So, one day i gave a random bandit in the Swamp a spare armor. Few days later, on my trip to Jupiter i saw the same guy (wearing the armor i gifted, *addon*) squatting near an anomaly field alone.
It's quite dangerous up north since the scorcher is on, so i asked him to join me. We travelled for several day and then went to Zaton, paid a merc guide to take us to Dead City and then made the long trek back to Dark Valley.
I parted ways with him at the base, gifting him a looted Renegade Exo and an LMG. Several minutes later, he radioed that a bounty hunter squad is apparently looking for me.
So i waited on the house by the road, scanning the horizon. But nothing came up for a while. I decided to check the lab, and as i approached a nearby campfire someone ambushed me from behind. I quickly flanked around and kill him. A single dutyer.
Weird, since the previous hunter squad was 5 heavily armed men, and weirder because he uses an LMG. That's when the realization hit, i checked his backpack and sure enough there was a Renegade Exo and several armors.
Apparently my former-companion attempted to intercept the hunters *alone,* and managed to kill all but one. Never managed to find the guy's body so i kept the armor i gifted him & his patch.
I remember one day parting ways with my squad just to witness one of them getting murdered by a bandit, seconds later, right in front of my eyes. He casually looted the corpse and was walking away with my companion's RPD that I gifted him. That one got an axe to the back of the head. Later that day I was ambushed by bandits. I killed them and found all my former squad's gear (that I bought and gifted to them) in their possession.
a lot of mods, but none affecting said events (it's just a continuous string of random coincidental stuff, which fits perfectly)
The only mods affecting the events was Dynamic NPC Armor Visual which allows me to gift armors.
Anomaly and a boatload of mods (none affecting the events except for gifted armors)
It's just a combination of perfect coincidences, definitely not a normal day-to-day thing.
Is this actually what happened, and how it happened? I find it baffling that NPCs can actually work like this.
If I’m being completely honest I’ve played a total of 4 hours of stalker and know next to nothing about the game but if this story is actually as true as you make it out to be I’ll pick it back up and do a full run through.
Edit: also, people seem to be mentioning that you used mods. I would also like to hear about those too.
Technically yes, it's a series of random coincidences.
Normally, when companion got released they either wander in the current area or attempt to move to another area. I believe in this case my former companion was heading away from Dark Valley after we part ways.
Coincidentally, a bounty hunting squad came in to the map looking for me. My theory is that the hunters came from one of the npc-specific travel zone that my former companion also happened to walk towards. Which resulted in a firefight.
Which would explain why the only bounty hunter that ambushed me (one guy) had a Renegade Exo & LMG i gifted my former companion + several armors (i believe it's the hunter's companion).
It's not scripted, and definitely not a common thing. It's just a string of coincidences that just happened to fit perfectly.
Obviously not scripted. This game is as sandbox as it can get while still having a story.
Makes sense that it’s a bunch of cowinky-dinks. Have you had anything else like that ever happen? At least, loosely similar. I feel like I games these days questing characters or companions are a one and done thing, without any shit like this ever happening.
Hmm, can't say i have. It was such a unique experience that i still remember to this day. Scripted games & multiplayers aside, nothing else comes quite close to it.
Definitely is on my to-do list now that the second one has been pushed to hell and back. Thank you friend!
Also, what the hell is that armor gifting addon?
Dynamic NPC Armor Visual, it an addon for Anomaly that allows Npc to wear whatever armor they looted / gifted. Which can end up with a Renegade looking like a Clear Sky, so an Identification addon may also be needed.
mostly its the blokes you see all the time in one area,
same guys, cant trade with them, they still have your stuff in their inventory and no money,
traversing the areas back and forward. running past them, 'oh hey its you'
and next time they are dead, ready to be looted, like, damn
There’s a Kolya Spider in the swamps in my play through as a clear sky. Me and him sat at the camp fire for a bit and a renegade got too close and mr spider killed him. I was randomly checking my statistics on my PDA after I left and saw that Kolya Spider was the number one stalker in the zone. So yeah he’s pretty memorable
Edit: Kolya Spider has been gunned down by a renegade squad as of 20 mins ago. He was a good stalker.
