S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky - PC/Walkthrough
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Beginning
The game opens with a video where you are leading 3 scientists through the zone, when an emission cuts you off. After watching a video where a scientist is discussing the effects of the emission on your nervous system, you wake up. A man introduces himself as Lebedev, the leader of the faction Clear Sky. Lebedev sends you to talk to the bar man, Cold. After chatting with Cold you are called back to talk with Lebedev again. You are then sent on your first mission for Clear Sky, reinforcing an outpost. Lebedev sends you to the trader to collect some basic equipment. Talk to the Guide near the trader (the blue up arrow on your Minimap) to go to the outpost.
Tutorial
You are led to a part of the swamps, with Lebedev talking to you about anomalies. I suggest you pull out your bolt and toss them to avoid being killed. Press "O" to pull out your detector. The Echo Detector beeps at a higher pitch as you get closer to an artifact. Head towards the reeds in front of you, avoiding the anomalies as you go, and find the "Jellyfish" Artifact. This is a very useful artifact that provides a -2 radiation benefit. Proceed toward the objective. Search all the dead bodies around the tower and the boxes in the trailer. Climb the tower and kill the boars. You will receive a notification that an emission is coming. Loot the mans body and anything up in the tower. It should be noted that you cannot avoid this emission event, so just sit back and watch as Scar passes out.
Swamps
Wake up, talk to Lebedev and than sell all the items you dont want. Look on your minimap. See that icon that looks like a gear? Go there. You'll meet Gray, the Clear Sky mechanic. Mechanics are found throughout the game and can repair and upgrade your equipment. Talk to Gray about Flashdrives. After your done, head back to the bar and find your buddy Cold again. Cold now has the option of selling you stashes for money. Keep in mind that with each stash, it's the luck of the draw. You can either get a loot rich stash, or a dud in the middle of an anomaly field.
Ask Cold:
"What can you offer me?"
"How much is that going to set me back"
"So whats actually in there?"
If he says anything about a Flashdrive, then pay for the info. You can go out and find the stash and turn in the USB drives to Gray for cash.
Reinforce Clear Sky's position in the swamps
Once you get to the swamps you'll immediately start getting all kinds of random calls from Clear Sky members. You don't have to go to all of these, however, try to help out when they call for some assistance, you build up a reward with CS when you help them which can picked up at the Trader by asking: "Do you have something for me?".
After you've captured the strategic points in the Swamps and eliminated some of the Renegades, you will receive a message saying you've achieved a foothold in the Swamps. The only thing left to do is to capture the Renegades' Base.
Capture Renegade base
The base is located at the Machinery Yard in the far East of the Swamps. It's really hard to miss, just follow the objective on the map. There's about 10 - 14 Renegades at the base, but they shouldn't be a terribly hard problem. Just use cover and heal when necessary. Once you've killed everyone at the base, just hang out until another group of STALKERs show up to reinforce you.
Go to Cordon with the guide
Just follow the icon on your minimap and PDA to the guide. Talk to him and head to the Cordon.
Before leaving for Cordon, make sure you have completed any extra tasks in the Swamps. After this Guides will charge for moving you around, so keep that in mind.
Extras in the Swamps
Talk to any of the STALKERS till you get the mission "Return CS STALKERS PDA" You go and do it, and close to where you found his body there will be a hole in the fence. Walk through it and follow this path until you pass under the railroad bridge. You will see a tunnel to your right, go inside and you will be in a small cave with a campfire. If you look very closely under the mattress in the corner you will see a Vales Detector. Just crouch and approach until you get the icon for pickup.
Whip out the detector right there and you'll see a Gravi Artifact appear. Pick it up, it provides +20kg carrying capacity.
A Couple Other Things:
Cordon
The Swamps were lots of fun weren't they? Well you'll be wishing you were back in the Swamps as soon as you come out of that tunnel. Immediately you will be sighted by the military and the Machine Gunner will open up on you. Run like a black man from the KKK and avoid getting shot. Do whatever you have to, duck behind trees, rocks, whatever you can, healing as necessary. Once you clear the fallen tree on the left, just recover a little bit and run like hell to the Newbie camp.
Note: If you don't feel up to dodging the machine gunner or you just plain suck, you can always re-enter the Swamps through the entrance you just came out and enter Cordon through the northeast Swamp exit.
Newbie Camp
Ahh, now this brings back memories. It's the old Newbie village from Shadow of Chernobyl. A couple of the characters from the last game can be found here. Your old friend Wolf can be found in his usual spot. He appears on the minimap as an "Important Character". Your other old friend Sidrovich is still chilling in his bunker off to the north of the village. You can trade with him but he often rips you off a bit. Hold off buying supplies until you can get to the Neutral camp in a bit. Talk to Sidrovich about information regarding a STALKER that bought strange equipment. He will send you on a task to recover a package for him.
