Thank you for sharing your Stalker experience, a solid start! There is no such thing as an ideal Stalker playthrough, but there are certain aspects that make the experience better, that one might discover after thousands of hours. You're right about the life simulation in Stalker, so called A-life. All NPCs and mutants have their own goals and tactics. In particular, blind dogs group in packs, and attack only if there is more than one dog. Headshots are important, not so in the beginning of the game, but for NPCs in heavy armor it makes a difference. Using single-shot fire mode for rifles significantly increases accuracy and saves a lot of ammo. Shots from crouch or low crouch position are more accurate. There are many other mechanics, please check the settings for key bindings. In particular, to hide a weapon, press the same button again, e.g. 1 for knife. And speaking of the knife, it is the most or one of the most powerful weapons in the game (depending on the game version), its right click action instadestructs any destructible object in the game, and can be useful against certain enemies. One of the most important perks of the suits is night vision, some suits have the 1st gen NV (green tint) that doesn't look great, but some other suits have 2nd gen NV (blue tint) that is much better and helps with certain levels. There is no need to trade at all to complete the game, but if you're interested in selling stuff, it might be better to unload the weapons before selling and sell the ammo separately. Also, artifacts can be sold to other traders for more. Sometimes there are side quests for artifacts and other items, and the reward for these quests is more than the selling price for these items. There are many suits, weapons and other stuff in stashes or as quest rewards, so no need to buy them. In particular, that merc suit is located in the box in the attic of the building next to the one you climbed on the ladder near Wolf. If you stop at very top of that ladder, and then go left (instead of going through the opening to the attic), you can go on the roof of the building, go the very top of the roof, jump to the roof of the next building (yes it is possible if running), go all the way to the end of the roof of that second building (it will be the leftmost corner if viewing this from the top of the ladder near Wolf), you cannot go inside the attic, but can break the boxes with a knife (maybe in low crouch), then pick up the merc suit. The Stone blood and similar artifacts can be used as a permanent medkit that is always available. With the proper set of artifacts (some of them only later in the game), there is almost no need for medkits, bandages, antirad drugs and energy drinks. Sometimes mutants have various body parts that can be sold or used for quests. The pseudodog tails are almost invisible in the inventory, Sidorovich gives a quest to get it. Finally, a couple of technical tips. The default graphics settings are for a minimal configuration as in 2007. Depending on your hardware, you probably can change the resolution to 1920x1080, switch the renderer to the full dynamic lighting, and use the maximum preset for the graphics. I promise, it will be a different game :) Named saves (via the main menu) should be made from time to time, since quicksaves can be broken (e.g. if taken just after an NPC death). There is a quick load key, so no need to go to the main menu to load after death. Please feel free to ask anything Stalker related.
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Thank you for sharing your Stalker experience, a solid start! There is no such thing as an ideal Stalker playthrough, but there are certain aspects that make the experience better, that one might discover after thousands of hours.
You're right about the life simulation in Stalker, so called A-life. All NPCs and mutants have their own goals and tactics. In particular, blind dogs group in packs, and attack only if there is more than one dog.
Headshots are important, not so in the beginning of the game, but for NPCs in heavy armor it makes a difference. Using single-shot fire mode for rifles significantly increases accuracy and saves a lot of ammo. Shots from crouch or low crouch position are more accurate. There are many other mechanics, please check the settings for key bindings. In particular, to hide a weapon, press the same button again, e.g. 1 for knife. And speaking of the knife, it is the most or one of the most powerful weapons in the game (depending on the game version), its right click action instadestructs any destructible object in the game, and can be useful against certain enemies.
One of the most important perks of the suits is night vision, some suits have the 1st gen NV (green tint) that doesn't look great, but some other suits have 2nd gen NV (blue tint) that is much better and helps with certain levels.
There is no need to trade at all to complete the game, but if you're interested in selling stuff, it might be better to unload the weapons before selling and sell the ammo separately. Also, artifacts can be sold to other traders for more. Sometimes there are side quests for artifacts and other items, and the reward for these quests is more than the selling price for these items.
There are many suits, weapons and other stuff in stashes or as quest rewards, so no need to buy them. In particular, that merc suit is located in the box in the attic of the building next to the one you climbed on the ladder near Wolf. If you stop at very top of that ladder, and then go left (instead of going through the opening to the attic), you can go on the roof of the building, go the very top of the roof, jump to the roof of the next building (yes it is possible if running), go all the way to the end of the roof of that second building (it will be the leftmost corner if viewing this from the top of the ladder near Wolf), you cannot go inside the attic, but can break the boxes with a knife (maybe in low crouch), then pick up the merc suit.
The Stone blood and similar artifacts can be used as a permanent medkit that is always available. With the proper set of artifacts (some of them only later in the game), there is almost no need for medkits, bandages, antirad drugs and energy drinks.
Sometimes mutants have various body parts that can be sold or used for quests. The pseudodog tails are almost invisible in the inventory, Sidorovich gives a quest to get it.
Finally, a couple of technical tips. The default graphics settings are for a minimal configuration as in 2007. Depending on your hardware, you probably can change the resolution to 1920x1080, switch the renderer to the full dynamic lighting, and use the maximum preset for the graphics. I promise, it will be a different game :)
Named saves (via the main menu) should be made from time to time, since quicksaves can be broken (e.g. if taken just after an NPC death). There is a quick load key, so no need to go to the main menu to load after death.
Please feel free to ask anything Stalker related.
Don't Shoot dogs. 5 seconds later shoots dogs 😆
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