S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky - Enter the PAIN HOLE
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Welcome to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky. It is the worst one of all the series. Yes, I mean it. Clear Sky tries out a whole lot of new mechanics but it feels like they're just throwing everything at the wall to see what sticks. The result is an overly-scripted mess of a game that combines thew worst elements of a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game and a Call of Duty single player story.
Chapters:
00:00 intro
00:53 intro to Clear Sky
03:07 Part 1: Welcome (back) to the Zone
09:08 Part 2: The Middle Part
19:40 Cooking Segment: Fried Zucchini
23:01 Part 3: PAIN
25:31 The best way to make money in Clear Sky: revenge on the military checkpoint
28:56 PAIN AND SUFFERING!
34:00 Story Synopsis (spoilers)
36:23 Final thoughts
38:24 Cat video
39:54 Loners assert their dominance on me.
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www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1ss2uoh in regard to playing stalker mods.
holy shit, i am genuinely sorry you had to deal with this kinda shit. And thanks for letting us know that the mods are sketchy as shit, (which doesn't surprise all that much).
I just want to clear up that Anomaly/LA autists are NOT representative of the rest of stalker fans. Anomaly players are a special branch of insufferable kids and many of them dont even have an interest in the actual base games, you'll hear bs repeated like "why play the games when Anomaly is the defiitive stalker experience" and so on. This is all ofc a trend as I remember the same hype surrounding the MISERY 2.1 mod for CoP back in 2012 and it phased out with time same.
About the security risks, there's alot of Stalker mods that arent clean, or have been under suspicion. Mainly stuff out of russia, Shoker, GUNSLINGER, russian story mods, etc. However most of western developed mods on Moddb are completely clean, my own theory is that your antivirus must have flagged the numerous graphical .dll files in Lost Alpha and Anomaly as these are standalone mods and use their own build of the x-ray engine, as such they include these system files same as the verified Steam builds of the 3 base games. If you dont feel comfortable downloading system files or anything your antivirus flags in general thats ofc your decision but I think you could still try maybe a separate hdd or partition to install games or non-sensitive data on, and this would prob better protect your system against threats in general.
Such a shame, Anomaly fans and the "og hardcore guys" are a bunch of incels holed in a basement. I hope it won't affect the way you perceive Stalker as a whole.
I used virustotal at first to see what all the antiviruses said and also to see what they all do in their virtualboxes (best feature ever) Unfortunately, I didn't trust what I saw. Also, I ended up feeling vindicated after someone in the discord brought this to my attention:
www.nexusmods.com/stalkeranomaly/news/14178
Something like this, even it it was a few years ago now, is an instant no-go for me.
wow, I knew people spamming "play Anomaly da best mod ever!" were obnoxious but this?
This game kinda saved my life. When I was 15 I got very sick, like...lose 12 pounds in 3 days sick. Anyway, I spent an entire month playing this game as my dad installed it on his laptop for me to play since I could not get out of bed. I loved this game, I played it vanilla (as this came out when I was like.. 13?) and fell in love with everything. CS remains my favorite faction because of this, it also made the zone feel more like a world than the first game.. it may be my own perception. This will always be my favorite Stalker game; it will always be the most difficult to play as well!
i mean the factions mechanism does help and it does improve in some functions of shadow of Chernobyl but I can see why it is the weakest of the 3
@@abhayraj6390 Yeah. It was buggy as hell.
@@bionicallychallenged7290 I've been in + out of hospitals/bed-ridden a lot. The comfort of someone caring enough to bring you something frivolous for you to enjoy when it all feels so serious, + the relief from boredom, + the distraction from worry...it's cool your Dad did that for you & it's cool that you have that private meta for always with Clear Sky.
Be well, stay well, + may you + your family thrive.
What's your secret I need to lose weight?
When you loot your enemies, you will see standard bullet in their inventory. But if you unload their weapons, they have armor piercing bullets. That's is what they were shooting at you with.
Scar asked himself: "What if the true Strelok was the friends we made along the way?"
Clear sky is infuriating to play at most points but the extremely tense and drawn-out fights are by far the best out of three games.
Interesting, after months of your stuff not showing up in the CZcams home screen's recommended vids thingy for me, both this and the CoP videos did. Maybe you have finally found a way to placate the algorithm god.
