I remember someone said about basic Anomaly pack, that pseudo exo for scientists with 5 full empties (more than 100killos) carry him through Invictus almost without healing items. It was due to artefact interaction with damage he received damage almost constantly, but due to artefacts were able to cover more than 100% of damage from bullets and like 90 from rupture, he carry orange suit for hunting artefacts. So, nothing is useless.
There's one Exosuit which you missed, which was and still is the best one in vanilla Anomaly and Gamma. The Duty PSZ-10l Forest Battlesuit. It has 1 more extra container than the ISG one, burn resistance is crazy, overall the stats are better, only need to upgrade everything that can be upgraded into chemical resistance.
My UNISG playthrough dude has an ISG Nosorog and this thing is just basically god mode. A vast majority of damage will just tickle you. But you still have to watch out for certain stuff. Lupua still hurts as ever, having an unlimited BR penetration, there's nothing in the game that can stop it. But yeah, together with the upgraded ballistic plate, you can have well over 80BR with this exo. Insane.
I just realized, I wrapped up my last Gamma run as a tank with a Monolith Nosorog, but that was the only one I found the entire run. All three main quests, the generator/monolith waves, fights all over Pripyat and surrounding: One Nosorog the entire time, well into endgame. Speaks to the rarity.
Damn, I just got one after raiding Brain Scorcher (alongside a SA58 OSW with good barrel, and I'm not yet on expert tools). I'm in no rush to go exo, but still I've lucked out hard it seems.
I have about 60 days in the zone, completed the three main stories and didn't found a single nosorog, though I got three exos. Now I go pokemon mode and find them all, armor and guns.
would have loved to see some comments on the merit of exchanging armor through npc like sidorovitch. in early game i highly value radiation resistance as radiations limit the area i can go to safely way more than the threat level of ennemies
This, very much this. You're limited early on by radiation and brain scorcher, with some situations making even procuring advanced tools difficult. Once you have radiation protection handled a lot of the zone opens up and that's part of why ecologist suits are great. You still have to take great care as you're paper thin to bullets and mutants, but you can generally handle the anomalies and radiation, even in Army Warehouses where you can then work on farming Monolith squads at the barrier in order to procure plethora of weapons, stash coordinates and high tier weapons and their parts. And of course the suits.
Radioprotectant (or whatever it's called) provides a very generous amount of radiation protection for a relatively low cost early game, you can use it up to army warehouse and still not have any serious issues with radiation
It's easier to get ISG Nosorog than Ace. Also a good mention would be a Hybrid suit(? I'm not sure if it's named the same in the English version) it's farmed easily in low tier stashes, has 5 slots after upgrade and high ballistic res.
@@rainbowsquad4504 That playthrough was prior to the update, I have ISG nosorog in the other playthrough and haven't seen a single ACE suit now. It feels like it's been removed.
@@martinsvilands7334 I found an ACE suit on one of the Mercs at the checkpoint on the way into Dead City from Army Warehouse (Edit: A couple days ago). I also found the armor OP mentioned. Hybrid Armored Suit in a stash. I didn’t take the ACE because I was heavily overweight and I needed better weapons at the time more than armor. Sort of wish I had taken the armor now. As half the weapons I picked up were 7.62x51 weapons and 9x39 weapons. I could’ve spared a couple of those weapons just for the ACE. So now I’m looking for expert tools and have to go with the Hybrid Armored Suit if I don’t find anything else. So far, the Hybrid suit has been better than any other heavy armor that’s dropped for me so far. If I manage to snag another ACE, I will definitely be giving that a check. Lesson learned. Upgrade my backpack 😂
Found an ISG Nosorog in Radar after a Monolith vs ISG fight on a body in my Invictus run, decided to bring it back to repair, sorting out inventory with 4 companions around and while sorting got shot in the head for an instakill without my companions reacting nor knowing where the (probably) Monolith soldier was and what weapon he used -.- I should have ignored it and just be content with my ACE suit *sigh* the greed that ruins those runs ...
crafting heavy kit with advanced tools isnt that expensive, its definitely worth it for ironman runs (if you get heavy armor drops that is), you can easily get the money by day 2 with a decent amount to spare.
i wish stealth wasn't broken. they'll notice you when you're not even in their vision and crouched or crawling towards them from about 50 feet. Hopefully they plan to actually implement stealth at some point and make the ghillie suit viable.
Honestly the AI is stupid good at detecting you sometimes. In my current playthrough, I came out of noob village in Corden and right after got fired at from the military at the checkpoint. My game doesn't even render that far so I ran back to the village and the military guys followed me and killed pretty much everyone 😂
I ended up finding a medium armor called Guardian of Freedom early in my ironman run. Awesome armor, both for bullet and rupture resist. Only 2 artifact slots, but still had a hard time finding something to replace it.
I only run exo's if i have the battery experimental PSU infinite power it even goes over the charger 400/300, it charges when you stand still so when youre in combat behind cover, waiting for stamina regen, shopping or talking or looking at the map the suit will charge.
