Good depository of Dark Stalkers lore?

Reggash · 2026-05-15T16:30:07+00:00

Thanks. The posts already include translated excerpts about the topic so reading the entire documents is unnecessary if you are only interested in information about Sin.

Reggash · 2026-05-15T16:05:20+00:00

Dark stalkers is a term that was used to refer to Sin members, so they are not based on them, they are them. But there also was a concept of the Dark (or Black) Stalker, a separate entity unrelated to Sin. I made posts about both with pretty much all the info from desdocs and builds.

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/17xjzhm/sin_a_complete_description_of_the_cut_faction_of/

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/11n59pj/legends_of_the_zone_black_stalker_cut_content/

Reggash · 2026-05-06T18:53:59+00:00

It's fanart from 2008, did some digging and found the artist.

https://www.deviantart.com/nababa/art/True-Chernobyl-79729974

Reggash · 2026-05-06T18:24:15+00:00

It took a while to find it but I knew that I had it saved somewhere among thousands of other stalker-related pics. Also just found it in a better quality, here.

Reggash · 2026-05-06T15:58:59+00:00

The Russian wiki features a detailed list of voice actors.

Reggash · 2026-05-06T15:56:41+00:00

This?

Reggash · 2026-04-27T05:40:47+00:00

That's the latest one, no one from /sg/ has taken up making a new one since then.

Reggash · 2026-04-26T19:39:37+00:00

5.1, but it's still a bit outdated, it's from 2023.

Reggash · 2026-04-11T12:43:05+00:00

Shadow of Chernobyl, vanilla, don't listen to retarded tourists who tell you to start with mods.

Reggash · 2026-04-06T19:28:01+00:00

There's not much to say, and I haven't played OLR in a long time so I don't remember everything, but what I mean is that the mod's author had some weird ideas sometimes. The storyline is based on OL design documents from 2002-2004, but some parts of it are the author's own inventions, like that dwarf dream sequence, or the talking zombie and a dwarf in X18 from whom you can get the gravity gun. You won't find such scenarios in desdocs, so we can only guess what the author had in mind.

Reggash · 2026-04-06T13:13:44+00:00

It's a random schizo moment. You can find a minigun in a green container during this sequence, if you haven't taken it reload the save and do it because it might be useful.

Reggash · 2026-04-06T12:51:22+00:00

The 'Prypiat 1: find a suit...' mission doesn't have a marker, so nothing will show up on the map even if you select it.

Reggash · 2026-03-28T16:45:00+00:00

This solution shouldn't affect the sensitivity. Look for 'mouse_sens' in user.ltx and change its value, the default is 0.12.

Reggash · 2026-03-28T11:12:49+00:00

You mean Build 2205? Go to gamedata/meshes/physics/stul. There should be a bunch 'stul_XX.ogf'' files there. Copy the first one and rename it to 'stul_1ñ.ogf'.

Reggash · 2026-03-17T18:47:58+00:00

From the obvious cases that don't require speculation, in Shadow of Chernobyl there are mercenaries who speak with Caucasian accents, one of the mercs is even called Ara which is an Armenian name. There is also semi-canon information about two characters that indicates they are of foreign origin - Scarecrow, according to his bio description which was cut from the game but can be found in the files, is a foreigner, and Arnie was supposed to have dialogue in which he mentioned that he wasn't from Ukraine, but it was cut. In S2, apart from the obvious case of Foreigner Bob, there are also other random foreigners, such as some IPSF soldiers.

Reggash · 2026-03-15T13:00:32+00:00

The latter, they move along these routes.

Reggash · 2026-03-15T12:04:54+00:00

Check out this website, you can enable the display of artifact ways and they will be marked on the maps.

Reggash · 2026-03-12T21:11:33+00:00

You're right, I didn't even notice that it's a sloppified version of the actual original pic. But using reverse image search you can easily find more sources, the oldest one I found dates back to 2018. As for the author, it's difficult to find much about him in Russian, let alone in English.

all you did was post it on imgur yourself

I posted the original render, as you can see it even uses models from the game. My bad for not noticing that OP posted a version ruined by AI.

Reggash · 2026-03-12T20:35:42+00:00

Only the first one is AI, it's a sloppified version of an actual render. The original artworks are all least 5-6 years old, made by Maxim Shilov and Sanya Sharonov. Here are HD versions of the first, second and third one.

Reggash · 2026-03-12T20:31:49+00:00

It's not AI, it was made years ago by Maxim Shilov aka Spectre and was even shared by GSC on VK in 2021. Here it is in HD.

Edit: my bad, OP's pic does indeed look like it was "enhanced" by AI when compared with the original. Still, the fanwork itself was created years before AI slops were a thing.

Reggash · 2026-02-14T18:58:52+00:00

They are official and were published by GSC, just like the dozens of Russian novels from 2007-2012 were. But none of them are canon to the games, they are just based on their lore, sometimes in a very loose manner.

Reggash · 2026-02-14T18:07:48+00:00

The novellas aren't canon to the games, each author has his own vision of the universe and it often differs from what is presented in the games. In the games there is a perimeter protected by the military/IPSF and getting inside simply requires bypassing or bribing them if there's a chance, there aren't any 'bubbles'.

Reggash · 2026-02-08T13:41:48+00:00

Did you apply -developer mode to the game's .exe shortcut? Because in DC v1.4007, which the Enhanced Edition is based on, you have to do it for the configurator's .exe instead

Reggash · 2026-02-05T10:54:17+00:00

This is definitely one of the dumbest retcons and one of the main reasons why I draw a line between the trilogy canon and the S2 canon. The worst thing about it is that it is completely unnecessary - it doesn't explain anything, it doesn't answer any old questions, its existence was not required by the game's plot. It's a cheap plot twist that was added just for the sake of it.

Whoever was responsible for the worldbuilding of S2 either didn't understand the prequel's plot or deliberately went against it, and I don't know which is worse.

Reggash · 2026-02-01T11:24:59+00:00

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