Post by Διμι on Jan 19, 2010 16:56:32 GMT -5
I have obtained permission to re-post this partial walkthrough of Call of Pripyat, written by Val's Evil Twin, on this site.
Without further ado:
vals_evil_twin@australiamail.com
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| STALKER:Call of Pripyat |
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| WALKTHROUGH/GUIDE v0.8 |
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| Val's Evil Twin |
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| (C) 23 DEC 2009 |
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This Guide was made with the Russian Language version, v1.6.00, using
Tagaziel's excellent English translation. It may differ in detail from other
versions and from the English localisation when it is released in FEB 2010.
The GUIDE includes a BEGINNERS WALKTHROUGH to help new stalkers quickly
familiarise themselves with the controls, and a more detailed MISSIONS GUIDE
type walkthrough, with many *SPOILERS*, that is still under construction. Sorry
for all the bulleted lists, I hope it is still a pleasant read.
Thanks Peetz for extensive contributions and editing,and also Dimitroff9001 for
helping me out when I needed it most.
If you liked the first two STALKERS, you are going to love this one!
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CONTENTS:
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1.0 Overview
2.0 Controls
3.0 HUD & Inventory
4.0 Walkthrough Part I: Beginners Guide
5.0 Walkthrough Part II: Mission Guides
6.0 Hints & Tips
7.0 Weapons
8.0 Suits
9.0 NPCs
10.0 Mutants
11.0 Caches
12.0 Earning Money
12.0 Blowouts
13.0 Detectors
14.0 Anomalies
15.0 Artifacts
16.0 Achievements
17.0 Link between Items and Achievements/Rewards/Cash
18.0 Food, Alcohol & Drugs
19.0 Travel
20.0 Links
21.0 *SPOILERS*
22.0 MODS
23.0 Unpacking the Data Folder
24.0 Version History
25.0 Acknowledgements
26.0 Permissions
Navigation:
To find 'Weapons', for example, press CONTROL + F and enter '7.0'.
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1.0 OVERVIEW
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This is a stand-alone game. There is no need to play Shadow of Chernobyl or
Clear Sky first. The STALKER trilogy is now complete: Clear Sky was the
prequel to Shadow of Chernobyl; and Call of Pripyat is the sequel, occurring
shortly after SoC ended.
With CoP the developers have added to the role play element, and the creepy
survival/horror atmosphere of SoC is back.
The Story:
A military study of the Zone codenamed "Fairway" is launched with the aim of
regaining control of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. All reconnaissance
helicopters crash and the mission is a failure.
You, as Agent Alexander Degtyarev, are sent into the Zone by the SBU (Ukrainian
Secret Services) to determine the cause of the crashes.
From the beginning of the game you already know the location of the crash sites
but to get there you have to do some smaller quests and get some help from
different characters of the game. As a military agent, you will be unable to
join Duty or Freedom factions.
The Zone around the CNPP is divided into 3 maps: Creek, Jupiter, and Pripyat.
These are populated with various Stalkers, Military, Loners, Bandits, Monolith
Scientists, Freedom and Duty faction members, supply caches, mutants and
irradiated anomalies.
You have a safe house and personal locker on each map.
The game ends with Strelok attempting an explanation of events in the three
games. You then have a choice between helicopter extraction from Pripyat, or
continuing the game in free-roam mode.
Features:
> No bugs!
> Flashdrives are no longer needed; toolkits are used for modifications.
> Hand grenades no longer homed in on my butt (Novice).
> NPC fights: NPC v NPC; NPC v mutants; Mutants v Mutants.
> Mutants now have circling as well as frontal attack.
> An 'Achievements' stat.
> Locations are now labeled on the PDA map.
> You can heal NPCs.
> Game engine is once again X-ray, v1.6
> Impressive weather effects, blowouts and day/night cycle.
> Improved RPG elements, including 'sleep' function.
> Stealth is improved through use of the Noise & Visibility meters in the HUD.
> New monsters: Tushkanah(Rats), Chimera and Burer.
> Water is rarely irradiated, compared to CS.
> After completing all missions, you can continue the game in freeplay mode.
> 100 Tutorial hints on the Load screen. eg HINT#10 "To see details of your
current mission, press TAB."
> Many of the locations are photo-realistic and based on real places:
Pripyat, Yanov train station, the Jupiter factory and Kopachi village.
Roads, buildings and playgrounds have authentic Soviet/Ukrainian architecture.
> Dx11.0 is supported, though graphics still look great on my C2D E8400 with
NVIDIA 8800GT card. FPS was fine except for the basement of the X8 lab.
> Caches can be accessed even before you are given the co-ordinates.
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2.0 CONTROLS
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You'll immediately notice that STALKER games have a whole heap of controls, so
I should mention them first. The basic controls you find in FPS/RPG games still
apply but the are a few advanced controls.
These aren't ALL the controls, just the ones I felt were important.
*See the game's options menu for the complete list.*
ADVANCED CONTROLS:
> W + X = Run
> W + X + SPACE = Long running jump.
> LSHFT + LCTRL ie Crouch + Squat = Low Crouch.
This is useful for reaching cramped areas and hard-to-access caches.
BASIC CONTROLS:
> Pause/Break Key = PAUSE
> N Night Vision
> Y Change ammo
> V Change grenade
> 6 Bolts
> O Detector
> 0 Change fire mode between Full, Semi auto and Single mode.
> P for PDA
> I for Inventory
> Mouse Wheel to change weapon
> F5 quick Save
> F9 Quick Load
> SPC Jump
> ESC Main Menu
> L Torch/Light
> F Talk, Pick up, open doors.
> X Run
> R Mouse for iron sights
> R Reload. Also if a weapon jams, press R to reload.
> TAB Current Mission heading and sub-heading.
> F12 Screenshot. Stored at C:\Docs&Settings\All Users\Documents\Stalker CoP
for me. Peetz's game made a new entry at C:\users\public\docume~1\stalke~1.-\
Both screenshots and saves go in there.
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3.0 HUD & INVENTORY
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Upper Left of Screen:
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Time of Day.
Compass. Blue = North
Blue bar=stealth aid! Shows your visibility to nearby NPCs.
Green bar=Stealth aid! Sound level indicates approaching NPCs/mutants, and your
own noisiness reloading or crashing into bushes.
Mini-map:
Yellow arrow is primary mission
Grey arrow is secondary mission
White dots are bodies you can mug
Lower Left of Screen:
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Four hotkeys allow you to heal with medipacks, eat, take anti-rad meds or drink
Vodka for radiation sickness, bandage to stop bleeding, or whatever you select.
Lower Right of Screen:
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Symbols in green, yellow or red indicate severity of damage/wear.
Symbols include bleeding, hunger, radiation, damage to suit/helmet, weapon; and
weight limit.
Important Health and Stamina bars here, check them often.
Center of screen:
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The usual arcade crosshair.
If you are a real Stalker, R mouse gives you iron sights.
INVENTORY:
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Many items in your inventory have a right-click menu. Double click R Mouse to
remove scopes, unload weapons, eat, drink, drop, drop all etc.
In the "Repair/Upgrade" screen, single click LMouse to repair or upgrade items.
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4.0 WALKTHROUGH PART I: The first ten minutes.
