Yeah my only issue with some of the artifacts is that they have way too little carry weight reductions which even if they weren't horribly heavy they wouldn't really be worth carrying. Also I kinda wish they brought back some of the armor attachments having carry weight reductions to cover their own carry weights.
@@mrquang11212 Pretty sure they removed artifact containers, it said so in one of the patch notes. The only way to find one is by doing those "intercept" tasks, and the container vanishes if you open it, failing the task.
I like the new artifact system more than the old one, but I wish Grok would’ve gone a different route to balancing them. Instead of making soft caps, I wish artifacts overall gave less stats and had more interesting and fun/strong effects. Let armor equipment and pelts boost our stats while artifacts let us put “builds” somewhat together. Maybe Heart of the Oasis could heal and boost teammates’ damage. Maybe Volat Emerald could boost the number of artifacts you find in the fields. Compass could improve recoil. It’s all just defense and stats and means you’ll probably just use Heart, Compass, Emerald, Full Empty, and a Pelt/Plate.
@@c0n33r Perk artifacts are cool, but I wish there was more, and especially for endgame viability 😄 More stuff like Knot/Lucifer would be beautiful. Especially for the endgame tier 4 artifacts that take so long to get. Grok also teased another artifact that’ll come in a later update that combines all the endgame artifacts. It’s just more stat buffs, but now you have 3 more slots to fill (unless you wanna grind for those artifacts again ugh). It’s also just more stat buffs, although it’s a little more interesting than what we get now. As is, it just feels like you go for the same artifacts and will only ever really do that, and with the new cap system you’re almost forced to go for these.
PSA about the Phantom Star. Grok made it so you can have more than 5 belt slots in endgame armors (with upgrades, up to 7), but if you equip a Phantom Star in any slot higher than the vanilla 5th, it'll bug out, disappear and do nothing (it makes you invisible for 1.5 mins, normally) so if you want to utilize this artifact, make sure you just unequip artifacts so you have 4 equipped at max (or less if you want to make sure). Hopefully this info helps someone, i like to use the Star for Brain Scorcher runs to trivialize the timer.
The electra tunnel is actually considered an anomaly field that spawns artefacts. At least in vanilla Anomaly that is the case. I remember making a mod for myself that touched anomaly fields and discovering that.
One important thing to note with artifact crafting is that artifacts WILL maintain durability through crafting. So it's more efficient to repair a tier 1 artifact to full before upgrading tiers (Unless it's a perk artifact to tier 1 and which it'll just be around 33~ percent or so.) Idk how this works with tier 3/4 artifacts needing 2 artifacts to craft though.
I made a whole playlist of them! Just make sure to watch the recent update video and this one first. I’ll be updating the comments on those videos with changes so that they stay relevant: th-cam.com/video/UWh8xEqgVCg/w-d-xo.html&pp=gAQB
a weird but very important tip for people new to the game, don't become overly reliant on bolts, it isn't common but they can be misleading cause they have a much smaller hit box than you and especially with highly visible anomalies sometimes holding onto bolts is gonna be better for you over all. in other words, learn to spot anomalies and decide if you trust your eyes or bolts more for certain anomalies also artefact selling is purely because of being able to sell lower quality (just about everyone bought good quality artefacts)
Just got Gamma up and running today and was using your ADHD guide to Stalker Gamma as an assist (thanks for that by the way). However it has occurred to me that, as of Gamma’s recent update (0.9.3) it has somewhat broken the ‘Training Day: Get the Jellyfish Artifact’ quest from Fanatic. Upon starting he will give you the radiation protection drug, Vodka and Bolts (no Lead Lined Container) after giving you these items he will start to return to Rookie Village. When the player has obtained the Artifact, the quest will update to ‘put Jellyfish in Lead Lined Container’ (which you now cannot do) and no quest marker will appear. What you will have to do instead is simply return to Fanatic as you would normally. Just letting players know. I was confused while using your guide why I didn’t have the Lead Lined Container and what to do if I didn’t. Thanks again for the Guide by the way.
