What is a good suit for assault at the early game? Thread - MISERY mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

So i have been playing for around 10 in game days just killing bandits and looting stashes and i saved up 45k and some good gear but currently i have no armor at all which is a pain in the ass. I cannot chose between the suit nimble sells for 68k the cs3 i think. And beryl which costs 65k. I played as a light sniper before so i never really gotten into heavy suits untill prypyat the heavy raincoat with 3 steel plates server me well haha.

so here are my questions

Beryl or CS3 (or a better alternative ???)

also what do you guys eat as assault ? i eat the cooked meat from fleshes and boars and than drink 3 sips of water so it costs 650 per day to keep me alive. Any cheaper alternatives ?

Late reply, I'm surprised and sorry no-one answered until now. The Beryl and CS3 are both pretty good for the early and mid game. I've used both. Honestly you could go with either. Steel plates are always good to add.

A third option is the PSZ-5M Duty Armour that you can get from them for free by doing a couple of missions for them (you can also find a heavily damaged one in the Duty 'warehouse' near Yanov station). It's basically a heavier version of the Sunrise stalker suit.

Whichever you get, I wouldn't put much money into upgrading them. The weight reduction and increased carry limit are worthwhile, but otherwise I'd save my money for when the Bulat, PSZ-9d and Exoskeleton are available.

I dunno, I think the CS3 can carry you all the way to the end of the game if you get some good artifacts in there. Well, actually I know it can. It's a great suit in terms of accessibility and overall cost/effectiveness.

The exo is better for sure, but by the time you can actually buy it, and afford all of the upgrades and such, the game is pretty much over.

As to food I like cooked boar meat. Wash that down with whatever you happen to find. Eat raw dog meat on the go to keep stamina bar high. Oh just noticed this is a good necro haha. Ah well, posting anyways.

From what I've found out playing weaker (in terms of damage resistance) classes, for Zaton and even Jupiter basically Sunrise with 3 sets of steel plates and morphine makes you almost invincible to most of mutant attacks and even human npcs literally have to mow you with half a magazine of AP ammo from close range to take you down. This means that as an assaulter you will have even easier situation as this class is naturally the best out of the whole three when it comes to dmg resistance. Later in the game you can switch to Bulat or Exo, because in Pripyat you never know what lurks behind the corner.

I usually use a sunrise with a tactical helmet until I get out of Zaton, and then I save up for a Bulat suit right off the bat. You'll have to reload your save until Bonesetter or Hawaiian's stock changes to have it, but I think it's around 80k maybe, not too bad considering the insane amount of protection you'll get if you pair it with a Sphere M12. When I get the Bulat suit I usually put a pseudogiant hide and a controller hide on there for extra psy protection and shit, since I rarely ever bother with anomaly fields because the artifact hunting suits are redonkulously overpriced.

You can get a free seva suit on the way to pripyat. It might be usable for artifact hunting? I've never actually tried using it.

True, just not as good as one of the other ecological suits. You have to own one of the three suits to do the tunnels already.

Ah yeah I forgot about that. Geez it's been a while since I've played haha. Yeah that's why I always sell the seva.....when I posted that I couldn't figure out why I'd never tried it out before. Didn't give it more than a passing thought obviously but I am still surprised I forgot considering how much I've played/edited CoP over the years.

The SEVA is a crossover suit. It has OK armor, better than average anomaly protection, you can play the whole game in it. The other two Eco suits are great for anomalies, but not so much for any kind of combat. The green one is supposed to be tougher, but no contest with any decent combat armor. You can really manage most of the game in one of the coats except for the trip to the plateau. There are ways to make it through there with perfect timing (barely) but it's much easier in an Eco suit.

With the wrong kind of suit for a task you will take severe damage to it. It can cost nearly as much repairing the wrong suit as buying the right 2-3. I don't like doing the lab in Pripyat without an Exo LOL (and ear plugs).

A great example is the new and improved Ghillie Suit. Fully upgraded it will withstand brief exposure to almost anything, you are much more likely to survive the first shot, but if you get trapped in a crossfire it will rapidly deteriorate and cost a fortune to fix. It is now perfect, IMHO, for it's purpose (sneeki breeki) if a lucky shot hits you, fleeing to another spot to resume your sneeki breeki you will live to fight another day. Before, one lucky shot would end you and any exposure to heat or psi would wipe you out.

odizzido wrote:

I dunno, I think the CS3 can carry you all the way to the end of the game if you get some good artifacts in there. Well, actually I know it can. It's a great suit in terms of accessibility and overall cost/effectiveness.

I agree with this actually. I've also finished the game in a CS3 as part of a random gear challenge (which also limited me to only using titanium frames as inserts), and paired with a nice Sphere helmet it's decent enough. It's certainly viable. It's cheaper than the high-end armour so it does leave the player some cash to spend on something else.

That said, it just doesn't really match up to the heaviest suits in the game. The Bulat becomes available to buy if you hand Morgan's PDA over to Duty or Freedom and that's really part of the early game.

Yeah the bulat is good as well. I wish that you could get the duty version more easily.

odizzido wrote:

You can get a free seva suit on the way to pripyat. It might be usable for artifact hunting? I've never actually tried using it.

Nah mate, just buy the ecologist suit as soon as you got the money. Only electrical anomalies are safe-ish enough to collect artefacts from with a non-high-tier suit.

Get a suit and watch the money rolling in, besides, you can't get the SEVA until you make your way to Pripyat. Beard gives very good money if you get him the artefacts he orders from you, and the scientists in Jupiter give good money as well. In Zaton, there are 4 locations close to the Skad that drop artefacts, especially the fire anomaly ones sell very, very well.

Just be very careful, since the ecologist suit isn't built for combat. A steel-plate kevlar attachment helps, but you're still an easy target. Even then, the repair costs are extremely high and the suit degrades very quickly when taking damage.

Edited by: fyreNL

I've always wondered how good a green Ecologist suit with 5x Steel Plate would be...

I ran a Heavy Overcoat with 3x Steel Plate once for laughs, and it was actually kind of good, like a ghetto Bulat. Pretty bad weight/protection ratio though.

Lomlom wrote:

I've always wondered how good a green Ecologist suit with 5x Steel Plate would be...

I ran a Heavy Overcoat with 3x Steel Plate once for laughs, and it was actually kind of good, like a ghetto Bulat. Pretty bad weight/protection ratio though.

It works pretty good in terms of defence, but its costly to repair.

Its also heavy, and eats your stamina.

I did kinda the same thing with 5 Flame artifacts (best artifact in the game), and I was like a pseudogiant running around.

The main thing from Misery from what I have discovered/assumed, is that the armour you are wearing modifies your individual 'hitbox' damage multipliers, so while artificts help a lot, armour is the most of your defense.