Game's too easy and here's why

[KiffSka]

You can basically farm 2 physical defense/endurance artifacts/1 medium bleeding and 2 medium radiation protection artifacts in the first two zones and run around like god on crack with any armor that got 3-5 slots from that point on and not take dmg on veteran, you can always take 1 maximum phys and one maximum bleed defense artifact to swap midfight. Farm 1 of each other maximum def type, bring them with you in the backpack and nothing deals dmg since you wont run into anomalies without swapping them. Emissions respawning them makes farming for cash and those utilities early easy as hell with 3-5 spawns each in both zones combined and fast travel costing almost nothing. Worth the 20 min run through old zones in every aspect. At hour 10-20 you got all the artifacts you need for the rest of the game.
Psychic Mutants need line of sight and deal no dmg if you don't want to. A toz alone is enough to kill them with 4 reloads. Bloodsuckers pathing is so bad, jump a table/stone and they don't attack anymore, while 6 shots kill them easily. So only 3 reloads. Everything else is either dead without reloading a toz or just found once you got a spas/saiga to spamkill truely every mutant with buckshot. The most dmg you're getting is from psi, so get a cheap mask and armor that can upgrade its defense and you're even fine with that later on.
Humans don't deal any dmg if you got the artifacts early. Just none. Running through tripmines while being shot at is less dmg than defusing and taking the bleed. Meanwhile high pen weapons even with trash ammo almost oneshots any human, so standing in the open/running at the enemy is fast and easy. First quest ak upgraded is enough to oneshot all into midgame and then higher pen weapons are easy to get.
And even if you go afk to get shot for 20 secs straight without shooting back you're pressing q and 70% health is back bc of a medkit of which you got over 1k lying around at endgame if you don't sell them.
Money aint a problem if you don't take dmg and don't have to shoot much to kill because repairs go way down, while artifact hunt makes you rich af early anway. Running at enemies with a pistol is faster and more cost efficient than taking expensive guns most of the time. The dmg you get is just way too low once you got the artifacts which are uncommon so you'll have the basics at around the 10 hour mark.

[76561197961275394]

Originally posted by KiffSka:

Originally posted by PostNutClarity:

Okay cool I’ll try that next time with the chimera. As for my armor I have the SIRCAA whatever badass armor but I can’t fully upgrade it with artifact rad protection until I actually get into the SIRCAA compound.

Never really thought it's worth it then. When I got the tourist armor I couldnt get more slots because of that and took way more damage than with lower armor and slots while it costed 20k to repair instead of 4k in the same time. The most dmg you get in the game is physical and you pay repair money for all the stats increasing which aren't needed 90% of the time. If the full bar for armor is 100% protection at cap then 10% more from lower to higher tiers isnt doing ♥♥♥♥ while costs explode. An low protection artifact adds 25% straight up for no more costs if you can counter the radiation with another/an upgrade. while individual defenses are easy to maximize with artifacts in case you run into anomalies.

Yea the armor I fully upgraded befor this was substantially better in physical defense but substantially worse for everything else. It’s really not a big deal since I can play this game an infinite amount of times. I am regretting selling that armor though. =/

[KiffSka]

Originally posted by maloce:

Originally posted by KiffSka:

Honestly I'd love that, but here the problem is more in the game itself I think. How cool would it be if the game taught you that stuff, like an early game quest racing a dude that uses endurance artifacts just for the run, wins and tells you to always keep one of those in the backpack in case you need them. What gun type to use for what enemy, talking to the hunter in mainquest before hunting and him telling you you don't need penetration for them.

Most of my friends didn't know artifacts respawn and that anomalies can have different ones, while I knew it from old games/books same with the previous things. The game and it's factions are confusing af for new players and then day 1 patch completely takes out the last bit of difficulty for veterans. Previous titles were much more into survival horror than just an arcade story game and I miss that.

Yeah that's true. I was able to find more of the same artifact to catch on to that, and I watched a lot of videos and just explored around a lot. I am one who never minds games being a little streamlined, even though I understand some ppl hate that.

I've been gaming since atari, but really, remember NES and above the most lol.

And on the NES, so many great games, I never beat. I like where the hobby is, where games feel beatable.