incredible explanation, I've been wondering what the UI thing was and now i know there's an antefact nearby. I've been forgeting to ask at discord what it was. Thanks
This was actually a very thorough video on the recent update! However i dont know if i like the fact that we have to rely on artefacts this much now, i know, its a stalker game, artefacts are its bread and butter if you think about it but man, to me going into anomalous zones just isnt that fun
11:22 Interesting. Grok’s update patchnotes (that additional file in the belt 2.0 description) mentioned that crafting artefacts will apply a 25% debuff to the quality of the new artefact, but here you used a 100% jelly and got a 100% empty. Maybe the debuff only applies to higher tier artys that require 2+ artys to craft? Or is it not implemented at all? Gotta test.
Mutant parts for artifacts crafting? That almost same way like in the old Stalker ShoC mod AMK - you've dropped ingredients in the anomaly, wait a bit and got new artifact... Some stuff from Anomaly Custom got into new Gamma update. You know what I miss? Crafting that let you combine ANY backpack with Hunter's Kit. It was a thing in old version of AC mod, but not anymore. Did Grok made any changes when it comes to finding Expert Tool or it's the same way?
It's the same way, for the most part the only thing they changed is that you'll always get at least one basic kit and then at least one advanced kit and then you can find advanced kits. I think the reasoning was so that players that spawn in the north don't get skip kit tiers and get stuck only finding advanced kits. They'll always find at least one basic and advanced kit now.
Volat Emerald used to negate your phisical protection, now it only in crease weight and cap of other protection, which mean you still have to craft other artifact to counter anomalies.
Volat Emerald is currently bugged and is missing a ton of stats, Grok hasn't fixed it yet, but it is supposed to have more stats beyond just burn protection. Get him to fix it!!
I have red eco suit and burn anomaly kills me in seconds, 75% res and anomalies in Freedom zone don’t notice that even if I just nearby them. I wonder if it’s some script.
it looks like they finally got the working detector animations from freaking COP. actually, the one with the flip top looks straight out of Stalker 2. How?
While containers do exist now in HoC, you will don’t *need* containers for artifacts because they don’t naturally emit radiation when in your inventory.
which trees are you using for Gamma? mines no leaves standard just curious. id love to see grok and team add a tab for seasons where you can swap out from spring summer trees and grass to fall leaves fall no leaves and project invernos winter setup
Hey man, what did you use to have your stat bars be numbers instead of a increment? Mine are broken aswell and only displays like half of my values for some reason
@@EaganTheTrollface iirc the new GAMMA update was less than a week ago, but if have it make sure you didn`t disable (in mo2) ''G.A.M.M.A. Accurate Defense Values'' under GAMMA fixes
@mikuskasspele7722 Yeah it's definitely enabled, and I had done a completely clean install (never had GAMMA on this computer and deleted all other STALKER and mod related files). I had a 'Better Stats Bar - Demonized' enabled and that was causing the issue. Completely fixed now.
hey i recently downloaded gamma again and have been getting your videos recommended. i would like to know how your vegetation is so vibrant and green. my game looks more like fallout new vegas and is very dull and brown lol
@Rein54 I agree. A lot of the changes he made are actually nice though like the grass shadows and a bunch of the actual lighting changes. The issue is there’s now a slightly blurry filter over everything that looks like a crappy ReShade.
@@Venoxium Im most likely gonna have my buddie send me his files if he hasnt updated. My eyes suck enough as it is i dont need a blur filter over my whole game. 9.3 looked perfect on release.
They shouldn’t be giving you any radiation when in your inventory. There IS artifacts that give radiation when equipped and so you’ll have to counter that with artifacts that lower radiation.
@@Venoxium in Fanatics beginning quest the jellyfish artifact give me radiation and I'm told to put in a lead container but they don't exist anymore is there any tips to proceed through this cause that's what I've been stuck on
@toasterbbq2699 For Fanatics quest, I've been told you just need to talk to him. Or bring him back to Rookie Village and then talk to him. Also I show all settings & changes in this video: th-cam.com/video/edl7xZrztv0/w-d-xo.html
GAMMA was always this complex. The only thing that really changed with this update was needing mutant parts for crafting. But even then BEFORE you had to craft combine a TON of artifacts together and it was way worse. That’s the whole reason I hated doing artifacts. Plus they’d all be at like 20 something % so you’d need 4-5 to repair. Now you just need 3 a majority of the time.
