Introduction
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This is a guide about Stalker: Call of Pripyat. Please don't steal it, or if
you simply must at least give me credit.
This is currently for version 1.6
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Also, save often. Quicksave is F5, and it will be your best friend,
especially at harder difficulties, where screwing up in an emission even
once is a very quick death.
To avoid confusion, the second map will be refered to as Jupiter, with
Yanov being the safe house.
If you have any questions, my main email address is
dlisenby@knology.net
Or you could ask on the forums. Either would work.
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Table of Contents
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1. Game mechanics
1.1 Anomaly
1.2 Damage types
1.3 Achievements
1.4 On Nimble
1.5 Mutants
1.6 Factions
2. Zaton
2.1 Getting to Safety
2.2 Chopper 1
2.3 Chopper 2
2.4 Chopper 3
3. Zaton misc missions
3.1 Saving Petruha
3.2 Helping Snag
3.3 Helping Beard(dredge station)
3.4 Joker and Barge
3.5 Magpie
3.6 Bloodsuckers
3.7 Helping Owl(mercs)
3.8 Helping Hatchet
3.9 Cardan's tools
3.10 Helping Sultan/Beard
3.11 Helping Sultan/Beard again
3.12 Helping Owl with Sciensts
3.13 Snag's Jealousy
3.14 Freeform Controller
4. Jupiter
4.1 Getting your bearings
4.2 Evacuation site: AA complex
4.3 Chopper 4: Minefield
4.4 Looking for the Road
4.5 On the Road to Pripyat
5. Jupiter misc missions
5.1 Nitro's tools
5.2 Nitro's toys
5.3 Hunting Bloodsuckers
5.4 Hunting Unidentified mutants
5.5 Hunting the Chimera
5.6 Helping Uncle Yar
5.7 Helping Vano
5.8 Helping Mitay
5.9 Securing the supply dump
5.10 Helping Strider
5.11 Oasis
5.12 Helping Garry
5.13 Helping the scientists
5.14 Strelok's Stashes
5.15 Freeform Jupiter documents
6. Pripyat
6.1 Hospital
6.2 Gauss Rifle
6.3 Missing Recon Squad
6.4 Book Store
6.5 The Sentry
6.6 The Lab
6.7 The Kindergarten
6.8 The Moving Signal
6.9 The Finale
7. Pripyat misc missions
7.1 Saving Zulu
7.2 One Shot
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1. Game Mechanics
This section will talk about all that misc stuff that doesn't belong
elsewhere.
1.1 Anomalies: Use the bolt to find any anomalies. They don't work very
well on the gravity anomalies, as the edges of them gofarther than
where they'll actually hurt you. Always save before going into an
anomaly field.
Gravity: These are those anomaly types that suck you in and blow
you up. They are the most harmful when stepped in, as they actually
suck you in. They are also the easiest to get around. They always
appear on the screen as a pulsating blob. If you aren't being chased by
something, get close enough to the anomaly to set it off, and back
away quick enough to not get sucked in. There a void in the gravity
sucking effect right after it goes off, so you have a nice amount of time
to sprint straight through it. They usually emit radiation. These anomalies
give rise to such artifacts likethe weight lifters: Night
Star(+4 weight, +1 rad), Gravi(+8 weight, +2 rad), and
Goldfish(+12 weight, +3 rad) and radiation eaters: Jellyfish(-2 rad) and
Wrenched(-3 rad). Occasionally Stone Flowers(+3 psy, +1 rad) are here as
well.
Locations with artifact spawns:
Zaton: Dredge Station, Claw, Burnt Farmstead caves, Swamp
Jupiter: Bitumen, Quarry
Gas: These are those seen in places like the swamps. They emit
toxicity, which hurts you and damages all of your gear. They can easily
be found by throwing bolts at them. Just walk around them if possible.
They house such artifacts as the toxic defenses: StoneBlood(+3 chem,
+1 rad) and Meat Chunk(+6 chem, +2 rad), the health restorers:
Soul(+2 health, +1 rad), the Kolobok(+4 health, +2 rad), and the
Firefly(+6 health, +3 rad), and the final rad eater: Bubble(-6 rad).
Locations with artifact spawns:
Zaton: Swamps, Oakpine, Burnt Farmstead caves
Jupiter: Quarry, Concrete Bath, Anomalous Grove, Plavni Anomaly
Pripyat: Department Store basement, mutated vines south of the Prometheus
Fire: These shoot up flames when you step on them. Rather painful.
Very annoying. They emit heat damage, which damages yourgear. Use
your bolts and you can avoid the actually shoots of flame. These hold
the wound healers: Mama's Beads(+2 wound, +2 rad),Eye(+4 wound,
+2 rad) and Flame(+6 wound, +3 rad), the fire guards: Crystal(+3 fire,
+1 rad) and Fireball(+6 fire, +2 rad). Night Stars can occasionally be
found here.
Locations with anomalies:
Zaton: Boiler, Burnt Farmstead, Circus
Jupiter: Bitumen, Ash Heap
Pripyat: Volcano anomaly
Electric: Bane of my existence. These shoot out insane bolts of
electricity when you walk through them. Very, very painful. They usually
emit radiation. Use your bolts here and walk very slow. These house
electric guards: Sparkler(+3 elec, +1 rad) and Flash(+6 elec, + 2 rad),
psy protection: Stone Flower(+3 psy, +1 rad) and Moonlight(+6 psy,
+2 rad), and endurance recoverers: Battery(+2 end, +1 rad),
Shell(+4 end, +2 rad), and Snowflake(+6 end, +3 rad).