I think if people love hard games, go retro. Ninja Gaiden, Castlevania trilogy, and on the top of my head, so much more were very friggin hard. XD Double dragon games. o_o

That's another trilogy.

Yeah I feel that. Many of those had the same problem tho. I remember buying guides to snes games bc I couldn't find the next objectives or didn't understand how to beat bosses with mechanics you just used for that moment and some other exclusives. xD As soon as you give out difficulty options and got an survivalish ip going it's like dafuq.

[KiffSka]

Originally posted by PostNutClarity:

Originally posted by KiffSka:

Never really thought it's worth it then. When I got the tourist armor I couldnt get more slots because of that and took way more damage than with lower armor and slots while it costed 20k to repair instead of 4k in the same time. The most dmg you get in the game is physical and you pay repair money for all the stats increasing which aren't needed 90% of the time. If the full bar for armor is 100% protection at cap then 10% more from lower to higher tiers isnt doing ♥♥♥♥ while costs explode. An low protection artifact adds 25% straight up for no more costs if you can counter the radiation with another/an upgrade. while individual defenses are easy to maximize with artifacts in case you run into anomalies.

Yea the armor I fully upgraded befor this was substantially better in physical defense but substantially worse for everything else. It’s really not a big deal since I can play this game an infinite amount of times. I am regretting selling that armor though. =/

Yeah I know the feels, regretted that on the bandit armor early on and kept every single one since then bc of it. xD Haven't finished it myself yet cause the performance crashed like ♥♥♥♥ but hopefully there's different endings again so always ways to go different about stuff. :P

[BatriX]

look, you'd go 0/20 if you went up against someone good, as amazing as you think you are, that said I want to point out to you that if you are generally ok at FPS games you are simply forgetting the fact of just how bad most gamers are at games. and it cannot be designed around superior FPS players

the game has to be playable for lower skill gamers.

That said I'd also like to say, but you died right? so its not that easy?

Regards.

[sebirez]

Ok....so how long did it take you to get all those artifacts and did you find them on your own?

[Donte]

Originally posted by Dracon:

Originally posted by maloce:

Every game it's like, me getting my ass kicked, and someone making a large post of why the game is too easy. :P Every game should have a hardcore mode or something, for you ppl. XD

Chumps sitting with their eyeballs glue'd to whatever popular COD CS Forknite Overwatched game is goin currently and then expect every other game to adhere to their sense of engagement.

thank god for people like you that show us how true gamers play like

[bubasikus]

Originally posted by maloce:

Every game it's like, me getting my ass kicked, and someone making a large post of why the game is too easy. :P Every game should have a hardcore mode or something, for you ppl. XD

he's obviously an edgelord. The AI is aimbotting especially on veteran. I guess he's playing with mods that make the game easier lol

[KiffSka]

Originally posted by bubasikus:

Originally posted by maloce:

Every game it's like, me getting my ass kicked, and someone making a large post of why the game is too easy. :P Every game should have a hardcore mode or something, for you ppl. XD

he's obviously an edgelord. The AI is aimbotting especially on veteran. I guess he's playing with mods that make the game easier lol

And another one playing without artifacts that thinks getting no dmg is only achieveable by cheating. xD

[KiffSka]

Originally posted by BatriX:

look, you'd go 0/20 if you went up against someone good, as amazing as you think you are, that said I want to point out to you that if you are generally ok at FPS games you are simply forgetting the fact of just how bad most gamers are at games. and it cannot be designed around superior FPS players

the game has to be playable for lower skill gamers.

That said I'd also like to say, but you died right? so its not that easy?

Regards.

I got 5k hours in cs go but that ain't the point as I stated multiple times. Every single one of my friends complained game too hard, heard from me artifacts op even beginner artifacts and complained they don't take dmg afterwards. None of them got 5k hours in cs go. You are able to 100% your physical armor with artifacts in the first zone without any negative impact as you can get radiation reduction as well, as soon as you hit the cap you can't get stronger for the rest of the game in terms of defense. Imagine playing wow and getting raid equip on level 1. That's the case here. Multiple artifacts of the same kind stacking is just insanely broken

[fiese Fee™]

So you say it`s easy if you make it easy, ok. I dont min/max and i find it some kind of easy anyway.

