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GSC says STALKER 2 balance updates are in the cards for future patches, so maybe soon we can all stop complaining about tanky mutants (www.windowscentral.com)

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[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I drop people in a single shot often. Skif’s pistol, silenced with AP rounds, is OP as hell and nearly free to repair.

Only recently near SIRCAA have I noticed it being much harder, now that enemies have better gear. It takes 4-5 headshots with mid tier rifles for some of the armored/exoskeleton guys, using AP rounds in one of the unique mid tier 5.45mm guns.

I dunno. Personally it doesn’t feel much different than any other STALKER game in terms of enemy difficulty or how the guns work. Lots of damage falloff over distance with the early game guns.

I desperately miss A-Life though, and some of the bugs in SIRCAA are really bad, it took me quick saving every 10 seconds and many, many reloads after a CTD to get past that area.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

You're right that it feels in line with previous games. But that's not necessarily good. You'd think after 18 years they would have made it better. I haven't even encountered the military or exo skeletons yet. It's just the bandits with the black hooded jackets seem to have insane armor.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Hooded bandits drop in a single headshot from Skif’s pistol. Guns in all stalker games have pretty severe damage falloff with the lower tier weapons. Gotta close the gap.

I’ve not really had any issues dropping dudes or mutants except the Chimera, on medium difficulty.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

I'm using a .308 sniper rifle I found hella early on. This ain't a low tier weapon and shouldn't be dropping off at 300m or less to make lightly armored targets take multiple headshots to finish.

Hell, it might not even be a balance thing; it could just be a bug.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 2 points 17 hours ago

Hmm. I haven’t played with the sniper rifles yet due to the extremely short range spawns, but I’ll give it a shot later.

One thing to keep in mind is the game is not realistic in terms of weapon damage. You can fire the same bulllets out of different tiers of weapons and they’ll have drastically different damage due to the penetration values. To me, penetration seems to be the key stat for weapons.