How do I hit targets? Please Help !!!

[Hasan Bacak]

I've finished many FPS games on their hardest difficulty settings and this one, I cannot hit any target whatsoever, even though my aim is not bad. The first few hours of the game, I could manage alright, there weren't many bandits with long range weapons or any sort of positional, tactical advantage. But the second map is outright broken. The stealth doesn't work either and those mofo bandits are swarming open environments, leaving no way to pass undetected unlike those OP soldiers on the first map + the open world doesn't provide any alternative way to a destination.

I've read some stuff about it on forums and some said it's the difficulty setting that does the trick. I'm already playing on Master. Some have written it's the wind. I've tried CTRL + Shift and slowly firing my weapon on the enemy from a midrange distance while aiming at different points near my target. Doesn't work at all. I've tried using both the default firing mode and with the ironsight. No difference. I've also tried different weapons. The AK74, SMG, shotgun and all sorts of crappy pistols. No difference, the AK doesn't hit ♥♥♥♥♥ despite it's better accuracy. I'm also constantly changing weapons to use the most durable one at that moment.

Idk what they were trying to achieve with such gunplay. It's not even realistic, a teenager at a shooting range would shoot better than this piece of crap main character. It's Metacritic score of 82 makes me question my faith in games criticism overall.

So the question comes down to, how the f do I hit targets at least midrange without relying solely on random chance?

Sry for bad eng.

[CrystalCore]

i started playing yesterday, first of the starter gun is trash and pistols in general suck at 5+ metres

ive used the ak for awhile, with scope, u have 2 different crouch setting, u can crouch and crouch even lower, both increase accuracy, also stand still, theres no indicator to know if you hit or not u have to develop a feeling of some sort, also weps obv do less dmg the farther enemies are away (a pistol can 1shot headshot at close range)

just keep tap firing, ammo is dirt cheap anyways

[marie pavie]

Run over to dark valley & get a scope as your first reward. Also only aim for the head. You'll get better weapons soon. And also git gud.

[citizen181]

Like everything in life when you're on the bottom, when you're the newbie, you get the S**t and have crappy skills, but if you persevere things get better as you learn, adventure more and open up new opportunities. Or you could just use a mod.

[Gunslinger ☢]

You can be amazing in one game and terrible in the other, i dont think you have any idea about the super bullet mechanic or how accuracy values work when moving ontop of random dispersion in regards to the FPS mechanics. so you really are a noob at Stalker, you cant treat vanilla like any other FPS, think of it as something between normal FPS gunplay but with a dash of Deus ex number crunching yet less complicated

[marie pavie]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygr5AHufBN4

[marie pavie]

I don't put much faith into that sort of information. People will figure this stuff out and still be all wrong. Go back to the game and shoot those m-fers. You'll get better and you'll get better weapons. Some where along the way you may decide this game is All that!

[marie pavie]

Originally posted by Swofz_0:

Wait you actually got triggered? I’m sorry then, my purpose was not to make you angry, it was just a question you know. :) No need to get mad pal.

I'm not angry. ??

Originally posted by Swofz_0:

Originally posted by marie pavie:

I don't put much faith into that sort of information. People will figure this stuff out and still be all wrong. Go back to the game and shoot those m-fers. You'll get better and you'll get better weapons. Some where along the way you may decide this game is All that!

So thx, I’ll keep going I guess, but still nobody has managed to help me with the gunplay :/

The game starts off with a steep learning curve. You're crouching to shoot and trying different things. You're doing fine.

[Gunslinger ☢]

TLDR because im not quoting that, super bullet means first shot to the head is always a instant kill or just very high damage depending on the firearm, the rest will be normal and deal normal damage values, the super bullet gets refreshed at 1 sec intervals between shots, so if you pace yourself correctly you can rack up kills fast if your aim is good, making the gunplay a breeze, and do remember these values were reversed engineered from the different Xray versions (with different changes) across all the games, there might be some mistakes soley because not enough people are doing more deep dives to understand why some game mechanics are the way that they are.

[Redrick]

Originally posted by CrystalCore:

with scope

scope? put that f***ing noob-tube in the bin.

Give me a trench coat and a shotgun and I'll cut a path through the zone not even Monolith will forget.

[marie pavie]

Originally posted by Swofz_0:

I'm pretty sure the problem is not my aim or my movement :D

The problem is you are missing. Next time just shoot him in the head.

:p
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Anyway as a distraction, the story goes that two GSC coders were having an ongoing simmering argument over whether the first or third round should be the super bullet. Finally one day it overboiled and one of the rolly chairs got broken.

[marie pavie]

Originally posted by Swofz_0:

I am not missing, you just love Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl too much XD No need to defend a crappy game m8 :)

I suggest you play any FPS game on the market other than SoC to see how gunplay really works.

I must be too 'angry' 'triggered' and 'mad' to do that. :D

[blowup]

Originally posted by Swofz_0:

Originally posted by marie pavie:

The problem is you are missing. Next time just shoot him in the head.

:p
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Anyway as a distraction, the story goes that two GSC coders were having an ongoing simmering argument over whether the first or third round should be the super bullet. Finally one day it overboiled and one of the rolly chairs got broken.

I am not missing, you just love Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl too much XD No need to defend a crappy game m8 :)

I suggest you play any FPS game on the market other than SoC to see how gunplay really works.

Refund.

[blowup]

Originally posted by Swofz_0:

Originally posted by blowup:

Refund.

I would but it's way past the 2 hour playtime by now.

Fair enough, it's a pretty slow game

[blowup]

Originally posted by Swofz_0:

Originally posted by blowup:

Fair enough, it's a pretty slow game

Yup, by the way do the sequels have better gunplay overall? If so, I am going to push through this one to play the others.

It's the exact same, if you don't like the shooting in this game you won't like it in the others either.

[blowup]

Originally posted by Swofz_0:

Originally posted by blowup:

It's the exact same, if you don't like the shooting in this game you won't like it in the others either.

That's bad news for me. I got one of the scoped weapons with top of the notch accuracy (the one you find in the bus, in a container next to a skeleton) and it's still ass :/

Guess Stalker isn't for you then