
The best option is engaging from out of your enemy's range, but this requires a good gun. You are outnumbered, and if you engage on fair terms you will die. Once you have a scoped rifle you can finally be considered 'armed'.ĭo not ever fight fair. Use this until you can get an MP5, and that until you can find an assault rifle.

Due to the abovementioned 'bullets hurt' you will need to stealth as close as you can and make extensive use of cover to get this close. This has even *less* range (how is that possible?), but if you get right into someone's face and fire both barrels they will die. As soon as possible replace it with a sawnoff. Your starting PM Makarov is roughly as effective as spitting at your opponent. Clear sky is definitely worth the play but I haven't had a chance to pick up Pripyat. Last thing i can think of is.there are two other games in the series.Clear sky and Call of Pripyat. There are several endings depending on the choices you make towards the end.have fun with those. As Darting Flea said.the game gets rough in some spots.

Quick save and Quick load are your friends. And don't skimp on the stuff to keep you alive and healthy. You'll get some decent armor and artifacts down the road.I wouldn't try to buy the expensive stuff early on. If you're not bothered losing a bit of realism or by a little text editing, fix the max carry weight to something that will allow you to loot what you come across without having to make several trips back and forth to town each time you get into a firefight.ĭon't despair about how bad of a shot you are at first.as you go through the game (and become a "more experienced stalker") the game has a sort of behind the scenes leveling system that improves the behind the scene stats that handle combat variables.
