The Zone feels Empty?

[Billy]

I am walking around the Zone, visiting many Locales that were in previous games, Cordon/Garbage/Dark Valley and I feel like the Zone is empty. Some campfires are placed all over the places yet no Stalkers, Bandits, Freedomers or Duty are out and about. what gives?

[Viper]

lol...Real simple turn it off .anything else on your mind.

[Triggerd_Noob]

Originally posted by *StonedKills* Cheddar Bob:

Originally posted by Triggerd_Noob:

70+ hrs is what it's taking average ppl to complete the game. I suppose someone that only does main quest could run it at 30 hrs on easy mode. Some ppl really should avoid getting their opinions from paid youtubers and form opinions and experiences of their own.

Your talking about completing all the secondary quest? Bro they are boring and repetative. I just had to go up to a roof and kill a few braindead zombies and get them off the antenna for 1 of them LOL. "go here grab me this" "Go here and take these zombies out" The 160gb is the world no the content. The part of the game that takes the most time is running everywhere through miles of dead generated terrain. If the masp wasn't so big and dead i could beat those quests in half the time.

There hasn't been a single moment of boring and repetitive gameplay in my play through or with the streamers i have watched. I haven't even ran into a "zombie" yet? I had no idea they even had zombies in this game. Are you sure your on the right forum??????????????

[ColdZero]

Idk but I think this game needed more time in the oven. Especially if A-Life is not present. SoC was amazing because of the atmosphere and NPCs doing their own thing not caring about you. I could have waited until summer 2025 for this game to come out. I hope the devs fix A-Life.

[Abigor]

i feel like they just randomly spawn in as well. because been walking around open area then like 10 random guys run in and 10 from other side and exchange fire with each other and then some random mutians join the fight and then every one is dead.

[*StonedKills* Cheddar Bob]

Originally posted by Triggerd_Noob:

Originally posted by *StonedKills* Cheddar Bob:

Your talking about completing all the secondary quest? Bro they are boring and repetative. I just had to go up to a roof and kill a few braindead zombies and get them off the antenna for 1 of them LOL. "go here grab me this" "Go here and take these zombies out" The 160gb is the world no the content. The part of the game that takes the most time is running everywhere through miles of dead generated terrain. If the masp wasn't so big and dead i could beat those quests in half the time.

There hasn't been a single moment of boring and repetitive gameplay in my play through or with the streamers i have watched. I haven't even ran into a "zombie" yet? I had no idea they even had zombies in this game. Are you sure your on the right forum??????????????

The zombies are like the 7th or 8th main mission in i think. I'm already past it. But there was a secondary 1 in 1 of the bases where i had to take zombies out on the roof. They are slow and braindead and you can run right up on em most the time and 1 tap them in the head. They also have guns. But will rarely shoot at you with them. You must not be very far into the game then man if you havn't seen them yet.

[ColdZero]

Originally posted by *StonedKills* Cheddar Bob:

I had no idea they even had zombies in this game. Are you sure your on the right forum??????????????

In the lore they are called dark stalkers or monolith faction I believe. They are not really zombies more like brain dead murderers that still think tactically instead of mindlessly trying to eat you.

[Mista Dobalina]

Originally posted by Братан Уильям:

Yeah, I swear I finish a fight, I turn around and then turn back and a new Squad has spawned lol

bro you play call of doody you have no room to talk

[*StonedKills* Cheddar Bob]

Originally posted by ColdZero:

Originally posted by *StonedKills* Cheddar Bob:

I had no idea they even had zombies in this game. Are you sure your on the right forum??????????????

In the lore they are called dark stalkers or monolith faction I believe. They are not really zombies more like brain dead murderers that still think tactically instead of mindlessly trying to eat you.

They literally called them zombies in this 1. It's in 1 of the main missions to. And they look and act like zombies.

[Joikax]

Originally posted by *StonedKills* Cheddar Bob:

Originally posted by ColdZero:

In the lore they are called dark stalkers or monolith faction I believe. They are not really zombies more like brain dead murderers that still think tactically instead of mindlessly trying to eat you.

They literally called them zombies in this 1. It's in 1 of the main missions to. And they look and act like zombies.

Yes, Monolith and Zombies (sometimes refered to as 'Zombified (Stalkers)') are completelly different things and both are in the game.

[fox]

Originally posted by Joikax:

Originally posted by *StonedKills* Cheddar Bob:

They literally called them zombies in this 1. It's in 1 of the main missions to. And they look and act like zombies.

Yes, Monolith and Zombies (sometimes refered to as 'Zombified (Stalkers)') are completelly different things and both are in the game.

Actually, they are the same.

[Groza Enjoyer]

Originally posted by Братан Уильям:

I am walking around the Zone, visiting many Locales that were in previous games, Cordon/Garbage/Dark Valley and I feel like the Zone is empty. Some campfires are placed all over the places yet no Stalkers, Bandits, Freedomers or Duty are out and about. what gives?

GSC is aware of this and are working on fixing the A-Life.
My source for this is the STALKER discord, you won't get much help here on Steam Forums.
https://discord.gg/stalker

[Cheyenesku]

Originally posted by Raoul Duke:

Originally posted by Jozef_Oleksy:

It's a Zone, not a Times Square. It supposed to be "empty".

no it's not supposed to be empty. You never played the og games where you could hear distant gunshot of stalker fighting each other or mutants and you could go to those area where you heard the gunshot and see the aftermath of the fight, stumble upon random stalker gathered around a campfire and see them again after 1 hour of playing in a different location. Now it's just an npc spawn system of a random open world game without life

You can still hear distant gunshots and see shootouts
A-Life 2.0 is broken and its being worked on.

[Cheyenesku]

I swear to Wish Granter, people keep forgetting how many random and repeatable spawns previous games had, you mistake a lot of it for A-Life.

[Joikax]

Originally posted by fox:

Originally posted by Joikax:

Yes, Monolith and Zombies (sometimes refered to as 'Zombified (Stalkers)') are completelly different things and both are in the game.

Actually, they are the same.

No, they are not.

Monolithians are still capable of regular thinking, they are regular stalkers, they simply hear voices in their heads brainwashing them to do their bidding. (In this game and back in CoP they've lost their connection to the wish granter and the C-Consciousness thanks to Strelok, so they're back to normal but clearly crave the calling still)

Zombified stalkers are literally just zombies, their brains got fried by intense psy activity either through anomalies, certain mutants or certain events like emissions/blowouts or going near the (then active) Brain Scorcher.

[Cryptic]

Originally posted by Triggerd_Noob:

Originally posted by *StonedKills* Cheddar Bob:

What did you think the 160GB and only 30 hour storyline was gonna be? Lots of content? LOL. Naa just dead spaces and miles to walk through generated terrain.

70+ hrs is what it's taking average ppl to complete the game. I suppose someone that only does main quest could run it at 30 hrs on easy mode. Some ppl really should avoid getting their opinions from paid youtubers and form opinions and experiences of their own.

Preach