You know what they say about people who sit in fridges, they're usually chilling.

9:35 I'm a stalker modder. Animations are assigned to models in the modeling process. That mean if a model is a zombie stalker having zombie animations, it will always be zombie and acts zombie animations. If the developers go all their way to replace the models to the human ones in this particular event, it will be a big deal, it will actually mean something.

I think the ranking system is first and foremost a leftover from when stalker was supposed to be much more open ended, and you would have to compete with AI stalkers who were trying to also complete the game before you.

I mean, the first hint that Major Degtyarev's assignment was a lot more important than it initially appeared is that the Ukranian military was willing to send a Major into the zone to get it done. That's a pretty high ranking officer to send in undercover.

Stalker isn't an iceberg, it's the earth Mantle, Crust, and Core. We've barely dug 100 meters. There is so much further to go :)

About the S.T.A.L.K.E.R x Half-life, I know its from mod and not from original game, but in OGSE mod, you can get a crowbar that's hidden in the box by Gordon's body instead of a gun. And once its picked up, a well known Valve theme plays

Wow! An iceberg that is themed like smaller lore videos! Such a unique idea!

I always thought it was odd that every single stalker in the zone (even Monolith) would consent to carrying a PDA with them at all times that would let other stalkers know when they were around. I mean it makes sense as an excuse for gameplay mechanics. Maybe Sidorovich has a gang wandering around the zone punishing stalkers who don't use his PDA system lol

Lol,the Half Life reference is soo cool. I've played the Half Life series for quite a while,also,a sandbox version of Half Life 2,called Garry's Mod. The one with Wallace Breen getting confused by you coming out of thin air and Sidorovich getting confused about how you got to him from the Power Plant was just ... AMAZING!

Nice iceberg! Did you make this one yourself? I haven't seen this one before.

I just found the stalker from the original movie. They really nailed his model man, the crows feet and facial lines were perfect. I got so many screenshots

1:00 I have a interesting story about this. During my first SoC playthrough I accepted a mission that was about killing some "traitor" - don't remember the details tho. The traitor was at the exact location you show here and also there was Wolf's CORPSE and it layed in the fire barrel next to the traitor. I reloaded an old save before accepting the quest and went to the Army Warehouses and even then there was Wolf's corpse in the barrel. I don't know if this was some developer's intention or a bug or some old version only feature but its kinda interesting in my opinion. I can provide you some screenshots or video if you want :)

It is a shame that original "Stalker: Oblivion Lost" plot is obscure for foreigners since literature script from 2003 and it's novellisation "Дети Зоны" ("Children of The Zone") by now deceased Sergey Ivanov (R.I.P., legend) is available only in russian and even here is obscure. When you read it you kinda understand all the blank spots, inconsistencies and weird parts of final lore - it is basically Frankenstein of OG lore and random amount of work from couple of autors that work after Ivanov - but neither of them have the time and possibilities to reinvent cohesive Zone world due to the development hell after 2004, so it was born as a mutant, which is kinda ironic. The biggest point that OG lore did is highlighting whole world events and make stalkers look more like escapists than the golddiggers. It's lore heavily inspired by the chaotic and dark times of CIS 90s and kinda evolves from it. Also it is heavily dives into the psy-theme - posthuman, psyonic wars, zombified cities and all of that. Hopes up for OLR 3.0 for making it justice (it will finally move to 2003 script), although it will only cover the first part of novel - the second part about outside world remains only in novel. Some parts of it, like Muraveinik and Controller-Army will be cool to highlight in future parts of the Iceberg.

This iceberg is really good man and my favorite is the Stalker × Half-Life. Besides the stalker named Gordon and the whole gameplay similarities of both games, STALKER uses sounds from Half-Life and Counter-Strike. The horror screams, the wind and the howling wolf for some reason can be heard from afar. Even some gun sounds are quite similar.

one of the biggest mysteries is how strelok survive so long fighting literraly alone with clear sky, militaries and the monolith in the cnpp

I'm suprised that codename outbreak is not on any of the stalker icebergs. Its technically not a stalker game, but without it there wouldn't be stalker

Finally. Now I can be inundated in an Ice Berg I know nothing about.

Have you guys noticed that SOC in many case have some much better lighting effects and atmosphere compared to newer mods/versions, like Stalker Anomaly?

Can't wait for the next episode ! your're the only youtube channel I check for updates everyday. Not related to this vid, but I love your story episodes. I hoppe more is coming in the future

I've been waiting for this! And you delivered perfectly, will be waiting for part 2.

