S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl - Can you join Factions ?
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2024
- Hello stalkers, in this video we will try to find the answer to the popular question: Can you join Factions in Shadow of Chernobyl ? It turns out that yes, there is one faction that you can join, thanks to an oversight.
00:00 Introduction
01:05 About Duty
02:34 About Freedom
03:22 How to join Freedom
05:29 Side Effects
06:18 Bandits Interactions
09:08 Mercs and Ecologs Interactions
10:39 Conclusion - Hry
Duty: "Join Duty!"
Strelok: "Sure."
Duty: "Literally anyone else, really?"
Indeed.
Why wouldnt he ? Duty is clearly the hero faction.
@@almightybogza No that he doesn't want to join Duty, it's because you can't join them in SOC.
@@jaffakeks4403 aaa ye fair
Trader faction: Dude what about us 🤕🥺
These videos are like artifiacts of the zone
Thank you very much.
rare, but valuable
@@Section015 and valuable (:
Only a stalker player know that it isn't just a game, it is a lifestyle.
I guess you are right.
That implies we have a life
"just knife the wall"
ah yes streloks razor
Yes, indeed.
xD
I'm pretty sure Freedom is hostile to Ecologists because Wolfhound and his crew were originally Freedomers in later pre-release builds, which got changed to prevent you from making one of the major factions hostile unintentionally
Yes.
Wow I've completed this old game multiple times yet it still can surprise me somehow holy shit
That's the power of Shadow of Chernobyl.
Me at first time playing: both faction has their own ideology, but yeah I don't mind. I guess I just go neutral
30 minutes later: defeat both all Freedom army because their loot and all Duty army because that "get out of here, stalker" guy annoyed me (just for fun)
Best video as always, my fellow Stalker
Thank you.
You will be a great member of monolith
Get out of here stalker!
Get out of here Stalker!
lmao hahahahahahahaha
7:01 You can also see these lines of dialogues from Bullet (a Dutyer who gives you an optical scope in Dark Valley) only if he's back on Garbage.
Alright, I did'nt know that.
And you can also hear these lines from the unnamed Dutyer in the Dark Valley who is about to get executed by bandits.
My pc broke and im not able to play stalker this video is making me feel better.
F for your PC fellow stalker.
That's rough. No stalker should be forced out of the zone.
Such is life in the zone
i hope you will get a new pc so you can play stalker again
Your computer just have anomalies inside
Love this , just got the game and can’t believe people are still making videos. You are now my favourite youtuber
Great, welcome to the Zone stalker !
Don't come into the Zone, you will never be able to leave.
@@Kreia. I can't argue with that, it is true.
@@Kreia. Or you won't want to.
What did you think the very first time you saw a FLESHPIG?! What did you think the very first time you realized that you can AIM GRENADE LAUNCHERS?! Wanna try a Zone Sportsmanship Challenge of demented do0m?!
I am also astonished by the fact you can officially join freedom. Will definitely try it out in my next playthrough and I already completed the vanilla game for over 30 times and a few times with mods. Still there is new stuff to find out which is due to the fact that the world of stalker is so unpredictable! Keep it up!
Yeah, amazing what you can find in this game after so much time. Thanks !
I have played this game 500 times and never in my life expected that you could join a faction, let alone freedom. Thanks for this guide I will definitely come in handy when I want to play this great game again. I mostly did missions for Voronin and Lukash and both factions were friendly to me haha, Thanks for this material, keep doing what you do because you are doing really well, best regards
Yeah it is not a very well known fact, glad you learned something. Thanks !
i joined it by accident on my very 1st run lmao
Also, fun fact: The quote "Death solves all problems, no man, no problem." spoken by the Bandit who executed the Duty Hostage, is actually a quote from Anatoly Rybakov, who was a Soviet-Ukrainian Tank Commander during WW2 and later became a writer after the war ended. He wrote anti-Stalinist books.....as well as children books.
I tought Trotsky said that. At least that's what is stuck in my head, not sure if I remember where I got that information.
3:42 *casually smashes down a wall*
Of course.
2:18 The Marked one joining Duty at least in so far as destroying the zone makes sense
Yes, that's right.
