S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Lore - Strelok's Group

[@anomalousdugout9557]

This is my last Lore video before the blowout of September 5. Back in 2020, my first real Lore video was about Strelok, so we've come full circle. Thank you to all the stalkers who followed me through this journey. I'll see you in the Zone after the release.

[@Rongaming3065]

Bruh nah I love your videos bro atleast upload something else like stalker but same hidden thing facts etc

[@VeteranGrunt101]

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[@bulletghost3452]

You deserve the break! Because it would be extra awesome playing the game and then watching your lore stuff after release!

[@mcfeddle]

​@@Rongaming3065he's a STALKER channel - nothing more, nothing less.

[@vinceclark-dk3xf]

man it will be sad to not hear that voice and that classic intro 'welcome stalker to the anomalous dugout

[@SideQuestStories]

To explain Sakharov not remembering Strelok, you can hear a wavering certainty in the way he addresses the player in SoC with "Hello?... Hello."

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Interesting.

[@Brandelwyn]

Strelok also looks kinda different after his second expedition, being all f up and all that

[@guidelamp4025]

The easiest explanation is that Strelok was simply wearing a mask or hood for every encounter he had with Sakharov, making him difficult to recognize.

[@mrzirak792]

​@@guidelamp4025 do you think he talked telepathically?

[@guidelamp4025]

@@mrzirak792 I don't see why he would have to. Every gas mask out there allows the wearer to speak.

[@starsjosephfrost]

Press F for Ghost, Ghost was a true friend.

[@Archer63270]

You forgot about the famous stalker Laundry Laundryov. He was apart of Strelok’s group from the start and did Strelok’s Laundry while he was storming the CNPP. How people always forget about him really shows how prevalent the Mandela affect is nowadays.

[@mako4134]

lmao

[@anomalousdugout9557]

How could I forget?

[@southernbrain691]

You forgot his middle name. His full name would be Laundry "Laundromat" Laundryov, and hes rumored to say "i dont trust you" if you approach the laundromat under specific conditions

[@Helipshon]

Theres also Streloks dish washer, "Dishevko Dishes". Prior to the first trip he would travel with the group and do their dishes.

[@Dan11688]

What if Ghost and Fang successfully defeated the ambush at the warehouses, including the third merc? By now they were getting paranoid with other groups following them, including this latest set up, so they decided to send misinformation that the ambush was partially successful and Fang had died. Ghost and Fang buried one of the mercs (perhaps the scarred one) and labelled the grave Fang. Faking Fang's death would be a good way of stopping others from tracking him. Fang and Ghost split up, with Fang going north to Pripyat where he actually dies, while Ghost heads back south to Yantar to keep a low profile. It's odd that Ghost can describe the third merc's eye colour despite seeing him ~100m away, which supports the idea that things didn't happen as written. I think in reality it's just discontinuity in the writing, but it's fun to think of viable scenarios.

[@mikloslajosharsanyi7015]

Degtyarev was a former stalker before joining the rank of military stalkers so maybe that time he knew or heard something about Strelok

[@khaledomar6019]

Let's be honest everyone I'm and his mama in the zone know about strelok especially after clear sky events

[@Saint20117]

@@khaledomar6019 agree everyone knows about him cause he is a legend in the zone

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yeah maybe.

[@templarknightac]

he was?

[@mikloslajosharsanyi7015]

@@templarknightac yeah He was chosen for this investigation because of the skills he gathered And in CoP intro the story teller tells us that he was a stalker and after awhile he became a Military Stalker(stalkers that are trusted by the military and carry out task deeper in the zone where military is not exactly welcomed but everybody in the zone affraid of military stalkers)

[@tlh1588]

This video is something everyone secretly needed and a great one as we get closer to the launch of STALKER 2

[@anomalousdugout9557]

I hope it helps.

