Thats the beauty of this song , after a long day on the zone, u sit with strangers stalkers , u dont know them but drink some vodka and listen to this without talking to each other, but what in common we have is that this song represent the fallen ones , our comrades that been loyal to us and got lost to the zone and will never come back.
we're all just sad broken hardcore boys who love and care for each other :((( politics race and religion all these borders die when we can feel the everlasting connection between each other unexplained by words
Thank you, i'm exausted, coming back from the zone, the bandit's are more and more agressive, i'm out of ammo for my hécate, maybe should i stop and go back in my country. I lost too many friends in the zone, they became zombie and i had to kill them. Terrible story comrade, terrible story.
I remember playing Stalker one time, I was trying out Anomaly and choose to be a Loner. Despite being a Loner I had good relations with Freedom and I found myself wandering around the Army Warehouses often, mostly helping out the boys on the barrier and cleaning the place of monolith troops. There was a Stalker from Freedom called Artyom Bishop, he was a run of the mill Stalker, I made a few missions for him sometimes and I always saw him wandering around with his buddies on the Freedom base. One day as I was doing my daily routine, looking for monolith patrols and whatnot I saw a skirmish between Monolith and Freedom. Monolith had the upper hand and I was too far to make it in time, I killed the Monolith troops and began to loot the bodies, and then I noticed that one of the Freedomers was Artyom. Man was I sad. I ended up taking his patch and carrying it with me everywhere... But such is life in the Zone.
Remember him, because when you go back you might see him again maybe.... in another life. But such is life in the zone It effects us all. I lost a friend and I will never be the same.
oh that reminds me of my friend Dimitri Pelchkin the last mission i did with him was to deactivate the Brain Scorcher we were best pals... But i disgress we went further into the Area closing in to the console to deactivate it but suddenly a Blood sucker ambushed us i tried to shoot it but my weapon jammed and the Blood Sucker ripped Dimitri into pieces and when i finally unjammed my gun i pumped my whole Ak-47 magazin into this beast... i only went to Dimitri and took his clear sky patch and his Weapon i only left a Vodka bottle just for him behind so he can drink it in his other life on the other side... See you soon Dimitri...
Just recently been playing Call of Chernobyl as Freedomer. Took 2 other Freedomers along, as I was heading towards CNPP. We've been through Warehouses, Red Forest, and Jupiter. Before heading towards the reactor, I've decided to stop by the sawmill to hunt down some zombies for loot. Sadly, many of those brain-scorched ones had pretty powerful shotguns (thank you, Arsenar Overhaul), and, that's where the boys met their demise. I successfully led a group of 3 to the Radar, to hunt down the oncoming Monolith attack, but failed to protect these two boys from damn zombies... May the Zone have mercy upon their souls.
when i was playing SoC I returned back to the starting area late game. I got the mission to protect the rookie village from the oncoming hoards of the military. I decided I would go out alone and take care of them so there'd be no unnecessary casualties, and I found the group of them near the bridge where those four stalkers usually hang out. Three of those four stalkers died fighting to protect the rookies in that village, and only one survived. I slav squatted near him as he played this song for his three fallen comrades.
@FungiOrAlgae? No one is evil in the zone. All of them are trying to survive and you too,pal. By killing a lone enemy that is dying,you put him out of misery. However,if that guy has a pal,better to leave them alone if you will
Sergei Ivanov, the writer of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Died yesterday from complications related to Covid-19. He lived in Ukraine during Chernobyl and lived on to help create a world we all buried ourselves in. He truly was a good stalker. RIP
The writer of roadside picnic died in 91, so unless youre talking about the movie idk. Edit: Wikipedia doesnt credit him at all in any way and he is the direct writer of the best stalker game by far. dying of covid.
Sergei Ivanov, the writer of the story of S.T.A.L.K.E.R., died recently. Please comrades... Dutiers... Freedumbs... Loners... and everyone else: let's sit togheter to say goodbye to a VERY good Stalker.
"You know, if I die here in whatever horrible way the zone cares to dispose of me in, I would want to be reincarnated into some kind of animal, but not an irradiated one, rather some kind of bunny, innocent and appreciated by both the zone and stalkers alike, or maybe a beautiful flower popping out of the streets here in the zone, maybe in pripyat, any way I just want my soul to linger here but not in an evil-haunty way, more of a content happy way." Dimitri Sokolov, honorary stalker 1982-2012
@@jimbones5484 Под Бахмутом батю иди своего поищи, а не "хохлякай" в комментариях, он в отличии от вас ебланов свою семью защищал, страну, а ваши долбаебы что забыли в чужой стране без приглашения?
"I saw Pulya get caught in a Whirligig, and there was nothing I could do. He was screaming for me to pull him out, and God, I wanted to... but I knew that if I tried, I'd just get pulled in, too. I couldn't save him, and it would be pointless for both of us to die. So I left him there. I turned my back and let him die, while he screamed in agony. Then the Whirligig discharged, and just like that, Pulya was no more, and I was showered in his innards. There was blood and viscera everywhere - it was surreal. I just froze there for a moment, shocked and morbidly amazed that anything could destroy a person so thoroughly. Anything that wasn't man-made, anyway. There wasn't even a body I could drag to camp to bury - just red paste sprayed all over the dead grass, and all over me. I'm pretty sure I'll never be the same after that. The Zone leaves it's mark on you - both physically and psychologically. Just as I'll never be rid of the scars, I'll never be able to forget breathing in the fine red mist that was once my friend. So, let's have a drink. On Pulya. And this cruel, cold bitch we call the Zone."
Some kids spend their child hoods in Tameriel or Hyrule. But for a special breed of special boys, a chunk of radioactive wasteland deep in Ukraine, that was their home. Always was, always will be.
This just makes me think how heart breaking it would be to have a firefight with zombified stalkers... And after the battle you realize you just shot your former friend who ventured too close to the brain scorcher.
I think of it as a mercy. They're trapped, and they don't even know it. With each bullet that I send into their body, I wish them luck that thsi one shall kill. When the killign blow is dealt, I say "It is over. You may rest now." They were a good Stalker. They do not deserve to suffer.
@@coolsceegaming6178 Agreed brother. To kill zombies is to show mercy. I hear them, and now that I know what they mutter...fuck. It breaks my heart "My daughter, you're so grown and beautiful" "Home, I must get home". But such is life in the zone.
Today... is a sad day. On Christmas 2022, Volodymyr Ezhov, one of the devs of STALKER Clear Sky, was reported KIA in Ukraine. He died in Bakhmut, and served the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces. I don't care if you're pro-Russian or Pro-Ukrainian... We lost a good Stalker today... We lost a real one... The zone is cruel and doesn't care... but we do... we wont forget him...
They say a man dies two deaths. One where his physical body ceases functions, and the second when they are forgotten. I truly, from the bottom of my deprecated and bruised heart, hope that Volodymyr Ezhov will live for a very, very long time before his second death. He fought for what is right, and we should never forget him.
Are we talking about the same courier here, because I also happen to know of a vault dweller with daddy issues and another vault dweller with son issues?
@@villelahtinen5416 you're joking, right? I refuse to even call it "Fallout". Bethesda maybe makes good sandbox games. But they make terrible Fallouts.