TIL You can knife the wall of the Freedom base. O_o
Yes, it is a very useful trick.
It is symbolic of their factions softness.
But you have to press right click to destroy it, not left click.
Great video. I'm just so glad you will get to make more content on this channel, especially since STALKER 2 will come out someday. You and Nikolai are my favourite Stalker content creators. 🙂
Thank you :)
That's the reason i loved Clear Sky, i would always join Freedom and massacre Duty soldiers in the Red Forest, with SRP you can fix most of the bugs so Clear Sky is actually a really enjoyable game.
Yeah, the concept of faction wars in Clear Sky was a great addition.
For me, it's smiting the entire freedom base with Skull and the boys. Freedom will always be weak and incompetent hippies that are easily disposed of by a single Duty squad. Pathetic.
@@LifeEnjoyer463 Duty still got their outposts wiped out by Freedom squads in my playthrough, even if I didn't interfere.
try clear sky in vanilla,its not a crash after 1 sec,its still good (i have done vanilla,its not impossible complete mod girls)
@@southernbrain691 I mean i personally prefer all STALKER games to be as original as they can be. I used ZRP for SoC, SRP for CS, and i played is CoP without any mods.
hey, just wanted to thank you for you're videos. you helped me and other people to understand the lore, theories more of stalker with you're entertaining vids. i really appreciate the hard and long work you're putting in this channel.
Thank you very much stalker, the support will help :)
10:00 that "seamless" transition from neutral to hostile was quite hilarious
Your videos are so comfortable and always calm me down after a hard day or before bed
Thanks, great then.
This is great, thanks for this info!
Also, your video on standalone mods was really helpful, i started playing Goldsphere and its very fun, sadly i had to restart 4 times for quest "glitching".
Alright, good then. I don't remember having many problems with Goldsphere, but much like every mod it seems to run completely differently from player to player and PC to PC so I'm not surprised.
10:00 that "seamless" transition from neutral to hostile was quite funny.
Loving all your Stalker videos ! I hope you still have plenty of things to tell us about the zone
Thanks, and don't worry about that, I have plenty enough things to tell.
5:53 This gives me a lot of satisfaction
Yes, it had to be done.
man that's amazing,I always wanted to know about it but there's no other CZcamsr talking about it,thx a lot for bringing this curiosity with lots of other details too o/
Glad to read that, you are welcome!
Good video as always, thanks for your work
Thanks.
cool i play it right now and am at freedoms base, wondering what would happen. - so thx, after a quick search i stumbled on this video here and now I know that I can leave as it is. Nice video!!
Early! Love the vid, Anomalous!
Thanks !
i have finished SOC many times but didn't know that you can join freedom until i watched this video. Thanks 👍
Yes, it's a fact not many people seem to know, so I had to show it.
i actually learnt it via another video,i just didnt find out cuz i experienced a bug so i cant become freedom
Wooooow man this is so cool, thanks the information, i will try it once
You can join duty as well and be friendly with both factions. Didn't know about bandits, that's cool af!
That's amazing. I had no idea this was the case. It offers a very different way to play the game. I'll give it a shot the next time I re-install SoC.
this was really interesting video i didnt know before that you could join freedom in soc and what it changes you should do more videos like this hidden/secrets in cop i know that you can pick up gauss rifle from the air and you can use it right away and that you can do bloodsucker lair quest without poison gas and that uncle yar can repair your gear if you press x
Yes it's not very well known. Maybe I'll do more videos about such secrets in the future, we'll see.
Wow, still learning a lot about this game, thanks for this! Do all the faction relations still change if you only become friendly with Freedom, as opposed to joining them entirely? I know at least once I've shown up to the Wild Territory only to find with surprise that Mercs were neutral to me and Scientists were hostile, and I don't recall ever figuring out how to join Freedom so maybe it was just because I had done a lot of missions for them?
I'm not sure if you can change the relations that much, but it's possible. You can be friend with both Duty and Freedom, that's for sure.
Fantastic video, love this channel.
Thank you very much.
