S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Iceberg Explained #4 - Laboratory Layer

[@NomadShadow1]

My head canon for why Pripyat is depicted as being south of the CNPP on the map is that there are space anomalies and whatnot that mess with navigation in the zone forcing stalkers to go through Pripyat to get to the CNPP on the way north so the stalkers put Pripyat there on the map to try to get a better sense of how they actually navigate through the zone

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes, that could be what is going on.

[@Wunderwolf]

6:52 The "i dont trust you" thing scared me shitless first time i refused to leave with the choppers I thought it was some controller

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yeah maybe it actually is.

[@XYZ-eo8um]

Frankly, I've never heard anything like that. I played Polish version (original dub with a voiceover), and there was a radio message from stalkers inside of laundromat (probably Yar or Garrick, since it was about how Major decided to stay).

[@neferpoyaz4037]

@@anomalousdugout9557 it actually sounds like commander kowalsky, he may thought something of us since we didn't left with them

[@n.r.4579]

The first time I'd heard it, I hadn't rescued, or even seen, Zulu in the Pripyat Outskirts, but apparently, he was discovered while I escaped... and, again, neither saw, nor rescued, Zulu. I learned later, from looking at my saves, that Zulu had returned, and I'd unknowingly left him for dead. For a while, I thought that line was from a stalker who shamed me for letting Zulu die, since he was such a respectable veteran stalker that even the Freedom members of Yanov station held a special respect for him. It's interesting to know now that it was just a fluke in the English version.

[@zicaowastaken]

This game has a massive lore and thats why its my favourite game

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes.

[@XYZ-eo8um]

Maybe that part of Pripyat wasn't teleported, but rather "misplaced" due to some spatiotemporal shenanigans, like stalkers think they head to the city by the road north, but are in effect in a different place without any visible signs of being teleported by the anomaly, so no white light flash BS and so on. And because that part of the city itself doesn't appear in CoP, we can assume that is seemingly in two places at the same time, but accessible only from the different one (that road north from Brain Scorcher during events of SoC).

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes, maybe.

[@blonde-eyed-blueondie]

True, just like that oasis anomaly that teleport you back to start without any obvious sign

[@snaker9er]

You can see that part of the city in CoP as distant LOD, you can at least see the ferris wheel and buildings

[@bigdaddydons6241]

There's a few houses in the bloodsucker village in clear sky that teleports you back out of the house without any special effects or flashing lights. So what you describe exists

[@deutschflanker]

6:53 In russian version there's a transmission from Garry: "Wow, you decided to stay? Well, if you need anything - come over to base. I'm back again and this time bringed stalkers with me", i guess that is mistake of developers, sooo... 8:44 yes, Brain scorcher is located in southern part of Zone, we don't know about northern part because exclusion zone also exists to north from NPP even taken with it part of Belarus 17:30 Did you know that in CoP, in labaratory undner Pripyat you can find picture of younger Lebedev? Also, in documents you found in that labaratory is said, that Lebedev worked on Brain Scorcher project as "Emitter "Rainbow""

[@cougar9610]

I appreciate you very much, Anomalous. I have a huge passion for this game and it has quite a small community, there are many others that have S.T.A.L.K.E.R. based channels, but you do it best and make wonderful content even though you have a small audience. Thanks.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Glad to read that, thanks :)

[@redponycyaneyes1882]

14:17 the powers of the monolith are so strong it gives its warriors the power of levitation

[@southernbrain691]

Some other npcs that arent monolit can also float,must be agents!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

No it's just the lift anomaly.

[@deanjenkins3077]

about stingrays, that operation supposed to be the one in SoC when helicopters fly to CnPP as soon as the scorcher is off. some of them arrived at CnPP, some of them were struck by aerial anomalies. about pripyat, the most probable explanation is a borked map in PDA. and anomalous zones could easily screw with gps, so PDA's north can change too.

[@LostBear.]

Nice finally a continuation of the series, thanks for the great effort

[@anomalousdugout9557]

One episode left!

