I Fear Lab X18

[@nword9239]

Goes down Kills all poltergeists Goes down further Sees pseudo giant Hides in fridge

[@rotritter]

all of the labs are pretty much terrifying, but x18 is a nightmare

[@TantrisGaming]

It is such a well crafted experience. I adore the fact that you don't exit the keypad interface automatically, but the doors swing open immediately. For a brief moment you get this feeling of helplessness. It couples so well with the second keypad requiring you to face away from the door.

[@Wasmachineman]

"I fear Lab X-18" *casually can spend hours sitting in Lab X-18's storage because of the Singing Pipes*

[@pancakeoverlord1886]

scariest location in the first STALKER game for sure, almost peed my pants while playing

[@TantrisGaming]

The first time a poltergeist threw a crate at me I turned the game off. I was not ready for that after all the ambiance and tension building. I went and did something else for two hours.

[@schmolzz]

this place is pure terror, even in vanilla soc it was insane

[@averagesteel9666]

Dude- it was Lab X-18, and the Brainscorcher that were absolute pants-shitters for me, especially on Anomaly. It was the Brainscorcher where I first discovered Psy-Suckers, and holy fuck- even after being kitted out with a SEVA, an AN94 w/ GL, and Reflex, alongside a Pernach, and a Sawn-off, I was still sweating bullets throughout the entire way. Also- future advice, the laws of three for the zone. Three guns, rifle, either intermediate, or high caliber, sawn-off, or shortened shotgun, and a pistol, either high-powered, or capable of automatic fire. Three grenades, types don’t exactly matter, but atleast one thermite is appreciated. And three buddies, preferably the ones you’d get after gaining a high rep in a faction, but whatever goes. That’s how you live a long, and prosperous life in the zone.

[@TantrisGaming]

I went back to re-record some footage and the snork in the second staircase was replaced with a psy-sucker. I was expecting the snork. I was not ready for that thing to be sprinting up the stairs at me.

[@averagesteel9666]

@@TantrisGaming Yeah no- That’s what the shotgun’s for though, thankfully. Honestly- Psy-Suckers are some of the most terrifying monsters in anomaly.

[@MintyLime703]

Shotguns are nothing compared to .45acp hydroshock. My pistol is my mutant killer, or UMP if there's gonna be a lot of them.

[@averagesteel9666]

@@MintyLime703 Neeeeh- Depends on one’s playstyle, honestly- I don’t use .45’s too often personally, just considering the early-on cost of ammunition, and the cost of getting the firearm itself, but it’s also because I suck at aiming, and I’d easily get mauled by a forward charging blind dog, after dumping an M1911’s magazine in it’s general direction.

[@isoalma]

only need nosorog, big machine gun and 700+ rounds for labs

[@nogohoho]

The aural horror of the Stalker series is very rarely matched. So many if ots terrifying sounds aren't even monsters, just deadly anomalies or creaking infrastructure. If you're careful you can avoid the first, but the other will always have me think there's something just out of eyesight.

[@t.y.n177]

*DEADLY ANOMALIES*

[@nogohoho]

@@t.y.n177 Can't even go out to take a piss without tripping over DEADLY ANOMALIES.

[@t.y.n177]

@@nogohoho *DANGEROUS MUTANTS, ANARCHISTS, AND BANDITS*

[@deltacharlie1234]

The scariest thing in pc games is the shalebridge cradle thief deadly shadows 😊

[@izperehoda]

i hated this this place because the scientist that you have to pick up the door code from somehow went behind a pipe and i was searching fro him for 15 minutes.

[@ORBrunner]

Not to mention if you will just stand in that room for some time, you will hear how these pipes are singing in a very creepy manner Like the voices of the dead moan in eternal suffering

[@Wasmachineman]

@@ORBrunner I FUCKING LOVE THE SINGING PIPES!