Thanks for the great video. I had some cheats wich made me able to join factions. And i played the story mode while being different factions for example. Im going to try if i can talk with monolith as a monolithian
Alright, thanks. Yeah playing with this kind of cheat can be fun.
oh man, I've got to try it
you are a legend
Thanks, have fun with this!
of course you can IF you install zone reclamantion project AND tick the options to join duty and freedom and only them.
I haven't even play SoC, but this video is still good and helpful.
Great then.
I remember doing something like this by accident. However, only the Duty was hostile. The rest was just chilling on neutral or friendly. But then I started modding and messing around with .ini files. I made myself neutral and friend with everyone to find new dialogs.
Yeah the faction relations sometimes work in strange ways.
There is actually a small difference betwen the unadjusted and adjusted psy-helmet but it does not affect the gameplay: when you wear the unadjusted one, the voices you hear when entering an area with psy-emissions are much more louder, while wearing an adjusted helmet, you can barely hear them or not hear them at all.
That definitely effects gameplay then. That changes something that, can be a major distraction to a minor if not non-existent one.
another great video keep it up
Thanks stalker.
I like how the Bandit was casually telling the Duty hostage to jump in the pit and of course casually accepted to execute him, then he yells some stuff in Ukrainian/Russian lol
Yeah that bandit clearly didn't care.
@@anomalousdugout9557 Whenever I play Anomaly, I always side with everyone that's hostile to the Bandits, mostly because I sympathize with them
I actually did this one by accident when i was a kid, i knew that duty was gonna be mad, but i didn't understand why the ecologist attacked me
Great video, now a lot of stuff make sense to me now .i have a question related to freedom. During my most recent playtrough ,i was thinking off doing all of the faction stuff in free roam after the c conciousness ending so i tried to stay away from factions war . but before going to the brain scortcher, i was allowed to talk to the duty leader for missions. I was thinking about joining freedom in free roam but all of the missions the leader showed me were not about entering the war of duty freedom . I accepted two quests :to bring a grenade launcher and a trs sniper that is surrounded by mercs .so i went and did the grenade laucher one first since i know that there is a grenade launcher in a basement in one house in the village with all the bloodsuckers. so i brought it without talking to the cook and without entering the freedom base or the duty farm. Then i went to do the sniper quest , i knew that freedom and mercs arent in a war and i did kill a few mercs to help kruglov. So i got the sniper after killing the mercs then gave it to the leader. After that , i went back in freedom territory and skull asked me for the sniper mission wich i denied and the sniper still showed as red on the map . My conclusion was that one quest out of the kruglov one, grenade launcher one and sniper one made freedom hostile to me. Since i would like i another playtrough to join freedom , what do you think made freedom hostile so that i dont make the same mistake again.
First of all, the standard game does not offer freeplay after the ending, so I assume you are using a mod. If that's the case, it is possible that this mod has an influence on faction relations. From my experience, after doing everything exactly as you described it, you should still be neutral with Freedom. Stealing the grenade launcher and the sniper TRS do not affect your relations with Freedom as far as I know. Therefore, it is probably just a bug. Have you checked if only the sniper is enemy or if everyone in Freedom is ? I ask this because the mission to kill the sniper has a lot of bugs, so even though you did not accept to do it, it is possible that it bugged out.
@@anomalousdugout9557 freedom are all hostile to me now , i guess its because of the mod (starter pack)
@@drkace8894 Okay, I'm not sure then. I did the same missions for Duty and was still neutral with Freedom. Maybe if you do some jobs for Freedom as well before doing the Duty jobs, your reputation with them will first increase, preventing them from becoming enemies afterwards. You can repel the monolith at the barrier and clean the bloodsuckers from the village for example.
Thanks anomalous dogout now I install stalker shadow of chernobyl and go to the freedom and be in the group and go to bandits:) thanks MAN!!
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You are welcome :)
@@anomalousdugout9557 thanks
great video men! I have a question, are you planning to talk about the mods of s.t.a.l.k.e.r? because the anomaly mod have a lot of new things that it would be interesting to talk about too
Thanks. I'm not planning to talk much about mods, at least not yet. There are already a ton of things to cover in the vanilla games and I want to focus on that first.
