Also another note regarding Rage: The mind-control darts were another wasted opportunity. They reminded me of Mindjack which was an average TPS.. Rage has a few neat ideas but never fully realises any real potential.
Sleeping was something added to various STALKER mods. It isn't there in vanilla.Xeogred wrote:Yeah I think I'm definitely getting into it now. I have a few weapons and some good armor. I'm still pretty confused on some bits of the game though, like is there anyway to sleep or anything?
In general you don't want to run any artifacts until you have at least one that removes radiation. But if you built up a high enough radiation level only one swig of vodka might not be enough. If you have any rad away that's the better medicine to use.I also randomly died of radiation at one point, I used vodka and unequipped the artifact I had on that I think was causing it, but I just kept losing health even at a camp. It was weird.
It is very useful for the early guns, but later on your guns become accurate enough that you don't need to iron sights anymore and will only zoom in for scoped weapon sniping. That point should come when you fight the mercenaries past the Bar.Combat isn't as bad as I remember, still takes like a clip or two to take down a single enemy but oh well. Is it good to use iron sights in this game? In the random LP I was skimming over earlier the guy almost never used it and just unloaded on enemies and it seemed to somehow work ... lol.
Early on they're still setting up things. The path to Agroprom is when the atmosphere starts to pick up, and the area that you go to after that is awesome.I'm digging it. It does feel a bit barren and simplistic, but maybe it gets better later.
I don't concur... I liked Quake 4 but I still think it's a poor man's Doom 3, even if it's faster paced I just think Doom 3 was a lot better. Wolfenstein 2009 I thought was horrible (the weird vision effect was extremely nauseating to me since you had to keep switching back and forth so quickly), and yeah I generally don't like Raven games. I think Singularity is probably the best thing they've ever done, now that one I really enjoyed.Pulsar_t wrote:Raven makes better games than id. A clear example of this is Quake 4.
Yep, thanks to checking out a few LP's of people doing the early bits of the game, I finally learned about that... completely had no idea that's how you got items out of that stuff, lol. The knife seems completely worthless in combat though, can't hit crap!MrPopo wrote:Also, the wooden crades and blue briefcase-like containers you see? You can hack those open with your knife. The small blue ones especially tend to have supplies in them, but even crates sometimes do.
You just gotta be super close. In some of the mods that increase the darkness and make stealth more viable you can actually go around knifing an entire enemy platoon without reprisal, as knife kills don't draw enemy attention. But in vanilla? It's a crate buster.Xeogred wrote:The knife seems completely worthless in combat though, can't hit crap!
That's correct. It gives you +5 Radiation a second so unless you have another artifact to counteract that your radiation level will continue to rise. Once radiation hits a specific point you start to take health damage, and at higher levels than that you take faster health damage. There are other artifacts that lower your radiation in exchange for some other downside, but that downside is either negligible or easily covered with a third artifact, to create a triangle of support where each one gives more than another takes. And then there's a couple of unique artifacts that just provide a benefit with no downside.So if I equip any artifact right now that has like +5 Radiation, is that going to cause my health to drain overtime, until I get another artifact to cancel that out or something? Kind of sounds like you said that above. Just seems like a nono to equip most of the artifacts I have right now.
