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Stalker Clear Sky is the unwanted middle child in the Stalker series. In 2007, Shadow of Chernobyl enthralled PC gamers around the world with one of the most atmospheric game environments ever crafted. 2011’s Call of Pripyat refined the RPG-shooter formula and opened up the series to a wider mainstream audience. Both these games have massive community and cult followings. However, the middle game, 2008’s Stalker Clear Sky was never as well received. This is odd because I absolutely loved Clear Sky. GSC Game World, the developers of the series, bit off more than they could chew with this game by introducing new features.

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Notoriously, the faction war feature remained incomplete because they didn’t have the time or budget to refine it. This extended to the visuals, too, with the in-game god-ray implementation so unoptimized that it’d bring even the best systems to their knees. Community fixes have gone a long way towards making the experience playable. Today, Clear Sky’s a great experience. We’re sharing a list of mods here for new and returning players alike to add even more value to your playthrough.

Stalker Clear Sky Mods

1. Clear Sky Complete

Clear Sky Complete does exactly what it says on the tin: It makes Clear Sky—a notorious unfinished title at launch—much closer to what GSC original intention was. The mod compilation doesn’t just cover individual aspects of the game. Instead, it enhances virtually everything. You get higher resolution textures, new weather models, new assets, enhanced AI behavior, and quality of life features like the sleeping bag. What I appreciate about Clear Sky Complete is that it doesn’t detract from the original game by taking it in (problematic) new directions (Lost Alpha, we’re looking at you). Instead, it hews closely to the original vision. You wouldn’t know you’re running a modded version of the game until you uninstall it, play vanilla and realize how much you’re missing out on.

Pros:

• Adheres closely to the original game’s vision
• Covers textures, models, AI, weathers, and more

Cons:

• Adjustments to the AI model can make some fights more unbalanced

2. Sky Reclamation Project

The biggest problem with Clear Sky was the fact that there were so many bugs in the shipping code. This ranged from minor oddities—wacky poltergeist physics—to game-breaking quest bugs. Where other mods aim to enhance the vanilla game with new experiences, the Sky Reclamation Project sticks to what matters the most. It’s an exhaustive community bug fix project that aims to polish up the code and just generally get Clear Sky up and running in an optimal state. If you’re looking to do a pure vanilla run—without extra visual or quality of life goodies—Sky Reclamation Project will let you do just that. Don’t think of it as mod per se. It’s all the accumulated patches that GSC should have implemented themselves.

Pros:

• Fixes the vast majority of game-breaking issues
• Fixes broken visual and audio issues

Cons:

• None

3. Mystery 2.0

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Misery is one of the most hardcore ways to experience S.T.A.L.K.E.R., period. But what if you wanted the Misery experience in Clear Sky and not Call of Pripyat? If you haven’t yet gotten around the third S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game, or if you want another Misery fix, Mystery 2.0 is what you’ll want to get. The Russian team that built this mod focused on gameplay tweaks. Mystery 2.0 offers a much more challenging, tactical experience than vanilla Clear Sky.

You’ll need to manage health and stamina much more carefully. And because you take more damage, you’ll want to plan out every encounter, taking heed of where the best cover is. In addition to this the stealth system has been re-engineered. It’s now viable to sneak past enemy emplacements or pick them off one by one. But while Mystery 2.0 adds a lot of value for second or third-time playthroughs, keep in mind that it’s in Russian. Moreover, it tends to tank performance on lower-end systems.

Pros:

• Adds in a Misery-like experience to Clear Sky
• Makes gameplay significantly more challenging (and rewarding)

Cons:

• Can hit performance hard on lower-end systems

4. Clear Sky HD Models Addon

Clear Sky features some great visual effects for the time. It was one of the few games to really leverage DirectX 10.1 (before it was quickly superseded by DirectX 11). The game’s god rays and surface shaders hold up well today. However, model quality was spotty even back in 2008. While the lighting and shading work are excellent, low quality models just stick out in the game like a sore thumb. We’re used to high poly-count models these days, with main character models approaching 100,000 polygons.

While the Clear Sky HD Models addon doesn’t exactly take things that far, it significantly enhances polygon counts on numerous important characters, like Lebedev at the game’s start. It’s a small change, but add this on top of either vanilla or a modded experience and you will notice the difference in time.