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*This section is just to get you started if you are new to STALKER*
Check out the game options first. I suggest enabling Autosaving, and selecting
'Novice'level. Novice level is very easy! Go right through the Options TAB
and experiment with Video settings. Get a nice balance between graphics and
frame rate. Advanced Video Options like 'Sun-cast Shadows' can really overload
your video card!
When you first gain control, you will be standing in Woodlands, all alone.
It is 9.06am. The wind ripples the grass; shafts of sunlight pierce the cloud
cover; crows circle, wondering if you are about to die from mutant attack or
radiation poisoning! Your first key presses should be F5 for quicksave, and
the Pause/Break key. Take a moment to get familiar with the HUD. Notice the
Hotkeys, compass, clock, mini-map with white dot (you) and yellow arrow, Health
and Stamina bars, and the AK set to full auto with 30 rounds in the magazine.
Press (un)Pause/Break key, press I, press Pause again and check out your
inventory. The reason for using Pause/Break so much is this: if you just stand
there looking at your inventory or your PDA, life is still going on around you.
Time passes; you could be attacked by mutants; a Blowout could start; you will
get hungry; nothing good will happen!
You're not going anywhere just yet! Now press P and have a good look at your
PDA, especially the GPS, Stats and Mission Tasks. Note the GPS map's navigation
controls; try zooming with the mouse wheel; read the place names on the map;
check out all the tabs at the top of the screen.
OK, down to business. Head straight ahead to the south as shown on the compass.
Ignore the Yellow arrow at this stage.
Hold X if you like to run. A couple of Stalkers are walking towards you.
They are randomly named. (I hope you have NPC names enabled in Options).
They appear on the mini-map as a yellow star and a dot. Yellow means they are
not hostile towards you, just neutral. Press 3 to holster the AK, so you don't
accidentally shoot them! The guy with the star will talk to you so press 'F'.
Go through the entire dialogue tree with him. Press F5 again to quicksave.
Ask: "Where is the nearest Stalker camp?" and...
.."Do you know anything about the crashed helicopters?"
This triggers your first two missions:
"Go to the safehouse at the Skadovsk Wreck" and...
.."See Noah for a way to the Southern Plateau."
Ask: "Where can I find a work?"
You will get random answers to this. The people who can give you work are
easy to find later and include:
Sultan (Backstab Mission)
Beard (Artifact on Dredge)
Owl (Check mercenary camp)
Gaunt (Find Magpie/Soroka/Flint)
Glouchar (Bloodsucker Nest at BIS circle).
Ask:Where can I find artifacts:
He will name a few anomalies for you, Circus, Burnt Village, Iron Forest, etc.
Ask: "What's new in the Zone?" gives some background to the plot and
increases the immersion factor. He may tell you why Cardan has become a drunk.
Ask: "Are you doing anything now?"
He may take you with him a short distance for free, or offer to guide you to
various locations on the Creek map for a charge.
You can open up the TRADE window if you wish, as you have 3000 roubles, but I
wouldn't bother buying/selling until later.
Wow! Now you get to shoot something! Headshots of course.
You can press '0' (zero) and change the fire mode to single shot.
Hold R Mouse to use the iron sights. Their dead bodies, which you can now loot,
will appear on the mini-map as two white dots.
Check your HUD icons for bleeding and suit damage icons (Lower Right).
Press F2 to bandage your wounds.
Press R to reload the AK.
Of course if they killed you stone dead, press 'F9' to reload the previous
quick save.
You now have several mission tasks queued which you can view in the PDA.
Press P for the PDA and click the 'Mission Tasks' tab.
Locate the "Safe House: Reach the Skadovsk" mission. The Skadovsk is an
'icebreaker' shipwreck, stranded when the river dried up ... Ukrainian humour!
The Skadovsk is your safe house in the Creek, and the centre of all the action.
Click on the 'Centre-on-map' icon for this mission.
On the main PDA/GPS map, click the grey icon centred on the Skadovsk.
Now close the PDA. The grey arrow on your mini-map now points to the Skadovsk.
Cool!
So head for the wreck before a blowout occurs. You could kill and loot another
group of Stalkers on the way if you wish, but I just couldn't do it to the poor
guys.
Any mutants attacking will turn your cross-hairs red, just so you know friend
from foe! Running backwards with the AK firing on Auto is my technique, but I
am ashamed of myself. Mutant boars(Flesh) and dogs are fairly common in Creek.
If a blowout happens along, you will be given a safe location on your PDA map
for shelter. Some of the shelter locations are more dangerous than the blowouts
themselves. If the indicated shelter is somewhere dangerous, you can find ANY
nearby shelter. You probably have enough time to get to the Skadovsk from most
areas on the Creek map. Just run in a straight line, the water here is not
irradiated as it was in Clear Sky. If you are directed to a tunnel near the
Burnt Village, be warned: there is a Controller in residence. This monster
will own you at this stage of the game, so you don't want to go there. It is
susceptible to grenade attack when you are more skilled.
Later with good protection and anabiotic drugs, you can survive a blowout
in the open. They are graphically cool, if you want to stand outside and
watch the show.
Once at the Skadovsk, You get a message "Completed Mission: Go to Safehouse."
Well done!
Press '3' to holster the AK and Press 'F' to open the hatch. Try not to get
squashed between the hatch and the wall!
Check out the stalkers inside on all three decks, but don't accept any work
just yet. Press F to talk and go through all the dialogue trees.
Then up the companionway to the middle deck to find your personal locker.
There is a mattress to sleep if you must wait to do a mission at a specific
time. If you are frightened of monsters in the dark you can sleep here every
night. It is rumoured that the mutants are more active at night but I couldn't
confirm this.
It is gloomy inside the ship so press 'L' for your torch. You can leave it
on permanently, though later it will clash with Night Vision (NV).
Find you personal locker and press 'F'. Try out the screen to transfer items
back and forth. Throughout the game you will retain access to the three
personal lockers on the three maps, Creek, Jupiter and Pripyat.
Just for practice, press 'F' to try out the bed. And no, GSC still left out
the female Stalkers. Too many polygons, too many script changes, too much
trouble all round!
Have a chat to Beard (Barkeeper) and Owl(Trader). You can trade some of the
loot from the Stalkers you so callously murdered.
First, separate the ammo from any guns you looted with the right-click menu in
your inventory. (Sell ammo, scopes, silencers and guns as separate items.)
Go to the weapons tech on the first floor. In Cardan's Repair/Modification
window, repair any guns with MINOR damage for sale to Owl. Also repair your
suit and helmet. Buy/Sell some meds to Tremor the medic for best prices; ammo
and guns to Owl; food and drink to Beard. You can talk to Nimble on the upper
deck but you will need some money before you place any orders with him.
A blowout probably occurred while you were safe inside the Skadovsk,
replenishing the anomalies around Creek with artifacts, and killing crows and
any bandits who were too slow seeking shelter.
Press ESC for the Main Menu and make a Hard Save. eg " 01 Operation Backstab".
Now to accept some paid employment:
I like to speak to Sultan first. When you first step inside the Skadovsk, the
first voice you hear is telling you to see Sultan. He initiates the
"Backstab Mission." Sultan is a bad guy. He wants you to help attack Beard's
Stalkers on the other shipwreck as they transport cash.