Why, i think it ok, the gun parts only rely on condition which make field trip and field asembling easier, the artifacts are kinda confused to me because artifact effency go down too fast but you dont get rads when pick up so it alright, the resist cap is somewhat balance so you dont become walking tank
@@09vuquanghuy24 well yeah that is a good part but im absolutely not liking that decision to remove lead containers, removal of detector, this whole clutter of base building garbage in already cluttered enough traders stock. new artifact crafting recipes and soft caps are ok and sound pretty interesting but the rest is kinda killing all the will to get back into gamma again, sucks i cant revert to old version
The lead containers were always an Anomaly thing. They never existed in the OG games. Just like artifacts emitting radiation in your inventory, it’s a mod thing. Grok has said all the building materials will be removed from the shop and will be craft able only. As far as the detector removal goes, I don’t see why anyone would miss the Veles. Most people either stop at Grizzly or make a Svarog. I don’t know many ppl who use a Veles (unless you’re playing Call of Pripyat ;P)
@@Venoxium Veles beloved, how dare Grok :< alright, well i get it about lead containers but i really liked those hope i could mod it back at least for myself, you actually gonna see an artifact container later in Stalker 2 if you keep playing
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That full Empty is diabolical. 5.53kg weight with a 8kg carry reduction WTF.
It keeps your weight limit *full even when your inventory is *empty.
It all makes sense now
Yuuuup. The trade off for artifacts no longer emitting radiation and needing a container is that they are heavier now.
But if you have a container, you reduce their weight form 5kg to 0.4
Yeah my only issue with some of the artifacts is that they have way too little carry weight reductions which even if they weren't horribly heavy they wouldn't really be worth carrying. Also I kinda wish they brought back some of the armor attachments having carry weight reductions to cover their own carry weights.
@@mrquang11212 Pretty sure they removed artifact containers, it said so in one of the patch notes. The only way to find one is by doing those "intercept" tasks, and the container vanishes if you open it, failing the task.
I like the new artifact system more than the old one, but I wish Grok would’ve gone a different route to balancing them. Instead of making soft caps, I wish artifacts overall gave less stats and had more interesting and fun/strong effects.
Let armor equipment and pelts boost our stats while artifacts let us put “builds” somewhat together. Maybe Heart of the Oasis could heal and boost teammates’ damage. Maybe Volat Emerald could boost the number of artifacts you find in the fields. Compass could improve recoil.
It’s all just defense and stats and means you’ll probably just use Heart, Compass, Emerald, Full Empty, and a Pelt/Plate.
I love this idea alot, for now artifacts is a little easy to obtain .
What about the perk artifacts?
@@c0n33r Perk artifacts are cool, but I wish there was more, and especially for endgame viability 😄
More stuff like Knot/Lucifer would be beautiful. Especially for the endgame tier 4 artifacts that take so long to get.
Grok also teased another artifact that’ll come in a later update that combines all the endgame artifacts. It’s just more stat buffs, but now you have 3 more slots to fill (unless you wanna grind for those artifacts again ugh). It’s also just more stat buffs, although it’s a little more interesting than what we get now.
As is, it just feels like you go for the same artifacts and will only ever really do that, and with the new cap system you’re almost forced to go for these.
PSA about the Phantom Star. Grok made it so you can have more than 5 belt slots in endgame armors (with upgrades, up to 7), but if you equip a Phantom Star in any slot higher than the vanilla 5th, it'll bug out, disappear and do nothing (it makes you invisible for 1.5 mins, normally) so if you want to utilize this artifact, make sure you just unequip artifacts so you have 4 equipped at max (or less if you want to make sure). Hopefully this info helps someone, i like to use the Star for Brain Scorcher runs to trivialize the timer.