[@felipecastro6999]

8:44 i do believe those multiple brain scorchers might be prototypes made by the C-Con, on their first attempts to make a barrier against stalkers, the Brain Scorcher being the most functional and powerful one. It's also likely the first prototype could've been the brain in X-16, since it depended on a live organism (a brain) to work, and after that, all the other scorchers worked through some kind of energy, probably from artefacts or the several transmission lines. So that explains why all of those other scorchers are rather irrelevant, because most of them probably failed or weren't finished, before the birth of the Zone in 2006.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Absolutely, yes.

[@biggusdingus7496]

In CS when you ask Lebedev why you've never heard of the faction, he says something along the lines of it's because they're secretive and they operate quietly under the radar conducting research and keeping to themselves. Perhaps the Final Day faction is a guise the CS members use when they have to go into the open and interact with other factions and stalkers? It makes sense to me, but then again with translations and my understanding of the lore I could definitely be missing something. Keep up the good work bro, I enjoy your videos.

[@Ch4oTiK]

I think something that would be pretty damn cool in S2, is if the "Pripryat" that is located south of the CNPP is, as you suggested, a city teleportation situation - but in this case, it's something similar to the Bus in Limansk, where an anomaly is located in such a spot as to have cut a perfectly circular piece of the front of the bus out and teleported it nearby. Think of that on a huge scale. Imagine a massive teleporter anomaly, surrounded by smaller ones, as being essentially a legit space anomaly field you will have to navigate - and the massive one in the middle (when I say massive, I mean big enough to encompass part of the city - this thing is seriously huge) carved out a chunk of the real Pripryat NW of CNPP, and deposited it south of CNPP. In S2 this will be represented with some of the big buildings having pieces carved out perfectly along the edge of the anomaly, just like the bus in Limansk, and you will have to make it through some of these cut up interiors fighting Monolith and avoiding smaller teleporters or something to ascend/descend to an objective around this anomaly field and the huge epicenter. This would mean, as well, that, concerning the Pripryat chunk that is south of CNPP, all of the buildings along the perimeter would be cut up, some fallen over and ruinous as too much of them have been cut from their other halves or whatever in the Pripryat NW of CNPP, that they have too little support - and the buildings in the center would be more intact. It would be awesome environmental storytelling, would look incredible (especially since you would come across the Southern Pripryat first, and then find out how that happened by seeing the real Pripryat, and this incredible anomaly field, later) and would explain the smaller "Pripryat" south of CNPP, and it having been turned into a great checkpoint for Monolith to defend the southern entrance to the CNPP, with sniper nests in the center and the fallen structures around the perimeter essentially creating a wall. The northwestern entrance to CNPP is actually defended by said anomaly field, as anyone who makes it through that Pripryat from the west is, without the proper knowledge to navigate, teleported to the small chunk of Pripryat that is south of the CNPP and ambushed by the Monolith posted there. I imagine the objective order would be something along the lines of getting through the small Pripryat from the south and entering the CNPP, only to be unable to access the main area and CNPP structure from the perimeter without something Monolith are keeping beyond the real Pripryat to the Northwest. So you head to the Northwestern exit along CNPP's perimeter, and enter the real Pripryat, only to walk up and immediately see this insane anomaly field that explains the southern Pripryat's existence...and you have to navigate it backwards to access the actual city (perhaps after attaining more info on how to do so), and what lies beyond it, before coming back and getting into CNPP proper.

[@dylanmonstrum1538]

Bro, you are so god damn underrated. Not in a "hurrr dis guy said a funny ! that joke is so underates bcuz i got tha joke!", but as in the amount of effort and research you put into your videos is insane. You're awesome, thanks for what you do!

[@moody1320]

Pripyat's placement can just be excused as any other lab or underground area having more areas than what we see, i like the idea that by going through the underground in CoP you pass under SoC's Pripyat

[@anomalousdugout9557]

I guess so.

[@wishyourlife6861]

When I first played Shadow of Chernobyl I actually thought the large brain was connected to the brain scorcher. And the brain sort of works like a controller, with the effect strenghtened by the antennas. It's probably not the case, but back then that's what I figured.