Next talk to Beard, the good guy. Side with him in operation Backstab. Report
to Sultan's henchman Knuckleduster, and wait until midnight for the attack.
Sleep if necessary to pass the time. Follow the marker on your mini-map to the
battle.
If you are backstabbing for Beard, shoot the nearest Raider and all the bad
guys will turn your crosshairs red. Don't shoot the friendlies! Collect all
the loot and report back to Beard for your reward.
You can begin main missions now, or go artifact hunting to make some real
money. Soon you will need a few thousand to spend with Cardan and Nimble, and
the main missions will keep for later.
Time to collect an artifact.
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You have the Echo Detector, which is very basic and difficult to read.
Leave the calm of the Skadovsk; check your PDA/GPS map for the Burnt Village
Anomaly and head in that direction.
Poor as it is, even the Echo should find something there!
As soon as you can, take out the AK and protect yourself from dogs. Hold 'X'
and outrun them if you are a dog lover.
At the Burnt Village, do a quicksave ('F5'). Yeah, last time I remind you!
Press 'O' to use the detector, and '6' for your unlimited supply of bolts.
Advance into the Burning Village, throwing bolts all the time to show any
geysers of fire in your path. Near a hut in the southern edge of town your
detector should light up and beep. In the room on the right (facing north) is
a Crystal artifact beneath/beside a low, leaning beam of charred timber.
Press 'F' to capture it for your inventory.
Crystal is typical of 'Burner' type artifacts. They absorb heat from the
extreme temperatures in a Burner anomaly, while remaining cool to the touch.
You can trade this for a nice sum! While you are here you can run up a leaning
beam and check one of the huts for the Vintar sniper rifle. If you are lucky,
you might even discover the teleport here!
Drink some Vodka or jab some anti-rads drugs with the 'F3' hotkey if your
radiation poisoning icon is flashing in the lower right of the screen.
Should a blowout interrupt you, there are two shelter locations nearby. One is
a tunnel inhabited by a Controller. The other is inside an underground anomaly,
where you can survive the blowout, maybe find an artifact or two, loot a body,
and sort through your inventory. Unload any weapons you have collected, and
drop the badly damaged ones with the right click menu.
Or if you prefer, sprint by pressing (W + X) and make it back to the Skadovsk
to shelter in comfort.
So what next? Well, that's about it for the first ten minutes. Believe it or
not, you have now covered pretty much every aspect of the controls and are
ready to head on out there by yourself.
You are now able to:
> access the PDA, Stats, Message log
> use the HUD/Compass/Mini-map
> Quick save/load
> Hard save/load
> Repair, unload, upgrade weapons
> Use a detector to locate artifacts
> Trade weapons, ammo, artifacts, medical supplies.
> Make some roubles.
> Manage bleeding, hunger, fatigue and radiation poisoning
> Identify friend and foe
> Find your way around the Creek
> Quick travel within Creek with NPC guides
> Access your personal locker
> Accept and complete missions.
Congratulations!
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5.0 WALKTHROUGH PART II: MISSION GUIDES
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A walkthrough? I would have to be kidding! After the first ten minutes you
already have a dozen options! This section is very much under construction.
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Some general guidelines for the Creek:
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> After each mission, see Cardan to repair/modify weapons.
> Press F4 or use your inventory if you are hungry.
> Make a full circuit of Creek after each blowout to collect artifacts.
> Do as many "Find Artifact" side missions for Beard as possible.
> As soon as you can afford it, place orders with Nimble for a pistol,
an assault weapon and a better suit. The pistol he provides is upgradeable to
full auto, and is ideal when exploring with a detector enabled.
The assault rifle doubles as a sniper rifle. The Clear Sky suit is upgradeable
to four artifact pockets and is a very handy suit until later when the Seva
becomes available.
> Make the decision now to play 'nice' or 'nasty'. I chose 'nice', and sided
with Beard against Sultan...and later, Duty rather than Freedom or 'neutral'.
> Keep an eye out for Cardan's "Toolkits" as you explore.
> Some missions have a time limit, especially Beard's artifact requests.
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CREEK MISSION GUIDE
First Map
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Beard's Mission to the Strange Phenomenon at the Dredger.
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This mission can be easily completed with the most basic of detectors. There is
probably an artifact somewhere in the water. The water is phosphorescent around
it, so it will be fairly easy to find. The artifact in the wheelhouse of the
dredger is also obvious. The hard part comes when it is time to leave.
A stalker will try to trick you into handing over the 'steering wheel'. When
you refuse, get ready for a fight.
If you find the steering wheel before Beard gives you the mission...no problem!
Talk to aany stalker, they will tell you where to take it.
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Glouchar's 'Who Is Killing The Stalkers?' Mission.
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This rather lengthy mission earns you the Veles Detector and the 'Detective'
Achievement Award. It is typical of the high standard of secondary missions in
Call of Pripyat.
Glouchar, in the Skadovsk bar area, initiates this mission. Various stalkers
will recommend him when asked about finding a job. Many stalkers are missing,
and the bloodsuckers are the main suspects. Your first task is to find Daniel,
who is out hunting the bloodsuckers for Glouchar. You find a dead bloodsucker
at the GPS marker, but no sign of Daniel. Take the opportunity to search
PineOak for artifacts while you are here. Glouchar immediately summons you to
the BIS Circle, where he has discovered the lair of the bloodsuckers. Protect
him as you go deeper into the building. Shoot the grenades under the wire
mattress frame to move them and make them accessible. Collect them from the
other side using low crouch (LCTRL + LSHFT).
Observe the four white dots on the mini-map, these are bodies you can loot.
Glouchar picks the doorlock, and warns you,"Ssshh! It's full of sleeping
Bloodsuckers. Let's try to get past them without making a noise!"
If you manage to wake them up and kill them all, the mission will terminate and
Beard will reward you with a Veles. But with Glouchar dead, you will miss out
on the "Detective' Achievement. So...DON"T WAKE THEM UP!!
As you leave, check the tunnel for a cache. Once outside, Glouchar gives you
a "Yo later dude." When you exit the tunnel, you can do the Helicopter Crash
Site #5 Mission, as well as finding another artifact in the swamp.
Head back to the bar, and your reward. Beard gives you a further mission to
fumigate the bloodsucker lair with nerve gas, and tells you Owl may know where
to find a gas cylinder. This information costs you 2000 RU. You recoup this
by selling documents you find with the convoy transporting the gas cylinders.
As you head to the convoy, check the shack to the East of the Port Cranes.
There is the body of the hunter, Daniel, in a pool of blood outside a locked
door. Hmmmm!
Search every vehicle in the convoy carefully, both on and under the bridge.
Back at the BIS Circle, fumigate the lair. Tuck into a safe spot beside the gas
cylinder and clean up the few bloodsuckers that escape.
Return to Beard for a Veles and 5000 RU. When you get the call to see Glouchar
again, he is nowhere in sight. Beard tells you he has left you a note...he is
at the Port Cranes following a hunch.
All is revealed here, it was not the bloodsuckers killing the stalkers after
all. Return to Beard for a 10 000 RU reward and the 'Detective' Achievement!
As a further bonus, medical supplies will be randomly deposited in your locker
by grateful stalkers!