Yeah there were a few vids of his that didn't even show up in my subscription feed nevermind the home page. I just randomly thought "Oh hey Charlatan hasn't uploaded in a while" and there were like 2 or 3 videos that never got flagged.
CZcams fears his might.
Same
🔔
Same. I love this dude and somehow totally forgot about him. Last time I saw his videos was around the time of the Call of Chernobyl video. All of a sudden this popped up and im estatic though.
gld I'm not the only one. I was wondering if he died and then went to his channel and was like "where have these vids been"
Ah yes, g.r.e.n.a.d.e.s : Clear g.r.e.n.a.d.e.s
Btw: to make the stalkers friendly at the beginning, you need to activate the machine gun script, THEN go to cordon's other entrance.
A sequel to popular game "Call of Grenades: World at Grenade"
I honestly liked Clear Sky, sure it's buggy and unstable but it has charm
If they had just named nft's as Potential Access Tokens it would've been so much easier to explain to people why they're a stupid idea for 99.999999% of uses you see.
The guy standing next to the MG in the checkpoint is actually using it. I remember installing a mod that added a lot of new weapons and so I had the great idea to take a cheap sniper with me for that specific part. You can see the guy standing next to the MG while it's firing but not really "using" it, when I killed him the MG stopped firing. I believe other soldiers can actually get to it and use it but the very first guy seems to work that way, he uses it with his mind
You’re super good at teaching/narrating cooking! I like that you mention all kinds of useful tips, like making sure your breadcrumbs are finely milled!
I misread your comment at first as saying CW was good at "narrative cooking" & got incredibly jazzed to discover a genre I hadn't heard of yet & my Brain went wild imagining this amazing new genre of "narrative cooking" & all the possibilities that implied or opened up for different storytelling, then my Brain coordinated with my Eyes again & saw the actual comment.
1. I agree CW is a great teacher + describes the processes used really well.
2. Can anyone start making things that push those cooking-story conventions towards the bold uncharted frontiers of "narrative cooking", bc I'm so utterly charmed by the phrase I'm sure there's some intrigue + magic just embedded in the term.
3. If you keep/harvest the edible zucchini pod-blossoms at their peak, a similar technique ca be used with the blossoms to good effect --- lightly breaded + pan-fried (even panko turned out fine).
In capitalist America; if you don't have money, existence is pain.
In post apocalyptic Prypyat, it's all pain!
Yea I really hated how broken the faction war system is. Good example being how u can't win the faction war the enemy base will always rebuild.
Oh man, the rifle farm strat is amazing! Might reinstall to finally play this game
My eyes gleamed when you said "hemophiliac" because I'm one myself, LOL
SO THAT CHECKPOINT WASN'T JUST ME. Just got to it in the dark and died 100 freaking times, you're the first to tell me this 🐟
That was probably worse than actual mild radiation poisoning
Heard about it from Sseth years ago, wish that passage was open from the start without saying HI to MG nest.
He still owe us Call of Pripyat review, it's been so long...
And what if i tell you theres the best detector hidden in the swamp?
No fucking way, just finished Clear Sky last night, when I had to give up the Compass to Forester, that was painful... Also got 500k from collecting weapons and selling them off at Duty base, it was attacked by bandits constantly, there were hundreds of AKs and Bizons lingering on the floor after a few hours
Ha ha
"5.56x39 millimetre weapon"...Stalkers...hold me
* CHADS WHO COMPLETED CLEAR SKY WITHOU MODS *
I remember years ago first playing this game with the complete mod, and I before exploring the red forest I full upgraded an lR3000 rifle and during the Pusdogiant encounter I took it out and managed to unload 28 rounds out of my gun before it JAMMED! I had modded the gun to have as high a rate of fire as possible and somehow that had made it degrade to the point of jamming it LESS then a single mag. I then uninstalled it an have never played it again
That's your mistake, you upgrade rifles for max accuracy and turn them into laser pointers with pin-point accuracy and just one-tap headshot everyone.
