S.T.A.L.K.E.R. secrets - there will be SPOILERS within, you are warned.

steo on 18/4/2007 at 10:18

I found some night star in agropom, theres loads of artifacts lying around on the ground around there. I also found soul in garbage in the bandit camp which attacks bes and his folks. Mamas beads I found in the dark valley, right by the entrance.

Wille on 18/4/2007 at 12:09

There's a rather nice stash to make some hard cash at the beginning.

The little factory which you have to clear of bandits with some other stalkers has 12 meat chunk artifacts on attic stash (not sure if you need to "trigger" the stash first by collecting a certain PDA).

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I've HEARD the beretta can be found on one of the duty guys in the north Garbage area, but I've never made enemies of either faction, so I haven't tested that theory.

I can confirm this, I found that particular stalker dead after a while. Can't remember his name though.

charlestheoaf on 20/4/2007 at 09:13

I just got the beretta (called Martha). It's was on a duty soldier named Arthur Woodchuck. If you just kill the one guy, no one will get mad at you.

EDIT:

I just got a harmonica and a guitar! You don't seem to be able to do anything with them, though.

The harmonica I bought off of some random stalker. The guitar was next to then entrace to the lab in the dark valley. North of the building there is some kind of metal contraption. Go up the stairs and jump into the metal thinging. there's a guitar, some food, and an artifact (batter, i think?)

EDIT AGAIN: no, it was a spring.

another edit:
I also apparently picked up an item called "hand_radio" (with the quotes). Apparetnly it doesn't do anything, but its image looks like the lights that clip on people's heads.

steo on 20/4/2007 at 13:53

Whereabouts is that Duty soldier? I wasted all the guards in garbage and the guys at the entrance to the bar but didn't find it. Still wondering about the possible locations of the Toz34 shotgun and HPSA 9mm pistol though. Can't see any reason why they didn't properly put them into the game since they're hardly secret super weapons.

charlestheoaf on 20/4/2007 at 17:49

The duty soldier was just up in the garbage, by the entrance to the bar area.

Martha does a lot of damage.

steo on 20/4/2007 at 19:28

That's interesting, 'cause I killed all the duty guys around the entrance to the bar (still in garbage) and searched all the corpses twice and still found nothing. Maybe he wondered off? There were a few duty guys moving from the bar to garbage who got exploded by the anomaly there, perhaps it was on one of them.

I've got frosty's realism pro 0.8 installed anyway, so all the damages are changed and I've modded barkeep to sometimes sell berettas.

Bjossi on 21/4/2007 at 00:13

Does barkeep sell pump shotguns? I read that somewhere but he doesn't offer it when I try to trade.

vesuvius on 21/4/2007 at 01:01

first pump-shotgun I saw for sale was in yantar, but this was all before it was patched at all, dunno what's changed

Bjossi on 21/4/2007 at 01:38

Hmm, maybe the patch changed it.
Ah well, I'm get closer and closer to Yantar anyways.

charlestheoaf on 21/4/2007 at 03:09

Don't bother buying the pump shotgun in yantar.

Go to the military warehouses area, and in the middle of the valley area (there'as a bunch of junk around) a guy has a special version of the chaser 13 called the combat chaser. It does a good deal of extra damage.

You can get a quest from a guy in the bar to kill a stalker in that area, and the guy with the combat chaser is one of his mates, and will attack after you'd killed the other stalker.