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SNAG MISSIONS
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Snag is one of the loners hanging around in the Bar. He gives a simple mission
early in the game to retrieve his hoard, a steel case in a Zaporozhet that fell
into a nest of Snorks during an earthquake. Drop down a series of ledges to
the car.You will definitely need your flashlight and shotgun in the maze, which
exits onto the Claw anomaly. Back at the Skadovsk, bargain hard with Snag for
your share of the contents.
Later when you have purchased one of Nimble's rifles, Snag confronts you and
claims you are holding his recently stolen rifle. You can ask various
characters about Nimble's character, and they all agree he is a straight arrow.
Ask Nimble if he is selling stolen property, and a mission to track down
Snag will initiate.
Beard, who seems to know where everyone is, tells you that Snag is up at the
Port Cranes. After a battle here, a PDA has information that Snag is a thief
working for Sultan. Snag has fled to the Jupiter map, and you will have to
find him there later. Being a nice person, you can choose to spare his life!
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Cardan's Toolkit Mission
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Find toolkits so you can begin modifications to your suit and weapons. Keep an
eye out for Toolkits as you explore. When you approach the Workshop keep your
weapons holstered. The stalkers there will be friendly if you give them (6)
items of food. But when you approach the Sawmill, be sure to have your rifle
ready for the Zombies!
The Calibration Toolkits are only found in Pripyat, to save you searching!
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Helicopter on Southern Plateau Mission
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Be sure not to shoot Noah. Later he gives you the Compass artifact...though if
he is dead, you can acquire it elsewhere.
He is also a person you can ask to join your team into Pripyat...you can ask,
but he won't go!
Up on the plateau there's a cave with the bodies of two helicopter crew, and a
whole mess of Snorks!
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Miscellaneous Creek Missions
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Sultan gives a mission to disrupt Beard's artifact trade by killing his
stalkers and taking their enhanced Svarog detectors. I was only able to find
one Stalker team with a Svarog and was unable to complete this mission. (There
are two (2) Svarogs to find.) This mission starts later in the game after you
have found three Veles detectors for Owl and delivered them to the Scientist
Bunker on Jupiter map.
Three missions begin in Creek but can only be completed after leaving for
Jupiter.
#1 a mission for Owl to take three Veles detectors to the scientists.
If you shoot enough loners in Creek, you will eventually accumulate four Veles
detectors!
#2 The "Find Magpie" mission for Gaunt continues in Jupiter.
#3 The "Snag" mission continues at Yanov Station.
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JUPITER MISSION GUIDE
Second Map
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Some general guidelines for Jupiter
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> Find your bed and locker.
> Find Nitro the gunsmith.
> Talk to everyone. Ask around for work.
> Do Uncle Yar's mission to Kopachi Village.
> The "Vano's Debt" and "Hostage Mityai" missions can be completed peacefully
to earn the "Diplomat" Achievement. Approach the bandits with your weapon
holstered! After you complete the missions, feel free to go back and clean them
out!
> Take care to whom you sell Morgan's and Gen. Tachenko's PDAs! While CoP is
not really faction based, it does affect which Achievements you receive.
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THE OASIS ARTIFACT PUZZLE
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i. Systematically walk down each row. Start with the row on the far left.
When you are teleported back, go through the next row until you have walked
through them all. There are four curtains altogether.
ii. When all the curtains are revealed, walk a zig-zag path through all four
curtains to reach the Oasis room.
Load your shotgun and pick up the Oasis artifact. Or don't load it and sprint
for the ladder.
ie. The point is to go though the archways to activate the star curtain on each
one. Only by traveling through ALL archways with a star curtain will you reach
the Oasis.
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PRIPYAT MISSION GUIDE
Third Map
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Pripyat X8 Laboratory
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You may need to turn down your graphic options here. I had severe lag when the
Tushkanah attacked in the basement.
Take plenty of Medipacks and ammo in with you.
I believe there are six documents to be found.
The three Burers proved too tough for me and I just ran past them.
I found no artifacts in the lab the first time. The second time there were two.
One on the second floor and one on the roof. Sorry but you will have to keep
your detector out. Unless of course you already have 300 000ru, that you will
never get a chance to spend anyway!
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"X8... Yes, the place is a maze - which is amazing considering that it is
really not very big at all. There are 6 documents to find. I'll try to give
you some pointers from memory.
When you enter, you find yourself being hit with flying objects due to the
poltergeists and Burers around. To your right is a locked door that you need
the red card to unlock (from the "One Shot- One Kill" mission). It just
contains ammo and weapons - nothing important. To your left are 2 doorways –
the one on the right is a hallway with a door straight ahead that has a
flash/shock anomaly roaming up and down the hall. If you open that door and
time it right - you can run down while the flash is down the hallway, grab the
document (#1 'American Experiment Log') there and run out back to the area
where you entered - without getting zapped.
In front of you is a stairwell down (remember, I'm going from memory, here).
Take it and you get to the next floor down and get attacked by 2 Snorks.
Then take the stairwell on the right up to a small level that has a big hole in
the middle of the floor. There's a ladder in the corner, taking you up to a
small room with a spinning, flashing light and a poltergeist. A few shots at
him and the barrels and wood stop flying at you. There's a machinegun there as
well. Watch for the rats through the hole in the floor before you go back down.
Go back to the Entry. Take the stairwell on your right, next to the Ammo Room.
There will be a small balcony overlooking that room and Snorks.
Go up the stairs and follow the balcony around to get to the Kitchen area and
the sound of the crying child.
The Burer is behind the door where the sound is coming from. Pull your knife,
run in and show the Burer how sharp it is! There's some ammo in a locked fridge
that can be opened with a shotty blast, and a document (#2 'Research Document')
on a table in the room.
Go back to the entry where you started.
Go to the hallway on your left that has the two elevators in it and enter the
left elevator. Climb down, and crawl out the bottom of the crashed elevator so
you can get into the other elevator shaft. Take that shaft up and leap into
another lobby area.
Around the corner from here is a difficult area with three Burers.
The trick here is to run up to the small top room. In that small room will
probably be only one Burer, which you can take care of easily. The others will
probably come in to investigate. Gives you a chance to save while you try to
take the others one-by-one. There is a document (#3 'Product 62 Manual') in
the small room – and another (#4 'Sample Experiment Report') in the main room
on a table beside the large vertical tank.
Go back to the main entrance where you started and take the stairs down, on the
left. Keep going down until you get to the basement level in the flooded room
where FPS can drop alarmingly! Lower your settings for this part - or save and
reload the game to see if that clears it. Take care of the rats and search the
room for another document (#5 'Rainbow Emmitter Document') on a table along
with some meds, ammo etc.
Make sure to read the popup on the model in the middle of the room (dunno if
it's important, but it seems like it should be)....
Exit the flooded room, enter the room just off that area with two big tanks
surrounded by a low concrete wall. Walk down into that area and you'll find
another document (#6 'Transfer Order') on a table. Rats, again...
If you picked up all six documents you will get a message to leave the X8 Labs.
Return to the Main entry only to find a Controller has taken up residence.
Convince him that is not in his best interest and you will be able to exit the
Labs and take the elevator back the surface.." thanks Peetz.
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Pripyat: The Ending
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You have the option of ending the game or continuing with free-roam and combat,
but no new missions. Strelok attempts to explain the events of the three
STALKER games. Ending the game gives a slide show presentation of characters,
present and future events.
