As a veteran S.T.A.L.K.E.R., I appreciate covering Anomaly. c: The economy can be crushing, but at the same time, if you're smart you can thrive. AP ammo is genuinely useful and crafting is very valuable. Playing with the GAMMA modpack makes things even better imo, but here's to hoping some people see this and enjoy some *free* fun with Anomaly!

>> Garbaj found a game where you can play as Garbage Hoarder >> loot economy is genius!

I really admire that you're so passionate about games that while you are playing or developing games you just say to yourself "Hey, that's cool, I'm going to share it so people can enjoy it too". Keep it up, we love what you do.

I finished the entirety of Witcher 3 only drinking water. There are like 50 types of food in it I never even tried This is SO different.

I remember playing older version of Anomaly, when they just dropped new storylines, and had issues with finding crafting recipes. Played on Normal (progression and difficulty), did a bunch of side jobs and finished main storylines - found maybe 3? item crafting recipes manuals....

Nostalgia note ._.

tbh this game looks better than most modern games

One thing I would like to see is how an economy is balanced when there are different "brackets" of purchases. Like, how do you keep the act of buying ammo meaningful when the player is buying tanks? The best example I can come up with is MGSV Phantom Pain that split its finances between money, immediately available resources from in-mission briefcases, and "delayed available" resources from shipping containers and employee assignments.

One unmentioned nugget here is that players are like water, they find the easiest path. I've seen quite a few games have some depth and complexity, and then just offer people a bypass and then be surprised when no one does the harder process. Like if anomaly had cheap guns or cheap repairs all the complexity to finding the repair components, or pulling better condition components out of another gun, you wouldn't bother with any of that. Also that feeling when you do get yourself a gun at high % and keep it that way is very satisfying and it's really a shame that something like tarkov has zero equivalent.

Was not prepared to see someone talk about Anomaly in 2023, the game is still challenging no matter the difficulty. One of the biggest money savers is maintaining your items, like stones to repair your multi tool instead of paying 5000 roubles for a new multitool on survivalist economy difficulty.

Kids today and their anamoly... we played vanilla like real men! And we cried over gamebreaking bugs and shoddy mechanics like real men! I am very happy stalker is getting wide attention now, it's always been one of those niche games I loved that I couldn't understand why it had no real love outside of the subreddit and modding community.

An apt description of all STALKER games; “Murder hobos fighting other murder hobos, some of which are literally fucking insane, others just want shiny rocks to sell to other people, and the military is just kinda watching them from the sidelines, think Baltimore”

STALKER has always been THE game(s). It never fails to deliver on being awesome

The game hits different when you play with no hud and no camera zoom when aiming. Probably one of the game's finer points: You can make it super casual, realistically hardcore, or anything in-between per playthrough. And thats just with the vanilla settings. I do hope S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 continues what it started with a great base game (even if its is not at all like Anomaly) and modding support.

Filing a damaged locking head is, ironically, one of the *worst* things you can do. The locking head is the piece, that keeps the gun from exploding. Removing material from an already compromised part will only make it even weaker.

Stalker anomaly: the game where you get alcohol poisoning to negate radiation poisoning.

i do like the hobo phase of anomaly quite a bit. Learning how to repair your first weapon is a very satisfying and memorable moment; i do understand how a lot of people will find this way of item crafting/repair to be extremely contrived (you have to have the right tool first, find a bench or give the tools to a mechanic, collect the correct weapon parts, rent the bench if needed, and then replace the broken parts, and eventually use cleaning kits or glues to top off the conditions), but once you get a hang of how the economy works it will be much easier. That said, there are plenty of addons to tailor the mod. I personally like the adjustable item loot condition. It makes sense for a rookie to be using a low tier, almost broken sawed off shotgun, but a legendary stalker using a 20% F2000? Nah

Love these videos so much garbaj. thanks for making these

I start playing stalker anomaly a week ago, and this is incredible mod with huge in-game settings to play with. You can change all game economy, but I think medium difficulty pretty good balanced. I also love repair system with these parts and how you need to maintain you gunz and armor.

I recently delved inside the rabbit hole that is the stalker games. And I love it too much. To the point where I started to lose track of time due to how much fun I could have.

