S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Reborn - Doppelganger

• Fly Camera — Press Esc to return to the menu, then F. This returns you to the game. Use forward (W) to elevate, then look down to move forward.
• Bloodsuckers — The trick to killing Bloodsuckers is to wait until they are about to strike, and then blast them in the face with a shotgun. However, they have to stop before they strike and if you keep moving backwards, it's fairly easy to get rid of them. Timing is everything, and you should save before taking one on. When there's more than one, try to get them separated.
• Pseudogiants — The only way it seems to kill them is with an exploding red barrel or Lightning artifact. F1 and VOG-25 grenades work, but you need at least two good hits.
• Possible bug — NPCs often appear on the map, but no one is present at that location. Try reloading the last save, and if that doesn't work, reboot the game.
• Possible bug — Driving a vehicle through a transition from one map to another prevents the map from loading. It seems you have to go on foot.
• You may notice your health declining for no apparent reason. This may be due to not eating. Try eating or some vodka to see if that helps. One Tourist's Breakfast usually holds for about 24 hours.
• Vehicle engines start with the letter O key (same as detector) and not the keypad zero.
• To launch the drone while in-game, press Esc and then access (F). Press forward (W) to climb and fire (left mouse) to fly forward.
• There are times when it seems this walkthrough follows a strange sequence, but trust me, I've run into several occasions where, by not following a certain sequence of events, things didn't work as expected and I had to roll back to a previous save, even starting over.
• At some point, you can take an optional task that requires 3 million rubles, 10 Controller hands, and three Bloodsucker eyes. Keep that in mind as you build your bank account and collect mutant parts.
• If you zoom the map out, you see the following labels: Zone (top-left), Borderland (center), Northern Forests (top-right), Shaky (right side), Stalkers (bottom-left), Monolith Zone (left side).
• The white cases with spare parts simply add 5 kg to your backpack and I have yet to find anyone to take the ones that I find, maybe one or two at the most. My suggestion is to leave them.
• Placing a backpack is permanent, i.e., you can't pick them back up when they are empty. Most of the maps you frequently visit have at least one place to stash your loot. For example: The Flea Market in Garbage and Bloodsucker Village or Freedom Base in Military Warehouses. The only exception is the stash box in the Jupiter Mobile Lab. I've had things go missing from this one. Sakharov sells backpacks for 500 RUs.
• You can use vodka in the absence of medkits and bandages to stop bleeding and increase health.
• In addition to a weight limit, your backpack/inventory is also limited to the number of items. About 1000, but I've not tested it completely. When you are collecting smaller items, you may notice they suddenly start falling to the ground and you get a message telling you there's no more room in your backpack.
• Faction Commander 2.5 Er Edition — This mod is very handy for speeding up time when you have to wait for a certain hour. For example, there are times when you can't proceed until 24:00. To use the mod, press Esc then F2 and go to Options. Accelerate Time either by 100 or 1000 until you reach the desired time, then slow it back down again.
• Preferred weapons:
  • Assault Rifle — Both the AKM-74/2 or AC-96/2 seem to be the most accurate and highest damage. Plus, there's plenty of ammo. Add a VOG-25 grenade launcher for Pseudogiants. Also, plenty of ammo.
  • Shotgun —You pick up the Monstrodav early in the game and is a great secondary weapon for mutants and close range combat.
  • Gravity Gun — Forester gives you this for closing the gate in Red Forest and kills most mutants with one shot.
  • Sniper Rifle — The Barrett M82A1 is hard to come by, and ammo is scarce. However, it's the only rifle that I've found to take out a helicopter, as well as a motion-sensor machine gun at a distance. Hit the tripod once or twice and it blows up. You can do the same with a shotgun, but you must stand closer and risk taking damage when it blows.
  • At some point in the game, you will need an automatic weapon with a high-capacity magazine. Be sure to collect 200 rounds of ammo for your favorite.

The game starts by talking with Zarka that goes something like this:

After she vanishes, you spawn in what looks like Monolith Control. Exit the room and turn right (south), and then left and try to open the door. You get a message: Find the access code for the doors on the third underground level. Go back and turn south again. Continue to the room on the right with a backpack on the floor. Collect the health pack and continue south to find ammo in the next room. Go back north to the first hallway on the right, which is blocked by boxes. Use the rooms on the right to get around the boxes and find Smartphone 1 with the door code and an AS VAL.

Go back to the locked door and target above the keypad to get the prompt. Enter the code and open the door. Lure the Pseudogiant back to the north/south hallway and go south past the red drum. As the Pseudogiant nears the drum, shoot it to blow it up. With the mutant down, return to the door and enter. You get a message to turn the gas off. Return to the room where you found Smartphone 1. You can now open the door.

As you go up the stairs, you encounter Snorks with PKMs. There is plenty of ammo for the PKM, so I recommend switching to it. Only pick up what you need as there is no need to keep anything extra. Fight your way to the next level. Go left (north) into the room with the large freight elevator. The large doorway on the north wall is blocked by an anomaly, so go left and then right. Now you're in X-10. Continue to where you shut off the Brain Scorcher, only this is to turn off the gas. When you get to the room with a catwalk and anomalies, either use the catwalk to get past them, or start from the southwest door post (near the catwalk stairs), and go in a northeast direction to the pillar next to the tank. Use the doorway on the right (south) to continue. When you get to the switch, you may need to switch it twice to turn it off.

Return to the gas-filled room on the lowest level that is now safe to enter. Go through the first locked door you encountered (with the Pseudogiant) and find Smartphone 3. Continue east until you get the message: Enter the activation code artificial teleport at the doorway with the door off its hinges. Use the keypad on the left to enter the Smartphone 3 code and continue down the passage. This triggers a conversation with Awareness:

He leaves to go put your stuff in the backpack where you found the medkit. This is where you will find him later in the game. You won't be able to move until you get this message:

"The doors on the third level are locked. Now the only way to get into the laboratory is through another entrance."

Also, you may be facing west and need to turn around. Now step through the teleport and spawn in Goblin Region with only the smartphones. If you get a message about the teleport not sprouting yet, try again.

You spawn in the Goblin Region with the task: To locate the deceased members of the Monolith group who were carrying materials for the "PSI-FIST" project. Leave the building and go down the road. Move around the fence and go southwest to where four roads make a rectangle. Find a wagon with a grenade in it under a small tree along the north road near where it meets the east road. Continue southwest toward the large hill with a Pseudogiant (that's harmless) and someone standing on the side of the hill. As you approach him, you get an on-screen update from Awareness and a message from Fake asking, "What brings you here?". This is Fake, who is "walking his dog". Talk to him:

This gives you the Find and record all the transitions in the altered Zone into the info-scanner task. Continue southwest toward the small pond at the west edge of the map to find a small village. In the village's farthest-west building is a blue case with swag (there's also an empty case in another house). Pick up the case, open your inventory, and double-click the case to open it. Most important are the artifacts that you'll need later, so don't waste them. A shed to the west has some small arms ammo and anti-rad drugs. Now head southeast toward the bridge.

Take the road south over the bridge and then to a complex, but don't past the two-track road going west or you'll trigger psi-holograms that kill you instantly. Instead, go east to the high-tension wires. Follow the wires south to the wall, and then go left along the wall to a break. Go south through the break and past the fence posts running parallel to the wall, then go west to find the Stalker with a smartphone next to him. The The deceased's smartphone was found on the barbed wire says:

\\files\REKA_info.txt\\ The passage should open in the ruins, here by the River. \\ Skinny has been buzzing in my ear about how he, being the cleverest, has his own stash in every "loop." But as far as I'm concerned, he's an idiot! It's better to go with guides.

Continue west, follow the wall until it ends, and take the two-track road west to the ruins. There's no point going back to Fake as there is no dialog to complete the task. Go through the teleport and spawn in the Garbage. This cancels the task you got from Fake and he sends you a message:

Keep this in mind during the setup! When you resume work, then come back.

It's about this time that you have a thought:

The dead Monolith members, the dead Monolith members... Yes, yes... I need to remember where I saw them dead with their backpacks during the chase after Strelok. Damn it!

You can sprint through the Whirligig anomaly field and get a message about earning money at the Flea Market, so go there. As you interact with the NPCs, some common dialogs are available. Here are the in-game and matching Google translations that may be unclear. Some are put together from individual phrases:

• Tell me, good man, on the areas attractions while our sights monsters sniffing. — Tell me, good man, about the sights of the Zone, while the monsters sniff around our sights.
• Well, where are you, a patriot Susanin, I was ready to start? .. I mean, take? — So where are you, patriot Susanin, ready to take me? ...I mean, take me?
• Hello hiring! Here everything is quiet it was. But, you see, not for long, since such people were drew — Hello, recruits! Everything's been quiet here for now. But it looks like it won't last long, since these guys have shown up.
• Well hello! Walk? I heard the latest shnyaga? In the worst monster of the Zone? .. Able to speak, at will accelerate and slow down time! Looks - like a regular Stalker, mind you .. So this hour did not you? .. Ha ha !!!))) — Well, hello! Out for a walk? Heard the latest crap? About the Zone's most terrifying monster? They say he can speed up and slow down time at will! Looks like a regular Stalker, mind you. So that's not you by any chance? Ha-ha!!!)))
• Something in my hands with the blood had dried .. shutyu! I have something in mind? Like, shoot? For example. — My hands are dry from the blood... Just kidding! Do you have anything in mind? Like, shooting? For example. (See Squad Leader Tasks)
• For some trunks you special? — What kind of guns are you an expert on?
• Well, Che, like you, poor fellow? — Well, how are you, poor thing?
• The coffin lay beautiful — They put something more beautiful in the coffin.
• (When asking) Are there any leads on swag?: And in what I get up this beauty in the global equivalent of injustice? ..? .. How much will cost, I say. — And how much will this beauty cost me in the global equivalent of injustice? ..?.. How much will it cost, I say.

Trader dialogs:

1. Trader: Huh? What? Puff... Puff... Whoa! Puff... Hello to the most famous mercenary in the Zone!
2. Revived: Come on, otherwise I'll blush right now!) This celebrity is already driving me crazy!
3. Trader: So, you're interested in art?
4. Revived: Yes, you advise me which ones are better to take.
5. Trader: The most essential ones are for reducing blood loss from wounds, restoring health, and increasing endurance if you like to carry a lot of loot. Here, choose from what you brought back from the last raid. Your armor is pretty good; I hope the technicians have already figured out how to drill another hole for the artillery.
6. Revived: Yes, maybe you can recommend some armor?
7. Trader: Yes, yes... greetings to the plovers!.. Artifacts, artifacts... I'm interested in them, my dear ones, where would we be without them now?
8. Revived: By the way, can you tell me anything about the armored vehicles?
9. Trader: Yeah, easy. The best armor, in my opinion, is the SEVA suit. It also has a fifth slot for artifacts, and you'll have a whole bunch of 'em. Why is it the best? And it has a fucking awesome night vision device built in. And what's so fucking awesome about a night vision device? You know the "Burning Fuzz" anomaly? Everyone knows it! Well, it's now adapted to jamming the visual center of Stalkers right in the brain. People are freaking out, like, "What? How do we fight this new scourge?" They wouldn't have figured it out if one guy hadn't gone smashing through the Red Forest at night. Yeah. "He says he's crazy, I'm not afraid of anyone. He walked the whole forest—well, about five meters—and back, and then he remembered he was walking with his night vision on and Fuzz hadn't turned it off." That's how another piece of folk wisdom was born while drunk! There you go. You can buy a jumpsuit if you can save up the cash, at Yantar near Sahar. Exotics are, of course, unrivaled; you can carry up to 100 extra kilos with them, but where can you find them? You can't even get a regular one anymore, let alone dream of a Svobodovsky or Monolithovsky... it's a real mess with Exotics! Unless someone tries their luck in Limansk.

Cardan is there, but he never offers to fix anything. According to the Trader by the stash box, the best swag is after dark. What he really means is, after 24:00 the Trader on the ground has some items. Until then, he tells you to come back later. Take the first Squad Leader Tasks, but wait until you have a weapon before getting the item.

Find Beard (Hunter) at the south end of the top level for the next two smartphones (note that Mower, Kosar, and Kosarev are the same person):

This gives you the Find a gadget with new data on transfers task. Go to the spot marked on the east side of the map to find another transition and backpack with Kosarev's Smartphone. The Autoscanner says, It is found in the alleged absence of a transition point, the task is canceled, and replaced by Search for Kosarev's backpack. A Lift anomaly makes this tricky because you can't maneuver and some mutants spawn to add to the fun, so a Quick Save here is recommended. You must search the backpack as you slide down the hill. Be sure to loot the dead Stalker for more weapons. The smartphone reads:

{voice recorder}[track 0302^ ...an interesting little thing... okay, let's listen to how it records... oh! ...CRACK... AAAAA!!! ...wait, little soldier...][track 0301^ ...to hell with it all!... Time Crossroads are everywhere... then what the hell??? !!! I'm leaving the Zone... you can stay here yourselves... if you haven't understood yet... it's all a scam... gadgets, artifacts, monsters, first-aid kits, clans... utter nonsense... an illusion...] \n TEXT_COORD_GARBAGE.rar [encrypted data on transition coordinates]

You should have a weapon now and can retrieve the squad leader item. There may be some armed Zombies in the area that you can hit with a Lightning artifact to get better weapons and items to sell. Take the smartphone back to Beard (Hunter) and get the next task, along with another squad leader task:

The remaining dialog options don't add any information. This gives you the Check the gadget's signal. task. Get the next squad leader item and then go north of the northwest heap. Kill the Marauder with the smartphone and return to Beard (Hunter). Beard's friend's smartphone:

{voice recorder} [track 098] Hey, buddy, where are you off to? - Well, I'm heading to Agroprom. They said there's a Stalker base there. I'm going to start my little business there. I love this kind of work. Always surrounded by people. Come visit sometime!

Return the squad leader item and get the third task. You'll probably have to go east to find another squad leader. Beard (Hunter) sends you to the Vehicle Graveyard with the Destroy the controller task:

Complete the third squad leader task if you can (or get the task in Agroprom as you'll be back and forth soon) and head for the Vehicle Graveyard (Garbage). Once you help kill the mutants, the target moves to Agroprom (the center of the four storage tanks) and the task updates to Searching for Beard's twin. Wait until you get Red Forest to take on any more squad leader tasks.

The bus stop near the Agroprom to Garbage teleport is full of Civilian Zombies. Don't waste your ammo on them as they will systematically walk into a nearby anomaly. Head west for the factory's east gate and talk with the Duty Squad Leader (do not take a task from this guy as he may get killed and the task fails):

The Squad Leader mentions a transition north of his location to Yantar, which is picked up by the Autoscanner, but says: It is found in the alleged absence of a transition point. It's located in a small depression where there's an opening in the fence. Instead, clear all the mutants from the factory complex and surrounding area (including the Chimeras to the northwest that are vulnerable to shotguns). There's two dead Stalkers in the southeast building, one on the second floor and another on the roof. You have to be quick to get to the second floor corpse. Stay along the left wall to the end and straight to the corpse. Then, get out quickly and use the ladder to the south to get to the roof, then turn left to another ladder (there's also a stash box around the corner on the south side). Next, find Beard (Hunter)'s twin in the tunnel under the storage tanks.

Start the So, maybe, the benefit to you from this dump? conversation with Beard (Hunter)'s twin (starting with the first option):

There's a Technician there, too. He also doesn't fix anything but can give you a spare parts task, which takes most of the game to find the specific parts he's looking for. Follow Beard out and north to the fence, then he turns west toward the swamp where a group of Dutiers are camped. He then goes through a valley and vanishes, leaving you with a message:

Thanks for helping me get off Agroprom. Don't look for me yet. I heard they're looking for me. Let them get it! And also, sorry, why didn't I negotiate with you? There's nothing to talk about. You should work as a mercenary or something. Go see the Forester in the Red Forest. Look for work from him and the commanders of friendly squads. Bye, friend!

Beard's departure triggers an emission and you'll have to return to his underground hideout to wait it out. I've had issues when I don't report back to Beard (Hunter) right away, so I suggest you do that now. This gives you an Autoscanner update with information on another transition. Here's the conversation:

Return to Agroprom and fight your way into the Research Center. The Agroprom Research complex is filled with armed Zombies. There's a scope for a AK on top of the southwest tanks (jump from the watchtower). That makes head shots much easier (the quickest way to kill a Zombie). There is also a safe northeast of the east gate that I like to use because a Trader shows up nearby later in the game who offers the best prices on most items (based on comparison of just a few items).

At the door is a dead Dutier with Dolzhanina's smartphone:

We're leaving. We lost the battle against the Zone here. Too many of our comrades were dying every day. Maybe we'll have better luck somewhere else. Everyone says the Zone has opened up paths to the BAR again. Our general was killed yesterday, and we're leaving. We're welding these doors shut to the base that the cursed monsters have captured. We couldn't even recover the general's body; too few of us are left. Goodbye!

I found a working Goatling outside the northeast corner of the complex and parked it under the ladder in back going to the roof. I've seen videos of people using the window ledge below the ladder, but that didn't work for me. As you climb the ladder, you hear a click and then beeping. Quickly go back down the ladder until the bomb goes off and then back up to the roof. The east stairwell has a stash box full of weapons and suits. The west stairs appears to be fenced off. To avoid too much damage, jump to the rail where it meets the gate, turn northeast and jump toward the lower level. You may not hit the next level down, but it may slow you down enough to reduce and damage or bleeding.

General Matov's body and laptop are on the top floor, west side. This opens the teleport to the Underground, which is the ventilation shaft on the hill northeast of the complex. The stash box on the east side of the room has the Smartphone from the “Debt” base:

Brothers, when we left, we left some loot for those who would be returning, not knowing that we had left Agroprom. It's been re-hidden from here in a stash behind the grating of the attic in the building with the elevator. Be careful, there's a tripwire on the outside staircase.

On the institute's second level, east side, is a fenced-in counter. As you approach, you get a message about a teleport. Jump through the opening and take the teleport up to the roof of the west stairs to escape the building. Leave your loot in one of the stash boxes and go northeast to the Underground's air vent. A Trader will come to the top of the hill north of the complex later in the game and you can sell it then.

Next, if you go to the Underground teleport, you get a message about needing a login. However, you can still get in by dropping through the boards. Make your way down the stairs. At the bottom is a safe with some loot and a closed door. Take the loot (because you won't have access to it again) and approach the door to transition to the Underground map.

When you spawn in the Underground, there is are anomalies blocking the passage. Much like Electro anomalies, you can reduce or even avoid damage by throwing a bold into it first and sprinting through it just after it blows. Go through the first one and use a medkit if needed. Now sprint through the next anomaly staying along the left wall to the corner, and the third one through the door. You should meet a group of Mercenaries. One of them is a Trader that the mutants can't kill and I have yet to find anything he won't buy. However, he buys at really low prices. I only sell to him when I need to lighted my load.

Make your way to Strelok's Hideout and get a message:

ATTENTION! THESE ARE NOT THE AGROPROM UNDERGROUND FACILITIES. THE FREQUENCY SCAN IS SIMILAR, BUT DOES NOT MATCH THE STORED DATA.