[@jordanjustin7278]

Exactly what I searched for

[@dreamerwastaken]

What a way to end off the OG lore series before the next big thing comes. Always watched and appreciated your videos. They're truly unique. Thank you.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thank you my friend.

[@rabarsalam9626]

GUYS TODAY IS VERY LEGENDARY I GET TO PLAY S.T.A.L.K.E.R FOR THE FIRST TIME

[@adrianalicea6704]

Pro tip: free merc armor is in one of the roofs of the rookie village

[@rabarsalam9626]

Bruh I know bes i know fox and seryi also i know the fridge joke

[@Barnfinder3]

The zone's most infamous group is now debunked.

[@bulletghost3452]

32:50 Here's my head cannon: Strelok in Clear Sky is clearly more youthful (maybe in his early 30's) as well as experinced so he's not as disfigured or wounded as he is in later games. Which might lead me to why his model is the same in SoC and probably why it isn't the same as in cutscenes either. Strelok in SoC is clearly disfigured/scarred from the battle at the CNPP before the emission, also probably aged heavily from such damage. His face in cutscenes is probably supposed to be his "final" look in game, however his design in the icon and his model in game tell us that he was supposed to be only disfigured but still young looking. This might also be the reason why so many NPC's you meet in SoC don't recognize him as Strelok, since if they truly met him face to face, he would look nothing like the young adventure seeker from before. Also kind of weird that in SoC cutscenes, he has a deeper voice but in Clear Sky he has a high pitched voice when talking. Maybe its from him being tired or talking to friends compared to anyone else? Finally in CoP we have our more aged and experienced Strelok who probably aged faster from combat, drugs (alcohol and cigs), and the stress of everyday living in the zone. Wonder if we see him in STALKER 2, and if he has aged more or has stayed the same.

[@mantis7022]

I mean stalker 2 story will happen after ten years so he will age for sure

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes, could be the case.

[@OXY187]

Development of the Shoc was complicated and the story itself was all over the place. Cutscenes were made way before the actual game. You weren’t Strelok in Oblivion Lost, Strelok was an entirely a different character.

[@Sniper_XPEHOB]

Also, Strelok in Clear sky uses a regular Loner NPC model. He maybe never took off his gas mask when around Sakharov

[@Brandelwyn]

@@OXY187 no it was still you, except you werent called the marked one, but messer ("knife" in german)

[@TukyVideo]

Fang sounds unhinged ngl and i love him for it Like, imagine a crazy guy in exo swearing to himself while roaming the zone, casually raiding some old ass buildings looking for parts

[@user-jm7tc7il2r]

The man himself!!! Thank you brother I have officially been through almost every video you have posted. Me and my father played this together and now like you say it's all coming full circle with the trilogy on Xbox and stalker 2 so close.Thank you

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Very nice :)

[@--shaman--]

Great analysis as always. The chronology of the group's activities and events related to it is one of the less precise elements of the lore, which is most likely the result of the fact that different developers worked on each part of the series, and they probably didn't know what it all was supposed to look like themselves. As for Guide, it's never really stated that he was a member of the group in any way. From what we know, he was only an acquaintance of Ghost, so it's quite possible that he never met Strelok before the events of SoC. In the original concept of the dialogue between Strelok and Degtyarev, which is included in one of the design documents of CoP, it's mentioned that Strelok was supposed to say that Guide was only a friend of Ghost, without implying that he himself is associated with him. One possible explanation for why Fang has a grave in Pripyat is that it was simply some other Fang who was buried there. Not all stalkers have unique nicknames, in the trilogy there are characters who share the same name but are different people, so it is possible that there was another Fang in the Zone. As for Fang's killer - it's worth noting that the idea of ​​copies of stalkers created by the noosphere was a concept that was abandoned early in development, and even when it existed, it was not considered that Scar would be Fang's killer. The devs established that Scar wouldn't be the one to kill Fang long before the game's release, so the theories that it was a copy of Scar, or that there is even some cut content related to Fang's killing, don't make much sense if we follow the history of the prequel's development. Anyway, good video, we'll see if the new developers try to clarify some of these inconsistencies in Stalker 2.