Locations with spawns:
Zaton: Iron Forest, Scar
Jupiter: Parking Lot, Jupitar warehouse, Concrete Plant
Pripyat: Roof of Yubilieny, Old Service Center
Psy: Hardly worth noting, as I'm fairly positive that the Scar anomaly
is the only one in the game, and the only artifacts that ever spawn
there spawn in the electric anomalies inside of it. It doesn't spawn
anything itself, it's just more of an interesting sidenote.
Location: The Scar anomaly in Zaton, doesn't spawn anything.
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1.2 Damage types: Not really much to say here.
Ballistic: Getting shot. Usually just causes straight damage, bleeding
is rare.
Slash damage: Caused by most mutants, usually causes bleeding.
Always heal bleeding as soon as you safely can, or it might get worse.
Psy: This can be negated by pills or artifacts, just straight damage.
Chemical: This hurts you and damages your gear. Can be negated
by pills or artifacts.
Heat: Hurts you and damages gear. Can be negated by artifacts.
Radiation: This can prevent you from naturally healing, sleeping,
and if it gets bad enough it will hurt you. You can negate it with
artifacts, pills, or you can heal it with vodka, anti-rad drugs, a medic,
or scientific medkits.
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1.3 Achievements: Unlike most games, achievements actually do stuff in
this game.
Friend of Duty: Do everything you can to help Duty: Give them Morgan's
PDA, give them Techenko's PDA, give them the job withthe scientists,
tell Shulga about Magpie, and tell Shulga about Strider. With this,
Nitro's prices drop and Hawaiian's prices rise.
Friend of Freedom: Do the opposite of the Friend of Duty stuff. With
this, Nitro's prices rise and Hawaiian's prices rise.
Friend of Stalkers: Help Grouse and Gonta with the bloodsuckers and
the Chimera, save Mitay, help Vano, help Beard, and get the Diplomat
achievement. You could also tell Gonta about Magpie, but that blocks
Friend of Duty/Freedom. The medic at Yanovdrops his prices a lot,
and occasionally Stalker squads spawn nearby that are able to help
you.
Keeper of Secrets: Keep Strelok's stash notes and give them to him. His
HP is increased in the finale.
Man of Balance: Sell Morgan's PDA to Owl, sell Tachenko's PDA to Owl,
and tell Gonta about Magpie before anyone else. Nitro and Hawaiian
lower their prices.
Wealthy Client: Get 100,000 in cash at least once. Hawaiian, Owl,
and Beard get better inventories.
Artifact Hunter: Find one of every artifact. Artifacts spawn more often in
random places, and Bandits will sometimes attack you.
Boss: Side with Sultan on the night raid and side with Sultan on the
Compass issue. Bandits everywhere are friendly, Owl givesyou a discount,
Beard buys artifacts higher, and Beard will give you a small amount of
cash once a day.
One of Ours: Do the opposite of the Boss achievement. Owl lowers his
prices and starts selling almost everything and Beard buys artifacts for
much more.
Courier of Justice: Deal with Magpie, one way or the other. You'll get the
basic armor for whatever faction you gave him to.
Detective: Help Grouse with the bloodsuckers, then find Tremor in the
Crane area. You'll get free medical supplies once a day in your personal
chest.
Diplomat: Help Vano and Mitay peacefully. This increases your
reputation in all factions.
Hi-tech expert: Give all the tools to Nitro. He'll give you a discount.
Weapon Systems Expert: Give all the tools to Cardan. He can allow a
player with an exoskeleton to sprint.
Pioneer: Give Beard the anomalous wheel, Hermann the altered insular,
and Ozersky the radiated plant. You don't really get much out of this,
but the scientists will supposedly start selling anabiotics.
Research Assistant: Do the researcher missions and max out your
reputation with them. You can buy any medical stuff from Hermann now,
including Anabiotics and Novikov can now do some third tier upgrades.
Skilled Stalker: Explore all the anomaly fields in Zaton and Jupiter.
You'll find more random artifacts, and rare artifacts will spawn a lot more.
Trafficker of Information: Sell 10 of the 16 documents in the game. Owl drops
his prices, a lot.
Marked by the Zone: Survive 3 emissions by use of Anabiotics. Massive
bonus to Psy-resistance and you can survive an emission without
anabiotics.
Mutant Hunter: Destroy the bloodsucker lair in Zaton, kill the
bloodsuckers in the swamps, kill the Burers in the tunnels, and kill
the Chimera for Trapper. You'll get some random ammo once a day in
your personal safe, Chimeras will start spawning, and stalkers will
start hunting for mutants.
Leader: Recruit all 4 members of the squad. Everyone you command
from then on will have extra health.
1.4 On Nimble: Nimble is on the top of the Skadovsk, and he makes
custom orders. Some of the best gear in the game can easilybe gotten
from him early on. There are no discounts from him. It's all or nothing.
Always save before you talk to him to get yourorder, because you may
get the wrong gun. I usually save, make the order, then go rest a day
and see what he has for me, and reload if he brings the wrong weapon.
Pistols:
Steppe Eagle: custom Black Kite, .45
Alpine: custom Sig P220, .45
March: custom USP Compact, .45
Close Range:
Frasier: custom Viper, .45: disturbingly high damage.