On the right (south) side of the room, take note of the door as you'll come back to it soon. Also, there are two boxes with supplies and an eBook. If you double-click it, it shows in your PDA's Message Log, in Russian. Here is the translation:

The legend of the future: on that May day, a nuclear mushroom cloud rose over Moscow. I saw it from my window. The situation was such that I even managed to call my mother and warn her to close the windows and vents. It was silly, but that's exactly what I did. The epicenter was located right in the center of the city, somewhere near Moscow City, and the explosion itself wasn't very powerful, so part of Moscow survived, but it was still a nuclear explosion, and everyone immediately understood that Judgment Day had arrived. I don't remember if the Russian president survived or if he was on a trip somewhere. I don't remember who made the decisions in those terrible minutes and hours, but the whole world froze at the sight of that image on television. There was only one image everywhere: burning Moscow with a black, apocalyptic mushroom cloud at the epicenter. On all continents, people understood that something so terrible had happened that the Russians couldn't fail to react. All countries immediately distanced themselves from any possible involvement, especially the US. Their president spoke several times during that day, assuring the whole world, and the Russians first and foremost, that despite the economic blockade of Russia, the open and hidden anti-Russian policy, and calls to the whole world not to conclude contracts with Russia, they had nothing to do with the explosion. The hanging expectation resembled the horror of Pompeii when...

Access the PDA on the shelf to the left (north). As you do, you get an Autoscanner message:

Information has been received that the body of the deceased art hunter Luka, from Zarka's list, is located in the accessible loops of the dungeons. According to the existing mission imperative, he is needed by the living to revive the Zone.

As the PDA plays, you get a thought:

Okay. Good. I'm also listening to messages from the recent past...

"A mercenary," Lebedev says. "The correspondence from the stash clarifies a lot. Now we know that Strelok's group was in the center of the Zone. Moreover, they're preparing a second expedition to the center of the Zone... idiots. If they succeed in their plan, a second Great Emission will occur. This time the power will be so great that all living things will perish, and the Zone will enter a completely unstable state. This cannot be allowed... Strelok has gone to Yantar. You're the closest to him, so try to intercept him. We'll take care of Fang and Ghost ourselves."

You get another thought:

We've been through all this before! Lebedev was lying! That means there are routes to the center of the Zone through the Catacombs. And that means I need to take care of Fang and Ghost before Lebedev's assassins get to them.

From Strelok's Hideout, turn right (east) to the stairs. Go down one flight and through the door to find an empty backpack in a hole. As you drop down into the hole, a headless Zombie spawns and you get two Autoscanner messages:

In this phase shift, the dungeons of Agroprom are flooded due to previous events.

In a neighboring part of the dungeon, the body of an art hunter was discovered, showing all the signs of being a target.

Leave the Underground the way you came in. The air shaft now has a few Pyrogeists. If you just keep moving you can get out without having to destroy them. When you spawn above ground, note that Luke's body is marked on your PDA map, but not on the minimap. Go north to the Yantar transition. If you explore Yantar, you get a warning that the environment is too much for your suit and you have to turn back. There's nothing to accomplish, so I recommend turning around and going back to Agroprom. When you spawn back in Agroprom, go back to the Underground. As you travel, you get an Autoscanner update that you're in a new territory, even though you just left here. The map is now, Another Agriculture. Also, any stashes that you had are gone and characters may show on your PDA map, but do not exist. You also may notice some structures are slightly different or do not exist and nothing shows on your minimap. This is what Zarka meant by, "loops".

You can now access the Underground from where you met Beard, the air shaft, or the manhole in the Institute (where there's a corpse you can loot). In the Underground, there's no transition as before, the Mercs are gone, along with the mutants and the gates blocking access to the SoC version. Go back to Strelok's Hideout and through the teleport by the door. You spawn in Another Subway. There may be a couple mutants to kill, but you don't really need to do anything here. There is another teleport by a door with a keypad, but don't use it yet.

Return to the ladder that was flooded before, but is now in a slightly different spot. Go down the ladder and turn south to find a spiral staircase. At the top, go through each room, including the one with four large circular pools and the tower in the center, and find another ladder going down. At the bottom, turn south, follow the passageway, and find the corpse of a Scientist in the second-to-last alcove on the left, then return to the passage with Strelok's Hideout. On the right, just before you get to the hideout, is a room with a teleport in the air duct. Walk toward it to go back to the Dungeons agribusiness reality, only on the other side of the gates. Leave the room and look for a sparkling artifact on the ground just outside the doorway. This is the Stibnitovy "Breakdown" artifact. You may have to use the action key (F) to find it. If it's not there, you have an opportunity to get the artifact from Forester later in the game. You won't need it until then.

Open your inventory and select a Lighting artifact to put it in your grenade slot to save you the trouble of trying to do it while in battle. Take the teleport in front of the double-red doors. You spawn in the control room that you visited briefly when looking for the Scientist, only a different reality. Clear out as many mutants as you can in and at both gates. Then turn the valve at the control panel to open the south door. There are four Pseudogiants, a Bloodsucker, and multiple Zombies. You have to kill the Bloodsucker before the door on the other side of the room opens. The trick to killing Pseudogiants, as we learned at the start, is to wait until they are near a red barrel, then shoot the barrel. You can also use the Lighting or Unstable artifacts from Goblin, if you have any. For Bloodsucker, get on one of the circular walkways and walk backwards. Wait until it's about to strike before blasting it in the face with a shotgun.

Killing the Bloodsucker gives you a task update to find Luke's body. Go through the opened gate (the center of the room is now safe), check the shelves for supplies, and go down the ladder. Make your way through the flames and Snorks. If you catch on fire, save and reload. Find the body of Father Valerian, then read his PDA:

I'll definitely find the Puncher! And I'll never have to go to the Zone again!\\files\CODE\\electronic access code to the door leading to the dead art hunter.

The transition to Agroprom also there, but don't take it yet. On the east side of the area is a passage that you have to climb to get to. Take the tunnel on the right to find The death of Luke artifact. Retrace your steps back to Father Valerian. Getting past the Lift anomaly just takes persistence. Jumping seems to help. Return to the control room and into the small side room in the southwest corner that is also now open. Go down the ladder to find Luke and get his smartphone:

The last entry on the Evil One's damaged smartphone: {voice recorder} [track 1284^ ..white noise..]

Now pick up Luke's body and get a task update to carry it to the Agroprom surface. Take it back to Father Valerian's body to complete the task. When you approach the teleport you get a message:

The soul's shell has been delivered to the teleport.

Luke is teleported to the surface. You can use the teleport to Agroprom now, or, if you want more loot, return to the control room and turn the valve again to open the north gate (this is the location for the Boar-12 Squad Leader task):

You get a message when you spawn above ground:

Find out if anyone knows about resurrections. Find a means of resurrection. Then deliver the shell of the soul into the teleport!

Station of the Underdark

Now is the time to use the Another Subway teleport in Strelok's Hideout that I told you to ignore before. To get there, go back to Yantar, turn around and come back to Another Agriculture. Return to Strelok's Hideout and use the teleport to Another Subway. If you did not get the Stibnitovy "Breakdown" artifact before, you can try to save here, go back down through the air duct teleport and see if it's there. My experience has been that it won't be and you have to reload your save. Use the teleport in front of the door with a keypad that takes you to the Station of the Underdark.

Be sure to pick up the Tellurium "Breakdown" artifact before you drop through the floor. Walk east on the south side of the pillars to find it just past the east pillar. Then, turn around and walk west to drop through the hole at the south side of the west pillar. This should put you at the top of a staircase with another staircase in front of you. Make your way over the rubble and into the teleport by the campfire. This takes you to the Red Forest with a message:

ATTENTION! The information field scanner has detected an underground teleportation device within a 30-meter radius.

Pick up the Compass artifact. The BTR works, so you can drive it around the cave if you want. Otherwise, take the next teleport to what appears to be the northeast corner of Wild Territory by the Bar transition. The transition to the Bar has two teleports, in other words, it's a two-step procedure. Go east to teleport to Wild Territory, and east again to teleport to Bar.

When you spawn in Bar, you can (optionally) turn around and go back to Wild Territory to get a really nice stash in the train station, including an exoskeleton suit and under-barrel grenade launchers for both VOG-25 and M209. When you come back to Bar, you may notice a teleport to the south. This also goes to Wild Territory, spawning between the construction site and the tunnel filled with Burner anomalies.

First stop, Voronin to get a thought:

Wow! The Dolzhane's settled in! Well, I need to find out what they're living here for now and get some information, if possible.

Go behind him to find Strelok in a cell:

Talk to Nitro, who is the Mechanic just south of Voronin's headquarters, although he doesn't offer repairs:

When you're ready to leave the Bar, head north to the Military warehouses, which is a central location and a good place to put your main stash.

As you make your way up the road toward the gate, you get a task from Freedom to clear the Bloodsucker Village, which you need to do anyway. I find it easier to take out the Controller near the water tower first. From there:

1. Go southwest to the red brick house to trigger the first Bloodsucker.
2. Go south into the hole in the wall of the white house, loot the corpse, and get the Anomalous Gravity charges in the cellar. Be aware that the front door has a Spacial anomaly that sends you to another house. So, exit the same way you came in.
3. Go south to the front of the house surrounded by Burner anomalies and find the next Bloodsucker just inside the front door (if it's not already coming at you). You may trigger another one coming from the southwest house, so be ready.
4. Continue southeast to the log house and barn. You must go into the house and south down the hallway to trigger the next Bloodsucker.
5. Go west to the house just north of the burned out house. Unless you received a task completion message, this triggers the last Bloodsucker.

Do not enter this house by the front door as it is also guarded by a Spacial anomaly that sends you to the first house. Instead, come in through the opening in the north wall and search the backpack to get the Project <<Blood>> doc No. 4. Here's the description:

Voice_1. - I demand an increase in the experimental time our unit has available for the installation.\n
Following the war between factions in the Zone and the well-known events of the Reconstruction, the Zone's protective biomass has significantly diminished, and the threat of human research and combat units infiltrating previously closed territories has become a reality. Furthermore, we need to re-train the available contingent of Stalkers into Monolith security units. We also urgently need to increase the production of combat snorks.\n
Voice_2. - I admire your dedication to the common cause, Comrade "L." But in the current situation, you must make better use of what you currently have. The preparation phase for the decisive experiment is in its final stages, and I will not allow anyone, I emphasize, ANYONE, to interrupt the preparations and thereby delay the start of the experiment.\n
Voice_1. "You'll consider this blackmail again, but I repeat, I can't guarantee the experiment's safety in the event of a failure."
Voice_3. [over speakerphone] - Comrade "L," you're forgetting again that only time is real. Space and matter are merely fluctuations in the turbulence of its flow. You see better than we do how quickly the space of the so-called Zone is degrading. A natural consequence of the preparatory experiments was a distortion of the physics of time itself. Therefore, it seems logical to accelerate the final experiments as much as possible before the distortions reach the key laboratories. You couldn't even restore access to the laboratories we've already lost. That's your oversight."
Voice_1. - Did you hear that? Go and do exactly that!

If you have items to trade, stash them in the hollow log on the north side of the barn south of the water tower. There is a Trader coming to the tower later on and he takes just about anything. The Freedom base is occupied by Zombies and you get a warning when you enter: EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT MAXIMUM hostile! Leave the area immediately!. You get a task for clearing the base in a little while. There's not much to do or see outside the village, and the barrier to Radar is off limits. The Red Forest teleport is in the northwest corner of the map (same as CS), which is the next destination.

You spawn in the southeast corner of the forest.

Make your way to the Devilish encampment. When you get to the tunnel, you will most likely encounter mutants or enemies. Once you clear the tunnel, a group of Stalkers spawns with an Important character who offers you a task that I recommend you do now:

Use a Lighting artifact, RPG, or grenades on the Pseudogiant and shotgun on the Snorks coming in from the north. You get a task update to learn that your reward is waiting at the Northern Farm in Cordon, which you can't get to yet. When you do, you get a Phantom Star artifact. Ask for the next Squad Leader Task (which should be Mobile radio), and then go north along the west edge of the area to find a body in some boulders. Jump up onto (not into) the boulders to get a message:

Preferably, an artifact capable of spatial translation is present. After scanning, the registered location of the nearby mines was discovered.

Cross to the east edge and find the dead Monolith with a small stash box nearby and get the Project <<Blood>> doc No 3. If you have a Squad Leader task further north, do that now and come back to the Devilish Encampment. Go through the forest, avoiding the mine for now, to the north gate and get a message as you approach:

ATTENTION! You can choose:
- open the gates now and let the Duty troops into the Forest
- do this later, leaving the gates closed,
and for now, just climb over the fence, like in childhood.

I'm not sure what happens when you let Duty through the gate, but my sources tell me to wait. Go east to where the fence goes into the hillside and jump over it. Get the next squad leader task and move on to Forester's. As you approach Forester's door, you get a message:

Before shooting at these fine fellows who have taken the Forester under their protection, wouldn't it be better to first study the guard changing procedure?

Apparently, Duty has taken Forester captive, or maybe just providing security. Stand at the southwest corner of the building and slip in while the guards are out of position. They don't seem to care. You can also drop down the elevator shaft. But first, get the Anomalous Gravity charges in the top of the tower. There's more on top of the elevator.

Go up and talk to Forester:

Go to the southwest gate (southeast of the bridge) and close each half, then return to Forester:

This gives you the Help svobodovtsev (Freedom) recapture Army warehouses task and a Gravity Gun, which takes the Anomalous Gravity charges you've been collecting . Before you leave, explore something Forester said, "the shaft below me". Outside his door on the left is a 55-gallon drum. Jump up on it, turn south, and jump forward to be teleported to a shaft. Move south to be teleported again. Now you're in the Red Forest mine on the other side of a locked gate and safe from the mutants. This passage is full of hidden teleports, so it's a good idea to save before you move. You won't know you're in it until you're in it.

Find the backpack in the second mine car. Then, follow the passage west staying along the right side (or you'll be transported to Yantar). Turn left and carefully approach the Asbestos "Breakdown" artifact on the barrel to the left. Go too far and you're transported to Garbage.

Double-click the artifact to be transported to the tunnel near the Limansk bridge. Go deeper north into the tunnel and shoot one of the red barrels to blow them all up. As you move toward the door, the cut scene that I mentioned before starts. When the cut scene is done, you have the following task:

Lower the bridge. Open the road to Limansk.

Since this is a priority task, it's best to do this now and get it out of the way. You can use the rubble to get to the tank, and sprint-jump to the embankment. Then, go south under the bridge to the drain tile and up the embankment. Or, go north along the river bank past the wooden bridge where the water is safe to walk through. The lever for the bridge is on the west side of the green control box and you may need to hop up on the electric motor to reach it. When the bridge lowers, you get the following message:

From any possible point, but visually observe the process of lowering the bridge.

Once the bridge is all the way down, you get the Clear the bridge from hostile groups and another message:

Mercenary, these are Stalkers! You shouldn't have let them down, the Monoliths are coming!

Several Monolith fighters spawn on both sides of the bridge. There's a Bulldog 6 in the back of the truck on the Limansk side that may make the job easier, along with an empty stash box when you loot the fallen. Once they are all down, you get a completed task. However, sometimes Zombies spawn, so be on your guard for that. With the Asbestos "Breakdown" artifact, you can complete the squad leader task and return to the warehouses. You can follow the road south to teleport to ATP, then follow the road east to Military warehouses, or go back through the Red Forest to the teleport you came in on. Wait to take any more squad leader tasks until you return to Garbage from Dark Valley.

When you spawn, you get a message:

In one of the 3 detachments, find the field commander of the freedom detachments.

Look on your PDA map to see which one and go there. In all the games I've played, it's always been the group south of the Bloodsucker Village. Find the Field Commander and talk to him:

This gives you the Clear: Entrance to the base task. Clear out the mutants to complete the task and get a message: THE ENTRANCE TO THE WAREHOUSES IS CLEARED! THE ASSASSMENT CAN BEGIN!, along with Get a reward, Help the Svoboda fighters recapture the Military warehouses, and Ask the commander. What else could he want?. You may also see a message: This is Scar Zone veteran Freedom speaking. Your scouts have been caught in the crossfire!. Now go back and talk with the Field Commander again:

This gives you the Get ammo from Tosha task, who should be close by (not necessarily where the target is).

This gives you the Shoot the zombies around the perimeter of the Base task. Work your way through the base and watch for holograms that kill instantly. Also, stepping into a Psi field causes your health to go down quickly, so watch for that. Keep killing Zombies until you get a task complete message and:

The valuable device is on the edge of the swamp, but watch for Monolith. There doesn't seem to be any mines, or I got lucky twice, so you can go straight to the dead Freedomer and get the Smartphone c base "Freedom":

\\files\warehouses_info.txt Yesterday Kostyuk was sent back to the Valley for the Archivist {dictaphone} [track 27^ A psi-radiation hit during the night. Everyone in the house and near the antenna immediately started moaning and attacking each other! Damn it all!][track 28^ Okay! I get it! What saved me was that I went to the bridge to take a leak, and when it hit, I ran not to the guys, but away from the base.][track 29^ .. I'm really shaking! .. I think I won't survive!! Goodbye, brothers!!! Everyone, everyone, everyone! Beware of the blue radiation!]

This gives you the After turning off the radiation, give the device to the new commander of Freedom task with the description:

After turning off the psi-radiation, you must bring the smartphone to the commander of the Freedom. One of the smartphones contains information vital to the Freedom members. Find it and give it to the Freedom commander.

Go to the guard tower west of the headquarters building, the one with the antenna on top. Go up to the top platform and switch off the psi transmitter. Then, head for the front gate. As you do, you may notice the target at the east train tunnel has started moving toward the base's front gate. Cross the bridge and meet him before he reaches the gate. If there's no dialog, back away and try again. It's hard to find the right spot, but eventually, this conversation comes up:

This gives you the Find archivist "Freedom" task in Dark Valley and opens three teleports to the north. One near the Red Forest teleport and takes you to the ATP and the other two by the Barrier that both go to Radar. The ATP teleport is just beyond the Red Forest teleport, which you can walk around to get to. You can't get to the Radar teleports, instant death.

Follow Lukash down the road and to the north edge of Bloodsucker Village. When he reaches the north house he sends you a message:

Scar. There's a guy frozen on the tower nearby. Come on down, be a kind person, invite him in to warm up.

Climb the water tower ladder to find Sultan:

Follow Sultan as he goes to meet Lukash. It's hard to tell exactly what happens to Sultan, but he's dead. Talk to Lukash:

Lukash then returns to the base and you should see a green Trader icon on the water tower. First, follow Lukash to the base. Otherwise, he either gets killed or lost and it breaks the storyline. When Freedom gets their base back, Monolith moves into the checkpoint on the road to the Bar. While you're at the base, go into the barracks next to the bridge, find the small safe on a shelf in the back room (northwest corner), and get the Galena "Breakdown" artifact.

Then, go talk to Serge standing outside the water tower door:

If you need to, you can also ask, The situation is this: I need to make peace with a certain clan. Is it possible to do this by paying a ransom? This is usually only necessary when you shoot a friendly. Sell your stashed items to Mikhalych the Trader. You may be tempted to use Galena "Breakdown" artifact to Find archivist "Freedom". This is a good time to see a certain merchant based in Cordon before moving on and the only way back from Cordon that I know of is through Dark Valley. So, go back to Red Forest > Forester's teleport > Cordon.

Go to the Northern Farm and collect any reward you might have and sell any loot (you may be getting more soon). You can jump the fence or follow it south. As you approach the farm you get a message:

This is the Stalker base. We've got a dissolute woman hanging around here, silent, stupid, won't talk to anyone. Whoever gets her to talk, we'll give her to them, ha-ha!