[@pieterandjuanchronicles9849]

Yo Reggash?

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thank you for sharing!

[@mikemandalorian9226]

I'm part of Strelok's group since 2007 :)

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Great!

[@LoneHermit]

If Strelok is truly gonna be in STALKER 2 (and we didn't end up with a look-alike), I wanna see if Strelok made a new group or if he would tell us more details about his former group mates. They definitely had a great friendship, like brothers. Maybe we will see Strelok paying his respects to the graves of both Fang and Ghost, or see the graves sometimes with items left by Strelok. (When we start modding STALKER 2 tho, someone gotta get that "press F to pay respects" animation for Ghost and Fangs graves)

[@asthyz3004]

Wonder if there are going to be Monolith stashes around with the X symbol around the Zone. And how of the stashes are going to be similar places, some graves count as stashes after all.

[@lennic]

Fang's death is really difficult... I'd like to believe hes buried in Pripiat tho, hauling an exoskeleton all the way there seems difficult, and it makes him kind of more of a chad locational wise to have you grave.

[@lennic]

32:45 also I wonder what the guide means with "If you say who you are.. .you'll probably know" I feel like strelok didnt even tell him who he was but Guide knew and wanted to subtly jog his memory?

[@andrijagligorijevic3226]

Its just crazy how the army in Call of Prypiat just forget the crimes the Strelok did in Shadow of Chernobyl, the main thing killing the army forces in agroprom.

[@Brandelwyn]

There were no witnesses

[@subhajit1128]

Probably the government didn't knew who strelok was, otherwise not a chance army would spare.

[@andrijagligorijevic3226]

@@Brandelwyn oh I forgot that factor

[@Ashfired]

After just playing the trilogy I wanted to know more about Strelok and his group, and you just delivered!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Nice.

[@voidvoidvoid7274]

I can't believe I only found out about these games 3 years ago... and only started playing them when the Legends of the Zone pack released on Xbox... Good shit I have a nice PC, I'mma play STALKER 2 on that lil’ beast :) Thank you bro for the nice videos :)

[@michaweremko3507]

Try Stalker gamma

[@voidvoidvoid7274]

@@michaweremko3507 oh yes it’s already installed on a portable NVME ready to play from anywhere ☺️

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Welcome to the Zone.

[@voidvoidvoid7274]

@@michaweremko3507 Already downloaded and installed on my external SSD, I’ll finish the LOTZ trilogy first then yeah, GAMMA is next on the list :)

[@voidvoidvoid7274]

@@anomalousdugout9557 Thank you buddy !

[@disgorgeofconsciousness2250]

Almost did a backflip when I saw this video get uploaded, lets go!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

:)

[@disgorgeofconsciousness2250]

@@anomalousdugout9557 seriously, thank you so much for your wonderful content throughout the years. Personally, I've never felt closer to the community. Been watching for a long time and peep a video at least once a day. Thanks again, Anomalous ✌️

[@177Willy]

Finally, the full story told by Anomalous Dougout!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Of course.

[@Lankyblankman]

One of your best videos in my opinion - much more detailed compared to your old videos on Strelok, Ghost, and Fang.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes, I've come a long way.

[@karelcz9221]

Dude great video as always, good timing just for my birthday, thank you for the great gift 😎

[@GeoffSayre]

Happy Birthday Stalker

[@karelcz9221]

@@GeoffSayre Thank you brother, have a great day Stalker🤠

[@Saint20117]

@@karelcz9221 happy birthday stalkerrrr hopefully we will see you in the zone

[@karelcz9221]

@@Saint20117 i hope i see you too 😎, we shall meet in Rostok Bar brother

[@eduardojorgeii1465]

happy birthday stalker! here, have a vodka

[@thatchernobylguy2915]

I've been looking forward to this :)

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Please enjoy :)

[@thatchernobylguy2915]

@@anomalousdugout9557 I did!