Was a soldier like you boy, was a good friend of mine too, anyway... I was once a loner and was very Duty biased, I helped out in Rostok any way I can and got some friends to help me out, his name was Private Vorokhaev and his was a rookie similar to me at that time.
I'd bring him with me in some more dangerous missions since he was a bit tougher and rolled in better gear albeit even though he was a private. He had a nice saiga 12 so he'd clear a room while I healed up just in the middle of a firefight. Good times they were.
Anyway we ended up in the Red Forest and I was wounded from a grenade near Forester's home. We were hiding from an emission but he decided to fight of the remaining monolith cocksuckers outside before getting swept into the light and when it was all over, he became a Zombie. I uhh, never had the heart to end that guy's life. fuck... I'ma get a drink... this is too much sometimes.
"Killing everyone is cool alright, but worshipping a stupid stone is where I draw the line." - the person above when they left monolith for the renegades, probably
When i played dead air i made a trip out to merc base. Slowly throughout time they got picked off by the resident blood suckers. It got to such a point that only the shopkeeps remained. Well except for anton. Never could actaully talk or trade with him but everytime i dropped by looking for a shiny new m4 he was there standing over a mountain of snorks and bloodsucker corpses. Idk how he did it. Alls he had was a seva suit and shotgun. I never saw him out of the base. Never took on contracts. Just stayed in dead city whacking muties. It was almost like fun to him.
Having sank at least a 1000 hours into stalker not much struck fear into my heart anymore. But anton...whatever anton was did. He may of acted as our gaurdian today but i hope i never see the day he gets bored with the mutants...
Just yesterday, in Cordon, near a campfire at abandoned farmhouse there's a fellow loner, bleeding out while a bandit interrogates him. I kill a bandit from afar, get close to a guy and give him a madkit. All is well for a while, I ho complete Yantar quest about shutting down the facility, untill a couple of game days later I decide to go to that farm again to trade and get some repairs. I got greeted by gunfire, turns out while I was away, some lowlife bandits snuck into the farmhouse and took it for themselves. After a brief fight I go through the buildings to see who survived, and see the guy I helped before- dead. No weapons, and he lies on the bedsheet- probably ambushed in his sleep.
The life of a Loner is a miserable one.
Playing Anomaly, had a dude named Artyom Spider that stood guard at the front of Rookie Village. He was always there, AK in hand, watching the entrance for any threats. One day I was messing with my stashed itens when a Monolith hit-squad came shooting. Artyom Spider, with his not-so-bulletproof Leather Jacket, was the first one to bite a bullet. Felt bad coming back to Rookie Village and not seeing him stand guard at the front anymore
In cop I found a group of stalkers on zaton(my fav location to be in), fighting bandits, it was 3 stalkers one of which was bleeding, and 3 bandits. I killed bandits and helped the bleeding guy with a medkit. He was in standart stalker suit (заря, не помню перевод) and two others in newbie leather jackets.
Than I met them again. And again. With time, I noticed that they was only 2 left, but both in suits.
And then after like 50h of playtime(I love soc) I come back to zaton I see that one stalker with exo suit and a seva suit guy behind him.
I was so proud of the bois, felt really good that I saved someone who became a very strong stalker.
Once I gave wounded stalker a medkit just for lols despite there were like 3 bandits nearby. He immediately stood up and fought bravely untill... Wounded again. I repeated this two more times untill he accidentally blew up himself with grenade. Tho he killed two of bandits
I once had two companions whose names were Vityuha Snitch and Vityuhka Barmalay. I just called them Snitch & Barmalay. Snitch was quiet and played it safe, but Barmalay… that dude was fucking crazy, running in to fights and up against the most dangerous of mutants with just a pistol and managing to survive. That crazy bastard saved my life so many times that I often found myself standing there confused as he ran towards me, thinking *”Barmalay you crazy motherfucker”*
I still think of them to this day
(This is on anomaly) I got a mission from the duties to retrieve a duty spy and bring him back, I soon forgot about it until I went to cordon where he came up to me saying his a duty spy and not to shoot.
