As someone who loves STALKER GAMMA, watching Sam struggle through this is making me understand the joy of being a sadist. Thank you Sam, I am no longer bound by empathy, and I can take pleasure from your pain. I have ascended
Sam I never used the repair thingy since it was a pain in the ass. I just used shit guns until I could afford a new gun (the cheapest gun, usually a double barrel) and then worked my way up from there. I keep buying new guns and stripping old ones and selling them for parts. My main income is missions. @@GeneralSam
Yeah watching him run out, pull knife, and charge around two corners is peak Sam gameplay. Technically effective, as the mod is expecting you to play somewhat competently
Gamma is undeniably one of if not the most atmospheric games of all time. Theres something about going on a long ass mission into the north, killing stuff and scavenging supplies, coming back exhausted and hungry and theres 4 guys sitting around a fire and one of em is playing guitar.
Facts. I couldn't put in more than like 10 hours due to difficulty, inconvenience, and necessary grind but the vibe, loop, and mechanics are all some of the best I've ever experienced in gaming
@@draxthedarkreaper GAMMA is just Anomaly with a butt ton of curated add-ons. Anomaly is the TC (Total Conversion) from the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. trilogy that stitches all the maps together and adds more survival / crafting / mil sim elements. Both are great IMO.
No drink, no bread There's blood in my stool I'm probably dead I know I'm a fool No ammo, no guns I'd buy some better shit But I don't have the funds Tried to eat a rat and I got bit I have cancer I'm dying I told you I'm happy, I'm lying I'm sucking on the barrel crying guns broke and I ain't dying I'm so sick of trying so sick of trying I have no money, I have no home This shit ain't funny. I want some dome I pissed blood and it hurt in my bones I collect artifacts to pay off my loans (highlights fentanyl lol) The zone stinks I want out My tummy hurts, I don't mean to pout Where's the food? Where's the hoes? The zone ain't shit, being a stalker blows
While playing the chronologically first STALKER game in the story isn't exactly dealing with Anomaly or GAMMA, I did learn that the best approach is to pick up a solid Avtomat Kalashnikova with a good 4x+ scope, and just go plinking with other survivor's heads from so far away that they can see you, but their artificial intelligence refuses to allow them to engage with you, because it's so advanced, so real, so tactile, that it knows it has been bested before the battle has even begun. This is just my long-winded way of telling you to remember your Ratatouille ways, Samantha
I still vividly remember my first ever CNPP Sarcophagus in Stalker. Full of bots with rail guns that oneshot you, in long hallways where you have to push them, and generally made me tear my hair out. You can't rat in there sadly, the AI is just too advanced - as in it shoots at you with pinpoint precision from miles away, aka aimbot. If GAMMA ramps up the difficulty in the CNPP level, I can't imagine Sam having the blood pressure to beat it.
I was surprised by how long it took General Sam to pick up Stalker. However, seeing that he chose GAMMA from the hundreds of available mods as his first experience made me realize what carnage is about to unfold before I clicked on the video. Thats like choosing a BTR-90 for the first driving lesson
Yea, even stalker anomaly is a game that takes some time to get into. I started with clear sky then CoP, after that I installed a total conversion mod called call of Chernobyl which was the precursor of anomaly, the went to anomaly and to EFP, and I hated EFP, gamma is more for me
@@puddingsimon2626Remembering Call of Chernobyl takes me back to the the good old days of dying to swamp landmines in SGM lol, and a hundred and one overhaul mods with no English voice pack to speak of
@@Ioperzu Misery changed Stalker modding forever lol. Many STALKERs forget now, that the vanilla games aren't really that hard, nor survival focused. Ammo, in particular, is much harder to aquire in large amounts in nearly every mod post-MISERY
how to fix guns: -pick up every gun you see and strip parts/disassemble them -eventually you'll get the parts your gun uses -use files, ramrods, and multitools to repair parts -buy a repair + cleaning kit for your weapon type -replace the parts at a work bench with the repair kit -use the cleaning kit for the overall weapon durability
After reading this step by step instructional (thank you btw) I will be finding mods or disabling mods so that I never have to do the steps you provided.
