The blowout sky textures from the vanilla games are the coolest thing ever, they give a real sense of something inmense and hazardous about to crash down on you.

I can't wait to see blowouts in stalker 2. The original sequences were good in the originals and in HD I imagine they will be amazing.

My two cents. i think you're right about them just not programming it in. It would be kind of difficult to do, since there is so many locations mutants can spawn. So for game balance they probably just figured to make them immune and not bother, since otherwise they would need to designate cover even in large areas without a single building around. Though i admit certain mutants being affected and others not being affected, would be a nice explanation. Would be cool if they canonized some theory like that for it.

Well, Cs emission was a devastating one, while CoP ones don't even have the "wall of fire" seen in CS. Meaning that CoP ones are likely weaker. As one character told us, CS emission "changed the face of the zone"

Crows are not mutants so maybe mutants evolved to resist emmisions?

I remember reading how in the real life Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, much of the wildlife there wasn't born there, but had migrated into the Zone because they sensed the lack of competition but not the danger from the radiation. Perhaps this is true for the crows, who are just regular non-mutant crows from outside the zone and thus have no adaptations for surviving blowouts.

I hope we can find more info about the zone in stalker 2

Here's my theory about emissions zombifying stalkers. As Lebedev mentioned, emissions kill those who are unlucky to find cover in time by burning the individual's nervous system. Also in the games, not every confined space is safe from emissions. Therefore, I think it wouldn't be illogical to assume that the emissions, while still horrifyingly damaging the nervous system, don't actually burn the entire nervous system of stalkers who couldn't find a proper shelter but still got into an enclosed area, rather irreversably destroying their cognitive abilities, leaving a mindless husk that can only maintain its primal needs. Of course, this theory may not be the case. But still, it is a logical one.

I think it makes sense for mutants to have a fleeing behavior to emissions in SoC but not in the following games. As you described before, anomalies, artifacts and emissions themselves evolve with each game, so I think is reasonable to belive that mutants went through something similar and now have adapted to emissions or even got accustomed to them. It could also be that they get instinctively startled by such an event, since emissions are often loud, produce flashes of light and shake the earth like an earthquake.

With the zombies base instinct intact. To get to safety they may head towards areas they once frequented, but they are slow and have degraded memory so they wander in towards populated areas. Maybe from farther out or inside the no go areas like deadly rads etc. Makes you think if the zombie had some inspiration from the walking dead state of acute radiation sickness. Dead but don't know it yet.

another awesome vid keep up the good work would love to see some lore on each of the Labs and what went on in each of them

Great video, as always

Just wanted to say that I love your videos my friend!

very interesting like every time

Okay I maybe a little late but I think the reason why the mutants were running away from the emission is because they can sense the fact that it is a very large emission and that they need to return to their lair or else they will die.

loving these videos i hope you continue to make these theory videos

I think the mutants are immune to the blowouts, but they're still animals at heart. So when all the scary sounds and lights happen they freak out and try to run away

YES

New vid kinda epic

congrats on the new mic

Can You talk about bloodsuckers and why there's a shrine in their village?

LMFAO everytime before an emmission my back will tingle as well and i never read that lmao i think its like the vibrations when the sound goes or somethibg beforehand

Maybe psy emission can kill, zombiefied, or make someone a monolith. And emissions are high psy emmisions, miracle machine and random psy emissions near anomalies are unstable psy emissions and they can kill or zombiefied. And a brain scorcher (like you said) Has 3 mods, but (as we know it from X8 documents) every creature Has its own psy emission tolerance and in brain scorcher scientist need to select specific power of psy emmision to make someone a monolith soldier. If they make mistake they kill or zombiefied their target.

dude these lore videos are so god dam cool, my stalker 2 hype is through the roof rn

Man blowouts just are extremaly huge psi radiation discharge! They changing and powering the zone, The anomalys and other stuff. PSIonic radiation its a key to the zone and neosphere.