Without further ado:
vals_evil_twin@australiamail.com
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| STALKER:Call of Pripyat |
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| WALKTHROUGH/GUIDE v0.8 |
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| Val's Evil Twin |
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| (C) 23 DEC 2009 |
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This Guide was made with the Russian Language version, v1.6.00, using
Tagaziel's excellent English translation. It may differ in detail from other
versions and from the English localisation when it is released in FEB 2010.
The GUIDE includes a BEGINNERS WALKTHROUGH to help new stalkers quickly
familiarise themselves with the controls, and a more detailed MISSIONS GUIDE
type walkthrough, with many *SPOILERS*, that is still under construction. Sorry
for all the bulleted lists, I hope it is still a pleasant read.
Thanks Peetz for extensive contributions and editing,and also Dimitroff9001 for
helping me out when I needed it most.
If you liked the first two STALKERS, you are going to love this one!
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CONTENTS:
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1.0 Overview
2.0 Controls
3.0 HUD & Inventory
4.0 Walkthrough Part I: Beginners Guide
5.0 Walkthrough Part II: Mission Guides
6.0 Hints & Tips
7.0 Weapons
8.0 Suits
9.0 NPCs
10.0 Mutants
11.0 Caches
12.0 Earning Money
12.0 Blowouts
13.0 Detectors
14.0 Anomalies
15.0 Artifacts
16.0 Achievements
17.0 Link between Items and Achievements/Rewards/Cash
18.0 Food, Alcohol & Drugs
19.0 Travel
20.0 Links
21.0 *SPOILERS*
22.0 MODS
23.0 Unpacking the Data Folder
24.0 Version History
25.0 Acknowledgements
26.0 Permissions
Navigation:
To find 'Weapons', for example, press CONTROL + F and enter '7.0'.
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1.0 OVERVIEW
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This is a stand-alone game. There is no need to play Shadow of Chernobyl or
Clear Sky first. The STALKER trilogy is now complete: Clear Sky was the
prequel to Shadow of Chernobyl; and Call of Pripyat is the sequel, occurring
shortly after SoC ended.
With CoP the developers have added to the role play element, and the creepy
survival/horror atmosphere of SoC is back.
The Story:
A military study of the Zone codenamed "Fairway" is launched with the aim of
regaining control of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. All reconnaissance
helicopters crash and the mission is a failure.
You, as Agent Alexander Degtyarev, are sent into the Zone by the SBU (Ukrainian
Secret Services) to determine the cause of the crashes.
From the beginning of the game you already know the location of the crash sites
but to get there you have to do some smaller quests and get some help from
different characters of the game. As a military agent, you will be unable to
join Duty or Freedom factions.
The Zone around the CNPP is divided into 3 maps: Creek, Jupiter, and Pripyat.
These are populated with various Stalkers, Military, Loners, Bandits, Monolith
Scientists, Freedom and Duty faction members, supply caches, mutants and
irradiated anomalies.
You have a safe house and personal locker on each map.
The game ends with Strelok attempting an explanation of events in the three
games. You then have a choice between helicopter extraction from Pripyat, or
continuing the game in free-roam mode.
Features:
> No bugs!
> Flashdrives are no longer needed; toolkits are used for modifications.
> Hand grenades no longer homed in on my butt (Novice).
> NPC fights: NPC v NPC; NPC v mutants; Mutants v Mutants.
> Mutants now have circling as well as frontal attack.
> An 'Achievements' stat.
> Locations are now labeled on the PDA map.
> You can heal NPCs.
> Game engine is once again X-ray, v1.6
> Impressive weather effects, blowouts and day/night cycle.
> Improved RPG elements, including 'sleep' function.
> Stealth is improved through use of the Noise & Visibility meters in the HUD.
> New monsters: Tushkanah(Rats), Chimera and Burer.
> Water is rarely irradiated, compared to CS.
> After completing all missions, you can continue the game in freeplay mode.
> 100 Tutorial hints on the Load screen. eg HINT#10 "To see details of your
current mission, press TAB."
> Many of the locations are photo-realistic and based on real places:
Pripyat, Yanov train station, the Jupiter factory and Kopachi village.
Roads, buildings and playgrounds have authentic Soviet/Ukrainian architecture.
> Dx11.0 is supported, though graphics still look great on my C2D E8400 with
NVIDIA 8800GT card. FPS was fine except for the basement of the X8 lab.
> Caches can be accessed even before you are given the co-ordinates.
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2.0 CONTROLS
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You'll immediately notice that STALKER games have a whole heap of controls, so
I should mention them first. The basic controls you find in FPS/RPG games still
apply but the are a few advanced controls.
These aren't ALL the controls, just the ones I felt were important.
*See the game's options menu for the complete list.*
ADVANCED CONTROLS:
> W + X = Run
> W + X + SPACE = Long running jump.
> LSHFT + LCTRL ie Crouch + Squat = Low Crouch.
This is useful for reaching cramped areas and hard-to-access caches.
BASIC CONTROLS:
> Pause/Break Key = PAUSE
> N Night Vision
> Y Change ammo
> V Change grenade
> 6 Bolts
> O Detector
> 0 Change fire mode between Full, Semi auto and Single mode.
> P for PDA
> I for Inventory
> Mouse Wheel to change weapon
> F5 quick Save
> F9 Quick Load
> SPC Jump
> ESC Main Menu
> L Torch/Light
> F Talk, Pick up, open doors.
> X Run
> R Mouse for iron sights
> R Reload. Also if a weapon jams, press R to reload.
> TAB Current Mission heading and sub-heading.
> F12 Screenshot. Stored at C:\Docs&Settings\All Users\Documents\Stalker CoP
for me. Peetz's game made a new entry at C:\users\public\docume~1\stalke~1.-\
Both screenshots and saves go in there.
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3.0 HUD & INVENTORY
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Upper Left of Screen:
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Time of Day.
Compass. Blue = North
Blue bar=stealth aid! Shows your visibility to nearby NPCs.
Green bar=Stealth aid! Sound level indicates approaching NPCs/mutants, and your
own noisiness reloading or crashing into bushes.
Mini-map:
Yellow arrow is primary mission
Grey arrow is secondary mission
White dots are bodies you can mug
Lower Left of Screen:
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Four hotkeys allow you to heal with medipacks, eat, take anti-rad meds or drink
Vodka for radiation sickness, bandage to stop bleeding, or whatever you select.
Lower Right of Screen:
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Symbols in green, yellow or red indicate severity of damage/wear.
Symbols include bleeding, hunger, radiation, damage to suit/helmet, weapon; and
weight limit.
Important Health and Stamina bars here, check them often.
Center of screen:
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The usual arcade crosshair.
If you are a real Stalker, R mouse gives you iron sights.
INVENTORY:
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Many items in your inventory have a right-click menu. Double click R Mouse to
remove scopes, unload weapons, eat, drink, drop, drop all etc.
In the "Repair/Upgrade" screen, single click LMouse to repair or upgrade items.
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4.0 WALKTHROUGH PART I: The first ten minutes.