[@xSlipShot]

Thank you for your dedication to the community! I love your videos and often rewatch/listen them during my long commutes or during my lunch breaks. I've been working on a TTRPG experience set Inside the world of S.T.A.L.K.E.R for my friends and I to play and your videos have helped me with it drastically. Thank you so much!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Very nice, thanks!

[@snaker9er]

If Final Day was a remnant Clear Sky group that would actually be some very good writing.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

I agree.

[@wiwysova]

So that means it's just objectively false

[@lennic]

Iceberg series is fun, waiting for that final part! Also sakharov certainly does LOOK like a zombie even,

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks, it will come.

[@hottestice1193]

What an amazing iceberg and so the videos are just interesting. Time to wait for the next part.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks a lot, your patience will be rewarded.

[@disgorgingconsciousness2250]

Awesome editing on this one bro, loved the atmosphere

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks!

[@Manfred_Danfred]

Baby wake up, new Anomalous Dugout video

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes.

[@globalhell5046]

Will be waiting for the last part. Great series!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks, it will come.

[@Matt-md5yt]

this iceberg series is awesome and glad you did one my friend. lvl 4 is neat

[@anomalousdugout9557]

I'm glad you enjoy it.

[@adambiczyk2453]

11:10 About the dishes. I belive that generators (from how they look) are based on a part of Duga system. Eye of Moscva was just a reciever and not the sender of the radio sygnal. These big structures with round top were (from what I remember) responsible for sending the sygnal (there is still a clearing in the forest where they were near Chernobyl-2). So perhaps these dishes in Stalker were just a part of an equipment used to communicate with Duga control center (a building next to Eye of Moscva).

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Perhaps that's what it is.

[@АлиПехливан]

In fact, it is located north of CNPP Pripyat, as is CS and SHOC in Call of Pripyat. When you go up to the cement factory in Jupiter, and you look north, you can see the CNPP.

[@alexanders.5946]

My favorite KZbinr at it again 💯🫡

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks.

[@rx0102]

the vids since level 2 blow every other stalker iceberg out of the water, this is some real deep lore

[@southernbrain691]

i dont trust you.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Same.

[@barbaronians]

Nice, thank you so much for this, this series are probably the best ever icebergs

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Not everyone agrees with you, but thanks :)

[@barbaronians]

@@anomalousdugout9557 Well hey, that's their problem, for me this is so interesting because STALKER lore is a rabbit hole, and there's always things that you didn't know, and you make these videos in such a compact and professional manner

[@joshuamumma6162]

Another great upload, looking forward to the 5th layer

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thank you.

[@ArmouredProductions]

About there being multiple brain scorchers; I like to think we haven't seen all of the Zone, which should be obvious. We're only approaching CNPP from South to North thru Ukraine, but the Zone borders some other countries no? Belarus from the North? So maybe there are more Scorchers up north that are impassable and maybe the Zone in Belarus is much more hostile so everyone usually enters from the Southern Cordon in Ukraine.

[@g3rmb0y]

Yeah, I definitely think that there's still a sizable number of Clear Sky agents, even if the faction itself is likely in hiding at best.

[@Stargazer10255]

I love your content! I can't get enough of it, kleep it up, it's awesome!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Good thanks.

[@silent_bob_]

I really like the idea of Final Day. Clear sky was larger than the group who chased Strelok to the CNPP. Furthermore, I think it was likely that the remnants of Clear Sky also knew about Strelok, Ghost and Fang. I bet they harbored some ill will against the trio.

