 will have, I suspect we won't see anything concrete for a while. Let's hope they've been taking notes from Anomaly.
I found your channel a couple of days ago, i really love the serie. Btw you should look up stalker gamma mod pack, it's basically a craft only mod pack and campfire save too, it's really fun
I've never used Hip, but I thought she was an unkillable NPC. Watching these I'm beginning to learn the crafting and repair system, so thanks again. I have always skipped of the quest, I mean task, as I thought they were unimportant. But I see you can make serious cash by doing those quests, I mean tasks.
Tasks get you geared early, especially important on the hard progression difficulty. If you’re exploring an area it never hurts to see if there are tasks there - might as well get paid while you’re there! Once you have decent gear and an artifact detector, you won’t need to do tasks as much. Glad it’s helping! 😁
Filling you in the easiest tasks to do are the patch turn in ones if you've collect a bunch of bandit, military, Merc etc... Patches those tasks can net you some pretty easy and quick cash along with rep points with the faction you turn them in at.
When walking up to a campfire, do not walk straight up to it. if you do, and you do not stop in time, you burn. instead, walk up to the side of the fire, so you would just touch the area around the fire where you can save. if you go to far, you simply miss the fire and the save zone, but get no injury.
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie ... indeed, im a bit behind the times. I did notice you did the above a few times, but it is a technique yhat helps in a few games.
Heyyy! Really aswm content out there. Enjoying watching this challenge run quite a bit. And also I'm glad that I stuck till episode 4 coz the earlier vids were quite awful in terms of quality. Also, I have a really good idea of a challenge run. "Permadeath Ironman" these will be short only one life run. This is idea of a youtuber by the name of "Benjin". Really good quality vids but he gets too angry and serious while playing and there is not much fun left watching him. Would absolutely love to see these type of play through from you. Thanks for the aswm content.
Thanks mate! I was still dialing in the bitrate of the early vids which is why they look so bad :p I did consider Azazel mode runs which are basically ironman + random start with new character after death. Season 2 will be a different challenge though.
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie Yeah thought so, I have used a lil bit of obs so I know it can be quite the pain in the ass to dial in the settings and record a good quality vid. Even if you do record one TH-cam compresses those vids (correct me if Im wrong). Yeah! definitely looking forward for the future seasons. Best of luck!!
You’re 100% correct - TH-cam’s default compression is rubbish. I can cut a crisp vid and as soon as it’s uploaded it looks like shite. I do a bit of magic to try and make them look better, hopefully it’s working. 😬 Cheers mate, thanks for the encouragement! 🤘
Yeah, there are certain points on the map where the AI loses the plot. Could be a pathing issue, who knows. Take the good with the bad and know that karma is coming for you with some grade A jank when you least expect it.
Thanks for these, one of my vital files for anomaly got corrupted and is irreparable. Your series helps me get some joy from the game when I can’t play it.
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie I’m planning to, looking on the bright side I know where all the stashes are and what all the best stuff is, so that’s nice. Also is sniper-shotty a viable loadout for early-mid game? I was just running around with it for the lols and thought it was pretty fun.
I have heard of some streamers doing a full run with a sniper TOZ so I’m guessing it’s pretty effective. If you can upgrade the accuracy then there’s no reason why slug and dart shot couldn’t be pretty accurate over long range.
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie oops. I meant a sniper and a shotgun, completely forgot that was a thing, sorry 😬 just to be sure, a re-install is where I delete all the files and re-download them, or is that wrong? Thanks.
@@budgetmuffin I can't see why a shotty/sniper combo couldn't work. Give it a shot. Anomaly doesn't add registry entries afaik. All you need to do is uncompress the downloaded zip files and overwrite the existing files, should be good to go. Make sure you backup your saves first, just in case.
Love this series so far, though I have to admit, I skipped the last episode and a half because of the video quality was a bit hard on my eyes. Glad to see you've mastered OBS ^^ After playing through the STALKER series, I'm playing Anomaly now, but have things like BAS installed, as well as other mmods, but they're starting to make loot pools and difficulty balancing a joke. Seeing you play this series has made me re-install Anomaly, with only mods that upgrade sound design and add true screen space reflections. The game is a million times better without all those useless weapon mods. Though after playing Escape from Tarkov and Unturned lately, I long for magazines and ammunition management lol
The early eps were rough on quality, I don't blame you.👍 Vanilla Anomaly has a tonne of features and customisation and I feel like everyone who comes to Anomaly should experience it standalone to get an idea for how it plays. Modding is the cherry on top. To each their own, not trying to be preachy, but having spent a lot of time deep into Vanilla's survival systems I believe I can offer a pretty informed opinion about which systems could be tightened and how. I'll use this info to guide which mods we use for season 2.
