How to be OP from the START in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky 

*loud incorrect buzzer*

It is, weirdly the "best" somehow. The Artifacts are at there most useful, upgrading guns is really fun and makes them powerful, lots of enemies to shoot, great graphics and better & expanded maps! But it requires SRP and a respawn fix to actually be great!

What i hated about CS is the imbalance between NPC weaponry and their accuracy, compared to that of a player. NPCs can snipe from hundred meters with unapgraded AK74 while you need to fully upgrade it through accuracy route to have like a half of their long range capabilities. At the same time, faction wars related AI doesn't support usage of sniper rifles, you can "upgrade" Freedom all you want, they will still rush in with their sniper rifles if on assault, sometimes into literal shotgun range. And while defending, as long as the game doesn't decide they are actually fighting what was coming- they don't snipe sh1t. Hence, Duty is favored extremely in Faction wars, as their weaponry is more suited for such dumb AI rushes, and as pointed before- once duty aggros on you, its irrelevant what weapon they carry, they will shred you from ridiculous distances.

​@@Observer413 What's the issue with NPCs being as accurate as the player is with some upgrades?

SO TRUE

Scar: "So I did a little bit of building off-screen..."

Maybe if we threaten him?

@@cam5816 I hope you're joking

I mean you really don't need to. Artifacts regenerate in COP and nimble can get you shit on order. I'd fck around in the swamps just artifact hunting and weapons dealing after every emission. There's no possible way you CANT walk out of the skadovsk with the Tide, Storm, Frasier, SVU-2A, SVU-mk2 etc. literally there is a free svu-mk2 with ammo and vintar bc in the skadovsk area. There's also an "emission glitch" where you can go to the workshop door in the iron forest where item 62 is and by careful spamming save reload by the door during an emission it will open. I could never figure out the gun door technique so I used emission save spam. Also if you get the gauss early it forces you to "chapter 3" so no yaniv underground. There is no way ur ass can't be loaded and goated by the time you head to yaniv in COP even on Master difficulty

Honestly the hardest fking part of any stalker game is what I do to my self; "keep NPC's alive challenge". Now that's a goddamn impossibility. Nimble dies if I come back to cordon in SoC. In clear sky drifter and hound just DIE when you leave the village. Almost all NPC's not at a base or programed not at a base are killed by the world just because your presence renders them in existence just to DIE. Sometimes I wouldn't save awl and petruha until just before evac because I got tired of saving ppl only to FIND THEIR CORPSES FACE DOWN IN A PUDDLE

Probably patched.

how you did that i cant even dupe it once? xD

@@MrBlackSociety Don't advance his dialogue. Back out of the window and he'll keep giving you stuff every time you talk to him. It was in the video. I did this on Xbox so it could be patched for you idk.

*Metal_pipe_falling.mp3*

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how it worked for me: - join the stalkers at the Cordon - complete 3 out of 4 strategic goals (capturing the Depot at the Garbage is not mandatory) - the group must have the maximum resource indicator - complete the main task at Yantar (return to Agroprom before going to the Red Forest) If it does not appear for sale, you just need to save/load a few times

just google how to perform the Elevator Glitch, it's actually very simple but requires practice

i don't have a console version to check((((

haha, I'm afraid I have no idea who you're talking about