another uhhhh six months, another stalker playthrough i guess
NLC weapon aesthestics was fine, despite nothing in the mod having anything to do with NLC lmao, like most of the guns don’t even use the mari weapons pack that NLC actually uses. a good time mainly because it’s shadow of chernobyl at its core and they didnt fuck it up too badly. which is 100% possible when vasya is at the wheel tossing 1100 guns and all kinds of stupid shit into his vasyanka
and yeah im not kidding about there being a stupid amount of identical firearms, which have all had their stats boosted presumably in the name of realism so the games a joke now where you can just shoot everyone from engagement distances none of the encounters are designed for because there are like 24x optics on guns with perfect accuracy now lol
wow great cool the barman has so much stuff, too bad i never bought a single fucking firearm from this guy because everyone has to be a snowflake in the zone with their specialized unique loadouts so you find a billion guns you dont want anyway. oh this guys got a gyurza with special 9x21 bullets only the gyurza uses or whatever. I felt this way about the monolith guys using .300 blackout and 5.56 and 5.45 weapons. it doesn’t even make sense anymore after a certain point that everyones got some special fucking hookup, who’s delivering Honey Badgers and SIG MCXs to the fucking nuclear power plant?
I mean I will say the game is a dream if you love 9mm, every asshole has a billion rounds of it, so consequently I spent most of the playthrough running amok like King Von with the Glock 18 switch unloading entire magazines into people. if Strelok wanted you dead he’d do it himself on feet by himself. I cleaned out the entire bandit base with a handgun and didnt use my fancy rifle at all.
The guy made the AI simultaneously more diabolical but also dumber than I have ever seen before. these guys throw grenades with perfect form and accuracy like theyre baseball pitchers, monolith guys can suicide bomb you, I had an NPC try to stealth kill me with a knife! on the other hand theyve all been like trepanned, theyre too filled with euphoria to react properly, you see guys doing the ambient idle strolling around in the middle of gunfights, staring at you gun drawn for 10 whole seconds not shooting you, ignoring their bros droppiing dead around them to loot their corpses. i saw five boys in the red forest commit suicide walking into an anomaly one after another while staring in complete shock
the entire hallway ambush in the monolith control center was a joke. these guys were wandering off from their positions and generally not giving a fuck. i showed up with a fucking machinegun and was hipfiring people like i was playing quake because adding a lot of guns probably made it real hard to balance the game, so fuck it make everything feel like its hitscan I guess. some of these new guns are fucked up, by the way, like putting far cry 3 blood dragon models in your stalker mod is cringe im sorry. ironically this is one of the few weapons that i think is actually in NLC lol
i used a scar-h sniper model for over half the game that was so big it would block anyone in front of my rifle barrel when i was trying to shoot them in close quarters
you can see here how accurate the guns are btw - look at that ridiculously low crosshair spread lol
I played through the entire portal section on autopilot while basically having a mental breakdown lol so that’s cool. letting out resigned yippee hooray for playing this game so many times i can finiish the game blinded by tears. anyway, this mod is so good that sidor was floating in a t pose before i even unloaded my pkp into his big dumb glassy eyed face
sometimes i cannot believe ive been playing this for almost 20 years. and i bet you ill be playing vasyanka garbage for 20 fucking more