Ooh I was waiting for this because I keep hearing Merc ACE armor is the best medium (turns out I was wrong it’s heavy) but it’s doesn’t make for very good disguise so I’m glad you made this, I’m also a big fan of the Loner Voyager armor
just now got my ISG Nosorog (rhino) exo in the red forest (veteran or experienced isg stalker) right at the entrance into forest from the army warehouses it took me around 3-4 loads to get the suit, but it's finally mine I might be wrong , but DUTY is the best base stats Nosorog, not isg, but it only has 4 attachment slots (highest carry wight, highest rupture res and ballistic)
Great video! Thank you for that. The only thing I dont quite agree with is saying that crafting heavy armor repair kits is not worth it before expert tools. It only requires 4-5 medium armor kits (15 charges) with advanced tools and it is not that hard to get by crafting them. It will cost you in glue to do that but if you disassemble almost everything, it is easily doable mid game to craft these med armor kits (or loot one of them at least ) and make your heavy armor kit before moving north.
Someone else beat me to it, but I'll mention it anyway. I have done a comprehensive enough comparison and this is ideed a standout: Duty PSZ-10l Forest Battlesuit. Great ballistic and rupture protection. 3+1 slots. Carry capacity is low but switching out for artifacts that give weight boosts when needed works well, I lugged a lot of loot around with this. The radiation protection is more than enough, the only time I get irradiated is after removing an artifact from a container or picking one up. A cig or at most two should be enough to remove rad. Though I found one quite early in the game, I haven't seen another one since. Bu that is fitting and just for the suit that this is. Another good choice is the Hybrid Armoured. Good ballistic res, 3+2 slots and 33kg carry capaciy. The radiation res is very low so you need an artifact, meds or cigs/vodka. For general running around, combat, sidequests, etc. this would be a good suit, if you want that extra carrying capacity and the extra slot.
4:37 HARD disagree! Making heavy repair kit with tier 2 tools TOTALLY IS WORTH IT! Getting all the engridients is easy, simply visiting 3-4 lvl 1 traders, you can get the M50 gas mask with 50% rad protection before visiting radar the first time, and then there you will have almost no hotspots that will be able to overcome your resistance. Hybrid and Nomad suits are also decent mid-game choices.
I am surprised the Hybrid Armor Suit didn't get a mention. 100% movespeed +33 kg 30% ballistic with 48BR. It is definitely my favorite heavy choice to farm Nosorog
Can't believe I found an ISG Nosorog in my first proper playthrough just a few days ago. Like, "damn, what a good suit!" And now I've realized that due to some bug with the Battery PSU, I've got infinite power with no need for more batteries. Can't seem to fix the bug either, so just enjoying it for now until I did a proper hardcore run later.
I am wearing the best non-exo armor in the game and can shrug off small arms fire like it's nothing but why do I die in 3 bites from a skinny little dog? They really need to make weaker mutants less armor piercing.
Can you please specify how upgrades work? The changes they do are not displayed in the % section. Is % of upgrade adds flat (like 5%+22% or rupture resistance) or does it mean the % added but based from the stock characteristics of armor (like added 5% from 22%)
Yes the percentage shown is additive. For example: you have an headgear that says +10% ballistic resistance and a suit that says +20% ballistic resistance, then u get +30% ballistic resistance.
@@IS0LAT0R7 that's clear but what about the upgrades? Do they work the same way or the % of an upgrade is counted in realtion to the present resistance (i mean +5% to current 30% or +5% OF those 30 current 30%)
Ah, someone understands the Voyager. That thing carried me and my gear to the Generators, and let me haul out all the goods I hunted off of the local monolith that strayed from the lab and all the damn mutants…
I would edit this by addiing... use whatever u find. Armors are fairly easy to repair but quite hard to find. Even tho i knew the ACE is kinda the best all around I never found one in one of my playtroughs. However I found a CS4 pathfinder in a stash and it turned out to be a decent alternative. Same with Nosorogs. On one playtrough I didnt find a single one. On the second I found a monolith right at the barrier mission and another on the Legendary UNISG dude at outscirts hospital
Basically a exoskeleton armor will be the best for combat. I recall on my max difficulty run I got my hands on one and coupled with my As-Val Tactical and my Forester kitted K98 I managed to clear the freedom base solo in one run with minimal meds. They really do just turn you into a walking fuck machine
The Ghillie does infact provide camoflauge that *does* help reduce visual detection from (stalker atleast) NPC. This may be goofed in Gamma versus base Anomaly but it does work in base Anomaly. It is only a factor though so it isnt some fancy "invisi-suit". This can be shown from the "npc_blindness_koeff = 20" line. Gamma does not directly edit outfit .ltx files so this should still be present in the lcs.ltx file, under gamedata-configs-items-outfits folder, incase you want to look for yourself (and increase/decrease the vanilla 20 value). Again, it is only a factor, so setting it to very high values still (I think) won't make you invisible, just way less easy to detect. Some people say it effects AI detection ONLY when you are not moving, implying it does not effect the velocity_threshold part of the detection formula, possibly explaining why it cannot make you super stealthed. Which actually makes sense considering it is a camoflauge suit meant primarily for longer range engagements and remaining still. So while moving NPCs would still detect you about as quick as usual. In my testing I can attest the ghillie suit does help keep you from being detected as quick visually as long as you remain a modest distance from the NPC and remain still. Of course things like sound, firing your gun and other factors will still give you away just as easily, making it a very limited and "niche" kind of benefit, mostly for long-range snipers engaging at (safely) atleast 100 ingame meters out. Otherwise the concealing effect becomes diminished. This also heavily depends on your setup's settings (if addons or yourself tweaks the m_stalker visual detection values etc etc). Edit: fun fact, you can copy paste this line onto other suits to give them the camoflauge effect if you desire. Not entirely sure if this camoflauge benefits NPC to NPC detection but I believe it does but its literally like never that I see any NPCs wearing a ghillie outfit so I never had the chance to test *that* suit but I made a few suits camoflauged in my 1.5.1 anomaly build and it seemed to help them in detection times versus non-camoflauged NPCs.