God I want the LR3000, whatever it is - the LR300 is cool enough, imagine that but 10x more??? :P
yeah it be like that sometimes lmao then i got back into it with anomaly 10/10
PRAISE THE ALGORITHM GOD
I'm going to actually start doing the "comment and like" stuff, because God DAMN I'm mad that I don't get your vids on my recommended fees
I...hmm.....will, when you raid the military check point from the other direction, the gunner will move away from the gun to shot you with his AK74 because he can't shoot you with the mounted PKM. You can actually see him with a binocular once you exist swamp...and I've tried to kill him with fully modified AK74 a few times and he will die. But since the slit is rather small, it might take like 150 5.45 to kill him.
25:08 the underbarrel grenades are not "Rifle Launched Grenades". Obviously they're fired from the attachment on the rifle, but Rifle Grenades are their own thing. They came about during WWI I *think*(don't remember exactly) and they were grenades that require specific parts and rounds to fire them. I think all of them that I know except for one had you fit the grenade onto the end of the rifle, and the soldier with those grenades would use some sort of low powered cartridge in order to fire them. The French maintained use of these until the 2000s, on their FAMAS rifles, though I *think* they're phasing them out with their adoption of the HK M416. I'm assuming that there are still some in use because I think every army will use equipment that isn't inherently broken and still passable till the end of time. These underbarrel grenades are usually just referred to as grenades, though mostly by their diameter. In the US its usually referred to 40mm rounds. Russia has two systems for the AKs that are a 30mm and a 40mm for AF use.
clear sky as a faction seems to fill no niche, its angles are already covered by freedom and ecologists
I think their supposed to be third party scientists that want to study the zone like the ecologists but without hiding every single thing they uncover
Not really, i mean the leaders of clear sky were involved in those experiments with noosphere
Not really, i mean the leaders of clear sky were involved in those experiments with noosphere
Good video but some nitpicks:
- You do respond positively to the emissions. You no longer need to eat in Clear Sky. Scar just ... doesnt need to eat anymore. Its something.
- Call of Pripyat reuses most of Clear Sky's gameplay loop and ballistics engine, just with tweaks. So Id say CoP is 70% Clear Sky gameplay.
- The mounted machinegun is powerful but you can literally buy the CS-3 (CS-1 ingame due to poor translation for the EN version) armour with 30 bullet protection and pass through it.
- Call of Pripyat DID NOT use any maps fro Clear Sky or SoC. That part is just 100% false. It reuses assets and PLANNED cut areas (the undeground areas mostly) but those were NEVER officially released in SOC or CS so the statement is true.
- Bleeding can be stopped with some suit upgrades, artifacts, or the stat for stopping bleeding. Now, this is still a BAD mechanic 100% I agree but it isnt completely unavoidable.
- The military use 5.45x39, not 5.56x39. Also - in non-SRP (Sky Reclamation Project fan patch) clear Sky, you can just farm the upgraded Vintorez from Forester by entering and leaving his dialogue constantly.
- There are cool anomalies in Limansk - the teleportation spatial ones. But yes, they are underutilized.
- Metro 2033 and Last Light are a LOT more like RTCW and Half Life than STALKER, so they are not good recomendations.
Overall good video and I agree Clear Sky is the most broken of the series. But I still like it more than Call of Pripyat.
RTCW?
@@jidk6565 Return to Castle Wolfenstein. So popular in Eastern Europe that some of its assets and sounds were used in STALKER and Metro 2033's alpha versions as placeholders.
Yeah that whole thing with poltergeists has always been a pain, even when you DO aim at the right spot, it still feels like they just refuse to take damage while they whip barrels at your head.
The other thing won't be over until we're paying $50/gallon.
What this video taught me is that I probably will not play clear sky unmodded and skip it to play unmodded CoP.
Must say that S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky was my introduction to the series. Guess I got that pain out of the way
Awesome video on a series I never played, I think I might have to pick these up.
You don't need an RPG to take care of the helicopter in the abandoned hospital, one of the monolith soldiers nearby drops a grenade launcher that you can use.
There is no need to do all that grind that you mentioned because checking the bodies of enemies in limansk reveals stashes that all contain a lot of ammo for a variety of weapons. The only thing you actually need to do in this game is upgrade your weapons because they otherwise can't hit the broadside of a barn.
I feel like a lot of the gripes you take with the game are invalid because from what I can tell, you are actively making the experience worse for yourself by doing unnecessary things you weren't intended to do.
