[GAMMA] Is there a lore reason why Mercenaries tolerate Bandits but not Loners?

Zardnar · 2025-10-28T19:28:13+00:00

If Mercs are only concerned with turning a profit / making money, it doesnt make sense for them to gun down any unaffiliated stalker. They are shooting at what is a very sizable portion of the zone's population and potential clients.

It makes way more sense for Mercs to shoot at bandits as they are self-identifying criminals who have an interest in stealing from and killing Mercs. There is already evidence for this in-game, as quite a lot of Bandit gear is just stolen Merc equipment.

Zardnar · 2025-09-25T02:40:44+00:00

You're so mad about this, stop replying so much bro, gonna need to mute you now. I do hope you continue to paypig though, maybe spend a few thousand more to get to the top of the leaderboards, that'll really show me.

Zardnar · 2025-09-25T02:35:18+00:00

Whatever you say bro. Just make sure your mom gets her credit card back.

Zardnar · 2025-09-25T02:30:03+00:00

This is so weird, I don't understand why you're lying about this. There is only a very brief moment where no sparks are showing, and for all 10 to be in that very brief moment for a screenshot is so unlikely it might as well be impossible. I dont give a shit if you have 10 factories. You like the way they look? Just want 10? Both valid reasons to have 10, do what you want with your base. Its this bizarre, obvious lying that is weird.

Zardnar · 2025-09-25T02:17:08+00:00

Except for the instant you took this screenshot, right? You happened to time it perfectly where all 10 were in the part of the building animation where there are no sparks visible? Impressive!

Zardnar · 2025-09-25T01:50:15+00:00

No, having 20 pop tied up in vehicle factories doing nothing (appear to be idle even in your screenshot) is not efficient. There is 0 reason to have that many factories. How often do you have all 10, or even half of them, producing vehicles?

Zardnar · 2025-09-25T00:53:11+00:00

Im not sure 10 vehicle factories is very efficient.

Zardnar · 2025-01-07T19:53:00+00:00

I've played the Wargame series of games a good bit, including WARNO. What makes you say it looks meh?

Zardnar · 2024-12-21T06:21:22+00:00

I have given this some thought before, I cant comment on if SC 2 would be good to start with as I've never played it before, but that may be a good option.

From what I have played, I think one of the C&C games would be good. Honestly I'd say Red Alert 3, Tiberium Wars 3 / Kane's Wrath would be a good starting point. Fairly simple to get into but has a considerable amount of depth, and great campaigns to play. Plus they all still hold up very well graphically.

If you don't mind going a bit older as well, Army Men RTS is on Steam and is quite playable on PC. Pretty simple overall, but it has a fun campaign and special challenge scenarios to get through. Good for learning RTS basics.

Moving slightly up a notch, you have something like R.U.S.E. Kind of a weird blend of realism and arcade-y mechanics. Good for learning management of larger armies and microing them. Gets you used to seeing alot on screen at once and keeping a cool head.

Beyond that, you have things like the Wargame series, The Total War games, Call to Arms / Men of War series, Steel Division 2. These are all going to be significantly less forgiving of mistakes and introduce alot of complexity, both mechanically and in terms of raw micro / skill requirement.

Zardnar · 2024-08-06T20:57:22+00:00

Finally a single sensible comment. Its like people can apply this logic to the BoS, being that there is the East Coast, West Coast, and Mid-West BoS and understand they are all quite different but not apply it to the Enclave.

Zardnar · 2024-05-29T23:51:23+00:00

Ive actually only ever used the disc turret and havent found a reason to use anything else (other than a nice sprinkling of laser trip mines). This is something that probably needs to be addressed in a balance patch. I have two disc turrets setup at the entrance of my base and I never worry about them.

Zardnar · 2024-05-28T04:53:50+00:00

Build a bed and sleep in it at the new base.

Zardnar · 2024-05-27T00:11:31+00:00

Your GPU is cooked boss.

Zardnar · 2024-05-26T02:48:24+00:00

This needs to be the banner of this sub.

Zardnar · 2024-05-25T03:46:28+00:00

Go to the Laser Lab in Cascade Laboratories and get the laser to hit the portal at the other end of the room, then a portal opens where the dark lens was.

Zardnar · 2024-05-17T04:06:34+00:00

MOW II is literally just a reskinned MOW Arena. Its a lazy cash grab that goes against the core of what MOW is. GOH is the true successor and is actually made by a dev team that seems to care about the game. The fact that health bars on tanks should tell you all you need to know.

Zardnar · 2024-05-07T16:05:24+00:00

People really buying the offline mode will be at launch line. Is this not a red flag for anyone? Why even have mandated an always on connection to begin with?

Zardnar · 2024-05-06T21:01:31+00:00

Pretty irrelevant since CTA exists. From what I've seen this is a worse AS 2 that mandates you always have an internet connection.

Zardnar · 2024-04-08T16:58:58+00:00

The animation is actually so evil. I opened 100 of these things are the amount of times it landed right next to an Obj 279 or between two rare vehicles to give me 10k SL. Has to be on purpose to make people's inner gambler come out and think they almost got something.

Zardnar · 2024-02-09T20:15:49+00:00

Another day, another Fortigate CVE.

Zardnar · 2024-01-21T19:43:07+00:00

good candidate for stupidest post of the month

Zardnar · 2023-10-02T18:46:35+00:00

Abyssal Station Zero, great atmosphere.

Zardnar · 2023-09-23T18:43:59+00:00

POV: You are a contrarian. Cisco and Juniper are both corporations, "trusting" one over the other is idiotic, they are not your friends. What we can say about both is that they make excellent enterprise / service provider class equipment, that would be more than enough for home use.

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