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Call of chernobyl faction relations
Call of chernobyl faction relations




call of chernobyl faction relations

That's a crying shame, because the expanded maps are just begging to be populated with random encounters and situations. You won't see them out in the world, exploring or artifact hunting, or picking fights with enemy factions and mutants. In Lost Alpha, NPC stalkers are limited to set bases and patrol routes. I'm not talking about enemy tactics and such (even though those still leave to be desired), but rather about the unpredictability I raved about in CoC.

call of chernobyl faction relations

However, Lost Alpha's most glaring issue is, in my opinion, its AI.

call of chernobyl faction relations

They need the cash for their top-of-the-line equipment, I guess? I don't know if this was originally intended in the early versions of Shadow of Chernobyl, but it was a very jarring departure from the Monolith I knew from the other games. Except that in Lost Alpha, they are strangely chill, hanging out with bandits and allowing you on their territory if you accept to pay them. In a nutshell, the Monolith are brainwashed stalkers who fanatically defend the center of the Zone and are utterly homicidal toward all other factions. This being said, a few design choices had me scratching my head, especially in regards to the Monolith faction. The games seem to lean more on the book for inspiration, except that there is only one Zone (the real-life Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in Ukraine), and no aliens: the Zone's anomalies and artifacts were instead spawned from a mysterious second explosion at the power plant in 2006. Soul-searching along the (very uneventful, almost 3-hour-long) way. Search of a legendary wish-granting room at its centre, and do some Get into all that, and instead features three men – a professor and a writer,Īccompanied by a stalker, no names given – who venture into the zone in – remnants of the alien visitation with strange and often wondrous properties. Off, but men dubbed “stalkers” still sneak in illegally to hunt for “artifacts” The Zones have been evacuated and cordoned Instance, random spots of amplified gravity that will abruptly crush you into a Novella deals with the aftermath of an alien visitation, which left severalĪreas (dubbed “Zones”) affected by dangerous, reality-defying anomalies (for It is based on the 1972 Russian novella Roadside Picnic, which itself S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow ofĬhernobyl came out over a decade ago, in late 2007.






Call of chernobyl faction relations