[@B.L.I.N.O.V.]

Thank for the video ❤️

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thank you for watching.

[@cantgameright]

I love that you went so deep into this! Thanks man

[@anomalousdugout9557]

My pleasure!

[@uknown1389]

Thank you for these videos, you helped me to understand the deep lore of the stalker

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Very nice.

[@lboyadgiev8820]

As of writing this: We are 66,240 minutes away from stalker 2. Meaining you can watch this video 1577.14285714 times untill stalker 2 is released.

[@zmielov50]

о_О

[@southernbrain691]

Ah yes,very useful information

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Nice!

[@lboyadgiev8820]

@@anomalousdugout9557 As of writing we are 45 days untill stalker 2. Meaining you can watch this video 1542.85714286 times untill stalker 2 comes out. Meaining you could have watched this video 35 times.

[@southernbrain691]

@@lboyadgiev8820 Very useful... Anyway when will the next emission come?

[@ThePranabuniversal]

I was looking for this video for so long.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Glad I made it then.

[@zlostnypopolnik]

Why did I only see this video now when I was looking for your content? 42 minutes of STALKER lore, one of the best things when I create textures. Thanks!

[@PaganPilot]

Read somewhere that Stalker Mobile, told Strelok entered the zone after defecting from USS, and showed how he met Ghost and Fang.

[@Joel-vt8up]

I will be eagerly waiting for you next video ✌

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks.

[@officedullard8722]

This was a great one. To get all the info in one place like this was really helpful to get a better understanding. I also loved Strelok's voice in SoC. He just never sounded right in CS or CoP. Strelok also has the most manly hairline of a true man. I should know, I'm rocking that hairline myself.

[@carcinogenical4389]

Also worth noting is that strelok's balls appear to of dropped between clear sky and shadow of Chernobyl judging from his voices difference.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

🤣

[@HeavyMilkSyrup]

31:47 in clear sky streloks character model in red forest is wearing the tan leather loner suit and face mask so the mask theory is entirely possible

[@zoneoperator]

Strelok had his memory wiped because he figured out what's in a can of tourist delight.

[@Benetkabc2nd]

Anomalous Dugout - Still alive? Thats great!

[@starsjosephfrost]

i identify myself as Strelok.

[@randalthor6872]

playing through the trilogy right now and am glad to find this channel :) insta-subbed! I love the setting and want to discover all the little lore bits. I'm halfway through Clear Sky right now and it's pretty cool seeing Strelok's group from the outside. Thanks for this man

[@cruzen0]

A long, absorbing and interesting film, the best I've ever seen in your work, I didn't think the creators messed up this part of the plot so much, it's hard to put it together. I learned some new things and thank you very much for this video... Good job and keep it up, best regards

[@camilohernandez4156]

Nice video. I'm watching some of your old videos because I start a month ago the Stalker saga and I loss the lore sometimes.

[@CharcharoExplorer]

Finally a new video. BTW, when you get a new PC, pls do more STALKER 1 series videos. On Ultra settings if possible :P !

[@anomalousdugout9557]

I'll do my best, the PC is coming.

[@ErenYeager99]

Nice video bruh🔥

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thank you.

[@enrico_sbf]

27:33 The body stayed, buried, and his gear went on with his fellow men, like once said, "Take care of Shooter and Shooter takes care of you", his upgraded Deagle and VSS lending saving graces to comrades, as him in spirit, to then be stashed later on a homage tomb, with a pharaonic's load of meds, artifacts and etc.

[@kgbh1752]

Amazing video!

[@matthewptr_]

Great video as always

[@Buckets747]

Dude this guy got me turned me into a diehard stalker fan

Awesome video, as always. Thank you!

[@Matt-md5yt]

glad you did a video on the Group that Strelok Runs.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes.