While i appreciate the sense of scarcity in the game, i absolutely hate the rpg styled tiered loot system in the game because of how "loot drops" scale with your "player level", a thing that didnt really matter in o.g. Stalker games. It's why all you ever get are crap weapons that work perfectly fine in the hands of your enemies. When you loot that Sig550 off a Monolith stalker who was taking good potshots at you at a clean pace and at a reasonable distance, you pick it up and get a 25% durability gun that jams, has lost significant accuracy, cant be repaired and can't be sold, plus all the corpse has is less than a magazine worth of old ammo because your rank is low as opposed to whatever ammo the Monolith guy actually had, and whatever condition the gun was really in. Its artificial difficulty that only applies to the player and i don't appreciate that.I love challenging games that are set up to make you think on the move and improvise when shit hits the fan, but i despise it when the same mechanics dont apply to the rest of the sandbox NPCs. The illusion of Emergent gameplay becomes just that, an illusion. You realize the game is just stacked against you in order to feel harder, and thus instead of the world dynamically interacting with everything that inhabits it, in reality its just trying to make it hard for you to breathe. The zone cares for no Stalker, yes i know, but that should apply universally and not just the player. If a pack of bandits ambush a Duty Stalker with high level gear, said gear is looted by the bandits and said bandits were then killed by a chimera, it's the lucky day of whatever lucky Loner or Merc or whatever Stalker just so happens to stumble upon it. I want the game systems to actually converge, not just statically apply and react to me exclusively.

The difference between the good stalker and the dead stalker - is knowledge.

i've played a ton of stalker anomaly and a lot of its idiosyncrasies and difficult economy mechanics had become so normalized for me that it is very interesting to see them highlighted in this way. for the past week i've become completely addicted to the anomaly modpack "GAMMA" which i think takes a lot of anomaly's disparate systems and unifies them brilliantly. it's more challenging in some ways than base anomaly but it's also all completely tweakable so you can customize how much of a challenge it presents. for instance, I don't like campfire saving so i turned it off but i'm using the mags redux mod so i actually have to worry about packing magazines and consider how many magazines i should carry with me. side note: imo mags redux actually does some amazing butterfly effect re-balancing of tons of guns because while a good rifle may have a small 30 round magazine in vanilla gamma, with mags redux you can usually just go buy higher capacity magazines which makes so many guns way more viable! gamma's biggest change imo is how it re-emphasizes anomaly's crafting and repair systems. in gamma, traders do not sell weapons. the only way you can get guns is by finding them and repairing them yourself. the toolsets you find in anomaly are heavily gated behind zone progression, so to actually find expert tools for some of the more powerful recipes you need to find them north of army warehouses, which means you need to go shut off the brain scorcher. it makes that anomaly quest feel like PROOF that you are becoming a damn good stalker, because now you can start thinking about tier 3 NVGs and possibly even exoskeletons if you can make it past the goons in radar. also, stashes are ALWAYS empty unless they've been marked by other stalkers as quest rewards, so memorizing all their locations is nowhere near as cheaply rewarding as it is in base anomaly. it made stashes feel rewarding again instead of being sort of a memory puzzle chore you do while traveling. once you're actually surviving, you find yourself relying on traders less and less. i basically make all my own ammo now, breaking down looted ammo and then using the materials to craft ammo for the caliber of the guns i'm actually using. i make my own medicine, occasionally stopping by doctors to pick up uncraftable base medicines. i make my own repair kits, cook my own food, and craft my own equipment. it's a euphoric feeling, being self-sufficient in such a hostile place! long excursions can become far longer if you know how to replenish your supplies in the field. after about 20 hours of gameplay, i'm fairly comfortable with my gear and resources and i find myself feeling like gamma is actually being very generous! it heavily heavily rewards knowledge and planning in a really satisfying way. FOLKS GO PLAY GAMMA hot tip: go hunting for the Moonlight artifact once you're getting comfortable in the midgame. getting a moonlight up to high efficiency grants *90%* psy resistance. controllercels are seething

Youve mentioned stalker alot recently glad you decided to make this its a phenomenal series & mod

It's funny that cigs reduce radiation, because the biggest reason tobacco is so bad for you is not the nicotine, but because the plant itself is radioactive. The tobacco plant absorbs trace amounts of uranium and radon from rock layers below the soil and does not want to let the stuff go, so the radioactive tar builds up in your lungs and spit. This is why vapes are non carcinogenic (but still unhealthy for other reasons) as their nicotine is derived from specially bred tomatoes or other nicotine-containing members of the nightshade family.

Everything being expensive is something more devs should strive for. In video games that just means that you have enough valuable purchase options to make real either/or decisions, and not enough money to cheat and buy both.