Eliminator: rare revolving shotgun, regular ammo: best shotgun in the
game, in my opinion. Very accurate when upgraded. Can be upgraded
for auto-fire. In my opinion, best weapon in the game for killing mutants,
or for in close work.
Caribiner: unique SPAS, regular ammo, holds 10 rounds stock instead
of 8: it is the fastest shooting shotgun in the game, can be modded to
be really accurate and hold 12 bullets.
Assault:
Storm: custom Tunder, 5.45x39: less damage than the regular, can hold
scope and silencer.
GP-37: semi-rare rifle, 5.56x45: has a built in scope, and can double as a
sniper rifle when fully upgraded, can hold silencer when upgraded.
FN F2000: rare rifle, 5.56x45: built in scope, built in grenade launcher,
shoots very fast. Not great as a sniper, but still a good rifle.
Sniper:
Tide: unique Vintorez, 9x39: In my opinion, the best weapon in the
game for killing people. It has a built in scope, a built in silencer,can be
modified to be the 3rd most accurate weapon in the game, a decent rate
of fire, and extra weapon damage. It is accurate enough and fast enough
to be used to score headshots in close range without using the scope.
The only real downside is that the flatness is low, so you have to
compensate to hit heads sometimes.
Lynx: unique SVD, 7.62x54: can be upgraded to be the second best sniper
weapon in the game. If you want to kill things from across the map, this
is your best bet.
SVU2-A: unique SVU, 7.62x54: decently fast firing rifle, can be upgraded
for really good accuracy and can be upgraded with a silencer.
Armored Suit: 2 pieces to this one.
CHN-3a: modded CS suit from the last game. Wearing it causes Novikov,
with the scientists, to give you a discount. Really balancedarmor. Can
be upgraded to be an extremely good hybrid between the SEVA and the
exoskeleton.
Tactical Helmet: best helmet in the game, can be modded to always show
the location of enemies on the mini map.
Exoskeleton: Saving the best for last. This armor is ridiculously strong
against bullets and mutants. It won't save you from anomalies, but it will
allow you to carry the weight needed for something that does. It can be
modded to allow you to hold 90 weight, with 4 containers. The only
downside is that you have to mod it to be able to sprint in it.
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1.5 Mutants: They occasionally have some infighting, and it's always
fun to watch. If you are lucky, you can sometimes watch dogscarry away
dead mutants they recently killed.
Blind dogs: really weak, and work in packs. Always watch your back
around them.
Pseudodogs: Much stronger than blind dogs, and often lead packs of
them. Harder to kill, and are bigger.
Psy-dogs: look about the same as Pseudodogs, with similar HP and
strength. However, they can screw with your mind and makeyou see
copies of them that can actually hurt you. One shot kills the fake dogs,
and they all disappear if the source is killed.
Flesh: really weak. They're the big blocks that run around on 4
funky looking legs. Only waste bullets on them if they charge you.
Usually they veer off at the last instant, but if led by a boar they
might actually attack.
Boar: usually come in pairs or leading packs of fleshes. They always
charge right at you. They can take 2 or 3 shotgun blasts. Killthem before
they can attack you.
Bloodsuckers: Bane of stalkers everywhere. These go invisible as
soon as they see a target, and generally stay that way untilthey are 5
or so feet away. They can easily be heard, and if on water they leave a
trail. If they hit you, they will make you bleed. Also,they have an attack
where they grab you and immobolize you while they suck out blood.
Hamsters: really weak individually, but come in backs. They're small,
making them hard to hit with many weapons.
Chimera: Annoying as all get out. If you do the mutant hunting
missions, these will start spawning. In harder difficulties, they can
kill in 3 hits or less. They jump around like snorks, with the HP of 7 or
more boars.
Snorks: Also really annoying. These are modified humans that run
on all fours. Can take about 3 or more shotgun blasts unless you get
lucky and hit the head. Will launch themselves at you.
Pseudogiant: These take ungodly amounts of ammo to kill. If you
ever find one outside of the main quest, just run away. They emit
radiation, will take over 20 rounds of fully upgraded shotgun bullets,
will crush you face with 1 or 2 swings of their malformed fists, and can
smash at the ground for area of effect damage all around them. Avoid if
possible.
Controllers: Avoid direct eye contact. Keep something in between
you and it while you get close. If you don't, it will rip into yourmind and
do damage, also holstering your weapon.
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Burer: Try to avoid direct eye contact with these as well. They will
throw things at you, and if they can see you they can steal your
stamina and rip your gun from your hands, then throw it at you. If
you start shooting them, they will make a shield to stop all damage.
Most stalkers prefer to rush up with the knife and just gut them.This
is probably the best response, as they take ungodly amounts of ammo
to kill, unless you're using the gauss rifle.
Poltergeist: 3 locations in game: Iron forest anomaly in Zaton,
Kindergarten in Pripyat, and X8 lab in Pripyat. If you don't move it can't
see you. They go down surprisingly fast, and all they can do is throw
things at you. They will hit you with psy damage if you're moving.
Fire Poltergeist: 1 or so locations in game: Circus anomaly. Can
throw fire at you, and will hit you with a psy field if you're moving.
Don't move, it can't see you. Also really easy to kill.
1.6 Factions: The Stalkers, Bandits, Freedom, Duty, and the Military
can't be made hostile. A lot of money can be made by watchingfaction
battles and policing any gear before the winning side gets to it.