Where could I get the ShoC and Oblivion Lost design documents from? The no mutants allowed forums seems to undergo an update around 2016, and previous files were lost.

I don't be want answers in Stalker 2 :) I want the zone to remain a mystery. Maybe a few clues.

During emissions fleshes turn into garloids

Why birds die theory : bird brain is less evolved, mammal is more evolved = more vulnerable

Seeing which houses are ACTUALLY recognized as "solid" is far from what you see... Example Checkpoint north of Cordon (Shadow of Chernobyl - Vanilla - This house is NOT safe, which feels wrong...) its way better in GAMMA but also GAMMA treats it tooo easy.

emission starts: Player: **Dies** Other Npcs: *LOL I HAVE THE ABILITY TO SURVIVE THIS BECAUSE THAT DRUG STUFF*

hey anomalous , i wanted to ask you a question , is there a fast travel mod for shadow of chernobyl? im new and im trying to do all the side quests before going to the main quest, problem is that walking from place to place takes a very long time so i was wondering if there is a mod to fast travel, thank you very much

I think that emissions do in fact zombifie people but not always some people do die while some turn into zombies it could be like a 50/50 sort of thing some people do turn into zombies some don't

Crows are actually really smart

Anomoulous dogout you can respond to my question what is tour scariest monster in shadow of chernobyl mine its blood sucker

are you going to do a stalker 2 play through when it comes out?

Zone bi

STALKER 2 reaction wen?

If it's funny how the guy who senses the blowouts has a backache like he took too much acid

Do they ever say why emissions kill? If they do I don't remember.

blowout? nah blauuout

How are mutants created??

Anomouls dogout how i install a dead city lost alpha stalker shadow of chernobyl because i have the game:)

Anomalii dogout you can make a snork meme :D

Back to here @Anomalous Dogout. You forget the Psi-Storms. They are only can seen in Anomaly and they can be dangerous with emissions. Psi-Storms are not pretty rare but whatever.

i wonder of stalker 2 will have drivable vehicals

Good evening friends, friendly neighborhood Stalker here. Just wanting to throw my 2 cents on The Zone to hopefully help rookie Stalkers. The Zone in itself is a presence, that is the easiest way to describe it. A parasitic presence. The c-conscious fusing with the damaged noosphere is similar to Goku using his super saiyan biological form while combining his godly ki to create super saiyan blue. Or Naruto using his body as a vessel while the nine tails engulfs him with it's chakra. It's a form of symbiosis, not biological symbiosis, but more of the psychic kind. Like Rey and Kylo Ren. However there is a small catch, every thought and emotion we have is in the noosphere, and The Zone's happens to be cracked. What happens when you have scientists, mercenaries and loners with wild and nearly fanatical thoughts and place them in an area that is extremely sensitive and unstable to all those things? Chaos. Every new thought, every new wish and every new stalker adds more strain on the noosphere until it's overloaded and needs to be released. A violent and powerful release, like an emission. Zombie and mutant activity skyrockets after an emission, as if a response to the thoughts of stalkers. They say an emission happens every time the wish granter grants a wish, and the zone expands 5km. Fair to say so but the only one who could have made a wish and survived is Doc. And emissions are VERY frequent in Clear Sky and decently so in Call of Pripyat, it's impossible to say all of those are from the wish granter. My boys at the lab figured something we all seem to overlook. C-conscious controls Monolith, who in turn kidnap and brainwash stalkers into their numbers, as well as use zombies. Pretty odd a cult has such a force, no? Remember earlier when I said each stalker essentially feeds the zone? The Wish Granter spreads rumors of fortune and power, and the monolithians collect the bait. Expanding their forces and The Zone. So now we know what The Zone is, but how do we destroy it? We starve it. Get rid of every sentient person in it's vicinity, then seal it off until we have a solution to fixing the noosphere. Until then, with an empty zone it won't have anything to feed on, all it can do is fade away.

I can already zombies are more aggressive in Stalker 2, like the infecteds in Dying Light

Stalker 2 on presale !!!!!