Personally found something called a Hybrid Armor armor all around from the Heavy Armor category. If you want an upgrade from the M5-armors that's an option, 5 belt slots, only thing is the lower rupture defense.
I just fixed up a set of that and a Sphere-12 helmet for my ironman Brain Scorcher run. Still terrified of the monolith there, but that should definitely help :)
A good pair of light armor that the loners have is the salamander and the tigerstripe suits, the salamander gives a really good radiation protection, and the tigerstripe gives good rupture resistance, both have basically the same BR so at that point is on choosing rupture or radiation, though the salamander can be exchanged with sidrovich, with the gp-5 gas mask it basically makes you immune to radiation in the south
It might have been nice to show the armors' actual stats when showing examples. Saying something has "good ballistic/rupture res" isn't very indicative without the actual numbers. There were probably a lot of honorable mentions to be made too but considering many of the armors in every class are fairly similar stats wise, I can also understand why you didn't mention any.
the duty light pathfinder is definitely worth an honorable mention. It has okay physical protection and some really decent anomaly protection in addition to being light as hell and having 5 slots with upgrade
I’m so confused. I am running a Monolith Exoskeleton, not the X-18 one, the regular Monolith Exoskeleton, upgraded at that, and I’m getting absolutely shredded on my save. I set the difficulty at medium/medium so it would feel balanced however I’m just absolutely getting ripped apart like I said. Is that armour just inherently bad or am I doing something wrong? I should also mention not just Monolith rip me apart, even bandits in Cordon will rip through my armour like it’s paper. I’m just at a loss really.
Bro I once saw ISG in the sleeping shack across from the bandit base in Dark Valley and once I saw a single soldier in front of the military base in Agroprom. You would think the international science group of the United Nations would be a little more organized.
I am shocked that you didnt include the Hybrid Armored Suite in this. It is a heavy suit but can be upgraded to 5 Belt slots and has 48BR with 34 Ballistic Dmg Reduction. You get them quite regullarly from stashes and it is my go to suite when i dont have an merc ace suite
My goto armor list, all from duty cause they have best stats it seems :C medium: PS5-9MD (SEVA) heavy: PSZ-9D (SKAT) exo: PSZ-9D (proto exo) and PNB-4UZ (Nosorog) PS: nosorog feels like godmode tbh so I usually stick with the proto exo instead.
Great list, but to make the advantages and disadvantages more readible, you could make the minuses in red font as opossed to being the same colour as pluses (green) ;), overall great vid tho, thanks for your time.
I've been trying to track this down as I'm getting enough rooble and time into my GAMMA playthrough, but where can I pick up the Wastelander? So far I've only seen the Nomad & Voyager.
I also wear the Voyager suit to and I have some Kevlar plates and a chimera hide on it as well. I like the many belt slots it has. My brother has the ACE suit for the Mercenaries
Hey man how can i get the ace one, cause i used the exchange armor mechanic and dushman only gave me a shitty medium low armor and for the heavy gave me the skat9 not the ace, i have over 1500 goodwill i m doing something wrong?
While i didnt had any luck getting a isg nos yet, consider me colored when one of Sarcophagus guards dropped almost pristine M.Nosorog out of blue. Honestly it was a worthy gift from blue rock's follower, so i took it. But yeah these are as rare as getting a rare srtifact to spawn
Is there a good set of armor and helmet that both have a health regen upgrade? Can't seem to find any. I'm glad to see the Hybrid Suit getting mentioned. Managed to find one in a stash. Got a Ranger Helm to go with it. Would love some health regen to stack with the cozy firepits mod and healing artifacts once I find them.
