Whats with all the crappy stashes? Thread - MISERY mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

"Thanks for killing those mutants. Here's some stashes with useful stuff."Goes to stash to find a couple of forks and some busted ammo.Really? Who would spend the time setting up coordinates where they dumped their leftover garbage? Put ammo, artifacts, something, anything useful than some random clutter that I wasted ten minutes looking for. Granted, the stashes that are in containers usually have some worthwile things (the gas station stash with the AKM carried me for my first 1/3rd of the game), but any of the open area ones are usually so full of random useless junk, I wonder if I should bother looking for the stashes in the first place.

Yeah, it's very annoying. Obviously it's an effort to prevent people who know where all the vanilla stashes are from beelining to them for easy cash, but they could've at least replaced their contents with inexpensive things that people would bother to stash. As it stands they might as well have just gotten rid of them all and changed the NPC stash rewards to point to the Misery stashes, which sometimes actually contain something worth visiting them for.

Edited by: Noworky

Most misery stashes are worthwhile.All of the vanilla stashes contain broken weapons,bad ammo,a rusted pocket knife and some other junk nobody would logically bother with.

Only late vanilla stashes in pripyat can sometimes be worth something, the general rule is they are crap as they are left outdoors without a container, so elements, animals and such and any burer or poltergeist can fling it around too. It is logically unwise to keep item exposed in a hostile weather and radiated zone. The misery stashes are a lot better and from the black road towards Skadovsk you can easily get around 40-70k rubels just of these stashes.

Honestly if it was up to me I'd remove all the vanilla stashes and add more new misery stashes.

Edited by: Nyayr

I don't mind that the weapons or whatever are degraded. I can deal with that.What I'm getting at is getting stash coords for whatever feat of awesomeness I perform, and finding nothing but one piece of bad ammo and one piece of field cutlery sitting under a tree.That's not a "stash". That's someone trash that somehow got hooked up to someones PDA coordinates.

Exactly. If they were poor condition guns or whatever, fine, but who would bother marking a "stash" that consists of a dented fork, a cigarette butt and a broken radio? Makes no sense and is just irritating that NPCs continue to give out such worthless "stashes" as quest rewards.

The only stash I hate in this entire game is the one that Freedom and Duty fight over

Literally, they're so hyped up over this armory and the only things that are in there is some REALLY shitty duty vest, a shitty rifle, and a handful of ammunition like what the hell

Other "stashes" aren't really stashes its just like cigarettes and some cutlery like what the hell how is this a stash?

I also dislike it that stashes to many guns are completely worthless to attempt to repair and are better to sell for cash instead, I think stashes with weapons should yield better condition guns than ones I find on NPC's Then again I have my own gripe about that since their guns are 100% useless aswell

Edited by: Mike1Juliet