He is your FRIEND.
This is a Mercenary
I would pay him twenty bucks to hang out and play a fighting game for a few hours.
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I would pay him twenty bucks to hang out and play a fighting game for a few hours.
This. I would literally make him become my companion so he could play me some cool guitar songs and tell me about his life.
what if I have no money to pay him with?
No mercy for any mercenary. Fire at freedumbers on sight. Curbstomp any clear sky. DO the right thing, stand with DUTY.
i fucking love gas masks :)
Which stalker protag ended up raising a monkey?
Not if you're a loner.
I think Stalker is definitely one of the games that made me strongly prefer having characters with their faces covered by helmets/masks. Whether it's a modern setting with gas masks etc. or a more medieval setting with metal helmets.
oh, how did this happen, how did his happen guys...
GIGN
it's over... it's over for me...
guy has that 1.6 drip
lmao wolfhound
since when is Clear Sky being hostile to Duty a thing?
t. has played Clear Sky only once a long time ago
factions and its relations are kinda memey but basically
anything that isnt containing and destroying the zone
duty: autistic screech
that still doesn't makes much sense since Duty and the Ecologist eggheads love eachother
Why does he shoot me on sight then?
t. loner
mama..
They're not, maybe in some mod.
Freedom is hostile to Clear Sky in call of chernobyl for example, which is fucking stupid
F. U.
I figured it'd be from either that, anomaly or gamma
I dunno how anyone can say freedom is shit when they're the only ones even capable of holding back the monolith in SoC at the Radar border
Anyone else listen to merc radio? Good tunes
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I cut this stalker like a painter, like Picasso
I love Mercs, you can kill them, get good loot and not feel bad afterwards.
What reason do these retards have to shoot loners on sight. I can't imagine anyone in the Zone, including the army, paying them to shoot generic neutral nobodies en masse
friendly reminder: whatever iteration of stalker you're playing, you best not overlook smgs, they're fucking amazing weapons against low tier stalkers and high tier mutants, they're arguably even better than shotguns for putting sn*rks and bl**dsuckers in their place
Apparently Mercenaries are no different from Prostitutes, now.
It was the guy from Roadside Picnic. Pixy, or whatever his name was.
And yes, it was a literal monkey.
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Mercs are just psychos in general
if that was the case they'd shoot loners, or really anyone that's not duty/military. I can see Duty disliking the factions that come to study or explore the zone, but not to the point that they'd be openly hostile.
It's fun lol
what are they gonna do, call the police?
often enough, mercs are closer to well-equipped bandits than anything else. there's merc dialogue in the games about killing or robbing other stalkers.
What reason do these retards have to shoot loners on sight
1. not all of them do, see the mercs taking refuge at the workshop in Call if Pripyat
2. to my understanding even in the vanilla games mercs follow a non aggression principle with bandits
3. what that other anon said about fun. your run of the mill loner is a shitter with a sawn off shotty or a Makarov, and also a liability because they'd immediately broadcast the mercs' position if they spotted them
Dutyers canonically practically worship the ecologists, they don't sell them whatever artifacts they find, they straight give them away for free
I'll think about it the next time I decide to turn of Miracle Machine. Thing is a pain in the ass.
A bit of a shame the way factions ended up in S2
Duty and freedom eternally cucked. Really liked how they handled the monolith though all things considered
I forgot: see also the mercs in the water treatment plant, again in Call of Pripyat. if I remember right, in vanilla CoP they don't immediately open fire on you if you approach the plant and they spot you, they first tell you to fuck off as you have no business being there via radio, only if you don't listen they light you up
at least that's how I remember it anyway, it's been more than a decade since I played vanilla CoP
another gun that I can greatly recommend is the OTs-33 Pernach, with enough modifications it's beyond broken in most of the mods it's in
lighter than an SMG
laser accurate
lol no recoil
absurd rate of fire
fires extremely common, very cheap ammo
in a pinch armor piercing 9x18 also works well, even if you're an exonigger you can't do much against getting a laser accurate magdump in the face
if 9x18 is too anemic for your liking it can be converted to 9x19
It's not them being cucked out of the top dog spots by Ward/Spark that bothers me, it's that there's really not much content with them at all, Duty especially. I like the idea of power dynamics in the zone changing over time. Duty/freedom being weakened has potential for a new perspective of them trying to find a place again in the zone and clawing their way back up, but that really wasn't realized much at all.