I am way too late in noticing this, but you miss-marked the Hospital in Outskirts, as it's north of the Laundromat. Recently got my hands on the ISG Nosorog, and honestly I wouldn't have swapped it for my Monolith one (because cool factor) if it wasn't for your video. Thanks a lot, you truly help many people with your videos, me included even though I've already put so many hours into G.A.M.M.A.
mi problema verdadero es que en el modo iron man junto con dificultad dificil y superviviente no tengo permitido arreglar casco o la armadura, ya de por si es complicado que el enemigo dropee una armadura y esta tiene siempre por debajo del 40%, razon que lo hace imposible reparar hasta teniendo el equipo de reparacion que es por encima de 60%, sobrevivi hasta almacenes militares siendo stalker libre y solo con la armadura ligera con la que inicia, espero en un futuro cambien eso de no permitir reparaciones a la armadura sino iron man es solo un modo de prueba, no esta hecho realmente para superar el modo historia
Thanks for the video mate ! One question , as a loner i just looted a Monolith Nosorog and im trying to trade it to merchant for a Loner Nosorog but im not finding any merchant willing to do the trade. Do u have a solution ?
for anyone wondering how to get the merc ace seva suit it is pretty simple, u need to find mercs that wears a seva suit with screen helmets, i get mine killing one merc with that look seva suit but under a coat, i just save spam loot and in the second try it drop te ace suit
I have never tested it but do you just need to tear off the patch for your friendly factions to not see you as enemy? Or will they still obliterate me anyways?
I remember someone said about basic Anomaly pack, that pseudo exo for scientists with 5 full empties (more than 100killos) carry him through Invictus almost without healing items. It was due to artefact interaction with damage he received damage almost constantly, but due to artefacts were able to cover more than 100% of damage from bullets and like 90 from rupture, he carry orange suit for hunting artefacts.
So, nothing is useless.
There's one Exosuit which you missed, which was and still is the best one in vanilla Anomaly and Gamma. The Duty PSZ-10l Forest Battlesuit. It has 1 more extra container than the ISG one, burn resistance is crazy, overall the stats are better, only need to upgrade everything that can be upgraded into chemical resistance.
My fave for my Duty character, "Moose."
My UNISG playthrough dude has an ISG Nosorog and this thing is just basically god mode. A vast majority of damage will just tickle you. But you still have to watch out for certain stuff. Lupua still hurts as ever, having an unlimited BR penetration, there's nothing in the game that can stop it. But yeah, together with the upgraded ballistic plate, you can have well over 80BR with this exo. Insane.
Only Sin members can survive Lapua shot in the chest, but not in the head. Everyone else can be one-tapped anywhere you hit.
Pkm and ash also still scary cuz your head aint 80 br
@@giu4295 only a tier behind if you have a spartan which is still above 12.7br rating :)
now add full rating 'full-empty' artifacts with it
I just found a isg nosorog today while playing and I'm so excited to fix it up
I just realized, I wrapped up my last Gamma run as a tank with a Monolith Nosorog, but that was the only one I found the entire run. All three main quests, the generator/monolith waves, fights all over Pripyat and surrounding: One Nosorog the entire time, well into endgame. Speaks to the rarity.
Damn, I just got one after raiding Brain Scorcher (alongside a SA58 OSW with good barrel, and I'm not yet on expert tools). I'm in no rush to go exo, but still I've lucked out hard it seems.
I have about 60 days in the zone, completed the three main stories and didn't found a single nosorog, though I got three exos. Now I go pokemon mode and find them all, armor and guns.
@@mclarenf1gtr99 i went a whole playthrough without them now I found a mono nosorog in my first fight with monolith in the gatekeeper mission lmao
I loved the monolith nosorog from anomaly it gives you passive bleeding regen and health recovery if i dont remember bad when you fully modified it
You can also consider ecologist exoskeleton for artifact hunting due to having the highest anomaly resistance in all of exoskeleton class.
would have loved to see some comments on the merit of exchanging armor through npc like sidorovitch.
in early game i highly value radiation resistance as radiations limit the area i can go to safely way more than the threat level of ennemies
This, very much this.
You're limited early on by radiation and brain scorcher, with some situations making even procuring advanced tools difficult.
Once you have radiation protection handled a lot of the zone opens up and that's part of why ecologist suits are great. You still have to take great care as you're paper thin to bullets and mutants, but you can generally handle the anomalies and radiation, even in Army Warehouses where you can then work on farming Monolith squads at the barrier in order to procure plethora of weapons, stash coordinates and high tier weapons and their parts. And of course the suits.
Radioprotectant (or whatever it's called) provides a very generous amount of radiation protection for a relatively low cost early game, you can use it up to army warehouse and still not have any serious issues with radiation
It's easier to get ISG Nosorog than Ace. Also a good mention would be a Hybrid suit(? I'm not sure if it's named the same in the English version) it's farmed easily in low tier stashes, has 5 slots after upgrade and high ballistic res.