[@germanperp651]

Return of the king

[@anomalousdugout9557]

:)

[@sirocco_root]

Great work

[@Dark_Brandon_2024]

Well, Marked One's task on PDA can only be explained that Marked One is indeed a copy and the real Strelok is out there and maybe still holds the secrets about the Zone but has to stay low because he might have discovered the fake double and it could be not wise to show up...

[@anomalousdugout9557]

That's also a theory!

[@janikiraly2]

my theory was that he was mistakenly sent to kill Strelok and it should have been Ghost as he was just as dangerous and still alive. Also explains why its Ghosts picture in the task description.

[@Yuyam12]

So you're telling me he was Reborn? As a Doppelganger?

[@_hanz73]

I freaking love this game series, the lore is just so fascinating and man I'm hooked!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

It's great!

[@Bednar121]

Awesome video, keep up the good work!

[@lecso0519]

Hello, i think you should show us all the armors in Stalker like you did with guns, that would be pretty fun

[@MomurdaTheMessiah]

Thank you for your efforts ❤

[@onsholo]

Perhaps the decode confusion thing is just the result of bad wording? Perhaps Strelok is saying to Ghost that Fang put together one decode and Ghost is saying that Fang put together 2 other decoders? That would explain the third decoder in Prypiat.

[@aruncmenon1]

you are marvelous, greetings from a hardened stalker fan

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks!

[@some-jk4nx]

i've been having an awesome day but this just made it better

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Glad to read.

[@MOWAuthor]

Always sad he wasn't named Strelak, being it would be an Anagram of Stalker.

[@NoName-bl7ot]

My favorite youtuber

[@anomalousdugout9557]

:)

[@joshuamumma6162]

Thank you so much for your hard work. See you after September 5, and as always, good hunting Stalker

[@anomalousdugout9557]

See you soon.

[@mishamelano]

I love your videos. Thank you for that.

[@Chud-mb7gl]

Hell yeah this is a good topic, underrated and not talked about as much

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks!

[@YieM1331]

Ohhh brother just heard the news and this one stings but what can one do.

[@marcfs3047]

great video 🔥🔥🔥

[@Zakxaev68]

Strelok will picklock the Stalker 2 lock to... [SPOILER SEGMENT]...

[@anomalousdugout9557]

😎

[@szynszyl1029]

NEW VIDEO TO WATCH ON 2ND MONITOR WHILE WORKING FROM HOME (thanks anomalous dugout)

[@anomalousdugout9557]

NICE.

[@XYZ-eo8um]

I wonder about those Clear Sky predictions about another great emission. They said that if Strelok would reach the Sarcophagus, another such emission would eradicate all life in the Zone, but during events of the game, it happened even after Scar fried his psy helmet. So were CS predictions wrong, or did their involvement actually saved people in the Zone?

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes, it seems to me they over exaggerated.

[@RoLexX57]

10/10 stalker 🔥

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks!

[@davidkaye8712]

I am looking forward to the new game, love this game series, and still has some of the best ambient background music in any game.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes, I bet it will be great!

[@melovi8e5]

How u gonna drop a gem at 3am❤❤❤

[@anomalousdugout9557]

I do what I can :)

[@maotexs6790]

Good video bro

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks.

[@famsisher9315]

Another banger

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks.

[@Brandelwyn]

Arrow is strela (стрела), though, strelok is more of a shooter\sharpshooter kinda name

[@Oleksandr-snk]

Maybe the guy on the photo in “kill strelok” part is not strelok but actually fang? How this photo appeared on marked one’s pda? Somebody put it there? Maybe it is the same photo killers of fang used to identify the target?

[@Brandelwyn]

Its Ghost, actually

[@zargouellette3668]

Soon as I seen the video I clicked.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thank you.

[@coltthemac962]

Any newbie Xbox homies looking into to the lore after finally getting to play this game?

[@Levdrekinn]

Wake up babe! New Anomalous Dugout vid just dropped! ❤️

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes.