Pros:

• Does exactly what it says—replaces models with higher fidelity ones

Cons:

• Relatively large file size
• Only a limited number of weapons are replaced

5. Arsenal Overhaul Redux

If you’re coming from Borderlands 3 to…well…any shooting game ever, you’re going to miss the pleasure of picking up a totally unique new weapon every five minutes. Clear Sky has plenty of guns as is. They’re designed great and operate realistically. But that doesn’t mean it couldn’t benefit from a whole arsenal worth of new guns.

That’s exactly what Arsenal Overhaul Redux does. It adds in a whole host of new gun textures and models. It enhances the look of existing weapons in the game and adds some of its own. We’re not talking about swords or plasma weapons: in keeping with Clear Sky’s gritty, simulationesque aesthetic, these are guns from real life.

Pros:

• Much greater variety of realistic guns are available

Cons:

• None

6. The Faction War

Clear Sky’s greatest innovation—and the most glaring evidence of how incomplete it was—was faction wars. This was a feature that was both gloriously fun and almost completely broken in the initial game. Essentially, it allowed in-game factions to dynamically fight with each other for territory. This changed the whole meta of the game and added in a new layer of replayability. The feature was horribly bug-ridden in the vanilla game.

The Faction War mod drastically expands on this feature. You can now support a faction and fight to take over the entire zone. This essentially turns the Clear Sky meta into a sort of FPS version of Mount and Blade. It’s cool stuff and we suggest getting it once you have the main campaign out of the way.

Pros:

• Does factions wars the way it was supposed to be done

Cons:

• Might take focus away during your first playthrough

Each of these Clear Sky mods has something to offer for everyone. Clear Sky Complete is something we’d recommend everyone to just enable for their first playthrough: it covers the whole gamut from visuals to gameplay tweaks. It’s a better vanilla experience. If you really want to play the game GSC created, the Zone Reclamation Project will do that, while fixing most of the bugs GSC left in.

The HD Models addon addresses on the more pressing issue with Clear Sky’s ageing graphics: low-fidelity models, while the Arsenal Overhaul kits you out with a whole new selection of guns. Lastly, The Faction War revives Clear Sky’s biggest missed opportunity and nearly turns that into a game in its own right. Which mod did you enjoy the most? Let us know.

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Tips For A New Player. : Stalker

The ending you get is determined by actions you take over the course of the game. Successfully complete the indicated task to unlock an extra sequence of the ending you normally would not see:

1. Get the 'Battle Systems Master' achievement.
2. Get the 'Courier Of Justice' achievement.
3. Get the 'Detective' achievement.
4. Get the 'Friend Of Stalkers' achievement. Prevents ending #8.
5. Get the 'Friend Of Duty' achievement. Prevents endings #6 and #9.
6. Get the 'Friend Of Freedom' achievement. Prevents endings #5 and #9.
7. Get the 'High Tech Master' achievement.
8. Get the 'Kingpin' achievement. Prevents ending #4.
9. Get the 'Man Of Balance' achievement. Prevents endings #5 and #6.
10. Get the 'Mutant Hunter' achievement.
11. Get the 'One Of The Lads' achievement.
12. Get the 'Pioneer' and 'Research Assistant' achievements.
13. Get the 'Trafficker Of Information' achievement.
14. Get the 'Battle Systems Master' achievement, but not the 'High Tech Master' achievement.
15. Get the 'High Tech Master' achievement, but not the 'Battle Systems Master' achievement.
16. Do not kill Noah.
17. Vano survives.
18. Zulu survives.
19. Strider survives
20. Strelock survives.
21. Finding out about the fate of Barge and Joker for Cardan. Allows the combination sequence for ending #1 and #7.
22. Find all six documents in the X8 Lab.
23. Restore the Gauss Rifle to operational. Changes the combination sequence for ending #1 and #7 to the best outcome.
24. Find the Compass artifact for Beard.
25. Leave on the choppers at end of game.
26. Do not leave on the choppers. Prevents endings #1 through #25.

Once technicians are friendly to you through quests, you can repair items for cheaper. If you bring back all the weapons and items you loot from ten people, you can repair, break them down (silencers and scopes), unload, and sell the ammo, weapons, and attachments for more money.