Not sure about that one, my playthrough I had 3 ACE suits just waiting in my workshop by the time I ever saw any ISG troops.
@@martinsvilands7334how did you get your ACE? I’m having trouble finding one.
@@rainbowsquad4504 That playthrough was prior to the update, I have ISG nosorog in the other playthrough and haven't seen a single ACE suit now.
It feels like it's been removed.
@@martinsvilands7334 I found an ACE suit on one of the Mercs at the checkpoint on the way into Dead City from Army Warehouse (Edit: A couple days ago). I also found the armor OP mentioned. Hybrid Armored Suit in a stash.
I didn’t take the ACE because I was heavily overweight and I needed better weapons at the time more than armor. Sort of wish I had taken the armor now. As half the weapons I picked up were 7.62x51 weapons and 9x39 weapons. I could’ve spared a couple of those weapons just for the ACE.
So now I’m looking for expert tools and have to go with the Hybrid Armored Suit if I don’t find anything else. So far, the Hybrid suit has been better than any other heavy armor that’s dropped for me so far. If I manage to snag another ACE, I will definitely be giving that a check.
Lesson learned. Upgrade my backpack 😂
Found an ISG Nosorog in Radar after a Monolith vs ISG fight on a body in my Invictus run, decided to bring it back to repair, sorting out inventory with 4 companions around and while sorting got shot in the head for an instakill without my companions reacting nor knowing where the (probably) Monolith soldier was and what weapon he used -.- I should have ignored it and just be content with my ACE suit *sigh* the greed that ruins those runs ...
Dudeeee! This video is amazing! This helped me so much in my playthrough! Your tierlists and rankings helped me so much in making decisions!
Good to hear!
crafting heavy kit with advanced tools isnt that expensive, its definitely worth it for ironman runs (if you get heavy armor drops that is), you can easily get the money by day 2 with a decent amount to spare.
yeah finding expert tools is way harder than investing some money in an early heavy toolkit. at some point money is not a problem.
Yep that's how I made my heavy kit, too. While waiting for RNG Gods to find expert tools, I already have more than enough resources to make heavy kit
i wish stealth wasn't broken. they'll notice you when you're not even in their vision and crouched or crawling towards them from about 50 feet. Hopefully they plan to actually implement stealth at some point and make the ghillie suit viable.
Honestly the AI is stupid good at detecting you sometimes. In my current playthrough, I came out of noob village in Corden and right after got fired at from the military at the checkpoint. My game doesn't even render that far so I ran back to the village and the military guys followed me and killed pretty much everyone 😂
I love how chill your vids are and I really, really like your voice…
Thank you :)
I ended up finding a medium armor called Guardian of Freedom early in my ironman run. Awesome armor, both for bullet and rupture resist. Only 2 artifact slots, but still had a hard time finding something to replace it.
I only run exo's if i have the battery experimental PSU infinite power it even goes over the charger 400/300, it charges when you stand still so when youre in combat behind cover, waiting for stamina regen, shopping or talking or looking at the map the suit will charge.
Agreed, recently swapped Nosorogs and didn't even have to put any batteries into the new one because of that PSU
@@therealnemesis1627what's the draw back?
The drawback is the charging ability was removed this patch XD
@@nullmoxyLeast this means no more grinding for battery cause i will not be using exoskeletons now
Next one is helmets I suppose? Glad my renegade endgame suit is ISG nosorog. But before that I often use the hybrid suit that has no faction patch on
I only watch this channel for the prowotogen.
This message was left here by: *MERCENARY PATHFINDER GANG*
Ooh I was waiting for this because I keep hearing Merc ACE armor is the best medium (turns out I was wrong it’s heavy) but it’s doesn’t make for very good disguise so I’m glad you made this, I’m also a big fan of the Loner Voyager armor
just now got my ISG Nosorog (rhino) exo in the red forest (veteran or experienced isg stalker) right at the entrance into forest from the army warehouses
it took me around 3-4 loads to get the suit, but it's finally mine
I might be wrong , but DUTY is the best base stats Nosorog, not isg, but it only has 4 attachment slots (highest carry wight, highest rupture res and ballistic)
Great video! Thank you for that. The only thing I dont quite agree with is saying that crafting heavy armor repair kits is not worth it before expert tools. It only requires 4-5 medium armor kits (15 charges) with advanced tools and it is not that hard to get by crafting them. It will cost you in glue to do that but if you disassemble almost everything, it is easily doable mid game to craft these med armor kits (or loot one of them at least ) and make your heavy armor kit before moving north.
Someone else beat me to it, but I'll mention it anyway. I have done a comprehensive enough comparison and this is ideed a standout: Duty PSZ-10l Forest Battlesuit. Great ballistic and rupture protection. 3+1 slots. Carry capacity is low but switching out for artifacts that give weight boosts when needed works well, I lugged a lot of loot around with this. The radiation protection is more than enough, the only time I get irradiated is after removing an artifact from a container or picking one up. A cig or at most two should be enough to remove rad. Though I found one quite early in the game, I haven't seen another one since. Bu that is fitting and just for the suit that this is.