Wait until you get them message to come and see the leader before talking to anyone other than the Trader. Continue on to Sidorvish's bunker by way of the tunnel, which has no traveling anomaly. As you approach the Rookie Village, Wolf radios you asking for help with the attacking NATO troops. Help them out and then go see Sidorovich. The guys guarding Sidorovich each fleece you for 1000 RUs going in and another 1000 RUs going out. Like Forester, Sidorovich cannot be disturbed between 21:00 and 06:00. Your conversation with Sidorovich goes something like this:

If you talk to Wolf, it goes like this:

The Rookie Village is under constant attack by N.A.T.O., who eventually overrun and clear out everyone but Wolf. When that is the case, the N.A.T.O. troops spawn continuously, and even enter Sidorovich's bunker to shoot you in the back.

The first document, Project <<Blood>> doc No. 1, is on top of the tunnel leading to the Swamp (the teleport isn't open yet). The easiest way to get there is to jump the fence near Sidorovich's bunker and follow the fence south to the tunnel. If you stay on the east side of the fence, you may have to take out the machine gunner with a sniper rifle. If you try the tunnel, you get the following messages:

• After the complete destruction of the Clear Sky group, this deserted area appeared in an unspecified reality. Your actions, Reborn, can show this.
• Two information fields were discovered in the undeveloped territory, if we count the “monolith” of the lost command post “PSI-CAM”.

This means that there is something you must do before you can access the Swamp, and there is a good chance that some documents may be recovered from there. The second document, Project <<Blood>> doc No. 2, is along the south edge of the swamp on the west end. The third document, Project <<Blood>> doc No. 6, is south of the derailed train engine by the east tunnel. If you've received the message from the Stalkers at the Northern Farmstead, stop by on your way to the third document. When you have all three documents, head south toward the Darkscape tunnel.

You should have received a message from the Stalkers at the Northern Farmstead by now, so go talk to Valerian:

Follow him to Olga's cell and he tells you to talk to her. You can walk through the gate to have Olga fix your gear.

Olga can repair your equipment if necessary (I always seem to get to Forester's when he's sleeping). Valerian leaves and as you walk away, Olga vanishes. If you follow Valerian, he walks into a hillside and vanishes, too. As do all the others and the camp is deserted.

When you spawn from Cordon, there are several Pseudogiants just outside the tunnel opening. I recommend jumping in the working Goatling and driving down the road a ways. However, you can use a Lighting artifact to clear the way if they're grouped together. Also, you get this message:

Find and mark the location of the reality modulator on the map. WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE? You'll know it when you see it. The coordinates of its location are recorded in the PDA, after which you can continue your journey.

There's some friendlies at the Saw Mill, but the area is mined, so approach carefully. At some point, and usually in this general area, you may get this message:

Autoscanner information field: WARNING!!! WARNING!!! The object disappeared.

This was followed by a thought: I hope he fixes everything Autoscanner for Zarka. I have no idea what it means.

There's a Trader with limited resources named Artifact Hunter that you can talk to:

There's a group of Marauders at the bridge. If you're driving, you can just speed past them. However, you may be returning, and with limited firepower. So, you may want to clear them out. Mutants (including a Controller) are at the pond and you'll need to clear them out first. Again, if you're driving, there may be anomalies blocking the bridge and you must drive through the low spot on the left. Otherwise, you can just go to Dark Valley.

Your arrival triggers an emission, so head for the nearby farm and clear out any hostels. Dark Valley is full of artifacts and it's easy to get sidetracked from your primary task, which is to pick up the flash drive from the dead Archivist. When you do, you get Take the case with the archive located in the north factory complex. Use the west entrance of the complex.

As you near the complex, you encounter the instant-kill holograms. It seems that if you save while near or inside the complex and reload, the holograms stop (it's worth a try). Inside the base, make your way south to go under the leaning section of wall, through the Electro anomalies, and between the front (east) building and the connected garage (west). Use the fan motor to jump through a window of the garage (where there's a BTR that fires on you if you get in front of it). Go up to the second level and attempt to open the office door to get a message:

All the rooms at the base are opened with Chekhov's personal key! You need to find the key.

Leave that building the way you came in and enter the east building through the open door. Go to the stairs that take you to the roof and find the dead Stalker with the key. Return to the room with the BTR and unlock the gate to the room with the case. When you pick it up you get a task update:

Take the case containing the archive.

Leave the complex through the west opening and use the traditional Garbage teleport, only it takes you to Fairy Valley.

When you spawn in Fairy Valley, you get a message:

Find survivors and escape routes.

Go northwest, you see a illuminated pillar. When you get close enough, you get a warning and need to sprint east to get out of the Death Zone. Now you should see an Important Character marker near the center of the map, which is the Fairy Forest house. Go in that direction. As you do, there is thunder, the pillar vanishes, and things start swaying again. A Quick Save and reload makes it go away.

The conversation starts automatically when you get close enough:

She vanishes and several mutants spawn. There's a corpse on the hill with information on the Garbage teleport (you have to save and reload before it shows on the map). From there, go toward the northeast corner and look for a teleport in a tree. Just north of that is a teleport to Forest of Oblivion, which you might need much later in the game.

Now, southwest to Garbage. Take a side trip to Agroprom for the next Squad Leader task. This task initiates the Find Sakharov task. There are three squad leaders to get the task from in Agroprom; at the south factory gate and either side of the swamp. However, there's a possible bug with the Mercenary where the target doesn't show up and the item is missing. When you accept the task, you get a message: SOS! SAVE! I SCOUT NOW LEAVING A group of scientists from the swamp. It doesn't seem to matter whether you do one before the other. You can even pick up the suit on your way to the SOS location.

Examine the dead scientist and get: Check information. When you get to the target, Professor Semenov leads a group of scientists and a female Stalker in from the Swamp. Ask one of them What happened? Where are you running (to)? to get Hurry! Our scout gave "SOS" from the cave! and a task update PROTECT scientists. Snork, distract them! Go back to the cave, staying uphill, and fight off the Zombies and Snorks coming from the cave. At some point, the opening cut scene from Clear Sky starts and you can Esc out of it. Once all the mutants are down, there's another thunder clap and the female Stalker vanishes. Talk to the lead scientist, Professor Semenov:

Lead Semenov to the Yantar teleport just as you did with Beard. It seems you must be between the fallen tree and the teleport to keep Semenov moving. Otherwise, he stops, sits down, and you have no way of getting him going again because he's past the teleport. If you teleport to Yantar before Semenov, you break the storyline. There is a thunder clap when Semenov teleports. Turn in the suit to the squad leader and return the case to Lukash. And remember, there is a Flash artifact in a stash box near the Bar to Garbage teleport, and if you walk into the teleport and select No, you get teleported to the north checkpoint.

At this point, all remaining Squad Leader tasks are optional. However, some of the rewards may come in handy, such as the Psi-Helmet for Red forest (Radar) that you receive for completing the USB drive with movies on it task.

If the Freedom base isn't under attack by Monolith when you get there, it will be soon. Help them fight off the attackers and then talk to Lukash (you may need to try several times to get this conversation):

You get a message:

A new base of Freedom has been established! Cool and stylish guys - welcome!

You also get your next task:

Catch up with Fang.

If you open a dialog again you have the following conversation:

I think this was supposed to happen before Lukash ran off into the Bloodsucker Village.

The target for Fang is in ATP. Go left around the Red Forest teleport and through the building.

In ATP, follow the road west, to the complex. There are three dead Stalkers and someone from NATO in one building. The target is on the roof of the center build. Make your way up there to find a blue stash box and get an update:

• The Catch up with Fang task is canceled.
• Search Pripyat for Fang.
• Find Fang by following the tracks he left in the Zone.

And Fang's Smartphone:

I made my first stop here at the ATP high ground between the warehouses and the Rostock Plant, retrieved the stash left by our group, and I'll leave my smartphone for our guys. I'm going to scout the road to the North through the western territories. Strelok said that the direct route to the North is very dangerous and we need to look for alternative paths. I have some information. I've summarized what the Stalkers I've met are saying, and the picture is this: anomalous fields and the spatial distortions they create are attracted to masses of solid metal. It's no coincidence that almost all metal objects in the Zone "radiate" something. The most distorting effect on the Zone is produced by the rails of the remaining railway tracks. The Zone is so warped by this "long" metal that cracks in space often form. I'll verify this information. You, Strelok, and you, Ghost, keep this in mind and check it whenever possible. That is, if the North-South routes are closed, then it makes sense to look for West-East passages. This way we can find new paths in the Zone! And that's worth a lot!

Pripyat (east)

The quickest way to the target in Pripyat (east) is to return to the warehouses and use the Tellurium "Breakdown" artifact. Be sure to pack your Gravity Gun. You spawn in the air vent leading to the Jupiter Underground near the Laundry Mat. There are mutants all around and you may need to kill a few before you climb the ladder out. Directly in front (as you exit the air vent) is a half-round cement tile with a stack of cement slabs beside it. Use that stack to clear out any remaining mutants. Then head for the Kindergarten, which is protected along the south by a Spacial anomaly. It's best to approach it from the northeast.

Go up the stairs to the second level of the southwest wing and through the window of the room with a structure that goes through the roof. Climb the structure to get on the roof and locate the backpack on the far side of the air vent. This triggers a cut scene that shows a illuminated pillar like the one in Fairy Valley in the Book Store with Zarka and Awareness, and you get a task update for completing Find Fang by following the tracks he left in the Zone. When the cut scene finishes, get the Documents collected by Fang in the backpack:

Shooter! My gut feeling tells me I won't get out of here alive! They sent some mercenary after me, he's been on my heels for a while now, I feel he'll catch up soon. They say his name is Scar. What he wants from me is unclear, most likely it's a contract killing. Anyway, listen. I found a group of dead eggheads here, and you know... crazy as it sounds, the information is very interesting - and I decided to stay in Pripyat to find the documents they had, but... if the mercenary finds me, I don't know... I don't know... In short, I saved the coordinates of what I managed to find in my GPS. If they finish me off here... don't be angry, brother!

Task update:

Finally, find Fang himself, dead or alive.

Check your PDA and see if you have this task. You may not get it until you step away from the backpack. Drop down off the roof to the stairs and go to the Book Store and ignore the ringing phone (answering it triggers an emission). When you get there, you get a message that the item has gone. The next target is behind the Laundry Mat. When you get there, use the washing machine to get over the fence. When you open Fang's GPS, you get the following messages:

1. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Fang, the situation has changed. Someone found out that we were in the center of the Zone and has opened a hunting season on us. We need to act as quickly as possible. You'll find the detailed plan in the stash. I've changed the code.
2. New Tast: Find other items belonging to Fang. The target moves to the Vine anomaly.
3. Task Completed: Finally, find Fang himself, dead or alive.
4. Lebedev: Mercenary, this is Lebedev. The information from Fang's PDA confirms my suspicions. An unknown group of Stalkers has been to the center of the Zone... I don't know how, but they even managed to survive the Great Emission. It would have been better if they had died. The emissions won't stop until the path to the center of the Zone becomes a secret again. Now it's either this: we destroy these Stalkers, or the Zone, by activating more and more emissions, destroys everything living inside the perimeter, or even further. Clearly, it would be better if we dealt with them first, but for that we need to hurry. Fang's PDA contains the coordinates of their hideout – there we will surely be able to learn new details about the group's plans.

Go to the Vine anomaly and up to the room with the backpack. On your way up, you get a new task, Detected active gadget. Go talk. Take the Documents Project'Emission' No.1:

The research conducted by our research group, under the leadership of Professor Ignatov, indicates that the generally accepted version of the origin of the so-called Zone with its epicenter at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is fundamentally incorrect. We present our conclusions, based on the conducted research, in several documents distributed among the members of the expedition group. In particular, I have the adapted and classified analytical results of measurements of the encountered psi-fields south of the plant along the vector direction towards the Duga radar object. Senior Research Fellow Kudryavtsev S.I.

The Jupiter teleport opens to the east of you, and the Find other items belonging to Fang moves to the school. If you're wearing an exoskeleton that doesn't let you sprint, you aren't going to make this next part. Use the backpack to store your suit and unessential items for now. Climb back down the vine and head north to the Prometheus Movie Theater and check out the active gadget. As you near the theater, you get a warning about an emission and you have to sprint back to the only safe place, the Jupiter air vent. Climb down and wait for the emission, only, suddenly you're transported to the gadget location, where you find Korchoi:

Of the local teleports Korchoi gives you, only one holds any value. East of your location, near the River Port. The furthest one is inside a green booth, which is inside a fenced-in area on the northwest side of the River Port building. Use it to be teleported to the bottom of the elevator shaft in the Yubileiny Service Center. The translucent plant in the center is actually the Halkantitovy "Breakdown" artifact. It's difficult to pick up, but if you keep moving through it, eventually you see the artifact itself and can pick it up. Use it to be teleported to another level of the elevator shaft where you can exit.

Now head east to the next target, which is the school. Climb into the south window where the dirt is piled up and go up two level to where the north wall has given way. The stash another level up, but closed off by gates at either stairway. Align yourself at a southeast to northwest angle and sprint-jump to the slab that's fallen on the north end. Here, again, you may need to drop your exoskeleton suit temporarily to make the jump. Now you can go west to access the other Fang corpse and stash with the Documents Project'Emission' No.2 document:

Based on the measurements taken, the highest concentration of psi-fields is observed along the vector between the Duga radar and the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Unfortunately, this data needs to be refined by a more fully equipped research team protected from the effects of the Zone. It was not possible to get close to some of the locations necessary for accurate measurements and conclusions. Nevertheless, thanks to the initial analysis of the collected data, it is highly probable that there is a concentration of psi-fields along the underground route of the power cables between the two objects mentioned above, which were undoubtedly under voltage at the time of the accident. Professor P.F. Ignatov. \nEncrypted mathematical data from the scientific group of Professor P.F. Ignatov.

The Find other items belonging to Fang target moves to Jupiter, another teleport opens, and there is a screen message:

ATTENTION! The information field scanner has detected an underground teleportation device within a 30-meter radius.

Jupiter

You can probably hear the teleport. It's on the lowest level at the west end of the south wing (that you're in now). It takes you to the Forest of Oblivion (no need to go there yet, unless you want to scout it out). To get to Jupiter, there's a teleport in the northeast, one in the south, and the Tellurium "Breakdown" artifact. However, I recommend you can go through the Underground and pick up a Monolith Elite exoskeleton that will come in handy later and it gives you a chance to turn the gas off in the Underground. The trick to the Underground is the closed doors. You have to stand next to them for 5-10 seconds and they open all by themselves. However, if they don't, back up and approach again. This only works for the doors you must get through. Some of the others won't open. Here's the walkthrough:

Go to the target for Fang's document. It's in a small stash box on a ledge. You can try to fall onto the ledge, but I found it slightly easier to go for the light protruding from the wall. In the stash box are the following items:

Documents Project 'Emission' No.3 document:

Please pay special attention to these documents. They cost almost the entire group their lives. Fragments of a transcript found in the laboratory. The participants in the conversation are unknown. %c[25,240,25,25]//- No, no! One combat experiment was conducted after all. Just one, because it was during that experiment that the entire technological circuit of the Chernobyl NPP - the Duga radar system - burned out. The results of even a test strike of the "Psi-fist" project were catastrophic. You know this. - I know your theory. But I am a pragmatist and prefer to deal with the problems that exist now, rather than studying their origins. - That is, you are not interested in the reasons why the most carefully prepared circuit burned out? 30 years have passed, and you see what America has become, and most importantly, what has happened to the population of Ukraine, which fell under the reverse radiation mask. Except for the southeast and Crimea, where it simply didn't reach. As a result of the erasure of ancestral memory, generations have grown up speaking Russian, thinking in Russian, and yet feeling no ancestral connection to Russia and all of Russian history. Mankurts, in a word. And you want to continue the experiments? - Aren't you confusing the constant "radiation" of the 5th channel with the one-time action of the reverse mask? Just kidding, just kidding...//

Fang's PDA with data on the group's stash on the Radar:

I hate it when someone breathes down my neck! I've slipped away from Pripyat, and I'm leaving the most important things here for you guys. It's funny that half the Zone has already been to our fake stash under the Agroprom, and the mercenaries are even maintaining a constant ambush there. They must have been paid handsomely for that. / Strelok, you changed the code to the bunker with the stash, but I have the access card for the entrance to the stash itself. Ghost, you'll find the second card, for the bunker entrance, near the helicopter in the forest on the radar near the rocks. You'll understand where it is. Hermit is no longer responding. That's worrying. / I'm returning to Pripyat, I'll try to get down to Lab X-8. That's where the real secrets of the Zone are for sure. If I get killed in Pripyat, don't be angry, brothers! By the way, there's an entrance to the Underground in this hangar, but I don't have time to go there myself. A Stalker technician is lurking nearby. But what he's really looking for is unclear.

Access card:

Access card to the bunker at the Radar, leading to the hideout of the Arrow group.

The Bitumen anomaly may have several NO INFO / Unknown Object artifacts that give +6 Endurance and +100 kgs weight capacity. The downside is that they each weigh 100 kgs so you must put them on your belt. Traders pay 25,000 RUs for each. Cross, the Trader north of the Quarry, has competitive prices. Some additional notes on Jupiter:

Teleports

• Fault — The small room along the west wall of the Eastern Tunnel, no autoscan message.
• Zaton — North end of the road next to the Cement Factory.
• Chernobyl 1 — The northwest train tunnel, no autoscan message. Turn around and go through the teleport that takes you back to the Iron Forest in Zaton.
• Yantar — On the Mobile Lab roof, the door between the two generators puts you inside the mobile lab behind the closed-off area, giving you access to the teleport.
• Pripyat (east) — Between the Container Warehouse buildings. The main part of the map is fenced off. There's a mound of dirt behind the Laundry Mat where you can jump the fence. You can access the Jupiter Underground from the air shaft (as in East).
• Pripyat (east) — Southwest of the Volkhov AA Complex by the small boat (you have to jump the fence).
• Jupiter Underground — Jupiter Factory's large elevator (which you've already found).

Stashes

• Jupiter Factory's north building — There's a backpack on the ground floor, southeast office. There's also a hidden teleport in the northeast corner of the fourth level room (east side) that takes you back to the Eastern Tunnel. There's a backpack along the south wall. This may spawn some mutants, which you can clear out with Noah's shotgun from above.
• Jupiter Factory's north building — The stairs north of the skywalk has a Lighting artifact in a backpack at the top.
• Yanov Station — The passenger car to the west has a backpack.
• Mobile Lab — Stash box.
• Volkhov AA Complex — Safe on the lower level.

When you're done exploring Jupiter, go to the mobile lab's roof and use the teleport. This puts you inside the lab where there's another teleport to Yantar and a Psi helmet. Go to Yantar and continue the Find Sakharov task by visiting Semenov in the mobile lab.

Proceed to the Yantar mobile lab. As you approach the lab, you get a message:

Unknown Stalker, the current work shift of the scientific expedition has been moved to the Northern Wastelands in the vicinity of the Jupiter plant. This anomaly research complex is temporarily mothballed until the next shift.

Go inside the lab and talk to Semenov:

This gives you the Find Sakharov task. The target is the mobile lab in Jupiter.

This conversation triggers a swarm of mutants that you can take care of by sprinting to the east side of the lab and climbing to the roof. Then, use the Tellurium "Breakdown" artifact to go into the section of the lab where Semenov is and take the teleport to Jupiter.

Once inside, talk to Sakharov:

You get a message: Any time you reload the data, it will be marked on the map in the PDA and a new task: Investigate the "x16" laboratory. Find materials related to secret research on the properties of the brain.