"Somehow, fridges are funny." That's the funnies shit I've heard this day.Thank you lol.

Good video sir! I'll definitely be looking out for part 2. But take your time, man!

This was such an awesome video, there was something nostalgic about it, and I cannot wait for part #2. Also, thanks for info that I can break the Freedom base's wall using a knife, that will actually help my progression in future playthroughs.

10:14 there are also some HL1 sound files, like in sound\ambient nd_outdoor, you can find rnd_horror.wav, which was originally the_horror1.wav if i recall correctly, along with other files in sounds\ambient andom

Just found your channel and I’m loving it keep up the great work man

This video is amazing. Excellent job! Thanks to you I get information about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. day by day.

Always looking out for your videos братан. No one dives deep into lore as much as you do, and with a good constant releases

The fridge joke might be a reference to Indiana Jones surviving a nuke by hiding in a fridge.

I just realised you are already to 10k subs, VERY impressive i remember subbing to you when you had like 1k, you deserve 100K easily the amount of effort you put into these videos, keep going champ :D

Can't wait for part 2, keep up the good work!

Can’t wait for the next entry! Thanks a bunch!

Bro you're the best serious stalker content channel on youtube, keep it up tovarich

I know this vid was posted long ago, but friend, the track You picked from half life as a background of the part with aforementioned game is perfect. It always thought it would fit stalker just fine, just have this specific underground vibe to it.

3:00 he was actually being tortured by "The Horror of Pripyat", a mutant that sadly got cut from the final game. It would have been an unusually powerful psy mutant that combined the plasmatic levitation of poltergeists, the cloaking of a bloodsucker and the mind control of a controller. When revealed by a scanner, it would have resembled a constantly shifting black cloud with tentacles that reach out and mindscrew enemies. Most notably, the poor old lt. drops to his knees during in the evacuation and screams "It's here!", suddenly remembering what it was that terrified him so much. This line and scripted event is still present in the final game.

This is so fun to watch! Thank you!

