Silencers and sniper rifles feel pointless

[Takiro]

Played the game for many hours now and I hardly see a point in putting silencers on any weapon. Most of the time, even when sneakingly taking out an enemy with a silenced weapon the whole base gets alerted anyway. Even if the enemy is alone in a room and there is no way anyone could have seen or hear it. Sometimes it works, most of the time not. (same for knife kills).

Sniper rifles, also feel useless. Rarely there is a point in the game where my assault rifle with a 4x scope isn't enough. Enemies can see you from 200 meters away in pitch black night, even when my light is off, Hardly any way to ambush enemies or take them out from a distance a sniper rifle would actually make sense to use from. Especially since enemies seem to always spawn just in pistol range to you.

The only point in using a silencer or sniper rifle is for my personal role playing fantasy, right now. But even for that, the sniper rifle ammunition (.308 in my case) is actually to rare for me to find and too expensive to regularly buy, to be fun to use all the time, especially since you can't go five minutes before a seemingly random encounter.

Is it just me, maybe?

[Cheyenesku]

引用自 Takiro：

引用自 Cheyenesku：

Silencer works perfectly fine. You gotta remember though, that is more realistic here. Other npc can hear it if they are nearby.
I use the cult "Vintar" and can clear outposts just fine.

As I wrote, sometimes it works but most of the time it doesn't. I know that a silencer doesn't magically make all the sound go away, but most of the time it's like it doesn't even make a difference. I can stand 50 meters away and they still hear me and the whole base is coming after me. Assuming they don't already see me at night though thick foliage from 200m away. I would at least assume that when they see one of their buddies drop dead, they at least have to search for me first instead of instantly knowing where I am.

It may be that some of the weapons that have built in silencers (like the Lullaby) simply are bugged, since with Skiff's Pistol I have more success (still feels inconsistent).

Might be a bug or you havent noticed someone seeing a body drop.

[Cheyenesku]

引用自 Tritol：

Wait people use silencers? Outside of nuking your stats by like 20% or something they were always completely pointless.

How much they downgrade your weapon in stalker 2 btw ?

They dont.

[Baron01]

引用自 vamirez：

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Btw you can shoot through materials in this game, and enemies know this. If your cover is a thin metal sheet etc. maybe stand a bit away from it instead of hugging it.
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Unless you can't, which is most of the time. Yes, there are situation where you can shoot through certain objects. However, more often than not wooden plan perfectly stops 7.62x39mm bullet from my maxed out Dnipro like it is space material. You also can not shoot through certain vegetation and NPCs know it as well as they run to you to get close rather than blast you from distance.
You can shoot through glass for sure, I shot Monolithian through a bookcase but many other object one would expect to be able to penetrate do not yield.

[Mörkö]

It feels like the early ak with scope can last you the whole game, since it can do everything snipers can do and more + max draw distance is barely out of hand grenade range anyway. Not to mention much cheaper maintenance.

Sidorovich sells m14 pretty early, but .308 for it costs like 4k for a little slack. Kill a few fleshes and you are thousands of coupons down. Why bother unless you are gonna grind like an mmo just to use the damn gun? Just take the ak and fire away.