Arena exploit ;)

[Hex: Onii-Chan]

So, Arena forces you to give up the gear they give you, right...? Well, see, kinda. During the 3rd fight you get some good stuff. Drop all of it before walking into the arena. It will automatically spawn the rifle in your hands to play the weapon-check animation. (Not 100% whether it will spawn ammo tho)

Then, after you're done, loot the corpses and open the door, but don't enter the room yet. Instead just drop everything on the ground again, in a way that you can pick it up from inside the prep room.

Talk with the guy and hand over the stuff. IMPORTANT - walk over to the safe first and THEN loot the stuff again. I'm pretty sure there are 2 checks - first is when you talk to the guy, second when you open the safe, both of them delete your inventory before you get your stuff back.

NOW head back and loot the guns and the armor off the floor. Gz, you got 2 guns worth 35k (since the game basically dupes it with the weapon-check animation) and a 53k armor as well as some of the non-broken GP37.

Imho a more appropriate reward than the 2600 coupons you get :)

[Cryptic]

Real stalkers don't use exploits.

[Hex: Onii-Chan]

Originally posted by Cryptic:

Real stalkers don't use exploits.

Yeah, well, real stalkers find more than 3 bullets and a wet paper tissue on a guy who was able to fire non-stop for 3 minutes just a second ago. Maybe once a quest gives me more than 5% of what I need to repair the gun I used to complete it, this crap won't be necessary. Until then - gonna get as much cash as I can through whatever means I can.

[Wolfholz]

holy mother of SEVA

[Robert henry]

Thanks for the technique

[Zaris]

Yeah these developer never learn. In Clear Sky there was a usual "get robbed during a cutscene and get your stuff back" main mission and you literally could drop your inventory before the door which triggered the cutscene. The same for the start of Stalker 2 where they remove your inventory at the last scanner position, drop your stuff in a safe and just loot it back (minus the AR416 / AKM).

[gotcha.airsoft]

Similar to this one can save the intro gear. There are a few stash locations in the first mission accessible before they "rob" you in the animation. But you can put all gear in the stash/es and collect them after the crappy animation when the fearless "hero" runs in panic...