@@GeneralSamTo be fair, I hated it too at first... But once you realize weapons and armor are the only progression Anomaly really has, you'll either play one of the actual Stalker games again, or learn to love GAMMA economy mod
@@GeneralSam You decided to play gamma instead of just Anomaly. Gamma is the gun nerd version of the game with extra extra mods that arguably make the game worse in some ways. Playing Anomaly and choosing your own mods is better than jumping on a huge modpack and then trying to find ones you don't want.
@@GeneralSam Also fairly certain I remember that weapon parts having their own durability is just a game setting not a mod. Edit: the setting I remember was just for Full percentage parts instead of default 25 50 75 100% parts system
I love how quickly Sam became a real stalker in this video. In the first half, he's complaining about how if the wind blows the wrong way you die, and about how overly complicated the crafting system is. Then about 10 minutes later he's on a quest for joints smoking a cigarette and juking a vicious irradiated dog in a junkyard while insulting it. Now you get it Sam. Welcome to the Zone lol.
The zone itself is very "post apocalyptic" though, and the term "world" could be used in a metaphorical sense. Ya know, if you wanna be a dick about it.
@@GeneralSam you can adjust the minimum and maxmimum durability that weapons drop at in either settings or mod settings (can’t remember which). And there are two disabled mods in the manager for gamma that allow for you to buy weapons and armour from the traders😃👍
Technically, Fanatic can die. I've seen it happen in my own playthrough. He got ganked by 3 of the 4 hogs in the tutorial quest and that was it. They must have dealt incredible amounts of damage that it bugged his immortality. No more Fanatic and no free 'reward'. That playthrough also became my most successful playthrough, did 70% of the story andddddddddd the game crashed one time and corrupted that save. Will I ever start another playthrough of GAMMA? Probably. Will it ever reach that level of dedication and progress? Probably not. But anyways here are some tips for any newer players reading: - strip parts with high condition (green numbers) and then drop that gun. Can't sell it, why keep it? - food too expensive in the early game? go hunting and cook what you need to survive, store the rest near the Hunter traders. They'll pay you very generously for that meat if they give you a quest for it. - take any and all types of bullets. once you get a gunsmithing kit, disassemble the bullets you dont need. you can always craft new ones later. - always prioritize finding the toolkits. NEVER give them to technicians if you only have one. with one Basic Toolkit, you can make all the repair kits and tools needed to progress until midgame. - keep your loot and sell to specific traders only. Scientists will pay more for mutant parts and artifacts, Hunters will give quests to go fetch certain meats for very handsome rewards, etc. - i dont know if Grok fixed it, but you can hide in bushes and take pot shots at enemies if you are surrounded. It's not frowned upon but it does make the game feel cheesy. only use this during absolute EMERGENCIES. - forget the sirens, once you hear crows in the distance, you hide like a lil beech. if any enemy or friendly stalkers are caught outside in the storm, you get to see them die and wake up as zombies (psy-storm) - make every bullet count in the beginning, don't panic and start spraying everywhere, bullets are expensive. - always remember this in your travels, "South is safe, mostly mutants will try to kill you, maybe one or two bandits will try to rob you. That's all. North is not safe, Monolith will kill you or Red Forest or unmarked radiation hotspots with deadly radiation levels. Always fix mask and suit first, then fix guns. Dead stalkers can't use guns." Good hunting, Stalker.
This game is one of those where you have to sit down and read all the headache inducing guides so you can suffer sightly less. And it's still one of the best fps experiences out there.
@@GeneralSam that's exactly what I did, I only played the OG trilogy a little bit so I didn't know what to expect, I basically just lived like a poor person with guns I bought at dollar general until I killed people with higher teir loot.
No need for any guide. Item description is more than enough. And worse case scenario your PDA > Guide > Gamma has all the necessary information. Loading screens as well.
I honestly didn't read any guides and had a blast. Most of the information you need to know is in the PDA guides, otherwise the rest you can figure out by experimentation. It's loads of fun, everyone should try it, and you can adjust the difficulty however you want to make your ideal playthrough
10:53 - 11:10 made me laugh my ass off! This game can be hilarious sometimes. Also a tip: you can also use your companions as a mobile storage (as long as you never turn your quest in that gets rid of the companion). What i like to do is go through the map and take as many companion quests as I can and have just my own personal army and mobile storage unit following you around. Its honestly so meta when you start massive looting. The repair system is very tedious and complicated. But theres a few guides out there that will help you understand it more, and once you get the hang of it, it becomes smooth like buttter. Its pretty much just swapping good parts on other weapons you find and replacing them with the bad parts on the weapon you want to repair. S+ video!