@@anomalousdugout9557 Nice! Thank you dude! I love this channel, and you are right by the way, there's a lot of things anout the vanilla games that I only discover in your videos
I'm not 100% sure but I think I managed to join Freedom once when I made a lot of jobs for them. After finishing another one I automatically become a Freedom member
the way you say dogout sounds french to me😂❤
I didn't know about this one, thanks for the explanation even though things are much easier if you stay loner.
Yes it's not well known, and it is indeed easier to remain neutral.
@@anomalousdugout9557 right on.
8:01 This is really great detail! I wish I could understand the Russian words the bandit said to his friend.
Yes, I do not understand either. I think they are supposed to deliver the prisoner to the factory, just like the other one shown before, but they disobey Borov's order and stay in the camp instead.
I understood " ??? Borov said to ??? log ??? old factory"
I can't translate more, i tried slowing it down, but I cannot understand russian well, even if I'm slavic
balvan/log could also mean ժսmbձss (they use it here)
@@anomalousdugout9557 that's most likely true
I don't know how but I manage to be friends with Duty and Freedom. All I did was do Lukash side quest (except killing Duty leader) and Duty Leader's (I forgot if there was a quest for killing freedom leader but I didn't do it either way). and then I helped random Freedom/Duty members in the area, like help them fight off the monolith, anomalies, bandits, etc. then my PDA shows both of them (be it in Bar/Freedom) that they're green instead of yellow. and I noticed it after I finished visiting lab X18 where Duty and Freedom are fighting each other. Forgive my English I'm not very good at it.
Yes, that's possible if you help both factions without taking the missions that lead to direct confrontation. Props to you for assisting both sides!
2:03 You can take that oath in Oblivion Lost and it's phrased the exact same way. Or you can have Sid make you a Duty member (or a member of any other faction) right from the start. As a pragmatic "man of balance," I prefer to keep both Freedom and Duty as trading partners, so I always go ecologist.
4:00 Technically, taking out Skull and his splinter group is in keeping with General Voronin's agenda. Voronin is more strategically savvy than Skull, understanding that the ceasefire between Freedom and Duty allows both factions to spread out their manpower, with Freedom defending the Barrier to the north while Duty guards Rostok and the southern CzechPoint at Garbage. In Oblivion Lost, Duty will conduct operations in the Wild Territory and act as guards in Yantar. Actually, I think they do that in ShoC too.
5:57 According to the Zone Encyclopedia on your PDA in ShoC, Freedom conducts raids on ecologist operations, seeing them as "exploiters" of the Zone or whatever. In Oblivion Lost, being an ecologist makes you friends with both Freedom and Duty. And in Anomaly, ecologists are at least neutral with Freedom, Duty, AND mercs (which means the mercs are likely employed by someone other than whomsoever-go-nuts was employing Wolfhound and his posse).
Which Oblivion Lost mod you're referring to in this comment? Seems interesting.
@@Eduardo-jk8bl I can vouch for Oblivion Lost 2.2 and Oblivion Lost 2010. Don't know about other versions.
8:34 this is actually a quote from Stalin
Duty: Get out of here stalker you cannot go to bar
Me: why
Duty: we dont welcome stalker
*Me: no*
Yes.
My first play through I guess I accidentally joined freedom bc when I went back to 100 rads I had to kill all of duty and the stalkers I was so confused.
The fact that Ecologists are hostile against Freedom is probably because the mission involving the Mercenaries and the Ecologists' helicopter was initially regarding Freedom.
Since Freedom troups can't reach the Wild Area, or even reach Yantar, the developers never felt the need to remove this relationship.
Yes, that's probably the case.
yeah,i also figured that as i do like older builds,like did you know that you once could have been prisoner to bandits? yeah,its changed a lot
now shall i suprise you with the fact you can enter the btr-70 in the cnpp
@@southernbrain691 Yes, I already know that.
@@anomalousdugout9557 then show it
I did this by accident? On my first playthrough I completely screwed myself and couldn't get back to the bar because duty was now 100% hostole towards me
I did the barrier then right after the Monolith attack I talk to Cap, right after I did that another camp defense mission appeared and no Monolith, no mutants. I got back to Lukas gives me the money and asks me to do one more thing and says were friends but I can't finish the mission. Either way if I leave the mission alone exit the map or refuse I don't get to join Freedom.