I recently started playing Anomaly, your guide and this series are a big help. And, as I see you are still answering new comments here, I have a question. I finally touched the crafting system, which I was kinda avoiding, to make better backpack and repair my shotgun. It was much cheaper than letting technician do it, but it was also such a mess, took me at least an hour to finally piece it together. I dont know the recipes, only way to check them was paying to use the workshop, and parts needed have to be super precise (like identical shotgun barrel of good caliber is not good enough, it needs to have the same letter in brackets and the end, (R) or (K)). Is there any vanilla/mod way to help me track what parts I need? Something like tagging components in fallout. And also, any way to check recipes on the fly? In pda I only found the recipes unlocked from books Crafting system is interesting and cheaper to use, but its also so complicated and hard to get good in it. It feels like instead of doing it, I could just do ques... tasks and earn more money in that time anyway And one last thing - did you change the grass settings in later episodes? With TH-cam compression it blurs the video, sometimes to the almost unwatchable point
One funny thing - despite being in the swamps, cordon, garbage, rostok, army warehouse and truck cemetery, I only found a total of two tool sets - one expert somewhere deeper in the zone, and one basic in the swamps. Talk about bad luck Recipe book I also found only one...
I’m glad the series inspired you to give Anomaly a shot. The crafting can be overwhelming, I had to piece it together when I started too. For tracking gun and armour repairs, there isn’t a tracking system that I’m aware of. You could use the Sorting Plus mod to mark items as favorites. I know it isn’t the same thing, but it’s the closest to repair tracking that I’ve seen. As for crafting, I have you covered! Check out my crafting tracker video on this channel. I created an Excel spreadsheet listing every crafting recipe and the components required. Furthermore, the main dashboard tracks the individual components you need to collect and even highlights when recipes are able to be crafted when you update the number of components you have. The tracker is free to download and use, just use the link in the video description. m.th-cam.com/video/YAqvI1x474M/w-d-xo.html Hope this helps 👍 Lastly, I didn’t change the grass. The biggest issue was my recording bitrate and TH-cam’s native video compression. I forced YT to use a better codec by outputting my videos at 2k.
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie Im already using Sorting Plus, probably the only reason I even attempted to do crafting and not lose sanity. Great mod in general, especially for new players Your spreadsheet and explanation video are excellent, exactly what I wanted, thanks! I last used Excel like 10 years ago and I dont have it, Ive been using open source office tools since then. Now I need to make this file work on them, but I will figure it out. Thanks again
You probably fogured this out by now, but quick saving and then reloading seems to fix a lot of the bugs. Gets guys to move again, fixes the bug where your keyboard doesnt register (except escape works, thankfully) fixed it when the traders door st the farm wouldn't open for me.
So i came to butcher and made a huge stash next to him, and that was thx to the unlimited amount of enemies that keep on showing up, i had a raid of more than 15 military and merc with high tech stuff attack, idk if that's normal for the game or what but it seem odd to get vs val, mk14, g36 and seva suits and heavy armors while still i garbage, if someone met the same enemies there lets me know. Does the game maybe send heavy enemies to an area just cause you haven't moved for a while?
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie vanilla story mod, i turn off offline battles and i thi k progressive loot is on, but like i spent 5hrs just crafting disassembling and managing my stash there, i have a feeling that staying that long in 1 location might trigger such thing? It was full invasion had military come from every direction, tho after i started moving and came back it was back to only bandits. I've been seeing a lot of mercs tho since i went to agroprom lab.
@@samerabdallah7596 Perhaps turning off the living Zone forces more to spawn in your region to keep things interesting. I also get the feeling that factions like Monolith and Military might be able to call reinforcements during battle which spawn in extra squads, but I have no evidence to back this up, just anecdotal experience.
are you avoiding saving at unlit campfires? I also play campfire mode atm, and it allows me to save at unlit campfires aswell. just wondering if im missing something
You’re not missing anything, the campfire mode is broken and still allows saves at unlit campfires so I’ve made a house rule that campfires must be lit (doesn’t matter who lights them…).