Remember when like, artisans and journalists and shit made fun of those who had jobs working at factories or driving trucks as it was becoming apparent the industry was replacing their jobs with robotics, and they said "learn to code lol"? Yeah. Now I get to sit back with a big smug ass smile to tell everyone upset about losing their music/art/journalism career to A.I. "better learn to code lol".
@@The_Haruspex I think you should probably go outside, touch grass, and realize that the entire world isn't composed of the stupid discourse you read on the internet, composed of two fucked up people on two fucked up sides that represent some weird, psychotic dichotomy in your mind. Not everything is "chad vs virgin." Figure out a way to ignore the stupid fussing and look at the world on a basis of facts instead of the psychotic, touchy attitude of "I have no opinions other than seeing some theoretical amalgamation of all the things I think are bad suffer"
@@koli4213It will continue to be "learn to code" until post scarcity or collapse because real software development and engineering require problem solving skills advanced enough to build bigger and better AIs. All the coding copilot models can do is standard repetitive boiler plate thats been done thousands or even millions of times. Ask it to code a system completely foriegn to novice programmers, and it completely fails. As in, the buggy mess it outputs is so difficult to debug, it's cheaper and easier to just start from scratch. If it were to be replaced, if boilerplate and gunk got completely automated, i think the next iteration would be "learn math" or "get good at math" because that would be the highest barrier to entty for designing novel and sophisticated programs.
For anyone wondering their discord has a full step-by-step tutorial of how to install this (including which software you need to use), also they have a bunch of mods disabled by default like the guns only being 20% durability so it's worth checking the list and adjusting them, but I'd recommend anyone who wants to play stalker 2, to play this, you can play as any faction
@@redacted5736 not just "more," but "WORSE." have you ever been in sam's discord? it's like a rat king made of every rat that's ever lived, all their tails glued together by a mixture of mountain dew, pop tart crumbs, whiskey sugar, weed resin, and cum
Playing GAMMA is like playing Dark Souls for the first time. Unfamiliar, extremely difficult, unforgiving. Once you learn it though it just becomes one of your favorite games. You die a bunch of times quit out and then find yourself playing it a few hours later and you get that rush when you do something as simple as build your first gun or find tools. But yes, LESS ACCESIBLE is probably the truest statement ever made about the game. Luckily the GAMMA discord freaking rules and there is always someone there in chat to help you out and help you. They also post crazy screenshots of the game doing what it does best. Insane situations.
Yeah. And you won't shut the fuck up about it. Just like Dark Souls players, your brag about your progress on some meaningless pixels on the screen for internet cred. (I do it too)
I only play gamma on the hardest settings. After hundreds of hours you feel like a legendary stalker, even from the beginning. But that's after I already suffered for hundreds of hours and learned and adapted
@@AcherontiaStyxeh no we aren't, pretty much every song Sam played was....exactly the same melody with a slightly changed chorus, the only song that was different was the first one and then only slightly AI music generators will always be.....mediocre compared to someone who can make a unique song, not just copying information and reusing the same song styles over and over again with no real way for growth
@@nicholasbrown668 actually there about to release a whole album of a dead country singer using ai that took all of his songs and made lyrics for new songs with his style with minimum amount of editing
Quick Tip to All New Stalkers: Spawn in Cordon as Loner and run south till you find these green men and go up to them and they will give you a free green armor!
You can't have a weapon on you though, or they'll shoot you. Try stashing your weapon with a merchant, they hold onto the stuff you sell them indefinitely and let you buy it back for what you sold it for
Quick tip just for @dougcapler4583, Don't play fortnite, don't play lethal company, don't make really cringe low IQ videos with sex in the title and no views.
Actual tip: Pick mercenary, do local quest from faction leader to clean the home base, buy basic supplies, go north, kill monolith, get great gear and weapons with the help of mercenaries that are usually roaming around or fighting the monolith already, go east and then south to get to Duty base, sit outside their town baiting them out to kill them until they are all dead, use barman to get local quests, use the workbench that is now free, take the guide to the swamps or cordon for main questline/ companion Hip.