[@hunter_0221]

Missing Stingrays: I strongly presume that these "tens of helicopters" (or dozens) are just an over-dramatization. Perhaps there was a miscommunication between the "loremaster" and the writer for the intro, if they were even two seperate people, but it seems very unlikely that the military would send minimum 30 helicopters (that's what "tens of helicopters" implies). There's a indeed the possibility that Degtyarev has already investigated the potential other choppers without them revealing any critical information, and it's also possible that the other helicopters belonged to different call signs but I think any of this is unlikely as the game's writing usually doesn't leave such massive holes. Let's crunch numbers: From what I could glean from the English wikipedia page, one brigade of the Ukrainian Army Aviation - the ones with the Hinds (Mi-24 and variants, which are the ones we see ingame) - had 34 of these gunships back in 2004, and there were/are four brigades, making 136 units in total if they were equally distributed (which is all completely theoretical, but I believe we can get into the general ball park with this calculation). I strongly assume that for a special operation with uncertain outcome - and likely planned losses - the army wouldn't spare a quarter of their totally available attack helicopters. Sakharov is zombified: On point. Really good theory - if you're part of Yantar for long enough, Yantar will become a part of you. Gazing into the abyss, and all that. I never once considered it, but it's clear some cataclysmic battle must have taken place in Yantar between 2011 and 2012, considering the environmental storytelling in SoC. "I don't trust you": The way I see it, there is absolutely no mystery or lore here. One should check whether it's present with other dubs, but I think that this is just a random, utterly misplaced script floating around in this particular place. If the developers wanted to create a mystery here, I reckon they would have been a bit more original with their voice acting choice. Multiple Brain Scorchers: Good theory, or perhaps less theory, and more established fact depending on your point of view. We know for certain of the wish granter, the brain scorcher itself and the Yantar factory complex. Perhaps Yantar was supposed to keep people out rather than creating new agents (Monolith soldiers in this case), explaining the large amount of zombies in the area. In Call of Pripyat, you can encounter some "rogue" psi-zones: As the C-Consciousness has been canonically killed off by Strelok at the conclusion of SoC, there's probably no purpose for any of those psi-fields anymore, they don't project a message anymore and rather just create new zombies, hence the huge amount of zombies in CoP. Side note: Since there is no C-Consciousness left by the time in which CoP takes place, that may be the reason why seemingly all of the Monolith soldiers are slowly going crazy (as hinted at by some of their dialogue) and even build these strange shrines, and some may even break free of the brainwashing (like Strider's squad). Pripyat 2: Spatial anomalies are no joke, just ask the SCP Foundation, but it feels a bit odd that an entire city part would be teleported or copied with nobody ever losing a word about it in any of the games. SoC featured Pripyat locations that definitely exist in real life, whereas CoP has at least the river port as far as I could find. I've always assumed that those were simply two different parts of the same city that we were able to explore in the two different games, and never pondered why they exist in geographically two different places. It might just be that the devs didn't do that either, as you theorized - most likely we just have to head-canon that Pripyat is in the geographically right position on the map, and the devs just didn't want to bother. But yes, I am playing the dev-ils advocate here, this is definitely something we should monitor for future lore relevance. 14:18 The monolith has ascended! Run! Monolith rules the world: Abstruse. Might be that the C-Con has agents outside the zone, but I doubt that it would have much sway there. None of the Wish Granter endings are canonical, and it looks like plain "magic" the way the Wish Granter/Monolith absorbs Strelok. What kind of scientific basis would such technology have? After all, STALKER remains a science-fiction game, and while some occurences within it really stretch the boundaries of even pseudoscience, the game never devolves to the usage of simple magic as a plot device. Of note is the fact that the Monolith - the Wish Granter - was devised as a tool by the C-Consciousness to prevent revealing themselves to even their "agents", primarily the Monolith soldiers. Instead, they'd worship this magic stone. It's possible that it doesn't even exist but is just a hallucination. Final Day killed Fang: Seems on point. A lot of conjecture, and I always dislike it when design documents are involved since they are basically about a game that never came into existence, but the theory is logically sound and doesn't rely too much on these documents. Closing statement: I don't know whether this is your "natural" accent or whether it's forced, but I feel like it's the latter. Don't feel offended if it isn't, I just never heard this particular accent before. Sounds like a Frenchman trying to do a slavic accent, which is consistent with the fact that your YT profile says "France" for a location. Can't tell you to quit doing it, but I can complain that it irritates me a bit. Not enough to prevent me from subscribing, though. There may be more of these long-winded comments if I decide to watch the other Iceberg videos, but as you can see I really like them.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Alright, thanks for sharing your ideas! I have no reason to fake an accent when I'm already struggling with properly talking in English. This is my recording voice, which is in fact different than my daily life voice, but only because this how I'm most comfortable when reading my scripts. I'll be looking forward to your following comments.