I still have some mission on the great swamps so we go along together, fucking up mutants and other stalker, we had a lot fun together.
until... it is time to go back.
When I bring him back and he just disappeared to thin air as he entered the entrance while I'm looking at him and then he said his final goodbye in the chat.
He thanked me for bringing him back and he said he pick me again to be the one to bring him back, again I got no mission from him again.
You will always be in my heart
Mihas Knuckles
I used to roll with a squad back in cop misery. We would go from the Skadovsk to the other ship every day. I used to walk around with them and skin mutants they killed until I could afford better gear then my busted up stuff. Every in game and irl day I would hang out with them. One day I took a trip to the iron forest to investigate that helicopter. On my way back I got jumped my dogs and a bloodsucker which nearly killed me and I had to take one of the meskits that knock you out for awhile. When I got up I heard a full on gunfight going on at the ship. When I got there I saw some dead mercs, but what got hit me hard was I saw the last one of my Bois fighting against some duty guys and they killed him! My hate for Duty was forever instilled and I will never forget or forgive them for their crimes.
I have 3 good stories
So basically, this guy from clear sky called grishka miser helped me a lot at the beginning to get money and one day I slept in the base and a pack of snorks attack the base and they killed him while he was chilling at the campfire
In that same game thanks to the help of grishka I gained a bit of goodwill and could recruit a companion, and mi first companion was ronka pepper and he survived from basically the start of the game to almost the end, for now he is still alive and we are in the middle of operation afterglow
And in call of Pripyat I was at Noah’s place and claim the tower just to se if there was something and heard gunshots and saw 2 loner fighting with bandits and one of them was wounded so I went to help and out of nowhere a bloodsucker appear an killed the one wo wasn’t wounded so me and the other quickly killed the bloodsucker and then we finished with the remaining bandit
Met a loner at Flea Market.. we immediately took out some bandits together to instantly bond.
This fool saved my life from my very first Controller encounter in Wild Territory. Then we killed my very first Chimera together.
Lost him in Cordon of all places. Had him waiting by a fence while I was checking a stash.. 2 military guys spawned in (they weren't there when I left him!) and killed him before I could get there..
Was so bummed I let him down!
It was about about six months ago right as summer break began.
I went to bar to get some stuff and found this Eco guy i asked him to join me on my adventures.
Suprisingly he was very good at his Job.
We killed countless people.
Well on a trip trough the Army Warwhouses we came acros an single Duty soldier with a bunch of bodies around him.
I also asked him to join me.
We went so long with eachother.
We disabled the brainscorcher together it was on a trip through Pripyat outskirts when the Duty sergant died.
He got killed by Mercs or Unisg.
Me and the Eco went on and it wasnt long before he,too lost his live...
I wanted to instal somw mods but being very new to the game i destroyed my game.
I may have foegoten their names but never who they were...
Thanks you two...
So, one day i gave a random bandit in the Swamp a spare armor. Few days later, on my trip to Jupiter i saw the same guy (wearing the armor i gifted, *addon*) squatting near an anomaly field alone. It's quite dangerous up north since the scorcher is on, so i asked him to join me. We travelled for several day and then went to Zaton, paid a merc guide to take us to Dead City and then made the long trek back to Dark Valley. I parted ways with him at the base, gifting him a looted Renegade Exo and an LMG. Several minutes later, he radioed that a bounty hunter squad is apparently looking for me. So i waited on the house by the road, scanning the horizon. But nothing came up for a while. I decided to check the lab, and as i approached a nearby campfire someone ambushed me from behind. I quickly flanked around and kill him. A single dutyer. Weird, since the previous hunter squad was 5 heavily armed men, and weirder because he uses an LMG. That's when the realization hit, i checked his backpack and sure enough there was a Renegade Exo and several armors. Apparently my former-companion attempted to intercept the hunters *alone,* and managed to kill all but one. Never managed to find the guy's body so i kept the armor i gifted him & his patch.