This
If you have a AK yes but for others guns that using others ammos you don't drop so much the main problem it's not even the ammo but the heal not much drop and you need a lot of heal (especially when you are unlucky and you need to run avoid monolithe because the game crash if you play normal because script are shit in limansk )
My deepest apologies for suggesting to feed THE CAT. Now I understand why he's currently on a diet.
The pixel perfect laser guided grenades were due to an incorrect config setting that gave enemies 100% accuracy on all throws.
And "bullet sponges" are common in the early game with bullets literally disappearing after reaching "max" range, instead of damage falloff. The early guns have like a 25m bullet range. Which was "fun". scopes add to the range, letting your bullets, you know, EXIST. So you can have a gunfight at last.
Both are fixed with patches and mods.
Proceeds to dump 14 rounds of .45 ACP into the back of a zombie’s head at point blank range and still doesn’t kill it*
Love your “so DIY” cat infused patron ad, definitely caught my attention and would donate if could. Take my everlasting love instead
8:09 Call of Pripyat did recycle some actual maps.
They recycled Pripyat Underground which was present during Build 3120
They recycled part of the Yanov map (Jupiter factory) which was planned but only ever got to the PDA map stage, you can find this map graphic in Clear Skys textures
They recycled Monolith war lab and used its layout for Lab X-8, Monolith War Lab was a map cut from Shadow of Chernobyl when they got rid of the Generators level
Subbed and hit the bell thanks for more videos!
Just finished Clear Sky on master. Only part I didn't like was the swamp and having to avoid the military checkpoint until I had a long range weapon. People saying to skip this game are clowns
Man, I've been eating your videos for the last few days they are very good. Started with Pacific drive Then did/doing the stalker series among others. Shame there will be no more stalker vids I like your style. Thanks.
What exactly is 5.56x39 ammo? Also, while talking about this mythical ammo, you constantly show the AN-94 which is chambered in 5.45, so I'm pretty confused. Did you mean 5.56x45? Because the Military doesn't use NATO rifles in game. Did you mean 5.45x39? Because that would make more sense, but you sometimes refer to it as just 5.56.
Glad to see a comment about this here already.
@@ahugefan7059 Yeah, I get that it's probably not a huge deal to some people, but it could be very confusing for new players
The hell is it with eastern euros and making fun of people through rhetorical questions? I’ve seen this like 4 times in this comment section alone and I can’t figure out why it’s so common
@@manformerlypigbukkit Got some bad news for you friendo, I'm not Eastern European
Looking at Clear Sky, I can't help but think that maybe, just maybe... it was a good thing GSC had to drastically cut down Shadow of Chernobyl. We missed out on a lot of cool stuff, sure, but we also got a much tighter and more focused game that was sure of what it wanted to do. I wonder whether the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series would've died in its cradle then and there if SoC was as much of a mess as Clear Sky.
Maybe but the modders would surely still keep the games alive
@@TheRealRusDaddy That would only be the case if the series had a cult following, and the reason why it has a cult following is because SoC was a damn good game. If SoC came out of the oven in the same state as Clear Sky, it may have never attracted such a large and dedicated fandom in the first place.
When you complete the opening of the Limansk bridge against the renegades in the red Forest but before you enter Limasnk/end of no return.
You can head back to the Clear Sky base in the swamps for your reward which is 50'000 rubles and an FT-200M assault rifle. The technicians can upgrade it with the 50k so you need less or no grinding.
As stalker veteran, clear sky is most replayable, cuz of sooting, looting, sooting harder enemies gameplay loop. You always became stronger but never immortal
I only remember the bad parts of Clear Sky. First thing I do in any new STALKER game is raid the Military checkpoint with my pistol (not easy) so I can get a decent AK variant, some kind of armor, and some medical supplies. Avoids grind in the beginning. Nothing is as important as a fully repaired rifle with a scope (and new ammo), which will get you further than anything else. In real life too.
