Duga Godlike Monolithian Insta Kill

[Disinterred]

When heading over to a checkpoint to the Duga I found myself up against monolith on the watch towers and such. So using the VSS I approached, but shooting the guards in the towers no matter how many bullets spent does not work. So when an emission started I decide to rush inside to get inside the building to take cover. Well it seems that everytime I pass the checkpoint I am INSTAKILLED by what seems to be a scripted sniper death? Now I didn't think I technically was allowed to go there, but I would of expected Psy waves of some sort, not random insta death.

What I'm wondering is. Has anyone else died this way and noticed the invincible guards? Are they actually killable and my 90% conditon MERC vintorez just sucks? And is there really a kill script here or is my game bugged? For main quest progression reference I am currently on the mission "A Minor Incident"

[Dante]

Do you mean the "watchpost" north-ish of Duga?

I don't even have a mission over there (not going to SIRCAA again till the patch fixing quests come out) so I'm just exploring on a save before that point.

There are zero enemies at the watchpost, but if I get within 20ft of it, I go from full health to insta-dead. Doesn't matter what armor/artifacts I have, no radiation, just death.

If that's not scripted, I don't know what is.

[Ermak]

Greetings! I faced the same problem and decided to check all possible paths of passage. And lo and behold, the farthest and most recent of them turned out to be the only suitable one.
It is located in the very south, near the edge of the map. If you look at the map, you can see how the most extreme road leads there

[Mr_Purple]

You have to go though Chornobyl-2 (town for military personnel) in the very south-east corner of the map.

[CrazyLamer]

Originally posted by Disinterred:

When heading over to a checkpoint to the Duga I found myself up against monolith on the watch towers and such. So using the VSS I approached, but shooting the guards in the towers no matter how many bullets spent does not work. So when an emission started I decide to rush inside to get inside the building to take cover. Well it seems that everytime I pass the checkpoint I am INSTAKILLED by what seems to be a scripted sniper death? Now I didn't think I technically was allowed to go there, but I would of expected Psy waves of some sort, not random insta death.

What I'm wondering is. Has anyone else died this way and noticed the invincible guards? Are they actually killable and my 90% conditon MERC vintorez just sucks? And is there really a kill script here or is my game bugged? For main quest progression reference I am currently on the mission "A Minor Incident"

It's basically a late-game quest area so you're not meant to go there yet.

[Dual]

Yeah that part is stupid, you instantly die by some invisible sniper.

You need to head south of that place and go around it.

[Age]

It's the same ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that happened to me at Cordon's Military Checkpoint to the south. It's a scripted death.

[laundry.room]

There will be a main mission of assaulting Duga, after that all that region will be clear to travel and explore.

Moreover, make sure you go there and look around, especially Crystal SCS, Infirmary and Arms and Fire depots. Great locations, with a lot of amazing details and enemies