Each of these fellows will be willing to buy most of what you’re capable of selling, and will have unlimited funds to buy what you offer, whereas the neutral and friendly stalkers and soldiers throughout the realms will generally only buy your first aid kits and, helpfully, the artifacts that you find. There are only three main traders in the game: Sid near the beginning, Barkeep in the Bar territory, and Prof. Dump unused weapons or ammo on him for a little extra cash. Sidorivich will be the first trader you come across. Unfortunately, it really isn’t as mentioned above, you’re going to wind up finding most of the stuff that you really need on the bodies of enemies that you’ve slain. Early in the game, they’re worth checking out, since they’ll net you more first aid kits and ammo, but later on, you’re going to be able to find everything you really need off the bodies of your enemies (ammo, first aid supplies, weapons) or floating around on the ground (artifacts).Īfter playing a game like Oblivion, which is superficially similar to Stalker in many ways, you may think that money will wind up being important in Stalker. That way, if you nab the same stash’s location on another body, it might wind up getting refilled with new goodies.Īs noted, stashes aren’t particularly worth tracking down if they’re going to be well out of your way. Even if you don’t need any of the items in there, it’s better to nab everything then dump anything you don’t need on the ground, rather than keep it in the stash. But when you do reach one, open it up and take everything inside. Don’t let them distract you from your storyline quests, though - stashes aren’t that important. If you want to make the most of stashes, you should try to make your way to them as soon as possible after they become available to you. Sometimes you’ll be pointed towards stash locations only to find nothing at the marker. Sometimes you’ll empty out a stash and the icon will still be there on your map, for whatever reason. Sometimes, if you don’t take everything out of a stash, it won’t be refilled, even if you find the stash indicator on another soldier. Since you’re going to be killing hundreds of enemies during the game, and there are only so many stash locations to go around, sometimes you’ll be heading to the same stash twice. Unfortunately, stashes are kind of wonky and weird in this game. You check your map and look for a purple triangle marking the location of the stash, look around a bit for a backpack or some other item that could hold loot (sometimes it’s a rusty pipe, for instance), then open it up and grab the loot. You’ll get a PDA message indicating that they had information about a stash on them. The basic process is this: you kill an enemy, then check their body. Stashes are going to be the source of a lot of loot for you during your time around Chernobyl. Read on for a bevy of tips on the game and a walkthrough to boot! Our game guide to Stalker is intended to help you get the most out of the game's main storyline. However, Stalker is a bit more focused than Oblivion was, and, in fact, there's no levelling-up to be done at all, and no experience to gain everything you do in Stalker is based on the equipment that you find and the pure skill that you can bring to the combat. However, rumors of great treasures in the area around Chernobyl - now simply called The Zone - lured in numerous mercenaries, called stalkers, who braved the mutants and radiation in the Zone in the hopes of striking it rich.įittingly enough for a game originally subtitled 'Oblivion Lost', Stalker plays out much like an Elder Scrolls game you receive quests from various questgivers, and can choose to ignore them or complete them as you see fit, or simply explore the countryside. In the game's storyline, further accidents expanded the radiation zone outward by a few kilometers, scaring the citizens in the surrounding countryside into abandoning the area. After the reactor went critical in 1986, it flooded the surrounding area with radiation. Stalker is a post-apocalyptic first-person-shooter set in the area around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Originally set to be released in 2003, the game has finally arrived on shelves. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (referred to hereafter as simply Stalker, for our sanity's sake) from Ukrainian developer GSC Game World, is another one of those titles, having initially been announced as a title way back in 2001. The gaming world is no stranger to delays, with high-profile titles like Halo 2, Half-Life 2, and Duke Nukem Forever being delayed sometimes years beyond their original release dates.

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