Another good choice is the Hybrid Armoured. Good ballistic res, 3+2 slots and 33kg carry capaciy. The radiation res is very low so you need an artifact, meds or cigs/vodka. For general running around, combat, sidequests, etc. this would be a good suit, if you want that extra carrying capacity and the extra slot.
Hi
hello
@@nullmoxy I like your avatar
@@nullmoxy I'm Thinking Of Drawing A Character That Is Your Avatar
4:37 HARD disagree! Making heavy repair kit with tier 2 tools TOTALLY IS WORTH IT! Getting all the engridients is easy, simply visiting 3-4 lvl 1 traders, you can get the M50 gas mask with 50% rad protection before visiting radar the first time, and then there you will have almost no hotspots that will be able to overcome your resistance. Hybrid and Nomad suits are also decent mid-game choices.
ay lets go.
digging through all those armors to find the best ones, you're a real one for doing so
nullmo1Love
Ghillie works. Best armor in the game. You avoid most contacts by killing enemy's from distance and most time they do not even fight back.
I am surprised the Hybrid Armor Suit didn't get a mention. 100% movespeed +33 kg 30% ballistic with 48BR. It is definitely my favorite heavy choice to farm Nosorog
Can't believe I found an ISG Nosorog in my first proper playthrough just a few days ago. Like, "damn, what a good suit!" And now I've realized that due to some bug with the Battery PSU, I've got infinite power with no need for more batteries. Can't seem to fix the bug either, so just enjoying it for now until I did a proper hardcore run later.
Did u install the special PSU that refills the energy when you stand still? I am pretty sure its bugged and just works all the time
@@unyeleman Yeah, that's the Battery one. "Reactor," I think?
@@BullofCrete yeah so you installed a super late game PSU into a late game exo suit haha
Merc ace isn't a heavy
I am wearing the best non-exo armor in the game and can shrug off small arms fire like it's nothing but why do I die in 3 bites from a skinny little dog? They really need to make weaker mutants less armor piercing.
furry. cool video tho
4:20. Damn i'm surprised that gamma doesn't have the ghillie suit overhaul addon...
You missed the most important suit!
The overcoat. Favourite of bandits everywhere.
Best armour is a ppm88 gas mask with a green turtleneck sweater some jeans hiking boots and a analog watch
""Heavy boned"" protogen armor is obviously the best
Can you please specify how upgrades work? The changes they do are not displayed in the % section. Is % of upgrade adds flat (like 5%+22% or rupture resistance) or does it mean the % added but based from the stock characteristics of armor (like added 5% from 22%)
Yes the percentage shown is additive. For example: you have an headgear that says +10% ballistic resistance and a suit that says +20% ballistic resistance, then u get +30% ballistic resistance.
@@IS0LAT0R7 that's clear but what about the upgrades? Do they work the same way or the % of an upgrade is counted in realtion to the present resistance (i mean +5% to current 30% or +5% OF those 30 current 30%)
nullHeart
Ah, someone understands the Voyager. That thing carried me and my gear to the Generators, and let me haul out all the goods I hunted off of the local monolith that strayed from the lab and all the damn mutants…
Please make a video on where to get m10 spartan or exohelm!!
I got 4 nosorog suits but no helmets *sadge*
sapphire medium armor is ecologist n keeps like everyone from shooting you lol useful for isg
I would edit this by addiing... use whatever u find. Armors are fairly easy to repair but quite hard to find. Even tho i knew the ACE is kinda the best all around I never found one in one of my playtroughs. However I found a CS4 pathfinder in a stash and it turned out to be a decent alternative. Same with Nosorogs. On one playtrough I didnt find a single one. On the second I found a monolith right at the barrier mission and another on the Legendary UNISG dude at outscirts hospital
Basically a exoskeleton armor will be the best for combat. I recall on my max difficulty run I got my hands on one and coupled with my As-Val Tactical and my Forester kitted K98 I managed to clear the freedom base solo in one run with minimal meds. They really do just turn you into a walking fuck machine
I always set up my base in Zaton, Skadvosk. Managed to get 3 ISG Exos in 20 in-game days total without really going out of my way to farm it.
Are you talking about nosorog?