You know it isn't a important mod but for funsies you should definitely install the taunt mod for season two so you can just taunt at anyone you want lol
I have a question. I get stash coordinates on my pda but when I search for them they're nowhere to be found I do have the stashesh map marker checked is it possible for them to be in far away areas?
When you get stash coordinates, they appear in a random area on the map as far as I know. They won’t always be in the same area that you’re currently in. Is that what you mean?
Yeah, if you open the PDA map and scroll around each area you’d eventually find it somewhere. Purple markers contain high-tier loot, while green markers contain average loot. Also keep in mind that some stashes are deviously tricky to spot or reach, even when you know their location.
All stash containers can naturally and randomly spawn items and become a legitimate stash. You’ll never see markers for them unless you’re given their coordinates by a PDA or as a reward for completing a task. This is why it’s a good idea to poke around and hunt for stash containers in the wild - you never know what they might have!
Was thinking what are the best none stupid hard mode settings for a good casual play through? I love playing stalker but I cannot find a happy medium when it comes to the settings it's either to hard or to easy lol
If you don’t want to get wrecked by enemies and anomalies, don’t forget that you can manually adjust how effective your armour and bullets are, irrespective of difficulty (it’s in the gameplay settings menu after you start a game). You can also adjust the prices which traders offer which makes items more accessible. Finally, you can try disabling progressive loot mode. This gives you access to top-tier loot immediately instead of having to level your rank which takes a while. I reckon those settings combined will get you off to a good start 👍
I see a lot of new players jumping immediately into modding before even trying vanilla. Base Anomaly has a tonne of great features and is a solid experience on its own. I highly recommend that all new players finish *at least* the first main quest before deciding whether to use mods. I’ve answered so many questions about mods for specific features that are already in vanilla.
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50:02 Mikhal, a Bandit, killed by a boar. Minutes later: Styopka, also a Bandit, mentions running into boars and needing some help. I WONDER IF THESE TWO EVENTS ARE CORELATED!? XD
Having the equivalent of Halfman's Rags to Riches in Anomaly is quite nice, and with 100 episodes in total... That's a lot of content :D
I started playing Gamma recently and the crafting seemed a bit overwhelming, but it's nice to see that it is not that hard to understand :)
I try to catch Halfman where I can but I’m pretty busy with my own content these days. He’s still going with the challenges though which is awesome to see.
Crafting in GAMMA is somewhat streamlined - many of the recipes have been tweaked from vanilla to require less rare components.
Task, quest, mission, I really don't care what you call them. I'm trying to download Anomaly. And learning a lot from watching this series. Thank you for explaining things as you go. New subscriber.
Cheers 👍
I got a mod called azariels campfires I think. It increases the save range by 300% around fires so you don't have to roast yourself to save. Also passes about 20 minutes in game to simulate a rest
Yeah, I think this was suggested by someone else too and it sounds good. We’re gonna run vanilla for S1, but we’ll mod up for S2. In the meantime we’ll have to risk singeing the fuzzies for a save. 😳
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie by God man be careful then!
Another suggestion is "Yet Another Campfire Saving Addon", slightly increases the campfire radius (where it's within reason), also is MCM compatible (in that you can turn it off to quick save (if need be), there's also some token feature called mommy/daddy mode which allows for emergency saves for when your kid needs some attention (the description for that feature, under that mod is pretty funny, imho) that allows a 5 minute grace period before allowing you to do said Emergency quick save with shift + F5).
It also adds the feature to simply save in friendly bases, without needing to find a campfire, the bed icon in the hud is used to denote that, though as a Merc so far only the Dead City base allows that, there might be other bases, but that's the only one I've found in my run).
I’ve played with YACS through GAMMA. I like it, but the boot back to desktop after an emergency save is silly, and I’m not confident that Anomaly will be running stable enough to use it with confidence.
It’s a good suggestion that we might use for a future season.
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie I personally haven't tried the E save feature with the token thing, if I have to save (generally for IRL stuff), I simply disable the campfire saving and quick save, then reenable the campfire saving when I'm done and continue on until I manage to campfire save or do the turning off again (my laptop can keep Anom running when I close the lid and run to the bathroom, though having to muck around with my headset/mouse USB cables (generally have to unplug the splitter they're both on to make it easier for myself) makes having to run to the bathroom an affair with either careful cable management or just an easy quick save and quitting to desktop (as unplugging that splitter generally mutes the game afterwards (all STALKER games do this, might be an engine thing of the time, as older games do this too (like OG Deus Ex, System Shock 2, to name just a couple).