Immediately after you start the game, go to the burnt farmstead. There is a burnt piece of wood leaning against the wall of the ruined house on the top right. Walk up it, and you can follow the roofs to the left to get a Vintar laying on the roof of the building on the far left.

When you start the game, try to get 6000 RU as soon as possible. Go to the Burnt Farmstead, and get the Vintar sniper rifle. Go to the pilot in Skadovsk, and ask him to take you to Yanov. When you get there, go to Kopachy. There are about eight Zombies here. Go to the back of the house, and snipe them with the Vintar. At the front of the house is a construction crane. Inside is a stash with a Velez detector. Take it, then have the pilot take you back to Skadosk. It will now be much easier to get artifacts to get money for better armor and upgrades.

When making your first trip through the Bloodsucker's lair with Grouse, you will exit through a tunnel. If you follow the tunnel the other direction, there is a stash containing Anabolic drugs, which are the earliest ones you can find. They will help against emissions. Use three Antibiotics during emissions to be immune. You can also get an Anabiotic at the cave northeast of the burnt farmstead after you kill the controller.

At the northwest corner of the Jupiter map is a UAV crash in a crater. You can loot the computer and have Nitro decrypt it for you. It gives you the locations of the three stashes containing Strelok's notes which can be used to complete the 'Keeper of Secrets' achievement and also to acquire Strelok Lucky SGI5K, which is the best AR in the game because it can hold a silencer, m203, and all Susat scope models.

After surviving three emissions, if you are in good health you can survive emissions without the aid of Anabolics due to the effects of using the drugs.

Sometimes when you kill Noah, he will drop two Compass artifacts.

Sometimes when fighting Bloodsuckers, if you sprint away and turn around they will follow you in a straight line. This makes it easy to hit them while they are invisible.

It is possible to complete the 'Monolith Fighters' and 'Guarding the Bunker' quest without having the 'Friend Of...' achievement for either faction. Flint, Magpie, or Soroka must be turned into the appropriate faction you want to be friends with, but not get the achievement. This allows you to have that faction guard the scientist bunker, and recruit the Monolith fighters as well. The faction you want to assign those tasks to must have green (friendly) status towards you. If you still want to get the 'Man Of Balance' achievement, tell whoever about Flint, then sell the two required PDAs for either faction to Owl. You can still tell Gaunt about Flint. All this can be done without missing any quests, and you will still get your discounts from the Yanov merchants.

Successfully complete the indicated task to unlock the corresponding achievement:

Battle Systems Master: Bring Cardan all three toolsets.
Courier Of Justice: Successfully complete the 'Magpie/Flint/Soroka' quest line.
Diplomat: Solve Mitay and Vano's quest lines without killing the bandits.
Detective: Successfully complete the 'Missing Stalkers' quest line.
Friend Of Stalkers: Successfully complete all Stalker related quests, including those required for One of the Lads.
Friend Of Freedom: Tell Loki about Flint and give General Tachenko's and Morgan's PDA to him.
Friend Of Duty: Tell Shulga about Flint and give General Tachenko's and Morgan's PDA to him.
High Tech Master: Bring Nitro all three toolsets.
Keeper Of Secrets: Give any information concerning Strelok to him.
Kingpin (Unconfirmed): Successfully complete Stalker quests in favor of Sultan.
Leadership: Recruit a full squad including, Zulu, Strider, Vanov, and Sokolov for the Pripyat Underground Mission.
Marked by Zone: Survive three blowouts using Experimental Anabolic drugs.
Man Of Balance: Sell General Tachenko's and Morgan's PDA to Owl.
Mutant Hunter: Successfully complete all the mutant related quests given by Gaunt and Trapper. This includes Bloodsucker Lair, Bloodsuckers in the Swamp, Unknown Mutant Den (Burers), Wounded Chimera, and Nocturnal Chimera.
One Of The Lads: Successfully complete Yanov and Skadovsk quest lines in favor of Stalker faction.
Pioneer: Plant scanners in all anomalies and complete the 'Rotten Grove' quest.
Research Assistant: Successfully complete all Scientists quests and deliver Oasis to them.
Artifact Hunter: Collect one of each artifact in the game, this includes, compass, oasis, wheel, and spiral.
Seasoned Stalker: Visit every anomaly in the game, and certain points of interest.
Trafficker Of Information: Sell Owl any nine pieces of information.
Wealthy: Collect 100,000 RU during the game.