STALKER - Clear Sky

[TinCow]

I've found a lot of artifacts, at least 3 on each map. They generally tend to be in areas with loads of anomalies. If you see the green fog, there's definitely some in there. The easiest way to find them is to walk around a map with your detector out. When it starts beeping (or displaying better info if you have an upgraded detector) you know you're nearby. Then you just need to hunt it down with the detector without getting yourself killed in the anomalies. In the beginning this involved running into the anomilies, grabbing the artifact, then running out, all while chugging first aid kits like crazy. Now that I've got a good upgraded suit, I don't really have problems with radiation and toxicity, and I just need to dodge the smaller anomalies.

I agree about the Freedom/Duty war. I'm Freedom as well and am just trying to push into Agroprom. I think the key is to load yourself up with a ton of ammo so that you don't have to leave. I also have a nice artifact that gives me +6 endurance, which lets me run constantly without stopping, as long as I'm not overloaded. This makes transit between the check points quick in the event of attacks.

[TevashSzat]

I'm probably gonna get this eventually since I liked Shadows of Chernobyl quite alot. Well, from what I had seen, I'm probably gonna wait a few months until more patches are out to fix the remaining bugs and I have more free time to play games

[Lemur]

I've managed to put in maybe four hours on this game, and I gotta say I like it. The upgrades thing is kind of confusing, but that's okay, being lost, broke and confused is part of the charm of a Stalker game.

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I splurged and got a good anomaly detector. Even with that in hand, it's 50/50 as to whether I can actually grab anything. There must be some trick to this ...

[TinCow]

For anomalies, something the game doesn't tell you is that some of them actually move while they are invisible. When you get the level 3 detector, you can see this far better since it shows you exactly where they are, not just a general direction.

[Lemur]

Like I said, I splurged and got the third-level detector, the one that actually shows where they are. But even when I'm wading hip-deep in some blood-smashing anomaly, I can't always grab the dang things. It's a little bit frustrating, although I do appreciate not having artifacts laying around like pine cones.

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NVM, after giving the game some serious love last night, it quickly became clear that the artifact I experimented on was bugged. The detector/grabbie combo works fine on every other one in the game.

Now I'm stuck across a canal having cleared Monolith fellas out of a house, and I can't find my way on for the life of me. Fences everywhere, walls of radiation and instant death elsewhere, there seems to be no path onward. I'll have to scour some fora tonight.

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After getting severely frustrated, I found a good walkthrough to get me past that point. Highly recommended, since gamefaqs.com has next to nada up right now.

[Lemur]

Zero Punctuation takes on Stalker Clear Sky. Hard to say who wins, but any review that concludes with the words "and whistled for a baboon" is okay in my book.

[CrossLOPER]

Zero Punctuation takes on Stalker Clear Sky. Hard to say who wins, but any review that concludes with the words "and whistled for a baboon" is okay in my book.

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