The electra tunnel is actually considered an anomaly field that spawns artefacts. At least in vanilla Anomaly that is the case. I remember making a mod for myself that touched anomaly fields and discovering that.
One important thing to note with artifact crafting is that artifacts WILL maintain durability through crafting. So it's more efficient to repair a tier 1 artifact to full before upgrading tiers (Unless it's a perk artifact to tier 1 and which it'll just be around 33~ percent or so.) Idk how this works with tier 3/4 artifacts needing 2 artifacts to craft though.
This whole time I haven't been using the non-perk artefacts, because I thought they would degrade like the perk ones :O
How much did you play gamma before discovering this?
You are awesome man please do more guides like that
I made a whole playlist of them! Just make sure to watch the recent update video and this one first. I’ll be updating the comments on those videos with changes so that they stay relevant: th-cam.com/video/UWh8xEqgVCg/w-d-xo.html&pp=gAQB
a weird but very important tip for people new to the game, don't become overly reliant on bolts, it isn't common but they can be misleading cause they have a much smaller hit box than you and especially with highly visible anomalies sometimes holding onto bolts is gonna be better for you over all. in other words, learn to spot anomalies and decide if you trust your eyes or bolts more for certain anomalies
also artefact selling is purely because of being able to sell lower quality (just about everyone bought good quality artefacts)
I was dreading having to use the artifact system now that we have to due to the changes this guide is pretty amazing bro thanks
Just got Gamma up and running today and was using your ADHD guide to Stalker Gamma as an assist (thanks for that by the way). However it has occurred to me that, as of Gamma’s recent update (0.9.3) it has somewhat broken the ‘Training Day: Get the Jellyfish Artifact’ quest from Fanatic. Upon starting he will give you the radiation protection drug, Vodka and Bolts (no Lead Lined Container) after giving you these items he will start to return to Rookie Village. When the player has obtained the Artifact, the quest will update to ‘put Jellyfish in Lead Lined Container’ (which you now cannot do) and no quest marker will appear. What you will have to do instead is simply return to Fanatic as you would normally. Just letting players know. I was confused while using your guide why I didn’t have the Lead Lined Container and what to do if I didn’t. Thanks again for the Guide by the way.
Thanks for the guide!
this man just keeps going
incredible explanation, I've been wondering what the UI thing was and now i know there's an antefact nearby. I've been forgeting to ask at discord what it was. Thanks
This was actually a very thorough video on the recent update!
However i dont know if i like the fact that we have to rely on artefacts this much now, i know, its a stalker game, artefacts are its bread and butter if you think about it but man, to me going into anomalous zones just isnt that fun
11:22 Interesting. Grok’s update patchnotes (that additional file in the belt 2.0 description) mentioned that crafting artefacts will apply a 25% debuff to the quality of the new artefact, but here you used a 100% jelly and got a 100% empty. Maybe the debuff only applies to higher tier artys that require 2+ artys to craft? Or is it not implemented at all? Gotta test.
To me Grok made a lot of artifacts like they are in SoC where a lot didn’t have rads but would make another stat weaker
Do you have a settings guide? Just wondering how ur game looks more vibrant
Watch the beginning of this video and check the pinned comment: th-cam.com/video/edl7xZrztv0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=RIo6V6CXnoPRftwJ
Mutant parts for artifacts crafting? That almost same way like in the old Stalker ShoC mod AMK - you've dropped ingredients in the anomaly, wait a bit and got new artifact...
Some stuff from Anomaly Custom got into new Gamma update. You know what I miss? Crafting that let you combine ANY backpack with Hunter's Kit. It was a thing in old version of AC mod, but not anymore.
Did Grok made any changes when it comes to finding Expert Tool or it's the same way?
It's the same way, for the most part the only thing they changed is that you'll always get at least one basic kit and then at least one advanced kit and then you can find advanced kits. I think the reasoning was so that players that spawn in the north don't get skip kit tiers and get stuck only finding advanced kits. They'll always find at least one basic and advanced kit now.
