this guy lives at 1.25x

Had the exact same experience with that derelict ship having a random free stalker and his friend hanging out in the lower level while there were like 8 sin/monolith guys literally just one floor above them. Mine weren't even there for a quest, they just somehow weren't fighting (despite there being like 6 free stalker corpses across the ship)

full a-life package for the next ironman, alife tactics makes their ai cracked, i cant even comfortably fight bandits 💀

Not picking up the nightvision scope is hurting me

This is the point where I end up starting a new run in GAMMA most times, because engaging with SIN just sucks.  There are way too many of them for how tanky they are and how nasty their weaponry tends to be.  It's especially strange considering part of this update was to populate the North more, but you're still fighting them about as often as Monolith while barely running into anyone else.

I could be misremembering but I swear they used to not have armor above a Medium level, and it was mostly the lower end like the overcoats and occasional flak armor, relying on their insane damage resistance instead.  I don't know why they now show up in everything up to fucking NOSOROGS, but god I hate it.  People complain about STALKER 2 enemies being bullet sponges lategame, but somehow SIN gets a pass? Wack.

Anyway fuck this obnoxious faction of turbo-edgelords, they're why a .338 rifle becomes mandatory for my loadout.

It's Sin, ap doesn't seem to do much better; always seems like volume of fire is the only way except for the most lightly armored one.
Game was more fun when monolith had a higher spawn chance than sin

18:08 game seems to crash with disassembly, happens like almost every 50 min i play

👍

My favorite current meta is buying firewood and field kits, disassembling them and making workbenches to sell.
After a while I am sitting at comfortable few millions.

How do i make it so there isnt an animation and a delay when disassembling?

What do you mean worst questline? Sin storyline is cool, Afterglow is the one that actually sucks

1:18 bruh. Maybe don't interrupt them next time xD

That new 5.56 is beautiful and a tack driver, new favorite mid-game weapon. Currently running it with an SVD and P90, absolutely wipes anything. Also while expensive, the HP rounds for the 5.56 and 5.45 rifles work pretty well. Still expensive, but certainly work.

Which PDA mod are you running for the quest board?

Lol, ASh-12 (АШ-12) is the 1st gun, ShAK-12 (ШАК-12) - is the 2nd in this game. While in reality it's just a kind of another preset, setup, modification, whatever.
And AK-12 (АК-12) is the 3rd gun. While AK-12 is a grandson of AK-74 and a brother of RPK-16. 12 here means the year of prototype development.
While for ASh-12 it comes from caliber of 12,7x55

How do you make this artifact item extractor device thing work? I crafted one but I cant use it. It wont let me store anything inside.