When you first gain control, you will be standing in Woodlands, all alone. Advanced Video Options like 'Sun-cast Shadows' can really overload your video card!

Novice level is very easy! Get a nice balance between graphics and frame rate. I suggest enabling Autosaving, and selecting 'Novice'level. Double click R Mouse to remove scopes, unload weapons, eat, drink, drop, drop all etc. If you are a real Stalker, R mouse gives you iron sights. Center of screen: The usual arcade crosshair. Important Health and Stamina bars here, check them often. Mini-map: Yellow arrow is primary mission Grey arrow is secondary mission White dots are bodies you can mug Lower Left of Screen: Four hotkeys allow you to heal with medipacks, eat, take anti-rad meds or drink Vodka for radiation sickness, bandage to stop bleeding, or whatever you select. Also if a weapon jams, press R to reload. This is useful for reaching cramped areas and hard-to-access caches. These aren't ALL the controls, just the ones I felt were important. FPS was fine except for the basement of the X8 lab. You then have a choice between helicopter extraction from Pripyat, or continuing the game in free-roam mode. The game ends with Strelok attempting an explanation of events in the three games. You have a safe house and personal locker on each map.

These are populated with various Stalkers, Military, Loners, Bandits, Monolith Scientists, Freedom and Duty faction members, supply caches, mutants and irradiated anomalies. From the beginning of the game you already know the location of the crash sites but to get there you have to do some smaller quests and get some help from different characters of the game.ДЄs a military agent, you will be unable to join Duty or Freedom factions. All reconnaissance helicopters crash and the mission is a failure. There is no need to play Shadow of Chernobyl or Clear Sky first. Thanks Peetz for extensive contributions and editing,and also Dimitroff for helping me out when I needed it most. (which is alert but will not attack)Д¦) Reload the checkpoint and repeat.It may differ in detail from other versions and from the English localisation when it is released in FEB Sorry for all the bulleted lists, I hope it is still a pleasant read. (if he goes towards the door where you're standing reload and stand a little further back)ДҐ) crouch into the building, directly infront of you is a room with 2 sleeping dogs, knife both of them and then go and knife the one on the sofa. Look to your left and you'll see a very small square window, line up the two soldiers heads for a one bullet kill and head towards the door.Д¤) Wait for the other soldier to head towards the back door and headshot him. (Do Not alert them)ДЈ) Follow macmillan around the building and wait, kill the guy when he stops by the car. you will see a dog on the sofa through the window, as well as 3 enemies inside. (Do Not Alert them)Дў) Follow Macmillan to the window. Similar to British Bleepers solution - same dogs but when you first come across them instead of alerting once in the churchДЎ) At the begining of the mission you'll come across 2 enemies patrolling outside a building, kill both of these. This method, if followed correctly will allow you to knife 3 dogs without getting attacked with a very close checkpoint. If you are on your Veteran playthrough, this is potentially the best way to achieve this.

Nothing against the 2 solutions already posted, but there's a easier way without them attempting to attack you.

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