STALKER: Call of Pripyat

Post by **Dog Pants** » March 11th, 2010, 8:28

Grah. I keep getting eaten by Snorks, and my AK74U doesn't seem to deter them very much.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » March 11th, 2010, 10:21

Dog Pants wrote:Grah. I keep getting eaten by Snorks, and my AK74U doesn't seem to deter them very much.

Keep a shotgun handy for close encounters. 3-5 shots and they're down.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » March 11th, 2010, 10:30

Snorks? in the

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?

I did that with a knife, due to an ammo fuckup on my part.

Post by **Dog Pants** » March 11th, 2010, 10:39

It's the

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actually. I'm too early in the game to have anything very eppective to shoot them with. Might be worth going back to base for my shotty though, which did work nicely last time in the bit Berk mentioned. Just means I'll have to

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again.

Post by **deject** » March 11th, 2010, 13:07

I didn't realize that

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buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » March 11th, 2010, 13:17

deject wrote:I didn't realize that
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Noah stops being hostile to you, I just shot his face off. He was surprisingly hard to kill for an unarmored target.

Yeah, you've fucked up

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Sheriff Fatman · Post by **Sheriff Fatman** » March 11th, 2010, 13:33

Dog Pants wrote:
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follow Noah through that fucking stupid anomoly minefield that he fucks off and leaves me in

Post by **deject** » March 11th, 2010, 14:05

buzzmong wrote:
Yeah, you've fucked up
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He gives you some nice information and artifacts later, specifically one (twice) that isn't obtainable anywhere else afaik

You can just loot the info and artifacts off him, so I didn't fuck up.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » March 11th, 2010, 14:15

deject wrote:
You can just loot the info and artifacts off him, so I didn't fuck up.

Does he carry both

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artifacts from the off then? Awww.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » March 11th, 2010, 14:16

Also, the very top left of Yanov, past the ash anomoly. Go have a looksee.

Post by **deject** » March 11th, 2010, 14:38

buzzmong wrote:
Does he carry both
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compass
artifacts from the off then? Awww.

I can't remember exactly, but you still get 2 Compass artifacts and the info to

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Also if you're talking about the

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, yeah I found that. I was disappointed at how small of an improvement the stats on

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buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » March 11th, 2010, 15:30

I'm messing with weapons at the moment.

The G36 upgraded is silly awesome and I've got unlimited 5.56 SS190 thanks to killing off all the mutants for the hunting quests.

But the 9mm firing Val and Tunder do quite a bit more damage over the 5.56mm weapons (well, apart from Strelok's which is or par with the Tunder), but the trade off is that the ammo weighs a fuckton more. Something like a single box of 5.56 being 0.17kg and a box of 9mm being 0.7kg. Adds up when you're trying to carry 1k ammo around.

The Tunder is quite nice as it's got the launcher, but the Val can mount the scopes (apparently the Tunder can't) and upgraded it's all round slightly better than the G36. I think the Val might have more severe bullet drop as well, despite being upgraded.

I'm just not sure the efficency of the ammo counteracts the weight difference, although it was nice felling a controller with one clip from the Tunder.

Post by **deject** » March 11th, 2010, 18:31

buzzmong wrote:I'm messing with weapons at the moment.

The G36 upgraded is silly awesome and I've got unlimited 5.56 SS190 thanks to killing off all the mutants for the hunting quests.

But the 9mm firing Val and Tunder do quite a bit more damage over the 5.56mm weapons (well, apart from Strelok's which is or par with the Tunder), but the trade off is that the ammo weighs a fuckton more. Something like a single box of 5.56 being 0.17kg and a box of 9mm being 0.7kg. Adds up when you're trying to carry 1k ammo around.

The Tunder is quite nice as it's got the launcher, but the Val can mount the scopes (apparently the Tunder can't) and upgraded it's all round slightly better than the G36. I think the Val might have more severe bullet drop as well, despite being upgraded.

I'm just not sure the efficency of the ammo counteracts the weight difference, although it was nice felling a controller with one clip from the Tunder.

Yeah I think my favorite loadout would be a Tunder and a Vintar BC. The Vintar with the flatness upgrades makes for an excellent long range gun, provided you can reliably get headshots, which if you have the 5x scope you should be able to do easily. Plus, it's one of two guns that can do the target recognition like your binoculars do, which is rather handy at night. I took the Tunder because I have a ton of VOG-25 grenades and 9x39mm ammo so it seemed like a good fit. Having two weapons that share ammo goes a long way to reducing your carry weight, obviously. I think for the majority of the game though I used my trusty M4 and the Vintar BC. yeah the M4 isn't quite as good as the other 5.56 NATO guns, but it's definitely good enough to get the job done against anything except chimeras, pseudogiants, and burers. It's pretty damn accurate, and you can upgrade it to the highest RPM of all the assault rifles I believe.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » March 11th, 2010, 18:50

I never worry about RPM, there's only been two or three situations where I've needed to fill things with lead rather than take measured headshots, so I'm mostly on single fire.

Sheriff Fatman · Post by **Sheriff Fatman** » March 11th, 2010, 19:32

buzzmong wrote:(apparently the Tunder can't)

I think the snazzy Tunder you get from Nimble can take a scope. I'm not a big fan of it so I never tried. The head Duty guy has one on his office wall.

Post by **deject** » March 11th, 2010, 20:01

That's why I carry a Vintar as well. It's got awesome scope upgrades.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » March 12th, 2010, 0:02

Sheriff Fatman wrote:I think the snazzy Tunder you get from Nimble can take a scope. I'm not a big fan of it so I never tried. The head Duty guy has one on his office wall.

Yeah, I spotted that but the Tunder you get get Nimble is 5.45....and I've sold it already.

Apparently irl the Groza OC-14 (the real Tunder) can accept scopes, and I'm sure it could in SoC (or, with the uber mods anyway) but doesn't look like it in CoP, shame otherwise it would probably be the best weapon with a PS1 night scope.

Sheriff Fatman · Post by **Sheriff Fatman** » March 12th, 2010, 11:43

buzzmong wrote:
Yeah, I spotted that but the Tunder you get get Nimble is 5.45....and I've sold it already.

Apparently irl the Groza OC-14 (the real Tunder) can accept scopes, and I'm sure it could in SoC (or, with the uber mods anyway) but doesn't look like it in CoP, shame otherwise it would probably be the best weapon with a PS1 night scope.

I would probably be a doddle to mod it yourself, if you knew where to look.

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » March 15th, 2010, 18:50

My goodness. The end is terrible, and then a dialogue box. Really now.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » March 26th, 2010, 12:18

buzzmong wrote:My goodness. The end is terrible, and then a dialogue box. Really now.

The whole last area was a bit of a disappoint after the first two. But on the whole it was very enjoyable.