I started my story as a Loner. I did a few missions with a guy called Vanya. He was inexperienced, 14 days in and he was killed by a bunch of bandits near the bridge at Cordon. That made me join Duty. On my first mission to Army warehouses a fellow Dutyer jumped out of nowhere. Captain Koev was a Hardened Master of the zone. Even on the top 100 stalkers. A month would go by and we would do a lot of missions together. We teamed up with other dutyers to tackle most of them. One fateful november day we were sent to recover a PDA from the Red Forest. at 12 PM 5 of us left the base for the red forest. I, Cpt. Koev , Jr. Sgt. Boiko, Sgt. Vorontsov and Msgt. Khaladze. We found ourselves harassed constantly by monolithians from the right and the mercs from the left. By the time we got to the gates, only 2 of us were left. We had a shitton of monolithians chasing us. We could not run the strech without being gunned down, so we decided to hunker down and defend. Droves of them came and we fought them off till the last drop of blood. The Captain used his machine gun while I used a sniper to cover him, Since my assault rifle was out of ammo. We kept fighting them off and that's when I saw a grenade land near my feet. It blew, and I was forced to take cover to lick my wounds. When I Looked back I saw the Captain, Lay there dead among the bodies. I took his patch and counted the monolith bodies. There were 13 of them. I kept the patch and put it in a stash where I kept the patches of all my fallen comrades. Months passed and I would later take these patches to the great swamps after I left Duty to join Clear sky. To Our fallen comrades, They were the BEST Stalkers.
Помянем погибших, выпьем по рюмке у костра, а затем снова в путь. В Зоне нельзя оставаться на месте, только постоянное движение помогает выжить на зараженной земле. Аминь, сталкеры. Привет из России
Two days ago my father died, probably on heart attack. In 2 months he should 50 years old. He really enjoyed playing in STALKER series, especially in Clear Sky and Call of Pripiat. It would be around over 3k hours played in STALKER. Now when i hear that song, that give me damn emotions. He told me once that song i perfect for sitting alone with someone in deep, deep forest with campfire and only look in fire. I lost god damn good friend.
you know...its worth it playing stalker and fighting all these creatures from the zone and coming back and seeing a few stalkers around a campfire and one of them playing the guitar...there is just something that makes my heart warm when i see that
@@vladislav5543 exept duty who if they destroy the zone then bandit faction will explode bringing more bandits and the zone will be robbed always by bandits hate to duty
Actually it is. The whole atmosphere of the game is completely based on Slavic culture. In the end STALKER was created by the Slavs for the Slavs. A mixture of sadness and calmness has been characteristic of our cultures for centuries. It's even now a thing
The Zone is like a babushka. She might be so harsh on you to the point she might wants to kill you .And when she's gone,you can't help but to miss her so deeply for all the times you spend with her
After a long time spend in The Zone,you finally come back home But it doesn't feel like home anymore The once entertaining sound of city life now makes you irritated Your job which provides you secure and pleasurable life are now nothing but torture Your 'friends' are nothing but some greedy careerist Your food,the one where you always enjoy,now only enough to sate your hunger Your once comforting bed now feels like a stone table,so cold and hard Every night,you always tried to sleep,to get ready for your routine as one of the mllions of soulless cogs Every night,your mind wandered to one place,somewhere so close yet so far Without you realizing you smiled as you drifted off to sleep Only to wake up again by the sound of barking dogs and familiar staccato of gunfire You sighed from behind your mask,realizing it's all just a cruel nightmare Because,when someone has come to the Zone,they always belongs to the Zone Until at last,they will become Lost to the Zone
Sir Muffin The Random Lol everyone gonna be gathered around your coffin in their gas masks and camouflage and someone just takes out their guitar and plays this while saying “Sir Muffin The Random was a good S.T.A.L.K.E.R”
@@hanztheenlightened4529 my guitar already sounds like this, it was my mother’s so it is kinda old and one of the strings is broken and hard to tune. I also play it like a crab, so yeah, at least I got one of the requirements.
I had a friend. His name was Petka Siziy. We got together at the Cordon. The entire South of the Zone went around together. Soul of the company, saved my ass a couple of times. He was a good man. He died in Pripyat. We were pinned down by the monoliths.Covered the departure of me and a group of scientists. RIP Petya....
When revisiting a location in 2, I thought I heard something I recognized coming from a basement, and there he was, a Loner Stalker guitarist just chilling underground with his fellows, strumming this classic. No matter how different things are, the zone is the zone after all.
Whether Freedom or Duty, Clear Sky or Renegade, Monolith or Bandit, we will all meet the same end. We should cherish the moments we have with each other, before the cold, ruthless Zone takes us.
For anyone looking at the comments section in more chrrent times, it's with great sadness that I report the death of Volodymr Yezhov, also known as the stalker named Loki, who was killed in action during heavy fighting near Bakmuht on or around December 23rd, 2022. Yanov Station won't be the same without you, old friend. Rest in peace.
There's a certain feeling when you're comeing back from a raid or mutant hunt, and just stop by a group of MPCs at a campfire and listen to them playing their guitar. I little break from the chaos into peace of the Zone.
Vlodymyr "Fresh" Yezhov, a developer on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, died defending his homeland from invasion. He died defending the city of Bakhmut as a commander of an air recon unit in the 23rd special purpose battalion. He will live on in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. as his face was used as the 3D model for Loki. He was a good stalker.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. story writer "Sergei Ivanov" died from COVID at the age of 66... Man.. i'm so sad, i hope people can see this comment... STALKER changed my life a lot, after i played SoC, 2 years ago, i decided to keep playing, CS, and CoP.. I replayed SoC and the nostalgia came to my mind. Thank you, Sergei Ivanov, for writing the story of the game, and... i hope he rest in peace. Man i'm crying.
@@badsiknius4862 "Yeyo" is one criminal that was caught the other day, man i can't go play with him And by the way, what does the place i come from matter in this?
Удивляюсь, сколько тут иностранцев лестно отзывающихся об игре, я за всю жизнь в Сталкерском СНГ коммьюнити не встречал столько трогательных историй, это при том, что иностранное коммьюнити Сталкера довольно маленькое.
Иностранное комьюнити не значительно меньше, просто мало активничает. Те же сборы от игры на западе были на равне со странами СНГ, она там была также популярна
This game will be always in my heart. I played this game with my best friend, wich he passed away months ago, The week after he died while he was sleeping, I played this game because of the good memories and also helps me alot when am having bad moments. Thank you ivan for the good memories.... You were a good stalker. English is not my native language.
Rest in peace Ivan! But yeah.. 1 memory from the game will forever be in me,I only really remember 1 specific place in my memory as it was a while I played the STALKER games and I can't get myself to play them again
I love how the comments here are either sombre yet appreciative and bittersweet while recalling the past. It's almost as if we are all around a slowly-dying campfire with someone playing the guitar.
Месяц назад+8
11.12.2024 cannot believe Stalker 2 is out and I had a chance to experience it. RIP to fallen Stalkers
listening to this in this situation we are right now, remembering the days i used to play stalker and how terrifying the zone was. Now I am just sitting in my room, drinking alone, wondering when the full scale war going to break out and when I'll need to go into war and probably just die. Now I realize, the zone isn't as terrifying as I thought.
I will never forget those young rookies who helped me take the Car Park in the Cordon, this is dedicated to all of you fellow loners, the zone is a hard place..
It became known that one of the developers of the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. died defending Ukraine from the Russian invasion. Vladimir "Fresh" Yezhov. You may know him as Loki from Call of Pripyat... God rest him and his. A hero of his time
@@mannequingaming54 And? It's a typo, I doubt anyone's going to care. The misinformation is getting a name wrong, it's not harming anybody. Correct him and move on.
RIP Volodymr “Fresh” Yezhov. Ukrainian developer for STALKER: Clear Sky, played the character callsign “Loki.” Taken during the Russian invasion, in Bahkmut area. He died as he lived: for The Zone and its freedom. You will be missed. You were a good S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Rest easy, Friend.