Volat Emerald used to negate your phisical protection, now it only in crease weight and cap of other protection, which mean you still have to craft other artifact to counter anomalies.
Someone said the Volat stuff is a bug and that I should do more. So we’ll have to wait to see
5:20 I have a bunch from looting, idk if it was other stalkers or just stashes.
Volat Emerald is currently bugged and is missing a ton of stats, Grok hasn't fixed it yet, but it is supposed to have more stats beyond just burn protection. Get him to fix it!!
Oh is it? Had no clue but that’s something you’d have to put in the bug channel on the GAMMA discord. I have no direct contact with Grok.
@@VenoxiumI can’t report it :( the discord won’t give me permission to post in that channel.
An ADHA guide was not clickbait jesus
Confirmed you find artifact melters in stashes.
we need artifact loadouts mod. so that you could change all artifacts in your slots for a different set
I have red eco suit and burn anomaly kills me in seconds, 75% res and anomalies in Freedom zone don’t notice that even if I just nearby them. I wonder if it’s some script.
15:05 ecolog suit with 73% ballistic resistance? Wut?
Its a secret information but u can detect some mutants like controller using rf receiver
There was a ctrl button to show the item stats as if it has 100%, but now it looks like bugged.
it looks like they finally got the working detector animations from freaking COP. actually, the one with the flip top looks straight out of Stalker 2. How?
Honestly, i liked containers, artifacts emitting radiation made sense. And saying its like the the Canon games ist valid ever since HoC has dropped
While containers do exist now in HoC, you will don’t *need* containers for artifacts because they don’t naturally emit radiation when in your inventory.
@@Venoxium You have lead lined containers in HoC as an upgrade for most armours. The old gamma container system was the same just more complicated
how do i make the environment look greenier like yours
Watch this video and check the pinned comment th-cam.com/video/edl7xZrztv0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=pjOGiRBdqGbkw7-4
which trees are you using for Gamma? mines no leaves standard just curious. id love to see grok and team add a tab for seasons where you can swap out from spring summer trees and grass to fall leaves fall no leaves and project invernos winter setup
I show all settings & changes in this video: th-cam.com/video/edl7xZrztv0/w-d-xo.html
Can you make settings guide or overall guide on how can we get the game look as nice as yours? Thank you.
Watch the beginning of this video and also check the pinned comment below: th-cam.com/video/edl7xZrztv0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=pjOGiRBdqGbkw7-4
what mods do you use for that graphical look?
Watch the beginning of this video: th-cam.com/video/edl7xZrztv0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=gHTeLwu8By_ujjwv
Hey man, what did you use to have your stat bars be numbers instead of a increment? Mine are broken aswell and only displays like half of my values for some reason
As long as you’re on the latest version of GAMMA, all stats should be numbered rather than the bar. Otherwise I’m not sure.
@@Venoxiumyeah no clue, I just downloaded it like a week ago
@@EaganTheTrollface iirc the new GAMMA update was less than a week ago, but if have it make sure you didn`t disable (in mo2) ''G.A.M.M.A. Accurate Defense Values'' under GAMMA fixes
@mikuskasspele7722 Yeah it's definitely enabled, and I had done a completely clean install (never had GAMMA on this computer and deleted all other STALKER and mod related files).
I had a 'Better Stats Bar - Demonized' enabled and that was causing the issue. Completely fixed now.
hey i recently downloaded gamma again and have been getting your videos recommended. i would like to know how your vegetation is so vibrant and green. my game looks more like fallout new vegas and is very dull and brown lol
He made a video about his settings
th-cam.com/video/edl7xZrztv0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=k38RCzM5ne3bOTL6
This is the video
thats because aruins grass tweaks has to be installed , you right click it and reinstall to reset the settings. choose SUMMER , or Spring
Yo, what do you use for anti aliasing?
Nothing. You can see all changes made to my game here: th-cam.com/video/edl7xZrztv0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=2o7N_KBYd2EXgXmS
the new SSS update broke my game😥
The SSS update shouldn't have been forced. It looks like shit IMO. If i wanted my game to look like reshade i would have downloaded reshade.