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*This section is just to get you started if you are new to STALKER*
Check out the game options first. I suggest enabling Autosaving, and selecting
'Novice'level. Novice level is very easy! Go right through the Options TAB
and experiment with Video settings. Get a nice balance between graphics and
frame rate. Advanced Video Options like 'Sun-cast Shadows' can really overload
your video card!
When you first gain control, you will be standing in Woodlands, all alone.
It is 9.06am. The wind ripples the grass; shafts of sunlight pierce the cloud
cover; crows circle, wondering if you are about to die from mutant attack or
radiation poisoning! Your first key presses should be F5 for quicksave, and
the Pause/Break key. Take a moment to get familiar with the HUD. Notice the
Hotkeys, compass, clock, mini-map with white dot (you) and yellow arrow, Health
and Stamina bars, and the AK set to full auto with 30 rounds in the magazine.
Press (un)Pause/Break key, press I, press Pause again and check out your
inventory. The reason for using Pause/Break so much is this: if you just stand
there looking at your inventory or your PDA, life is still going on around you.
Time passes; you could be attacked by mutants; a Blowout could start; you will
get hungry; nothing good will happen!
You're not going anywhere just yet! Now press P and have a good look at your
PDA, especially the GPS, Stats and Mission Tasks. Note the GPS map's navigation
controls; try zooming with the mouse wheel; read the place names on the map;
check out all the tabs at the top of the screen.
OK, down to business. Head straight ahead to the south as shown on the compass.
Ignore the Yellow arrow at this stage.
Hold X if you like to run. A couple of Stalkers are walking towards you.
They are randomly named. (I hope you have NPC names enabled in Options).
They appear on the mini-map as a yellow star and a dot. Yellow means they are
not hostile towards you, just neutral. Press 3 to holster the AK, so you don't
accidentally shoot them! The guy with the star will talk to you so press 'F'.
Go through the entire dialogue tree with him. Press F5 again to quicksave.
Ask: "Where is the nearest Stalker camp?" and...
.."Do you know anything about the crashed helicopters?"
This triggers your first two missions:
"Go to the safehouse at the Skadovsk Wreck" and...
.."See Noah for a way to the Southern Plateau."
Ask: "Where can I find a work?"
You will get random answers to this. The people who can give you work are
easy to find later and include:
Sultan (Backstab Mission)
Beard (Artifact on Dredge)
Owl (Check mercenary camp)
Gaunt (Find Magpie/Soroka/Flint)
Glouchar (Bloodsucker Nest at BIS circle).
Ask:Where can I find artifacts:
He will name a few anomalies for you, Circus, Burnt Village, Iron Forest, etc.
Ask: "What's new in the Zone?" gives some background to the plot and
increases the immersion factor. He may tell you why Cardan has become a drunk.
Ask: "Are you doing anything now?"
He may take you with him a short distance for free, or offer to guide you to
various locations on the Creek map for a charge.
You can open up the TRADE window if you wish, as you have 3000 roubles, but I
wouldn't bother buying/selling until later.
Wow! Now you get to shoot something! Headshots of course.
You can press '0' (zero) and change the fire mode to single shot.
Hold R Mouse to use the iron sights. Their dead bodies, which you can now loot,
will appear on the mini-map as two white dots.
Check your HUD icons for bleeding and suit damage icons (Lower Right).
Press F2 to bandage your wounds.
Press R to reload the AK.
Of course if they killed you stone dead, press 'F9' to reload the previous
quick save.
You now have several mission tasks queued which you can view in the PDA.
Press P for the PDA and click the 'Mission Tasks' tab.
Locate the "Safe House: Reach the Skadovsk" mission. The Skadovsk is an
'icebreaker' shipwreck, stranded when the river dried up ... Ukrainian humour!
The Skadovsk is your safe house in the Creek, and the centre of all the action.
Click on the 'Centre-on-map' icon for this mission.
On the main PDA/GPS map, click the grey icon centred on the Skadovsk.
Now close the PDA. The grey arrow on your mini-map now points to the Skadovsk.
Cool!
So head for the wreck before a blowout occurs. You could kill and loot another
group of Stalkers on the way if you wish, but I just couldn't do it to the poor
guys.
Any mutants attacking will turn your cross-hairs red, just so you know friend
from foe! Running backwards with the AK firing on Auto is my technique, but I
am ashamed of myself. Mutant boars(Flesh) and dogs are fairly common in Creek.
If a blowout happens along, you will be given a safe location on your PDA map
for shelter. Some of the shelter locations are more dangerous than the blowouts
themselves. If the indicated shelter is somewhere dangerous, you can find ANY
nearby shelter. You probably have enough time to get to the Skadovsk from most
areas on the Creek map. Just run in a straight line, the water here is not
irradiated as it was in Clear Sky. If you are directed to a tunnel near the
Burnt Village, be warned: there is a Controller in residence. This monster
will own you at this stage of the game, so you don't want to go there. It is
susceptible to grenade attack when you are more skilled.
Later with good protection and anabiotic drugs, you can survive a blowout
in the open. They are graphically cool, if you want to stand outside and
watch the show.
Once at the Skadovsk, You get a message "Completed Mission: Go to Safehouse."
Well done!
Press '3' to holster the AK and Press 'F' to open the hatch. Try not to get
squashed between the hatch and the wall!
Check out the stalkers inside on all three decks, but don't accept any work
just yet. Press F to talk and go through all the dialogue trees.
Then up the companionway to the middle deck to find your personal locker.
There is a mattress to sleep if you must wait to do a mission at a specific
time. If you are frightened of monsters in the dark you can sleep here every
night. It is rumoured that the mutants are more active at night but I couldn't
confirm this.
It is gloomy inside the ship so press 'L' for your torch. You can leave it
on permanently, though later it will clash with Night Vision (NV).
Find you personal locker and press 'F'. Try out the screen to transfer items
back and forth. Throughout the game you will retain access to the three
personal lockers on the three maps, Creek, Jupiter and Pripyat.
Just for practice, press 'F' to try out the bed. And no, GSC still left out
the female Stalkers. Too many polygons, too many script changes, too much
trouble all round!
Have a chat to Beard (Barkeeper) and Owl(Trader). You can trade some of the
loot from the Stalkers you so callously murdered.
First, separate the ammo from any guns you looted with the right-click menu in
your inventory. (Sell ammo, scopes, silencers and guns as separate items.)
Go to the weapons tech on the first floor. In Cardan's Repair/Modification
window, repair any guns with MINOR damage for sale to Owl. Also repair your
suit and helmet. Buy/Sell some meds to Tremor the medic for best prices; ammo
and guns to Owl; food and drink to Beard. You can talk to Nimble on the upper
deck but you will need some money before you place any orders with him.
A blowout probably occurred while you were safe inside the Skadovsk,
replenishing the anomalies around Creek with artifacts, and killing crows and
any bandits who were too slow seeking shelter.
Press ESC for the Main Menu and make a Hard Save. eg " 01 Operation Backstab".
Now to accept some paid employment:
I like to speak to Sultan first. When you first step inside the Skadovsk, the
first voice you hear is telling you to see Sultan. He initiates the
"Backstab Mission." Sultan is a bad guy. He wants you to help attack Beard's
Stalkers on the other shipwreck as they transport cash.
Next talk to Beard, the good guy. Side with him in operation Backstab. Report
to Sultan's henchman Knuckleduster, and wait until midnight for the attack.