Stalkers: These are your common Loners. Rarely have any decent
gear. Can be made friendly. They are hostile to the bandits, Monolith,
most mercenaries, and the zombies. Can be made friendly.
Bandits: These are the bandits. They rarely have any good gear.
Hostile to everyone they come across besides you(usually). Can be made
friendly.
Freedom: These people want to save the zone and use it for study.
Usually have pretty decent gear. Hostile to Duty, bandits, and the
zombies. Can be made friendly.
Duty: These people want to destroy the zone. Usually have good
gear. Hostile to Freedom, bandits, and the zombies. Can be made
friendly.
Monolith: Fierce fanatics, want to "protect" the zone. They won't
fight zombies. Hostile to everyone else, including you.
Mercenaries: There is one group that can be made friendly. Everyone
else is or will eventually become enemies.
Zombies: Kill everything that is human besides Monolith. Rarely
haveanything worth taking, besides the occasional Veles.
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2. Zaton
2.1 Getting to safety
After getting out of the intro cutscene, you're dropped way to the north in
Zaton. Holster your weapon and walk straight for a bit. Youwill run into a
small squad of stalkers. Talk to them about safety and helicopters. They
will point you to Skadovsk and Noah. End the conversation and open up
your PDA. It should point out Skadovsk. You can go there if you want, but
this is a great chance to get a better detector. If you do mission 3.1 right
now, you'll be good until you can get a veles detector later.
That done, it is time to head on down to Skadovsk. You might run into
some mutants on the way, and if you're feeling lazy, just sprint past
them. You should be carrying little enough weight to make it almost
all the way to safety. You'll be forced to holster you weapon when you
get close enough to the ship, and any enemies who were trying to get
at you will be stuck outside the holster zone.
Talk to Beard behind the counter at the bar, and sell him any artifacts if
you got any at the Boiler. Go ahead and accept any missions except the
ones from the man named Sultan. Don't even talk to him yet, unless
you're playing easy. His mission is rather difficult on harder difficulties
with the basic game starting loadout.
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2.2 Chopper 1
Head on over to the Swamps. This one is easy. Just walk around and
come at it from the land. There are two crates with ammo nextto the
Helicopter, though one is glitched in that you can't use it. Examine
the chopper and move on.
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2.3 Chopper 2
The next stop is Noah's barge.Be wary that he'll shoot at you as soon
as you open the door, so open it from the side. He'll stop shooting after
two shots. Talk to him and ask him to take you to where the chopper is.
He'll take you to the burning village and a teleporting anomaly. Jump in
and walk around the plateau until you get to the chopper. Watch out for
the Snorks. Go into their cave if you want, but there's nothing in there
but two dead military men. Examine the chopper, and head on to the last
one.
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2.4 Chopper 3
There is a poltergeist and a large anomaly field next to this one. Be
careful here. Kill the Poltergeist and examine this chopper. It will give
you maps you can give to the guide, Pilot, for a large cost reduction in
transportation. Do so, and ask him to take you to the next area, Jupiter.
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3. Zaton Misc Missions
3.1 Saving Petruha: Boiler anomaly. There is be a small squad of
stalkers on the far east side. One is working his way in, while his friend
outside is encouraging him. An accident will be made, and you get to
laugh at the horrible voice attacking. Talk to the guy outside, offer to
help, and go up to his buddy. If you give him the first aid kit, he'll revive
and give you his "bear" detector. As a sidenote, if you wait until you
have a veles to do this mission, he'll give you a fireball artifact instead.
However, they're now a static stalker squad, and will keep appearing
until they die. So you can wait to run into him when he dies, and you
can get the artifact then. Or, if you feel like being a jerk, you can take
the first aid kit from his buddy, and shoot them both for the detector
and the artifact, as well as the rest of their gear. Feel free to use the
detector to try to get some artifacts out of the Boiler, while you are
here. It's an easy way to start off well. Just save before you do, because
if you're not using bolts to tell where the anomalies are, you'll run into
one and probably get killed.
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3.2 Helping Snag: Skadovsk. There is a Stalker in the corner on the boat
that asks you to find a metal box for him. Take him up on his offer. This
will take you down to the gas station next to the Claw Anomaly. There
are two ways down to the car. The easiest is to go to the gas station and,
avoiding the mutants that always hover about it, jump down to the
platforms in the fissure. There should be enough platforms to take you
all the way down without taking fall damage, but even in master the
damage isn't much if you fall all the way down. Grab the heavy
(12 pounds) box from car and start working your way out. You will
run into several snorks on the way. You have a choice of what to do
with the box. You can give it back to Snag, who will give you one item
out of it, or you can give it to Cardan, who will crack the lock and give
you everything for a fee of 500. Seeing as how there is an artifact, a
modified helmet, a modded fora, another "bear" detector, and a modded
AK in there, it's worth the 500 fee to break in. Your choice.
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3.3 Helping Beard: Skadovsk. If you talk to him, Beard will offer you a job
to get an artifact from the tug nearby. Take the job. You'llneed some rad
protection in this mission. There's a jellyfish floating in the water here
that will do. Go up to the front of the tug and go up the stairs. Jump to
the platform and fall down. Go around the back and under the pipe. Go
on from there until you get back to the front of the boat, where there is
a mutated steering wheel. Head back on out and save it before you get
all the way out. You'll run into a stalker who claims to have a sick
friend. Tell him to screw off, then shoot him in the head. If you give
it to him, you'll run into him selling it to Beard. If you tell him no,
he and his buddies ambush you. Waxing him evens the odds a little.