He was a good stalker. "I watched my life fall apart. although it wasn't much when i was alive, i still remember when i went to find my brother, it was just as cold as today, i didnt think i would last much longer, but i had to try. I had to for my sake. I arrived at the station of Pripyat, it was empty, scorched from the beings that walked here, i went inside, you could really smell the blood in the air, there were bodies and bodies of people but i kept going, going and going until i arrived. Until i arrived to my brother, he was dead, The zone took him. I cried and cried, but nothing mattered anymore. And today i'm sitting here in a camp remembering the good times we had. -In memory of my good brother and friend Ygor, goodbye brother, rest well. "
Mutual suffering brings even the worst of enemies together. That is why Stalker has one of the best fanbases. We are already so broken, what's left to fight about? Duty > Freedom
It is said, "In war we are enemies, but in peace we are brothers." What's tragic is the fact that this statement is wrong. We are brothers even in war.
The Zone, you heard stories about it growing up. A place with no rules, no laws, no parents. In your 20's you left home and went to the zone to rebel against society. Months and years went by for everyone else, but not you. Everyday was the same yet so different, life in the zone was hard. You fought just to see the next day, everyday. But you eventually left. Every Stalker does, they leave the zone either by the zone taking them or them leaving the zone themselves. Its been decades since you left the zone, you haven't told anyone about your time there in fear they would think your still a Scavenger, a Trespasser, an Adventurer, a Loner, a Killer, an Explorer, a Robber. A Stalker. But that was a lifetime ago. But even in your old age, you remember everything. Your friends, your comrades, the mutants, the constant firefights with bandits. You remember the campfires and guitar songs that you even learned to play. Stalkers might leave the Zone, but the Zone will always call them back. So, Stalker. Lets have a drink and smoke for the ones that never left the zone. Those are the real stalkers. I miss you Cicero, you were a good Stalker.
Picked up a recruit after rescuing him from bandits- a guy named Yasha Uncle. A rookie loner, and he had this damn L85 that he insisted on using no matter how many times I tried to get him to use the AR he had (that was in much better condition, mind you). We traveled together for around a full month, doing odd jobs in Garbage and Rostok. I definitely befriended Yasha, and he stuck around for plenty of time. A little while ago though, we picked up a guy from Duty. A guy named Mostovoy, and a bit of a meathead. A well meaning guy, but still a meathead. We finally decided to branch out from our usual clients and head over to the great swamps in search of combat. After all, I needed to test Mostovoy on his skills, since he was fairly new. Around an hour into the journey, we got into a pretty big firefight at a busted up old church. I saw Yasha's health start dropping fast in my hud, and then I heard him scream. Mostovoy came in running for him and took out the guy who was attacking him, but it was way too late. Yasha was splayed out dead on the ground. I just sat there for a moment, not really able to believe what had just happened. That dude had been my best friend in the zone for long enough that we even had a small funeral for him. Yasha, wherever you are, I hope you're having a better time than we are down here without you.
I picked up the STALKER games for the first time almost a full week ago as of writing this, I used to have a friend a few years back who loved this game and especially this song (he would listen to it on repeat throughout the entire school day for that year I swear) but I never got around to playing it until now. As time went on we parted ways over stupid childish things as many friends do throughout school, but then a year later he was gone and even now nearly half a decade later I still feel responsible for his choice like I should've been there for him. So Dalton I'm sorry I know I should've been there but wherever you are I hope you have this song and this game to remind you that you were a good stalker and the best friend.
When I was a kid, I used to watch my father play the S.T.A.L.K.E.R franchise. I grew up, Autumn Aurora and Misery mods were released and my dad was back into the Zone, I began to listen to the tracks that I heard in the Zvadovsk. Today, I'm 18, and I find myself re-descovering the same franchise that my dad used to play. The world of S.T.A.L.K.E.R fueled my imagination as a young boy, and still surprises me today. Thx dad.
Tragically, S.T.A.L.K.E.R video game developer Volodymyr Ezhov, who was involved in the creation of Alexander (RTS/RPG from 2004), Cossacks 2 (RTS, 2005), Heroes of Annihilated Empires (RTS/RPG, 2006) and STALKER: Clear Sky (2008) - has been killed in Ukraine during defense from the ongoing Russian invasion. The game studio announced during the beginning of the war that a number of its devs were heading off to the frontlines as they were Ukrainian, and further game development would be put on hold. Loki, from Call of Pripyat, is 3D-modeled with (a younger version of) his face. Rest easy, Stalker.
-getting ammo and food from a trader, all of a sudden you hear a commotion outside -you run out and start helping out a group of stalkers on their way to camp, who are being attacked by wildlife -only one of them survives even though you did your best -back at camp, the lone stalker sits down by the fire place, and then he starts playing this ... damn... RNG can be amazing
He could have shot me, taken all i had left and left me to rot. But he didn't. I was an idiot who got too close to some psychopaths. I was going to ask if they were interested in trading, only for them to shoot me twice in the chest and prey to some "Monolith." Then he came along, i was hardly conscious, unable to move or even react. All i could manage was the word "Please." Next thing i knew i woke up on some bed in some settlement, i didn't even know those existed in the zone, I though it was nothing but a wasteland. Turns out he dragged my sorry ass all the way there. He didn't have too but he did. After i fully came too, i tried to find him......the one who saved my life. But he was nowhere to be seen. Days later im out in a field of geysers looking for some shiny rock, i fear im gonna run out of bolts, when i suddenly hear a familiar voice. He tells me to catch, and hands me a few extra bolts reminding me to always watch my step. Eventually i find it, a Fireball. Decent enough Normally I'd expect the anyone standing next to me to open fire as soon as they say i had something. But not him, he instead tosses me some sort of... container, and tells me to put it inside and tie it to my belt. After that we had to take shelter from an emission in a nearby basement. Then we started traveling together, fighting mutants, making deals with the locals. Constantly telling ourselves we would reach the center of the zone one day, but we both knew it wasn't going to happen, not with monolith killing anyone who dared to approach. He told me his daughter had died 2 years prior and that there was nothing for him left on the mainland so he came to the zone, hoping to find some meaning, any meaning in his life. And he's been searching for something every since, whatever that 'thing' is. I just never really.....fit in... with everyone else on the mainland. Another few months go by, and he mentions that his grandparents used to live in Pripyat before the disaster and his grandfather was a worker at the plant. I asked if he was trying to find him, he laughed and told me his grandfather died years ago, but that his grandmother had some kind of family heirloom still in their home in the city, as she didn't have time to grab it, and would never shut up about wanting to go back and find it. I wanted to tell him he was crazy, but i understood. We both understood there was no getting to Pripyat, no one ever returns. Another month or 2 goes by and it's nice to have a friend in such a hostile place, but nothing lasts forever. In what was supposed to be a regular run for artifacts, we ran into a chimera, took almost everything we had to bring it down, then out of nowhere i hear a singular shot, and he collapses to the ground in pain, i help him up and we begin running. We hide in some bushes and hear then getting closer. The chanting and prayers becoming more audible now, he tells me to run, i refuse. He pulls out a handgun and says he was losing too much blood and that Rostok was more then a days walk and that we didn't have enough supplies, then told me he would draw the monolith toward him and i might be able to sneak away. He gave me a small necklace and a small urn. Told me to find his little girl someplace beautiful to rest. I tried to argue, to protest, tried to tell him he was going to do it himself, but he wasn't having any of it. I realized there was no changing his mind, so without saying another word other then "goodbye" I slipped away. I heard more gunshots then i figured i would, then nothing. ........... I went back a few days later, and after a few hours of looking i found him. I had found a nice hill overlooking most of the zone, and decided that was the kind of place he looking for It took me over 2 days but i got him there, and buried him with his child on the hill overlooking the valley. What a view it was You were a good stalker Andriy. I hope you find peace wherever you are.
Even if it's just a game i always feel like the zone is real, imagine you are a stalker new to the zone, slowly understanding the zone, meeting with another group of stalkers, some of them welcome you and some not, or the worst they will start attacking you, then you made good friends in the zone and exploring together and sometimes alone, you fight mutants, bandits, risking yourself because of anomalies just for some artifacts, you made a great time but also you will experience the darkest, some of your friends died, you got robbed by bandits, chased by strange mutant and after a long day you found yourself resting at a campfire playing music with guitar and remembering everything that happened in the zone and wondering if you will be alive tomorrow or not, you may leave the zone but the zone will never leave you
Never forget the STALKERS that aren’t around to see STALKER 2.
