is there a way to properly deal with the black stalker? (no spoilers, not related to endings or anything))

[Zeniarmr [US]]

Either its ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ boring or insanely annoying, the 4 minute 30 seconds a black stalker appears for is insanely unfortunate most of the times. Is there any way to deal with him to shorten the timer or at least combat his attacks- afaik, i'm shortly after olga. Maybe the Chernobylite lighter(?)?

OR, at the very least to combat storms. They appear every mission I swear, must just be unlucky

[GoatseWithTheAwesomeSauce]

You're supposed to be building anti-chernobylite burners and stuff like that in each level to stop the storms and the stalker from appearing for longer

[Dirtyshorts]

Shotgun to the face sends him packing.

[Nite69]

he isn't that hard to kill as long as you keep up on the skills from your companions, its a waste of ammo though since he spawns like every 30 minutes I am on the map

my best suggestion is try to find a spot to hide without him detecting you and just wait for the timer to run out

[Go0lden_Archer]

Either build anti-chernobylite burners to delay his arrival, grab a shotty to his face, or when the storm starts hitting lightining and sending fire everywhere, hide in bushes, wait him out, when he appears, it's a 2m timer and he goes away again.

[Indvstrial Black]

There are also some building configs where if you sit in them, he won't even appear. The timer still runs until he's gone. I found an elevator shaft and a stairwell that he won't spawn at

[Nite69]

Originally posted by Kaos:

There are also some building configs where if you sit in them, he won't even appear. The timer still runs until he's gone. I found an elevator shaft and a stairwell that he won't spawn at

LOL same here on some maps the elevator shaft and stairs work well

crawl spaces in bunkers are also good

[Ratatouille]

Stacking a bunch of cheap fuel mines at drainage pipe entrance works - hide in it and watch him get one shot'd.
I always try that everywhere but it's like he intentionally avoids spawning on them unless that's the only place he can tp to.

[Dick Masterson]

Few AK mags in the face works for me

[hoot hoot]

Seems like the Black Stalker is one of the most often complained about mechanics in the game. I kind of like it as a concept, but it clearly needs some work.

I'd rather it be a system where he only really appears if you're causing a ruckus by killing enemies or something, and then when he does appear he is a more active enemy that you can try to fight or hide from, but he'll actually search for you.

Some variety to make it interesting after the first few attacks.

[DesperateDan]

So many players hyped the Black Stalker up, complaining how they had to hide in bushes until he leaves that I wrongly assumed he must be much more scary and hard than he actually is (he was hyped to the point I thought he was a relentless Resident Evil 'Mr X' type character). During my first few encounters with him, I fed into the hype, got intimidated, and ran away and hid.

On about the third time he spawned I decided to go toe to toe with with my shotgun and was surprised at just how easily he went down (Normal difficulty). I am now mid to late game and a single shot from the Plasma Launcher pretty much drops him to 10%.

[Hogwarts Legacy]

No Black Stalker & No STORM
https://www.nexusmods.com/chernobylite/mods/7?tab=description

Put to^
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Chernobylite\ChernobylGame\Content\Paks

[Col Hanzaplast]

Next game will have a special difficulty level for K12.

[13LACK ORDER]

Black stalker? he is easy as hell i don't why people having trouble with him

I just use modified shotgun with fast reload, extended magazine, and fast trigger option. when he appear i just blast him in the face. didn't even need to hide. we are just shooting each other in the face. use the time he went into the portal to reload

i found dealing with heavy armored enemies are (that disorient shotgun is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying, and they can shoot you from far away, even though shotgun is suppoed to close range weapon)

[Crypto Gamer]

Build anti storm devices in secluded locations like inside lockpicked or cherno burner locked doors so they can not be killed by enemies.

Best to have the timer above 30 mins.
So you will only rarely meet him.


His health and timer scaler with unkown factors.
Starts at around only 0:45 easy to outlast.


On insane by day 20+ he has 5:00 timer and around 6-7.5k hp and does not seem to take much if any increased damage from headshots.

So he takes a lot of resources to kill and only give exp if dead.
Likely slightly more than 20 shotgun shells on insane.