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The player will be able to join and help factions in their battles. The stronger a faction becomes, the better equipment the traders can provide and their soldiers can use. The player character is a mercenary, and may do missions for any faction or remain completely neutral without disrupting the necessary progression of the game. Each of the ...
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is a first-person shooter survival horror video game franchise developed by Ukrainian game developer GSC Game World.The series is set in an alternate version of the present-day Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine, where, according to the series' backstory, a mysterious second Chernobyl disaster took place in 2006.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. takes place in an area called the Zone. The Zone is based on the real-life Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and is also inspired by fictional works: Boris and Arkady Strugatsky's science fiction novella Roadside Picnic (1972) which was loosely adapted into Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker (1979), as well as the film's subsequent novelization by the Strugatsky brothers.
Following the trail, he is led to Scar, the protagonist of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, who leads an anarchistic faction called Spark that opposes the Ward and believes the Zone can be transformed into a utopian 'Shining Zone', as well as the Noontide faction, consisting of the formerly-brainwashed soldiers of the Monolith from previous games ...
Blowouts can cause new artifacts to be spawned in the anomaly fields. Artifacts are found in or around anomalies. Players have to use special detectors to bring artifacts into the visible spectrum, as they are naturally invisible. Every time an Emission occurs, each anomaly field has a chance of creating a new artifact within its wake.
The term stalker (сталкер) became a part of the Russian language and, according to the authors, became the most popular of their neologisms. In the book, stalkers are people who trespass into the forbidden area known as the Zone and steal its valuable extraterrestrial artifacts, which they later sell.
In the story, the game's "Monolith" faction attempts to use Duga-1 similarly to how the "Brain Scorcher" is used in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl. Markiyan Kamysh 's book Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl depicts illegal trips to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, including to the Duga, and was ...
Adds new subclasses and backgrounds for characters in the Forgotten Realms. Describes factions that characters can join or oppose. [16] [17] ― Forgotten Realms Adventure Guide ― November 11, 2025: Locations and lore about the Forgotten Realms for dungeon masters. [16] [17] ―