Back to Yantar by way of the mobile lab roof and be sure to have the Monolith Elite exoskeleton from the Jupiter Underground with you. Before you teleport to Yantar, look for a backpack that I recommend using instead of the mobile lab's stash box (I've had things go missing from the stash box). Then jump to Yantar. In Yantar, make sure you have the Functional Psi-Helmet (the one from Jupiter doesn't work for X16). If you don't have it, talk to Semenov and he'll give you one. Also, one or two Telepathist artifacts on your belt will help, like a Crystel or Moonlight and continue on to X16.

The west entrance to X16 (SoC) is not available. Go to the east wall and find an opening to the stairs inside a small shack attached to the building. As you descend down the stairs, you get a message:

Information has been received that the body of the deceased Ghost is located at this location. According to the existing mission imperative, need him alive for the revival of the zone.

As you start moving through the lab, you get another message:

THE LABORATORY IS OPERATING NORMALLY. DO NOT PRESS OR TOUCH ANYTHING TO AVOID TRIGGERING AN ALARM.

So don't touch the levers that turn the Brain off (or you get kicked out of the lab). Continue on to get yet another message:

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES ALLOW THE GLASS ROD OF THE BRAIN CAMERA TO BE DAMAGED! OTHERWISE, BRAIN DAMAGE IS GUARANTEED FOR SEVERAL MINUTES!!!

There's not much resistance and you should be able to easily get to the top floor and into the room with Ghost's body. Pick up the Death Ghost artifact on the left. As you approach Ghost you get another message:

COLLECT YOUR DOCUMENTS AND LEAVE THE LABORATORY IMMEDIATELY BEFORE THE CLEANUP TEAMS ARRIVE.

As soon as you get the papers, a Pyrogeist and Controller spawn. Leave the room and wait for the Pyrogeist to follow so you can blast it. Then go back into the room where you found Ghost and take out the Controller. Carry Ghost through the hole in the floor. When you drop down into the tunnel, both ends are blocked. The east end has a teleport that takes you back to the surface. As you approach the teleport, you get a message:

The soul's shell has been delivered to the teleport.

At the surface, a recording starts:

Damn, my head is throbbing, I can barely think straight! Ivan... attacked us out of nowhere... Damn... these voices in my head, this damn psychic radiation... at least we got the documents... I just hope we can reach Sakharov... Damn! Dogs ahead, they've smelled us... I'm scared... ahh, damn it!

The task updates telling you to take the documents to Sakharov. Leave Ghost and go to the northeast corner to use the teleport inside the drainage tile to Red Forest. Then, use the Asbestos "Breakdown" artifact to cross the river and move to Military warehouses. Unless you have an extra Tellurium "Breakdown" artifact, leave all but the following items in a stash near the water tower, including your best suit and at least five medkits:

• An expendable weapon with a few rounds of ammo in case you run into a mutant. If you didn't take out the Controller at the Jupiter factory, you will most likely need to now.
• If you didn't help Starikov before, you'll need something to take out a Pseudogiant
• An expendable suit
• Knife
• Artifact detector
• Binoculars
• Tellurium "Breakdown" artifact
• X16 documents
• The backpack from the Jupiter mobile lab

If you have an extra Tellurium "Breakdown" artifact (as may be the case), leave it in the stash instead. You need a way to get back to Jupiter and the only two ways I'm aware is with the artifact and a teleport that puts you in a really strong anomaly that requires the best suit you can find. Use the other Tellurium "Breakdown" artifact twice to return to Jupiter. Help Starikov get to the mobile lab and talk to Sakharov:

This completes Take the documents to Sakharov and gives you Find the entrance to lab 'X18'. The task description says:

Find the entrance to the "x18" laboratory in the Valley of Stones. Based on all visual evidence, the "Valley of Stones" is a very close duplicate of the "Dark Valley."

Valley of Stones is another alternate reality of Dark Valley that removes your swag when you teleport to it. If you stashed an extra Tellurium "Breakdown" artifact in Military warehouses, stash the remaining items (except some protection against mutants) before moving on. Go to the Jupiter Factory's front gate near the Concrete Bath anomaly. Turn east to find the backpack in the sunken walk along the south wall. Put any items you have other than Binoculars, Knife, and Artifact Detector in the backpack and return to ground level. Go west to the wall, then south along the wall to find the small gray electrical box and use it to jump over the wire fence. Continue south to the teleport that takes you to Valley of Stones. You may need to stand in the teleport for a few seconds, and get two dialogs, before you jump.

Go to the north Factory complex, through the front gate and under the ramp that leads to the garage (where the Freedom archive was in the other reality). Jump on top of the floating box and get some necessary swag. To continue to the X18 building, don't use the road as there is a Death Zone you can't get through. Instead, go out the front gate and loop around the Fuel Station to the east. Stay away from the complex to avoid the Death Zone. The Pseudogiant guarding X18's front gate isn't quick enough to keep you from sprinting past. When you get to the door, you may get a message about the teleport not being ready, but if you get right up to the door, you teleport into the lab. Go down the steps and jump over the section where the stairs have collapsed (you'll need to find another way out).

Go to the small office and find the Smartphone with access codes x18. Continue down the stairs to the bottom. You will be returning to this spot when you are ready to leave. Go through the doorway, turn left, through the left doorway, and into the room with the sunken floor. Go down the steps and get a message to disconnect the power. Return to the main room with the elevator, use the first code to unlock the door, and continue down to the next level.

There's Pyrogeist, Poltergeist, and a Pseudogiant to deal with. If you can take the first two out right away, things will go easier. Take the west passage for more swag in the light blue stash box, including a few Lighting artifacts for the Pseudogiant. Just keep making left turns until you can't, then a right turn and down a few steps to find the stash box at the far end of the room. Then continue to the next locked door down the east hallway.

Use the next code to unlock this door and deal with the mutants behind it. The third door also has mutants waiting. When the way is clear, go up the stairs on the west wall and get the documents. If you go to the top of the ramp east of the locked door, you get a message about a teleport. It takes you to Station of the Underdark, but you still have things to collect. Return to the first set of stairs (with the broken out section) and find the Torbernitovy "Breakdown" artifact under the steps.

Use the Torbernitovy "Breakdown" artifact and spawn in one of the in-ground tanks in the storage area with shipping containers. Pick up the Death Fang artifact and use the teleport to go to the Dark Valley Factory's raised walkway. Use the Torbernitovy "Breakdown" artifact again to get to the Military warehouses. In Military warehouses, go to your stash and get your Monolith Elite exoskeleton and all your other essential items. Return to Jupiter, which will be the central point of your activities moving forward, either using the artifact or the water tower's teleport.

Climb the tower's ladder and go to where the wall is open (where you met Sultan). Jump on the edge, then again into a hidden teleport to Jupiter. You spawn in an anomaly on top of the Cement Factory. My strategy is to have one finger on forward (W) and thumb on medkit ([). Turn left to move down the pipe to the plateform and jump to the ground while hitting medkits until you are safely out of the anomaly. It may take a few tries. Back to the mobile lab, talk to Sakharov:

This completes the task, Sakharov takes the X18 documents, and a message displays:

Professor Sakharov will inform us of his readiness when he finishes analyzing and processing the data.

But he doesn't. I've finished the game and (with the help of Faction Commander) waited for two weeks with no word. Anyway, remember to retrieve anything of value at the Jupiter factory and return to Pripyat (east) to collect the X8 documents without a task. For this trip, I recommend a shotgun for both weapon slots with at least 100 rounds of buckshot and something to kill mutants at a distance (like the Gravity Gun). Use the teleport southwest of the Volkhov AA Complex by the small boat, followed by Korchoi's teleport in the green box to get into the Yubileiny Service Center.

Use the Halkantitovy "Breakdown" artifact, drop into the elevator, and exit to get a message: Try to start the engine of the elevator? Otherwise, you can't get to laboratory x8!. This usually spawns a Kerlik. Go back to the east side of the building and, using the north stairs, go up three levels. Turn right to see the south stairs barred off. Go right, left, second left doorway, and left again to get to the stairs. Go up to the top of the stairs, turn right and follow the hallway to the second door on the right. Take the second doorway on the left, then immediate right to enter the center hallway. Continue west and use the north stairs to go up one more level, where you can find the elevator motor. Activate the switch to get a message: LIFT failed to start. Retrace your steps to the elevator on the ground floor, activate the button, and exit the elevator to be teleported to the elevator shaft with a thought: ABOUT! Heck!! Lift still broken! I'll have to go down into the hole myself!.

Climb down three ladders, then turn and drop off the platform to land on top of the elevator. Drop down into the elevator and exit. Go down the stairs and activate the keypad twice to open the door. Turn left (east) and through the right doorway with a book icon, open the door and enter the room with the Comet anomaly to find the Documents from the laboratory X8 No.1:

Documents from Laboratory X8 No. 1 // The practice of psi-probing has naturally boiled down to the formula: one probe, one question, one burnt-out brain of the test subject. Roughly speaking, we need a constant supply of fresh brains. Your task, Lebedev, is to organize things in such a way that the experiments are not interrupted due to a lack of working material. Proceed to the perimeter of the Zone and organize this work.

Go west down the stairs toward the dining area with the cutlery icons, northwest to the stairs, and find Documents from the laboratory X8 No.3 at the far end of the room.

Documents from Laboratory X8 No. 3 // Materials of puncture #3 //Question: - Do myths have a real component in Earth's past? Specifically: - The war of the gods. Cities destroyed by atomic weapons. Figures of astronauts in ancient drawings?/Answer: - Myths are born not from memories of the past, but from the predictions of seers about the future end of the world.

Return to the entrance and take the steps to the laboratory (test tube and beaker icons) and down to the flooded part of the room to find Documents from the laboratory X8 No.2 on a workstation along the north wall:

Documents from Laboratory X8 No. 2 // I consider it necessary to support Lebedev's proposals for organizing the self-delivery of the "material." Immediately begin manufacturing the object at the testing ground, followed by the installation of a dummy of the Wish Granter in the Sarcophagus.

Go back up the stairs and into the room on the left with the sunken floor holding two large tanks. Continue east into the second elevator shaft. Go up to the open door and into the room to find Documents from the laboratory X8 No.4:

Documents from Laboratory X8 No. 4 // Materials from drilling sample No. 4 // Question: - Where to look for the sunken Atlantis? / Answer: - How to look for something that hasn't sunk yet? The West is obsessed with Atlantism. The North Atlantic bloc, and so on. That's how they will later name their entire perished civilization – Atlantis. They are searching for themselves.

Go up the stairs on the west wall to find Documents from the laboratory X8 No.6. There is no text for 6. Go back down the elevator shaft, turn right out of the shaft and right again to go down the steps and find Documents from the laboratory X8 No.5 in the southwest corner. There is also no text for 5. When you have all the documents, you get this message:

All documents of interest collected. The point of interest will be determined later during the scanning of the Zone.

The teleport under the floor takes you to an air circulatory with another teleport on the other side that takes you to Station of the Underdark. Take the right tunnel, then the left tunnel with the square support beams at the split and teleport to Excavation Time.

When you spawn in Excavation Time, you get a priority message: New Priority: Reach the upper level. Go to the overhead crane's control room, but instead of entering the room, take the doorway on the right out onto the catwalk. Be aware that there are German DRPs on the ground, as well as one or two on the catwalks. Follow the catwalk around as far as you can, go up one level, continue in the same direction using the ledge where the catwalk section is missing and continue to reach the dirt pile. Align yourself with the Bagger excavator on its east side and sprint-jump to its catwalk. There's a metal frame appendage that is easily reached. Go north on the catwalk and cross over to the west side. Find the I-beam that you can walk up and jump to the upper deck where the railing is missing. The trick is to go up as far as possible and tap the backward key (S) three quick taps. You should be able to make it from there. Work around to the northwest side and continue across a metal plate to the teleport.

When you spawn on another catwalk, go west to the doorway, where you're sure to meet one or two Bloodsuckers. Follow the passage that turns north and turns right (east). Stop at the stairs and turn around to find another doorway. Go through that doorway to find another doorway on the right. Follow the passage and catwalk to a room with a hidden teleport to Polygon O-consciousness.

You spawn in an anomaly, so be prepared to move out of it quickly like before, one finger on forward (W) and thumb on medkit ([). Turn left to move while hitting the opening bracket key ([). You are in an underground motor pool and get the following messages:

A PDA belonging to radio operator Ket has been found on the territory, and its location data has been recorded in the database.

New Priority: Investigate the signal source.

Take the hallway off the south wall:

• The first hallway on the left takes you back to Station of the Underdark, which you may need later.
• If you're collecting spare parts, continue all the way to the end and find a box in the furthest room, then return to motor pool and take the first hallway west.
• Otherwise, the first hallway on the right (west) is the one you want to complete the task.

Follow the hallway as it turns north, then west again to find stairs going up. At the top, it doesn't matter which way you go, you end up in a train loading dock. Continue west through to the other side and take the hallway going south. Follow it to reach a large freight elevator. This spawns a Pseudogiant or two, so quickly climb the ladder hit them with grenades as they will come after you. You may get the following message:

Someone killed our scout. Under no circumstances move away from the helicopter!

This is a clue as to where to find the signal source. Go east to the campfire, turn south and go between the buildings to find a hole in the wall the lets you find Ket and her group. If you go near the Wish Granter, you get a message: TO FULFILL YOUR DEEPEST DESIRE (F). If you press the F key, you die. But feel free to loot the dead. Oh, and if you try to loot one of the dead too close to the Wish Granter, you die. Go to the target and trade messages with the group:

• Stalker, stop! Otherwise, we'll open fire! Who are you and what do you want? If you want to approach, explain what you want!
• I'm Scar, a veteran of the Zone. I can get you out of here before you all get killed. Are you interested?
• Okay, come on over!!

Continue toward the group and get a task completed message. Talk to Ket and she falls down asking for help. Your response makes no sense (even translated from Russian). My guess is, "If you die, I die." which is what happens. Then you get a message:

ANOMALOUS ENERGY RELEASE: PSI-TORNADO

The group comes under attack by mutants from all sides. At first, Kerliks run the perimeter to draw your attention and fire away from the other mutants. Be patient, there will be plenty to shoot at soon. Again, if Ket dies, you die. Also, if you leave the group, you die. If you can, put a shotgun as both primary and secondary weapons, then climb on top of the helicopter and remember to keep Ket alive. Quick Save when there is even the slightest pause. When the last mutant goes down, you get a message:

TO EVERYONE WHO SURVIVED! GET OUT OF HERE IMMEDIATELY!

The group heads west to a teleport to Generators. When Ket goes through the teleport, you get a message:

THE MISSION TO RESCUE KET HAS BEEN COMPLETED. A meeting with her in the future of this time loop is now possible.

Explore the map if you like, then move on to Generators.

Go to the complex in the southeast part of the map and clear out Monolith, or at least clear a path to the center building. Go into the building and teleport to the Military loboratoriya. You spawn in the lab facing the wrong way and must turn around to go down the steps. There are several Poltergeists and Pyrogeists in this lab, so arm yourself accordingly (7.64: If this is your second trip and you've already pulled the fuses, go right to the Caultery 2 teleport). You may also encounter C-Consciousness representative:

As you enter the lab, take the door on the right of the reception window. Go down the stairs that turn left into a room with stairs going up across (southeast) the room and a ladder going down along the left (north) wall. Go down the ladder and make several right turns until you reach the elevator shafts. Use the east shaft to get to the second level from the top. Getting from the ladder to the doorway is tricky. Climb to the top of the ladder, turn to the west wall (with the light bulb), and jump for the ledge. With any luck, you land on the level you want and can jump through the doorway. I never get it on the first try, so Quick Saves at each stage is a good idea (with the mutants constantly throwing things at you and all).

Go up the stairs on the west wall and find the Schemes power communications laboratories and landfills document and gives you the Search fuse task. Return to the room with the stairs in the southeast corner of the room and go under them to find a ladder going down. Follow the passage to find the fuse box and throw the switch to complete the task.

Return to the entrance and go through the west doorway and down the stairs. Go through the doorway on the left, through a short hallway, and into a large room with a catwalk around the perimeter. Follow the catwalk around to the closed door, which is a hidden teleport to Caultery 2.

You spawn in a long passageway with computer components, a couple of anomalies that you can sprint-jump through, and some exploding red tanks and barrels. When you reach the barrels, shoot them at a safe distance to blow them up. At some point, you reach a trigger that sets them off and you're trapped (same as the Red Forest tunnel). You just need a safe zone to get to when you hear the beeping start.

Eventually, you come to an underground garage. You can use the truck on the left to jump over the anomalies, or just run through them along the west wall. The exit is guarded by Monolith. Go out the gate in the northwest corner of the complex and turn east toward the strange black and white spot on the map that's surrounded by a mountain. When you reach the base of the mountain, follow the base around the north and east end. You may need to get on top to avoid a gang of Bloodsuckers. When you reach a long underground building on the east side of a road, get on the east side and continue south. As you near the end of it, look at the map to see an Important Character marker to the east, which is Forester. Go over that mountain and talk to him:

He gives you another Stibnitovy "Breakdown" artifact. Go southwest under the bridge, then west to find a body with the Smartphone died on 2 cautery, which says:

\\files\Radar 2.txt We shouldn't have wandered in here! So much effort... so many of the guys we lost—and now my time has come, too. I never did figure out the system that triggers the local Brain Scorcher. So, it turns out Chertezhnik was right when he said we were starting from the wrong place. We should have been looking for the emission switch in the underground lab at the Generators.

This gives you the finding draftsman task in Vehicle graveyard, which is near Dead Bar (later in the game).

7.63 — Now go back to the north end of the mountain surrounding the black and white spot and find the road going into a complex in the northwest part of the map. The complex is guarded by a few Monolith. If you are too far north, you may have to go south for a bit to get around a wall. Then north up the hill and into the complex to another wall running east and west. Find the Generator dome to the west and approach it. The dome will rise up to reveal an opening in the wall. Go through the opening to be teleported to Keepers.

7.64 — Take the teleport to Limansk, go south until you cross the bridge and use the teleport in the small brick building on the left. This takes you to the USB drive with movies on it stash (a good place to save). You can drop down and use the teleport to Red Forest (if available) > Military warehouses and use the Tellurium "Breakdown" artifact twice to Jupiter. Another option is the Agroprom teleport in the attic (climb the rubble) and go Garbage > Bar > Military warehouses and use the Tellurium "Breakdown" artifact twice to Jupiter. Either way, skip to Keepers section > Sakharov conversation.

There's an Important Character to the north, go talk to him. There's no dialog, but you get several messages about teleports. Now you should be able to see them all on your map.

Find the tunnels north of your position. The left tunnel's teleport goes to Bunker Radar, the center goes to the Bar, and the right goes to the Duty camp in Red Forest. Take either the center or right tunnel, go to Military warehouses, and use the Tellurium "Breakdown" artifact twice to get to Jupiter to give Sakharov the X-8 documents.

Talk to Sakharov and he takes the X-8 documents:

So now you need 3 million rubles, 10 Controller brains, and three Zhutmy eyes. I'm calling this optional task, "The Sakharov Challenge" and I have yet to see any results from Sakharov (I think it's a fool's errand). To do so, consider the following locations:

1. Rubles — Go to Research Station by way of Zaton. The Zaton teleport is at the north end of the road by the Cement Factory. The Research Station teleport is at the south end of the wall running along the east side of the Ranger Station. Unfortunately, the Trader with the best prices in in Agroprom on the plateau north of the Institute. You can also collect some swag in the Sarcophagus, but it's a oneway trip and you can only recover what you can carry out the first trip.
2. Controller brains — Empty land.
3. Zhutmy eyes — Glass tunnel and Sarcophagus (along with another Breakdown artifact). Also, there is usually one in Another Agriculture's factory or in the underground near the factory entrance.