You never know
Maybe we will be glad they arent around
@@eren.123- I don't think that's the Unreal Engine's fault
it’d be great if they built some parts of anomaly because
anomaly is fuckin cool except for the amount of junk you get
Eren depends on which unreal engine now 4 is bad as an engine dont get me wrong but its the best unreal engine
This made me sad bro
A stalker may leave the zone, but the zone never leaves a stalker.
@Johnny Joestar
Damn, that’s a legendary way of saying it. Your videos though.
The problem isn't the anomalies found by stalkers, but the stalkers found by anomalies
In the end we are all lost to the zone
@@aproppaknoife5078 In the end we all get a game over.
yes my good friend , good luck in the zone
I feel like this song perfectly represents the final stage of grief: Acceptance. It's like a final farewell for an old friend.
Thats the beauty of this song , after a long day on the zone, u sit with strangers stalkers , u dont know them but drink some vodka and listen to this without talking to each other, but what in common we have is that this song represent the fallen ones , our comrades that been loyal to us and got lost to the zone and will never come back.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
He was a good stalker
I'm not crying. You're crying! :'(
@@officialshivertrip NO YOU
you see Ivan, when playings guitar like this, heart can be sad and content at same time. But never happy
That's why Vodka is only our best friend in every situation, brother.
An AngrryWalrus You feel recoil. :-)
That hits hard
DatZortaw
content is a synonym of happiness
DatZortaw You see Ivan, when drinking babushka's vodka you always feel happy
I love how the STALKER fandom is the least toxic, ironic almost...
we're all just sad broken hardcore boys who love and care for each other :(((
politics race and religion all these borders die when we can feel the everlasting connection between each other
unexplained by words
after the horrors of the Zone and so many lost friends and comrades, we learned to care about each other. Here, take this cigarette and enjoy
Ironically it's the people worrying so much about toxicity who tends to be the most toxic.
Doxx Box we decided to not live by the law and live out the rest of our lives our own way
we usually stay together in the zone, drink vodka and watch the dark blue sky filled with stars together.
“You’ve been scrolling for quite a while, haven’t you? Here, come sit by the fire. Eggs are almost ready.”
Thank you, i'm exausted, coming back from the zone, the bandit's are more and more agressive, i'm out of ammo for my hécate, maybe should i stop and go back in my country. I lost too many friends in the zone, they became zombie and i had to kill them. Terrible story comrade, terrible story.
@@joak9755 Hey, such is life in the zone.
@@joak9755 its okay to grief and be depressed. Life is hard itself but the zone makes it even harder.
@@elmarm.5224 Can't do shit but to live here. Such is the fate
Hey comrades i Lost my friend in zone…
I remember playing Stalker one time, I was trying out Anomaly and choose to be a Loner. Despite being a Loner I had good relations with Freedom and I found myself wandering around the Army Warehouses often, mostly helping out the boys on the barrier and cleaning the place of monolith troops.
There was a Stalker from Freedom called Artyom Bishop, he was a run of the mill Stalker, I made a few missions for him sometimes and I always saw him wandering around with his buddies on the Freedom base. One day as I was doing my daily routine, looking for monolith patrols and whatnot I saw a skirmish between Monolith and Freedom.
Monolith had the upper hand and I was too far to make it in time, I killed the Monolith troops and began to loot the bodies, and then I noticed that one of the Freedomers was Artyom. Man was I sad. I ended up taking his patch and carrying it with me everywhere...
But such is life in the Zone.
Well he was a good stalker. Just drink vodka and forget him. This zone man. And this is the rules of zone.
@@vodkahardbass2162 drink vodka. But never forget
Remember him, because when you go back you might see him again maybe.... in another life.
But such is life in the zone
It effects us all. I lost a friend and I will never be the same.
oh that reminds me of my friend Dimitri Pelchkin the last mission i did with him was to deactivate the Brain Scorcher we were best pals...
But i disgress we went further into the Area closing in to the console to deactivate it but suddenly a Blood sucker ambushed us i tried to shoot it but my weapon jammed and the Blood Sucker ripped Dimitri into pieces and when i finally unjammed my gun i pumped my whole Ak-47 magazin into this beast...
i only went to Dimitri and took his clear sky patch and his Weapon i only left a Vodka bottle just for him behind so he can drink it in his other life on the other side...
See you soon Dimitri...
Just recently been playing Call of Chernobyl as Freedomer. Took 2 other Freedomers along, as I was heading towards CNPP. We've been through Warehouses, Red Forest, and Jupiter. Before heading towards the reactor, I've decided to stop by the sawmill to hunt down some zombies for loot. Sadly, many of those brain-scorched ones had pretty powerful shotguns (thank you, Arsenar Overhaul), and, that's where the boys met their demise. I successfully led a group of 3 to the Radar, to hunt down the oncoming Monolith attack, but failed to protect these two boys from damn zombies... May the Zone have mercy upon their souls.
when i was playing SoC I returned back to the starting area late game. I got the mission to protect the rookie village from the oncoming hoards of the military. I decided I would go out alone and take care of them so there'd be no unnecessary casualties, and I found the group of them near the bridge where those four stalkers usually hang out.
Three of those four stalkers died fighting to protect the rookies in that village, and only one survived. I slav squatted near him as he played this song for his three fallen comrades.
made me tear up F
сука.... как душевно,больше так нинадо за душу
@@AgentK83 Imagine not being most armed faction in the Zone
This post was made by Monolith gang
@@AgentK83 Imagine having to pay affordable price for equipment
This post was made by Traders gang
@FungiOrAlgae? No one is evil in the zone. All of them are trying to survive and you too,pal. By killing a lone enemy that is dying,you put him out of misery. However,if that guy has a pal,better to leave them alone if you will
More sad news: Vladimir Yezhov, one of the major developers of the game, was reported KIA in the area around Bakhmut today.
God rest his soul, he didn't deserve this.
Poor lad
F...
He was a good stalker
he was a good wagner.
Sergei Ivanov, the writer of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Died yesterday from complications related to Covid-19.
He lived in Ukraine during Chernobyl and lived on to help create a world we all buried ourselves in.
He truly was a good stalker. RIP
@Arnelis Man it hits hard...
The writer of roadside picnic died in 91, so unless youre talking about the movie idk.
Edit: Wikipedia doesnt credit him at all in any way and he is the direct writer of the best stalker game by far. dying of covid.
@@shimmywow3613you do know he's talking about the game right and not the novel
The guitar songs in this game are beautiful, despite the many horrors of the zone.
+Argesh20 The horrors of the zone makes it beautiful.
Argesh20 Bandit, get out of here, this is Duty territory
Jajaja c Mamo
Daniel Torres jajaja xD no pensé encontrar un comentario español. Se recontra mamó joven xD
@@Nostalfag de que tiene de divertido el c mamo lo veo estúpido si es por ese vídeo bueno creo ustedes no cambian
Sergei Ivanov, the writer of the story of S.T.A.L.K.E.R., died recently.
Please comrades...
Dutiers...
Freedumbs...
Loners...
and everyone else:
let's sit togheter to say goodbye to a VERY good Stalker.
fuck he died of covid :(
@@fuzepl dooty
@@weenis2876 he probably died of something else, they just report it as covid to get money from the government.
@@spazemfathemcazemmeleggymi272 here is not place for conspiracy theory's, here is to remember a great stalker
@@jacobmoore6703 conspiracy? That's just a fact.
