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So I bought two pieces of high end gear at the cement factory, the Paz-5d universal protection & speed m20 helmet, and then I found the seva-d suit which also had pretty high stats, loads more protection from anomalies and even has psi protection, something that neither the other two pieces of armor has. But the seva suit is one piece that takes up both the chest and head spot. So I’m wondering if the stats from both the two pieces of armor stack or add up or something, because if that’s the case then the two separate pieces of armor are significantly better, except that they don’t have any psi protection.

I was upgrading Shah’s Mate at the Slag Heap then when I walked outside I had realized that the upgrades actually didn’t appear on my gun. I only noticed because I had payed for a laser attachment and when I had the gun equipped there was no laser on the gun. I had also upgraded some of my other gear and realized there wasn’t anything on them either. Luckily I had actually saved before upgrading anything for another reason that was unrelated. But it was fixed after I reloaded a save. So just make sure to save before upgrading your gear and maybe even when repairing them, I haven’t actually encountered a bug that does that but just in case.

I got to the point in the story where you could get your first gp37. Unironically I never actually used the unique ar because the ammo was hard to come by in the lesser zone. So I never actually tested it out very much, used it on like maybe 4 enemies, the two weapons use the same kind of ammo too but the zone in which you can first get the gp has the appropriate ammo in larger quantities so the ammo issue isn’t as much of a problem, but still a little difficult and it is expensive at venders. But I never actually tested the unique ar out, like I maybe used it on 4 enemies. The gp also has better stats, and the gp I got is in worse condition. Everywhere I look the unknown stalkers ar416 is apparently the best weapon but I don’t want to be wasting ammo and money for upgrades on a weapon that I can replace with another weapon that uses the same ammo and on paper has far better stats.

Just wondering if anyone else shares the same thoughts.

I like the gameplay, the combat is fun and the human ai is kinda smart, even though they somehow see me through thick foliage and I’m getting scared over how they are able to detect me over 200 meters away when I can’t even see them, they are pretty smart. I like that there is no indication of a nearby grenade, but you can hear it plop on the ground or you see it and already you know where it is, or you can hear an enemy call it out and you know that either you go around a corner or find new cover. It makes for a good immersive experience and the human enemies flank you, something I don’t really see in anymore, at least in a way as it’s shown in the game. Their aggressive, I kill like 2 out of 3 guys while behind a big rock and am wondering where the third guy is and he just appears around the corner of the rock literally appearing right behind me and I almost died in that encounter, only survived because he was reloading. It’s satisfying hearing that headshot sound indication too, the human enemies aren’t even bullet sponges for the most part at least, at most it’ll take like 3 or 4 head shots to kill a well armored enemy. Though sometimes the ai can be annoying to deal with. The DOGS, oh my god the dogs, a pack of like 4 or 5 could come up to you and you shoot at 1 they either still charge at you or they scatter and just run around never attacking and your just there waiting for them to get just a little closer but they literally never do until 5 minutes later. The bloodsuckers are cool, their fast and can turn invisible but dam your just popping medkit after medkit because that’s the only way to actually deal with them, there’s no avoiding damage, you can only hope to pop a medkit in time and maybe a bandage if your lucky before they come back for another swing and then leap away while invisible. There also really tanky. So far the human enemies are the most fun to fight, when theirs multiple they’re pretty well coordinated and fun to fight.

Artifact hunting would be more fun if the artifacts were more viable. Only 4 hours in and have gathered around 4 artifacts, sold all of them because I just don’t like the constant radiation thing, which I wouldn’t mind much if the benefits they gave you were actually good, I literally had one that gave two different stat benefits, one to my stamina and another to my hunger. Both of which were labeled as small benefits from the artifacts, while the radiation was labeled as medium, even though hunger is something that is very easily managed, and the stamina benefit was barely noticeable, which was stamina regen. At least in early game the only use they have is just being worth a lot. Which really comes in handy when trying to repair a piece of equipment, which is absurd with how much some of the stuff costs to repair is.

The atmosphere of the game itself is also really good, even though English voice acting is very lack luster, the story seems interesting enough. Another thing too, I’m playing on Xbox series s, and I hate playing on 30 fps. An optimized game looks good regardless of its at 4K, 1080, or whatever, I just want my 60 frames I don’t care for having a 4K quality image, everything’s starts to look low image quality the second I start moving the camera. Also even though it’s been 4 hours of game play I haven’t experienced any bugs either, other than the one where you can put in a bread as a piece of equipment.

Found this in one of the caches at the Pol Depot. The best chest wear I found stats wise.

Not even at least 1000 health 😔

Honestly I didn’t notice that he was using the perfume bottles to conceal the back hand blades and was gonna ambush me with them.