Lost Alpha is kinda notorious for not actually following the design docs and builds too closely, and the story is pretty much abran dnew fan faction at this point involving the illuminati. If you would want to check out a far more accurate recreation of the beta era of stalker, I recommend Oblivion Lost Remake
The polterhole, or hole-tergeist if you feel so inclined
This was my first stalker game cause I like playing in chronological order, I played on master and have never had an issue with ammo near the end game
A few years after I played the original stalker I bought a bundle of stalker, clear sky and call of Prypjat. After an hour of playing clear sky I skipped to call to Prypjat and never touched clear sky again. Great video!
Anomaly and really any of the mods do faction wars better the requirements to get in the bandits weren’t always impossible just overly hard
I was completely unaware about the nft thing
If i ever had the money ti spare charlatan, the imperfections on your products would simply show me that you care a lot more about whatcha giving out to people than not. That and remind me actual human beings still do cool things like make clothes and stuff. Makes me a lil sad whenever i picture us just.. doing nothing.. in the future.
So, CS was my first stalker game.
I had no idea how durability worked.
I played the entire game with a 0 durability VSS and Makarov.
I had no idea how artifacts worked.
I did not use a single artifact all game.
I briefly read about difficulty, and believed the difficulty myth.
I played it on Master.
Finally, I had no idea how the inventory worked. I have no idea how I missed this, but...
I played the entire game in a leather jacket, without repairs.
Sometimes I go back and play Clear Sky just like that just to relive the pain. It's simultaneously the best and worst stalker experience I've ever had.
Biggest flaws:
-Endless bandit spawning if you wipe them out
-Insufficiently differentiated from other shooters. Didn't need Half Life 2: 2
-NPCs can see through vegetation but player can't
-Forgot the main mechanic of STALKER: The tension between curiosity and fear. Didn't replace this mechanic with anything else. So it's mild curiosity with 0 fear.
if you actually got japed by the military checkpoint you are a genuine goober.
Clear sky taught me to learn how to love iron sights atleast the swamps sure did
The spamming of grenades starts to make sense because Clear Sky came out around the same time as World At War
Wtf is a zucchini? If it can go in the microwave or be prepared in less than 3 minutes I don't want it. I subsist on ramen noodles and cigarettes.
21:00
Ok, i have no idea what your channel is, since it's the first time i'm seeing a video for you, but this is amazing.
I think the biggest reason I hated this game was due to the ending bugging out on me, strelok became unkillable, he wouldn't die. After hour's of me getting lost somehow in the linear shooter part's, I got a softlocking bug and had to look up the ending on youtube.
Damn I didn't expect to see a videogame character with hemophilia
The invasion is the reason why the Metro team packed up their offices and moved everyone to Malta.
Just need to say I read the title as "Enter the Pink Hole" and was very intrigued
The Winds of Winter on the tombstone lmao
Yeah, that other thing that happened to GSC gameworld? It's still going with no end in sight
the rifle farming at agroprom is INSANE, i could get enough money for endgame gear before even stepping into the army warehouses
> it's the middle of June
T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y
I spam the regen artifacts and bleed like a fountain. As long as its not that kobe grenade toss or headshot, i could "walk it off"
There are two choices in clear sky: the pain hole, or the heart attack outside.
i will be very disapointed of that apron dont end up with a backed with "nutz" in its name on the croach
Great video man. I'm replaying whole series. Shadow of Chernobyl sucked me in like a swamp, then i moved to Clear Sky... and i did not fisnished it. Then i launched Call Of Pripyat and it was immediatly perfect.
Clear Sky is Stalker married with Call Of Duty... it's just don't wor.
Something isn't right, I played Clear Sky and both the nade spam or Emissions weren't even present, wtf?
You will get emissions if you are backtracking and not doing the plot quests
I remember that NFT thing they tried to do.
It was disgusting.
i can stomach the military checkpoint. THE RED FORREST ON THE OTHER HAND. had to take a big break after dying so many times '
It took me 84 hours to beat SoC. Partially because of difficulty, and partially because I loved the game so much and just didn’t want it to end. The last portion was absolutely brutal and maddening, a lot of it was. So to hear the way people describe this, honestly scares me a bit.
"That other thing"? Really?
Yeah, no, that won't do.
Now to round off the S.t.a.l.k.e.r. trilogy you need a review of the compilation mod Call of Chernobyl ;)
Did you play through the games on master difficulty? That helps with the enemies being sponges I think
That’s actually a myth.