[@hunter_0221]

@@anomalousdugout9557 Hey, that's cool with me. Having watched some more of your videos, I actually warmed up a bit to it. If I had any idea how video making worked, I would offer you my voice - not that I have some deep, gravelly voice, nor am I a native English speaker, but I guess I love talking in English. Which is a poor qualification, but anyway. I'd love seeing the channel grow, considering that you - and other big "lore" channels like STALKER Info and Into The Zone - might be the stepping stone for a lot of new STALKERs as soon as STALKER 2 drops, making it grow considerably. Oh, and I absolutely adore the channel name. It's almost talking - it really feels as if you were sitting in an old ex-military dugout somewhere in the Cordon, having a sip of some Cossacks vodka and a bite of totally-not-anomalous bread while conveying your thoughts on the zone's mysteries to us. About the comments - I've thus far been through the surface layer, and I haven't really found anything to add to it. But I suppose I will be a regular for the deeper parts of the Iceberg, should there be more ice after this one. Oh, and maybe I'll whip up a short story about the Zone, I love me some writing as well. Might be sending that one in, if you don't mind.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

@@hunter_0221 Okay thanks a lot for nice the feedback! If you actually write some story I'll be interested in checking it out for sure :)

[@MikeVonwolkenstein]

Can’t wait for the final layer 🔥🔥🔥

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Your patience will be rewarded.

[@xaropy]

we call the devs' mistakes space anomalies LOL

[@matyassziraki1936]

For the topic of "Pripyat 2": A possible - and maybe realistic - explanation for the different map placements of Pripyat in all the games is a simple map rotation. Take the map of the real exclusion zone, rotate it cc 135 degrees clockwise, and voila: the city is in its right location. Maybe it sounds stupid, and I also not able to confirm this theory since I don't know the exact locations of the in-game playable areas, or how much of them is real or fiction, but it is possible GSC didn't place Pripyat the wrong place, just rotated the map to create a bottom-to-top lineral map appearance to the players.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

That would only work if the the locations were rotated on the spot as well: Pripyat's stadium is in the north of the city, not in the way of the power plant.

[@davidbooth1429]

I love your videos and passion for the series! I would love to see you cover mods, and your thoughts on them etc. I have been deep diving your videos and I hope we get to see Stalker 2 release so the story and lore can continue to develop! great work!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks. I don't touch on mods for a few reasons, but the main thing is that they are already covered by a lot of other channels.

[@Oroberus]

Regarding the zone creating copies of persons or even locations, this 'ability' of the Noosphere would actually fit PERFECTLY together with the IRL-String-Theory In this case, after specific time intervals or strong enough disturbances in the Noosphere (Emissions), the reality of the zone splits up and every survival/death of a person, creation/collapse of an anomaly causes another zone-reality to split off, sometimes those splits or not perfect and information gets mixed up, therefor locations changing or several instances of a single entity (persons) start to exist within 1 reality (being pretty much clones of each other) while those instances are outright 'missing' in their actual reality (explaining how stalkers can outright vanish from the zone with no traces of them being found ever again and even their PDA-signatur being just ripped out of the network).

[@ryuhanja3415]

For me I always believed the other stingrays flew into space anomalies and were teleported away into alternative universes, underground or even into space

[@laszlototh1648]

I really enjoy these lore videos.keep up the good work fam! :D

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Great then, thanks.

[@jimbothegymbro7086]

with pripyat being "south" of the CNPP I like to think the center of the zone is a seperate north pole due to some magnetic anomaly or psy "magic"

[@RoyalBean]

I think the Antenna in Limansk is an Psy Emitter as well, because it looks almost like the Brain Scorcher

[@anomalousdugout9557]

It could be, we don't really know just yet.

