S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Challenge newfag

It's simple
You either get mauled by wild animal
Or you find some trinket in the woods and have a good story to tell
Ones more likely than the other

>>33546073
the challenge is only as fun as you allow it to be. you act like a bitch and take your entire kitchen you won't have fun

>>33546073
go in the woods with 10 bottles of vodka a knife and one can of food
dont leave till your out of vodka

>>33546302
So what do i do once im outa airplane sized vodka bottles

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Bumping

bump ive been wanting to do this inawoods in Kolorado

Can someone explain the STALKER challenge pls?

t. live in Alas/k/a and want to do fun innawoods stuff this summer

Bump, there are things not allowed on stalker challenges?

>>33546073
There's no right or wrong way to do it; stalker challenges are more about mindset than practicum. That having been said, it's usually more fun if you pack as lightly as you feel comfortable. Also go ahead and binge on creepy innawoods media: greentexts, movies, books, whatever floats your boat. An objective helps, too. For mine, I decided to hunt local marshlights said to be the restless ghost of a dead steam engineer. As long as you have fun, that's all that matters.

>>33549263
At it's most basic level, a stalker challenge is where you take your rifle and a small pack of supplies, and rough camp for anywhere from overnight to a week or longer in the creepiest place/s you can find. I did it a couple years ago on this stretch of bayou outside town that's supposed to be haunted. It was late fall, kind of wet, and cold. My loadout included a hill people gear poncho and chest harness/lumbar pack, Ishapore Enfield with 30 rounds, hatchet and morakniv, flashlight, shelter half, billy can/cup/nalgene water bottles, cordage, basic hygiene kit, fire kit, dark angel first aid kit, spare socks, and food for three days. It was a blast operating operationally through the hills and marshes, exploring abandoned mills and homesteads, and just generally being innawoods. I highly recommend it. It's become sort of a tradition with my friends by to do a stalker challenge type trip every year now.

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I've done every challenge, along with the originals where you had to do the acronym including killing something. Most of us are posted on https://www.zeemaps.com/map?group=1253068&add=1

There are also a few discords but you would need someone to give you an updated invite to them. Novice might sound like the easiest choice, but I recommend starting with "Loner."

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>>33550551

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>>33550561

>>33546073
You should start by watching the movie :^)

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>>33546073
play clear sky on hardest u'll shit urself anon

>>33546073
here for your little games you play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nue9EXetzpM
helps me go to bed and have fun dreams

>>33550637
movie sucked.

>>33550908
Try playing COC on ironman mode with no rez. Shit is brutal.

>>33546073
You're a faggot for making this thread and should feel ashamed.

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I'll post some of my Stogger challenge pics.

>>33551685

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1043378_stalker

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Loot I got from my uncle's abandoned house. Black thing is a camera. No idea what's on the floppy disk, there were probably 50 of them scattered about the floor. We also found a brand new, recently opened Coca Cola in the adjacent room.

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We found this on a car in the garage. I wrote Cheeki Breeki next to it.

>>33552425
>pop
>bacon
>gay ass sk8r boy shoes
>jeans
Fag, you have no idea what it means to s.t.a.l.k.e.r. Kill yourself

>>33551685
>not liking Tarkovsky
Life must be hard with such plebian tastes.

Can I do the challenge even if im /noguns/, seems like fun

Need to research abandoned sites in my area too to find something to camp in

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>>33552514
huh..... that seems vaguely familiar.

>>33552759
You can. It's not S.t.a.l.k.e.r to follow the rules tightly. If you live in a /noguns/ area and want to do it, do it. Take pics and post them here as is tradition.

>>33552803
Will do captain, ill bring a good knife though, who knows if ill need something to fight of a rapist
will also try to take pics if a rapist is encountered

>>33552826
Where do you live? Country-wise

>>33552838
Scotland, near Glasgow

>>33552846
Not sure of the laws near you, but most European countries you can get in a lot of trouble having a knife.

>>33552928
Its the same here, but my knife fits the regulations so im allowed to carry it around with me
>tfw 3 inch non-flip blade is all im allowed

>>33552990
You live in or near Polomint City I'm guessing :^)

>>33552649
Those aren't my shoes

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>>33546073
You should totally play them. They work fine even on modern toasters.