Another layer on how cool the economy is is how different factoons have merchants for different items (e.g., some areas do not have doctors or some factions solely sell warsaw pact guns and ammunition). Knowing where to sell and buy different items can save you heaps of cash, especially if you become reputable with those factions.

this man gives me more info about games than me actually playing games

I've been playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R Anomaly while waiting for S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 to release. I have to say I have been having a blast playing it.

man stalker anomaly is still the best game especially from the point immersion like when a bandit jumps on me from around the corner always hitting the headshots and to add a lillte more immersion to it i will probably just also happen to have a spontanius frame drop so i cant even defend myself. truly the greatest game!

This is the best “making field decisions” game I can think of to date. It’s awesome.

Glad to see you pick up on the stalker games, they are my favorite.

I'd love an "openworld sandbox" Stalkerlike but for the Metro series. Maybe with persistent factions having control of places like the reich and red line fighting eachother and the stations actually switching control or even be able to take control of a station yourself and become the leader of your own little faction. So many possibilities for that series imo.

I don't play the super complex mod packs like Gamma or EFP but I like to add a few mods to Vanilla to spice it up. Mainly I just have HD models, some shaders, limb damage and magazines you gotta manually equip and top off. Puts it right in that sweet spot of being punishing but not super annoying if you know what you're doing.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. has all of this but allows you to ignore most of that, and just the essentials like repair kits that allows you to use on the go. Hoarding is also encouraged when traders or even other stalkers have side quests that want you to give them certain items. Having a companion is super benificial too, letting them carry all the things you never use but will for a task.

This was a great video! In the real world, economies are based on both supply/demand and intrinsic value, so the best in-game economies will have items that have a real use. They also have sources and sinks that balance scarcity. Path of Exile is another game with a pretty great economy. Every currency item has a practical use, a scarcity (drop rate), all of which dictates the value. The value fluctuates because of what can be done with the items, and there is almost never an over-abundance.

Man, i wish i had seen this when i was getting into Anomaly. Probably the one thing that cuts down the most on how much i play it is the fact that the correct way to do X thing requires a bunch of knowledge like that, and some of it is hard to even find online.

Reading the title: "not another overly analytical video essay" Noticing it's from Garbaj: "oh. His videos are brutal but genius"

New Garbaj vid. Today is a good day

Best example for useful loot I have is Dayz in one particular Situation. If you have a Bad weapon/ Bad aim and you bust up an animal, It's meat will be significantly lower quality and overall less. Now if you are starving as hell you won't be happy for long. What I like to do is to take the bones and the guts for long time use. With a knife you can craft rope out of the guts and fishing hooks out of the bones. If you're in the middle of nowhere and all you find are bushes and the occasional mushroom, take down a bush for a long stick. With your rope, your improvised fishing hook and your long stick you can craft an improvised fishing rod now. Take your knife and look down on any soil and dig up a worm as fishing bait. Now you can get yourself food from any pond in the middle of nowhere. It's a long procedure but It's surely worth it. Don't forget that you have to prepare the fish before you're able to cook it (need a knife for that too, if you don't have one, look around trails for 2 stones to craft yourself an improvised knife)

ayyyy one of my favorite games, nice man

Subbed, great stuff

Stalker anomaly has one of the best gunplay out there. Where each weapon is actually really good and can be used through out the game. The combat feels satisfying as each shot has great impact. Even a simple Pk can headshot a midtier bandit. There are no bullet sponge enemies which most games these days have. I havent yet played gamma, after the anomaly i might give it a try.

Stalker Anomaly: When "vasyanstvo" meets perfection.

I love the anomaly community and been a part of it for about the last year or so.

you just gave the anwear to an early access game i swear i never thought of this

Yup. Smokes, curing cancer since 1945

Vanilla crafting has some strange economy balancing, but a lot of mods do try and address them. Large caliber rifles like a mosin requiring one of the most expensive repair kit is non-sensical compared to reparing a PKM or even some SVDs or SVUs. Instead, a mod changes the shotgun kit, a much cheaper repair kit, to "Historical and Shotgun" kit. Tools are also hard to find because they are dropped by probabilities and sometimes in areas that aren't really accessible early game. So there needs to be a way to either build some from scratch or find them more reliably. But, funnily enough, this is actually not that many issues considering how the rest is incredibly well done. Sometimes, you are better off selling some items in a pinch because getting the money now will save you from more expensive choices down the line because of your lack of resources. Other times, it's better to hoard certain items to repair them. It's a fun line to thread and the reason why I come back to the game and even mod it so much.