I don't have that much confidence in it running seamlessly (even though I don't have many mods for it to potentially conflict with), at the very least the less compatible (imo) features can be easily tweaked or turned off (though there isn't many features to tweak for it to really matter much anyways).
"They are starting to like me!" - first step of the evil genius's master plan :D
Damn, Hip's plot armour let her down there 😢
Meanwhile, Wolf and Fanatic just chilling out
I’ve never seen Wolf die. He might secretly be the avatar of the Monolith 😂
Really enjoying watching this series so far!
Cheers! 🤘
U are not getting the attentio u deserve Blonde! keep up with more series of anomaly please!
I love how you talk to everyone man thats good to see on TH-cam :D Loving the series so far (Yes i got some hours left to go xD) Are you looking forward to Stalker 2?
Cheers 👍
The channel may reach a size where replying to everyone isn’t possible, which makes me both happy and sad. 😅
I *was* looking forward to Stalker 2, but after the NFT drama I’m holding my enthusiasm in check. Keep in mind that the trailer showed us nothing, it was highly curated.
Only recently got into S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly and somehow my TH-cam algorithm found out without me telling it. Enjoying the hell out of these videos, even if the full Season 1 list is daunting in its length. Can't wait for more. Sad to see that Hip bit it, though, she's best girl.
Google knows which sites you visit 😉
It’s a nice casual longplay, absorb at your own pace, no stress. Cheers for the support 👍
We weren’t even around to try and save Hip. I think the entire camp was slaughtered except for key NPC’s. Place was a ghost town for quite a while. Probably military.
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie I've been seeing that alot in my current playthrough. Nothing except the front guard, Fanatic, and Wolf.
But then you’ll come back much later and the place will be flushed with Stalkers. Then in 48hrs they’re gone again. I guess Stalkers gotta stalk.
after watching this I decided to do a run like it as well, try to get used to the crafting system as I usually avoid it and easily so too. But I added an extra rule that I'm only allowed to eat food I've cooked myself. AKA mutant meals. Also I rushed getting hip due to an imortality mod, being a good companion and a 30kg walking backpack.
Mutant meals as well, nice work 👍
The higher tier meats do give you some nice buffs.
We’ve deliberately stayed away from cooking, but it’ll be more prominent in season 2.
15:35 “i did that again… I…”
Has happened so many times to me now, sometimes because my traitorous companions push me in… the bastards. So I learned to circumvent the fire a bit before saving
Gotta watch those companions. They've nudged me out of cover during firefights, and almost pushed me into anomalies.
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie I wonder if Stalker 2 will introduce a ‘betrayer mechanic’ if one’s bounty if too high
@@vvolfbelorven7084 This would make squad plays a tense game of suspicion. We still don't know anything about the gameplay features that Stalker 2 will have, I suspect we won't see anything concrete for a while. Let's hope they've been taking notes from Anomaly.
I found your channel a couple of days ago, i really love the serie. Btw you should look up stalker gamma mod pack, it's basically a craft only mod pack and campfire save too, it's really fun
Cheers 👍
Funny you should mention GAMMA… 😉
I've never used Hip, but I thought she was an unkillable NPC.
Watching these I'm beginning to learn the crafting and repair system, so thanks again.
I have always skipped of the quest, I mean task, as I thought they were unimportant. But I see you can make serious cash by doing those quests, I mean tasks.
Tasks get you geared early, especially important on the hard progression difficulty. If you’re exploring an area it never hurts to see if there are tasks there - might as well get paid while you’re there! Once you have decent gear and an artifact detector, you won’t need to do tasks as much.
Glad it’s helping! 😁
Filling you in the easiest tasks to do are the patch turn in ones if you've collect a bunch of bandit, military, Merc etc... Patches those tasks can net you some pretty easy and quick cash along with rep points with the faction you turn them in at.
Hip is unkillable as a companion, before that she can be killed.