@Rein54 I agree. A lot of the changes he made are actually nice though like the grass shadows and a bunch of the actual lighting changes. The issue is there’s now a slightly blurry filter over everything that looks like a crappy ReShade.
@@Venoxium Im most likely gonna have my buddie send me his files if he hasnt updated. My eyes suck enough as it is i dont need a blur filter over my whole game. 9.3 looked perfect on release.
@@Venoxium Literaly decrease on fps, and long loading time like dang.., is there a way to revert this update
Why do the artifacts still give me radiation and I can't counter it because containers don't exist anymore??
They shouldn’t be giving you any radiation when in your inventory. There IS artifacts that give radiation when equipped and so you’ll have to counter that with artifacts that lower radiation.
@@Venoxium in Fanatics beginning quest the jellyfish artifact give me radiation and I'm told to put in a lead container but they don't exist anymore is there any tips to proceed through this cause that's what I've been stuck on
@@Venoxium also what graphics settings do you use? Your game looks so good and stable
@toasterbbq2699 For Fanatics quest, I've been told you just need to talk to him. Or bring him back to Rookie Village and then talk to him. Also I show all settings & changes in this video: th-cam.com/video/edl7xZrztv0/w-d-xo.html
Your game looks far greener than mine. Is that a dinos submod or shader?
No, I don’t do anything special. All changes are in this video: th-cam.com/video/edl7xZrztv0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ZFbS-SeApgV9ESrc
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I found melter in a stash
hoiy hell they went overboard with complexity on gamma
GAMMA was always this complex. The only thing that really changed with this update was needing mutant parts for crafting. But even then BEFORE you had to craft combine a TON of artifacts together and it was way worse. That’s the whole reason I hated doing artifacts. Plus they’d all be at like 20 something % so you’d need 4-5 to repair. Now you just need 3 a majority of the time.
No containers, still radiation emmition in description.😅
Which is why you need to balance it with an artifact that lowers radiation.
How is it that your game looks so much more lush than mine? More green? Pls tell
The easiest thing to do is saturation, either in the game menu or with your monitor settings.
Maybe he is using reshade as well.
@@Kenobeno no, currently gamma comes with the fall/winter stuff installed, the lush plants are disabled
Re install aydins grass tweaks and select spring, and disable all the autumn vegetation mods in mo2
I show all my changes here. Check the pinned comment too: th-cam.com/video/edl7xZrztv0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=21U3HbEEoCLe6Xv_
@@Venoxium Looks just like yours now, ily
this is probably my least favourite update of gamma so far
Why, i think it ok, the gun parts only rely on condition which make field trip and field asembling easier, the artifacts are kinda confused to me because artifact effency go down too fast but you dont get rads when pick up so it alright, the resist cap is somewhat balance so you dont become walking tank
@@09vuquanghuy24 well yeah that is a good part but im absolutely not liking that decision to remove lead containers, removal of detector, this whole clutter of base building garbage in already cluttered enough traders stock. new artifact crafting recipes and soft caps are ok and sound pretty interesting but the rest is kinda killing all the will to get back into gamma again, sucks i cant revert to old version
The lead containers were always an Anomaly thing. They never existed in the OG games. Just like artifacts emitting radiation in your inventory, it’s a mod thing. Grok has said all the building materials will be removed from the shop and will be craft able only. As far as the detector removal goes, I don’t see why anyone would miss the Veles. Most people either stop at Grizzly or make a Svarog. I don’t know many ppl who use a Veles (unless you’re playing Call of Pripyat ;P)
@@Venoxium Veles beloved, how dare Grok :< alright, well i get it about lead containers but i really liked those hope i could mod it back at least for myself, you actually gonna see an artifact container later in Stalker 2 if you keep playing
@@SaltyLeo2020 I might be wrong but if I remember correctly the artefact containers caused a bug where artefact condition reset to like 20%
Is there a knife which can get 100% pelts?
I believe the max is 95%!