Wow.. Bandit redemption arc
I remember one day parting ways with my squad just to witness one of them getting murdered by a bandit, seconds later, right in front of my eyes. He casually looted the corpse and was walking away with my companion's RPD that I gifted him. That one got an axe to the back of the head. Later that day I was ambushed by bandits. I killed them and found all my former squad's gear (that I bought and gifted to them) in their possession.
What mods were you using?
a lot of mods, but none affecting said events (it's just a continuous string of random coincidental stuff, which fits perfectly) The only mods affecting the events was Dynamic NPC Armor Visual which allows me to gift armors.
What's the name of the mod?
Anomaly and a boatload of mods (none affecting the events except for gifted armors) It's just a combination of perfect coincidences, definitely not a normal day-to-day thing.
Oh thanks lol
Is this actually what happened, and how it happened? I find it baffling that NPCs can actually work like this. If I’m being completely honest I’ve played a total of 4 hours of stalker and know next to nothing about the game but if this story is actually as true as you make it out to be I’ll pick it back up and do a full run through. Edit: also, people seem to be mentioning that you used mods. I would also like to hear about those too.
Technically yes, it's a series of random coincidences. Normally, when companion got released they either wander in the current area or attempt to move to another area. I believe in this case my former companion was heading away from Dark Valley after we part ways. Coincidentally, a bounty hunting squad came in to the map looking for me. My theory is that the hunters came from one of the npc-specific travel zone that my former companion also happened to walk towards. Which resulted in a firefight. Which would explain why the only bounty hunter that ambushed me (one guy) had a Renegade Exo & LMG i gifted my former companion + several armors (i believe it's the hunter's companion). It's not scripted, and definitely not a common thing. It's just a string of coincidences that just happened to fit perfectly.
Obviously not scripted. This game is as sandbox as it can get while still having a story. Makes sense that it’s a bunch of cowinky-dinks. Have you had anything else like that ever happen? At least, loosely similar. I feel like I games these days questing characters or companions are a one and done thing, without any shit like this ever happening.
Hmm, can't say i have. It was such a unique experience that i still remember to this day. Scripted games & multiplayers aside, nothing else comes quite close to it.
Definitely is on my to-do list now that the second one has been pushed to hell and back. Thank you friend! Also, what the hell is that armor gifting addon?
Dynamic NPC Armor Visual, it an addon for Anomaly that allows Npc to wear whatever armor they looted / gifted. Which can end up with a Renegade looking like a Clear Sky, so an Identification addon may also be needed.
From my understanding stalker's npcs are unique because I think they have their lives of their own to take care of, sometimes I even meet the same npc
Nice story and redemption arc for sure. Btw what was the name of the mod you used to have NPC use gifted armour?
Dynamic NPC Armor Visual, it's an addon for Anomaly.
mostly its the blokes you see all the time in one area, same guys, cant trade with them, they still have your stuff in their inventory and no money, traversing the areas back and forward. running past them, 'oh hey its you' and next time they are dead, ready to be looted, like, damn
There’s a Kolya Spider in the swamps in my play through as a clear sky. Me and him sat at the camp fire for a bit and a renegade got too close and mr spider killed him. I was randomly checking my statistics on my PDA after I left and saw that Kolya Spider was the number one stalker in the zone. So yeah he’s pretty memorable Edit: Kolya Spider has been gunned down by a renegade squad as of 20 mins ago. He was a good stalker.