you have a good game taste Mr Garbaj

I remember starting up Anomaly and thought I could pull the same tricked from Pripyat or Clear sky. Turnout I have to re-learn literally everything from the scratch. - Weapons (and even armors!!) drop are surprisingly abundance but they are in pretty much sh1t condition and repairing cost are hair raising. - The starting weapons, even at your own choice are pretty much weak. So I have to use the drop weapons and armors and try not to get hit too much (At the start of the game you are so weak you are literally are soft shell crab walking) - I thought "Let's explore" and farm those artifact or ammo so I can selling and making a money from the shopkeeper. Its not easy at all: one is that most selling price on your item are low and two is that you will require a real beginner luck to either snatching the artifact from dead bodies or simply walk into one. Wihtout proper expensive gears, You will not be able to come across the artifacts much. - For awhile I am running around in the raggedy drop armor (Better than the start up armor anyway) and a guns in condition so bad without using the single shot mode, I am doom to die over. - But afte working on the missions and collect enough Ruble to repair the guns I'm finally overcome those obstacle. And when you finally got how things work around. YOu can't stop playing this game at all.

I usually save up my money to buy or pay to repair new weapons, because it usually ends up being more economical between the money you'd spend on supplies for repairing parts and repair kits and investing in mechanics. Actually, I rarely buy them but it's cheaper to ask a max level mechanic to repair it for you than try to repair it by yourself. The self-repairs are better for maintaining condition. It seems like a really big cost up front, but it's rewarding to have functional equipment.

I like this system, my first couple plays I tried to play it like any other game. Then I played on hard with survivalist economy and now I really had to craft and repair and now I don't want to play it any other way anymore :) There are addons and modpacks that improve these systems even more.

I'm not gonna sugarcoat it >Do Quest for random NPCs, The typical stalkers, not the traders and leaders >Profit

I love this guy’s voice

stalker is SO damn good! i started playing shadow of chernobyl a few days ago and i plan to finish the 3 games and then move on to anomaly with gamma modpack. i feel like everyone that hasn't played this game yet is missing out so much lol

A longer video? Nice!

The biggest and I'm fairly certain the only issue with this way of doing things is it creates a slightly higher barrier to entry. As someone who's played through all of GAMMA and Anamaly I can say for certain those first even 2-5 hours were pretty brutal of not knowing how the whole system works and having to google everything to understand it.

I just walked around with the multitool and took everything i could from body's. By dismantling the gear i managed to carry more and still sell for a decent amount.

Playing on the EFP modpack, it's been very satisfying to climb the learning curve for crafting, although I can see why the RNG could be annoying for rare gun parts etc.

Clearly he hasn't found the economy secret of mutant parts and artefacts *laughs in Ecologist*

Yeah S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is brutal and as a Veteran Loner I can tell you the economy is painful but extremely rewarding when you get the piece of armor or weapon you've been grinding, Anomaly is one of the lighter ones with economy, for instance GAMMA and Escape From Pripyat have even harder economies but they're balanced out with the stuff you can buy and improving relationship with the factions and or even the traders will lower the prices to an agreeable amount. PS. The first Army Exoskeleton that I got I didn't even buy I fixed it myself and how I got it? Painfully eliminating a platoon of the strongest soldiers and getting it from a corpse.

coolest vid yet ngl

Finally, the first ever youtuber I've ever watched who join Duty.

I love anomaly, been playing it for many years now. Only gripe I have about its balance is that once you know how to play the game- that is, once you know how to make money, how to learn about parts, how to repair, how to gain rep, etc., the power curve can be exponential. I can now start a brand-new save, haul ass up to Yanov Station, and have enough cash to start artifact hunting in about 30 minutes. It's one of those games that stops being difficult once you understand its systems and rules. It's still a super good game though. Mods can make it more unforgiving, and honestly I think I need to mod up my game in order to make it difficult again lol.

