The Swamps are Broken and terribly designed.

[CheapNoodles]

Coming back late game to (over 65 hours into the story) to get attachments I had missed, lead me to the misfortune of realizing none of the emission shelters work. Literally no spot in the swamp except for the scripted Chimera chase will protect you from emissions. I hate the swamps and I equally despise whoever thought it was okay to ship the swamps as is. Fix your ♥♥♥♥ GSC or don't rely on dumb scripted events like that. Literally most of the shelters I tested for emission resilience all failed when the map says its safe......

[Nite69]

Originally posted by Sparhawk122:

Originally posted by lockwoodx:

The one safe spot in the swamp has a flashbang anomaly guarding it. Devs go out of their way to troll players in stalker 2 at every opportunity.

Is their damage PSI?

he is talking about the Bright flash anomaly, the same kind you see at diodes workshop in garbage, and no they aren't psi damage, but they murder your gear health when hit by them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_wnV1LIwYg&t=2411s

[revjwh]

You can run from the Chimera. I never fought it. I found at least three places that will shelter from an emission and I'm not including the flash bang anomaly place.

[TeqkillaWarlorde]

Originally posted by CheapNoodles:

Originally posted by Zankem:

What chimera chase? I went to the swamp once for the psi mission and don't recall a chimera.

did you actually get past the swamps buddy?

this is where i got the achievement for running away from a chimera on my second run. i was just walking out of the swamps (79.9/80 weight) and the achievement popped. after mimicking the john travolta looking around .gif i just kept walking. the chimera might have spawned but didn't attack me or even turn my compass red. never saw it on my first run, either. but that thing kicked my ass on run #3 caught me by surprise because i never saw it before then. also i suspected right from the very start that i wasn't gunna go back into the swamp after that mission so i had hit up every POI in there and left it for good on each save.

you shouldn't have any problems getting to an emission shelter "in time" because it triggers when you cross that little bridge just before clear sky base (~100ft or so) i made it over-encumbered the first time, and still fast enough to hit the last emitter before the emission on the 2nd and 3rd saves.

[serotoninpack]

Originally posted by CheapNoodles:

Originally posted by Zankem:

What chimera chase? I went to the swamp once for the psi mission and don't recall a chimera.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ8RAkmuiGU

That is all I am leaving you with.

Don't know what's more annoying. The chimera or his accent?

[CheapNoodles]

Originally posted by revjwh:

You can run from the Chimera. I never fought it. I found at least three places that will shelter from an emission and I'm not including the flash bang anomaly place.

Like I said I revisited the area late game, way past the scripted event. And none of the emission shelters work.

[lakesiderufus201]

Originally posted by Zankem:

What chimera chase? I went to the swamp once for the psi mission and don't recall a chimera.

yeah same here, first playthrough i never experienced the chimera, but second playthrough it lunged at me and scared tf outta me. Idk if the spawn is 100% or what