Any other hard mods besides Misery?

[gsdudeus]

I'm kinda worried about how hard Misery might be. Any other hard mods i should know about?

[SuperCrumpets]

apart from call of misery which ive been playing i really dont know.
If COM is like normal misery then misery isnt even half as hard as i first expected it to be

[Martial.Lore]

Originally posted by SuperCrumpets:

If COM is like normal misery then misery isnt even half as hard as i first expected it to be

I am attempting a Misery: Recon: Black Road: Iron man playthrough. I have completed all the Zaton and Yanov missions previously without deaths, but discretely and not all in the same timeline, so I know it should be possible but... it is really very bloody difficult to go through both zones from the very beginning with no deaths.

So far pseudodogs have been the biggest obstacle, killing me early on in 3 of the last 4 attempts, but on my current playthrough I think I've figured out an answer to them. But to try and play Misery without dying at all is very scary stuff. I have to drink caffeine and get my blood sugar levels elevated just to load up the game. To be sure I'm ready and alert for anything.

[Milk]

Originally posted by SuperCrumpets:

apart from call of misery which ive been playing i really dont know.
If COM is like normal misery then misery isnt even half as hard as i first expected it to be

Misery is only hard when you don't know what everything does.

[The Cunning Fox (raZoleg)]

Originally posted by Martial.Lore:

Originally posted by SuperCrumpets:

If COM is like normal misery then misery isnt even half as hard as i first expected it to be

I am attempting a Misery: Recon: Black Road: Iron man playthrough. I have completed all the Zaton and Yanov missions previously without deaths, but discretely and not all in the same timeline, so I know it should be possible but... it is really very bloody difficult to go through both zones from the very beginning with no deaths.

So far pseudodogs have been the biggest obstacle, killing me early on in 3 of the last 4 attempts, but on my current playthrough I think I've figured out an answer to them. But to try and play Misery without dying at all is very scary stuff. I have to drink caffeine and get my blood sugar levels elevated just to load up the game. To be sure I'm ready and alert for anything.

Constantly punch yourself in the nuts, that seems to keep one awake and alert XD

[Mori]

try Call of Chernobyl, its a standalone mod (you don't need to install over base game) and includeds all the maps and more from all the games, i would check it over at Moddb.com

[gsdudeus]

Originally posted by Grimm:

try Call of Chernobyl, its a standalone mod (you don't need to install over base game) and includeds all the maps and more from all the games, i would check it over at Moddb.com

I have tried CoC, but due to my needs of mods to make the game better, it won't work. So, i have to resort to CoP to get my stalker kick.

[gsdudeus]

i started playing misery, and so far, it's tough. My main problem is getting artifacts, and my money problems can easily be fixed by the cooking system and hunting.
How does one properly get artifacts in Misery?

[BadgerMilk]

Originally posted by Lord Wang:

i started playing misery, and so far, it's tough. My main problem is getting artifacts, and my money problems can easily be fixed by the cooking system and hunting.
How does one properly get artifacts in Misery?

You have to carry artifact containers on you or risk being radiated. Use you plyers and you should be able to put artifacts in or out of the lead containers or the Artifact Application Items, artifacts and artifact hunting is more for later in the game when you have a nice eva suit.

[BadgerMilk]

What class did you start? I recently started playing it again because I saw they were going to update it soon hopefully. I started a Recon, which are pretty darn hard untill you find a nice primary weapon. Let me know if you need any tips, I used to play Misery a bunch.

[Martial.Lore]

Originally posted by Lord Wang:

i started playing misery, and so far, it's tough. My main problem is getting artifacts, and my money problems can easily be fixed by the cooking system and hunting.
How does one properly get artifacts in Misery?

The biggest problem with artifacts is that it takes a while to acquire a detector that locates the high value ones.
The echo and bear detectors are useful to have in case you have an opportunity to go into a relatively benign anomaly in the early game. You can find jellyfish, crystal and stone blood artifacts for a useful 2-3000 rubles.
Once you get through to Jupiter you will be getting hold of the veles detector which is better but it still won't get you the really valuable artifacts. You will need to complete the svarog detector quest to finally get going and earning big. Then you should stock up your stash with the ones that Beard likes to request because completing an artifact fetch quest for him doubles the money earned instead of just trading them.
An early Beard quest will send you to the highly radioactive dredge station for an altered wheel artifact (unique) which must be given to Beard to trigger further artifact fetch quests. In Misery all artifacts are found inside anomalies, which present their own problems. Hot anomalies are completely deadly until you can get an ecologist suit and even then they are very dangerous until you can afford to find and carry the very best heat-resistant artifacts on your belt.

[Martial.Lore]

Originally posted by Irishinator:

What class did you start? I recently started playing it again because I saw they were going to update it soon hopefully. I started a Recon, which are pretty darn hard untill you find a nice primary weapon. Let me know if you need any tips, I used to play Misery a bunch.

You can actually get by with most or any of the weapons, as I've found during my extensive freeplay testing. You have to get good with hand grenades if you have a rifle without a grenade launcher but you can still take down everything with patience, care and a little luck.

I do have preferences though--my favorite recon weapon is the OTs-14-4A: that subsonic bullet is just excellent and worth the expense. I also love the Fort 12 pistol. It is crap compared to most of the others but it looks so darn nice. But with these two weapons I can handle anything.

[gsdudeus]

Originally posted by Irishinator:

What class did you start? I recently started playing it again because I saw they were going to update it soon hopefully. I started a Recon, which are pretty darn hard untill you find a nice primary weapon. Let me know if you need any tips, I used to play Misery a bunch.

i have tried recon, and enjoyed that
planning on doing assault real soon

[Milk]

Originally posted by Lord Wang:

i started playing misery, and so far, it's tough. My main problem is getting artifacts, and my money problems can easily be fixed by the cooking system and hunting.
How does one properly get artifacts in Misery?

You don't really do that until you get like, an eco suit. The green one, specifically, not the orange one nor the SEVA suit. You also need at least, like, a veles detector. Otherwise it's really not worth your time.

You can get the ones in electric anomalies with only a bolt, but you have to be really fast. You have to trigger them with the bolt and run thru, get the artifact, and try not to get hit on the way out.

If you're really really dedicated, you can probably scrounge up some gravis and buy some AAMs and shove em in there, and go into like, the boiler or burnt farmstead while wearing a light overcoat with 3 gravi. Your overcoat will be shredded by the time you get out, but you should survive long enough to collect some eyes or crystals.

As for acid anomalies, don't bother until you get an eco suit. You're not gonna be able to do it.

Do note that artifacts, LLCs, and the eco suit way a LOT. And encumberance is awful in the eco suit. And the eco suit degrades extremely fast when hit. So like, you really only want to wear it when you get to the site.

At the end of the day tho, most artifacts aren't worth too much. Only the ones that beard buys for 19k rubles are really worth getting. Also, NPCs can loot artifact sites, so there might not even be anything there. You'll have to kill the NPCs to get them, which is much cheaper.

[[EXD] Anarchy]

how do i get mods ? is there a workshop ? or what ?..

[Martial.Lore]

Originally posted by Anarchy:

how do i get mods ? is there a workshop ? or what ?..

http://www.moddb.com/
http://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-misery

folks on YouTube have posted all kinds of videos to help you install mods, incl. Misery mod.