To fix ammo you need tools which you can't buy or aquire with guarantee chance and it's still not worth when you can buy ammo. same with crafting tools like detectors. you need to find 3 types of tools (not all of them at once), recepie and components OR work for fraction, unlock thing you need and buy it anomaly designed to live in a zone for a long time but it's too much Some great ideas realized not like alternate but a skippable masochism.

i’m doing my first play through of Anomaly with a hand full of mods and i’ve never played a stalker game. but man i gotta tell ya.. jumping in blind has been so fun and frustrating at the same time. i’m already in love with this game and i’ve barley even touched the surface yet despite dumping around 10 hours of gameplay in. i can’t believe i’ve never played this mod and the best part is that it’s COMPLETELY FREE and holds up better than some modern AAA titles. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Funnily enough, I made myself "rich" in the game by raiding enemies and madly dismantling every weapon and armor I found then hauling back the cargotruck worth of weapon parts to the repairmen to sell it. This led to some early game difficulties where I really had to count every ammo and stick to weapons that were economic to shoot (No Western weapons cause ammo is more expensive and less found on corpses, etc.) but eventually it started cranking up and once I began artifact hunting aswell I always managed to afford the ammo and supplies I need and with some budgeting I could always walk away with the suits or weapons from the shop that I wanted. (Which of course led to more effective raiding and artifact hunting). There are several angles that allows the player to succeed and its great! On another playthrough I installed a mod that made weapons looted from stalkers have higher condition because I love the idea that in the zone, your weapon is your most precious thing. Your first line of defense and the key to your survival so it makes sense that every stalker keeps their guns at least near top condition. This of course flipped over the in game economy but eh, its not my first playthrough so I can afford some shake up and the game did not lose its absolute gripping atmosphere. No matter how much money you got in your pocket, when you hear the crackling of your PDA losing connection to an impending Emission, you will panic all the same.

RIP Volodymyr Yezhov. We’re still out here running it up all these years later.

This is all so true. I played Anomaly on the hardest mode and it was a nightmare (actually, quite realistic and fun, not annoying). Basically you're broke as hell, constantly lacking in health and ammo, avoiding literally any threat and don't even bother hunting artifacts or raiding camps. Then you complete a shit ton of quests, gain some money and decent equip, and then you basically turn yourself into an artifact gathering machine. And only then money and other stuff won't ever be an issue ever. From this point it all becomes somewhat boring as there's nothing more to do in the game

Yeah one of those times where you have 300 health potions or like 50 grenades or 20 rocket launchers which you never use during the gameplay and finish the boss fight unknowingly and now wonder, did I really need to collect so much stuff ?

Mechanics are amazing too

Is there a lore reason why smoking reduces radiation poisoning? Or is that like a known phenomenon in the real world? Seems like a very surprising mechanic to me

Hey Garbaj, great video. I was talking about this with some people recently, and the term we came up with was "horizontal difficulty" - What term would you use to describe a game that really forces you to use every single item and mechanic it has available, making you use your brain to decide which option is best to take, similar to Stalker Anomaly as you describe in the video?

when i played this i messed with the config and i had millions by the time i understood the game, so i just bought everything i definitely need to do a second playthrough with harder settings

I have never had money problems in this game not even in survivalist, usually you are always gonna be able to afford the basics, however getting better equipment is the struggle. I won't say it's crushing, it is a grind but a good one

l love Stalker games, and spent, l guess 100+ (or even more) hours in Anomaly. I use Expedition modpack, l like it, since it keeps the menu and icons vanilla, but updates the graphics and NPC skins. And got another 35 additional QoL mods installed. But my own economy setup is ... more on the maso side haha. My setup is... - traders don't sell guns or armor (only 4 weapon attachment at time), barely sell food - Hardcore AI aim and dynamic faction turned on - Trader buy price (you selling to them) is at 0.5x - Trader sell price (them selling to you) is at 2x - Item repair / upgrade is 2x - Mission money gain is 0.5x - Weapons can be only sold with 75% durability or better Problem is, that coz of Expedition or some mod l got, AI can drop 100% weapons which sell (normally) for 10-20k, so you can make money really fast. With all these limitations, l can only get guns and armor from NPCs, got a nice ammo maker mod too, which uses ingame icons, so won't crash the game, though... l did fine tune that too, needed more ammo case / powder to make ammo. Atm l play as Bandit, spent around 1 in-game month, already got an exo (repaired one at day 29), and it did cost a lot.. This though forces you to use the crafting system more. l crafted headlamp/NVG, lots of ammo, repair kits, detectors, so it's fun to play, challanging, but fun! (sorry for the wall of text.....)

8 minute video from Garbaj? is it my birthday or something?

