History VideoGame / STALKER

** ''Call of Pripyat'' has modular ending similar to the one in ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 2}}'' consisting of some 20 static scenes. Most of them have "good" and "bad" versions, depending on player's actions during the game. Bad endings for your companions, especially [[spoiler: Strelok]] definitely qualify.

* DeathByGluttony: Bizarrely played straight with drinking vodka in Call of Pripyat. If you consume about six bottles of vodka, you get a NonStandardGameOver. Yet it's averted with eating food; you can freely eat up at any amount you want to refill your starvation meter. [[spoiler: One of the major quests in the game has you drinking several bottles of vodka with a former Duty stalker in order to convince him to join your squad for the trek to Pripyat. After you've finished conversing with him, you pass out on the effects of vodka after downing that many bottles, and later awake with you dangerously close to dying from starvation. Hopefully you better have some spare food in your rucksack, otherwise you're screwed.]]

* SchrodingersGun: You can check stashes at any time, but until you find a PDA saying a Stalker stashed something there the majority of them will be empty.

** ''Call of Pripyat'' has modular ending similar to the one in ''Fallout 2'' consisting of some 20 static scenes. Most of them have "good" and "bad" versions, depending on player's actions during the game. Bad endings for your companions, especially [[spoiler: Strelok]] definitely qualify.

** ''Call of Pripyat'' has a ''{{Fallout}}'' style multi-part ending, telling the fate for each area and major character based on the player's actions throughout the game.

** The Gauss Gun looks like ''{{Fallout 2}}'''s M72 Gauss rifle exactly except that the ''Fallout'' one has a wooden stock and handle. This is reinforced by their ammo, which looks even more similar and is called 2mm EC in the game files, same as ''Fallout''.

** ''Call of Pripyat:'' Zaton's bandits have been formed into an organized crime group by [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Sultan]], and will attack Stalkers/Loners (and you) without warning sometimes, maybe even perhaps only a dozen meters from Skadovsk. They like to camp out near the big anomaly fields... you do the math. Jupiter's bandits are more the standard variant, though they [[DecapitatedArmy completely disappear from Jupiter if their leader there is killed]].

** ...while many popular modifications have been released with the express purpose of making the game ''[[BeyondTheImpossible even harder]].''

** There's also Petruha, who was a rookie doing scouting duty for Wolf in the Cordon in the first game. In ''Call of Pripyat'', he's an experienced artifact hunter who's made his way to the center of the Zone and has taken a rookie under his wing. Although, unfortunately for Petruha, since he's sporting rather mediocre equipment (yet, it's much better than his layout in ''Shadow of Chernobyl''), [[AnyoneCanDie it's more than likely he'll die after you meet him]].

** There's also Petruha, who was a rookie doing scouting duty for Wolf in the Cordon in the first game. In ''Call of Pripyat'', he's an experienced artifact hunter who's made his way to the center of the Zone and has taken a rookie under his wing.

** The Gauss Gun looks like ''{{Fallout 2}}'''s M72 Gauss rifle exactly except for ''Fallout'' one has a wooden stock and handle. This is reinforced by their ammo, which looks even more similar and is called 2mm EC in the game files, same as ''Fallout''.

* RealityIsUnrealistic: A mild example involving the weapons shooting the default 5.45x39 bullet (the AKs, the Akaban, what have you) and their bizarre inability to pierce armor. "They're [[ArmorPiercingAttack FMJ rounds]], right? They shouldn't have this much trouble downing a single mook!" Well, [[ShownTheirWork there's a funny story behind that...]]

* BringMyBrownPants [[BrownNote Note]]: The low, rumbling sound that precedes any blowout in ''Call of Pripyat''. It's not harmful by itself (so it's not a classic BrownNote) but it is always unsettling, and an indication that you have only a minute or two to get somewhere safe.

Announcements were made on the 9th of December, 2011. GSC has been forced into closure, but the GSC team promises more announcements in mid-January.

[[http://www.shacknews.com/article/73504/stalker-2-canceled-ideas-funneled-into-survarium STALKER 2 has been canceled]], and members of the team are leaving to work on a MMO, Survarium.

Announcements were made on the 9th of December, 2011. GSC has been forced into closure, but the GSC team promises more announcements in mid-January.

* EldritchLocation: The laws of physics in the Zone are....''different''. It seems relatively normal at first glance, until you walk down a seemingly empty street and accidentally step in an area where gravity is about a hundred times Earth normal, and find yourself experiencing life as a pancake...[[LudicrousGibs very briefly]]. Or decide to stay outside and watch the [[RedSkyTakeWarning sky turn red]], which is really interesting right up until the [[NightmareFuel hallucinations]] start and your [[YourHeadAsplode head blows up]]. And that's just the start. Suffice it to say that overall, the Zone is both very weird and very dangerous.

* VisibleInvisibility: Poltergeists and Bloodsuckers fit the "Predator" version. Poltergeists appear as a distortion with embers or electric arcs around it, Bloodsuckers have [[NightmareFuel glowing eyes]] and become slightly opaque when charging at you.

* DrunkenMaster: Cardan, the mechanic at Skavodsk, is only competent when he's completely wasted - in fact, he can only perform high-level weapon modifications after downing at least two bottles of vodka. [[spoiler: [[IGotBetter He Gets Better]] after you show him the Gauss Rifle, which shocks him into sobriety.]]

* HandCannon: One of the unique weapons which can be found in ''Shadow of Chernobyl'' is a custom pistol based on the frame of an [[RareGuns IMI Desert Eagle]] that fires ''9x39mm sniper rifle rounds''.

** The Gauss Gun looks like ''{{Fallout 2}}'''s M72 Gauss rifle exactly except the ''Fallout'' one has a wooden stock and handle. This is reinforced by their ammo, which looks even more similar and are of the same caliber.

* DemonicSpiders: In-Universe: The PDA explicitly lists blind dogs (and by extension, pseudodogs) as deadly to even the most experienced Stalkers, as they are fast, small (compared to humans), slightly stealthy, and most importantly, '''hunt in packs'''.

** In Call Of Pripyat it's nearly impossible to get the best result for one mission due to the NPC's habit of throwing grenades while inside a building, and completely ignoring the walls and cealing of the building while doing so.