[@GabeSlayer]

This shit scared me so much that I just rested my headphones over my shoulders and turned up the volume. There was too much going on in my ears, it was horrendous. Then the controller appeared and thank God I took off my headphones before. My ears still hate me after my first encounter with one of those

[@TantrisGaming]

The first time I ever entered lab X18 was shortly after getting night vision. I made it to the room with the code for the second door. My flashlight barely penetrated the darkness of that room. That's when I remembered that I had night vision. After fumbling with the controls to turn it on, my vision was filled with the green glow. It hardly reached farther than my flashlight, but it was just enough for me to barely see the pseudogiant. I had no idea what sort of nightmare I was looking at. I had never seen one before. Then it turned around and ran into the darkness of the room, outside the range of even my night vision goggles. I never saw it again. There was never any tension release from killing it and knowing I was safe. Unfortunately, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly's lighting is different from Shadow of Chernobyl and I wasn't able to recreate that nightmare. I'm glad the video was still able to spook you though. Happy Halloween.

[@GabeSlayer]

@@TantrisGaming I actually just did this mission yesterday, when I managed to get a pair of Blue NVGs, which are way better than the green ones. And sometimes combining them with a flashlight is awesome... Not here though. There was so many glowing anomalies that ended up blinding me sometimes, so I had to use my monocular flashlight most of the time. And you actually had a functioning anomaly detector, since mine decided not to work, and still doesn't. Probably a bug that I'll never know how to solve, so I had to use my ears and the countless bolts I carried to see and know exactly where the anomalies where located. This game is not even focused on pure horror, at least for me, since the atmosphere is very unsetling. But Lab X-18 actually has a horrifyingly stressful one. And I both hate it and love it EDIT: Also I forgot, Happy Halloween

[@mohammadashhad3021]

this place was my favourite cuz i always felt safe here! (also those poltergeist were annoying fuckwits ngl)

[@okeman7614]

Usual day in Ohio

[@Ltblitzful]

32 bandages might be a bit excessive, also what graphics mods are you running

[@TantrisGaming]

I forgot to bring enough ammo, but I had enough bandages for an impromptu mummy costume. Any graphical mods are the ones that come with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly.

[@averagesteel9666]

Too many bandages? *No such thing.*

[@tax_evad3r]

What mods are you playing with? Just Anomaly?

[@TantrisGaming]

Just Anomaly.

[@hardatak]

Just play some dues ex or system shock music

[@bozok6360]

Can I ask why you are not using night-vision goggles?

[@TantrisGaming]

Of course you may. I simply thought the footage looked better when I was using a flashlight, as opposed to 15 minutes of nightvision footage. My most recent video is all nightvision. I think video compression makes it even harder to see what is going on. I hope this answers your question. But if you ever see me using a glow stick over the flashlight, that's because some of these labs cause the headlamp to flicker. It becomes less reliable.

[@bozok6360]

@@TantrisGaming wow , Thank you for your answer. I have never played mods of stalker and recently I started to watch these amazing stalker gameplay videos. However, the most of the players don't use NVGs and I thought it has to be because of mods . I don't have any idea about them, but I enjoy all these stalker stuff . Hahaha , nice video . I remember myself playing this lab parts I don't remember all the details, but what I do remember is I was 14-15 years old when played it now I am 27 . It was spooky 😅

[@TantrisGaming]

Thank you. I’m glad you enjoyed my video. Lab X18 is probably the most memorable location in Stalker. With the possible exception of the Agroprom Underground. I think I have only ever played modded Stalker. Over a decade ago I bought the games based on a TotalBiscuit video. He had said to install Stalker Complete instead of playing vanilla. Ever since I have checked ModDB at least once a year to see what new mods had been made.

[@rayclemenes7638]

Which Stalker game is this?

[@TantrisGaming]

It is S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly. A stand-alone mod. It combines the maps of all three games in something closer to Call of Pripyat's systems. It also runs way better. I don't recall it ever crashing on me. I've added a link in the video description to the moddb page.

[@biomens1]

Самое страшное это 12 FPS.