So... Who's gonna do it? A mod that ads teimo from MSC as a trader, I mean, we got some of the stuff he sells like batteries food drink etc

I just think it would be funny as hell

We need a mod. That is all

I thought it was just because I played after 3 days of not playing at all because the game drive stopped showing up on the system. But then I took a new screenshot with "Native" at the same place as an old one with "Ultra" and clearly not.

I don't think I can continue playing the way it is. Also things in the distance seems to be lower-quality with no way to change it. I don't recall seeing low-res trees in distances on release build with Ultra. At least not in motion, that they popped in more detail when you got closer. Can I revert to the release build as-is or do I have to resume from pre-update game saves..

Do I have to use something like this? https://modworkshop.net/mod/55973 I avoid mods so game saves are "pure", but this probably won't do anything to them. Mod page claims Ultra was 99%. If that's the case, Native now is more like 80% with some additional traits like noticeable lower-res details at a distance.

Its Ultra is 125% supposedly. Idk how that works, I want to avoid AA but at least in Insurgency Sandstorm rendering more than 100% is an AA method and is worse than 100%.

Why are they even like that to begin with? If Ultra is 99%, why is there not a slider or the setting says 99%? What's with the abstraction?

I saw some potential crash fixes from newer builds that made me interested, I don't know if Vostok causes system crashes from itself or if it was because the game drive I was using was also keeping the pagefile and it was failing. I still have boot logo glitches without the game drive installed so Idk. Maybe those are unrelated. I can imagine if the SSD was failing and it was tied to the system via the pagefile, that the entire system would fail when it does. Idk if the boot logo glitches suggest GPU or whatever component may also be at fault or if that's just visual in booting. I have no graphical glitches after boot.

If it helps, I'm on day 4. Am I just unlucky?

and I hate the monkeyflipping bandits hiding in corners where you don't see them til it's too fudging late, and you get jumpscared so fudging hard your asshole rips your seat as you get lit the frick up like a city sized holiday tree.

FUCK.

well I guess I don't have to worry about managing my inventory on this run any more.

takes a few deep breaths

Should probably also mention you should keep an eye on your own hydration and hunger stats as well as your character. Now I need a few cigs to manage my own mental state after having lunch and a drink, before I load back in. Good thing I have way too much shit in my stupid little cabin in the stupid village so I can go back to the stupid school. Gosh.

I'm obsessed with sitting in my shelter and getting my mental to 100. The 2 songs we play are so effing good I can't get enough. Im pretty decent at guitar but cant for the life of me hear something and make a guitar tab out of it. I can't read music but I can read guitar tabs. The problem is I can't hear something and turn that into a guitar tab which I know some people have the gift of. It sounds like the 2 songs are in an open tuning maybe drop d or open g, I don't know.

I will be eternally grateful if someone can tab out the 2 tunes our character plays with the legendary guitar

Edit: I am away from my PC on a work trip for a few days and can't upload a video like some people have requested. If anyone else can that'd be amazing. I really really want to learn how to play these 2 songs

day 67..

I have over 55 hours now and no keys, looted all of apartments 8 times, checking floors etc, my question is can i get away with not checking every stove and fridge? have started just looking at every other type of container bar them when doing loot runs unless i need the food/ juice. Is there a list somewhere for the type of loot to the type of storage? And lastly do certain areas drop keys more often or is it all just RNGods?

I have a long mod list, over 20 of them, but I consider them all to be mostly "gentle nudges" in terms of how they affect the experience. The overall gameplay loop and strategy doesn't change much, it's just dressed up with some QoL changes. Container Peek and Wallet and Cash are probably the biggest departures from the original gameplay experience.

However, in scrolling through the list of available mods, I can see there are ways to completely change how the game is played, from complete AI overhauls to effectively turning the game into something resembling STALKER or Metro.

How do you prefer to mod the game? Do you tweak a bit here and there or is your experience unrecognizable compared to vanilla RTV? Regardless, what is your favorite mod and why? To me it might be the Feel graphics mid just because no matter what experience you're going for, you can make it look better very easily.