Consult this rookie guide. Play in release order, always on the Master difficulty, and disable cross hair.
Latest patches are all you NEED, but the "Starter Pack" mod compilations are good to have. Don't give up in the beginning, as the rookie gear sucks, and first area may appear a bit meh in general.

>>33553439
Alright, thanks for the heads up.

>>33550466
I have never understood why higher difficulties require LESS ammo. Hauling around full battle rattle gear, plus the camping equipment is more challenging. It's deadweight unless you can do some target shooting where you are going. Higher difficulties should require more ammo.

>>33554154
Less of a safety blanket perhaps?

>>33554168
That makes sense, I think it's retarded, but the logic follows. It ought to be inverted.

>>33550551
>Checkout the link to see how many stalkers are near me
>Neat
>Zoom out to see stalkers world wide
>See one lonely stalker is Hawaii

Good luck, Hawaii stalker

>>33554459
It's Hawaiian from Call of Pripyat

>>33554459
only one S.T.A.L.K.E.R. in /K/olorado :(

>>33554459
Nearest S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is in Rogerville, TN... or in Greenville, GA. I live near 2 national forests, though- so there should be something around to stalk in

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>>33554124
Its a fucking hard game anon, you can't play it like your regular shooters.

-don't try to shoot standing up, always crouch or better yet low crouch for much better accuracy

-Aim for the head, especially at the beginning of the game where all you get a shitty makarov, you NEED to aim for the head

-If they stagger don't keep shooting, as they have invincibility frames during stagger. Instead, take that time to line up a head shot

-single fire only against humans, anything goes with fuckin mutants I hate snorks goddammit

>>33555510
Didn't know about invincibility frames during stagger, I've been using that time to dump ammo into the enemy. Now I can stop wasting it

>>33549263
Also in Alas/k/a

/k/ Meet up is in the works for spring/summer

>>33550551
>I've done it all including kill someone
>no one on this board bothers to ask

Fine. I'll call you out on it. Story?

>>33552411
>>33552425
>>33552436

Hi josh :)

>>33555510
>Its a fucking hard game anon,

honestly, stalker isn't that tough. the AI is pretty fucking retarded a lot of the time and have giant blindspots. the hardest one is clear sky and that's only because every AI stalker is a clone of aaron rodgers.

>>33555731
He said something, not someone.

"Something" could possibly mean a deer or pig.

>>33554937
Same faggot poster here; also OP. I live near parts of the Appalachian trail. Would an unused trail shelter count as an abandoned building?

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>>33556124
forgot to upload image. Pic related, decent drive from where I live.

>>33556124
From my experience with trail shelters, yes. Because abandoned buildings are comfier than trail shelters.

>>33556124
>>33556142
abandoned shack in the middle of the woods?

the only way it could be more STALKER is if it was radioactive and smelt like stale piss and vodka

>>33550551
>I recommend starting with "Loner."
I can't play an instrument though.

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>>33556272
Just blow randomly into a harmonica

>>33556272
Bring a triangle

>>33556147
>>33556164
Guess I've got an abandoned building, then. I've got a friend who is a total river rat and trail nut. She knows where all the shelters are. I'll start building the kit.

If only I knew how to screencap this so I could prove myself when I post the pictures this summer...

>>33556315
>>33556362
Both valid

>>33550466
>No cooking past S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
What if I make bread?

>>33556420
If you don't 'cook' it, it should be fine- I.e. let it sit and finish proofing/rising, or whatever.


The idea, as I seem to understand it, higher levels seem to encourage eating rations, or dehydrated stuff- shelf stable food, or even hunting your own. When you buy/use specially made camping food, or MREs, it's not that hard. However, the cost of these tend to get high, which contrasts with the small food budget.

>>33556566
I always wondered how the budget worked, not much you can get for $20. You could get some spam and vienna sausgae but that's it.

>>33556615
Again, I think that's part of the challenge. I wonder, if it's from your pantry (say, a can of beans that's been there forever) and you take it as food, does it count towards your food budget if you didn't buy it specifically for the challenge?