Yeah is Eastern Bloc, Cigs are literally still everywhere to this day

I just grind missions and meat on the side and sell it to butcher. Also missions involving patches are good on the side. Do a hostage rescue mission while killing monsters for meat and bandits for patches, so at the end you get 3 in one for thousands of rubles. You can also find decent repair guns and repair at mechanic for less than the guns cost, still 40K+ but being some mission combinations give 10K+ in one go it's not bad. Once you start grabbing 20K from a plethora of missions and more rubles on the side, it becomes rather doable, I carried multiple guns all with ammo and expensive armor, med kits, rations, and water.

Boris will be proud

i tried to get into anomoly, but the economy for a brand new stalker player broke me. might need to get back into it someday.

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Everything in anomaly is a solution to a problem the game gives you: Bleeding? Bandages Expecting to bleed due to combat? Vinca Low health? First aid kit Low health and rads? Science first aid Low health and bleeding? Military first aid Emission but you out in nowhere? Anabiotics Low health but can't wait? Stimpack equivalents of first aid kits. If you want a meaningful economy you need problems which those items solve. Also just a note: the file when new has 2 uses so you only buy one. Give stalker GAMMA a try as well. It overhauls this entire economy so it's even more meaningful

please make a video about the hobo economy in Pathologic

STALKER GAMMA is even better about the economy, IMO, because it wont even let you purchases weapons from traders at all. Theres always this point in STALKER games, particularly late game, where you just have so much income, usually from selling artifacts and guns, you can buy all the best gear, but GAMMA doesn't let you. You have to find it, then you have to repair it. And you can't sell guns, either, so that takes a big chunk out of your income that you'd normally have. Of course, that means that disassembling all those spare guns becomes the best use for them, and you can then use all those parts to repair the guns you DO want to use, and you CAN sell the spare parts you don't want. The same goes for armor, as well, which makes getting a new set of armor a big, watershed moment where everything changes for you. And its a process, because you have to spend a while working your way up to getting a new repair kit you need, or finding one specific armor component you need, all the while that cool armor you found is stashed away, just waiting for you to get the one thing you need.

Anomaly is the only stalker game I’ve played aside from 2 hours of the original but man I feel like I’ve played through all of em

Maybe a bit meta or "cheesy" but I always find anomaly hunting to be the best way to get easy money. It's risky at first cause you don't have armor (although if you know what anomaly fields are dangerous it helps a lot), but you can quickly get rich. Doesn't count if you're doing Ironman or any hardcore runs. Also doesn't help that Anomaly has multiple blowouts per day, and each blowout causes anomalies to respawn/reroll.

I just get a detector and go hunt some artifacts and sell them to make bank.

I love stalker anomaly for being so simple, can't afford it? Take it from somebody's corpse, a true scavenger experience

i need to redownload this game it always manages to suck me back in for months at a time

yo that's pretty cool

I love stalker.

Try Radiophobia 3, it's a Shadow of Chornobyl overhaul and the economy is VERY good. Anomaly's is bloated with useless junk unfortunately, something from CoP's Misery mod that has been de-facto canonized through Anomaly; the bloat isn't de-jure STALKER canon, there's plenty of things to do in the OG games so that inventory management isn't forced to be 40% of the experience. PS: using a file to maintain a firearm doesn't make much sense, a file would RUIN it😅

OR you can go to progression settings and turn money gain to 2.7

Every time i start a new game, i immediately sell anything i can and use the knife to get my next stuff. Bad quality rifle and almost never any sidearm is the whole of my first 20 or so hours. But It's pretty worth it when you get the rich guy perk later lmao.

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if u like stalker anomaly oh man you are going to love pathologic 2

I've completed CoP a few times and the other two games once, maybe twice. Should I just be jumping into Anomaly? Seen so many people post about it on Reddit over the last couple years

I am completely new to Stalker and found by accident that you can sell Mutant stuff to a guy in Garbage, he pays very good. And with the Hunter Backpack thet he sells Mutant's drop more stuff. With that I make 20-30k RU any time I go to him

jokes on you, i ended my last stalker playthrough with over 1m roubles 😎😎😎😎 but yeah jokes aside the start is rough, at some point if you dont try to rush through the storyline youll go over the point where you no longer have to worry about money, i'd say after you have found a great rifle and a side weapon, usually a shotgun or sniper and a great suit and you have them all fully fixed then at that point you an just worry about getting the money to upgrade them, once thats done theres literally nothing to spend money on, i reached 1m, maxed all my gear which placed me down to around 200k then after about 6 more hrs of playthrough i reached over 1m again. money is very easy to find if youre smart with it