Great video.
Thank you.
Duty probably knows that Strelok smokes weed with the snorks
I kind of wanna do a freedom playthrough of vanilla shoc now
Well go for it.
j'arrive à bien reconnaître les accents français, c'est rare de voir un français parler de Stalker franchement c'est génial
that one dutyer that is killed in the hole i quickly killed the bandits gave him an medkit and he run away and a day or two i saw him at the duty camp in the garbage
Yes, if you help him he can escape.
I never knew about this after like 200 hrs in the game.
Yes, it's not a well known fact.
Now I gotta try for myself!
Yes, have fun with it !
I helped Freedom till they turned green. They were friendly, so I thought about visiting Duty for a change. Borderguards didn't shoot me but HQ troops did.
Yeah faction relations are quite buggy in some instances.
Haha I always knew that the Shaman was on the side of bandits!!!
When i joined freedom by accident one time i really thought it would be possible to join duty but that never happened in years so i thought maybe you can only join freedom but no other faction. And checking on wiki gave me affirmative answer.
Am I missing something out? I'm pretty sure you can join Duty in Shadow. I remember performing different tasks for Duty and then the option to join appear in the dialog with Voronin. I joined and all Freedom fighters became enemies for me.
That's strange. Maybe you were using a mod, because as far as I know, joining Duty "officially" is impossible.
Could be a false memory.
If you install stalker complete mod, you can join freedom, duty, and ecologs
Well that's a mod not vanila
I thought i remembered joining duty before but im probably wrong since it was so long ago when i was small
Yeah, someone else said the same thing but it was just a faulty memory.
@@anomalousdugout9557 Yeah I think so too, I don't remember that dialog hidden in the game about swearing an oath
You should make a theory video on if Strelok's death truck never crashed.
You mean, where was the truck heading ? I think it was going straight for the military checkpoint. That way, it is guaranteed to stay in the Zone, even if it means being intercepted by the army.
@@anomalousdugout9557 I mean what if Strelok was actually successfully delivered and what would happen if he became a monolith agent. I saw someone on another Stalker video ask that so I though it was interesting.
Unfortunate, I still run missions for Voronin though
I did all of this on my first playthrough not even trying to join Freedom but cap died at the battle with monolith so even if I was doing it to join freedom it wouldn't have worked lmao
Surprised you didnt mention ZRP which made joining Duty or Freedom possible.
Then again it is a mod. Good to know theres a bug that allows joining Freedom but with weird consequences.
Well, there are so many mods that allow to join factions, so I think sticking to vanilla prevents from getting into a rabit hole if you see what I mean.
@@anomalousdugout9557 wow, you really reply to all the comments. Respect., Anomalous. Appreciate it too.
Cool stuff, never knew about the extra dialogues, too bad your version is in English so the voices are mixed
My first playthrough i accidentally did this and legit started wondering what the hell i did to piss off other factions. It didn't even occur to me you couldn't join factions in SOC after that point.
Now i know. so thanks.
Oh, that was unfortunate. Glad I could shed some light unto it.
thats why i like to stay neutral xD
Is freedom really enemy with ecologists or is it a bug? I mean , from the game lore. Because in CoP they were not enemies
Probably a cut feature that the devs forgot to remove.
I accidentally allied both with no enemies!
Yeah, it's possible and probably a good thing.
woow o,o
How do you do your search about the topics?
Already answered, but I subscribed to your channel :)
i don't want to join freedom becaus i'll lose my trading entry from bar and if i can't acess bar i can't go to the starter base
I joined freedom by accident in my playthrough
I remembered i was asked to join duty but said no
The only reasonable explanation about Mercs and Freedom being neutral is Hog, Scar and Kostyan from Clear Sky. Assuming Scar is a mercenary, Hog sent Scar to Kostyan so that he can secure the warehouses, while Scar transmits the radio signal for the stranded mercenaries.
For the Ecologists, now that's very confusing. They don't do anything wrong in Clear sky. They are dormant, they don't even do much outside the bunker. Who worked for the Ecologists are the Loners, not Themselves.