[@user-hf7hl3mb2n]

@anomalousdugout9557 Hope you notice that comment. Already posted that 2 times, but i'll repost as an individual comment. I found an interesting detail. Fang from Streloks group is known to burr a lot in his speech. If you listen closely to a dialogue of unknown man in black and Skif in the "Official Gameplay Trailer" you can CLEARLY hear, that he burrs in his speech, also he said that Zone give him a new life. Probably, just a theory, it's resurrected Fang. In English version of the game Barkeep says that Fang spoke with a lisp, but in the Russian version Barkeep says that Fang burrs, what means pronouncing "r" softly with the back of the tongue. I am native russian speaker, so it was quite unexpected to hear.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes I saw your comment, sorry if I did not respond yet. It's a very interesting detail you noticed, thank you for sharing!

[@user-hf7hl3mb2n]

@@anomalousdugout9557 Sorry for spamming, it was 4 in the morning, lol, for some reason i thought it would be missed in the barrage of all of other comment. My apologiez.

[@ryszakowy]

strelok has a ton of luck that monolith's programming was so weak otherwise he would shoot himself the second he learned that HE was his target

[@MurderedinnocenceGaming]

36:00 You got a ping

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Indeed.

[@sagagis]

The Representative's voice actor is the same Lebedev's voice actor xD

[@anomalousdugout9557]

In the English version yeah.

[@grimmerjxcts2206]

Ghost was a legend Rip ghost 😔

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Let's drink to him once more, he was a good stalker.

[@kristiyanivanov3017]

T.H.E.G.O.A.T

[@anomalousdugout9557]

:)

[@theblaize8197]

One thing I never understood is if Strelok already met Sakharov in Clear Sky, how come he didn't recognize him in Shadow of Chernobyl?

[@anomalousdugout9557]

It's a mystery...

[@enriquelopez.e1231]

Simple .... Sakharov is senile

[@OXY187]

Because Shadow of Chernobyl was the first game, and it had a very difficult development stage. They designed a game for years, and then erased the majority of the project and started over again. The story of Shadow of Chernobyl is shallow and there are so many questions, that’s the reason. You can think of it as Sakharov used to saw so many people that he is not good at remembering peoples faces or Strelok had a mask on in Shadow of Chernobyl.

[@Brandelwyn]

1. Strelok wore a mask 2. He was pretty messed up after the first journey

[@abdou.the.heretic]

Strealok is also Rifleman in Russian rank I think

[@Brandelwyn]

Correct, Ive got that in my military ID

[@Brandelwyn]

Shot just two or three times in a whole year, though, lol

[@justincholos.balisang6884]

Unemployed friends on a Tuesday afternoon

[@anomalousdugout9557]

🤣

[@cosmoinstant]

I like Call of Pripyat but it seems out of place sometimes in terms of the lore and even the setting. I am wondering if it was just bad writing on the developers' side that cause the conflicting info about Strelok's group.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes it's weird in some places.

[@OXY187]

Call of Prioyat is story focused. Clear Sky is gameplay focused. Shadow of Chernobyl is focused on the world itself.

[@Brandelwyn]

Yeah, many developers left by that time to work in 4A, IIRC. Explains why CoP lacks that grim atmosphere, too.

[@PyrobananaS]

super vidéo, mais ducoup si la conscience collective est détruite les monolith il va leurs arrivée quoi ?

[@anomalousdugout9557]

On va très vite le savoir avec la sortie du prochain opus.

[@PyrobananaS]

@@anomalousdugout9557 trop hâte

[@FitzgeraldKrox]

Sorry, strelok is not arrow. Definitely translates to "shooter". Maybe also "marksman". But not arrow.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

I guess it's a wrong translation but I've seen it being used.

[@OXY187]

Gunslinger. The original name of Strelok in Oblivion Lost.

[@malaizze]

Polycule.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Ok.