Duga Insta-Kill Sniper

[Edit]

Everytime I try to enter any part of Duga I get 1-shot by a sniper shot spawned somewhere out of line of sight (I'm on the quest where Scar is having us fight the ward for some reason). Is this supposed to happen?

Let me guess: the game doesn't want me going somewhere yet, so their ham-fisted, ♥♥♥♥-for-brains solution is to whack the player whenever they try to do so.

♥♥♥♥ this game.
I'll play Anomaly instead.

[GHSTproject]

DUGA becomes only available after you did the story missions over there that involve the duga region and an important fight over there! Same for prypjat wich only opens up after progressing the story to that point

[Edit]

Originally posted by GHSTproject:

DUGA becomes only available after you did the story missions over there that involve the duga region and an important fight over there! Same for prypjat wich only opens up after progressing the story to that point

I figured, but why not just wall off Duga? That's what they did for pripyat, and all the places where you get 1-tapped trying to enter Duga are gates, why not just close them? What in the sweet saint ♥♥♥♥ is this design?

[GlowWorm]

Originally posted by Edit:

I figured, but why not just wall off Duga? That's what they did for pripyat, and all the places where you get 1-tapped trying to enter Duga are gates, why not just close them? What in the sweet saint ♥♥♥♥ is this design?

It absolutely is bad design, and it's even more puzzling because they should have had ShoC as their example of reasonable ways to do it.

[Fred]

Only the southern part of Duga is accessible via Burnt Forest. You can only enter the military area later in the main story.

Prypyat can still be accessed via a crate move, wooden box, as of Patch 1.1.3. At the level of the sniper in the Jupiter zone.
To the right of the train station in Yaniw there are railway carriages at the end.

Patch 1.1.4 Prypyat can be traveled further.

South Duga has always been freely accessible, 1 side quest and 2 artifacts can be collected. The northern military area can only be accessed with the main story.

[HiggsLP]

Id suggest to play ward side also b4 jumping the gun.
I played 1st Stalker and was raging on that sniper, but now after playing on Ward side I can totally understand this place.
Also makes sense from "rl perspective" also, just saw some delta force memoirs where they were pinned down by 1 sniper for 12(or even 20h). And that was best of the best fighting good position...
It doesnt fit the arcadeish bum rush style, but those moments where u have been reminded that Zone isntough place are also good imo..