[KiffSka]

Originally posted by sebirez:

Ok....so how long did it take you to get all those artifacts and did you find them on your own?

Cleared the lesser zone in like 10 hour I think. Somewhere around the middle mark I noticed artifacts respawn and different one's so my pokemon fever started xD. And marked all locations on a screenshot on my desktop. Every emission from then on I farmed the magnetic cave to death meadow and did the same at Garbage afterwards from car graveyard to the poisonous hole. Garbage town to Wild island got the other 4 artifact spawns on its way. When I left for the swamps for the first time I had all of them around the 24 hour mark. So if you focus on artifacts from the beginning you can have them at 15-20 hour max, being maxxed out on physical defense without negative impact.

[KiffSka]

Originally posted by fiese Fee™:

So you say it`s easy if you make it easy, ok. I dont min/max and i find it some kind of easy anyway.

Yeah well. ain't that the interesting thing about games? Trying to understand the world and system enough to be able to beat it with it's own rules? Tbh I don't know tho. Haven't been running around without my small defense/small endurance artifacts ever since I got them.
My friends on teamspeak waited for me to get to the 4 bloodsuckers underground point to see if it's hard with my strats and honestly... I've thrown 10 grenades below my own feet the moment I noticed it's 4 of them and they all died... I got half dmg... who did the numbers on this game...

[Dark_Robyzorf]

Originally posted by KiffSka:

You can basically farm 2 physical defense/endurance artifacts/1 medium bleeding and 2 medium radiation protection artifacts in the first two zones and run around like god on crack with any armor that got 3-5 slots from that point on and not take dmg on veteran, you can always take 1 maximum phys and one maximum bleed defense artifact to swap midfight. Farm 1 of each other maximum def type, bring them with you in the backpack and nothing deals dmg since you wont run into anomalies without swapping them. Emissions respawning them makes farming for cash and those utilities early easy as hell with 3-5 spawns each in both zones combined and fast travel costing almost nothing. Worth the 20 min run through old zones in every aspect. At hour 10-20 you got all the artifacts you need for the rest of the game.
Psychic Mutants need line of sight and deal no dmg if you don't want to. A toz alone is enough to kill them with 4 reloads. Bloodsuckers pathing is so bad, jump a table/stone and they don't attack anymore, while 6 shots kill them easily. So only 3 reloads. Everything else is either dead without reloading a toz or just found once you got a spas/saiga to spamkill truely every mutant with buckshot. The most dmg you're getting is from psi, so get a cheap mask and armor that can upgrade its defense and you're even fine with that later on.
Humans don't deal any dmg if you got the artifacts early. Just none. Running through tripmines while being shot at is less dmg than defusing and taking the bleed. Meanwhile high pen weapons even with trash ammo almost oneshots any human, so standing in the open/running at the enemy is fast and easy. First quest ak upgraded is enough to oneshot all into midgame and then higher pen weapons are easy to get.
And even if you go afk to get shot for 20 secs straight without shooting back you're pressing q and 70% health is back bc of a medkit of which you got over 1k lying around at endgame if you don't sell them.
Money aint a problem if you don't take dmg and don't have to shoot much to kill because repairs go way down, while artifact hunt makes you rich af early anway. Running at enemies with a pistol is faster and more cost efficient than taking expensive guns most of the time. The dmg you get is just way too low once you got the artifacts which are uncommon so you'll have the basics at around the 10 hour mark.

did u play on hard mode ?
because i did start on easy to just look into story but it feels to easy for me!

[IceFoxX]

many pc gamers also use some of the worst and cheapest hardware components for audio... which are cobbled together by big brands and sold as “gaming headsets”.
But the sound is damn important in such games to create the atmosphere. In addition, these people always play in a lit room so that there is no immersion and therefore no scary moments etc.
They are pure consumer junkies.

[PuffyLunk]

Jokes on you, I'm on normal difficulty, have all artifacts, using NO artifacts and just power healing through all damage being taken.

Except when I had to fight Faust in duga 2. He made me eat through 80 health kits. Screw that boss fight.