These radioactive hotspots don’t feature in the tourist brochure.Īnything that moves, shoots or oozes is better equipped for combat. The Zone’s Anomalies rock greater radii and eat flesh with gusto. The environment is now incorrigibly hostile. Don’t say MISERY doesn’t spoil us though – you come equipped with a free sleeping bag! Bear in mind that ‘sleeping rough’ and ‘human burrito’ are pretty much interchangeable.Ĭhernobyl is not the place to do your Duke of Edinburgh's award. Power naps aren’t enough to stay alert in the Zone you’ll need regular rest to remain on form.

Thirst is now a factor, as is sleep cycle. In addition to daily activities, anything which involves your metabolism (medicine, for instance) whittles away at your stamina regen, regen soft-capped at 33% of the norm. Food is scarce, and tooltips report nutritional content in kcal.

No more! MISERY gives you the irradiated hellscape you always dreamed of. To starve to death in Pripyat you need to put in the hours, stoutly ignoring flashing warnings and stacks of food until you drop dead of acute stupidity. As with all open-world epics it attempts to be a bit of everything – survival trappings exist but seem afraid of offending. STALKER: Call of Pripyat is fun but muddled. Usually I prefer to hone my experience with a series of small mods - other entries in this week-long series will do just that - but no combo comes close to the scope of the most twisted survival retool yet hatched: MISERY. Over the course of Survival Week we'll highlight a few of those games and i) write a diary of our experience playing with it ii) explain how to do it yourself.Įvil is nothing if not thorough. There are lots of survival games, but there are also lots of games which could be survival games with the right mods installed.

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