[@togiielectricboogaloo6875]

@@anomalousdugout9557 isnt that antenna the duga-2 radar, which can also be found in real life in the exclusion zone?

[@anomalousdugout9557]

@@togiielectricboogaloo6875 It is not. It is a similar design but much smaller and in a different location.

[@togiielectricboogaloo6875]

@@anomalousdugout9557 well i am mistaken then, now i wonder if they did add the duga 2 radar?

[@anomalousdugout9557]

@@togiielectricboogaloo6875 It will be added in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2.

[@TheKingOfJordan1]

Been looking forward to this nice job!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks.

[@cynfaelalek-walker7003]

Maybe sometimes when you go to a different area in stalker you time travel because it seems most people have no clue about past events.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Somehow yeah.

[@koitheposter9949]

I think why Pripyat was in a different spot is probably because of a lack of information, like Guide had to direct the Military Personel to Pripyat. Also i think that the PDA simply had a glitch or something like that which turned a random city, into Pripyat. (Also i think Pripyat in Clear Sky is kind of like Dead City but who knows?)

[@anomalies-dogot]

i have a theory maybe scar was an agent too. c consciousness was knowing strelok was trying to find zone's secret. they didnt want him to learn about monolith and other things. so they made scar an agent and his mission was to stop strelok. (and also kill strelok's group; fang and ghost. and he probably killed fang) scar stopped strelok and c consciousness made strelok an agent and his mission was to kill himself so no one will know what actually happens in the center of zone

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes, maybe that's possible. That would explain why Scar helped Clear Sky so willingly.

[@taboerius]

2 days ago i had a dream you created a video about the last layer. The facts were very weird but I don't remember any of them

[@anomalousdugout9557]

The last layer will arrive eventually. Interesting to know that you dream of such things :)

[@Fofyhead]

Great video as always PhD level for Stalker info and discussion. Question, where can I get design documents for stalker SoC?

[@ahealthkit2745]

The reality I think is just that the maps are wrong, regarding the two pripyats. But personally, I would say that there being a cloned pripyat full of strange space anomalies would be really interesting! Having an open world with two large semi-identical areas around the final part of the game would be pretty weird, espescially if one was noticeably warped by the monolith.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yeah, they probably won't go for that though.

[@blonde-eyed-blueondie]

That CC rule world idea is my favorite so far, it just make sense if you really think about it. Great video as usual

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Alright, thanks.

[@VesselModStalker]

i loved this video, cant wait to see the next episode

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks, next episode should be the last one.

[@thecommentingt34]

This is what I needed,I just came back from a nice Call Of Duty Balck ops 3 zombies gameplay,sorry to not tune in as you uploaded!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

No problem, thanks.

[@googoobarman]

I think for stalker soc they might have made pripyat under the cnpp for a linear flow for gameplay. That would be my best guess for why pripyat is south of the cnpp in soc.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes of course, for the gameplay it makes more sense.

[@lowieawa7379]

Some things are obviously just bugs (I don't trust you) or changes made to improve the game (Pripyat's new location). Fun to think of an explanation though, love ur vids!

[@lebedev7153]

Nice, I was just wondering when you would post.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Every two weeks if everything goes right.

[@starioncostumes]

The source of gear for the monolith soldiers is one of the questions i asked myself. I dont think that monolith rules the world, but i wouldn't be surprised if they had spies or agents among the army.

[@OkachaWasTaken]

I was waiting for you to cover this layer :D

[@anomalousdugout9557]

And patience shall be rewarded.