BIG THREAD ON WOLF, AND HIS TEAM : There is actually three quests to kill the two "traitors" and the master stalker who are at the same campfire than Wolf. They are given in Rostok by Snitch and Cordon by Sidorovich, Baldy for Smartass in Rostok too. They have always the same name, suggesting that they are actually unique characters. As Wolf is a more experienced Stalker, it is certain that he got contacts and friends within the zone, and certainly some feuds going on with his team. The wildest guess i'm gonna give is that Wolf and his team members if they are a team, are former Duty Stalkers, or former militaries. OR driven by a secret religion/monolith spies. Why ? - Snitch is a loner, but referenced as a Mercenary in the game files. So, he must be one, or should have been in the development. He wants Master dead, just for wearing an exoskeleton? This is not enough, even more coming from a strange stalker like Snitch. Either he does want revenge for some beef, or he has got himself the contract to kill Master from outside of the zone. - Master, a pretty good mechanic, even so the best in the Zone if we believe his stories. Why would ANYONE kill a talent of this kind in the zone? He is a too valuable man and got an Exoskeleton that he can entertain. He is definetely a terrifying Stalker - but stated to be deeply religious. Father Diodor being near him is weird to say the least. Plus, Master wanted to die, and the Zone couldn't give him the death he wanted. Plus, Master finally rejoins Skull and his team if you bring down Liberty. - Sidorovich wanting a dead Stalker - given the military past affiliations of Sidorovich, it is not unlikely that he's got some beef with militaries, especially someone like Father Diodor that deteriorates the market of artifacts by preaching against it (and getting followers ;) ) - Father Diodor - a man ambushed by Mujahideens in the Afghanistan war. He came back a very religious man. He choosed to come in the Zone to preach and have gotten followers. He is like Duty and also the SSU - he does not want for a world full of artifacts and legitimately so fights against it with his religious teachings. - Smartass, for the last Stalker, is actually a thief. He stole artifacts from a previous hunt with Baldy, so this assassination is logical, though, Smartass is described as a "pretty decent fellow" and a student in physics that dropped in his senior year. - And finally, Wolf : He shows multiple time disdain for mercenaries, especially in Clear Sky but he might just not like Scar, or be an easy fella. The tough shit is there : if Wolf is friend with Diodor, he is also potentially recruiting young stalkers to join his "religion". Again, it's just a theory. He could also be recruiting in secret some rookies to make the ranks of Duty grow. Or nothing at all? Maybe. We all have pretty decent mens here that make for a good team : Father Diodor, charismatic leader. Ancient Military confirmed, religious, trained, armed, dangerous. One of the highest ranking of the zone. Master, incredible mechanic. Also one of the highest rankings, a decent mechanic, able to repair almost everything going by what he says. Wolf, master of survival in the zone, chief of the Rookie village, certainly one of the most famous stalkers and an expert of the Zone. Excellent teacher. Smartass, scientist in physics. Maybe not a warrior but he's got a huge-ass brain and physics knowledge which might be of use in the zone, especially for scientific equipment. They all have modified weapons and decent gear. Diodor even have a weapon powered by a gravi artifact. (Which is ironic, given his preaches, but this might be a smoke screen.) Master rejoins Skull and the duty members after the assault on freedom is done. Given that Wolf was called and took explosives, and that we took out the wall of Freedom by explosives, it hints that he was then called either by Diodor or Master. My guess is that Wolf, and his team, are former militaries, maybe of the first teams that came in the Zone. That's the safest guess possible given that they aid Duty but take no part in the raid. Hell, Wolf even mentions joining Freedom. Duty, even with great resources, would call on them to not awake any suspicions in the Liberty faction, by moving either their own troops or material, permitting them to quickly strike with the help of the Marked One the Freedom Base. Actually, Skull uses of the same tactic with Strelok by sending him killing the snipers, avoiding detection by sending in a loner. This is further advanced by the fact that their team all have special individual skills and advanced weaponery and armor, modified. It's also advanced by the fact that whatever you do to your playthrough : Wolf will always be there with THESE stalkers with an unique name. They have unique dialogue lines, and are all shady stalkers. Plus - they would have a pretty reason for each one to defect from official services like the Army. Wolf even seems to despise mercenaries and wants to join Freedom? This would make him the opposite of Diodor. A more silent, but wiser man that is fed up with how the military have treated them. They could also be secret duty members. It would make sense : Diodor recruiting by the religion process into the zone, Wolf going amidst the rookies, Master, with his technical abilities must be a trump card for many factions and/or groups/stalkers in the Zone, and Smartass being a scientific would hunt down artifacts, then use them with Master to modify weapons, giving Duty (and them) an enormous edge on the field. My last theory, the one that is not that sure, is that they are just kind of a "sect", a spiritual group of Stalkers, and Wolf, also Smartass, are just members of this faith. But this reminds us a little bit about another faction? The wild guess really here is that they could be part of the STALKER project but it seems it had started after Clear Sky, so, this wouldn't make sense. But they could be secret spies of the Monolith trying to convert new and old stalkers, preventing even more stalkers to reach the center of the zone and making they ranks grow again.

I love people like ypu talking about underappreciated games! O nice iceberg btw

Great video man, thanks for starting this! Good hunting, stalker!

Intresting parallel line between Half-Life and Stalker. Stalker is the east made Half-Life.

You keep destroying my expectations. Making it even better thank you

glad to see this my friend, hope you are doing well lately

Yet another great video from anomalous dugout

Very nice video, can't wait for the next part!

just found your channel and i love it! pls keep up the good work

Very awesome to watch !! Stalker games are part of my childhood

Congrats on 10k!!!

Been waiting for this.

Finally gotten around to the stalker iceberg, nice

Hello! Icebergs are getting popular! Great work!

Keep going ! I really enjoy this serries ! thank you :)

Oh my god i was waiting for this lets gooo

Tes video son toujours excelente continue ton merveilleux travaille

thanks for this video on my favourite game series to ever be made.

Fucking love it bro was looking for the second one then saw it was uploaded 7hr ago, waiting patiently

Thank you for a new video anomalus.

Awesome! i was hoping you were still doing a video for this

Tonight, most regular people are going to watch their favourite series on Netflx, one whole season in one night... But as for us stalkers...we have six episodes of Stalker iceberg in the dugout series...Iceberg marathon is on!

We need to see the rest of your iceberg!

"Somehow fridges are funny..." I don't know why but this had me dead lol

Very nice video, it was interesting

I can't wait for the next episode!

people love longer videos, so i dont think a lot of your fans would mind if you made a video for a whole iceberg instead of parts, but eitherway very good work.

8:40 Just a tidbit for the insane Freedom stalker, Max notes that the person saw something in the Bloodsucker village that drove him to his current state and after clearing Bloodsucker village a Controller starts wandering the area. Is there any possible corelation about the mutant's presence to the stalker's mental state? Theorising that the Controller might have been roaming the outskirts of the village and the Freedom stalker encountered it?