I'm somewhat of a sadomasochist when it comes to playing games, playing the hardest shit always drew me in and obsessed me. When I was 7, I played the first STALKER game, I still remember the bloodsuckers giving me nightmares lol. Even since then, the Zone has marked me. I carry it in my thoughts, I have read the various books, and I've seen the movies. I EASILY have 10,000 hours in various STALKER titles. I beat them all at least a dozen times at this point, modded or vanilla. I played every major mod, and some minor ones. I still replay the vanilla titles every couple of years, and at this point I do not want to leave. GAMMA holds a special place in my heart. I've beat GAMMA Story mode on Ironman, finishing every quest possible and exploring every location, weapons collection for every occasion, badass hideout in Pripyat, every mutant hunted. After I ran out of things to do, I feel like doing it again for the same thrill. It was exhilarating to get out of a fight alive, and felt badass to be prepared for anything that could come my way, I planned my every trip in the zone, and I planned to make no mistakes. I've lost more runs than I care to count. It took me more than a 100. With my experience, it was almost never in the beginning of the game, where it's much easier. It was almost always in the middle, when I didn't know my limits and had mediocre gear and artifacts. Stay safe out there, STALKERS.
I agree they were pretty funny but its ai. You can go make the same exact thing in a couple minutes. Releasing an AI generated song would be kinda wack.
a little history lesson here, there is an original nerd, the mod that started all of this is named... Misery The egregious inventory clutter weapons being rusted and fucked to hell PSI mutants having massive hp pools and giant PSI auras that nuke you in seconds Cats being faster than light assasins that give you red bleeds on every attack all Misery
I still listen to the Misery Radio songlist because it kicks ass. Also it made itself into my personal safespace. Running into Skadovsk overloaded while the Emission is starting, high on cocaine and hercules and without a backpack because you dropped everything when two chimeras cornered your loot whore ass. Ah i love it.
Misery is way more tedious in terms of it's mutant balance than any other modpack since. If I recall correctly I looked into the game files and found out Chimeras have like 2k health, and so much health regen that anything that doesn't instakill it (and I don't even know what could instakill a 2k hp chimera) will be useless against one. Might be this was a mistake they later fixed in a patch, but even so the fucking mutant HP pools were absolute dogshit.
I showed my friend this who got frustrated with the difficulty; you can go into the mod settings (there’s TONS of mod settings) and raise the spawn rate for stuff like weapon repair kits which makes the game/mod way easier. I don’t use it but if you want to ease into the actual experience that’s one way to do it.
@@tosho_2979 if blud is using ai to write jokes then they aren't his jokes. Then I'm watching a video with no real substance. Obviously he's not doing that ya dummy nor is that a good idea
First off Sam I am genuinely shocked that you successfully installed Gamma. You have earned +1 Gamer Street Cred. Bushes don't provide cover. The shitty AI can see through them. If you know someone is on the other side of a bush either run to actual cover or just unload on it. Repairing shit, the easy way: Scrap old weapons for parts. You can dismantle the parts, or scrap the whole gun with a multi-tool. It costs more since it degrades the tool and all you get is metal scrap so its not worth scrapping the entire gun. Just take the parts. Keep the good ones (above 50% can be repaired) and sell the rest. You can drop the correct parts over an existing gun to swap them out (except the barrel). The overall durability will still suck though. Use other weapon repair kits to fix it. You need tools. You can get basic, advanced, and expert tools. You get them from stashes. Either purchase or craft a weapon kit; handgun kits for pistols, hunting for old rifles/shotguns, army for the pretty guns, advanced for the prettiest guns. You need at least basic tools and the appropriate kit in order to replace parts or swap a barrel. By replace parts I mean right click and go to replace parts. You don't need the part to do that. It will replace it with one at 100% BUT take a charge off of the weapon kit. Armor is similar but you have to have the armor kit (light, medium, heavy, etc) to swap or replace any parts. So its expensive to fix things. I recommend researching guns and armor you find to find out if you want to keep it before using it. You can hold ctrl to view the fully repaired stats of armor to check , or find more info on the Stalker Gamma discord discord.gg/JTeTdsfj Or check this spreadsheet that I use. It might be outdated though. I have no idea if the author maintains it. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1OWE25Go9kSao5-IDOS4ZWkBtLfyEF_hPLJz7QQR2lqY/edit#gid=1988605531 Anyone else who wants to play can find the instructions to install the game are in the discord. If it doesn't work then you did it wrong. Don't ask for help. Just start over until you can follow the instructions. If you can't figure it out then go back to Fortnite.
