Words cannot describe how annoying and time wasting the stupid things are. Specifically the blind dogs will run in circles around you while randomly running towards you to attack and go back to running in circles. First, why does there have to be so dam many of them in one hunting pack seacond, why did you have to code them so well, if your ontop of somthing they won’t go in and will go into hiding until you start moving around Third, why can they tank a slug shot to the fucking face, this is only an issue for the shotguns but how can a dog take more than a large flesh mass

How I deal with them, they’re usually found around infrastructure so just go into there or somewhere narrow so they can’t go left or right and are easy to hit when they go attack you, I’m not sure if pc has this but on console if you start aiming down sights when pointed at an enemy it’ll automatically track them and keep them in your sight and it’ll really help with hitting thems

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I made the attic of the house in Rookie Village that you start the game in into my safe house/home base lol took awhile but I like how it turned out.

The old forester -- the only surviving local resident who refused to evacuate during the first Chernobyl disaster in 1986. He has the ability to sense anomalies without electronic devices. He resides in an abandoned mine facility on the outskirts of the Red Forest.

Biography. Forester grew up in one of the villages near Limansk. Occasionally, he would see the city’s inhabitants. He became a forest ranger of the “Limansk Reserve,” protecting the forest from poachers. After the Chernobyl disaster, authorities tried to evacuate him, but he refused out of attachment to his homeland. After the second explosion at the plant, he discovered his ability to sense and avoid anomalies. Using the artifact he found, the “Compass,” he managed to escape the “spatial bubble” on his own.

He is also a technician, but he doesn’t upgrade equipment -- he only repairs it.

Forester in Stalker 2. In the Mine Keeper in the Red Forest, we were supposed to meet the beloved Forester, who asks for help in dealing with poachers. You could also ask him about mutants, but in the build, the dialogue wasn’t finished.

While completing Forester's quest in the build, where we are asked to deal with poachers, we can learn interesting information:

Skif: Where do the deer live around here?
Forester: There’s no specific place. They haven’t traveled in herds for a long time. If you see a group of grazing stags from afar -- that’s a trap. Only one is real; the rest are ghosts -- that’s their peculiarity.

It turns out that the Psi-Deer might have had an ability similar to the pseudo-dog and that Bayun with the collar.

Another dialogue between Skif and Forester:
- How’s life in the forest, grandpa?
- I don’t rush with prayers. The forest is good. Look how big he’s grown; I’ve only gotten smaller for him. The Zone doesn’t give its gifts for free…

Forester spoke about the Gifts of the Zone only after Skif brought him a can of condensed milk:
“The Zone placed great power in me. I can sense anomalies, I know how to pass through them. But walking is getting harder. All my life I waited for the Zone to demand its payment, and still, I wasn’t ready. Stalkers envied me, fools. They’d come for advice -- to show a path, pull out a rare artifact. And now, as life leaves me, everyone has forgotten about me… except the medics. Whenever I go to the forest, they put me straight to bed. The Red Forest has almost become abandoned. I see how badly it suffers, but I can do nothing.”

- Oh, a treat! Just don’t tell the doctor. I can’t have sweets, and just looking at pills with needles makes me sick. Here, take this -- it will be healthier for you.

At the end of the dialogue, Forester gave the player a military first-aid kit.

The Myth of “Forester’s Grave”. Some time after the game’s release, a new grave was found near Forester’s mine, which could theoretically have belonged to the old Zone inhabitant. However, in patch 1.2, this grave was removed. It turns out that the grave appears after the quest “Dark Times” -- Archip buries the stalker Sedoy. The hypothesis about Forester was interesting, but the myth was finally debunked.

Interesting Facts:

• The water level in his cup constantly changes. Technically, this is explained because the liquid in the cup is coded as a puddle.
• Before Forester asks to return the “Compass,” he says that a few days earlier, he got caught in a spatial anomaly and couldn’t escape, but the Zone gave him this artifact, and with its help, he got out. He named the artifact the “Compass.”
• Forester is the only character in the game series who is a native resident of the Zone.

one day I guess...

What are your personal favorite cozy hideouts, stalkers?

Am i being hunted by.....THE STRELOK"!?

I am thinking of switching to either of the above from GROM S-15 Aany suggetion to which one should I go for . Dnipro has more readily available ammo but I heard kharod has better penetration.

☢️ One of the testers (Game With Dave) confirmed that binoculars will finally appear in patch 1.6. In addition, NVGs won’t be as simple as in the trilogy: they will feature different fields of view, including monocular night vision devices. A quest with Gonta will also be added at last, originally planned for patch 1.5, along with an extended magazine for the “Kora.” And for Xbox, more mods will be introduced…

So, is that the whole patch? Or should we expect something more, what do you think?

Patch 1.5.3 — full breakdown/analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNHjBDLcTZ0

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Not many complaints with the game, but can we talk about this? Mind you I'm playing on veteran, and the NPCs can see me a 500 meters away through dense brush but don't see me with a flashlight pointed in my face??? I feel like they are a bit too easy and dumb even for veteran difficulty.

I installed Anomaly for another playthrough, and just came to Rostok, but I feel the game world is even more abandoned than I remember?

There's only a trader and a repair man at the farm on Cordon.

There's no one in the building at the Trainyard at Agroprom.

No one in Flee Market and only the Hunter vendor in the Hangar at Garbage.

Also no Duty checkpoint at the gate to Rostok in Garbage.

Do I just remember too much from SoC and CoP so far? Because I could swear Anomaly still had these places populated by their respective factions.

The 1.6 patch test started yesterday -- looks like the patch is dropping in 2 weeks 👀
At the same time, the community manager couldn’t confirm whether binoculars will be added in 1.6...

Patch 1.5.3 — full breakdown/analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNHjBDLcTZ0

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