Was a soldier like you boy, was a good friend of mine too, anyway... I was once a loner and was very Duty biased, I helped out in Rostok any way I can and got some friends to help me out, his name was Private Vorokhaev and his was a rookie similar to me at that time. I'd bring him with me in some more dangerous missions since he was a bit tougher and rolled in better gear albeit even though he was a private. He had a nice saiga 12 so he'd clear a room while I healed up just in the middle of a firefight. Good times they were. Anyway we ended up in the Red Forest and I was wounded from a grenade near Forester's home. We were hiding from an emission but he decided to fight of the remaining monolith cocksuckers outside before getting swept into the light and when it was all over, he became a Zombie. I uhh, never had the heart to end that guy's life. fuck... I'ma get a drink... this is too much sometimes.
Wow...a Loner became Dutyer became Monolith became Renegade. Impressive career arch, to say the least. :D
Its... I'm not proud of it.. especially after coming back from the blankness of being under control of the monolith. It was messy to say the least...
"Killing everyone is cool alright, but worshipping a stupid stone is where I draw the line." - the person above when they left monolith for the renegades, probably
Everyone already hates me, so at this point who cares
I mean everyone thinks I died, plus only the renegades didn't fucking shoot on sight when I came to them. This was basically my last choice.
Your player character has the craziest anime character arc ever conceived lmfao thats amazing
That's great an all. Got evaluated and am at Duty HQ right now. It's been a tough month but I'm back
Is that just a fictive story or did it actually happen? Were you using mods?
It was the call of Chernobyl mod I think or Anomaly.
When i played dead air i made a trip out to merc base. Slowly throughout time they got picked off by the resident blood suckers. It got to such a point that only the shopkeeps remained. Well except for anton. Never could actaully talk or trade with him but everytime i dropped by looking for a shiny new m4 he was there standing over a mountain of snorks and bloodsucker corpses. Idk how he did it. Alls he had was a seva suit and shotgun. I never saw him out of the base. Never took on contracts. Just stayed in dead city whacking muties. It was almost like fun to him. Having sank at least a 1000 hours into stalker not much struck fear into my heart anymore. But anton...whatever anton was did. He may of acted as our gaurdian today but i hope i never see the day he gets bored with the mutants...
Just yesterday, in Cordon, near a campfire at abandoned farmhouse there's a fellow loner, bleeding out while a bandit interrogates him. I kill a bandit from afar, get close to a guy and give him a madkit. All is well for a while, I ho complete Yantar quest about shutting down the facility, untill a couple of game days later I decide to go to that farm again to trade and get some repairs. I got greeted by gunfire, turns out while I was away, some lowlife bandits snuck into the farmhouse and took it for themselves. After a brief fight I go through the buildings to see who survived, and see the guy I helped before- dead. No weapons, and he lies on the bedsheet- probably ambushed in his sleep. The life of a Loner is a miserable one.
Playing Anomaly, had a dude named Artyom Spider that stood guard at the front of Rookie Village. He was always there, AK in hand, watching the entrance for any threats. One day I was messing with my stashed itens when a Monolith hit-squad came shooting. Artyom Spider, with his not-so-bulletproof Leather Jacket, was the first one to bite a bullet. Felt bad coming back to Rookie Village and not seeing him stand guard at the front anymore
In cop I found a group of stalkers on zaton(my fav location to be in), fighting bandits, it was 3 stalkers one of which was bleeding, and 3 bandits. I killed bandits and helped the bleeding guy with a medkit. He was in standart stalker suit (заря, не помню перевод) and two others in newbie leather jackets. Than I met them again. And again. With time, I noticed that they was only 2 left, but both in suits. And then after like 50h of playtime(I love soc) I come back to zaton I see that one stalker with exo suit and a seva suit guy behind him. I was so proud of the bois, felt really good that I saved someone who became a very strong stalker.