There's an option in the modlist to prevent you being seen through bushes and foilage. It's not on by default because of the many settings that can vary the foilage height, density etc (as well as different season settings with the grass mod), so there's no way to compensate for that with the AI itself.
@@vanxthenecron3059 Nah. No thanks. That is waaay too hardcore for me. I don't like ironman in games. The new campfire save mod feels like a good in between.
Stalker Anomaly GAMMA is the best game I've ever played. I don't care that it's a modpack within modpack, I don't care that it's not a "true Stalker", I don't care that it's not story focused. I love its variability, I love its progression, I love its gameplay, I love its atmosphere, I love its replayability, I love everything about it. You can even adjust it to your liking/add more mods. And it's completely free! Shoutout to Grok and everybody else involved in it(a lot of people are), thank you for giving me something so good, that none of them triple A giants can even come close to.
10:47 That whole bit was shot like a movie. The flashes through the window accompanied with the yelps and then just the sound of Fanatic walking back is so cold
I learned mid-game that you don't have to find and loot the exact parts you're looking for, just craft a weapon repairkit and that has all the tools and mechanisms for every type of weapon.
If played properly (and if youre willing to put in the hours,lol) this game is as immersive as gaming can get - in my opinion. An absolute gem and the Stalker community has one of the most talented modders out there, I cant praise them enough for the work they put out.
Sam you gotta start putting the music you use on the description, bro. That shit was too fire for you to keep to yourself. The one starting at 4:40 and all the others please!
Hey! You can fix these issues super easily! Ignore everyones advice and go into the mod configuration menu, there you can make all guns from stalkers drop in working condition and make them never break just be dragging some sliders. Then you have Tarkov with mutant dogs, actually I bet you can even make the mutants not spawn in if you want. Enjoy!
Alright homies, I got you. 1 - Hit Left ALT when looting stalker kills. This will automatically strip any useable parts from their guns/armor (60% durability for guns, 50% for armor). Weapon/armor parts have their own repair kits for varying durability, and the repair kits for the more busted stuff is usually pretty expensive, so it's in your best interest to keep your gear in good condition. 2 - There ARE special toolkits which you can find from stashes and stuff, and they WILL allow you to replace or repair even totally broken parts, but they have a limited number of charges. As an example, generally one smallbore rifle kit will get most of the applicable weapons back to top shape When you look at the details of each weapon, it tells you specifically which repair kit it requires. Hovering over things like weapon parts will also highlight anything it can be used on in your inventory. 3 - In addition to the weapon repair kits, there are also Toolkits, which allow you to craft and repair your shit on the fly. Otherwise you need to pay an NPC (can't remember what they're called, it's usually the lazy alcoholic fucks sitting on stools next to workbenches). This shit is expensive, and you should try to use this option sparingly. You'll know if a stash has the good shit if the icon for it is green (might be yellow now, can't remember for sure). 4 - Grind missions like it's Tarkov. Obviously you get money, but as you gain reputation with factions, they'll give you stash locations (little triforce looking icons on the map), and sometimes they'll give you a radio frequency and a vague location to go track down supply packages with an RF receiver. These tend to have a bunch of ammo and other useful stuff. One last thing to note is that GAMMA is getting updated all the time, so if you're learning it's probably best to just stick with whatever version you get first. That should be the bare minimum you need to learn the rest. The crafting system is a fucking headache at first, so hopefully this helps any of you who haven't figured it out yet. Welcome to the zone, stalkers.
Old World is by far the most chad thundercock "mod", because it literally takes anomaly, reverts it back to Vanilla stalker just in a new engine just as a Fuck you to all the hardcore and tacti cool bloated mod packs.
@@SerbokratTrue, alot of guys have been playing post MISERY mods for so long that they've forgotten how easy it is to find stuff like ammo and food in the original games
I'm impressed that Sam managed to stumble upon the eldritch scale of GAMMA weapon maintenance and upgrade systems and somehow managed to over complicate it.
