Stalker Anomaly's economy is brutal but genius

hey everyone garbage here so they say that making a balanced and well-functioning economy in a video game is one of the hardest things that you can do but in this video I want to show you an example of a video game economy that I think gets it pretty damn close this game that you're seeing on screen right now is a game called stalker anomaly which is a free mod of the game stalker called a pripyat and just like the game it's built on anomaly has a humongous pool of loot that you can find collect and interact with pretty much anybody who's played soccer anomaly for any length of time will tell you that basically every single item in the game is super expensive whether it's weapons whether it's ammo medicine food pretty much anything it's all very expensive and you need all of these items to survive if you try to purchase everything that you need in this game to survive you're going to go broke and you're going to be miserable because there just aren't enough ways to make money in this game in order to pay for absolutely everything that you need and so you have to get creative for example with weapons you can either buy them from the store which again is very expensive or you can loot them off of dead bodies looting is ultimately going to be your best option in this game but there is a problem as you can see here are a bunch of weapons that I've accumulated and you can see that all of them are in pretty rough shape this one's condition is at 13 here we got 28 still pretty bad you do not want to be using weapons in this state because they're going to be jamming every two or three shots which is not good and so in order for them to be effective you have to repair them now in order to repair a weapon you have to repair each of the individual components that make it up for example this rotating locking head is at 25 in order to improve the condition of this weapon you have to improve the condition of this individual part and in order to do that you need to have the appropriate tool in this case it's this file so you would right click it select use and then you would click on the part that you want to repair in this case as you can see this file Will Repair this component by 25 so taking it from 25 up to 50 percent which is not great right because once you use the file it's gone it's a one-time use item and so you would think that in order to repair that part up to 100 then you would have to go to the mechanic buy another file which is 1 350 rubles which is not super expensive but it's still more expensive than it should be in order to get from 50 up to 100 you would have to buy two of these and so already it's starting to look like a very expensive proposition just to fix that one component but thankfully this is is a sub-optimal way to do it so if you right click on the file and you look at the details it will actually show you a list of items that you can use alongside with it in order to improve the effectiveness of this item so here we have like various things like kerosene you have like various gun sprays you have grease so I'm pretty sure I have some of that crease in my backpack here so we'll pull one of these out we'll pull out the kerosene and we'll take the grease and so now if we right click and select use we select the component now we can choose between these items that we have as a supplement to the file to improve the effectiveness for example if you decide to use the industrial grease then it improves the repair by 36 percent which means that with now with that one file you can get the part all the way up to 100 and the great thing about it is that these industrial greases you find them everywhere whenever you kill someone there's a very very good chance that they're going to have one or two of these in their inventory you could just grab it up and use it and so that is one way to get a whole lot more mileage out of this one tool than having to buy multiple copies repeatedly and using them and that is just one way of many in which this game encourages you to use the items that are available to you another cool example of this would be with medicine so here is my stash where I keep all of my excess medicine and you'll notice that there are all these cigarettes in here which seems kind of odd and in the beginning I thought that these cigarettes were kind of useless in fact if you look at the description you can even say it says unhealthy and so in the past what I would do if I had any of these on hand I would just sell them off because they do sell for a decent amount of money but then I started running into a problem because you see stalker anomaly being a stalker game there are a lot of situations where you can get radiation poisoning even just randomly walking around you can find yourself in a radioactive area and find yourself taking radioactive damage in this game radioactive poisoning is kind of hard to deal with there are only a few ways to to treat it one way is to drink water which will slowly reduce the radiation in your body but water itself is also a very important and expensive resource and so you don't want to be wasting it on every single instance in which you get radiation poisoning because it's going to happen to you a lot another way that you can treat it is by using anti-radiation medication which is very effective but unfortunately they are also very expensive to purchase and you don't find too many of them out in the wild either however one thing that you will find in abundance are these cigarettes these things are everywhere they're practically free anytime you loot a dead body there's a very good chance that they're going to have some smokes on them sometimes you can find these just random only on the floor sometimes you'll get them as a reward for completing certain jobs these things are everywhere and coincidentally you'll also find that these cigarettes can help you cure radiation poisoning for example these Lucky Strike cigarettes they will actually reduce radiation poisoning in your body by 20 millisieverts per second which is honestly pretty decent and again these cigarettes are pretty much free I didn't buy a single one of these same situation with alcohol which will also help you deal with radiation poisoning and the more you play this game the more you begin to realize that all of these items that you can find out and about in the world serve some kind of purpose and they can be used to create items that you need to survive for a fraction of the cost for example ammo you can create new ammo using these old busted up ammos that you find pretty much everywhere and it costs you nothing you know compare that to buying ammo from the Arms Dealer just to buy uh 15 rounds of Full Metal Jacket it costs a thousand rubles and if you want to go slightly fancier and get the armor piercing around that's 2 400 rubles that's a lot of money for 15 rounds because it costs so much money to buy everything that you need the game encourages you to actually take advantage of all of the items that you find in the game you know a lot of games out there have large amounts of inventory but you end up using very little of it they're designed in such a way that you can play through them basically without any items in anomaly you know these items are the difference between being broke and miserable and being like a god-tier stalker that owns everything you know and so the game encourages you to go out and do the fun thing which is shoot bad guys and steal their Loot and I really appreciate that anyways hope you found this video interesting thank you for watching like subscribe and Bell links to all of my stuff down in the description below and as always have a nice day

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Length: 8min 25sec (505 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 06 2023