Kill his two friends and return for an easy cash and stash reward.
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3.4 Joker and Barge: Skadovsk. Give Cardan two bottles of booze and
listen to his sob story. Joker's bones are just south of the oakpine
anomaly. It has a PDA and an upgraded mask on it. Grab both, listen to it,
and climb the tree to grab the Kolobok if you want. Barge's body is in the
large caves under the Burning Town. Watch out for the gravities, the
fire, and the toxic anomalies down there. Plenty of artifacts. Barge's body
has some upgraded armor, a PDA, and the basic Stalker loadout. Grab
the PDA and whatever else you want.Return the PDA's to Cardan for a
discount later in the game.
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3.5 Magpie: Skadovsk. Go up to the medic in front of Owl's shop and
listen to the two talking to their friend. They'll ask you to look out for
a stalker named Magpie. He's hiding in Jupiter, under the name of Flint.
He's telling stories, usually of things you did. You can expose him by
going to the Quarry in Jupiter and finding Splinter, a wounded Stalker
that Flint left for dead. You can sell him out to Duty, Freedom, or the
Stalker who assigned the quest. Each gets you a different set of armor,
all of which suck.
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3.6 Bloodsuckers: Skadovsk. Talk to Grouse in the common room, and
he'll tell you about an some killings where the victims end up with no
blood. They think it is bloodsuckers. Take his mission, and he'll give you
a location. Go there, and there might be a bloodsucker. If so, wax it. If
not, just wait a bit and he'll call you, telling you to come to the antenna
complex. Head on over. There are 2 bloodsuckers active inside. He helps
you kill them. Follow him through. When you get to the room with the
bodies in the basement, run up to the area with the bars. The man
through there has an artifact. Follow him through the rest of the way,
until you drop into the pipe. Go the other way for an easy stash. Head
back and listen to his report. When he's done talking, go talk to Beard,
who will tell you to talk to Owl. Don't bother, that's why you're here. Go
to the bridge next to the ranger station. There are a series of cars on
it that have what you need. The first key is in the truck that's way to
the back of the bridge. The second key is in a vehicle that has crashed
in the very front. It fell through the bridge. The safe is under it. The
gas is on the transport truck, and there is another set of orders in
that truck that you need to grab. Gas and documents in hand, head to
the next objective, which is the antenna complex again. Position the
gas and getready for a fight. 2 more bloodsuckers come out, unless you
get lucky like I did once and they run the wrong way. Return to Beard
for an easy reward of a Veles, and sell the documents to Owl for 2000
more. Now, go to dock cranes. There is a building at the cranes where
the real killer has been operating. Tremor, the medic, explains himself,
then offers himself. Take what you want and head back to Beard for your
reward and a daily dose of free medical supplies.
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3.7 Helping Owl with Mercs: Skadovsk. Ask Owl about jobs, and he'll tell
you about some mercs who are mobilizing to the south in the waste
processing plant. Head on down there. There are two ways to do this. If
you like close range fighting and you have good armor, sneak around the
back until you find the man holes. They lead directly into the base. Or if
you can't find them, there is a ladder at the front of the building behind
the merc building that leads to a tube up top that leads right to the
documents you want. If you don't like fighting, you can use that tube to
sneak in, grab the documents, and sprint back to the exit man hole,
then run away. You'll miss out on 2 PDAs, but you can. Then there's the
more direct way of using a sniper rifle to wax them all from across the
bridge. Whatever you do, grab the laptop and hoof it back to base. Sell
him the laptop and any PDAs you got.
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3.8 Helping Hatchet and the Mercs: Substation. At the substation down
to the south, there is a group of mercs who you can help. They are low on
food. Give them six food items and you can get access to their base,
which has the Fine Tools needed for T2 upgrades.
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3.9 Finding tools for Cardan: Skadovsk. Ask him if he needs any help.
He'll tell you he needs tools. The set of basic tools is in the Mill, in the
building in the northeast of the complex. The place is crawling with
zombies, but you might get lucky and have 2 or 3 squads help you clear
it. It was just a chance thing, so don't count on the help. There is also a
lot of bullets where the tools are, so bring a lot of space. The fine tools
are at the substation with Hatchet. The Calibration tools are all the way
in Pripyat, at the Old Service Center. They are guarded by a Burer.
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3.10 Helping Sultan/Beard: Skadovsk. Talk to Sultan. He'll offer you a job
shaking down some merchants. Agree to it. You have a choice. If you tell
Beard, he'll give you a counter offer to betray Sultan. If you agree to this,
the bandits will be ambushed in their ambush, and you can help kill
them. If you help Sultan, you'll ambush a group of stalkers. On higher
difficulties, it can be hard to keep Knuckles, your contact, alive. He has
to live in order for you to get paid.
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3.11 Helping Sultan/Beard again: Skadovsk. If you helped Sultan, talk to
him again and he'll give you a job as protection. Go straight to the
meeting spot; delaying means failure. Meet up with the bandits and go
to the meeting. A group of Stalkers will ambush you and the Duty people
you're meeting. Make sure to kill the Duty traders as fast as you can, as
they are very dangerous. Also, Knuckles needs to survive here as well.