"You know, if I die here in whatever horrible way the zone cares to dispose of me in, I would want to be reincarnated into some kind of animal, but not an irradiated one, rather some kind of bunny, innocent and appreciated by both the zone and stalkers alike, or maybe a beautiful flower popping out of the streets here in the zone, maybe in pripyat, any way I just want my soul to linger here but not in an evil-haunty way, more of a content happy way." Dimitri Sokolov, honorary stalker 1982-2012
I can’t find any info on Dimitri Sokolov besides a hockey player
@@xr-nm4nb I made him up for a S.T.A.L.K.A.N the RPG game I played with some friends
The Plague doctor is the. Quote from someone else or did you make up also what’s s.t.a.l.k.a.n
@@xr-nm4nb I wrote it. S.T.A.L.K.A.N the RPG is a table top rpg based off of S.T.A.L.K.E.R
Fuck dude that hits pretty hard
RIP Volodymyr "Fresh" Yezhov. A true Freedomer right to the very end.
he was a good stalker!
he was a real hero rest in peace...
fking stupid war...
Cheers! To a bloody good Stalker!
Such is life.
He was a good stalker.
Volodymyr Ezhov was a good stalker.
RIP Loki
He was a good stalker
One of the best. I still cry
@@jimbones5484 Под Бахмутом батю иди своего поищи, а не "хохлякай" в комментариях, он в отличии от вас ебланов свою семью защищал, страну, а ваши долбаебы что забыли в чужой стране без приглашения?
He really was a good stalker maybe even the best
"I saw Pulya get caught in a Whirligig, and there was nothing I could do. He was screaming for me to pull him out, and God, I wanted to... but I knew that if I tried, I'd just get pulled in, too. I couldn't save him, and it would be pointless for both of us to die. So I left him there. I turned my back and let him die, while he screamed in agony. Then the Whirligig discharged, and just like that, Pulya was no more, and I was showered in his innards. There was blood and viscera everywhere - it was surreal. I just froze there for a moment, shocked and morbidly amazed that anything could destroy a person so thoroughly. Anything that wasn't man-made, anyway. There wasn't even a body I could drag to camp to bury - just red paste sprayed all over the dead grass, and all over me. I'm pretty sure I'll never be the same after that. The Zone leaves it's mark on you - both physically and psychologically. Just as I'll never be rid of the scars, I'll never be able to forget breathing in the fine red mist that was once my friend. So, let's have a drink. On Pulya. And this cruel, cold bitch we call the Zone."
Mário Ďuráč (-)7
Is that actually in one of the games?
@@Rotinaj37 its an exert from roadside picnic i believe
Aaaand im stealing (or creatively remodelling as my english teacher calls it) this for a homework assignment.
You know that S.T.A.L.K.E.R.S are a real thing I am one of em.
Some kids spend their child hoods in Tameriel or Hyrule. But for a special breed of special boys, a chunk of radioactive wasteland deep in Ukraine, that was their home. Always was, always will be.
Truly spoken comrade
F.kin amazing
er, alright
im proud to be in that group of boys...even though im not russian
I have two homes, one in the swamps of Velen in northern Temeria, and one in Zaton, on the Skadovsk.
Rest in peace, stalkers. To those who have fallen to not see the day of the STALKER 2.
This just makes me think how heart breaking it would be to have a firefight with zombified stalkers... And after the battle you realize you just shot your former friend who ventured too close to the brain scorcher.
I think of it as a mercy. They're trapped, and they don't even know it. With each bullet that I send into their body, I wish them luck that thsi one shall kill. When the killign blow is dealt, I say "It is over. You may rest now."
They were a good Stalker. They do not deserve to suffer.
@@coolsceegaming6178 Agreed brother. To kill zombies is to show mercy. I hear them, and now that I know what they mutter...fuck. It breaks my heart "My daughter, you're so grown and beautiful" "Home, I must get home".
But such is life in the zone.
Volodymyr Ezhov, one of the developers of Stalker was killed by Russian soldiers while defending Bakhmut. Raise your glasses to a good stalker.
Rip 🙏
RIP, he is in a better place now.
Today... is a sad day.
On Christmas 2022, Volodymyr Ezhov, one of the devs of STALKER Clear Sky, was reported KIA in Ukraine. He died in Bakhmut, and served the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces.
I don't care if you're pro-Russian or Pro-Ukrainian... We lost a good Stalker today... We lost a real one...
The zone is cruel and doesn't care... but we do... we wont forget him...
A Stalker only dies when he is forgotten
@FREEDOM_HACXUS Same, we don't have vodka here but a good "imported" beer might do. We really lost a good stalker, gone, but never forgotten...
@FREEDOM_HACXUS Sober up then we will drink again. We got lives to live and memories to remember
Stalker forever
They say a man dies two deaths. One where his physical body ceases functions, and the second when they are forgotten.
I truly, from the bottom of my deprecated and bruised heart, hope that Volodymyr Ezhov will live for a very, very long time before his second death. He fought for what is right, and we should never forget him.
@@avokka Those are truly deep words... Amen to them, stranger.
There’s only three kinds of people in this world:
Stalkers, Couriers and those who are both.
Or deathclaws
Are we talking about the same courier here, because I also happen to know of a vault dweller with daddy issues and another vault dweller with son issues?
@@Echs_D33 nah, fuck those.
Aleksei Kalashnikov dont you at least like fo3?
@@villelahtinen5416 you're joking, right? I refuse to even call it "Fallout". Bethesda maybe makes good sandbox games. But they make terrible Fallouts.
I started my story as a Loner.
I did a few missions with a guy called Vanya. He was inexperienced, 14 days in and he was killed by a bunch of bandits near the bridge at Cordon. That made me join Duty.
On my first mission to Army warehouses a fellow Dutyer jumped out of nowhere.
Captain Koev was a Hardened Master of the zone. Even on the top 100 stalkers.
A month would go by and we would do a lot of missions together. We teamed up with other dutyers to tackle most of them.
One fateful november day we were sent to recover a PDA from the Red Forest.
at 12 PM 5 of us left the base for the red forest. I, Cpt. Koev , Jr. Sgt. Boiko, Sgt. Vorontsov and Msgt. Khaladze.
We found ourselves harassed constantly by monolithians from the right and the mercs from the left.
By the time we got to the gates, only 2 of us were left.
We had a shitton of monolithians chasing us.
We could not run the strech without being gunned down, so we decided to hunker down and defend.
Droves of them came and we fought them off till the last drop of blood.
The Captain used his machine gun while I used a sniper to cover him, Since my assault rifle was out of ammo.
We kept fighting them off and that's when I saw a grenade land near my feet.
It blew, and I was forced to take cover to lick my wounds.
When I Looked back I saw the Captain, Lay there dead among the bodies.
I took his patch and counted the monolith bodies. There were 13 of them.
I kept the patch and put it in a stash where I kept the patches of all my fallen comrades.
Months passed and I would later take these patches to the great swamps after I left Duty to join Clear sky.
To Our fallen comrades, They were the BEST Stalkers.
Welcome to the Great Swamps,Friend!
I’ll drink to that.
Vanya my beloved,met him once i am not abandoning him
larp
Monolith will come to great swamps
За Монолит
Another legend leaving us, you were a good stalker brother, rest in peace Volodymyr Yezhov
War ruins so much
Maybe not a stalker, but a metro exodus dev, Andrii Korzinkin lost his life whilst fighting Russian forces.
Slava Ukraine!
Помянем погибших, выпьем по рюмке у костра, а затем снова в путь. В Зоне нельзя оставаться на месте, только постоянное движение помогает выжить на зараженной земле. Аминь, сталкеры. Привет из России
Two days ago my father died, probably on heart attack. In 2 months he should 50 years old. He really enjoyed playing in STALKER series, especially in Clear Sky and Call of Pripiat. It would be around over 3k hours played in STALKER. Now when i hear that song, that give me damn emotions. He told me once that song i perfect for sitting alone with someone in deep, deep forest with campfire and only look in fire. I lost god damn good friend.