When you return with these items, the conversation goes like this:

Oddly, he doesn't take all the brains or eyes. Stranger still, when I reloaded the save I made following my discussion with Sakharov, I saw item removed messages for each of the remaining brains and eyes, even though the items were still in my stash.

Whether you take the Sakharov Challenge or not, take any 12.7x99 Barrett ammo and your favorite automatic-weapon. There's a stash in Dead Bar with weapons that take 7.62x50 and Unified cartridge Wehrmacht III millenium ammo. Also, bring the Gravity Gun for some spiders later on. Finally, this road trip will last at least four days, longer with the Sakharov Challenge. Be sure to bring enough food.

Move on to the Zaton teleport at the north end of the east road and continue on to Research Station, Empty land, where 7.63 players can take a side trip to Abandoned Institute (southeast corner), then on to Hidden Road > Dead Bar and Dead Cordon to gain access to the Swamps and the final Project <<Blood>> document. If you take the Sakharov Challenge, you can spend some time in each location to build up your account. There is a Trader in Dead Bar (the Bar's doorman) that gives fair prices. Not as good as in Agroprom, but better that most of the other Traders. If you go to the Agroprom Trader, you can return by going Yantar > Another Agriculture, use the train tunnel to teleport to Hidden Road, then the Stibnitovy "Breakdown" artifact to get to Empty land. Also, if you access the Glass tunnel for Zhutmy eyes, take the Military warehouses teleport, use the Tellurium "Breakdown" artifact twice, and retrace the path to Dead Bar.

You can access Zaton by the teleport in the northeast corner of Jupiter. You spawn in the southeast near the Waste Processing Station. An anomaly to the northeast spits out artifacts shortly after you arrive. If you plan to explore, your first stop should be the Iron Forest in the southwest, which is full of Spiders and a Burer. As far as I can tell, this is the only Emission Shelter and you won't have time to deal with the mutants should an emission hit. If you want to bypass Zaton and go right to Research Station, see the teleport section that follows.

There are three Important Characters here. You will find a wounded Noah at the Fueling Station, one of several Fakes near the Oakpine anomaly and another in the northwest corner of the map, and Zarka in the Plateau's cave. Noah won't talk to you until you empty the stash in the tank out back:

To find Zarka in (or near) the Plateau's cave, check your map for an Important Character in that area. Sometimes she doesn't show up until your last visit to Zaton. To find her, use the hidden teleport in the Testing Workshop. The cavern part of the cave is guarded by a Spacial anomaly that puts you in suspended animation, and then sends you back to the surface. If she's in the cave, find the hole directly above her and drop down. There's no dialog with her, but open the dialog anyway to get her started. If you start from inside the cave, she waits for you by the mouth of the cave when you get sent back to the top. You can escort her to the bridge, and then she vanishes.

If you are exploring the road north or teleporting from Research Station, you may get a dialog at the teleport that reads: "In the northern forests, "there's a continuation of the story, if the local stalker asks for it."" I think that means the teleport is only active if you are sent there by another Stalker (tbd). This is the spawn point when coming from Research Station. You will probably meet another Fake, perhaps even two or three. You still have teleport information to find before talking to him.

When you're ready to move on, go the the south end of the wall that runs along the east side of the Ranger Station and find the Research Station teleport.

Teleports:

• Workshop air duct goes to Fault.
• Large Gauss table in the Workshop goes to the Plateau.
• South end of the east wall, south of Ranger Station goes to Research Station (you must go around the end)
• Northwest end of the road is only active when you are sent there by another Stalker.
• Northeast corner of the Fueling Station is a submerged tank. Behind it is a teleport to Cordon.

You spawn from Zaton along the west side near a village, either take the road south to Empty land, or north to find some swag:

From Empty land, follow the road west and then turns north and goes through the village. If you're coming from Zaton, go north on the road that runs through the village, turn right, then left. The road that forks off to the left teleports you to Zaton. The complex in the northwest corner has about 50 dead from a variety of factions. There's a few more in the tunnel running beneath. The paper money they have on them alone is worth about 50,000 RUs. You have to crawl through the fallen timbers to get to them at the far west end. The mobile lab has a blue stash box with a Lighting artifact, Franchi SPAS 12 shotgun, and some ammo. If you want it all (guns, ammo, etc.), load it all up in the stash box. The bodies might not be there once you leave the map and return.

The only other thing of value I found was a spare parts case containing a steel barrel. This is in the underground of the center building with satellite dishes. Climb down the ladder in the elevator shaft and follow the passage to a storage room. When you're ready to leave, there is a teleport to Zaton along the west side and one to Empty land along the south.

Two minutes (20 game-time) after you spawn, you are put in suspended animation. During that time, the mutants can, and will, attack you. My advice is to take refuge on the fallen tree just west of where you spawn. The suspended animation is followed by a message: Hey, up on the hill! Come here, I'll take you to our group, there are monsters all around here!, to which you reply, I'm running!. You are transported to the side of a hill overlooking an enclosure with the NPC that contacted you and all your swag is gone. make a note of this location as there is a stash nearby that might be useful very soon. There's radiation to the right and Electro anomalies directly ahead. Jump to the roof of the small building to the left and ollow the NPC and talk to Zulu:

Now the only thing you have is Zulu's Barrett and ammo. Your suit, artifacts, medkits, etc. are gone. The task is to clear the mutants. But you don't have enough ammo for them all, so focus on the Controllers. Save, and go back to the hill where you met the NPC that took you to Zulu. Along the west edge to the north is a rusted vertical cylinder with a pipe on top. Check it for a stash that might have your swag and you can retrieve it. It's a highly radiated area, so if your stuff is not there, reload your save. Follow the road east and then north to find three houses. The smaller two have medkits and bandages, but there's Zombies sleeping in the basement. The larger house has a motion-sensor machine gun, so don't go directly in front of the house. In the attic, there's a laptop with information about Draftsman. Use the binoculars to scan directly west of the houses for the first Controller.

Refer to the map to find ruins northwest of the houses and go toward the west side of them. When you can see grave markers, scan to the northwest for the next Controller. If you did not find your swag in the first stash, go west to the road, then south to find a Goatling along the east edge of the road. Check the hood of the Goatling for a stash (you might need to jump on top). It might be your stuff and you can retrieve it. Now, align yourself directly south of the tanks in the northern complex and go to the edge of the dump to find another. Move east of the dump and north around the north end of the complex wall to find the next Controller. Now go west, around the north end of the next wall, and find the next Controller along the west wall near the road. There's a medkit and antiradiation in the guard tower just inside the west gate. The gate itself is one-way (you can pass through going west, but not going east).

The complex in the northwest corner has a Controller wandering around. There are also mutants coming in and out from a hole in the south wall, so be aware of them. Continue south on the road to the semi-truck and trailer. Climb on top and use your binoculars to find a Controller in the ruins on the east side of the road, also accompanied by mutants and near the flatbed truck. Kill this Controller, then go west to the fallen tree and up on top of the hill. Continue south to the bluff to find the last Controller.

Once you've downed the last Controller, you get a task completed message and a message about a cache, which is where your swag is. Collect your gear and clear out the mutants in the southwest area for Zulu's men as they will be headed that way shortly. There's no need to report to Zulu directly. He and his group start to move out when you get near enough to their headquarters. I have noticed that if you leave the map before they do, they get stuck there until you return. Sometimes, one will stay behind.

Collect your Controller brains and go to Abandoned Institute (in the southeast corner of the map) for more loot and another optional task. When you return, go to Dead Bar by way of Hidden Road. If you're looking for Zhutmy eyes, you may find one in Glass tunnel and use the Military warehouses teleport and then loop back around to Jupiter > Zaton > Research Station > Empty land > Dead Bar. However, it's not a guarantee so save before you enter the Hidden Road train tunnel.

You get a message: Commander in touch watch time Askol'd. In this area detected time dec. Bifurcation point is defined in the German headquarters. Staff detect Nazis. and a Priority task: Destroy the tank. Suddenly, the place is occupied by German Wehrmacht. There is a picket line along the north fence with dogs. You can use the boulders behind you as cover from their fire while you deal with the dogs. Another option is to sprint north and take the dogs out when they line up to follow you and you are out of the German's range. The only place I found to stash valuables (assuming you're here to earn some money), is after you destroy the tank and enter the lab (bar_gestapo). I recommend you take what loot you get from them back to the Empty land stash you got from Zulu.

Move south along the east fence to find another picket line along the north edge of the complex. From there, head west to find the tank. I found the tank was unaffected by F1 grenades, but two VOG-25s worked to take it out. Work your way inside the door and left down the stairs to find a door with a teleport. If you don't have a machine gun, I suggest you keep one of the MG-42s.

Inside, you get another Priority Task: Destroy laptop. There's weapons and a stash box behind the first gated door that you can help yourself to. Follow the passageway to the elevator and prepare a machine gun or Bulldog 6. When you spawn, you are greeted by several Germans who turn the lights out and you have to shoot blindly to clear the way. If you can, turn and reenter the elevator without going into the teleport. This gives you some cover while you clear the way. Continue north to find the laptop. You may have to use grenades to clear the guards that shoot through doors. Once you've completed the task, there is a teleport down the hallway to take you back to the elevator, or you can retrace your steps back. Turn left at the top of the stairs to get back to the surface.

If you want to explore: Go to the southeast building next to the plane. Upstairs is a non-operating smartphone. In the southwest corner of the map, I found several Stalkers that appear to have been shot by firing squad. At the south end of the road is an inaccessible teleport guarded by 20 Germans. The rest of the map is empty (as far as I can tell). So, return to Empty land and move on to Hidden Road. Be aware that when you spawn in Empty land, you are on the west side near the construction site.

This map has three industrial complexes that I will refer to as; north, east, and south. Also, a village to the west. When you spawn at the north end of the road, Cap calls to you:

Just as the conversation ends, a BTR conveniently drives by and you get a message: Okay, I'll go for a walk while you're carrying the chestnuts... as Cat steps into the Empty land teleport. You have the following options: Follow the fence line west around the north complex and south to the Dead Bar teleport, ride the BTR to the east complex, follow the fence line east to the east tunnel and the Glass tunnel teleport.

If you go south on foot to the railroad tracks, you get a warning about a Death Zone. However, if you manage to get on top of the BTR, you can safely ride it over the tracks and into the Death Zone. To do this, get ahead of the BTR and jump onto the front. Don't try to move around once you're on and crouching seems to help stay on better. If the BTR stalls, you have to start over.

If you go inside the complex, you'll find three Controllers and Burers. Other than Controller brains, there's nothing else that I could find. However, now you're trapped by the Death Zone. The south complex has its own Death Zone on the west side, but you can access the buildings on the east (again, I found nothing). From the east complex, you can use the Stibnitovy "Breakdown" artifact to return to Empty land, go to the east train tunnel and teleport to Glass tunnel, or take the road on the south side of the east complex west to the village. You get a Death Zone warning, but you can make it if you sprint.

Except for a NO INFO / Unknown Object artifact, the village is empty. From there, go south to the end of the road to teleport to Dead Bar.

The tunnel consists of two sets of two connected tunnels in parallel. On the level where you spawn, all four directions lead to dead ends. Each time I go here I find Olga, Zarka, or Ket. Sometimes, all three. From where you spawn, take the stairs on the right (south) down.

1. Generators — Turn left, right, left, two rights, and left.
2. Military loboritoriya (Generators) — Same path. Before you reach the teleport, take another right to cross to the other tunnel and then left.
3. Military Warehouses — Turn left, right and over the rubble, find another stairs on the right and go up, turn left, take the left (east) tunnel.

For more Zhutmy eyes, go to Military Warehouses, use the Tellurium "Breakdown" artifact to Pripyat (SoP), then the Pripyat (West) teleport on the west side, and the CNPP teleport north of the stadium.

The Dead Bar map consists of Bar and Wild Territory combined. The road south to what would be Garbage, takes you to Dead Cordon. The field along the way has several artifacts. There's a constant stream of Zombies coming in on the north road and Izloms from the south (that eventually take it over except for the Bar itself). The Wild Territory section is full of artifacts and the gate in the northwest has a teleport to Vehicle Graveyard found two dead Germans to loot. The road to Yantar is actually a dead end.

This is Garbage and Cordon put together and is patrolled by Banderas. It seems they have snipers that will pick you off if they see you for more than five seconds. So, unless you have a sniper rifle, the best strategy is to come up behind them with a shotgun. Also, you may notice another illuminated pillar in the dump by the Rookie Village. You can ignore it for now.

From the spawn point, go through the gate and south, passing the Flea Market on the east to minimize the chance of being spotted. Somewhere south of the Northern Cordon Checkpoint, an emission is triggered. It's recommended that you save at the checkpoint (before the emission starts). The only shelter is a cave south of the Car Park. Go through the Car Park on your way to the cave and take out as many Blind Dogs as possible without stopping (you don't have to get them all). After the emission, save again, and then find STERKH, a Soviet, somewhere in or around the Car Park fighting off the remaining dogs. If he's dead, reload your save and try again. If you still can't save him, reload the save before the emission and try again. I've never been able to finish this task without him.

This task doesn't appear on your PDA. Go to the Rookie Village, take out the Burer in the bunker, and find one of STERKH's men:

This is the cave you took shelter in. Go north up the road to the garbage heap south of the Train Hanger to find another one of STERKH's men. If you can talk to him, you have the same conversation as the first. Otherwise, each one stands and runs off without any dialog. Contrary to what the first guy said, you must escort each of them one by one or they sit down and don't move. The good news is, you only need two, then go get STERKH. If you want to do them all, here are the remaining locations:

• Train Tunnel
• North of the Train Tunnel
• The northwest heap
• The fenced in tanks southwest of the Flea Market
• The heap south of the Flea Market
• The valley east of the Swamp
• In the road just west of the Swamp (who strangely wasn't there before)
• South of the Swamp (also, not there before)

Go back to STERKH (again, no dialog) and follow him back to the cave and get a message and a task:

Hey, that device signal sounds way too familiar! Scar, is that you? Come on, show yourself, let me see you!

Meet with the Guide

The target is the Northern Farm.

This triggers another emission and Guide sprints to the cave. Head there too and Quick Save just before reaching the bus stop by the Car Park. You both get there just in time to hear 14 Banderas executing STERKH's group (one or two may escape, so don't shoot them). The easiest way to do this is to stand just inside the cave with the high-capacity weapon I suggested and pick them off until you run out of ammo. Then switch to the Gravity Gun or Monstrodav shotgun and clear out the rest. Remember, once they see you, you have five seconds to kill them before a sniper takes you out. Staying outside the cave means the only Banderas that can see you are in your firing lane. You may need to go in for the last few, then find a document on either one of them or STERKH, and talk to Guide. A message displays:

Message received: Everyone! Help us fight them off!

Talk to Guide again:

Open another dialog and you have the following options:

• Tell me, good sir, about the sights of the Zone, while the monsters are sniffing around our local landmarks.
• * [HAND OVER THE DOCUMENTS AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS]
• * [DO NOT HAND OVER THE DOCUMENTS. LEAVE EVERYTHING AS IT IS]

Select to hand over the document and follow Guide to the dump north of the Rookie Village. When Guide enters the hologram, a message displays:

REALITY HAS BEEN ALTERED. ANOTHER LAYER HAS BEEN REVEALED. Previously inaccessible territories have been opened up.

This opens the Swamp transition in Cordon and you can get the last Project <<Blood>> document. Return to the railroad bridge and get on the west bound tracks. Head west to the teleport that puts you in Dell Lighting standing (Darkscape). Then south and west to Cordon. You should have the firepower to deal with the Pseudogiants guarding the teleport. If not, try sprinting past them staying along one of the bluffs on either side of the road to stay out of sight. In Cordon, the Swamp teleport is south of the Rookie Village through the tunnel where you found the Project <<Blood>> doc No. 1.

When you spawn in the Swamp, you get a message:

I received a signal that you've reached the Swamps. Wait for the doctor at the church. He'll definitely show up.

First, go northwest of the Southern Farmstead where three Clear Sky bodies are around a pond. Find the dead Monolith leaning up against the boulder and, standing on the north side of him, search the backpack to find Project <<Blood>> doc No. 5 and get a task:

Return materials for the project PAN-CAM to the O-consciousness staff in Bunker Radar. Get back the Artifacts of Death.

Going inside the church triggers a thunder clap and an endless stream of civilian Zombies come out of the graveyard. I like to go up into the church's steeple to wait, out of the Zombies' reach. Eventually, a bell starts to ring and the Doctor shows up. Go talk to him:

When the conversation ends, the Doc runs off to the northwest corner of the map and disappears. Follow him to be sure he gets there (he likes to run through enemy camps). You get a message:

Go to the Swamps, son, and help the newcomers if needed, until I return.

And two tasks:

• NEW PRIORITY: Find a path to the swamps and wait for the doctor there.
• To get to the crossing at Topi (Swamp).

Follow the fence east until it crosses the railroad tracks and find the Agroprom teleport north of the box cars. The Trader north of the Agroprom Institute should be there now and, if you want, you can clear out any nearby stashes. Then go to Garbage and use the Asbestos "Breakdown" artifact to Vehicle graveyard. If you lose your gear, follow the procedure here to get it back. If it happens that your gear is north of the train hanger, you can complete the finding draftsman task. Then, go into the tunnel where you spawned and teleport back to Dead Bar and continue south to Dead Cordon.

When you return to Dead Cordon, follow the road south to a teleport that takes you to Predzone. The teleport is guarded by multiple motion-sensor machine guns. A way around them is to turn east when you pass the Rookie Village, jump the fence, and continue east up the hill before turning south. Stay several yards from the hill's crest to avoid taking fire. When you are directly east of the wall, take out the guns along the top of the wall. You can do this by going past the wall and coming up on the south side. You can also approach the teleport to Predzone from the south after you clear the gun over the gate.

In Predzone, there are watchtowers with more motion-sensor machine guns. Turn east and go past the helicopter, then northeast and stay along the edge of the map, you should avoid any fire. There's a fence that you should be able to go around and turn southeast to find the road and continue to the target. A Trader is setup in the village, but you'll have to fight a few Zombies to get to him, and he's very picky about what he buys, so you might want to stay north of the road and keep moving to the target.

In your first attempt to use the teleport, you get teleported to the southeast part of the map and have to go west to the road going north. Continue north after the road turns to the east and go back to the teleport again. This time, you go to Swamp (as apposed to Swamps, where you met Doc). When you spawn, your swag is gone (but you'll get it back) and you get a thought:

Right. Doc told me to wait for him at the Swamps... So where exactly am I supposed to look for him? Fine—for now, I'll have a look around and see if I can find any gear. And that calm here? It's definitely just an illusion!

A Stalker spawns to the southeast comes toward you named CAP. Talk to him:

However, neither of you have anything to trade. CAP also doesn't give you much to go on to find Doc's place (which you'll get to soon—but first you need your stuff back). The nearby stilled huts are home to a Bloodsucker. Go east along the south side of the pipeline until you are east of the stilted huts. As you make your way, CAP sends you a message:

Oh, right—I forgot to mention! If you decide to sell any loot outside the perimeter, you’re better off going to the Germans; our guys won’t give you much for it.

To which you have a thought:

What the hell kind of Germans?! Has he completely lost his mind?

Jump the pipeline and go northeast, jump the wire, and continue to the east edge of the map. Turn north and go to the watch tower. This triggers an alarm and the Germans may start shooting at you. Take cover at the foot of the tower, Quick Save, and then sprint north up the hill and stay along the east edge until you are directly east of the farm.