@@matthewjones39 is it? Seemed to work
@@Zealolicious I play exclusively on master difficulty and it took me over 14 shots with my 1911 to kill a completely unarmored zombie. Keep in mind I was at point blank range, aiming for the head, and hit all my shots.
It doesn't help for me, ive dumped an entire mag on one light armored monolith on the body and he didnt die. The fight of limansk hospital is so hard that i changed the difficulty to stalker and do headshots since enemies they die in on shot no matter the difficulty
Can't wait for this video to get claimed by Brendaniel of Painhole fame for slander
Oh yeah isn't the Please Stop Talking letsplay channel called that? Wow, I never knew it all took place in the Red Forest outside of Pripyat, Ukraine.
You messed up, it's 5.45 x 39, aren't you american?
I died x3 times in the second pain hole, left because I didn't have the right scanner and came back 20 hours later to find the loners had destroyed all the poltergeist.
Surprising I just pulled one of those stupid heavy snipers and took 15 shots to wipe the helicopter.
I spent 49 hours in SoC and 47 hours in Clear Sky that I finished a few hours back.
Struggling to get motivated for Call of Pripyat
@@christiaanventer8183 hope you've played it, as it's the most polished and player friendly game
@@Faks.09 I finished all three games, very stalker saturated until Heart of Chornobyl launches.
Took me around 35h with guides to finish the 3rd installment.
I played all three games in release order in college and I always remeber Clear Sky being my favorite, so I've never understood why everyone considers it the worst
i enjoy the video
The other thing was not, in fact, done
Wait, you had this much trouble with the machine gunner in Cordon??? Really? Dude, every time I literally just book it full speed straight for the log, go under it, then keep trees in between the gunner and myself. I did that the first time and survived. Did people seriously have that much trouble with it? I didn't even die there until like my 3rd playthrough
Ok but S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly though
It won't be covered
pssst, use a wok for shallow/deep frying
Pain hole is wrong hole
So last year I decided to replay all three STALKER games because I really enjoyed all of them. By the end of Clear Sky I turned on cheats just to finish the game, because the end of the game was just so bullshit.
Clear sky is still my fav stalker bc it was my 1st
granted that i used gunplay mods for all of my playthroughs of the series, i definately prefered clear sky to call of Pripyat and is on par with the original, i mean i never knew you could even get past the military checkpoint since turning around is the intended path.
There is, almost worried you skipped this wonderful learning experience of absolute jankfest and badly executed concepts.
It still baffles me that GSC gave Bandits access to all upgrades for SEVA for some bizzare reasons... a faction that take your money every time you enter Garbage.
me also worry
The sprint speed is stupid. SOC had it perfect, I always make it a point to "adjust" the player.ltx file so my sprint speed is slightly faster than SOC's, that and I also made my max carry weight to be like a million kilos
Lads can you please remind me what music plays at the 18:00 mark?
The Red Forest isn't new tho, it was in Shadow of Chernobyl?
No
polters are weak against shotguns.
Yep, that's what I was thinking during that part of the video: just use a shotgun.
After watching reviews like this and being reminded of how tedious this game can be (which is all true, as much as we like the game), I still can't believe that I managed to complete this game without taking any damage.
Clear Sky's gunplay system does feel rather off. I recall other reviews of this game stating that the weapons in Clear Sky all have inferior stats to those in Shadow of Chernobyl across the board to incentivize the player to purchase upgrades for their weapons.
COP didn't reuse any maps from SOC or CS.
never played the stalker games does stalker shadow of Chernobyl hold up today
Yes but you have to get used to 2000s gaming quirks. You essentially have to learn to play the game, I never managed a complete playthrough because I easily lost sense of direction and I did poorly in combat. One time I sat down and made an effort to do what the game was asking, and I breezed through the game. A rifle with a scope is very important for headshots.
Use multiple saves. I minimized savescumming but having multiple saves when getting to progress milestones is important because I had one game breaking bug - crash around 10 seconds after loading. I had to go back to an older save and lost around 30 min of progress. Never happened again.
Other than the quirks due to its age and development hell it's a very rewarding game.
I AM REDDIT too! :DDD
i beat the stalker cs wihout outfit and i play on the master ? where pain??
awe yeah
Cheeki Breeki