[@radstormedits891]

Not gonna lie, this kinda makes me want to join Duty and help them in their goal to destroy the Monolith and the entire Zone lol

[@thezambambo2184]

A noble, if completely impossible goal

[@roosterbooster9008]

I think the Pripyat 2 issue could be explained, especially in mods that connect the zone, like anomaly, as being the zone warping paths and locations. It's always said that there is no direct path in the zone, but to me it seems ludicrous to suggest that's only because of immediately harmful anomalies. I've always chosen to see the paths we are forced to take instead of say, a walk through the woods as being because the zone would simply disorientate you and either trap you or bring you back to where you started from. While this obviously doesn't explain the difference in layout when comparing the two Pripyats (a good reference point being the hotel, as it can be seen in CoP Pripyat but can't be accessed, like most areas of the more linear SoC Pripyat), to me it seems like the most likely answer. Also i know citing the movie is a little iffy when it comes to discussing the games, but what I've described happens in the movie, when the scientist goes back for his knapsack and the writer and stalker are suddenly back to where they started from.

[@ワタシダケユレイ]

Great video. Can't wait for last layer

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks, it will arrive one day.

[@BlazedLizurd]

i think a lot of the plot points around characters like guide and sakharov forgot who strelok was after he became marked one is that they all collectively suffered from the same amnesia as him haha

[@WINDOWS-ke1ic]

You just made my day!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Great then.

[@kuki4604]

Very underrated chanel !

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks.

[@lmao2118]

good video man, nice work stalker

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thank you.

[@loader2755]

13:39 crazy voice crack🦣🎣

[@XanderNiles]

There's the explanation why there are 2 different versions of Pripyat across the 3 games and I always thought both connected each other but it wouldn't make sense at the end. And as for "I don't trust you" line, seems like a reused audio or some sort.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Alright.

[@ngcroude]

The Russian S.T.A.L.K.E.R. community has a simply explanation for the reason why Professor Sakharov didn't recognize Strelok in SoC after CS's events (let's forget about inconsistencies between): as we remember start of SoC, Strelok was found near crashed Death Truck - we can't exactly say that his face was injured (like he was injured during he's journey to the North), but maybe that happend and his 3rd person model shows us scars in his face. Another explanation may be with some inconsistencies too - as we know, before and after Scar's help with turning of Psy-emitters on Yantar in 2011 some groups of stalkers were guarding Sakharov's lab, but then, in the end of CS, Giant Blowout happend, Zone changed much (for SoC variant) and stalkers left Yantar because of psy-emittion. And then Strelok arrived again on desolated (or just filled up with Zombified stalkers) Yantar in 2012 after more or less one year after Giant Blowout - Sakharov just didn't recognize Strelok a year later. Anyway, we can just say "It's a Zone, dude!" or "Это Зона, братан!" like we say "It's not a bug - it's a feature".

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes, it's just the Zone.

[@thesavegecabege2712]

The "I don't trust you" reminds me of Colonel Kovalsky's voice, perhaps this is because he feels betrayed that Degtyarev did not leave with the rest of the Military forces? Confuses me as much as anyone else but that is my theory.

[@Dr4cusson]

Nooo, Professor Sakharov, please take care of yourself!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Here, take a psy-block.

[@isaiahdees2309]

Let's go! The 4th level, the laboratory!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Absolutely!

[@moody1320]

I mean let's be real about the inconsistencies between SoC and CS, since SoC was rushed into an acceptable state and CS being their second go at making the game they wanted to make all along Also CS acting as a prequel, and being way too different than SoC, so lots of hiccups to be found between the 2 games, like Emissions being confirmed to supposedly happen frequently in the first game as they do in the second and third

[@mubasharhassan1211]

Hey man i have one question bro which is your favourite faction in stalker series

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Ecologists.

[@342Rodry]

love this channel

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thank you.

[@robyke6431]

when are u gonna do the fifth layer? i love the series they are so interesting

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Soon.

[@Darulevski]

i love this!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Me too.

[@mihajlorankovic9536]

Hi Anomalous, i just wanted to say that your viedeos are great and i wanted to ask you something. I have been writing something like a Stalker novel with all the Zone's phenomenoms explained in my word document in pc, and my question to you is if you can post it in discord server like a section for new Stalkers to read if they don't understand something about the Zone. Just to mention i'm writing this with my own knowlage not from wiki. Keep up your hard work, and with you and other Stalker content creators, this game will never die!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Very interesting work your are doing there, I would sure like to take a look at it! About uploading it on my Discord, yeah for sure :)

[@mihajlorankovic9536]

@@anomalousdugout9557 thank you, i will reach out once i finish it!

