good weapons for early game?

[Laku]

Currently have a merc suit, a noiseless pistol,a sawn off dbl barrel shotgun and a akm 74.
What stuff do i do first in the game? Any tips and tricks? Should i equip some of these artifacts:meat chunk,stone blood,jellyfish and wretched?


Thanks.

[Nfb7]

Hey, I only played for a couple hours but there is a great fast-shooting ak in the strelok stash. Its in one of the first 4 zones and theres a mission telling you to find it. I mostly have been working on the primary missions because they go together pretty well. Save often. Try to keep under 50 lbs or youll blow through stamina like crazy. Equip any artifacts you want really. I prefer the ones that boost HP and the ones that reduce radiation so i dont have to carry as much vodka or rad meds. I carry 500 bullets for my upgraded pistol, 500 for my ak and 150 for my shotgun. (i got a semi auto shotgun from a couple bandits in Borov's fort.

[Vox]

http://stalker.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_artifacts
I suggest you read on the artifacts, using a jellyfish with nothing to counter the constant radation will just end up draining your HP.

You can use these maps to see where different things are located http://www.zsg.dk/Map_Interactive.php

I suggest you read up on the different weapons and suits also. Guns like the double barrel are pretty useless and should be replaced with an AK/Viper, once you have an SMG/Rifle you can dump pistols are they become very useless.

Keep an AK/Viper till you get to the underground and get the fast firing AK, that alone should last long enough till you get your hands on some NATO weapons like the SGI-5K.

If you're playing without mods, I recommend using this http://www.metacognix.com/files/stlkrsoc/ this will fix most bugs that are still in the game. You can also enable to have guns repaired (something that exists in the other two games).

Merc suit is at the start of the game, stalker suit is in the Agroprom Underground, Barkeep then gives you another stalker suit, another stalker suit is located in Dark Valley, X18 has a monolith suit (there's actually two but one requires stash coordinates).

[Laku]

thanks.

[ghoster]

I simply can't keep my encumbrance below 50 in SOC. I'm currently using three Flash artifacts (+79 endurance each) which make an amazing difference. A great weapon for the early SOC game (vanilla) is the "fast firing" AK-74/2 rifle in Strelok's cache. It has greatly increased ROF, decreased recoil, and it wears down more slowly. All you need with it is a POS-1 scope which is available almost right away in the Wild Territories. The three snipers who try to stop you all have scopes ready for looting. Another good early accessory near the beginning is a GP-25 under -barrel grenade (VOG) launcher which can be found in one of the labs (I won't spoil things bt telling you which one).

[Laku]

引用自 ghoster：

I simply can't keep my encumbrance below 50 in SOC. I'm currently using three Flash artifacts (+79 endurance each) which make an amazing difference. A great weapon for the early SOC game (vanilla) is the "fast firing" AK-74/2 rifle in Strelok's cache. It has greatly increased ROF, decreased recoil, and it wears down more slowly. All you need with it is a POS-1 scope which is available almost right away in the Wild Territories. The three snipers who try to stop you all have scopes ready for looting. Another good early accessory near the beginning is a GP-25 under -barrel grenade (VOG) launcher which can be found in one of the labs (I won't spoil things bt telling you which one).

Thank you very much for the advice!!!

[dnrob7]

If you have to ask: "should I use these artifacts?" then they probably don't matter anyway. When you get the good ones, you will see it in the stats right away. Sell the chaff but keep one or two jellyfish, chunk of flesh, gravi in the loot stash as you will frequently get special requests for those from the traders and thus, get more for them.
I always keep at least one of each artifact in my stash for such events. I'm not sure to what end though. I'm on my first playthrough and every time I "save up" the money to buy some new shiny equipment, I end up getting it for free somewhere else anyway.
The bartender wants like 72k for a G36. I brought back 5 of them with one quick trip to the Freedom base and back.
Im on my first 30h~ of the game, master difficulty and already feeling like money is ultimately pointless. All you really need is some decent armor (you will find this regardless) and a gun that actually hits what you are aiming at and that's it. The world is yours after that.

[Hal-ium]

I never find myself with too much money because I shoot like a fire hose sprays water

Generally taking down one bandit takes at least 15 NATO rounds hip fired because I'm an idiot and don't check corners so there's always an enemy in my face

[Laku]

引用自 Hal-ium：

I never find myself with too much money because I shoot like a fire hose sprays water

Generally taking down one bandit takes at least 15 NATO rounds hip fired because I'm an idiot and don't check corners so there's always an enemy in my face

i would say this is a pretty old thread.

[GabeCPB0]

引用自 Labyrinth：

http://stalker.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_artifacts
I suggest you read on the artifacts, using a jellyfish with nothing to counter the constant radation will just end up draining your HP.

You can use these maps to see where different things are located http://www.zsg.dk/Map_Interactive.php

I suggest you read up on the different weapons and suits also. Guns like the double barrel are pretty useless and should be replaced with an AK/Viper, once you have an SMG/Rifle you can dump pistols are they become very useless.

Keep an AK/Viper till you get to the underground and get the fast firing AK, that alone should last long enough till you get your hands on some NATO weapons like the SGI-5K.

If you're playing without mods, I recommend using this http://www.metacognix.com/files/stlkrsoc/ this will fix most bugs that are still in the game. You can also enable to have guns repaired (something that exists in the other two games).

Merc suit is at the start of the game, stalker suit is in the Agroprom Underground, Barkeep then gives you another stalker suit, another stalker suit is located in Dark Valley, X18 has a monolith suit (there's actually two but one requires stash coordinates).

Thanks to your link and explanation, I'm playing the 2009 version, which solved many bugs and added many nice features, like the fast travel or repairing items. And the link to the interactive maps is very nice, they are very helpful! Thanks a lot, my good sir.