@@juanitoblogs6574 yess
@@nedys9419did you find them in Ranger station?
i see alot of isg in zaton near the warehouses and such
The Ghillie does infact provide camoflauge that *does* help reduce visual detection from (stalker atleast) NPC. This may be goofed in Gamma versus base Anomaly but it does work in base Anomaly. It is only a factor though so it isnt some fancy "invisi-suit". This can be shown from the "npc_blindness_koeff = 20" line. Gamma does not directly edit outfit .ltx files so this should still be present in the lcs.ltx file, under gamedata-configs-items-outfits folder, incase you want to look for yourself (and increase/decrease the vanilla 20 value). Again, it is only a factor, so setting it to very high values still (I think) won't make you invisible, just way less easy to detect. Some people say it effects AI detection ONLY when you are not moving, implying it does not effect the velocity_threshold part of the detection formula, possibly explaining why it cannot make you super stealthed. Which actually makes sense considering it is a camoflauge suit meant primarily for longer range engagements and remaining still. So while moving NPCs would still detect you about as quick as usual. In my testing I can attest the ghillie suit does help keep you from being detected as quick visually as long as you remain a modest distance from the NPC and remain still. Of course things like sound, firing your gun and other factors will still give you away just as easily, making it a very limited and "niche" kind of benefit, mostly for long-range snipers engaging at (safely) atleast 100 ingame meters out. Otherwise the concealing effect becomes diminished. This also heavily depends on your setup's settings (if addons or yourself tweaks the m_stalker visual detection values etc etc).
Edit: fun fact, you can copy paste this line onto other suits to give them the camoflauge effect if you desire. Not entirely sure if this camoflauge benefits NPC to NPC detection but I believe it does but its literally like never that I see any NPCs wearing a ghillie outfit so I never had the chance to test *that* suit but I made a few suits camoflauged in my 1.5.1 anomaly build and it seemed to help them in detection times versus non-camoflauged NPCs.
Personally found something called a Hybrid Armor armor all around from the Heavy Armor category. If you want an upgrade from the M5-armors that's an option, 5 belt slots, only thing is the lower rupture defense.
I just fixed up a set of that and a Sphere-12 helmet for my ironman Brain Scorcher run. Still terrified of the monolith there, but that should definitely help :)
@@ArmoredStone Lol I mean... Good luck. I wish I had found a better armor than that when I did that raid still.
A good pair of light armor that the loners have is the salamander and the tigerstripe suits, the salamander gives a really good radiation protection, and the tigerstripe gives good rupture resistance, both have basically the same BR so at that point is on choosing rupture or radiation, though the salamander can be exchanged with sidrovich, with the gp-5 gas mask it basically makes you immune to radiation in the south
It might have been nice to show the armors' actual stats when showing examples. Saying something has "good ballistic/rupture res" isn't very indicative without the actual numbers.
There were probably a lot of honorable mentions to be made too but considering many of the armors in every class are fairly similar stats wise, I can also understand why you didn't mention any.
the duty light pathfinder is definitely worth an honorable mention. It has okay physical protection and some really decent anomaly protection in addition to being light as hell and having 5 slots with upgrade
I mentioned at the start i wouldn't be referring to the numbers as they are subject to change. They may be different in the future.
Great video
Furry leave in STALKER
I’m so confused. I am running a Monolith Exoskeleton, not the X-18 one, the regular Monolith Exoskeleton, upgraded at that, and I’m getting absolutely shredded on my save. I set the difficulty at medium/medium so it would feel balanced however I’m just absolutely getting ripped apart like I said. Is that armour just inherently bad or am I doing something wrong?
I should also mention not just Monolith rip me apart, even bandits in Cordon will rip through my armour like it’s paper. I’m just at a loss really.
everyone should craft heavy with advanced, it is not expensive, around 60-100k but huge protection
Bro I once saw ISG in the sleeping shack across from the bandit base in Dark Valley and once I saw a single soldier in front of the military base in Agroprom. You would think the international science group of the United Nations would be a little more organized.
I am shocked that you didnt include the Hybrid Armored Suite in this. It is a heavy suit but can be upgraded to 5 Belt slots and has 48BR with 34 Ballistic Dmg Reduction. You get them quite regullarly from stashes and it is my go to suite when i dont have an merc ace suite
Love your ranking videos! Keep it up.
that ace merc suit is rare af
My goto armor list, all from duty cause they have best stats it seems :C
medium: PS5-9MD (SEVA)
heavy: PSZ-9D (SKAT)
exo: PSZ-9D (proto exo) and PNB-4UZ (Nosorog)
PS: nosorog feels like godmode tbh so I usually stick with the proto exo instead.
Great list, but to make the advantages and disadvantages more readible, you could make the minuses in red font as opossed to being the same colour as pluses (green) ;), overall great vid tho, thanks for your time.
Good point, I don't know why I didn't think of that.
@@nullmoxybecause you're cute
@@everythingpony sounds gay
Nice video!
Guys what would you say about Merc SEVA suit combined with a screen helmet in the middle of the game?
where and how to get a merc ace suit for single stalkers?
Get 4560 reputation overall and start looking for SEVA-looking Mercenaries
where's sunrise armor?
Welp, now I've watched every video on this channel. 😅
What are your thoughts on the Skat-9?
Please someone tell me where to find/who has an expert tools! 😵
Outskirts
I've been trying to track this down as I'm getting enough rooble and time into my GAMMA playthrough, but where can I pick up the Wastelander? So far I've only seen the Nomad & Voyager.