If you help the Bandits here, you become friendly with them. If you
helped Beard, talk to him again to get the offer as the Stalker
ambushers. Spartacus needs to stay alive in this case. In both cases,
take the trader's PDA. If you want the Balanced achievement, sell it to
Owl. If you want some easy cash, sell it to Freedom or Duty in Yanov.
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3.12 Helping Owl with Scientists: Skadovsk. Ask Owl if he needs help,
after you deal with the Mercs. He'll tell you that he needs 3 veles
detectors delivered to the scientists in Jupiter. Agree, find the 3
detectors(you'll get something better soon), and give them to Novikov in
the scientist bunker. Return to Owl, tell him they were delivered, wait
a day or 3, go outside the base until you can take out your weapon and
Owl will call you. Head on back. He'll tell you there's a problem, and
Beard is the cause. Go talk to Beard, who will give you the new detector.
You now have a choice to either help Beard or to help Sultan. Beard
will tell you to talk to Owl, who will tell you to talk to Sultan. If you
want to help Beard, tell Owl where to shove it and collect your 1500
from him then and there. Then talk to Beard again about the
Compass. He'll point you to Noah, who will give it to you for free.
Walk far enough away from himso he resets, then go back and ask for
another one. Do this only twice, or he will attack. Sell the artifact to
Beard. If you want to help Sultan, listen to Owl, talk to Sultan, and sell
it to him instead. Keep the spare.
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3.12.1 If you helped Sultan, he'll give you another job. He'll tell you to take
an order from Beard for an artifact. Do so, and you'll get the location of
some other artifact hunters. Kill them, steal their detectors, and head
on back to Sultan. You now get a daily small pay from Beard. As an
interesting side note, it is possible to do this mission for Sultan, as well
as helping him with the the merchants, and still end up friendly with the
bandits and the Stalkers.
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3.13 Snag's Jealousy: Skadovsk. If you order a weapon from Nimble, and
have done Snag's other mission, walking past him while carrying that
weapon will cause him to confront you. Tell him to screw off. Go ask
Nimble what he was talking about, then go see Snag. He'll be gone. Talk
to Beard, who will tell you where he went. Head on up to the docks,
where you are accosted by a group of bandits who demand your gun. Tell
them to go die, and they'll attack you. Kill them and grab the PDA from
the leader. Sell it to Owl. Head on to Yanov, where you'll see Snag sitting
there, looking guilty. Confront him and leave the base. Head back and
check your safe. Talk to the medic, who will tell you to talk to Zulu,
who will point you to the Substation. Head over there, kill the bandit,
and save or kill Snag. Your stuff is in the sewers right next to the
substation. Just jump down and grab it, along with Snag's stuff. Grab the
PDA from the bandit while he's dead.
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3.14 Freeform Controller: Cave east of Burning Town: This isn't listed as
a quest, but it's an easy way to get some easy pills. There is a cave just
east of the Burning Town that shows up on the map. There's a controller
in it, guarding an empty body and some medical supplies. The cave is a
good emission shelter.
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4. Jupiter
4.1 Getting your bearings
Talk to the people in Yanov. They'll tell you some important things, and
some unimportant things. When you're ready, move on.
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4.2 Evacuation site at the AA complex
We'll start here, for no real reason. This place is swarming with zombies
and mutants. I suggest sniping the zombies where they can't see you,
and getting in close for the mutants. If you look in the building you will
find a note with the code to the bunker under the base, which leads up
to the stock room that you can see in the building.Take the note and feel
free to explore the bunker. There is a load of hamsters and a Burer
inside. Your reward is a crapload of junk, and an RPG launcher. Take what
you want and move on.
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4.3 Chopper 4
This is the one far to the south, west of the Jupiter factory complex. Do
not walk straight across the open field to the chopper. That would be
painful for all of 5 seconds. The signs that say mines do not lie. Follow the
fence around to the chopper. Hug it as close as you can. Examine the
chopper to get a black box. Then you get to watch the funniest unglitchy
moment in the game.
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4.4 Looking for the road
Bring the black box to Nitro at Yanov. He'll take a few hours to decode it
for 2000. With that information, talk to Pilot. He'll tell you where to look
to find the information you need to get to Pripyat.
Head on down to the Jupiter plant and into the administration building.
Look for the proper document. While you're there, grab every other
document you can find. If you grab the wrong one, mercs will spawn.
Otherwise, the worst you'll have to deal with are blind dogs outside while
walking around. There is another building you need to get into before
you head to the factory. If you grabbed the right random document, it
will point it out. Otherwise, head on to the only other enterable building
besides the main factory and the two initial admin buildings. In that
building there is another document that you need, and it will spawn
a small cutscene when you grab it.
Now you're ready to head on to the main building. Enter and go down.
There is no loot in here besides a stash or two, so don't bother looking
for anything. Follow the path around until you get to a small control room
and grab the documents. After the small cutscene keep going.
When you get to the next open area, there is a psy dog and a pseudodog
here that want to try to eat you. Bust a cap and keep moving. Examine
the helicopter, and keep moving. You enter a large room. Head up to the
control room and grab the last set of documents.
Take all this information to Nitro, who will point you to Zulu. Go talk to
Zulu, who will get you drunk and tell you how to make your squad. You'll
take a drink after everything you say, but you won't pass out until you
say what needs to be said.
