Too many bloodsuckers

[Ian Smith]

I enter an area there is a bloodsucker, I backtracked to the boiler house because I forgot to loot a place, I was greeted with a bloodsucker, I finished looting, I heard the roar and was attacked by another three, I killed them camping on a truck, went to another area, came back on the way to Zalissya (not long after mind you) and I heard another roar, like seriously?

Not only do they kill you pretty quick and are bullet sponges, the game just keeps throwing them at you, 5 in one area? in the lesser zone? bruh

They are meant to be rare, the wiki calls them 'semi-legendary' meanwhile in this game they are the most common mutant from my experience so far.

[Hailstone]

i get this completely, i can't even get to noontide because of them

[Hailstone]

unless i can find somthing to stand on and cheese them i stand no chance

[nZ RaifalM3n]

ok. #skillissue.

I think Fornite is more suitable for you.

[Lucash eLSamuell]

since i dont think they are meant tot be fight directly, partly i do agree, they should be more rare.

[lukandroll]

In open areas its easy to side dodge them, if its a 1 vs 1 situation, then shotgun

[Ian Smith]

Nah, this game is getting shelved until they fix it, another 3 bloodsuckers when I go to dire thicket, I used up 200 shotgun shells just fighting bloodsuckers and I'm out.

[lurch_454]

I've lost count of how many bloodsuckers I've stacked.

[Coup d' oeil]

They are going to end up nerfing the game. Modern audiences want to be the baddest MF in the zone and have twilight nights. I say go for it. Get your money. Give them their power fantasy in a post apocalyptic nuclear wasteland. Modders will turn everything back and bring the misery back.

[randir14]

There are too many high level enemies in general. ShoC had better pacing when it came to that. In STALKER 2 instead of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ your pants when a bloodsucker attacks underground, you face one in the very beginning of the game and then tons more even in early areas.

[Bukkacracy]

Originally posted by Coup d' oeil:

They are going to end up nerfing the game. Modern audiences want to be the baddest MF in the zone and have twilight nights. I say go for it. Get your money. Give them their power fantasy in a post apocalyptic nuclear wasteland. Modders will turn everything back and bring the misery back.

Bloodsuckers were rare in the other games. Unless you were specifically looking for their lair you would kill maybe 5 in your whole playthrough. Not in 5 minutes.

[Wozherd$🐧]

Probably a side effect of how they implemented the spawning system... Two bloodsuckers out of scientist bunker after grabbing slug, and just one after i reloaded save to see what'd happen. odd.

[Coup d' oeil]

Originally posted by Bukkacracy:

Originally posted by Coup d' oeil:

They are going to end up nerfing the game. Modern audiences want to be the baddest MF in the zone and have twilight nights. I say go for it. Get your money. Give them their power fantasy in a post apocalyptic nuclear wasteland. Modders will turn everything back and bring the misery back.

Bloodsuckers were rare in the other games. Unless you were specifically looking for their lair you would kill maybe 5 in your whole playthrough. Not in 5 minutes.

Didn’t think about the spawning simulator aspect we got going on.

[Geeves]

I'm not bothered by their difficulty, but the quantity makes seeing them just ho-hum after a while. Have to agree too many are spawning.

[Crowbarman]

Originally posted by nZ RaifalM3n:

ok. #skillissue.

I think Fornite is more suitable for you.

lol yeah completely ignore that the devs themselves admitted the game is broken right now. Most people in the Gamma and Anomaly discords are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ about this game right now due to how busted it is and you know its bad when the Gamma players are saying its bs. Im playing on Veteran and within 10 hours ive killed 40 bloodsuckers, more dog packs than i can count, at least 10 pseudo dog packs, 4 psydog packs, waves of fleshes and blind dogs. It's not that I can't beat them its that always resorting to cheese feels cheap and it doesn't make the game fun to play. The challenge in this game isnt in the mutants or enemies hitting hard like in gamma, anomaly or the original stalkers, its about just having enough ammo to deal with everything or just cheesing the enemies if you can hop on an object the AI completely breaks. Looks like Grok is already working on difficutly mods in order to balance it to what people actually like. I ran into a controller who ate 10 grenades, and multiple magazines before finally dying. Waves of bullet sponge mobs that spawn on top of you is not what S.T.A.L.K.E.R players are looking for, they're looking for a challenging hard hitting enemy that punishes you for making mistakes, not cheap deaths because you cleared an entire building did everything you can and have 3 bloodsuckers spawned within 5 feet of you already knowing where you are or hostile npc's who can see and shoot you through a wall. There's a reason this game doesn't give you the binoculars or even has any long range encounters it's because the zone isn't a dynamic living enviroment.