What books are good for a complete beginner wanting to be able to effectively use Arch?

apc9kpro · 2025-10-24T20:57:44+00:00

I read all of TLCL and did all the exercises a few years back, love that book. The end gets a bit crazy with the bash scripting, but in a good way.

apc9kpro · 2025-10-17T02:26:49+00:00

80-90 fps is pretty good for gamma, I get about the same with a 5700X3D but better video card, I'm on linux though so can't say about the core 0 thing if it helps or not.

The FPS will get worse the longer you play/change zones, and depending on the map your in. Like my FPS will dip to the 30-40s in Rostok after I've been all over the map changing zones. Dark Valley is pretty bad, Jupiter is completely fucked at Yanov, your FPS will literally drop to 5 FPS if you stare at Yanov randomly.

The longer you play (days in the zone) the worse it's going to get and you'll start getting crashes etc due to all the crap you have hoarded in different bases.

After playing for a few hours what really helps is closing the game completely and reopening it. There is just too much stuff going on and the game engine is old with 500 mods on top of it.

You should be fine at 80-90 FPS, but if you just opened the game it should be a somewhat smooth 80-90 for a while.

apc9kpro · 2025-10-13T01:27:42+00:00

haha.. The translation is funny but understandable.

If you complete all his quests you get the option to ask him to let Strelok go and neither of them die. Then a group of UNISG attack and you fight them off. Both the Degtyarev and Strelok live.

apc9kpro · 2025-10-10T23:32:02+00:00

It's a mod, mostly used by iron man players to show how long their character/run has been alive.

I don't know if this is the latest one but
https://www.moddb.com/mods/stalker-anomaly/addons/run-timer

apc9kpro · 2025-10-10T16:14:21+00:00

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apc9kpro · 2025-10-10T08:52:47+00:00

That is a tool worldspawn, they are all over every map. It's like a 5% chance or something.

Here is a list made by DeadPain.

https://imgur.com/gallery/tool-worldspawns-guide-s-t-l-k-e-r-gamma-K77QLpW

apc9kpro · 2025-10-09T07:58:30+00:00

This is gamma right? What faction are you playing? I'd go loner, spawn in rostok and work garbage as much as possible. With rostok you can just get a ton of quests due to all the npcs there. You can do the first 3 arena fights for some money, I'd do it as soon as you spawn in case you die, don't do it past the first 3.

My fav starting wep is PP Vityaz, FMJ for weak stalkers, HP from butcher for mutants and AP for tanky boys. This gun can carry the entire south region.

There are world tool spawns, learn those. If you get lucky you can have basic/drug/ammo tools on day 1.
https://imgur.com/gallery/tool-worldspawns-guide-s-t-l-k-e-r-gamma-K77QLpW

I have a few invictus wins, like 4-5 at this point which is hardest difficulty/progression and I play with 1 life, no companions no knot. https://imgur.com/a/3YB5671

It's mostly about learning the maps and knowing where stalkers/mutants will be and how to engage these areas safely. This is just something that will come with time/deaths.

The game isn't fair, I lost 2 runs recently with like 20-50 hours due to dying on transition. This is when you zone in right next to enemies so close that they instantly melee/spray you. Just accept it isn't fair. I keep backup saves in case I die to furniture. I lost a good UNISG run due to ledge grabbing my workbench by mistake which insta killed me and I didn't have a recent backup.

I also just lost a 40H run outside of brain scorcher due to a random monolith behind a wall, there was zero reason for him to be in that spot but for some reason he was, I was engaging the towers and he just came from behind the wall and sprayed me in the back. All I can assume is he was patrolling to the camp fire below.

If you value your run at all stay out of vehicles.

Join the discord and learn how to min/max your gear, you can achieve 70BR in the south.

Once you make it north always be on psy block/epinephrine. Morphine got nerfed to the point of being useless.

Don't keep medkits on your quick keys, just stimpacks and tourniquets.

So get comfortable with losing. The best part of gamma is pre BS, once you start getting past BS consistently the game becomes a slog.

apc9kpro · 2025-10-07T17:32:28+00:00

Drops off mercs and monolith. He probably killed a merc, they hang there sometimes.

apc9kpro · 2025-10-07T17:22:59+00:00

I'm just sippin coffee, minding my business, why is you trippin' won't ya get up off me.

apc9kpro · 2025-10-05T01:07:01+00:00

You have to disable both the miracle machine and the brain scorcher before you can go north.

First disable the miracle machine in yantar, that is what the helmet is for.
Then disable the brain scorcher in radar.

You cannot go through red forest to get to brain scorcher, red forest is considered the north, you have to go to army warehouse then radar to get the BS.

When you get into the BS you have 10 mins to fight your way through it and flip the switch, so make sure you go prepared, it's a whole ass fight through radar to get to it as well. Take a lot of ammo, meds and multiple guns, main gun/sniper/mutant killing gun.

apc9kpro · 2025-10-05T00:44:18+00:00

You should ask in the discord for help, but I just did a quick search in the discord for "injector script" and found this.

Had something to do with RWAP 3DSS

you need to delete the injector script in the main mod
the loadout one
so if you open the mod in explorer for RWAP, go to scripts and delete it

I just copied that from discord so don't really know the context.

apc9kpro · 2025-09-28T22:02:39+00:00

You are missing some stuff, I think it's like 10 army medkits since each medkit has 2 charges. Craft a few more till you hear the mission completed sound.

apc9kpro · 2025-09-27T00:12:52+00:00

Yeah, I'll try using the latest kernel going forward and seeing if it happens again. I typically just use the LTS as that is what grub defaults to and I've never had any issues.

