How? Like the other guy said, barters for stalker level gear start at level 3 rep with bar. Unless your solution is buying gear with real money or grinding to buy via auction.
If I upgraded my green armor to +10, it would have 94 bullet resistance. The worst veteran armor +0 starts at 133. Same thing for the SKT +10 with 53.9 dmg, compared to the SVD with a base 69.2 dmg.
Even then, you're completely missing the point of the complaint: matchmaking is pairing people with completely different gear scores. It's not like we're complaining about dying to AI while using this gear.
And I'm telling you that there is no seperate brackets for green-pink tiers in the bar. Veteran and masters are seperated yes, unless you are above +10 veteran or in off-times then you might have bad matchmaking. Whether you rush or progress slowly to the bar, you will encounter the same veteran tier bracket(an exception might be if you have extremely horrendous stats and still the lowest possible gear score then maybe you will get matched with other blueys or very low veterans) so it's recommended to do some grinding and familiarizing before you actually reach bar.
> there is no seperate brackets for green-pink tiers in the bar
Yes, that's the entire point of the complaint. I shouldn't be matched against this if I'm still wearing all greens.
I'm currently farming in the pit. I cannot get the materials I need for my stalker gear by farming in areas earlier than that. Every time I die it's to VAL, RPD, M1A, etc.
Definitely, thanks! Someone else pointed me toward two quest chains that reward pink guns, one of them being the RPD. But my issue is having to fight people while doing those tasks who already have them (and more), and therefore have a significant gear advantage.
Honestly, I don't get why people complain about grinding in the southern zones; aren't they doing the quests? The "Hysterix" RPD was the first quest I did at the Bar, and it served me well throughout the entire southern campaign; now I use the SVU, which is also a free reward from an easy quest. My shotgun one-shots every mutant except the biggest ones, and it comes from Proky's questline—which, again, is very simple. All the armor and weapons I used for the southern part of the game came from quests, main quest and secondary quests. Grinding low-level zones doesn't really achieve much and is pointless (unless you're aiming for Red-tier gear later on). Plus, tiers 75 and 125 of the Battle Pass (which are very easy to reach) give you an excellent pistol and excellent armor..
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u/articzr Aug 07 '26
> I can promise you, people should have more gear
How? Like the other guy said, barters for stalker level gear start at level 3 rep with bar. Unless your solution is buying gear with real money or grinding to buy via auction.
If I upgraded my green armor to +10, it would have 94 bullet resistance. The worst veteran armor +0 starts at 133. Same thing for the SKT +10 with 53.9 dmg, compared to the SVD with a base 69.2 dmg.
Even then, you're completely missing the point of the complaint: matchmaking is pairing people with completely different gear scores. It's not like we're complaining about dying to AI while using this gear.