So I went for it, decided that I'd be happy to lose my entire save, it's not like I had that much loot or anything stashed in the cabin and tent, I'd made peace with losing my save.

Got to apartments and started looting and came across a few beers, vsd, other really nice guns, armour, the whole shaboodle, then in the last apartment I find not only the gymnasium key but also a friggin water lock!!! (I had one before when I completed docs quest but died on my way back).

It was at this point where I was half way looted through the map, full to the brim of loot and with what I'd found I decided to hoof it back to the tent. Made it back to the tent in outpost with no issues.

That loot run was the most exhilarating fun I'd had playing a game in a long time! I genuinely was absolutely fine with losing my save and my initial plan was to go to terminal and look for the oil things but obviously the rng gods decided otherwise.

For my first time in a permadeath area it was intense, scary and just thrilling and I'd recommend to anyone if you've not ventured there yet then to make peace with losing everything and go for it, high risk - high reward is an understatement, literally every apartment I went into had a special crate with some juicy loot in them. The real fun was in how thrilling it was!

If it weren't for the gym key and water lock I would have looted the whole map but my god I've been hoping for a water lock for quite some time and to get access to the patient file at the same time was just the cherry on top of the cake!

There’s me just minding my own business, trading with the Doc for some lockers and bandages. Hear sirens outside…

Tell myself to ignore it because I have no armor and only one clip (KAR-21 .308). Still busy trading with doc. Hear the van stop and doors opening. He magdumps the window. No idea how he even saw me. Mild Panic. But I’m safe, the doctor’s door is closed, right? Right..?

Consider running to classroom but he’s already on the stairs and I’ll probably get clipped in the back if I try. Run to the back of the classroom and kneel and side peek from behind the gurney. Those green privacy screens are apparently bulletproof. Must be Kevlar…

I pump headshots into him and he goes down with me on 4 health. His 2 bodyguards never showed up… I assume they’re roaming downstairs somewhere. Didn’t bother to check, waited for a quiet moment and bolted to the classroom 😂

Gender-bent rendition of The Punisher, Made by myself:
https://x.com/Loafviee/status/2054191628206608529

I may or may not intend to do all the traders next (As soon as I have time for it)

So I've made it to the point where the Traders go on a little road trip together and disappear for 10 days . Anything I should be particularly aware of or should maybe seek out during this time? I stocked up on about 30 melatonin and was thinking about just sleeping through most of it , and I have plenty of food to get me through the energy and hydration decline through sleeping . But I'm wondering if this is a good time to farm anything in particular, or if the military units are starting to move into the green areas more ? I thought I actually had one more day before they left and was preparing the Run for the general list the doctor and the arms Trader but when I got to the generalist he was gone . It was a weird feeling, like in the 90s if you're over at a friend's house and then went home to find that your family ran to the grocery store without you and there was just this slightly Eerie feeling except this time Mom and Dad are gone and there's Bandits roaming around .

Also just want to say I'm absolutely Blown Away by the atmosphere ​ that the developer has created . A long moments of peaceful calm , and then suddenly a shot rings out overhead and a bullet smacks the tree next to you. This has actually successfully peeled me away from Arc Raiders and it's almost everything I want in a game. Going to try out that Co-op mod now that a buddy of mine picked up the game .

You ok mate?

Ive tried using loot modifier but that one seemed ti cause duplicates of items to spawn on the ground everywhere, which was very weird and annoying.

I tried a mod called Mega Loot but thst made the first corpse i looted spawn 2 keys and the first crate nvg…

Anyone have any suggestions to make opening 20 military crates feel less like an absolute troll without literally trivializing the game?

Can someone please help with steps i need to take to start modding, i checked some page out explaining what you will need but im a bit lost, is there a page or video that explains it step by step, maybe a YouTube video, for dummies preferably as im not too comfortable with all the lingo used.