mothra on 7/12/2009 at 20:18

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he does the fixing for free, you still have to pay for the material. same later with the other mechanic. but since you will be swimming in money it's no problem. exploration let's you also find already upgraded suits and weapons so if you are greedy you could withhold upgrading until later but like I said: I'm leaving jupiter now the 2nd time for pripyat and this time I have 200.000 rubels and about any weapon/suit in the game upgraded to the max and almost any artifact in my stash.

UPDATE:
Koki: ok, so i did not initiate the hospital mission, did let the squad stay there. i ran around pripyat, killing mutants to clear the way for any troops, got into the bookstore and investigated the antenna - the military chief only said they will deal with it later. then it went to the grocery store - no controller there, has not spawned yet. I could go around clearing out pripyat, I don't think it will make a difference because I assume getting the best ending is possible by doing the missions in a certain way, not by "working around" them. and in pripyat the succession of missions is pretty linear and clear.......I assume i need to play some missions as well to trigger something like "get zulu back" since he left us :(
that was a shock. "mit dem militär möchte ich nichts zu tun haben"

and funny thing: getting through the tunnel was much easier this time with 4 guys, the monolith guy sniped half the enemies before I could even aim. I never had to quickload once, nade launcher ftw.

mothra on 8/12/2009 at 19:18

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did you do the bandit missions in zaton ?
the last one where duty/stalkers ambush you, you get an PDA. this PDA you can then sell to either freedom or duty in jupiter which gives you access to a storeroom where you get a very good duty armor. later you can do the "bring 3 veles detectors to scientists" quest and if you end this quest with Owl selling you almost any equipment including a military suit (best below exo). But if you don't have 60.000 for the exo, you are doing something wrong. later on you will need 30.000 for a seva-suit, the storyline requests it, so go get some artifacts sold. and 60kgs ? you have to find an artifact that gives you +15kg, it should be no problem with the advanced detector (which you should already have if you did all the scientist missions).
and in both zaton and janov you can find: ls300, vintar, rpg, striker shotgun, dragunov. all the powerful weapons (except gauss gun) are avaialbe from the start via quest stashes or exploration.
and get both sets of tools for the mechanics so you can install -kg mods, giving you more to carry. I upgraded the exo full and use +kg artifacts and can carry 110kg now.

Koki on 8/12/2009 at 21:12

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Traders will sell you exo when they like you enough, so unless you helped Sultan take over the Skadovsk Owl should have one for sale as soon as you become "One of the lads"(You also may need the "Wealthy" achievement). Or, if you're friends with Freedom, Hawaiian could offer one.

Buying the exo from traders is better than getting it from Nimble, because it's much cheaper and how much you need to pay for repairs depends on the full price of the item. It's not such a big deal though, there are no money problems in CoP.

The "bandit mission" mothra refers to is interrupting the bandits' weapons deal, and the PDA is Morgan's PDA. Giving it to either Duty or Freedom will give you access to the cache, but I can't agree that the Duty suit is good - in fact, all Duty suits are universally considered crap because they have no artefact slots(at all), so it's just better to use Bulat.

On the other hand, I heard Freedom suits are pretty damn awesome, though I never saw any of them. Especially the Wind of Freedom which apparently is Stalker Suit +1, which is impressive since Stalker Suit is actually pretty good. I never saw a single Freedom suit though as I hate these hippies, so that's only what I heard.

Of course the best suit in the game is undisputably the exo, not only it has best protection available and 2nd gen NV but also 2/4 artifact slots. It's so good that I don't use it actually, if almost feels like cheating, and if I had access to the game files I'd remove it's artifact slots right away. Besides it feels wrong to run around Zone in such high-tech gear.

I always give Heart of Oasis to the scientists because I never used a suit with 5 slots, which you need to use it effectively(Three -4 rad artefacts and Oasis + something else). For +4 rad it's really kind of meh anyway. I don't know if it affects the story.

Four people is the max you can have, well done finding them all :) Didn't you notice the achievement?

All calibration tools are in Pripyat. Since finding both is quite unlikely without a guide, I suggest you give the set you get to Kardan(Skadovsk drunk) because he's the only one doing the exo spring upgrade. Yet more stuff I'd mod around...

Koki on 8/12/2009 at 22:52

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"Noe"(Polish version huh?) will always give you two Compasses, you can even ask for the second one as soon as you get the first. Try asking for a third one!

If so far you've been sticking with Beard(Backstabbed the bandit raid at Svetchenko) there is no point in switching to Sultan now, as you'll gain nothing from doing it. As for Stalkers you need to rob the detectors from, I've no idea what you mean.

Svarog's biggest advantage is that it shows not only artefacts but anomalies as well, making artefact hunting a child's play. On the other hand the artefacts themselves are represented by tiny little green dots on a green display, combined with anomalies it's really hard to see them, especially at bigger resolutions. So it's a good idea to carry both Veles and Svarog - check for artefacts with the former, grab them with the latter. Artefact-wise both are identical, i.e. show all artefacts. You only need Svarog to check the "special anomaly" at Jupiter.

Koki on 9/12/2009 at 09:27

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Apparently Owl will actually NOT like you if you side with Sultan. The "One of the Lads" achievement(Which you get if you give artefact to Beard and sided with the Stalekrs at Svetchenko) will unlock all his shopping powers though.

Owl isn't really a bandit, he's as neutral as one can get.



Well in my translation he only talks about your share. Do you have a quest in the Task List? If no, then it doesn't exist ;)



"Investigate the special anomaly with the enhanced detector", you get it from Herman(the scientist). In the unofficial english translation the question is kind of off and doesn't really seem like a question, maybe it's the same in the polish version. Just ask him about everything.



The only sellable docs you should keep are the Strelok ones(Did you find all three?). Rest can be sold to whomever you want(Duty and Freedom also take them).