Sleep if necessary to pass the time. Follow the marker on your mini-map to the
battle.
If you are backstabbing for Beard, shoot the nearest Raider and all the bad
guys will turn your crosshairs red. Don't shoot the friendlies! Collect all
the loot and report back to Beard for your reward.
You can begin main missions now, or go artifact hunting to make some real
money. Soon you will need a few thousand to spend with Cardan and Nimble, and
the main missions will keep for later.
Time to collect an artifact.
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You have the Echo Detector, which is very basic and difficult to read.
Leave the calm of the Skadovsk; check your PDA/GPS map for the Burnt Village
Anomaly and head in that direction.
Poor as it is, even the Echo should find something there!
As soon as you can, take out the AK and protect yourself from dogs. Hold 'X'
and outrun them if you are a dog lover.
At the Burnt Village, do a quicksave ('F5'). Yeah, last time I remind you!
Press 'O' to use the detector, and '6' for your unlimited supply of bolts.
Advance into the Burning Village, throwing bolts all the time to show any
geysers of fire in your path. Near a hut in the southern edge of town your
detector should light up and beep. In the room on the right (facing north) is
a Crystal artifact beneath/beside a low, leaning beam of charred timber.
Press 'F' to capture it for your inventory.
Crystal is typical of 'Burner' type artifacts. They absorb heat from the
extreme temperatures in a Burner anomaly, while remaining cool to the touch.
You can trade this for a nice sum! While you are here you can run up a leaning
beam and check one of the huts for the Vintar sniper rifle. If you are lucky,
you might even discover the teleport here!
Drink some Vodka or jab some anti-rads drugs with the 'F3' hotkey if your
radiation poisoning icon is flashing in the lower right of the screen.
Should a blowout interrupt you, there are two shelter locations nearby. One is
a tunnel inhabited by a Controller. The other is inside an underground anomaly,
where you can survive the blowout, maybe find an artifact or two, loot a body,
and sort through your inventory. Unload any weapons you have collected, and
drop the badly damaged ones with the right click menu.
Or if you prefer, sprint by pressing (W + X) and make it back to the Skadovsk
to shelter in comfort.
So what next? Well, that's about it for the first ten minutes. Believe it or
not, you have now covered pretty much every aspect of the controls and are
ready to head on out there by yourself.
You are now able to:
> access the PDA, Stats, Message log
> use the HUD/Compass/Mini-map
> Quick save/load
> Hard save/load
> Repair, unload, upgrade weapons
> Use a detector to locate artifacts
> Trade weapons, ammo, artifacts, medical supplies.
> Make some roubles.
> Manage bleeding, hunger, fatigue and radiation poisoning
> Identify friend and foe
> Find your way around the Creek
> Quick travel within Creek with NPC guides
> Access your personal locker
> Accept and complete missions.
Congratulations!
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5.0 WALKTHROUGH PART II: MISSION GUIDES
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A walkthrough? I would have to be kidding! After the first ten minutes you
already have a dozen options! This section is very much under construction.
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Some general guidelines for the Creek:
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> After each mission, see Cardan to repair/modify weapons.
> Press F4 or use your inventory if you are hungry.
> Make a full circuit of Creek after each blowout to collect artifacts.
> Do as many "Find Artifact" side missions for Beard as possible.
> As soon as you can afford it, place orders with Nimble for a pistol,
an assault weapon and a better suit. The pistol he provides is upgradeable to
full auto, and is ideal when exploring with a detector enabled.
The assault rifle doubles as a sniper rifle. The Clear Sky suit is upgradeable
to four artifact pockets and is a very handy suit until later when the Seva
becomes available.
> Make the decision now to play 'nice' or 'nasty'. I chose 'nice', and sided
with Beard against Sultan...and later, Duty rather than Freedom or 'neutral'.
> Keep an eye out for Cardan's "Toolkits" as you explore.
> Some missions have a time limit, especially Beard's artifact requests.
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CREEK MISSION GUIDE
First Map
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Beard's Mission to the Strange Phenomenon at the Dredger.
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This mission can be easily completed with the most basic of detectors. There is
probably an artifact somewhere in the water. The water is phosphorescent around
it, so it will be fairly easy to find. The artifact in the wheelhouse of the
dredger is also obvious. The hard part comes when it is time to leave.
A stalker will try to trick you into handing over the 'steering wheel'. When
you refuse, get ready for a fight.
If you find the steering wheel before Beard gives you the mission...no problem!
Talk to aany stalker, they will tell you where to take it.
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Glouchar's 'Who Is Killing The Stalkers?' Mission.
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This rather lengthy mission earns you the Veles Detector and the 'Detective'
Achievement Award. It is typical of the high standard of secondary missions in
Call of Pripyat.
Glouchar, in the Skadovsk bar area, initiates this mission. Various stalkers
will recommend him when asked about finding a job. Many stalkers are missing,
and the bloodsuckers are the main suspects. Your first task is to find Daniel,
who is out hunting the bloodsuckers for Glouchar. You find a dead bloodsucker
at the GPS marker, but no sign of Daniel. Take the opportunity to search
PineOak for artifacts while you are here. Glouchar immediately summons you to
the BIS Circle, where he has discovered the lair of the bloodsuckers. Protect
him as you go deeper into the building. Shoot the grenades under the wire
mattress frame to move them and make them accessible. Collect them from the
other side using low crouch (LCTRL + LSHFT).
Observe the four white dots on the mini-map, these are bodies you can loot.
Glouchar picks the doorlock, and warns you,"Ssshh! It's full of sleeping
Bloodsuckers. Let's try to get past them without making a noise!"
If you manage to wake them up and kill them all, the mission will terminate and
Beard will reward you with a Veles. But with Glouchar dead, you will miss out
on the "Detective' Achievement. So...DON"T WAKE THEM UP!!
As you leave, check the tunnel for a cache. Once outside, Glouchar gives you
a "Yo later dude." When you exit the tunnel, you can do the Helicopter Crash
Site #5 Mission, as well as finding another artifact in the swamp.
Head back to the bar, and your reward. Beard gives you a further mission to
fumigate the bloodsucker lair with nerve gas, and tells you Owl may know where
to find a gas cylinder. This information costs you 2000 RU. You recoup this
by selling documents you find with the convoy transporting the gas cylinders.
As you head to the convoy, check the shack to the East of the Port Cranes.
There is the body of the hunter, Daniel, in a pool of blood outside a locked
door. Hmmmm!
Search every vehicle in the convoy carefully, both on and under the bridge.
Back at the BIS Circle, fumigate the lair. Tuck into a safe spot beside the gas
cylinder and clean up the few bloodsuckers that escape.
Return to Beard for a Veles and 5000 RU. When you get the call to see Glouchar
again, he is nowhere in sight. Beard tells you he has left you a note...he is
at the Port Cranes following a hunch.
All is revealed here, it was not the bloodsuckers killing the stalkers after
all. Return to Beard for a 10 000 RU reward and the 'Detective' Achievement!
As a further bonus, medical supplies will be randomly deposited in your locker
by grateful stalkers!
