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1.10 mines: home of the poltergeists

rifles everywhere. Also several artifacts including the compass. It's worth

50000ru but you can't sell it ( part of the main quest). I walked straight

table. Didn't even need to use a detector.

around. You get hit with a crate or a gun it'll take two/three bandages to

down the ladder for an artifact. There's a passage back to the main tunnel.

main mission again: 'talk to the freedom outpost commander. ' you now have

> see the mercenaries in the village. They have 'misplaced' a squad of

space anomaly'loop'. First kill some bloodsuckers, then climb a tower to

receive a radio transmission giving the mercs' co-ordinates. When you climb

of the space anomaly bubble - loop thingy. If you haven't already done so,

You'll find the sa "avalanche" on the dead bandits. Clear sky and lebedev

> talk to lebedev: "scout the road through limansk to ensure safe passage of

caution. ".

a medikit and they will warn you of a booby-trapped car ahead. Now i've

nice weaponry: there's an rp-74 light machine gun (7.62pp ammo) and a

the bandits from a safe distance. The bullet doesn't drop as it does with

but there's a gate on the right. Go through to the house.

There are space bubble anomalies right across the road, but it's easy to

giraffe in the children's playground to receive the next objective.

with locked doors. =( there's the occasional bit of loot, eg. Medikits

higher floors are fairly dumb and don't even turn to attack. There's some

generator. There's a bit of a puzzle here. Climb a ladder inside the first

This completes lebedev's task to scout the way through limansk: "good job.

the edge of limansk. "

> take down the military chopper. There is a red "health" bar at top-right of

screen. 'lean' from behind cover you can take it down with a couple of clips

ammo, artifacts, scopes, silencers, flashdrives and pdas. So that's the

there's a cut scene while lebedev explains what is happening. With your help,

send you over your weight limit! There's a battle at ground level between cs

it will stop strelok. Only an electro-magnetic weapon can harm the prototype's

If you have 300 000ru and thousands of rounds of ammo, i'm sorry.

> incapacitate strelok's suit with the gauss rifle.

the teleport until the red "health" bar at top right of the screen reduces to

zero. There's another cutscene, a panorama of the npp, and you see a room

to the s. T. A. L. K. E. R. Tattoo on his arm. That's it. Finito! The credits roll.

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there's the usual fps keyboard controls. Learn to use wasd by touch

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is still there for some people. =( this was an "unofficial" patch.

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You will miss out on a bunch of missions, don't stress over it.

Failed tasks are recorded in your pda but cancelled tasks don't give

> pay for information about stashes, it's worth it to find those hard to

> always make headshots. Weapons aren't particularly powerful unless you

> no animal parts in this game, don't bother searching for tails lol.

your loot, avoid using them. And remember it's no good hauling a ton of

ammo and roubles to the end, they aren't needed.

> removing your own loot from a stash may be considered 'stealing' by

so you won't have to keep checking them over and over.

> you see a dude waving to you, he's either a guide, or he has a mission

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don't forget to save frequently.

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It's kinda cool/creepy trying to do stuff at night. Getting jumped by

dogs come you see a red dot approaching super fast but can't see what

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If you are bleeding, press ']' for bandages.

If health is low, press'[' for a medikit.

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(i didn't use quick save/load at all. )

"015 swamp veles detector"

or

"175 yantar find lefty"

point ... I wasn't willing to risk it.

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> bear is a bit better, but won't detect higher level artifacts.

> veles is the best detector in the game, so don't waste time with the

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of your suit for various benefits. The upgraded "sunrise" suit for example,

The one behind yantar has an "eye" worth 20,000 ru.

Anomalies may have different artifacts for different ppl. I've heard reports

mama's beads 6000ru radiation +2b bleeding +20g

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"you can't upgrade all the radiation/psi protection "legs" of the options

without disabling some of the "heavy armour" legs of the options. ) you

really have to read and try to understand each upgrade, because you can't

"uninstall" it, if you made a mistake.

anything without damage. I'm using a bulat as a "bulletproof-type" suit,

so i just switch between them, depending on what i am doing. "

> "for artifact hunting, fully upgraded anti-anomalous seva suit with

2x goldfish in the exo to carry all my gear. " thnx crashbang25.

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> don't waste your money buying rifles. Spend up on upgrades/repairs.

> i don't like pistols. You need to be ak74 is best assault rifle (ar) for early stages of game, until something

though, he won't go down. There is a better shotgun later on.

> there is a vintar sniper rifle in the swamp but it is damaged. There's not

enough ammo at the start of the game to make it worth repairing. There's a

100% vintar in agroprom, by which you'll have plenty of ammo. The duty

>the ac96/2 is the 1996 version of the ak47. There's a bunch of scoped

> sig 550 is accurate and powerful. For the late stages of the game, it's

while 'cloaked' (invisible). Track their eyeballs, and when they are up

close and 'uncloak' themselves to attack, slash/shoot them in the face.

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through, try stalkers, duty or freedom. Not bandits. They won't support

weapons by mass-killing stalkers and duty. If that's what you like.

> the faction system has been described as "broken", but it works in part.

> crashbang25: "best thing to do is pick a faction to hate, continue killing

Keep doing this then pick it all up, go to a friendly base and sell it all. "

> it is possible to do all faction objectives on your own, you just won't

> you can leave a faction, and join another faction, as long as they don't

> don't expect to ever completely eradicate the bandits. They are meant to

completely there's a chance mutants will take them out and the bandits will

now i'm not a beginner any more, i think i'll try it on "master" and join a

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