Yes, I think that's right.
@@anomalousdugout9557 It's just because of two man, one directly and one indirectly (Hog saving Kostyan and Scar helping the squad) the entire Freedom faction got control over the Military Warehouses.
Fun fact, the 5.56 NATO round in the game is typo'd in the code. It's written SS190, which is a 5.7mm round. The actual name of it should be SS109. Both of them made by Belgium's FN Herstal.
Extra note, love your videos! These theories and questions just made my mind refreshed after what happened to the world the past 2 years.
I clearly remember i could join duty\freedom, and i was sure this was a thing on patch 1.003, but apparently not. Memory is funny thing, looks like i mistaken some mod for original game with 1.003 patch. Hm.
Perhaps it was possible in 1.003 and was removed later, but I could not find any evidence of that.
@@anomalousdugout9557i did some digging and no, you can't join any faction in any patch. It's just a faulty memory
@@VaNDaIUKR Alright, good to know.
I think... i will subscribe
Thank you.
@@anomalousdugout9557 your welcome
Bro literally on my first play through i accidentally joined freedom
Um, you can join Dooty. I remember joining them in soc.
Explain how then.
@@anomalousdugout9557 I think it was after i recovered grenade launcher in blood sucker village for Dooty.
Bro what you can just knife the stone wall that they needed explosives for
hello i am looking for help to get images of all 3d models of each stalker of each faction
Hi, could you be more specific ? What do mean by images, screenshots maybe ? And by each stalker, you mean every unique NPC or every different suit ?
@@anomalousdugout9557 I am looking for images of each possible npc of each faction, not the unique npc but the common stalkers
@@anomalousdugout9557 and by the way I am a big fan of your content, I wanted to ask if you plan to expand to stalker books or similar series such as metro or survarium, which both have games and books
@@erikas.84 Okay, I think I know what you mean. Perhaps the wiki can help you, it has pictures of the different variants of suits: stalker.fandom.com/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R._Wiki
If you want to discuss it further, you can contact me via email: anomalousdugout@gmail.com
@@erikas.84 Thanks. The answer to your question is no, I am not planning to expand to anything else than S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games. There is already plenty of work to do in that field, and it is my priority.
im actually confuse when i became friendly with freedom so i have to redo the lab x19 to unfriendly them lol
Yeah it's not intuitive since it's a leftover.
I heard "The Barrier" as "The Bay Area" - Time for me to put the bottle of Cossack Vodka down.
Nice trick with the Knife and the Wall
It's also because of my pronunciation. But yeah, the knife trick is pretty nice.
@@anomalousdugout9557 Your accent is fun to listen to
Stalker 1 is totally replayable game of your entire life
I just finished the game today and i went to this fraction and became an enemy to the bar xD
But it was a bug tho, cause i killed the monsters for the people defending from monoliths and than the game told me to go to this „lukasch“ for reward or smth or it just poped up on the map like he had a mission. So i went there and than i got nothing, i only had the dialog that some troups have a base near them and boom i was one of them😂
I did not even thought about the other ones cause i thought they are normal bandits or some shit, but they were neutral to me💀 I just killed them because they had no mission for me, i past them on the road at the beginning and i only had the offer to speak to lukasch so what the hell am i supposed to do.. Game had some bug with side missions you should only kill animals and sesrch stuff if you talk to some dude first give you the mission, or find pda from dead guys. Otherwise it pops up and bugs all time on map, was a litte bit annoying. But hey its from 2007 better than most games out from 2020s
i heard that duty kills those who wants to join duty but are not that good so anyways i like freedom
I doubt that it's true, but who knows ?
Did everything exactly the way you described but it did not work.
How to befriend with military?
Seeing how intricate most of the procedures here that must be performed in order to join a single faction, I assume you can only join 1 faction during a single playthrough. If that so, that means by joining a particular faction you can either make that playthrough harder or easier (such as bandit ignoring you, cheaper price on more powerful NATO weaponry, what's supposed to be allies now attacking you and some mission becomes unplayable because of inter-faction relationship)
Yeah, it will have some benefits but also cause some problems.