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SNAG MISSIONS
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Snag is one of the loners hanging around in the Bar. He gives a simple mission
early in the game to retrieve his hoard, a steel case in a Zaporozhet that fell
into a nest of Snorks during an earthquake. Drop down a series of ledges to
the car.You will definitely need your flashlight and shotgun in the maze, which
exits onto the Claw anomaly. Back at the Skadovsk, bargain hard with Snag for
your share of the contents.
Later when you have purchased one of Nimble's rifles, Snag confronts you and
claims you are holding his recently stolen rifle. You can ask various
characters about Nimble's character, and they all agree he is a straight arrow.
Ask Nimble if he is selling stolen property, and a mission to track down
Snag will initiate.
Beard, who seems to know where everyone is, tells you that Snag is up at the
Port Cranes. After a battle here, a PDA has information that Snag is a thief
working for Sultan. Snag has fled to the Jupiter map, and you will have to
find him there later. Being a nice person, you can choose to spare his life!
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Cardan's Toolkit Mission
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Find toolkits so you can begin modifications to your suit and weapons. Keep an
eye out for Toolkits as you explore. When you approach the Workshop keep your
weapons holstered. The stalkers there will be friendly if you give them (6)
items of food. But when you approach the Sawmill, be sure to have your rifle
ready for the Zombies!
The Calibration Toolkits are only found in Pripyat, to save you searching!
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Helicopter on Southern Plateau Mission
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Be sure not to shoot Noah. Later he gives you the Compass artifact...though if
he is dead, you can acquire it elsewhere.
He is also a person you can ask to join your team into Pripyat...you can ask,
but he won't go!
Up on the plateau there's a cave with the bodies of two helicopter crew, and a
whole mess of Snorks!
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Miscellaneous Creek Missions
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Sultan gives a mission to disrupt Beard's artifact trade by killing his
stalkers and taking their enhanced Svarog detectors. I was only able to find
one Stalker team with a Svarog and was unable to complete this mission. (There
are two (2) Svarogs to find.) This mission starts later in the game after you
have found three Veles detectors for Owl and delivered them to the Scientist
Bunker on Jupiter map.
Three missions begin in Creek but can only be completed after leaving for
Jupiter.
#1 a mission for Owl to take three Veles detectors to the scientists.
If you shoot enough loners in Creek, you will eventually accumulate four Veles
detectors!
#2 The "Find Magpie" mission for Gaunt continues in Jupiter.
#3 The "Snag" mission continues at Yanov Station.
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JUPITER MISSION GUIDE
Second Map
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Some general guidelines for Jupiter
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> Find your bed and locker.
> Find Nitro the gunsmith.
> Talk to everyone. Ask around for work.
> Do Uncle Yar's mission to Kopachi Village.
> The "Vano's Debt" and "Hostage Mityai" missions can be completed peacefully
to earn the "Diplomat" Achievement. Approach the bandits with your weapon
holstered! After you complete the missions, feel free to go back and clean them
out!
> Take care to whom you sell Morgan's and Gen. Tachenko's PDAs! While CoP is
not really faction based, it does affect which Achievements you receive.
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THE OASIS ARTIFACT PUZZLE
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i. Systematically walk down each row. Start with the row on the far left.
When you are teleported back, go through the next row until you have walked
through them all. There are four curtains altogether.
ii. When all the curtains are revealed, walk a zig-zag path through all four
curtains to reach the Oasis room.
Load your shotgun and pick up the Oasis artifact. Or don't load it and sprint
for the ladder.
ie. The point is to go though the archways to activate the star curtain on each
one. Only by traveling through ALL archways with a star curtain will you reach
the Oasis.
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PRIPYAT MISSION GUIDE
Third Map
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Pripyat X8 Laboratory
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You may need to turn down your graphic options here. I had severe lag when the
Tushkanah attacked in the basement.
Take plenty of Medipacks and ammo in with you.
I believe there are six documents to be found.
The three Burers proved too tough for me and I just ran past them.
I found no artifacts in the lab the first time. The second time there were two.
One on the second floor and one on the roof. Sorry but you will have to keep
your detector out. Unless of course you already have 300 000ru, that you will
never get a chance to spend anyway!
Quote
"X8... Yes, the place is a maze - which is amazing considering that it is
really not very big at all. There are 6 documents to find. I'll try to give
you some pointers from memory.
When you enter, you find yourself being hit with flying objects due to the
poltergeists and Burers around. To your right is a locked door that you need
the red card to unlock (from the "One Shot- One Kill" mission). It just
contains ammo and weapons - nothing important. To your left are 2 doorways –
the one on the right is a hallway with a door straight ahead that has a
flash/shock anomaly roaming up and down the hall. If you open that door and
time it right - you can run down while the flash is down the hallway, grab the
document (#1 'American Experiment Log') there and run out back to the area
where you entered - without getting zapped.
In front of you is a stairwell down (remember, I'm going from memory, here).
Take it and you get to the next floor down and get attacked by 2 Snorks.
Then take the stairwell on the right up to a small level that has a big hole in
the middle of the floor. There's a ladder in the corner, taking you up to a
small room with a spinning, flashing light and a poltergeist. A few shots at
him and the barrels and wood stop flying at you. There's a machinegun there as
well. Watch for the rats through the hole in the floor before you go back down.
Go back to the Entry. Take the stairwell on your right, next to the Ammo Room.
There will be a small balcony overlooking that room and Snorks.
Go up the stairs and follow the balcony around to get to the Kitchen area and
the sound of the crying child.
The Burer is behind the door where the sound is coming from. Pull your knife,
run in and show the Burer how sharp it is! There's some ammo in a locked fridge
that can be opened with a shotty blast, and a document (#2 'Research Document')
on a table in the room.
Go back to the entry where you started.
Go to the hallway on your left that has the two elevators in it and enter the
left elevator. Climb down, and crawl out the bottom of the crashed elevator so
you can get into the other elevator shaft. Take that shaft up and leap into
another lobby area.
Around the corner from here is a difficult area with three Burers.
The trick here is to run up to the small top room. In that small room will
probably be only one Burer, which you can take care of easily. The others will
probably come in to investigate. Gives you a chance to save while you try to
take the others one-by-one. There is a document (#3 'Product 62 Manual') in
the small room – and another (#4 'Sample Experiment Report') in the main room
on a table beside the large vertical tank.
Go back to the main entrance where you started and take the stairs down, on the
left. Keep going down until you get to the basement level in the flooded room
where FPS can drop alarmingly! Lower your settings for this part - or save and
reload the game to see if that clears it. Take care of the rats and search the
room for another document (#5 'Rainbow Emmitter Document') on a table along
with some meds, ammo etc.
Make sure to read the popup on the model in the middle of the room (dunno if
it's important, but it seems like it should be)....
Exit the flooded room, enter the room just off that area with two big tanks
surrounded by a low concrete wall. Walk down into that area and you'll find
another document (#6 'Transfer Order') on a table. Rats, again...
If you picked up all six documents you will get a message to leave the X8 Labs.
Return to the Main entry only to find a Controller has taken up residence.
Convince him that is not in his best interest and you will be able to exit the
Labs and take the elevator back the surface.." thanks Peetz.
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Pripyat: The Ending
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You have the option of ending the game or continuing with free-roam and combat,
but no new missions. Strelok attempts to explain the events of the three
STALKER games. Ending the game gives a slide show presentation of characters,
present and future events.