In the farmhouse's northeast room is a backpack with the items you lost in your teleport to the Swamp. The best time to start this next part is between 19:00 and 01:00. If you need to, use the Faction Commander to wait in this safe place. Now go north to find a gate with the bus partially blocking it, turn southwest toward the dead tree, then south toward the center watchtower. Get just close enough to take out the guard in the tower and the motion-sensor machine gun. As you get near the road, a BTR may fire on you, so stay below the embankment. Whether it fires or not, take it out with a couple of F1 grenades (or whatever you prefer). Then take out the watchtower guards to the west so that the center of the road is clear.

Now go north of the half-submerged truck along the north side of the road to find a Spacial anomaly bubble that you can walk into and eventually you go to a cellar in the northwest area, where you get a message:

Intruder spotted. In the vicinity of the missing doctor's residence. Appears to be a female. If possible, capture alive and deliver to the commander of the Soviet checkpoint.

You may also have a thought:

Well then. This must surely be that very stalker camp.

Climb the ladder and get teleported to Doc's roof, where you meet Elizabeth:

At the end of the conversation, she goes into the house through the roof. If she stays on the roof, you may have load a previous save to try again. This task is probably the buggiest of them all, so save at every stage because you will need to circle back a few times. For example, I've had her start out at 08:00 when she's supposed to wait until dark. I've also had her walk into a fire and die.

Wait at the back of the house until 21:00 (DO NOT ENTER THE HOUSE). Go up to the window by the desk and watch to see if Elizabeth leaves the house. If not, there may be Germans nearby keeping her from doing so. Clear the area and try again. If you go to the front of the house, you get another thought:

I think I’ve stumbled upon something! Looks like a residential house.

Eventually, Elizabeth comes out of the house and heads to the northwest corner of the map (where you teleported earlier) to meet up with some other Tourists there. If she doesn't come out of the house, walk around it and try again. When you get there, you may have this conversation:

When you turn around, she goes to the door of a small stilled building (outhouse?). Go talk to her again:

No matter what happens, stay with Elizabeth. You may need to take out the two guards in the tower to the east to keep the group from engaging. She also has a habit of running into the BTR and gets stuck there. Just let her go and eventually, she gets herself free. Lead them (or just her) to the southeast corner. When Elizabeth vanishes, Scar thinks out loud:

Wait! What?! Where are you going?! Aren't you going to kiss me?! Oh, man! What a tease!

And you get a message:

You know, I'm glad I met you! See you later, Scar!

Now head to the southwest corner for the next group. As you approach a group of Stalkers, you get a message:

Look, guys, a real stalker is approaching us.

A Tourist then starts a conversation with you:

You get another message:

Red Schuhart. The First Stalker. Also known as Zero from the previous events.

In the group there are two marked as Important Characters, but only one will talk to you:

I'm not sure what to make of the binocular comment, because I still have mine. However, he gives you the "Doc in a barrel" stash. Lead the group west along the pipeline toward the target. When you reach the three stilted huts, you get a message to kill the monster. Wait for the group and go in together as this Bloodsucker is crafty. If there is a body in the hut, it has Smartphone returns to the Zone:

\\files\doc.txt Doc warned me about a tripwire at the entrance to the house. I didn't really get it, though—he seemed to say I should use the anomaly in the pond right next to his place. That sounds way too tricky; I'm not messing with it!

As each of the Tourists (that didn't walk into an anomaly) teleports, you get a message:

With all my heart—whatever I can do!

And one from NULL:

Until we meet again, Reborn! It seems I am the only one in this Zone who knows that is your name...

Check you map for another Important Character, usually along the north shore. Keep leading groups until you get a message along the lines of this:

A group of unidentified individuals has slipped through the Swamps. By their appearance, they are typical thugs. Upon contact—liquidate!

Check to see if the next group is at Doc's house. If you have multiple icons, this one is a priority. The map may show an Important Character icon, but the description says, The emerging new authority in the Zone. Translation: Marauders, and they will fight with anyone else. However, a possible bug may exist where they sometimes turn hostel and I end up killing them all so that I could get to Doc's house. If that happens, just look on your map for the next group, which is probably along the north (and you'll have to go after 21:00 and cross the road before 06:00). Here's how the conversation with the Marauders is supposed to go:

Another conversation you may have is with WERNER on the east side of the fence:

Go west to the helicopter to get a task update and a marker on the map. Then return to WERNER:

There are several NO INFO / Unknown Object artifacts like the ones in Jupiter's Bitumen anomaly, that give +6 Endurance and +100 kgs weight capacity. The downside is that they each weigh 100 kgs so you must put them on your belt. Once you have five (which is all you can carry), return to WERNER:

You get a message:

— Expect the continuation of the story with Werner in the full version of the "Doppelganger" mod. —

You can continue leading groups for three days, or, use the Faction Commander and speed up time until a group of three appear at the target, one of them is Jill:

When she arrives at the pavilion at Doc's house, she says she's satisfy and vanishes. At the front door of the house you can hear a mine beeping. The second doorway (just past the shelf) is mined, so throw a bolt at the threshold. This mine resets every few seconds, so each time you walk through the doorway you need to throw another bolt. Continue straight into the office/bedroom. Entering this room triggers the following:

• Three DRPs may spawn just outside the front door and start shooting at Doc's pseudo-dog.
• You get information on a stash in the shower stall.
• A message from Doc: Listen, son—since you’ve stopped by... It’s good that you’re here. Due to some pressing business, I’ve had to head back into the Zone. But I’ll be back in three days. I have a favor to ask of you. Usually, I’m the one who helps the newcomers arriving in the Zone, you see. To help you get—well, at least somewhat—accustomed to this place, I’m taking you to some stalker acquaintances of mine. Their camp is on the other side of the Swamp, past the road! Be careful, son—the DRP guys around here don't mess around. They open fire on sight! It’s only safe at night. And don't you dare shoot at them!! Once you reach the camp, ask the stalkers if they can lend a hand with the rookies. All in all, you’ll figure it out. Feed Mu-Mu—she’s probably hungry. You’ll find my radio—tuned to the military frequency—not far from the house. And if you consider your own affairs to be of greater importance, then you need my radio all the more.
• A new task: WHILE WAITING FOR THE SWAMP DOCTOR, HELP THE NEWCOMERS GET INTO THE ZONE.
• You have a thought: So, everything—and even more—is becoming more interesting. So what do we do now? Where is a poor peasant to turn? Cap suggested I look for swag right here. And I will go to the three huts where the bloodsuckers drag the corpses. It’s foolish to venture in there with gear like this, of course—but maybe I’ll manage to scrounge up something!

Odd that Doc doesn't want you to shoot at the DRP. I've had games where they shoot at, and even kill him. Anyway, there's swag in the attic and bathroom barrel, but you can leave it for now if you like as you'll be returning later. For the bathroom barrel, stand in front and look along the right edge near the floor. The stash in the shower stall is actually in the top. Use the bunk bed to get on the barn roof and then to the shower where there's a AKM-74/2U. You can climb the Stone Uproot rock formation north of the house starting from the northeast side and find a backpack containing an Equalizer. Go back to the target and wait for Doc. He doesn't say anything until he gets to his house:

He then goes into his house, so be sure to trigger the mine first or he'll kill himself. When he vanishes, you get a mission accomplished message. Now it's time to turn in the documents Awareness is looking for. Either go back the way you came or use the Dead Cordon teleport inside the east tunnel, which is heavily guarded.

To use the teleport, go directly east, jump the fence, cross the river, and continue to the edge of the map. Turn north and go behind the structure over the tunnel. Inside the structure, find the hole in the floor, low-crouch, and drop through to the shipping containers (it's difficult, but possible at the east end). Take cover from the ceiling-mounted machine gun on the west side of the top shipping container and clear out enemies between you and the bus. Get to the left bus door as quickly as possible to teleport to Dead Cordon > Dead Bar > Vehicle graveyard to find Draftsman.

Going to Vehicle graveyard results in the removal of your swag, at least the first time you spawn. I'm not sure if it's because I killed the Burer before at the tunnel going to Dead Bar, or that it only happens on your first visit. There are two possible stash boxes (that I know of) that may contain your stuff:

• From the Dead Bar teleport, follow the edge of the tunnel mound north as it turns east and comes to a fence. Follow the fence north to the river and cross. There are several mutants in the area, so be quick. Turn west and find the stash box in the weeds at the trunk of the first tree. If you have trouble getting to it before the mutants attack, try going directly to the tree from the point where the mound meets the fence. Once you have everything, sprint east to where the river meets the fence and go through the opening to avoid the mutant attack. If there's no stash box, reload the autosave and try the next location.
• From the Dead Bar teleport, follow the road north and turn west just north of the train hanger from Garbage. From the train hanger, follow the river's west bank to the northern edge of the map, then turn south and walk up the embankment. The semi-buried stash box is just south of that.

Enter the east hanger door, turn north and go up the stairs, which turn south. Continue south to the next set of stairs and turn north again. Take the catwalk to the north wall and turn west, going all the way to the west wall. Turn north and step out onto the roof. Turn southwest and jump to the other roof, then to the top of the fence. Walk along the top of the fence to the next building and into the doorway to find the Draftsman directly below.

Drop down and talk to her to complete the task. Here's what she has to say:

It’s you again, mister! Just how long do you intend to terrorize a delicate young lady with your presence? You’re looking for the Draftsman, I bet? Well, he won’t show up until the second part of your adventures. And when he does—good luck trying to erase him! TO BE CONTINUED IN THE NEXT PART OF THE GAME!

It will make sense very soon. Now to leave. Walk along the north wall to the shipping container opened at its east end and connected to another container. Go through both, turn south, and go to the end. Turn north and find another open container on your left. Follow the passage to a Gas anomaly. At the end of the east-bound passage, turn left (north), and then right (east) to get out of the anomaly. Leave the building and take the road south back to the train tracks.

• 7.63 — Take the west tunnel teleport to Glass tunnel. You must get above the tunnel, drop onto the train car, drop into the open hatch, and go through the cars to the teleport. You spawn in Glass tunnel at the north end. Take the passage going west, then south, then east and cross over to the east tunnel. Go south over the rubble to find a passage between the two tunnels and a stairway up. Turn right at the top of the stairs and take the left tunnel to the Military warehouses teleport, and on to Radar.
• 7.64 — Take the east back to Dead Bar and continue north back to Hidden Road. Use the Stibnitovy "Breakdown" artifact to Empty land. See Layering reality for additional instructions.

In Military warehouses, use the transition closest to the swamp. You have to jump the fence to get to it. When you spawn in Radar, a cut scene starts that you can Esc out of. An Ecologist and a Tanker soldier call from behind you, but you can ignore them if you like and skip to Project Blood Documents. Talking to them starts an optional task:

Deliver Environmentalist

As they come through the gate, you get a new task: Deliver environmentalist to the entrance to Bunker. Talk to Tanker:

Following the conversation, you have a thought: So, the repair kit, the repair kit... Where could it be? I should probably look for it in the scientists' complexes..., and a message appears: SCAR: So, guys, are we going to crawl back to the Cordon to Sidorovich to haul those broken guns? Or.... The problem is, you can't use the nearby teleport back to Military warehouses because you die instantly if you do. None of the Breakdown artifacts work here. The only option is to press on.

Red forest is a hostile environment with Psi pulses that blur your vision and cause a slight decline in health. If you completed the USB drive with movies on it task, the helmet you received should help. There's a Monolith squad at the first checkpoint. After that, the road is guarded by armed Snorks (like you encountered in Bunker Radar).

The teleport at the end of the first north road goes to VaHey rustles. The second road north goes to Suburbs, and the west end of the road goes to the Red Forest cave north of the tank (your best option). This teleport is a bit deceiving in that you have to go about 10 yards past it before you jump. In Red Forest, head for the Military warehouses teleport, and then use the Tellurium "Breakdown" artifact twice. Talk to Sakharov:

You receive the necessary repair kit. Use the Galena "Breakdown" artifact to Garbage, then Bar > Military warehouses > Radar. Take out whatever weapon you have in your secondary slot and leave it empty. Talk to the Tanker again:

A message displays:

Tank Crew Member: Okay, get on the tank, and free up the second weapon slot – I've tweaked a more powerful gun for you here!

You get an M60 in your secondary slot (eventually). Approach the Ecologist to get a message that he's ready for a breakthrough and he enters the BTR. Enter the BTR last as a timer starts with another message: Okay! Let's go, guys!!! We have three minutes for everything!

As you travel up the road you get more messages:

Follow the Ecologist's directions and go in the second opening along the south wall. As you enter the complex through this gate, the timer stops and you have time to maneuver. Go north down the ramp, over the tracks, and back up again. Turn right between the last two towers and follow the tracks to the train car. Once you arrive at the train car outside the X10 entrance, you complete the task. Exit the BTR immediately and help the others with the Poltergeists. When they enter the lab, you get two messages:

• Tanker: I think I'll dive into Bunker A too, because you can't keep your sanity around you guys!
• I'm entering the bunker. I'll try to activate the teleporters.

Project Blood Documents

You need all six Project <<Blood>> documents before you can enter the lab. You may notice the two Search Areas on your PDA map. Go to the nearest (smaller) one and get the Access Card and Hermit's Flash Card. Go north to the long fenced-in area with large pipes and go to the opening in the fence, which is guarded by an anomaly. You can sprint through it and continue west to the ladder. Climb the ladder to the first in a series of locked doors and enter the first code on Hermit's Flash Card. The door opens automatically. To open the next door (on the right/west), enter the second code. You should hear a clunk. Go to the door and press action (F) three times. If the door doesn't open, try the third code. Same with the third door.

Go through the doorway with the light overhead (the other two are dead ends) and up the stairs on the north wall. Download the data from the laptop and return down the stairs. Find the ladder in the northwest corner and go down, then east to find another ladder. Take that down to find the teleport to the closed-off area of Bunker Radar (where you started the game). Go to the room in the northwest corner to find Awareness standing next to the first backpack you found which now has all your stuff in it. Here's how the conversation goes:

And with that, Awareness vanishes. You can take your artifacts and anything else that he took from you before, and make your way back to the teleport that puts you in Goblin Region. Report to Fake:

This gives you a Priority Task:

Search Arrow. If another important mission has been completed, it becomes possible to encounter the arrow at the location where it was originally obtained.

Next stop is the Abyss under the Zone. Take the Garbage teleport and on to Bar.

In Bar, go to the south checkpoint, turn northeast off the road and go behind the building to find the Forest of Oblivion teleport. Go northeast down the hill to the cabin as there are some Zombies nearby. Use the ladder to get on the cabin's roof and clear them out. Go northeast to find a cave filled with spiders about halfway up the mountain and directly north of the cabin. As you enter the cave you have a thought:

It wouldn't hurt to scout out what's underground first, and only then haul it off to someone.

At the back of the cave is a teleport to the Abyss.

When you spawn in the Abyss, you get a message:

The blind man played with the first six digits... and got through.

This is a clue to one or more codes you need to unlock something. You meet a Stalker:

There are three Bloodsuckers in this area that you may have to deal with. From where you met the Stalker, continue west, take the first right north, then first right again to drop down and approach the group to get them started. The idea is for you to lead them to the first door, but like all the other NPCs in this mod, many may end up getting killed along the way (fixed in 7.64). Try to stay ahead to take out any mutants while letting them show you the way. This is painfully slow because they all stop at every anomaly. Sometimes you have to go talk to them to get them moving again.

You only need one to make it to the first door. However, it has to be the one who knows the code. Otherwise, the guy just stands there off to the side and you have to reload a save with a few more around. Subsequently, it's best to as many in the group as you can, as painful as it is. However, some of them actually turn around and go back.

If there's a Bloodsucker inside the door, the NPC won't open it. You have to go up to the door so that the Bloodsucker goes into attack mode, then shoot it with a shotgun. Then the NPC will open the first door. The next three doors have codes containing the first six digits on the keypad, (i.e., 0-5). Okay, so I'll put them here, but try it first. Once inside the first door, it's pretty linear. After the second door, there are two ladders, but the north one is a dead end:

You get a message:

I have no further instructions. You are advised to determine the procedure for resurrecting the subject independently.

Use the Stibnitovy "Breakdown" artifact and then go north to find a teleport to Zaton's Claw Anomaly. At every option, turn right to get out of the cave and go up the hill to the Fueling Station. If you didn't talk to Noah before, do that now (see Zaton for the conversation.

Leave the Fueling Station through the east doorway and find the tank inside broken cement enclosure. Drop down on the east side and jump to the west side at the north end. Now go between the tank and the wall to teleport to Cordon. You spawn on the south side of the tracks and west of the tunnel. Go through the tunnel and stay west into the valley that runs behind the Northern Farm to find a drainage tile at the north end of the valley. This teleports you to the north end of Bar. Make your way to Agroprom by either using the Military warehouses teleport and the Asbestos "Breakdown" artifact to Garbage, or go to the south end of Bar to the Garbage teleport.

In Agroprom, go to the cave where you saved Semenov's group from the mutants. Pick up Luke and carry him back to Garbage > Bar > Forest of Oblivion. Each time you approach a teleport you get a message:

The soul's shell has been delivered to the teleport.

And another one on the other side of the teleport:

Deliver the soul shell to the teleport.

local bad_object_names = {"gar_perehod_v_bar"}
local i, se_name, se_obj
if level.name() == "garbage" -- если уровень Svalka, то
if i, se_name in ipairs(bad_object_names) do
   se_bj = alife():object(se_name)
   if se_obj then
      news_manager.send_tip(db.actor, "Удалили объект "..se_name,nil,nil,1000) -- запись в ПДА
	  alife():release(se_obj, true) -- Удаляем старого, если есть
   end
end

for i, v in ipairs( { 6154 } ) do -- spawn_id в алспавне,
   news_manager.send_tip(db.actor, "Получили объект "..v,nil,nil,1000) -- запись в ПДА
   alife():create( v ) --спавним нового
end
end

When you get to the cave, the spiders are back. Clear them out and drop Luke's body into the teleport without entering yourself. Now return to Yantar by way of Bar > Wild Territory and do the same with Ghost. For Fang in Pripyat (east), go to Bar > Military Warehouses and use the Tellurium "Breakdown" artifact to Pripyat (east). Get Fang and use the teleport in the lower level of the building.

When you spawn in Forest of Oblivion, you have a mountain between you and the cave, along with all sorts of mutants. The most direct route with minimum mutant contact is to go directly west into the valley, fight off the Flesh and Boar, go up the east side of the mountain, and when you get to the west side and can see the path, turn southwest and go straight for the cave. Go through the teleport yourself and take each of the bodies to the machine. Fortunately, you spawn next to the first door and don't need to drag them through the maze of tunnels.

I don't think it matters what order you do them in. I usually follow the order they were found in. Put Luke in the room and close the door. You get the following messages:

1. The Death event has been eliminated.
2. Item lost: Death artifact
3. A positive event

There's an earthquake and you can open the door. The character eventually spawns and you can talk to them:

Each one vanishes without a single thank you. Head back to the Bar (Stibnitovy "Breakdown" artifact > Zaton > Cordon > Bar). Finish any tasks that you have (if you want). When you're ready to end the game, go to the Bar's south checkpoint where the Forest of Oblivion teleport is and talk to the Important Character:

A final message:

Here, the events of the first part of "The Doubles" come to a close; the continuation follows in the next part.