R.I.P. ☢️
When walking up to a campfire, do not walk straight up to it. if you do, and you do not stop in time, you burn. instead, walk up to the side of the fire, so you would just touch the area around the fire where you can save. if you go to far, you simply miss the fire and the save zone, but get no injury.
Man, where were you 2 years ago?! 😂
Those fires did my head in.
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie ... indeed, im a bit behind the times. I did notice you did the above a few times, but it is a technique yhat helps in a few games.
The technique did improve. Eventually 😝
Turns out, fire is hot! Lol
Loving it
P.S. that knife technique is badass. I'm telling you bro, I learn something every episode.
Oh yeah, we learn that lesson a few times :p
Nice. Episode 4 took me a few months less to watch than episode 3. I think it's all that footage that was missing before ep 3 is to blame.
Dang, a steep requirement for a companion....was hoping to have someone permanent to watch my back sooner
You can recruit Stalkers from your own faction. If your reputation among your faction is high enough, they’ll join you for free.
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie Thanks
Heyyy! Really aswm content out there. Enjoying watching this challenge run quite a bit. And also I'm glad that I stuck till episode 4 coz the earlier vids were quite awful in terms of quality.
Also, I have a really good idea of a challenge run. "Permadeath Ironman" these will be short only one life run. This is idea of a youtuber by the name of "Benjin". Really good quality vids but he gets too angry and serious while playing and there is not much fun left watching him. Would absolutely love to see these type of play through from you.
Thanks for the aswm content.
Thanks mate!
I was still dialing in the bitrate of the early vids which is why they look so bad :p
I did consider Azazel mode runs which are basically ironman + random start with new character after death. Season 2 will be a different challenge though.
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie Yeah thought so, I have used a lil bit of obs so I know it can be quite the pain in the ass to dial in the settings and record a good quality vid. Even if you do record one TH-cam compresses those vids (correct me if Im wrong).
Yeah! definitely looking forward for the future seasons. Best of luck!!
You’re 100% correct - TH-cam’s default compression is rubbish. I can cut a crisp vid and as soon as it’s uploaded it looks like shite. I do a bit of magic to try and make them look better, hopefully it’s working. 😬
Cheers mate, thanks for the encouragement! 🤘
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie Sure enough! Its working, looks better than a lot of anomaly content on youtube.
Welcome! keep up the aswm work!
Animals getting stuck at 53:36 seems to be pretty common, seen it a few times now
Yeah, there are certain points on the map where the AI loses the plot. Could be a pathing issue, who knows. Take the good with the bad and know that karma is coming for you with some grade A jank when you least expect it.
Thanks for these, one of my vital files for anomaly got corrupted and is irreparable. Your series helps me get some joy from the game when I can’t play it.
Ah man, that sucks. A reinstall won’t fix it?
Either way, glad you’re enjoying the series 🤘
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie I’m planning to, looking on the bright side I know where all the stashes are and what all the best stuff is, so that’s nice. Also is sniper-shotty a viable loadout for early-mid game? I was just running around with it for the lols and thought it was pretty fun.
I have heard of some streamers doing a full run with a sniper TOZ so I’m guessing it’s pretty effective. If you can upgrade the accuracy then there’s no reason why slug and dart shot couldn’t be pretty accurate over long range.
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie oops. I meant a sniper and a shotgun, completely forgot that was a thing, sorry 😬
just to be sure, a re-install is where I delete all the files and re-download them, or is that wrong? Thanks.
@@budgetmuffin I can't see why a shotty/sniper combo couldn't work. Give it a shot.
Anomaly doesn't add registry entries afaik. All you need to do is uncompress the downloaded zip files and overwrite the existing files, should be good to go. Make sure you backup your saves first, just in case.
The song playing at 1:14:30 is Blue States - Season song
Good song 😂
Love this series so far, though I have to admit, I skipped the last episode and a half because of the video quality was a bit hard on my eyes. Glad to see you've mastered OBS ^^
After playing through the STALKER series, I'm playing Anomaly now, but have things like BAS installed, as well as other mmods, but they're starting to make loot pools and difficulty balancing a joke. Seeing you play this series has made me re-install Anomaly, with only mods that upgrade sound design and add true screen space reflections. The game is a million times better without all those useless weapon mods. Though after playing Escape from Tarkov and Unturned lately, I long for magazines and ammunition management lol
The early eps were rough on quality, I don't blame you.👍
Vanilla Anomaly has a tonne of features and customisation and I feel like everyone who comes to Anomaly should experience it standalone to get an idea for how it plays. Modding is the cherry on top. To each their own, not trying to be preachy, but having spent a lot of time deep into Vanilla's survival systems I believe I can offer a pretty informed opinion about which systems could be tightened and how. I'll use this info to guide which mods we use for season 2.
