Rant about Stashes

[Lazyking]

Technical troubles and A-life aside... Let me vent about the lack of quality loot.

I have looted hundreds of Stashes by now, and i am so boored of solving a puzzle or killing a dangerous mutant to get access to a stash only to find bread and vodka there....

I can not remember a single stash i found except the pay-2-win stashes ("journalist stash" that you get from the edition i bought) that have contained intresting loot in them.

Some stashes has had armours next to them, or masks wich is nice and the best i found. But the containers are all ♥♥♥♥. What where the devs thinking here? A core element of an RPG is to get loot, the better the loot the higher the risk/challenge. But right the only thing you get is clutter crap... Im so boored right now that im not even excited about finding stashes.

Rant over.

[EnStorEn]

Yes, its odd that the good stuff is always NEXT to the stash.

[rustypup]

D3 gamer whining about not getting everything on a silver platter.

This is the Zone. It doesn't care about you and you're not special.

[ItsToofy!]

I mean this isn't Borderlands, even in fan made projects like Anomaly it was all pretty much the same crap, just more of it.

Not to mention these games have never been about loot but "resources", either consumable like food and ammo or turning it in for cash to be able to buy things you need.

[GODSPEED|seven]

Stashes we're never amazing finds in STALKER games. Most often some little survival extras.

These games were never "looter-shooters". Cool things are usually from exploring, or killing "important" characters.

You can find most unique items by exploring or taking minor quests/choices.

[Lazyking]

Originally posted by ItsToofy!:

I mean this isn't Borderlands, even in fan made projects like Anomaly it was all pretty much the same crap, just more of it.

Not to mention these games have never been about loot but "resources", either consumable like food and ammo or turning it in for cash to be able to buy things you need.

Look, i get your point but it´s invalid. I played the other Stalker games and you got awarded for finding stashes. This is not the case. And cut the hardcore stuff out of this conversation. The game unloads endless medkits and bandages etc at you so it´s not exactly like you are starving for resources.

If you engage in the games mechanics you should be rewarded, other itt´s just poor game design imo.

[ItsToofy!]

Yeah and I turn those medkits in for Koupons for repairs and upgrades, plus some stashes have the blueprints you need for an item you have. I've genuinely had no issues with stashes and the economy, if anything its much easier now.

Can only imagine someone who is sitting on 300 medkits and 500 cans of food among other things complaining not to have any money

[Lazyking]

Originally posted by GODSPEED|seven:

Stashes we're never amazing finds in STALKER games. Most often some little survival extras.

These games were never "looter-shooters". Cool things are usually from exploring, or killing "important" characters.

You can find most unique items by exploring or taking minor quests/choices.

Well it´s the exploring part im kinda rant about here. I take time to explore this handcrafted enviorment, solves a jumping puzzle finds a stash and find basically nothing. Yeah i noticed you get good stuff by following tthe main quest line but i mean it´s an open world game.

I would think the devs would like to give you more reason to explore it.

[rustypup]

Originally posted by GODSPEED|seven:

You can find most unique items by exploring or taking minor quests/choices.

Also *deciding* to risk it and investigate that enticing whatever on the understanding that you were risking your life for what would likely be very little reward....

I would note, S2 rewards are actually far superior to the prior games... ie, the risk generally *does* provide some reward such that messing with suckers, etc, will generally provide benefit, be it rare resources, armour or similar.

Some folks have clearly never actually played the OG.

Back then it was.. .Oh! All you found after carving your way through a swathe of mutants/STALKERS was a sausage and some plinky ammo? Oh, well. Hope the scars were worth it...... :D

[Lazyking]

Originally posted by ItsToofy!:

Yeah and I turn those medkits in for Koupons for repairs and upgrades, plus some stashes have the blueprints you need for an item you have. I've genuinely had no issues with stashes and the economy, if anything its much easier now.

Can only imagine someone who is sitting on 300 medkits and 500 cans of food among other things complaining not to have any money

Same here, money is not the problem. Even on Veteran. The problem is on what i should spend it on right now. I rather find some more cool uniqe items i can upgrade or something.

Im 30hrs into the game. I have all the Legendary artefacts, and an armour to hold them. I would like to find something new and awesome. Now i just find stuff i turn into more cash.

[Cylinder1024]

Some stashes have things I need for survival.
Some stashes have helmets, armor, and guns.
Is Zone, such is life in zone.

[Ricky Icky]

Loot needs a good hardcore/balance overhaul, and i'm sure modders will take care of that eventually....
There's a few stashes that are locked behind some unique puzzles, one had me stumped for 30 minutes or so until i finally figured it out....and yeah, the reward was the typical random items.... I wish a few of the unique stashes would pull their inventory from a container list that has some sort of rare item, like a weapon add-on or whatever.

[ImHelping]

Excuse me! One of the first NPC indicated stashes inside a radioactive helicopter, in knee deep water, with a janky ledge that sticks your feet inside unless you jump out, and spawns a dog to attack you that can sprint at full speed through the water, so the NPC can laugh about you being attacked.

Had a used viper SMG in it!

Originally posted by rustypup:

D3 gamer whining about not getting everything on a silver platter.

This is the Zone. It doesn't care about you and you're not special.

I miss honest stalker players.

Hey, hey OP. Call of pripyat can hand you a free bear detector for not being an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ within five minutes, and a free sunrise suit on top of a gas station another five minutes later (and you start with a sunrise anyways in that one).

Bad stashes may be 'tradition', but GOOD stashes are also tradition-ooh I found a free 5.56 assault rifle under some floorboards, by some boars that die in less than a magazine of 5.45 (in CoP)

Meanwhile: Stalker 2 rips off "One guaranteed anti-rad artifact at X anomaly" from the past for their tutorial, then takes it away with magic scripting even if you stash it someplace where all your stolen assault rifles stick around.

[rustypup]

Originally posted by ImHelping:

Had a used viper SMG in it!

Non-STALKER spotted

[rustypup]

Originally posted by Eldeman:

Earned a block for that, good riddance.

"Whaaaaaaa!"

[Arndell]

I'm just basing this off a loading screen tip, but I don't think you're meant to collect them all as you pass by.

With weight limit being obnoxiously low, I think the developer intention is for players to leave hubs with nothing, or nearly nothing and use the stashes to stock up on basic resources as you require.

The loading screen literally says "Don't get greedy, stashes are there for a reason"


I don't really like it being that way, I just installed a mod that stops equipment i'm wearing from counting towards inventory limit and I stockpile every stash I find and put it in my player stash / sell the tons of excess bandages, vodka etc for repair funds.


From context clues though, that being the loading screen tips and the loot itself, it's not meant to be treasure chests of cool gear, they are just surplus basic supplies, a rare few have a unique gun or 100% spawn for something like a silencer add on, but generally they are just there to give you a few basic healing and food items in the field.