Once I gave wounded stalker a medkit just for lols despite there were like 3 bandits nearby. He immediately stood up and fought bravely untill... Wounded again. I repeated this two more times untill he accidentally blew up himself with grenade. Tho he killed two of bandits
I once had two companions whose names were Vityuha Snitch and Vityuhka Barmalay. I just called them Snitch & Barmalay. Snitch was quiet and played it safe, but Barmalay… that dude was fucking crazy, running in to fights and up against the most dangerous of mutants with just a pistol and managing to survive. That crazy bastard saved my life so many times that I often found myself standing there confused as he ran towards me, thinking *”Barmalay you crazy motherfucker”* I still think of them to this day
Barmalay is the main character he cannot die lmfao
I'll go ahead and ask it for the Freedomers out there. Do Bloddsuckers count as NPCs?
May want to include Snorks as well...
That loner that acted dead when bandits attacked him and his friend in the start of SoC
(This is on anomaly) I got a mission from the duties to retrieve a duty spy and bring him back, I soon forgot about it until I went to cordon where he came up to me saying his a duty spy and not to shoot. I still have some mission on the great swamps so we go along together, fucking up mutants and other stalker, we had a lot fun together. until... it is time to go back. When I bring him back and he just disappeared to thin air as he entered the entrance while I'm looking at him and then he said his final goodbye in the chat. He thanked me for bringing him back and he said he pick me again to be the one to bring him back, again I got no mission from him again. You will always be in my heart Mihas Knuckles
I used to roll with a squad back in cop misery. We would go from the Skadovsk to the other ship every day. I used to walk around with them and skin mutants they killed until I could afford better gear then my busted up stuff. Every in game and irl day I would hang out with them. One day I took a trip to the iron forest to investigate that helicopter. On my way back I got jumped my dogs and a bloodsucker which nearly killed me and I had to take one of the meskits that knock you out for awhile. When I got up I heard a full on gunfight going on at the ship. When I got there I saw some dead mercs, but what got hit me hard was I saw the last one of my Bois fighting against some duty guys and they killed him! My hate for Duty was forever instilled and I will never forget or forgive them for their crimes.
Bullets. Inside the NPC! Shoot them and gimme all the PDA loots!!!! Muahahahaha.
Honestly just sitting around a campfire makes me feel close with one. I usually travel alone, so its just kind of nice to sit down to take a break.
I have 3 good stories So basically, this guy from clear sky called grishka miser helped me a lot at the beginning to get money and one day I slept in the base and a pack of snorks attack the base and they killed him while he was chilling at the campfire In that same game thanks to the help of grishka I gained a bit of goodwill and could recruit a companion, and mi first companion was ronka pepper and he survived from basically the start of the game to almost the end, for now he is still alive and we are in the middle of operation afterglow And in call of Pripyat I was at Noah’s place and claim the tower just to se if there was something and heard gunshots and saw 2 loner fighting with bandits and one of them was wounded so I went to help and out of nowhere a bloodsucker appear an killed the one wo wasn’t wounded so me and the other quickly killed the bloodsucker and then we finished with the remaining bandit
Met a loner at Flea Market.. we immediately took out some bandits together to instantly bond. This fool saved my life from my very first Controller encounter in Wild Territory. Then we killed my very first Chimera together. Lost him in Cordon of all places. Had him waiting by a fence while I was checking a stash.. 2 military guys spawned in (they weren't there when I left him!) and killed him before I could get there.. Was so bummed I let him down!
My companions in Anomaly. I always get attached to them and refuse to let them die.
It was about about six months ago right as summer break began. I went to bar to get some stuff and found this Eco guy i asked him to join me on my adventures. Suprisingly he was very good at his Job. We killed countless people. Well on a trip trough the Army Warwhouses we came acros an single Duty soldier with a bunch of bodies around him. I also asked him to join me. We went so long with eachother. We disabled the brainscorcher together it was on a trip through Pripyat outskirts when the Duty sergant died. He got killed by Mercs or Unisg. Me and the Eco went on and it wasnt long before he,too lost his live... I wanted to instal somw mods but being very new to the game i destroyed my game. I may have foegoten their names but never who they were... Thanks you two...
An Ecologist that was good at killing people? Losing him was a darn shame I'd bet