I recently started playing Anomaly, your guide and this series are a big help. And, as I see you are still answering new comments here, I have a question. I finally touched the crafting system, which I was kinda avoiding, to make better backpack and repair my shotgun. It was much cheaper than letting technician do it, but it was also such a mess, took me at least an hour to finally piece it together. I dont know the recipes, only way to check them was paying to use the workshop, and parts needed have to be super precise (like identical shotgun barrel of good caliber is not good enough, it needs to have the same letter in brackets and the end, (R) or (K)). Is there any vanilla/mod way to help me track what parts I need? Something like tagging components in fallout. And also, any way to check recipes on the fly? In pda I only found the recipes unlocked from books
Crafting system is interesting and cheaper to use, but its also so complicated and hard to get good in it. It feels like instead of doing it, I could just do ques... tasks and earn more money in that time anyway
And one last thing - did you change the grass settings in later episodes? With TH-cam compression it blurs the video, sometimes to the almost unwatchable point
One funny thing - despite being in the swamps, cordon, garbage, rostok, army warehouse and truck cemetery, I only found a total of two tool sets - one expert somewhere deeper in the zone, and one basic in the swamps. Talk about bad luck
Recipe book I also found only one...
I’m glad the series inspired you to give Anomaly a shot. The crafting can be overwhelming, I had to piece it together when I started too.
For tracking gun and armour repairs, there isn’t a tracking system that I’m aware of. You could use the Sorting Plus mod to mark items as favorites. I know it isn’t the same thing, but it’s the closest to repair tracking that I’ve seen.
As for crafting, I have you covered! Check out my crafting tracker video on this channel. I created an Excel spreadsheet listing every crafting recipe and the components required. Furthermore, the main dashboard tracks the individual components you need to collect and even highlights when recipes are able to be crafted when you update the number of components you have. The tracker is free to download and use, just use the link in the video description.
m.th-cam.com/video/YAqvI1x474M/w-d-xo.html
Hope this helps 👍
Lastly, I didn’t change the grass. The biggest issue was my recording bitrate and TH-cam’s native video compression. I forced YT to use a better codec by outputting my videos at 2k.
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie Im already using Sorting Plus, probably the only reason I even attempted to do crafting and not lose sanity. Great mod in general, especially for new players
Your spreadsheet and explanation video are excellent, exactly what I wanted, thanks!
I last used Excel like 10 years ago and I dont have it, Ive been using open source office tools since then. Now I need to make this file work on them, but I will figure it out. Thanks again
I’m told that it works in Google Sheets, though I haven’t tested this myself. The formulas between Sheets and Excel are largely the same.
You probably fogured this out by now, but quick saving and then reloading seems to fix a lot of the bugs. Gets guys to move again, fixes the bug where your keyboard doesnt register (except escape works, thankfully) fixed it when the traders door st the farm wouldn't open for me.
All of the above, yep. It’s a bit painful to do in a campfire-saves-only run though.
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie totally fair point. You're a legend for making it so hard on yourself. Maybe one day ill be so brave.
I think I volunteered a little too much given Anomaly’s known instability. Hopefully 1.5.2 patches the worst of it out.
I like how the shotgun can be loaded with infinite ammo 😅
i hate pseudodogs, chimeras, snorks with a burning passion :)
Stash that stuff inside the farm, then you can work on your gear during emissions.
Not a lesson I learn 😝
So i came to butcher and made a huge stash next to him, and that was thx to the unlimited amount of enemies that keep on showing up, i had a raid of more than 15 military and merc with high tech stuff attack, idk if that's normal for the game or what but it seem odd to get vs val, mk14, g36 and seva suits and heavy armors while still i garbage, if someone met the same enemies there lets me know. Does the game maybe send heavy enemies to an area just cause you haven't moved for a while?
That's highly abnormal for vanilla. If you aren't playing with progressive loot and/or have loot/enemy rebalance mods, however, anything is possible.