From Forester's, follow the road north, take out the NATO troops, and take the City of the Dead teleport. When you spawn at the south end of town, you have a thought to look around. Other than a couple of light blue stash boxes with food and vodka, and some working vehicles behind the school, the only thing I found was a hysterical Bandit that I couldn't talk to in the Fitness Center's second level. So, I shot him and got some sort of update. His smartphone had a recording:

Yochi's smartphone: {voice recorder} [track 0259^ ..//Sheluden, listen up! There's a soldier's body at the "Quiet Shelter" location. He has a flash drive with data about the crossings. He was carrying it, but didn't make it. Maybe you can deliver it. And then I'll personally give you a nickname - The Deliverer!]

I searched every building on the map, plus the sewer system. I also searched the church in Suburbs, Pripyat (east) Hospital and Book Store, and the Deserted hospital. I'm not sure where else to look.

Some notes on the City of the Dead:

• The southeast road transitions to Red forest (X-10).
• The northwest road guarded by BTR. Beyond the BTR is the transition to the Outpost.
• The park fountain at the south has some sort of security system.

1. Askold: "Stop, don't come any closer!"
2. Revived: "Not very welcoming!"
3. Askold: - Security formalities. Don't forget that you're under surveillance.
4. Revived: "How could I forget! So, to what do I owe this distinguished visit? Zarka told me that the Watch is planning to destroy me."
5. Askold: "There's no point in eliminating you now. You don't have the artifacts with you... [Ah, thought Scar, so if I return the artifacts, they'll immediately send me back in a body bag.] I have some information for you, directly related to your mission, as you understand it, Stalker."
6. Revived: "And is that the only reason you came down from 'heaven'?" Scar teased.
7. Askold: "We only do what is expedient, based on the situation. Now, to the point. Do you understand what the Zone is?"
8. Revived: "Well, now you can tell me," Scar retorted to the tiresome question, "and I hope your version will be more original than all the previous ones I've heard."
9. Askold: "It doesn't matter to me, the question was more rhetorical. So, the Zone, to use an analogy, is like a non-healing fistula on a person's skin. Have you ever seen anything like that?"
10. Revived: - I had to.
11. Askold: "It's a gruesome sight, wouldn't you agree, when you can see the internal organs through a tear in the skin, and it's all festering and not healing?"
12. Revived: "Why all these medical details?!"
13. Askold: "Do you know the reason why it's not healing?"
14. Revived: - I haven't thought about it.
15. Askold: "Besides the informational reason why the 'fistula' appeared, the existence of anything massive has significant inertia, but in addition to that, pathogenic organisms that rush to the affected area also prevent the fistula from closing. Do you understand what I'm getting at?"
16. Revived: "Oh, come on, it's not exactly rocket science – you're just laying the groundwork for the idea that we, the Stalkers, are like microbes that prevent the Zone from 'healing,' right?"
17. Askold: "Exactly! [the Watch Commander's voice became "metallic"] You must immediately cease your attempts to revive that Zone, whose female avatar drove you mad, and start wanting to help humanity close the rift."
18. Revived: "To start wanting..." Where did you pick up such expressions? In the thirtieth century? We don't talk like that... and how can you even force yourself to want something?
19. Askold: "Such practices exist in our time, which is why I'm using this terminology. It seems to me, judging by the characteristics I've observed in you during my pursuit, that you possess the inherent abilities for this."
20. Revived: "Oh, my dear mother... you lousy hunters! You would have been searching for me for a long time if it weren't for this false tip about treasure in this pit."
21. Askold: "It doesn't matter anymore, I've given you the information you need to think about, and the rest is up to you... And one more thing you should know: those anomalous formations that you, the Stalkers, call "reality perforators," are actually "reality destroyers." And the ability to slip into the informational cracks of the Zone is just a side effect. These objects are simply heavier than the reality they are in, and upon contact with human desire, they sink under their own weight into a deeper "depth" of reality distortion, which is the Zone itself, dragging along whoever possesses them."
22. Revived: "If only you would also tell me about your relationship with the one who calls himself 'To Leave Unavenged,' then I would myself sink into the ground from the weight of such knowledge, far away from you, comrades of the Watch..." [Scar tried to change the subject]
23. Askold: "This doesn't concern you. You have our radio. In a difficult situation, you can use this radio to call the Time Watch fighters. But be warned, they will eliminate everything living around them, so don't get caught in their crosshairs! Now go."
24. Revived: "I'm still going! [They think they've injected me with viral information, and now I'm going to go and wipe out the Stalkers in the zone... well, well...]"

You spawn at the top of a spiral staircase. Work your way through the Sarcophagus, where you will encounter several Zhutmys, instant-kill holograms, and the unnamed mutants that carry the Night Star artifact. Hopefully, you can get enough Zhutmy eyes. Fight your way through Monolith Control. Do not destroy the O-consciousness hologram crystals, just continue past it to the stairs and spawn in Chernobyl 2.

When you spawn in Chernobyl 2, go southwest to teleport to Chernobyl 1 and go south through the opening in the wall and follow the road east to the Pripyat teleport. There is a Goatling along the way that will speed up your trip. The nearby teleport goes to the Abandoned Hospital. In Pripyat, use the Torbernitovy "Breakdown" artifact to teleport back to the CNPP roof. Go to the northwest corner of the roof and drop into the teleport. You spawn in a small room with the Thallium "Breakdown" artifact. Pick up the artifact and continue toward the door with the teleport. You spawn in a broken section of the elevated walkway. At some point you get the task: Find the entrance to the station building. You may need to drop to the ground and walk around for a few minutes until you get it. Then, use the Thallium "Breakdown" artifact to Chernobyl 1, return to Pripyat and use the Torbernitovy "Breakdown" artifact again to teleport back to the CNPP roof. This time, take the teleport next to you, and the next teleport to go to Managing Tunnels.

Managing Tunnels

Managing Tunnels is a small map with mutants, instant-kill holograms, and Heather lifeless Zombies. There's a dead Scientist, but not much else until you come to a room with an alcove on the east wall with a ladder going up. A direct route is to go down the steps, through the hole in the wall, and into the south passage. Make a U-turn into another passage and through the door with dragon teeth along the bottom. Find the Dead Fairy artifact and the Underground Zone doc. Go down the ladder, turn north, take the first left and follow the passage until you can turn left again. Find the teleport on the right to Station of the Underdark. Go east and cross over south to find the broken staircase that leads to the Red Forest teleport.

Coming into Pripyat from Suburbs and heading for the Bus Station, you get stopped by Swifty:

1. Swifty: Wait!
2. Revived: Howdy, soldier! What are you guarding here?
3. Swifty: Whether I'm guarding you or not... What's it to you? As they say at the bar: come on in, don't hold me up!
4. Revived: Hmm... Everyone's so nervous! Don't get worked up, I'll move on anyway. You can at least calm down here if it's such a secret.
5. Swifty: Wait! .. Basically, we're stuck in Pripyat. Those who were leading us are dead. Over there, towards the Death Zones stadium, people's brains are exploding. What to do now? We don't know where to go, either.
6. Revived: Where are your comrades?
7. Swifty: Yeah, they've lit a fire in a barrel at the bus station and they're sitting there, waiting for the weather to clear. And I think we're all screwed. There's Monolith and some other armed fighters in town.
8. Revived: Why don't you go through the City of the Dead to the stalker zone?
9. Swifty: We don't really feel like adding to its dead population. You're from there... and if you've been through it, you know what I'm talking about.
10. Revived: Good. I wish you survival! [And not becoming Monolith fighters, Scar muttered quietly under his breath.]
11. Swifty: Okay. I have to go on shift anyway. If you want, I'll take you to our senior. He's the most experienced of the rest. Maybe he can tell you more.
12. Revived: Yeah? Well, it would be interesting to chat.

Follow him to the Bus Station and talk to Kagor:

1. Kagor: And here are the guests!
2. Revived: Hello, stalker! Are you stuck here? Tell me what's going on.
3. Kagor: It's true that we're stuck. So stuck that we don't even know how to get out. It's such a nightmare all around... Did you see?
4. Revived: Not really. I just arrived.
5. Kagor: Did you walk through the City of the Dead?
6. Revived: Yes.
7. Kagor: Video of our... hm... dead fighters?
8. Revived: Maybe I did. Who can tell them apart now? They're all there... not quite dead, you know.
9. Kagor: I'm not just asking. A guy got left behind, the life of the party, so to speak. He'll be lost there. Bring him to us, and I'll give you some very interesting information in return. You won't regret it.
10. Revived: Damn it! How am I supposed to find him there?
11. Kagor: I'll tune your smartphone to his. It's been dying, so you'll only detect it if you're close enough. So, do you want to do it?
12. Revived: Yes, I'll take it! Or: Hmm... I think it's more important to continue on our way now, sorry!

This gives you the Find digger task. Go south to the Suburbs teleport and save before you use the teleport to City of the Dead along the west side of the road. When you spawn, you get two messages:

• Accompany the Stalkers
• Wait! That's a seasoned veteran! Looking at you, our guys decided to rush into the city of the dead. We found a helicopter pilot, and according to their documents, they have special forces weapons on board. You're a seasoned guy—help our guys get to the helicopters. And maybe some of what's there might be useful to you too!

A group of Stalkers spawn next to you. This is a strange one: on my first few attempts (I was trying to keep them all alive) there was an attack by Zombies, and then waves of mutants. It seemed impossible to save all the Stalkers. If you save before you teleport, you can adjust your weaponry for a better outcome. But after successfully beating the Zombies without any casualties, that was it and the Stalkers all went in different directions. I when to the target, which is a helicopter just outside the fence in the northeast corner of the map, and cleared out the cache to complete the task and got a message: Data on the coordinates of the entrance to the city's drainage system has been obtained..

I then turned southwest and headed for the digger. At the Outpost teleport, I encountered two Monolith and a BTR. Past that, I found Kruglov searching the digger's corps:

1. Kruglov: Hey, sir, where are you from?!? You're just in the nick of time! We were just about to get mauled by dogs! .. Well, I wasn't mauled, but that poor guy wasn't so lucky.
2. Revived: I see, I see... And wasn't it you who knocked him off, by any chance?
3. Kruglov: No, no, what are you saying!! Look for yourself - nothing but bites... I couldn't have done it anyway! How could you - into a living person, no, what are you saying!!
4. Revived: Well, yeah! Something like that
5. Kruglov: I was studying some previously unknown anomalous objects in the City of the Dead, but they attacked us, and killed the two soldiers guarding me! They defended themselves bravely, bravely! I ran behind those houses on the hill behind me, and that stalker was hiding there, and blind dogs immediately started pestering us... It was a nightmare, everything went wrong... but then, that's how it always goes here! I need to report what happened urgently, can you help me?
6. Revived: Help, help... that's all I hear... But what should I do?
7. Kruglov: The radio was damaged, so I walked, walked, and you next to me, like a squirrel... [without saying another word, the cowardly scientist ran along the ravine]

Kruglov then runs off to the Red Forest teleport. You get a message: You... find my boss near the city.. If you follow him through the teleport, he's nowhere to be seen. Search the digger to complete the task. On an eastern hilltop is Hawaiian, who will sell you information on any teleports you haven't already found:

1. Hawaiian: Hey adventurers! Are you just looking for something to do, or do you have a more lofty reason?
2. Revived: Both... I take it you've been around here long enough to know all the ins and outs, right? I'll take it at a reasonable price.
3. Hawaiian: Hmm, first time as a businessman and without any frills... Here's the info.
4. Revived: No time for waffling. Bye!

Continue to the northeast corner of the map to find three Scientist, but only one will talk to you:

1. Beads: Stalker! You're just in time! We're stuck here, and I have to admit, we're in a very difficult situation!
2. Revived: I see, I see... And what's the problem?
3. Beads: You can see for yourself... there are the dogs... they're scary... the city is a total nightmare - the living dead are walking around... I thought things like that only happened in science fiction movies! And also, our employee Kruglov has gone missing. He's not available for contact.
4. Revived: Calm down, he's not even in the city. And this place is called the City of the Dead. So it lives up to its name. That's probably why your Kruglov left here, so there's no point in waiting for him.
5. Beads: What a coward!! I'll report his behavior during the expedition to my superiors. But we're certainly not here to observe our employee's behavior, stalker. Our mission is to measure and record the parameters of the fields surrounding the anomalous objects observed only here. Have you seen them? Those strange, incomprehensible formations hanging in the air. And here's the thing. You've seen for yourself that our mission is on the brink of failure. May I ask you, for a good reward, of course, to examine these objects with our special detector? And I'll wait for you here. The expedition, which has cost so much money and even lives, must not be disrupted! I beg you for your help!!
6. Revived: Okay, okay... I see you're not the same kind of person as your Kruglov... Give me the device, I'll run quickly and take measurements.
7. Beads: Excellent! Here you go, take the analyzer. I'll be waiting for you here.

Beads gives you his analyzer and you get: New Priority: Find all anomalous objects in the city and surrounding area, but no task displays on your PDA. The easiest way to find most of them is with the drone. However, there is one inside the partially collapsed apartment building and one in a house to the southeast. When you get near one, or a cluster, there is a thunder clap. When you've scan them all, you get a task update to report to the scientists:

1. Revived: Mine has come! Mine has returned, oh great Jedi!
2. Beads: - [Everyone here must be slowly losing their minds, thought the scientist, switching to a formal tone just in case.] I'm extremely glad you're back! I won't ask you for details, here's your reward! And you give me back the analyzer.
3. Revived: Here you go.

Report back to Kagor:

1. Kagor: Alive?! I never expected it!
2. Revived: Yeah, it's okay, I'm used to the dead by now. Bad news.
3. Kagor: It's clear.
4. Revived: Your life and soul of the party died. I don't know if it was a heroic death or what. He helped some nerdy scientist there, but the dogs mauled him. So that's how it is.
5. Kagor: Damn... He was a good guy! .. Well, and... okay. I promised to show you something interesting. Anyway, one of our comrades knows how to get past the death zone to the other side of the city. Are you interested?
6. Revived: (either) No, I'll manage somehow myself! (or) Yes (and you get a task to follow the guide)

On the other side of the city, find Ayr somewhere in or around the school:

1. Ayr: Hello, stalker. I think you have a lot of questions for me, right?
2. Revived: Who are you?
3. Ayr: I represent another loop. And the time for its answers has not yet come.
4. Revived: And yet... Am I really that much of a distraction from climbing around the back of the school?
5. Ayr: Persistence is a good quality! So what brings you here?
6. Revived: By fate... well, they say that one of the Zone's very first old-timers is wandering around Pripyat, who knows everything here... well, and so on. So, I decided to take a look!
7. Ayr: Take a look? I'm not exactly an oil painting to be stared at. Fine. Tell me why you came!
8. Revived: So, I'm in the right place after all... Listen, do you know why my infoscanner sometimes gets information out of nowhere about some events in the Zone? Like, a squad of stalkers or mutants has been destroyed, huh?
9. Ayr: Well, you said it quite well – "out of nowhere"! You forgot that the Zone is half the reality of the physical world, and half the Earth's information field. I think they'll soon be teaching in schools that the Zone is a short circuit between the information field and the physical plane.
10. Revived: Tex.. I take it that was the answer, right?
11. Ayr: Yes..
12. Revived: Something "uh-huh" came out as somewhat meaningful. Go ahead and talk if you know what it is.
13. Ayr: What sensitivity... from a mercenary... Yes, I thought about "halves". In fact, they're not halves, but quarters, or even less.
14. Revived: Wait, wait, old-timer, you're still on your own, and I've lost track. What's this halves-quarters thing? ..? You said it, half reality, half information field! Just now. You said it yourself!
15. Ayr: Well, yes... That's - so as not to go into too much detail. Okay. We'll talk about this again sometime.
16. Revived: Okay, fine! What do these messages mean? Are they important? What makes them so loud when they're broadcast by an infoscanner?
17. Ayr: Ah... in that regard... yes, of course! The death of any friendly squad means you can no longer accept missions from that squad. The number of squads steadily dwindles while you're wandering the Zone. Take note. And the death of mutant groups means that other groups can now pass through the points they occupied, and the situation in the Zone has changed. Get it?
18. Revived: Now I get it, thanks!

1. Revived: I have another question. A crazy girl named Ellie showed up here. What's the best way to beat her up, if that's the case?
2. Ayr: Is it okay to get girls wet? A wet girl is...
3. Revived: Girls like these will make you dry out. To get to her, you still have to take out the Depot and the Flea Market. And what about the stalkers?
4. Ayr: Ah... that's a different story! .. Well, there is a method. After her second phrase...
5. Revived: Hmm! Oh, thank you! Otherwise it's like "Silent Hill," God forbid!
6. Ayr: Bye!
7. Revived: [Already leaving, Scar heard Er humming an old, still Soviet song, “The world is not simple, not at all...”]

1. Revived: Well, what if, God forbid, the stalker's trail leads to the Marshes? What then?
2. Ayr: Wow! You've seen so far! Just you wait, I'll see so far too.
3. Revived: [The Reborn waited patiently]
4. Ayr: Yeah! Well, it's only worth sticking your nose in there at night if you're close to your enemies. You can steal their equipment at night and leave it where it won't get in the way during the day. There's no point fighting patrols. They'll send new ones, even more than before. Basically, act quietly, don't shoot at anything you don't like first, ignore the idiots who stray from the main force; idiots always have their own agenda. What? Am I being misleading? Just wait, if you get there, the whole picture will come together. Just don't forget what I told you here.
5. Revived: Holy-holy! .. This is the first time I've seen a clairvoyant!
6. Ayr: Slow down a bit, friend! Whether I'm clairvoyant or not, you'll find out later.
7. Revived: Oh, come on! Don't be offended! It's just me, nervously blurting out something funny in conversation. I wish you good health and many years in the Zone.
8. Ayr: That's all!

The following list contains tasks you get from squad leaders, identifiable by a circled dot on your minimap. The first six are important in that they provide some good swag and information you will need along the way. Remember, you have to come back to the task giver to complete it before you can get another. The order may vary depending on which faction the task giver belongs to, but the first six seem to be consistent. To obtain and deliver to the customer.