I am sorry for you and your family.
What is your dad's name?
condole
@@ZZmeyka Irek - Irenaeus
May he rest in peace
he was a good stalker, zone will be with him
I really *REALLY* need to learn this song. I'm that one douchebag who brings a guitar camping but can't play it.
reminds me of the movie role models when a douche brought a guitar to a campfire and cant even play it xD.
+DECICIVETOAST here's the tab for it. i've been attempting to learn it. it's pretty simple, just need to get the hang of, like most things.
where is it
Finda couple of chords that sound nice and play em together.
CallMeWumble why do you bring instruments you can't play... Bro why.
Here's a toast to all STALKERS, both good and not so much, who were claimed by the Zone before the STALKER 2 announcement.
They were a good stalker
Stalker 2 was announced in 2018🙃
@@sanchous2894 you're right! The point stands still though.
CoC + roadside picnic addon just hits the spot for me. Very few games were as fun for me
you know...its worth it playing stalker and fighting all these creatures from the zone and coming back and seeing a few stalkers around a campfire and one of them playing the guitar...there is just something that makes my heart warm when i see that
It is impossible not to love them. They are fellow Stalkers, fellow bretherin.
@@vladislav5543 exept duty who if they destroy the zone then bandit faction will explode bringing more bandits and the zone will be robbed always by bandits
hate to duty
@@abandonedlmao9433 Dont forget how many people died in zone
See Bethesda. That how a small Ukrainian studio made better post-apocalyptic atmosphere than you
And thats true
Bethesda hasn't made anything good in 20 years and the only good fallout game was the one they didn't make themselves
@@peters.9371 that is the absolute true
@@GhandiTheManchine straight up facts homie
Fallout feels Cartoony compared to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Send a prayer to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s that aren't here today.
Here's to you, Apartje
o7
STALKER is not a game, its a culture!
It's a mindset
literally
Actually it is. The whole atmosphere of the game is completely based on Slavic culture. In the end STALKER was created by the Slavs for the Slavs. A mixture of sadness and calmness has been characteristic of our cultures for centuries. It's even now a thing
Stalker is Pure Art my Bro.
Im a Artist and stalker World inspires me alot
how
And it was then when it happened, the zone had already accepted me, and i had just accepted her too.
She's a cruel mistress but i love her with all my heart
I miss her, I belong to her, I want to see her one last time, forever
go play call of chernobyl
LoSpartanoItaliano or lost alpha
The Zone is like a babushka. She might be so harsh on you to the point she might wants to kill you .And when she's gone,you can't help but to miss her so deeply for all the times you spend with her
Rest in peace to the stalkers before us that have passed and do not get to see Stalker 2.
After a long time spend in The Zone,you finally come back home
But it doesn't feel like home anymore
The once entertaining sound of city life now makes you irritated
Your job which provides you secure and pleasurable life are now nothing but torture
Your 'friends' are nothing but some greedy careerist
Your food,the one where you always enjoy,now only enough to sate your hunger
Your once comforting bed now feels like a stone table,so cold and hard
Every night,you always tried to sleep,to get ready for your routine as one of the mllions of soulless cogs
Every night,your mind wandered to one place,somewhere so close yet so far
Without you realizing you smiled as you drifted off to sleep
Only to wake up again by the sound of barking dogs and familiar staccato of gunfire
You sighed from behind your mask,realizing it's all just a cruel nightmare
Because,when someone has come to the Zone,they always belongs to the Zone
Until at last,they will become Lost to the Zone
He was a brainwashed one :)
@@internetcivilian1354 stalker may leave the zone, but the zone never leaves the stalker
PTSD
I don't want to talk about it
Amen
You can leave the Zone
But the Zone will never leave you
Apartje, he was a good stalker...
Paczex... He will be always in our hearts....
true
F
Respect.
We will all miss him.
RIP Volodymyr Yezhov, one of the developers of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. team, who died fighting in Bakhmut yesterday
RIP
This song makes me have an extreme urge to play this game
midoui The zone awaits you.
midoui Get over here, Stalker!
midoui Same here
bought shadow of chernobyl shortly after I heard this lol
bought shadow of chernobyl shortly after I heard this lol
Didn't occur to me the first few times, but I just realized how suddenly the song stops.
Just like life in the zone
#deep
#deep
He saw a mutant coming by
the song doesn't stop
His strings broke
When i heard this in Stalker 2, for the first time in years, i teared up. It felt like home.
I want this played at my funeral... no seriously
stop joking
make me my dude
Same
Sir Muffin The Random
Lol everyone gonna be gathered around your coffin in their gas masks and camouflage and someone just takes out their guitar and plays this while saying “Sir Muffin The Random was a good S.T.A.L.K.E.R”
AlphaDemo_ but there will be no gas masked people to begin with, i am of western spy
It's been posted a million times, but it deserves posting again:
A decent guitar player
The worst guitar
The best ambience
He was a good Stalker.
there's no such thing as a bad guitar in the right hands
I made my old guitar sound bad so it would sound like this
@@hanztheenlightened4529 my guitar already sounds like this, it was my mother’s so it is kinda old and one of the strings is broken and hard to tune.
I also play it like a crab, so yeah, at least I got one of the requirements.
@@ariaa.9428 nice
Volodymyr Yezhov, died on 22/12 in Bakhmut while defending the city.
He was the developer of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
He was a good stalker...
a group of stalkers+a few cans of tourist delight+a couple bottles of vodka+some kelbasa+one guitar=one of the best memory
Yeah
That' scheme for my best summer ever
Vodka "Kazaki" is good at deleting radiation but you will be drunk.
Just don’t ask what’s in tourist delights…
I had a friend. His name was Petka Siziy. We got together at the Cordon. The entire South of the Zone went around together. Soul of the company, saved my ass a couple of times. He was a good man. He died in Pripyat. We were pinned down by the monoliths.Covered the departure of me and a group of scientists. RIP Petya....
RIP to Petya.
He was a good Stalker.
I have never forgotten you, Petya.
When revisiting a location in 2, I thought I heard something I recognized coming from a basement, and there he was, a Loner Stalker guitarist just chilling underground with his fellows, strumming this classic.
No matter how different things are, the zone is the zone after all.
Its so sad... He really was a good stalker
*Thinks about apartje*
Apartje was really good STALKER indeed my friend. Out of all the ways to die in the zone, who knew OD was the one to take him. May he RIP.
@NukeMan SVK privyet moy drug, how is life treating you in the zone?
@NukeMan SVK Davai
Feelsbadman
Who’s chopping onions
Whether Freedom or Duty, Clear Sky or Renegade, Monolith or Bandit, we will all meet the same end. We should cherish the moments we have with each other, before the cold, ruthless Zone takes us.
I found a lone stalker at a campfire in the rain and sat with him as he played… I just about teared up
RIP Vladimir Ezhov
Volodymyr*
For anyone looking at the comments section in more chrrent times, it's with great sadness that I report the death of Volodymr Yezhov, also known as the stalker named Loki, who was killed in action during heavy fighting near Bakmuht on or around December 23rd, 2022.
Yanov Station won't be the same without you, old friend. Rest in peace.
Rest in peace, Sergei Ivanov. He was a good stalker, let's drink in his memory.
There's a certain feeling when you're comeing back from a raid or mutant hunt, and just stop by a group of MPCs at a campfire and listen to them playing their guitar. I little break from the chaos into peace of the Zone.
who is here to pay respects to Sir Sergei Ivanov, writer of STALKER.
RIP Fresh. He was a good Stalker.
RIP Volodymyr Ezhov. He was a husband, father, a hero, a legend. he was a good stalker
Vlodymyr "Fresh" Yezhov, a developer on the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, died defending his homeland from invasion. He died defending the city of Bakhmut as a commander of an air recon unit in the 23rd special purpose battalion. He will live on in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. as his face was used as the 3D model for Loki.