[@gandzia8106]

And this is what i need

[@anomalousdugout9557]

It's free to take.

[@КосмонавтЛиквидатор]

Love this content

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Nice.

[@bober6730]

I love your vids bro

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Nice.

[@fernandoismaelacosta1772]

Actually, I have the theory that Ghost killed Fang on Pripyat, after him running away from Scar and the two bandits that tried to ambush him, what was supposed to happen is that when Scar was ambushed by those two bandits by mistake, Fang took his chance to reach Pripyat and told Ghost about the guys chasing him, then, they fighted over something, maybe the decision to leave Strelok being after thinking he was dead after the second raid to the central, the thing is that the things scalated til Ghost killed Fang, after what he would leave his body lying there out of panick, afterwards, some experts stalker woulds find, identify Fang's body and give him a proper burial, Ghost would've went to the group hideout and told Strelok a story about an ambush to Fang in the Military Warehouse, blaming his chasers (two bandits and a mercenary with a big scar and blue eyes) and make himself look like a hero who tried to avenge "his good comrade", things like this happen a lot in the Zone, life-long friends stabbing each other in the back out of greedy, cowardy or rage, that maybe happened to him at Yantar with the ecologist.

[@Iararuss]

My theory for the placement of prypiat is that the map of soc is pseudo correct but south is just west.

[@FourTraxOutdoors]

Question, Where is the infamous "elephant's foot"? Is it in Agropom Underground? Or just the unvisitable area under the reactor?

[@vladneacsu]

Good ol' Sakk is zombiefied!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Maybe...

[@achmedkaya4152]

Time to put on the goddamn tinfoil hats, boys

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Indeed.

[@gordoncordon9779]

Oh, can i suggest doing a vid on the Tarkovsky film (Before i do lol)

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Please go ahead, make it.

[@VesselModStalker]

hell yeah, finally.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes!

[@tama7026]

Sidorovich's chicken (DO NOT research)

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Eheh.

[@southernbrain691]

especially at 3am

[@isisssb2121]

Anthoer iceberg called Jupiter Connect to Limansk

[@WORELOF]

I love your vids ! I always make up an excuses to the jank that sometimes you see.Playing Stalker. In my head I always make it a new anomaly. Guy floating, gravitational anomaly. Guy half in the ground , quicksand anomaly . LOL

[@relentless1998]

New video Noice

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes!

[@adrianromero9705]

Maybe the ubication of the city changed bweteen the games thanks to the emitions, that constatly changed the área until scar stopped it

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Perhaps yeah.

[@what-hn1od]

Could you maybe link where you got the Final Day info from? I'm guessing it's from some design doc, but idk which

[@anomalousdugout9557]

It's the most famous design document for Oblivion Lost. Not sure where I got it from since I had it for years, but in case you really can't find it I shared the file in my Discord server: discord.gg/PMSPu5vZrM

[@what-hn1od]

@@anomalousdugout9557 ah so v1.4 (or whatever, 2004 date i think), it's just strange that this isn't more known and for many people the "Final Day" faction is still shrouded in mystery. Thx doe, good vid

[@xhg7a]

You should make a video about the cancelled stalker 2 2011 project

[@anomalousdugout9557]

I don't really talk about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 or cut content.

[@killerashtray1396]

I hope some of these are answered in the newest one

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Probably not.

[@thedarkone5049]

yes finaly

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Of course.

[@thedarkone5049]

now it all makes sense

[@Quasarii]

Let's Goo!!

[@berlo1737]

0 min gang

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes.

[@yourtags4876]

I thought it was zulu who said "i dont trust you" line

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yeah it could be.

[@magister1530]

thank you for uploading good content, that has not shitty editting.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

My editing is quite shit but thanks.

[@magister1530]

Simple cuts arent shit. Simplicity often nakes great editting

[@anomalousdugout9557]

@@magister1530 I see.