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie vanilla story mod, i turn off offline battles and i thi k progressive loot is on, but like i spent 5hrs just crafting disassembling and managing my stash there, i have a feeling that staying that long in 1 location might trigger such thing? It was full invasion had military come from every direction, tho after i started moving and came back it was back to only bandits. I've been seeing a lot of mercs tho since i went to agroprom lab.
@@samerabdallah7596 Perhaps turning off the living Zone forces more to spawn in your region to keep things interesting.
I also get the feeling that factions like Monolith and Military might be able to call reinforcements during battle which spawn in extra squads, but I have no evidence to back this up, just anecdotal experience.
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie hmm could be, tho it seemes that offline battles can fk up missions so had to turn it off.
What is your addon list for Anomaly? I've never found an artifact in a stash
This is a vanilla run, no mods, Anomaly 1.5.1.
Surprise hip died she's a pain to kill also ssp helmet is the best all around helmet for me
I guess that only applies once she’s a companion.
are you avoiding saving at unlit campfires? I also play campfire mode atm, and it allows me to save at unlit campfires aswell. just wondering if im missing something
You’re not missing anything, the campfire mode is broken and still allows saves at unlit campfires so I’ve made a house rule that campfires must be lit (doesn’t matter who lights them…).
You know it isn't a important mod but for funsies you should definitely install the taunt mod for season two so you can just taunt at anyone you want lol
I do have something like this installed… 😉
Onto episode 4
So did you buy to get Great swamp or you got lucky with a PDA
That was a while ago, I don’t remember, but my luck’s horrible so I probably bought it.
I have a question.
I get stash coordinates on my pda but when I search for them they're nowhere to be found
I do have the stashesh map marker checked
is it possible for them to be in far away areas?
When you get stash coordinates, they appear in a random area on the map as far as I know. They won’t always be in the same area that you’re currently in.
Is that what you mean?
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie yes so I'm not going mad not being able to spot the stashes , they're just in a different area
Yeah, if you open the PDA map and scroll around each area you’d eventually find it somewhere. Purple markers contain high-tier loot, while green markers contain average loot.
Also keep in mind that some stashes are deviously tricky to spot or reach, even when you know their location.
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie I also get a prompt for "stashe found" even tho there wasn't any marker pointing to the stash , or is that something else
All stash containers can naturally and randomly spawn items and become a legitimate stash. You’ll never see markers for them unless you’re given their coordinates by a PDA or as a reward for completing a task.
This is why it’s a good idea to poke around and hunt for stash containers in the wild - you never know what they might have!
Was thinking what are the best none stupid hard mode settings for a good casual play through? I love playing stalker but I cannot find a happy medium when it comes to the settings it's either to hard or to easy lol
If you don’t want to get wrecked by enemies and anomalies, don’t forget that you can manually adjust how effective your armour and bullets are, irrespective of difficulty (it’s in the gameplay settings menu after you start a game).
You can also adjust the prices which traders offer which makes items more accessible.
Finally, you can try disabling progressive loot mode. This gives you access to top-tier loot immediately instead of having to level your rank which takes a while.
I reckon those settings combined will get you off to a good start 👍
Also you can disable dynamic anomalies and you wont have to worry about running into that random whirligig
I love the random anomalies, makes the Zone feel more dangerous and you need to pay more attention.
what will be the fanction of the next season
Only the all-seeing Monolith knows.
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie So i'm going go ask to the monolith
Let me know what it says.
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie he said za monolith and he start shooting me
So, why didnt you replace with the most damaged component to maximize the repair?
Couldn’t tell you the thought process, that was a while ago. As a guess: it didn’t matter on the grand scheme of things.
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie had you done it, it would have been useable with the heavy repair kits
Could you list what mods your using please?
That’s an easy one:- none!
We’ll be using mods in season 2, but season 1 is a vanilla playthrough.
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie ah ok cool! Thank you!
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie holy shit, you mean season is 100% vanilla!? Fucking hell that's amazing.
I see a lot of new players jumping immediately into modding before even trying vanilla. Base Anomaly has a tonne of great features and is a solid experience on its own. I highly recommend that all new players finish *at least* the first main quest before deciding whether to use mods. I’ve answered so many questions about mods for specific features that are already in vanilla.
@@Blondefire_HeyBlondie but wait, now I'm confused. Are you sure it's 100% vanilla? Because I'm hearing audio sounds straight from fallout new vegas.
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