Still, encountering the Controller in the basement of the Research Center, and the Poltergeists in X-18 were terrifying. By the time you got to the 100 Rads bar you had enough scratch for a decent armored suit (or had found one) with night vision, and the distances between areas diminished, so you could jump from 100 Rads to the Wild Territory and back before a day had passed, no need to hide out. Going out in the pitch black darkness (made even worse when there was no moonlight: NO HORIZON CONTRAST) with nothing but a flashlight usually resulted in either death by anomaly or horde of rabid dogs. Whenever night fell, you ran your ass off for the nearest garbage drum fire with 2 or 3 stalkers huddling around it, and sat there with a shotgun and a bottle of vodka and waited for morning. You didn't go out looking for artifacts or doing missions after the sun went down. The Cordon to the Garbage might as well have been the distance between San Fransisco and New York. That sawed-off shotgun saved my life at least 150 times in the first game hiding behind corners and letting the utterly stupid AI come around the corner to get a face full of buckshot. You get a pistol and a couple of magazines and chances are high you will fucking die on your first job for the trader killing those fucking bandits. in the dark, with noise cancelling headphones on, and dynamic lighting on and it was almost as amazing an experience as playing The Elder Scrolls, Fallout, or Deus Ex for the first time. Call of Pripyat is like Fallout 3Ĭall of Pripyat is like Fallout 3 by Fortinbras, 12:13pm PDT

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