driver on 26/2/2008 at 05:07
If you talked to Serily before you entered the tunnels, he marks the location on your map. Otherwise you'll have to find it yourself.
Directions: Enter the tunnel from where Serily showed you. Go through the first area, down the spiral staircase and along a short corridor where some chemical spills are. You should enter a large curved room with one other exit, go through that.you'll be in another curved room/corridor with chemical spills, go through the exit to your left, on the other side of the corridor. Look for a stack of boxes next to a hole in the wall (Near a collapsed air vent). You'll have to crouch to get into the hole, then climb the ladder inside. You're in Strelok's Hideout
You don't have to do that right away, but it's an important quest so don't neglect it.
242 on 26/2/2008 at 09:19
Quote Posted by Scots Taffer
Well I'm fucking miles away from there now at the bar.
Use sprint + moonshine or sparkler (or whatever it's called) and you'll be there literally in a few minutes.
Anyway, fireball is a middle-level artifact, not that rare at all, you'll encounter many of them in other places. There are 2 lines of anti-rad artifacts in the game (3 artifacts in each line, with anti-rad effect of -10 -20 -30): ones that lessen endurance as negative side effect, and ones that increase blood loss. The better (and most rare) ones are those with -30 anti-rad effect of course.
As for Strelock's hideout, it's a part of the main side-quest of the game. There is main quest line - missions for traders (to help them open way to center of the Zone), and optional main side-quest line - to find Strelock. If you won't do the main side-quest line your game will be finished at Wishgranter, and if you do, a bonus map along with different endings and important additional information will wait for you.
Bjossi on 27/2/2008 at 03:05
I usually find many fireballs in Wild Territory during night time.
Well, in the area with the watch tower that is.
ZylonBane on 27/2/2008 at 04:00
I finally got all my artifacts hauled over to the mobile science lab... doing jobs for the scientist until we're friends before I sell them... and I noticed I had just over THIRTY fireballs. Which is weird, because it seems like I'm always finding useless artifacts like Wrench and Gravi, yet here I have more freaking fireballs than anything else.
D'Arcy on 27/2/2008 at 10:49
There are a lot of Fireballs in the Wild Territories, and inside the underground labs. I usually also get that many in my games (currently my artifact stash inside the mobile lab has nearly 400 artifacts, which I'll sell to Sakharov when I decide to go to the NPP). And you can swap a Fireball for a Pellicle, in one of Sakharov's missions.
steo on 27/2/2008 at 12:46
The only thing pellicles are any good for though is selling since there's only one anomaly which does chemical burn and its rare and easily avoided.
D'Arcy on 27/2/2008 at 13:44
You can always get four or more to repair your suit. But yes, I usually swap Fireballs for Pellicles so that I can sell them back to Sakharov. They're worth twice as much as a Fireball.
Rogue Keeper on 27/2/2008 at 14:14
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
Also, never play above "Stalker" difficulty unless you hate yourself.
Actually I finished it on Veteran second time and it didn't seem much tougher than Stalker difficulty. Or I was just cautious.
mothra on 27/2/2008 at 14:21
playing OblivionLost Mod on HELL, that's hardcore.
once you played it on STALKER-diff it's easier the 2nd time. but on Hell in the last levels it can happen that you get one-shot-killed from across the map by a sniper. that's why I would play Vanilla-STALKER only on elite max. in the oblivion-mod the enemies have proper LineOfSight and don't see you in the night, so you can even go for a stealthy-knife-kill.
Rogue Keeper on 27/2/2008 at 14:58
But that suggests they, unlike you, never heard of nightvision what is another kind of unrealistic behavior on NPC side. Oh well, we can't have everything at once.