I love your videos man.

Can't wait for the next layer o/

Okay, so I've just had a weird thought. I was staring at the Altered Wheel artefact for a bit and the way it was 'moving'. Are artefacts alive? Because, the way they move around when they're out in the open is very... Life-like. The way some of them shake when next to a surface reminds me of walking? Or the way others shapeshift ever so slightly almost resembles some kind of breathing.

*In the next Iceberg can you talk about the origins of the mutants, especially the Bureaus and Controllers, my theory is that scientists have been experimenting with the psy emission trying to make humans with psy abilities, but who knows.* *I was waiting for this video a long time ago, thanks for making this up, appreciated it 👍*

loved it!

Good video, i think the renegade rat thumbnail would also work.

I'm only halfway through Clear Sky and who knows that fridge can come flying at your face later in the game lol. Also how did you know so much about Stalker? This is only the surface but I can't recognize any of the trivia (not that I'm a year one fan though). Well-done!

I have always found refrigerators to be naturally charismatic and hilarious.

If you told me that STALKER was originally a half-life mod, I wouldn't be surprised. People compare it to Fallout, but it more closely resembles Half-Life in my experience.

I can't wait for S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Strelok

I'm a STALKER veteran, but I haven't heard of some of these things ever in my life, I'd love to see the rest for sure.

Everybody gangsta Until the fridge starts floating

Ooohh here we go!🔥☢️

Gran video, saludos desde Buenos Aires!

All I have are unclear hunches and vague data points but hear me out; I think the bulk of the mercenaries, the one's we'll call the trs-301 crowd, are ex- or current French Foriegn Legion members working on behalf of France. First, in our and I'm sure stalkers world France is a preeminent country when it comes to nuclear sciences and their development. It is safe to say they would be fairly interested in the this strange development of the Chernobyl disaster especially since its already established the Ukrainian govt was being obtuse for years to the other European countries about what it was finding in there. Second, the FFL contains many members from eastern European countries so gathering a sufficient number of Ukrainian or others who would conceivably be able to blend in wouldn't be too much of an issue. Third, France could potentially have the space to be more heavy handed in their flooding of the zone with 'unknown' mercenaries given that most parties will likely just blame the more prominent NATO members/US or even private actors. Towards the end, and this is somewhat of a reach I know but it does hearken back to that last point about deniability, is the weapon most mercenaries use the LRS-301. It tries to scream look at how American I am while being so aesthetically chic, so... French. The particular variant seen in the zone stopped being made after the original company Z-M was bought by Para Ordinance, a US/Canadian gun company, in 2007. So, in summary I think the French govt acquired by way of Canada or US "missing" goods that IRL weren't selling too well and ended up in the hands of ex-FFL stalkers to make it look like other NATO countries were responsible for their actions.

Nicely done.

Yeah, I'd never thought of that momentary connection (With Doc Breen / Siderovich) before, interesting stuff man - Is this 'Iceberg' thing a metaphor, or does it relate to something more specific in STALKER's (game or mod) world? Never heard of this term before in this context.

Thanks for the video....makes a great time while I wait for another rookie in garbage to rob.

Can't wait for part 2!!

HEYYY!!! about the half-life there's a line from professor Sakharov before he tells tyou about town-32 and giving you the psi-helmet which he says that: "There was a major expedition on the western scientists there, who faced...let's say, SOME UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES"

Maybe wolf's dynamite is what you get blown up by at the strelok hideout?

Hey man nice video I am also a huge fan of stalker love from pakistan my friend you do deserve more subs

i love this!

Damn it's 3 months from this iceberg... damn

God I fucking love this channel

it makes more sense that the monolith is directed and financed by moscow since the noosphere project started in soviet times and moscow always kept its secrets hidden from the kyiv government and i think that is why the government is unaware of what happens in the center of the area

good series

Fuck yeah I can't wait for the next one

Half-Life and STALKER are both treasures!

If fridge can be a great hiding place/cover for nukes, maybe it works with blowouts? HAHA

very enjoyable

Imagine Half Life 1 remade in the XR engine.

earlier today I passed wolf around the bar when he was heading north, unfortunately he wasnt carrying a box of dynamite

We've been in the anomalous dugout for 100 episodes now. When do we get to play some anomalous baseball?

U forget to mention at the Half-Life part that the games uses quite a few HL1 sounds

Fridges seem quite protective against radiation and psy emisions

Yes, The first thing i said wnen i saw the Sidrovich teleporter thing was "Is that a half life reference? "