And meant to evoke the feeling of 'I'm low on supplies' all the time, i guess.

>>33556615
thats all you need

>>33556615
It's enough for a ton of fruit gummies

>>33554124
don't forget to only play on Master, The enemies will become bullet sponges on anything less

>>33556615
Ramen noodles and tuna packets can go a long way with $20 bucks man, bring your own spices and some dehydrated veggies then you got yourself a damn nice meal.

>>33556615
Holy shit, how spoiled and/ or underage are you? I can eat for two weeks on $20, and that's not even stretching it.

If anyone is /stalker/ in the 865, I know a pretty decent place. Kinda illegal, but it has abandoned places to camp and shit. Kinda spooky.

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>>33556142
Dude that's fucking perfect

>>33555800
shit. just fuck my reading comprehension up

>>33555623

this >>33549263 Alas/k/an anon here

sounds fun, bear in mind I can't get too crazy

t. active duty military

>>33555760
Ayyy lmao

Is this like a grownup version of totse's "night ops"?

>>33552649
>pop
Lol pleb

>>33557624
Where?

>>33551679
Are there any videos/greentexts of people doing this? I can't find shit.

>>33562069
didn't mean to (you)

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>>33556272

>not substituting the skin flute

>>33563266

Does shacking up under a road near a lake in a corrugated steel bridge count as a structure?

>>33563278
Yes, and like the anon said earlier, Stalker is more about how you want to do it. The "rules" are more like guidelines.

>>33555510
>>33555554
Not really invincibility. But Stalker, at least SoC, has a bunch of things that reduce the damage to the target. Not really sure, but it seems like you do only about 70% of damage past the first shot in automatic fire, about the same with stagger. But yes, for snorks, I usually magdump. Fuck those guys.

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Didn't some tripfag find this out in the middle of nowhere last summer?

>>33554154
less ammo means you have a greater chance of being killed by a skinwalker

>>33566666
Holy /k/ube those digits. Also, pretty damn cool pic. Not really stalkering, but I've only recently found out that I spend my childhood in hills under which there's LOTS of pitchblende, where I was crawling through abandonded buildings, picking locks, including a watermill where the owner hung himself. Didn't find much interesting besides a rusty-ass axe and a hammer. But for a little kid, that still was a worthy loot. Got spooked bad by wierd noises and wierder dreams that night and went to return the tools back to the building.

Also, when I entered high school, few months in there was some sort of promotional thing for nuclear energy. So being a good little lad grown up on fallouts, I sat in the first line and paid attention. And being a dumb little shit, they handed out two rocks to be passed around. One pale and somewhat lighter, other black, almost glossy and heavy. For some fucking reason I decided to bite onto the black one just as they were telling us it's uranium ore. Kek. Then they brought out a geiger-counter and scanned the kids. It was calibrated for pretty low scale I'm sure, but for the other kids, it went "spark...spa-spark..spark?" and when they came to me it blew off the chart. Kek. Good times.

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>>33566666
check 'em

>>33567584
I have a box full of uranium ore and other radioactive shit in my shed lined with lead. If I took the lead out and slept besides the box it would probably kill me

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>>33566666

>>33567697
Cody Reeder is that you? Kek. Anyway, hey, I was thinking of smuggling some metal bolts or whatnot from The Zone when I or some of my friends go there and forge some knife or something from it. That would be cool. I'd send something back as to not make Zone upset with me for stealing, I'd rather trade.

>>33567584
>pitchblende

I had to look that up... neat. Gonna now have to look up how it forms.

>future kommando's first instinct it to bite a uranium ore chunk

.... Streilock is that you?

Have been getting back into archery lately. Anyone ever done these with a bow and some arrows? Might CC my pistol too

>>33570314
Not that I'm aware of... we may need to branch out into a "turok challenge"...

You stalkers need to start greentexting now

>>33571675
greentexting what? The weekend just started and not everyone's hit the woods yet.

>>33550908
Why is this image so funny

Can someone post links to how to find locations to go to? I cant find them anymore

>>33550531
Was it on public or private land?