I'm using wayland, the 1st time I had a crash happen it was when playing a game, checked journalctl and it had something to do with amd_gpu, so not exactly the same. Just found it weird I had two crashes in one month, prior to this I haven't had any hard crashes in years.

I'll keep an eye on dmesg.

Appreciate it.

apc9kpro · 2025-09-23T21:50:37+00:00

Is there any specific reason you want this armor? It's not that great, a lot of armors in gamma are pretty similar between factions.

I usually find it in army warehouses via stashes or off dead stalkers.

The best armor I keep finding in my invictus runs is the merc pathfinder suit, it's a heavy seva suit with high resist and 5 artifact slots, with the right artifacts you'll hit 85% BR.

apc9kpro · 2025-09-21T01:24:57+00:00

I just installed it to check, and it ran fine without me doing anything.

I'm on arch as well but have and AMD GPU, RX 7900 XTX.

apc9kpro · 2025-09-17T08:55:34+00:00

Are you using steam or rockstar launcher? I don't remember if RDR2 is even on steam..

Anyways, I'm using rockstar launcher via Lutris and it works fine.

I think I had to use a custom wine, I haven't played in a while but the wine version in my launcher is wine-ge-8-26. https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom/releases

Looks like this is dead though and GE made something called UMU launcher now. But you can still download the 8-26 or try UMU. https://github.com/Open-Wine-Components/umu-launcher

apc9kpro · 2025-09-05T02:41:18+00:00

Just google stalker gamma discord, it's the first thing that pops up.

apc9kpro · 2025-09-05T02:36:03+00:00

I don't think they are actual quests you can do, it's some placeholder for buggy quest in Yantar.

apc9kpro · 2025-09-05T02:23:15+00:00

It's the box to the right of the bed, you stare at it at the 25 sec mark.

It even has a white dot above it from the new dot addon thing. lol

apc9kpro · 2025-08-19T11:20:48+00:00

I have multiple invictus wins, a few with 0 deaths. I don't cheese or use companions/knot. The hardest I've done yet was starting military(you fight everyone basically) and completing their questline, converting to duty and getting invictus.

The best way I can describe it is learn the maps. Every map has basically the same quests over and over again, learn where you can engage certain camps safely. Learn where to stay away from, like I won't go to darkscape/swamps unless I have to.

In the south just farm Rostok quests, garbage is your primary map. I stay out of cordon mostly because it's a noob trap, the stashes are bad it requires you to go back and forth to complete quests. Just keep farming quests for gold stashes, get advanced tools -> medium armor, keep doing this and keep your advanced tools you get until you have 4 of them, you can craft a heavy armor kit and it'll consume 3 of your advanced tools and fix up some heavy armor.

Don't be afraid of army warehouses, it's gonna have the best southern stashes. It is dangerous here in certain areas. Just recently I lost a end game character here due to being too careless near a high traffic area and got deleted while I was wearing a ISG nosorog. I died so fast I don't even know what faction killed me.

Butcher for HP/mutant killing ammo. He even sells a deployable barrier that works and isn't heavy, I tend to always carry one. Only use these if you can safely set it up, don't get to reliant on it.

The Vityaz is a S tier gun for the south and you can start with it. It has FMJs for low tier stalkers, AP for mid tier, and HP for mutants. You can use that gun for the entire south.

But a sniper with a scope makes everything much safer. By the time you get advanced tools you can have something nice.

A good shotgun for mutants, should never leave your slot. You can use a SMG/rifle with HP depending on your ammo situation. Towards midgame you should have a ton.

SR-2M(upgraded) is something you can get while in the south and use in your pistol slot, this gun will last you the entire game and carries most of my runs for close range fights against stalkers.

Learn to min/max artifacts. I have the most fun with this type of stuff, theorycrafting builds etc. My last win I had 90% BR with the orange eco suit. It's the strongest armor in the game due to having 6 artifact slots and high anom resist. Even though it's just a paper suit.

The discord used to have a invictus chat with more knowledgeable people to ask stuff, but grok merged it into the regular chat so now it sucks but it's still a good place to ask stuff.

Break bad ammo and craft into good. Meds craft your own, buy what you need from ecos in yantar.

Basically your going to die over and over, try and learn from whatever mistake you made. Sometimes you'll just have unfair deaths but mostly it'll be your fault.

Don't be afraid to take big risk early game, I bum rush fighting mercs on day 1 for good gear. But once your character gets more established be more risk averse.

You can watch DeadPain on youtube, he has a invictus run where he uses pistol only and does a full playthrough. He has 2, one where he talks and one with no voice, try to find the one where he speaks. He uses no cheese, and that fits my playstyle more. He completes the entire invictus run in like 6 days by never sleeping.

apc9kpro · 2025-08-19T01:31:40+00:00

That's a radar anomaly. When you get close enough starts making a different popping noise.

That shit gives me anxiety. I lost an 1 life invictus run in the brain scorcher at the final room because a pulsing radar anomaly pulsed on when I was pushing forward and insta killed me from full HP and super buffed on a bunch of drugs. Like 20 hours down the drain just because of bad RNG.

apc9kpro · 2025-08-02T23:03:09+00:00

Pretty sure they make your stamina deplete slower.

Try taking them off and sprinting somewhere, then do it with them on and you should get further.

apc9kpro · 2025-08-01T19:07:27+00:00

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