He was a good stalker.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. story writer "Sergei Ivanov" died from COVID at the age of 66...
Man.. i'm so sad, i hope people can see this comment...
STALKER changed my life a lot, after i played SoC, 2 years ago, i decided to keep playing, CS, and CoP.. I replayed SoC and the nostalgia came to my mind.
Thank you, Sergei Ivanov, for writing the story of the game, and... i hope he rest in peace.
Man i'm crying.
"changed my life" .. dude, judging by your name, you come from Latin America. Go play with the yeyo.
@@badsiknius4862 "Yeyo" is one criminal that was caught the other day, man i can't go play with him
And by the way, what does the place i come from matter in this?
@@badsiknius4862 Judging by your name, you're a mоron. Go back to twitter
The Call of Pripyat echoes once again..
The shadows of Chernobyl lurk, and the clear skies dawn over the zone.
@@TheBest-cs7qg suddenly, as you leave the zone, you hear the call of Chernobyl
You keep moving... The road to the North is ahead. Filled with Misery and Anomalies. You breathe in the dead air....
But then you still drove into the deep Chernobyl area you see a pack of lost dogs with their own Lost Alpha
Love it or hate it, the zone will call.. and we shall heed the call for the zone is our home... it will never leave us
Удивляюсь, сколько тут иностранцев лестно отзывающихся об игре, я за всю жизнь в Сталкерском СНГ коммьюнити не встречал столько трогательных историй, это при том, что иностранное коммьюнити Сталкера довольно маленькое.
Да
Иностранное комьюнити не значительно меньше, просто мало активничает. Те же сборы от игры на западе были на равне со странами СНГ, она там была также популярна
bah je suis là il y a une communauté stalker en France mais très fermé
Sergei Ivanov was just taken by the Zone, let's drink to him again.
This game will be always in my heart. I played this game with my best friend, wich he passed away months ago, The week after he died while he was sleeping, I played this game because of the good memories and also helps me alot when am having bad moments. Thank you ivan for the good memories.... You were a good stalker.
English is not my native language.
A drink to your friend chuvak. For he was a good stalker
For your friend ivan! he was a good stalker
Rest in peace ivan, cheers!
Rest in peace Ivan!
But yeah.. 1 memory from the game will forever be in me,I only really remember 1 specific place in my memory as it was a while I played the STALKER games and I can't get myself to play them again
Your English is good ❤
He was a good stalker.
I love how the comments here are either sombre yet appreciative and bittersweet while recalling the past. It's almost as if we are all around a slowly-dying campfire with someone playing the guitar.
11.12.2024 cannot believe Stalker 2 is out and I had a chance to experience it. RIP to fallen Stalkers
listening to this in this situation we are right now, remembering the days i used to play stalker and how terrifying the zone was. Now I am just sitting in my room, drinking alone, wondering when the full scale war going to break out and when I'll need to go into war and probably just die. Now I realize, the zone isn't as terrifying as I thought.
Real life is always darker. Good luck pal, really. I'll drink for ya.
I hope you survived
If not I will pour one out for you
I would have suffered the same fate only if i was born 40km to the east
(*) To all fallen brothers and sisters who didn't live to see S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2! ❤
We'll all meet again in the Zone, somewhere...
Amen
To Strider, may him and his brothers finally know peace.
*Another stalker lost to the zone rest in peace Volodymyr Ezhov.*
I will never forget those young rookies who helped me take the Car Park in the Cordon, this is dedicated to all of you fellow loners, the zone is a hard place..
I'm crying right now, it's so fucking beautiful :'(
blyatiful
It became known that one of the developers of the game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. died defending Ukraine from the Russian invasion. Vladimir "Fresh" Yezhov. You may know him as Loki from Call of Pripyat... God rest him and his. A hero of his time
his name is volodymyr. calling him vladimir is like calling
him a russian as that is a russian name
@@jjfav2231 Ok. And? Just a typo. And is there a problem with being a russian?
@@OrionDawn15 i mean you’d think he’d read other comments, realize ‘vladimir’ is wrong, and fix it before someone gets misinformed
@@mannequingaming54 And? It's a typo, I doubt anyone's going to care. The misinformation is getting a name wrong, it's not harming anybody. Correct him and move on.
His name is Volodymyr.
RIP Volodymr “Fresh” Yezhov.
Ukrainian developer for STALKER: Clear Sky, played the character callsign “Loki.”
Taken during the Russian invasion, in Bahkmut area. He died as he lived: for The Zone and its freedom.
You will be missed. You were a good S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Rest easy, Friend.
Slava Ukraine!
Heroyam slava.
He was a good stalker.
"I watched my life fall apart. although it wasn't much when i was alive,
i still remember when i went to find my brother, it was just as cold as today,
i didnt think i would last much longer, but i had to try. I had to for my sake.
I arrived at the station of Pripyat, it was empty, scorched from the beings that
walked here, i went inside, you could really smell the blood in the air, there
were bodies and bodies of people but i kept going, going and going until
i arrived. Until i arrived to my brother, he was dead, The zone took him.
I cried and cried, but nothing mattered anymore.
And today i'm sitting here in a camp remembering the good times we had.
-In memory of my good brother and friend Ygor, goodbye brother, rest well.
"
Mutual suffering brings even the worst of enemies together. That is why Stalker has one of the best fanbases. We are already so broken, what's left to fight about?
Duty > Freedom
funniest shit i have have ever seen here
Oh you chores loving-bandit friendly-wish granter believer-irradieted-incompetent-duty imbecile son of a mutanted bit*ch!
To all who has served the Russian or Ukrainian Military, I hope you survive the war. We do not want war.
STALKERs wish your safety Comrades.
It is said, "In war we are enemies, but in peace we are brothers."
What's tragic is the fact that this statement is wrong. We are brothers even in war.
Also to the STALKERS who have to fight in it 🇺🇦🇷🇺 good luck on survival from Poland 🇵🇱
So many people lost because of a maniac and some lines on a map
The Zone, you heard stories about it growing up. A place with no rules, no laws, no parents. In your 20's you left home and went to the zone to rebel against society.
Months and years went by for everyone else, but not you. Everyday was the same yet so different, life in the zone was hard. You fought just to see the next day, everyday. But you eventually left. Every Stalker does, they leave the zone either by the zone taking them or them leaving the zone themselves.
Its been decades since you left the zone, you haven't told anyone about your time there in fear they would think your still a Scavenger, a Trespasser, an Adventurer, a Loner, a Killer, an Explorer, a Robber. A Stalker. But that was a lifetime ago. But even in your old age, you remember everything. Your friends, your comrades, the mutants, the constant firefights with bandits. You remember the campfires and guitar songs that you even learned to play.
Stalkers might leave the Zone, but the Zone will always call them back.
So, Stalker. Lets have a drink and smoke for the ones that never left the zone. Those are the real stalkers.
I miss you Cicero, you were a good Stalker.
Picked up a recruit after rescuing him from bandits- a guy named Yasha Uncle. A rookie loner, and he had this damn L85 that he insisted on using no matter how many times I tried to get him to use the AR he had (that was in much better condition, mind you). We traveled together for around a full month, doing odd jobs in Garbage and Rostok. I definitely befriended Yasha, and he stuck around for plenty of time.
A little while ago though, we picked up a guy from Duty. A guy named Mostovoy, and a bit of a meathead. A well meaning guy, but still a meathead. We finally decided to branch out from our usual clients and head over to the great swamps in search of combat.
After all, I needed to test Mostovoy on his skills, since he was fairly new.
Around an hour into the journey, we got into a pretty big firefight at a busted up old church. I saw Yasha's health start dropping fast in my hud, and then I heard him scream. Mostovoy came in running for him and took out the guy who was attacking him, but it was way too late.