>>33571547
I second this

>turok challenge
fuck yes
someone cooler than me please make / brainstorm the turok equivalent of >>33550466

>must wear denim
>no shirt
>war paint
>press C up and fall off cliff repeatedly
>diddle a monkey
>?????

Would also appreciate green texts of past stalker experiences. Im considering looking up places, but I'm honestly scared to go alone

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>>33569447
>gonna look up how it forms
Not sure, really. The stuff is all over this highland region. I think there used to be two or three uranium mines a half-hour drive away from where I live. Damn gov't sold it to soviets way back when for dirt cheap, though, most likely through political pressure.
>Strelok, is that of you?
Maybe. Can't fucking find a pic of me running around in NBC with a deactivated Zb.26 in my hands that principal let me borrow from his office for a day in high school. Good days, those. Was fun scaring other kids and teachers while many keks were had for me, principal and math teacher. Those were the days.

>>33550551
>no one in houston
Either too ghetto or not enough woods

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>>33574282
I live less than an hour away from Houston but don't have time for such fun games.

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>>33552411
Gonna take more trips soon, Josh?

>>33554895
Got no friends to drag with you? That's what I do...whether they want to or not.

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i love these threads and i love you all

Anyone know of anyplace in south Florida?

There are no abandoned structures near me. What do?

>>33575068
Just go innawoods to find interesting landmarks. Maybe some quarries, mineshafts, dried-up riverbeds, wierd rock formations etc? Nothing interesting? I doubt that.

>>33550466
what if we made one where you are allowed for a weapon, only a large knife?

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>>33566666

>66666

>>33550466
Was it autism?

>>33557523
What is your daily chloral count and what the hell are you eating?

>>33574919
Thinking of doing a multi-day trip with Caleb and Tyler after graduation when everyone is out for the summer.

>>33573587
nah, Streilock is a namefag/tripfag who got drunk and ate a depleted uranium bullet.

Also in retrospect (after binging through the rare geology of uranium and other radioactive elements) I've apparently chewed on uranite crystals that were part of my granddad's rock collection.....ok that makes two different anons (three if we count streilock) that have tried to eat radioactive rocks.... there's gotta be a common factor among /k/ it seems...Granted that was more me being a little dipshit and fucking around with the rocks in the collection than actively knowing it was radioactive at the time.

>>33576374
Ah, thanks for the enlightement. Kek. But nah, I feel it's instinctive. I don't (and didn't before) chew on rocks on a regular basis. We are drawn to the radioactive, mysterious and stupid things! Hue.

Anyhow, how did it go with that DU boolit?

>>33576412
IIRC he puked it up after blacking out from the vodka.

>>33576544
Heh. Best outcome I would say.

Anyway, what do you guys bring innawoods for the stalker challenges as far as supplies go? Not really for stalker challenges specificaly, but I've recently found out I prefer blankets to sleeping bags for outdoorsy sleeping. Used to bring a sheepskin with me as well. Shit's bulky as fuck, but when my gear got pretty damn drenched during a storm, I tried to get as much water from my sleeping as possible and laid down and it really does wonders - it starts to be warm after a few minutes. Never would've thought I'd have a good night's sleep in a drenched sleeping kit.

>>33575951
Same place or no?

So you just go into the woods for a week, sounds fucking awesome, only problem is I only have New Zealand bush nearby with no aesthetic broken radio towers and airplane hangars. So it will just be like a hunting trip. Also what are the challenges?

>>33577860
Probably the opposite side of my property. We'll check out the active plant Ford energy has here.

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>>33566666

>>33574282
both. not really a good place for innawoods shit. Somedays when I get bored and feel like a useless lazy sack of shit, I'll go on google maps looking for places to do outdoors shit and I always come up blank, save for those inner city parks like memorial.

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>>33575117
I'm confused, having less guns is a good thing...its not like youre going to be attacked in an abandoned building.

You pretend stalkers dont know what youre doing.
Personally I wear my ghillie suit and sit near trails, tying thorn vines across the path. I spray my self with probably a quarter bottle of deet 100% and wait.

>>33574282
I-I'm in Houston

>>33550551
I'm in San Antonio.... Houston pretty close...