1. Bat (may change with each game) — "I have a job for you! I can't go there myself right now, but if you return the artifact, you'll get a genuine bandit's black cloak, almost undamaged. It's not new, of course, but it has a cozy little pocket made of shielding nanoweave fabric. Guess what it's for? That's right! For the artifact. And I'll also give you a cool dagger. It's a captured German one, the guys dug it up somewhere, but it's in excellent condition. Come on, I'm waiting!" Walkthrough: Garbage — Go into the Train Hanger's west entrance and watch for a Bloodsucker. Turn right just inside the door and up the stairs to the catwalk that runs along the south wall. The backpack is just through the doorway of the east wall on the left. Reward — Knife and Black Gangster Coat.
2. PSO-1 scope — "Find and return the stolen scope." Walkthrough: Garbage — I found a teleport at the south end of the Flea Market where Beard (Hunter) sits, but when I needed it for this task, it wasn't there. Anyway, it's worth a try: Just drop off the edge of the ledge (you may need to hop over Beard (Hunter). If it's not there, go into the Train Hanger's west entrance, and use the stacked items along the north wall to get on top of the wall. Go east along the top of the wall to the tree at the east end. Jump to the tree branch and make your way to the tower to find the Bandit and scope. You can drop down from there, but you take some damage and start to bleed. To avoid this, use the tree and drop down to the wall, then to the ground. Reward — CHN-2 Vest
3. Special first-aid kit of the "Monolith" group — "The first-aid kit is labeled "Set of radical-action anti-radiation drugs." The instructions for use contain a long list of unpleasant side effects." Walkthrough: Garbage — Simply navigate the anomalies while avoiding the mutants. Easiest to approach from the north. Reward — Spring artifact and Mercenary Light Jumpsuit
4. Mobile radio — "I have a task for you. Deep in the Red Forest, behind an old Soviet tank, lies a corpse with a backpack, and in the backpack is a radio. No details, okay? You bring it to me, and in return I'll get you a really nice shotgun." Walkthrough: Red Forest — If you're just getting started, you may need to wait on this one until you get to Military warehouses, which then provides a teleport to Red Forest. As with the first-aid kit, avoid the mutants and anomalies. Reward — BARS Shotgun, good for killing mutants that are out of normal shotgun range.
5. The smartphone of a spy who visited Limansk — See Red Forest. Reward — Gravi artifact and Sunrise Bodysuit
6. Berill-5M armored suit — "Okay, listen up. I was carrying a valuable piece of body armor back to our base, but I didn't make it all the way. There were reasons... why are you looking at me like that? My legs started giving out, understand?... So, I hid it right where my legs gave out – right at the former "Duty" base. Now it's overrun with zombies and mutants! Anyway, if you retrieve that body armor, we won't forget it. I'm hinting that the armor is very valuable, and the reward for it will be substantial, got it?" Walkthrough Agroprom — NOTE: If you get an SOS message when you spawn in Agroprom, see Find Sakharov. Enter the building from the south and find the suit in the blue stash box. This is the last task necessary to complete the game. However, I've added as many as I could complete in case you want to continue. Reward — Night Star artifact
7. Brain — "Mercenary, I need one thing... I lost something, it looks like a brain... but it's not a brain... well, it is a brain, but not quite... Anyway, get it back for me... When I was crawling around the factory grounds, there was such a blast... my brains got all mixed up, I almost forgot who I was... I only came to my senses here, and I have this feeling that my brains are still there, get them back for me... I can't concentrate on anything: I'm either assembling binoculars, or flashlights, then binoculars again, then flashlights... it's awful!" Walkthrough: Yantar — The brain is in a wooden box on the roof of the building with the X-16 entrance. The roof also contains hidden teleports. Go too far left, and you end up in Agroprom. Too far right, you're in Military warehouses. I even ended up in Cordon once. To get to the roof, use the stairs or ladder going to the roof of the build behind, or to the east. Use the boards to get inside and up the stairs to the top floor. Go through the doorway onto the roof and climb the ladder to the box. From the ladder, walk on top of the wall to the front of the box and examine it to get the brain. You may need to aim around the box to get the prompt. Getting back down can be even more difficult. I found it easiest to jump north to the top of the wall and continue down to the next roof. Reward — Four Headlamps and Five Binoculars
8. Artifact "dancing accordion" — "Mercenary, help me. You see, the thing is, I recently called my daughter and promised to bring her some kind of toy from the zone. Yes. But then I had to escape from some bandits, and I quickly hid my gift wherever I could... My daughter was so happy... And what will I tell her now? Help me, please. I don't have any money, and... Help me if you can, just like that. And I'll give you my empty backpack. It's not just any backpack. A balloon fits perfectly inside it. And it comes out, and it goes in... It comes out perfectly..." Walkthrough: Wild Territory — If you take the task in Bar, use the teleport in the southwest corner (south of the usual teleport to Wild Territory). This puts you between the Construction Site and Burner anomaly field under the overpass. Clear the way of Zombies and a Controller, then follow the fence on the north side of the road all the way to the end and around to get to the stash box. I've read that having this artifact in your backpack shows you the location of your swag when it gets taken during a teleport, but I've never tested it. Plus, you can't do any more tasks until you turn it in. Also, you may notice a group of friendlies nearby. This is a Duty troop looking to get to Bar. Lead them through Wild Territory and get a 25,000 RU reward for each one that survives. This task is made impossible by the fact that they systematically walk into a camp fire or Burner anomaly. When the Major gets killed, they all stop moving. You can wait on this until you transport Ghost (you'll know what I mean when you get there). Reward — Empty Backpack
9. Boar-12 — "Mercenary, when monsters attacked our group in the dungeon, we had to abandon the shotgun we found there. These days, shotguns are known to be the best weapon against monsters. And that shotgun was a beautiful 14-round beast. It's called "Vepr." And its beauty lies in its rate of fire! Of all the shotguns, this one is the fastest-firing! Go and retrieve it from there; why let it rust in the dungeon?" Walkthrough: Agroprom Underground — Ah, but which loop? See Dungeons agribusiness for details. In short, go Yantar > Another Agriculture > Another Subway > Dungeons agribusiness. In the control room, go down the spiral staircase. If you didn't go this way the first time, you have the three cut scenes. Find the gun in the backpack, climb the ladder, and go through the teleport to return to the right loop. Reward — 30,000 RUs
10. Trolley "Huanomariya" (skateboard) — Just imagine, one of our carts was stolen! You, you know, give it back to us! Sometimes in the evenings, we'd get stoned with the boys and it would get so good that we'd really want to ride in that cart. They didn't provide us with any other means of transportation. Oh, if only I could catch those smart guys... and get on that cart!" Walkthrough: Dark Valley — The item sits in a stash, located in a semi trailer south of the X-18 building. Reward — Freedom Exoskeleton
11. Cocoon — "Mercenary, there's a job for you: retrieve a very valuable artifact called "The Cocoon." I got a tip about a stash in the "City of the Dead," go and get the artifact, and I'll give you a "Seva" suit in return." Walkthrough: City of the Dead — Use the north teleport in Red Forest to get to City of the Dead. Go in the southeast door and up to the top floor. Go into the far-left apartment, turn left, and go past the bathroom to the room with a large, green cabinet and get the artifact. Reward — SEVA suit
12. Named IEO — "Yes, you can help. I had a sniper rifle, nothing particularly remarkable, but it was a personalized weapon, from... well, not from my grandfather, of course, but... I got it somehow! I lost it in some crazy place... well, we were drunk and decided to go to the Hollow to look at the super-giants. We got there when it was already dark. And we were walking around drunk, shouting, not afraid of anything... And then, out of nowhere, two chimeras jumped out at us, and then a pack of pseudodogs appeared behind them. I barely escaped with my life, and I left my beloved rifle and backpack behind. I'll reward you with whatever I have!" Walkthrough: Darkscape — Find the backpack under a pine tree. Collecting the rifle may spawn some mutants. Reward — Exoskeleton
13. Minigun — "Listen, our squad needs a six-barreled machine gun for a clearing operation. I'll give you the coordinates if you agree. And as a reward, I'll give you a rare artifact that's excellent at removing radiation. Are you in?" Walkthrough Red forest (CS) — If you have been yet, see Red forest (CS) on how to get there and back.
14. Scanner anomalies — "Can you retrieve one item for us? We're scientists, and we were testing a prototype – it's a small device that can measure the power of male anomalous abilities, but it's not very useful yet; we only spent two days learning how to take readings. When we were taking measurements in the old mine, something happened, something attacked us... objects flew at us from all sides... only I managed to get out alive. The device is still down there with the other guys; they were thrown into anomalies, and whatever attacked us is probably still there. So getting it back won't be easy, but if you manage to retrieve it, you'll receive a good reward." Walkthrough: Red Forest — The mine is full of spiders and you can kill most of them if you use Forester's teleport that puts you in a safe place to shoot at them from. Then use the Asbestos "Breakdown" artifact to get back on the other side of the gate. Reward — 25,000 RUs
15. Abnormal mushroom — "Listen, I think you'd really enjoy this mission. We need to go to the newly discovered Valley of Whispers and bring back a mushroom. What are you looking at? Mushrooms are still a thing." Walkthrough Valley of Whispers is VaHey rustles — You have two options for getting there: use the Torbernitovy "Breakdown" artifact and then the Halkantitovy "Breakdown" artifact, or one of the teleports you bought from Korchoi in East Pripyat. Go there and use the west teleport along the south of the map. When you spawn in VaHey rustles, use the nearby teleport to get out of the cave. There's plenty of swag and Abnormal mushrooms. If you happen to talk with Yasha, it goes like this:
    1. Revived: Rockefeller said you needed help. What are you researching here?
    2. Yasha: According to our theory, there are some anomalous formations Underground in this area. It's possible that these formations triggered the powerful local emission that reshaped the entire valley. We sent Stalkers into the valley with specially calibrated detectors to locate these anomalies. One of these Stalkers found a place where the detector readings went off the charts. But he died on his way back to us. Rockefeller sold us his smartphone. So now we have the coordinates of this location. According to the recordings on the Stalker's gadget, it's a cave blocked by rocks. What's inside this cave is unknown. That's why we need fighters for escort.
    3. Revived: And did you, by any chance, hire mercenaries to protect these places from "troublesome" trackers?
    4. Yasha: No. Our financial resources do not allow for that. But we are not the only ones trying to find these anomalous formations here.
    5. Revived: I agree to help. What's the plan of action?
    6. Yasha: First, you need to get some explosives to clear the entrance to the cave. Talk to Rockefeller – he knows about it.
    7. Revived: Either, "I don't have time for this." or "I got the explosives."
    There is no direct way to get to the target area. Use the map to navigate west, then south, then back east to the complex made of shipping containers. Access the complex by climbing the stacked boxes at the west end near the bridge that's closed at the end. Sprint-jump to the top and make your way to the building in the northeast corner. Go down the ramp and find the light blue stash box with the mushroom. Now head to the northwest corner of the map to find a mine shaft along the west end near the northern boarder. If the first door is closed, activate the keypad. If the second door is closed, hit it with a shotgun. The third door is a teleport to Red forest (Radar—note the lower case f). Follow the road south, then turn west and follow it to the end. The teleport goes to the Red Forest (capital F) cave north of the tank. This teleport is a bit deceiving in that you have to go about 10 yards past it before anything happens. Reward — 7000 RUs
16. USB drive with movies on it — "Be a friend, help us get the flash drive back. It has my favorite movie on it, and the guys' favorite too, "Avatar" – both parts. And also "Guest from the Future," we love watching that too. But the guy with the flash drive first went off to God knows where for a few days, and when he came back, guess what, he says he dropped it in Limansk, the jerk! In Li-mansk!! There's a Monolith there now, you know... or rather, NOT healthy!), yeah... Be a friend, bring it back! We'll all be grateful to you. We turn it on before bed on the laptop and just zone out... We have some kind of weird thing made of wires lying around, we'll give it to you as a reward, we won't regret it! Just be careful there, there are adepts swarming all over the place." Walkthrough Limansk — The stash box is located close to the tunnel where you spawn, but it's in the building's attic and no obvious way to get there. If you fly the drone you can see it, along with a teleport nearby. You must fight your way to the river to get to the other teleport. At the river, turn east to find the teleport inside the small brick building. This gets you to the stash. Now climb the rubble up into the attic and take the teleport to Agroprom (usually, the teleport back to Red Forest isn't available). There are two other options:
    1. Continue on to the top floor of the Construction Site, where there's a hidden teleport to southeast Red Forest near the Military warehouses teleport. This distorted my video. I'm not sure if it is my machine, or that it's intentional.
    2. Continue on through the Construction Site, turn the generator off just before you reach the Hospital teleport (which isn't working either), and return to the river.
    Reward — 1500 RUs and a Psi Helmet for Red forest (CS).
17. CS-3a body armor — "There's a request to find the armor of a recently vanished group. These weren't ordinary people; their suits were among the best in terms of adaptation to the Zone's conditions. Now, some people are interested in studying the technology used to make this armor. A sample is needed. Are you up for the job?" Walkthrough: Fairy Valley — The only way I know to get to Fairy Valley is from Dark Valley. Go northwest to find a dynamite box with the suit and some artifacts.
18. OGRS 2 "Flamer" — "Hey, warrior, bring me a new Monolith weapon. This is a real job for a mercenary, even a former one. The Monolith faction has acquired fighters armed with some new flamethrowers. And, accordingly, there are interested parties willing to pay 30,000 for a sample." Walkthrough: Plant Rostock — The only ways I know to get there is Military warehouses > ATP or the office building entry in the north part of Suburbs (by way of Red forest (CS)). Find the item in a pipe on the ground level of the construction site. To leave, you have two options: go southwest to find a ladder up with a teleport to Yantar at the top. However, if you don't have a Functional Psi Helmet, you die pretty quick. There's also a teleport to Limansk in the southwest corner of the Underground. Find a passage to the southern tunnel, then go west until you find it in a small room on the right. Reward — 30,000 RUs
19. Scarlet Flower — "Help me, mercenary. There's an artifact in the Zone we've nicknamed "The Scarlet Flower." It's useless to stalkers, but women love it so much that any woman could only dream of such a souvenir. With a gift like that, any woman would give herself to you. I have a date coming up soon, and I desperately need this "Scarlet Flower." It's the only reason I'm still in the Zone; it was seen here recently. This artifact looks like a magical flower; it glows both day and night. Get me the artifact, and I'll reward you!" Walkthrough: Yantar — The only thing with this is that you can't return to Agroprom from Yantar and must go to Red Forest. Reward — Ironically, I did not get a reward for this.
20. Device mercenary — "Listen up! Our comrade perished in these damned dungeons. And with him, the information he'd earned with his own blood. So, you give us his smartphone, and we'll give you the Barrett. Will you take it?" Walkthrough: Dungeons agribusiness — The smartphone is in the submerged backpack that was empty the first time you checked it after visiting Strelok's hideout for the first time. Reward — Barrett sniper rifle.
21. Bottle of vodka — "Here's the deal. Stalkers recently learned of a previously closed area called the Valley of Whispers. Well, some guy recently ventured into a huge cave, supposedly stretching beneath the entire Zone, and, most importantly, brought back some special water. Living, nonliving... That guy, as is common in the Zone, disappeared somewhere... but I don't want to get into that, I just want to pay you so I don't have to go all the way to the ends of the earth myself. Sign up? I'll give you a "goldfish."" Walkthrough: Valley of Whispers is VaHey rustles — You have two options for getting there: use the Torbernitovy "Breakdown" artifact and then the Halkantitovy "Breakdown" artifact, or one of the teleports you bought from Korchoi in East Pripyat. Go there and use the west teleport along the south of the map. When you spawn in VaHey rustles, use the nearby teleport to get out of the cave. Either way, make your way to the target area and approach the tree from the west. Find the backpack in the tree with the vodka and other items. Now head to the northwest corner of the map to find a mine shaft along the west end near the northern boarder. If the first door is closed, activate the keypad. If the second door is closed, hit it with a shotgun. The third door is a teleport to Red forest (Radar—note the lower case f). Follow the road south, then turn west and follow it to the end. The teleport goes to the Red Forest (capital F) cave north of the tank. This teleport is a bit deceiving in that you have to go about 10 yards past it before anything happens. Reward — Goldfish artifact
22. Steering wheel dredger Creek — "Listen, I have a thing! Some guy hid this weird thing in a time of need, dragging it from Zaton through the Forest of Oblivion. Like, an artifact... And he told me that anyone who touches it... well, he wants to drag it back to the barge in Zaton so badly that he has no strength left to resist. Yeah, he told me this, and then he got shot by a criminal... Go get it, I... well, I'm kind of scared, there are anomalies and monsters there! And I'll get you the latest special forces exa, you can even run in it. And don't ask me why I need that steering wheel!" Walkthrough: Forest of Oblivion ⏼ Go to the Fairy Valley's northeast corner to teleport to Forest of Oblivion. I had trouble with this map crashing-to-desktop, so be sure to Quick Save often. The artifact is in a stash box under some boulders. Reward — Special Forces reinforced exoskeleton
23. Fire Loop — "We need to retrieve the "Fiery Loop" artifact. We have the coordinates. The reward, as they say, is above market value - 10,000 rubles. What do you say?" Walkthrough: Pripyat — Go to the stadium's north grandstand and jump on top of the wall at either end where it's lower. Then walk along the top of the north wall to the target and drop down to the roof below. Find the artifact in a backpack, along with several other items. Getting back, depending on where you got the task from, may be a long walk. Most likely, you want to head south to the Suburbs transition. This puts you at the north end of the road. There is a transition on the west side to City of the Dead, to Plant Rostock in the entry of the large office building north of the church, and to Radar at the south end of the road.
24. Fountain — "You look like the right person for this job. An order has come in from the mainland for new types of artifacts that have recently appeared in the Zone. Specifically, they need the "Fountain" artifact. I'll pay you with a couple of containers of ammunition for some kind of grav-gun. They were recently found in the Zone, but they don't fit any existing weapons. So, if that reward suits you, then take the job." NOTE: You may not be able to use Empty Road. It seems that once you leave the loop, it is no longer safe and you die within a few seconds of spawning. Walkthrough: Vehicle Graveyard — The only way I know to get there is without swag. You can use the Asbestos "Breakdown" artifact in Garbage, but you lose your swag (including the artifact). There is a teleport in the northwest corner of Dead Bar. I recommend using the south teleport in Valley of the Stones. This puts you at the north end of the road with the stash to the west. Go directly to it and get stopped by a bluff. Go north along the bluff to find a spot where you can climb up to the stash. From there, go back east and stay north to avoid contact with hostels. Go south along the bluff to a copy of the Garbage Train Hanger where you can buy bandages and vodka, maybe even find a weapon. Ignore the Important Character for now, that comes near the end of the game. Follow the road south to the railroad tracks and beware of a Burer that hangs around. If the Burer is in or near the east tunnel, go west to the buildings just south of the tracks and lure it away. Then, take the tracks over the bridge, into the tunnel, and to the teleport to Dead Bar. Go to the Bar and buy a shotgun with a few rounds of ammo, then go to the north road where there's always a Zombie or two and you can get enough swag to recover what you paid for the shotgun. Take the road south to Dead Cordon. If you haven't been to Dead Cordon yet, complete those instructions and continue on to teleport in Dell Lighting standing (Darkscape).

The Asbestos "Breakdown" Artifact

• Military warehouses to Garbage
• Red Forest to Red Forest Catacombs (mine)
• Garbage to Vehicle graveyard (not in Garbage, but a different map, and you have to find your swag)
• Bar to Topi (Swamp)

The Galena "Breakdown" Artifact

• Military warehouses to Dark Valley
• Jupiter to Garbage
• Red Forest to Agroprom
• Topi (Swamp) to Generators

The Halkantitovy "Breakdown" Artifact

• Another Agribusiness to Valley of Whispers (VaHey rustles)
• Valley of Whispers to the Valley of Stones (you lose your swag)
• Pripyat (east) to Lab X8
• Amber (Yantar) to Cordon
• Overpass to Excavation Time

The Stibnitovy "Breakdown" Artifact

• Subzone (a.k.a., Abyss under the Zone) to Subzone (another area with a teleport to Zaton)
• Warehouses to Subzone (Abyss)
• Overpass to Cordon
• Hidden Road to Empty land

The Tellurium "Breakdown" Artifact

• Garbage to Red Forest (on the plateau with all the artifacts)
• Military warehouses to Pripyat (east)
• Amber (Yantar) to Amber ANC (In Yantar, it puts you inside the mobile lab behind the closed-off area, giving you access to the teleport to the Jupiter lab.)
• Pripyat (east) to Jupiter

The Thallium "Breakdown" Artifact

• CNPP2 to CNPP1
• CNPP1 to CNPP2
• Excavation Time to Polygon O-consciousness (see Saving Ket)
• Abandoned Institute to Plant Rostock
• Plant Rostock to Empty land

The Torbernitovy "Breakdown" Artifact

• Lab X18 (Valley of Stones) to Lab X18 (Dark Valley)
• Dark Valley to Military warehouses
• Garbage to Valley Rustles
• Pripyat to Stantsiya2 (Chernobyl 2)