Yasha was splayed out dead on the ground. I just sat there for a moment, not really able to believe what had just happened. That dude had been my best friend in the zone for long enough that we even had a small funeral for him.
Yasha, wherever you are, I hope you're having a better time than we are down here without you.
I picked up the STALKER games for the first time almost a full week ago as of writing this, I used to have a friend a few years back who loved this game and especially this song (he would listen to it on repeat throughout the entire school day for that year I swear) but I never got around to playing it until now. As time went on we parted ways over stupid childish things as many friends do throughout school, but then a year later he was gone and even now nearly half a decade later I still feel responsible for his choice like I should've been there for him.
So Dalton I'm sorry I know I should've been there but wherever you are I hope you have this song and this game to remind you that you were a good stalker and the best friend.
This could possibly be played at Apartje's funeral.
Paczex rip apartje...
Paczex Man. I didn't know about apartje's overdose... until someone said "rip apartje" on the hardbass video...
@@Skrubs me too
that shit hit me
the zone has fallen to the enemy, maybe one day stalkers will be able to make the pilgrimage to our mecha again.
You have died in the zone.
*lost to the zone blin
Review Meme World game over cykas
pancake :D
RIP Volodymyr Ezhov, rest easy mate
When I was a kid, I used to watch my father play the S.T.A.L.K.E.R franchise. I grew up, Autumn Aurora and Misery mods were released and my dad was back into the Zone, I began to listen to the tracks that I heard in the Zvadovsk.
Today, I'm 18, and I find myself re-descovering the same franchise that my dad used to play.
The world of S.T.A.L.K.E.R fueled my imagination as a young boy, and still surprises me today. Thx dad.
Volodymyr Yezhov, you will never be forgotten, not by your country and not by the Stalker community, may you rest in eternal peace
Rest in peace Vladimir.
Here to remind of him, RIP man 🙌
Rest in peace, Sergei Ivanov. He was a good STALKER.
Rest in Peace the face of Loki or Volodymyr Ezhov.
RIP Volodymyr Yezhov. Brave stalker that died fighting the hordes.
R.I.P Volodymyr Ezhov
Coming back as a reminder that we'll never forget Volodymer Ezhov.
Rest in peace, Stalker.
RIP Kirill- another good guy wasted because of the Zone.
Don Strogovich Ronove
To Spotty, to Ghost, to Fang.
Kirill)
Arthur was the best and the most innocent...
He died wishing happiness to everyone of us (((
Kirill from roadside picnic
arthur was an alien spook
he deserved it
may the stalkers who didnt make it to see stalker 2 have peace, they were truely good stalkers.
the one song that all stalkers know.
the one song that all stalkers hate.
and the song that all stalkers no matter how soon have to play some day.
Tragically, S.T.A.L.K.E.R video game developer Volodymyr Ezhov, who was involved in the creation of Alexander (RTS/RPG from 2004), Cossacks 2 (RTS, 2005), Heroes of Annihilated Empires (RTS/RPG, 2006) and STALKER: Clear Sky (2008) - has been killed in Ukraine during defense from the ongoing Russian invasion.
The game studio announced during the beginning of the war that a number of its devs were heading off to the frontlines as they were Ukrainian, and further game development would be put on hold.
Loki, from Call of Pripyat, is 3D-modeled with (a younger version of) his face.
Rest easy, Stalker.
He was a good stalker, he shall not be forgotten..
Slava Ukraine!
-getting ammo and food from a trader, all of a sudden you hear a commotion outside
-you run out and start helping out a group of stalkers on their way to camp, who are being attacked by wildlife
-only one of them survives even though you did your best
-back at camp, the lone stalker sits down by the fire place, and then he starts playing this
... damn...
RNG can be amazing
The buzzing and false notes make it feel even more real
R.I.P. Sergei Ivanov. He's the script writer for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series. Died at age 66.
Let's take a drink for him.
Now they're actually fighting in the zone... crazy
Zone fighting finish never
“Real life wars are just like my favorite video games!!!!! 😮😮😮😮”
@@astrosasha Yes, they are, cope harder.
He could have shot me, taken all i had left and left me to rot.
But he didn't.
I was an idiot who got too close to some psychopaths. I was going to ask if they were interested in trading, only for them to shoot me twice in the chest and prey to some "Monolith."
Then he came along, i was hardly conscious, unable to move or even react. All i could manage was the word "Please."
Next thing i knew i woke up on some bed in some settlement, i didn't even know those existed in the zone, I though it was nothing but a wasteland.
Turns out he dragged my sorry ass all the way there.
He didn't have too but he did. After i fully came too, i tried to find him......the one who saved my life. But he was nowhere to be seen.
Days later im out in a field of geysers looking for some shiny rock, i fear im gonna run out of bolts, when i suddenly hear a familiar voice. He tells me to catch, and hands me a few extra bolts reminding me to always watch my step. Eventually i find it, a Fireball. Decent enough
Normally I'd expect the anyone standing next to me to open fire as soon as they say i had something. But not him, he instead tosses me some sort of... container, and tells me to put it inside and tie it to my belt. After that we had to take shelter from an emission in a nearby basement.
Then we started traveling together, fighting mutants, making deals with the locals. Constantly telling ourselves we would reach the center of the zone one day, but we both knew it wasn't going to happen, not with monolith killing anyone who dared to approach.
He told me his daughter had died 2 years prior and that there was nothing for him left on the mainland so he came to the zone, hoping to find some meaning, any meaning in his life. And he's been searching for something every since, whatever that 'thing' is.
I just never really.....fit in... with everyone else on the mainland.
Another few months go by, and he mentions that his grandparents used to live in Pripyat before the disaster and his grandfather was a worker at the plant.
I asked if he was trying to find him, he laughed and told me his grandfather died years ago, but that his grandmother had some kind of family heirloom still in their home in the city, as she didn't have time to grab it, and would never shut up about wanting to go back and find it.
I wanted to tell him he was crazy, but i understood.
We both understood there was no getting to Pripyat, no one ever returns.
Another month or 2 goes by and it's nice to have a friend in such a hostile place, but nothing lasts forever. In what was supposed to be a regular run for artifacts, we ran into a chimera, took almost everything we had to bring it down, then out of nowhere i hear a singular shot, and he collapses to the ground in pain, i help him up and we begin running. We hide in some bushes and hear then getting closer.
The chanting and prayers becoming more audible now, he tells me to run, i refuse. He pulls out a handgun and says he was losing too much blood and that Rostok was more then a days walk and that we didn't have enough supplies, then told me he would draw the monolith toward him and i might be able to sneak away. He gave me a small necklace and a small urn. Told me to find his little girl someplace beautiful to rest.
I tried to argue, to protest, tried to tell him he was going to do it himself, but he wasn't having any of it. I realized there was no changing his mind, so without saying another word other then "goodbye" I slipped away.
I heard more gunshots then i figured i would, then nothing.
...........
I went back a few days later, and after a few hours of looking i found him. I had found a nice hill overlooking most of the zone, and decided that was the kind of place he looking for
It took me over 2 days but i got him there, and buried him with his child on the hill overlooking the valley. What a view it was
You were a good stalker Andriy. I hope you find peace wherever you are.
Even if it's just a game i always feel like the zone is real, imagine you are a stalker new to the zone, slowly understanding the zone, meeting with another group of stalkers, some of them welcome you and some not, or the worst they will start attacking you, then you made good friends in the zone and exploring together and sometimes alone, you fight mutants, bandits, risking yourself because of anomalies just for some artifacts, you made a great time but also you will experience the darkest, some of your friends died, you got robbed by bandits, chased by strange mutant and after a long day you found yourself resting at a campfire playing music with guitar and remembering everything that happened in the zone and wondering if you will be alive tomorrow or not, you may leave the zone but the zone will never leave you