so saiga 12 or ram 2

[iWhisky]

After several tests I can't decide between the two and if one is more efficient than the other.

[Firestorm]

I haven’t found a Saiga yet. Where will I find one?

[dbond1]

I listed one way in spoilers on previous page. Wreck at Yaniv Station sells it too.

[Firestorm]

Publicado originalmente por dbond1:

Saiga. I got a Ram first, modified it and used it for a while. Good weapon. But I knew from my previous time in Stalker games that I wanted a Saiga. Once I had it the Ram went in to storage. Modified Saiga with recoil upgrades is superb and the best mutant killer in the game for me. You can get one for free from a mission, and there's another one to be found in the game world.

The mission

The mission where you are tasked with finding Nimble who is hunting snorks in a cave. Nimble drops the Saiga on the ground and it is easy to miss

I just did that mission but didn’t kill nimble and didn’t see the gun

[Andy Mil]

Saiga and u grab from one of quest. His will drop it after u fight him in cutscene. You will know it. Saiga also fire as fast as u pull trigger which i saw able to kill bloodsucker before they went back to clock in 3 shot of buckshot

[Baron01]

Publicado originalmente por Firestorm:

I just did that mission but didn’t kill nimble and didn’t see the gun

You do not have to kill him. He drops it during the scuffle and it lies on the floor. I noticed him dropping the gun as he fled the explosion in the cut-scene and to my surprise there it was on the ground, just waiting to be picked up. However, it is not a free gun as it is completely zeroed out and you wont be able to upgrade it for a long while.

[dbond1]

Right. Don't kill Nimble man. Dude's a legend. But his shottie in on the ground.

During the cutscene I saw his weapon and said 'that's a Saiga!'

Afterwards I was leaving and thought I should just take one more sweep through the cave and there it was. Almost missed it, like I missed the Combatant rifle earlier in the game.

[DetCord12B]

S2 doesn't simulate ballistics like the older games, regardless of said ballistics being questionable, but instead has ammo and weapons types with certain buffs. As an example, the Saiga, Ram, M860, all of the shotguns, deal the same amount of damage but have different pen levels. It's pretty idiotic, IMHO.

The devs really gamified this aspect of S2.

https://game8.co/games/STALKER-2-Heart-of-Chornobyl/archives/484338

[arestavo]

A drum mag Saiga, no contest. Three bloodsuckers jump you? Spray and pray, baby! And if you're a terrible shot? It doesn't take 3 minutes to reload like the RAM.

[Andy Mil]

Stalker 2 follow same Stalker first game design. It all about stats unlike those Squad reailistc milsim all into that kind of realistic shooter genre Unreal 5 and also rate of fire if one interest in such thing of spray and pray. That about it. No tactical, slow moving sneaking door kicker. Well, mod gonna turn that to 1 some day anyway

[DetCord12B]

Publicado originalmente por Anny:

Stalker follow same Stalker first game design. It all about stats unlike those Squad reailistc milsim all into that kind of realistic shooter genre Unreal 5

Nope. The original trilogy had simulated ballistics, inertia, and physical/simulated projectiles. Stalker 2 does not, it instead has buffs for weapons and ammo types. The modders have already found this glaring disparity and are attempting to rectify it.

[Andy Mil]

I honesty dont feel diff from first game vanilia

[DetCord12B]

Publicado originalmente por Anny:

I honesty dont feel diff from first game vanilia

Facts don't care about your feelings.

[Andy Mil]

Damage fall off is new fact

[Rym [DMF]]

Used Saiga all the time up until found unique R2 Texan. Fully upgraided Texan do 2x dmg of Saiga. Only Downfall is slow reloading.

[arestavo]

Publicado originalmente por Rym DMF:

Used Saiga all the time up until found unique R2 Texan. Fully upgraided Texan do 2x dmg of Saiga. Only Downfall is slow reloading.

Weird. I upgraded my Texan and the damage is about the same as my upgraded Saiga.
Edit - here's a picture showing that: https://i.ibb.co/bv7bCGs/Saiga-v-Texan.jpg