
Turns out these were the bandits that had taken the hostage, so suddenly I’m in the middle of a mission. This is unusual, so I walk up to investigate. I was out and about, on my way back from hunting for artifacts after a detour to kill a bunch of mutants, when I crested a rise and saw some tough looking dudes guarding a gate into a storage facility.

You can have many different tasks at any moment, so you end up stumbling on all these great locations as you move from one quest to the next. One of the things I love most about the game is how many unique areas there are. I chose the latter option.Īfter the jump, me and my new buddy eff some bandits UP!

I had the option to convince his buddies to help me attack the bandits, negotiate with the bandits, or deal with it my own way. But a mission to rescue a stalker hostage from some bandits was surprisingly fun. Hanging out with Grouse, as described in a previous entry, wasn’t that great. So when I get to team up with people, it’s pretty exciting. Place these detectors inside of anomalies.

I’ve been running back and forth for a while now, completing standard tasks for an assortment of indistinguishable hardasses. It’s a lonely world, with wide expanses of abandoned land, ruined buildings slumping slowly into the swamps, and strangely mutated creatures running in packs through the tall and rustling grasses. You spend a lot of time alone in Stalker: Call of Pripyat.