I have monolith nosorog but no ability to repair it... Didn't get the expert toolkit and ive been as deep as npp a few times fir stashes
I also wear the Voyager suit to and I have some Kevlar plates and a chimera hide on it as well. I like the many belt slots it has. My brother has the ACE suit for the Mercenaries
Can I ask? Where the best place to try find merc ACE suits?
Hey man how can i get the ace one, cause i used the exchange armor mechanic and dushman only gave me a shitty medium low armor and for the heavy gave me the skat9 not the ace, i have over 1500 goodwill i m doing something wrong?
Seems like ghillie didn't change much since Misery 2 when it was introduced...
I feel old
While i didnt had any luck getting a isg nos yet, consider me colored when one of Sarcophagus guards dropped almost pristine M.Nosorog out of blue. Honestly it was a worthy gift from blue rock's follower, so i took it. But yeah these are as rare as getting a rare srtifact to spawn
I've seen ISG in Jupiter tunnel pripyat hospital and in zaton too!!
Do you know what armor I can trade Dushman for to get the Mercenary Ace Suit?
Huh, Ghillie worked amazingly well for me in Vanilla 1.5.1
Rupture resistance is really useful? because i feel like mutants can take you down with two attacks anyway
i see UNSIG once in Krug Antenna Complex and pump station in Zaton
Is there a good set of armor and helmet that both have a health regen upgrade? Can't seem to find any. I'm glad to see the Hybrid Suit getting mentioned. Managed to find one in a stash. Got a Ranger Helm to go with it. Would love some health regen to stack with the cozy firepits mod and healing artifacts once I find them.
I am way too late in noticing this, but you miss-marked the Hospital in Outskirts, as it's north of the Laundromat. Recently got my hands on the ISG Nosorog, and honestly I wouldn't have swapped it for my Monolith one (because cool factor) if it wasn't for your video. Thanks a lot, you truly help many people with your videos, me included even though I've already put so many hours into G.A.M.M.A.
АААА ФУРРИ
As a freedomer got ganked once by ISG nosorog in the red forest.
Heavy kit with advanced tools is most definitely worth it.
Hey please do a tips and tricks video for EFP!
mi problema verdadero es que en el modo iron man junto con dificultad dificil y superviviente no tengo permitido arreglar casco o la armadura, ya de por si es complicado que el enemigo dropee una armadura y esta tiene siempre por debajo del 40%, razon que lo hace imposible reparar hasta teniendo el equipo de reparacion que es por encima de 60%, sobrevivi hasta almacenes militares siendo stalker libre y solo con la armadura ligera con la que inicia, espero en un futuro cambien eso de no permitir reparaciones a la armadura sino iron man es solo un modo de prueba, no esta hecho realmente para superar el modo historia
I had an isg nosorog but my save got corrupted 💀
im suprised the ghillie suit overhaul isnt already in the game
Thanks for the video mate ! One question , as a loner i just looted a Monolith Nosorog and im trying to trade it to merchant for a Loner Nosorog but im not finding any merchant willing to do the trade. Do u have a solution ?
Don't do that
I just found my first ACE tonight. What an absolute BEAST. Very much looking forward to running it through the brain scorcher.
How did you get it?
for anyone wondering how to get the merc ace seva suit it is pretty simple, u need to find mercs that wears a seva suit with screen helmets, i get mine killing one merc with that look seva suit but under a coat, i just save spam loot and in the second try it drop te ace suit
Right but which one survives a shot from a ks23? Especially from the barkit- Barkitkitia? The uh not shrapnel round one
None :)
The more you know. I need to know more as I am new to Stalker.
You got nice tutorials :)
Man your gameplay looks so skillful and smooth, im stuck here with 25 fps on dx9 avx lol, would love to know your specs man... loved the video
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5900X | GPU: RTX 3060Ti | RAM: 32GB DDR4
i found 2 isg nosorog in my run, guess im lucky
I have never tested it but do you just need to tear off the patch for your friendly factions to not see you as enemy? Or will they still obliterate me anyways?
If you are disguised as an enemy to your own faction, the will shoot you.
I´d be more interested to know where i can get mil-spec exoskeleton power supply. Thanks :)
You can only get them from killing stalkers with exoskeletons. But you got to get quite lucky.
wait, no seva bodysuit?
hmm, simple question I want to run fust as fuck, which one is the best to be a rat and level endurance?
The Red Line Jacket will provide the fastest movment but no resistance.
When crafting backpacks can you use fabric thats less than 2% durability?
When crafting items, durability does not matter at all.
Is all armor random chance drop? Been looking for the wastelander with no luck.
Yep
Any notes where to find Merc Ace suit?
Is there alternative source for icon mod? I don't want to sign up to discord ^^'
cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1116727876830646334/1139532176027811920/Improved_equipment_icons_-_1.6_-_AlphaLion.zip