Your squad will consist of Zulu, Strider, Vano, and the military man in
the Scientist Bunker. Vano and Strider have a misc quest associated
with them, 5.7 and 5.10. The military man has an easy little mission.
He'll have you talk to Ozersky, who will tell you to head to the anomalous
grove and pick flowers. Save before you enter. When you grab the plant,
the place erupts with anomalies. There are a ton more. Carefully get out
and give the flower to Ozersky. Talk to the soldier and head back to Zulu.
If you have the wealthy client achievement and you've supported one
side or the other in the faction wars, Hawaiian at Yanov should have a
SEVA suit for you. If you have the wealthy client and trafficer of
information achievements, Owl should have a SEVA. If neither of them
has one, you can order one from Nimble. Either way, you have to have a
SEVA suit to get to the undergound area. However, as soon as you get
inside, you can ditch the SEVA and put on something strong, provided it
has 2 containers. Equip a meat chunk and a radiation eater and you're
good.
I suggest a shotgun and a sniper for the underground.
When you have the SEVA and as much of the squad as you can get,
return to Zulu and tell him you're ready. Do note that you will be
unable to return to Yanov until you do the first mission in Pripyat.
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4.5 On the way to Pripyat
You'll see a little cutscene where Nitro opens the door. Then you'll be in
the underground. On my second run, Vano and Sokolov couldn't die, but I
do not know if this was a glitch. Strider and Zulu have a high frequency
of not living, especially in harder difficulties. For me, on master, they
died as soon as I opened the door and ran into the first snorks.
You'll run into several hamsters, several snorks, several anomalies,
several zombies, and a few squads of Monolith.
Just follow the path. Save after every encounter with enemies, as you
never know if the next encounter might be the last for your men. Vano
will lead you through the anomalies, so do try to keep him alive if
possible. Strider is very useful when you run into the Monolith squads,
so keep him alive or grab his rifle if he dies. Zulu has a unique machine
gun, so if he dies grab it. Don't kill him for it straight up, because you can
get it later if he survives.
When you get to the large room, the power will be off. As soon as you climb
the ladder and turn it on, a Monolith squad ambushes you. Kill them and
loot the bodies if you like. The door will still be blocked, so head over to
the control room. There are anomalies in front of it. Dodge around them
and get up to the top. Save before you open the door, because as soon as
you do Monolith snipers spawn. Strider does a good job of kill them, but if
he's dead it falls on you. On harder difficulties, they'll kill you in 1 or 2
shots, so get rid of them as soon as you can. That done, turn on the
power, head back down, mop up the rest of the enemies, and continue on
your merry way.
The door leads to more tunnels, where you'll start to see zombies. Sokolov
is useless against them. More snorks spawn behind you when you get to
the water area, so be careful as you'll have zombies in front and snorks
behind.
Continue on and you'll soon find a ladder going up. Head on up and
welcome to Pripyat.
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5. Jupiter misc quests
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5.1 Nitro's Tools: Yanov. When you first talk to him, Nitro will ask you
bring him a set of tools like the ones you brought Cardan. The basic tools
are in a train south of the Scientist bunker. You have to go to the bridge
over the train and jump down on top of it. Walk all the way to the back of
the train, save, and jump in. There's a moving electric anomaly on the
train, but you can avoid it by moving to the side when it passes. The tools
are at the far end from where you jumped in. You can get out by jumping
out the window either where you find the tools or the window by the door
at the very end. The Fine Tools are in the Jupiter factory warehouse,
south of the concrete bath anomaly. If you've done the hunting questline,
there will be a chimera or two right in front of the warehouse. Head to
the side of the warehouse, enter it, and go up the stairs. It is full of
electric anomalies, usually holding at least one artifact. Head all the
way to the back of the warehouse, where there is a closed container.
Open the doors and the tools are inside. The Calibration Tools are in
the Pripyat department store. You have to fight a lot of Hamsters to get
to them.
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5.2 Nitro's Toys: Yanov. Nitro will also ask you to bring him a bunch of
radio parts. This is a relatively straightforward mission. Go to the
concrete plant, and use the ladders at the back of the tall building to
get to the top. If you want a free Tactical Helmet, there is a stash on
top of the water tower that has one, while you're up there. Jump down
into the building when you're ready. Do be aware that there are quite a
few random anomalies in the building, and the plants hanging down
from the roof will hurt you. Search around the building for anything you
can pick up. Your PDA will update when you find everything. Return to
Nitro and he'll give you a discount on any future repairs.
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5.3 Hunting Bloodsuckers: Yanov. Trapper is downstairs in Yanov. He'll
offer you a job to deal with the bloodsuckers, if you tell him how you
helped the hunters in Zaton kill the Chimera and how you destroyed the
bloodsucker lair. There are 3 bloodsuckers in the swamp that you have
to kill for an easy 3000. You can get up close and personal with them,
which is made easier by being in a water area, meaning you can see
the steps of the bloodsuckers when they're invisible. Or, if you're lazy,
you can use the tall tower at the Concrete Plant to snipe them from
afar. Kill them, either way, and collect your reward.
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5.4 Hunting "Unidentified" mutants: Yanov. Trapper needs your help once
again. This time you are due to kill some unknown mutants in some
underground tunnels. Head on over to the location. The mutants are
Burers, and there are two of them. They'll suck your endurance and rip
your weapon from your hands, so be careful. Your best bet is to rush in and
knife them to death. Kill them however you please. Return to Trapper for
your reward.
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5.5 Hunting the Chimera: Yanov. If you talk to Trapper about why he
doesn't hunt anymore, he'll tell you a sob story about a Chimera. Rest a
day or two and step outside of the base until he calls you. Head on back
and he'll tell you where the Chimera is. Wait until night and head on
down to the Ventilation Center. This is a hard fight on harder difficulties,
so bring a good shotgun. If you get to
the Center just as the game turns day into night, you can sprint to a ladder
and try to fight the Chimera from a raised location where he can't get you.
If you're a real man, save and just rush in with a shotgun and blast it back
to hell. Your reward is a unique shotgun and the fact that Chimeras can
now spawn as regular enemies.
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5.6 Helping Uncle Yar: Yanov. If you talk to the Freedom man Uncle Yar
in the base, he'll ask you to help with with something. Agree. He'll lead
you to Kopachy Village, which is full of zombies. Walk slowly with him
and don't antagonize the zombies. He'll lead you to a building's roof,
where you see a group of mercs run in and start shooting it up. Yar will
ask you to help kill the mercs. Snipe one in the head and let the zombies
and Yar do the rest of the work. If you want to loot the bodies, snipe the
zombies before going down; they get hostile to you now. Yar will help you
some if you want to kill them. There is also a stash with a veles detector
in the construction truck in front of the building. Talk to Yar again to
end the mission.
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5.7 Helping Vano: Yanov. Talk to Vano, and he'll say something about a
debt. Tell him you'll take care of it. Head on over to the Checkpoint, where
there are 14 or so bandits. If you kill them all, you can loot them. Their
leader has a rare Eliminator shotgun. If you want to be peaceful, and the
Diplomat achievement, go in and talk to the leader, Jack. Offer him the
5000. He'll say something about interest. Tell him no to interest, tell
him you could just shoot him, and he'll back off about interest. Return
to Vano for a reward of having him if your party on the road to Pripyat.
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5.8 Helping Mitay: Yanov. Two stalkers will be discussing a problem in
the base. Talk to the one in Merc armor, and he'll tell you about his
friend who was kidnapped. There are three choices. You could agree to
negotiation, and they'll give you a goldfish to use. Take this up to the
bandits. Talk to the one in front of the Container warehouse, tell him
you're there for Mitay. He'll wave you through. Head on around the back
and talk to the leader. You can pay him 15000 or give him the goldfish.
Mitay is yours. However, another Bandit will accost you on the way out
and demand some loot. He'll take anywere from 4000 to 5000. If you don't
give him the cash, you'll have to fight.
If you agree that a forceful situation is needed, you can return to Zaton
and hire Hatchet and his friends to storm the base and
rescue Mitay.
If you agree that a forceful situation is needed, and offer to do the dirty
work yourself, head on down to the Container place yourself and kill
everything there that's stupid enough to shoot at you.
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5.9 Securing the Supply Dump: Yanov. If you didn't sell the PDA of Morgan
the Trader to Owl, you can sell it to Duty or Freedom. Whoever you sell it
to will become friendly after this mission, if you succeed. Head on over to
the supply dump as shown on your PDA, and make sure that whoever you
supported wins the fight. The actual supply dump is underground, in a
tunnel under one of the trailers. Take what you want and head on out.
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5.10 Helping Strider: North of the Container complex. There is a large
squad of neutral Monolith fighters hanging around right next to a little
lake. Their leader, Strider wants a way for them to safely get to Yanov.
If you did 5.9, agree to help him and talk to the leader of whatever faction
you supported. They'll agree to send recruiters. Your reward is a larger
factional boost to the faction you helped, and you can get Strider to join
you on the Road to Pripyat.
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5.11 Oasis: Scientist Bunker. Ozersky asks you to help with finding an
urban legend among Stalkers. Agree. Head on down to the Ventilation
Complex. West of it, down a small hill, is a little building. There are 6
zombies just inside the building. There are hamsters all around inside
of it. Take the tunnels inside the building, fighting your way up. You
will eventually get to a room fullof columns, with a single exit. This is
the puzzle of the Oasis, and the answer changes each game. Just walk
under each row of columns until you get one in each row that is
emitting electricity. Step under every one that is sparking to unlock
Oasis. Save, take out your mutant weapon, and grab the artifact. A
few pseudodogs rush you. Kill them and take the ladder out. You now
have a choice. Personally, I kept the artifact. The mission doesn't end
unless you give the artifact to Ozersky, but he only gives you 7000 for it.
If you keep it and use it, you never need to eat again, it heals you, it
restored endurance, and it stops your bleeding.
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5.12 Helping Garry: Scientist Bunker. There is a stalker in the bunker
that mentions being bored. Offer to help him. He'll ask for a Kobolok and
a Meat Chunk. Sell them to him for 5000 and a few stash locations. He'll
also later give you a Bubble artifact when you meet him in Pripyat.
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5.13 Helping Scientists: Scientist Bunker. Talk to Hermann. He'll ask
you to find a mystery artifact. Agree, go outside, and talk to Topol. He'll
lead you to a tunnel. Inside are three zombies. Kill them and go to the
left, where there's a tunnel that leads to where you want to go. Be careful
in here, as there are a lot of lightning anomalies, and a moving anomaly
that has a high chance of killing you. There is also a lot of ammo and
the like in this place. Keep moving until you get to the end, where