S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Secret Underground Areas #8 - Laboratory X-8 "Central Laboratory" (Lore & Theories)

Hello stalkers, and welcome to the eighth episode of our series about the secret underground areas of the Zone. This time we will explore the lore of the last remaining location, laboratory X-8 also known as the central laboratory.
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00:00 Intro
00:56 Before the Lab
03:10 Yubileiny Service Center
04:55 Storage Room
06:26 The Mutants
07:20 The Experiments
13:45 Last Details
15:32 Closing Thoughts

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[@thatoneguy-nf7su]

Man the amount of people skyrocketed in minutes

[@loader2755]

ChunkyRats

[@TheDemotivator1]

Just a thing I noticed - the 'tanks' extending into the walls with the hatch wheel in the labs are probably autoclaves, they show up in medical, research, and certain industrial facilities. Mostly they're used for sterilizing equipment and tools with high-pressure steam, but they are also useful for studying the effects of, well, high pressure and temperature.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes, I think this could very well be the case.

[@milentanev7340]

Amazing video. I wish that STALKER 2 will include all X Labs , all 18 of them.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks, we'll see if it will.

[@deadshot4245]

@@anomalousdugout9557 I hope so too greatest game of all time stalker series

[@TheShkar]

Why do you think there is only 18?)

[@milentanev7340]

@@TheShkar Of all that are mentioned in the game(s), X18 is the biggest number. But if there are more, It will be amazing.

[@XYZ-eo8um]

IMO the best method to get rid of that one Burer in the toilet, faking baby's cry is to arm oneself with Gauss rifle, aim and then open the door. But it's good thing to quicksave before it, because once you miss that SOAB or he'll manage to pull your gun from your hands, he likes to lock himself there and throw everything around at you, so aim and timing is a key.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes that's probably a good method. I just don't like using the Gauss rifle.

[@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012]

Or just use a fucking knife cause he hit like a baby

[@ferenctoka]

@3:03 hahah buddy did an action move front flip. That was hilarious!

[@sighahnyde2215]

For the question of how the various facilities and x labs still have power: reactors 1, 2 and 3 might still be in use by the c consciousness via monolith. In real life the reactors, except for reactor 4 for obvious reasons, were used for a long time after the incident. The plant only just stopped producing electricity entirely when reactor 3 was shut down in the year 2000. You don't have to suspend your disbelief so much to think that the power plant is still in use in the games setting.

[@julianomilosevic1747]

That's my boy, you made my day.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Good hunting, stalker.

[@markomalinovic7087]

Kako se zoves na steam-u

[@Medstudent2024]

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[@S.T.A.L.K.E.R_fan]

Burer : *makes baby cry* Degtrayev : i am about to end this man whole career

[@anomalousdugout9557]

That's right.

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[@BB-84]

One thing that I like the Stalker game most is the underground facilities. They thrilled me and pushed me to explore because of their unknown mysterious secrets. Too bad that this is the last of the series. I really look forward to seeing more new underground facilities in stalker 2

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes, the underground locations were very well made.

[@zherean42069]

x-20 the sequel

[@zherean42069]

@@anomalousdugout9557 Also can you help me? when i pick up a document in gunslinger mod the screen goes black and then freezes or outside of a cutscene in jupiter (sorry for my bad grammar)

[@NomadShadow1]

lol yes, love how you messed up those burrers with the rpg at the end lol. I missed a lot of this detail in my play throughs because the underground labs alway freak me out and I rush through them. Doubly so for this one because of the creepy baby sound lol

[@anomalousdugout9557]

I spared all the rockets I could find just for them.

[@mikhailbolodo1597]

An update from you always brightens my day man, great work!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks!

[@abdullah_750]

The lab x7 mentioned in one of the document was I think supposed to be the part of trilogy but was eventually cut out, however you can still visit lab x7 in Lost Alpha. Also will you please make a video on Lost Alpha's lore and theories? It might have many answers to SOC, CS and COP storyline. It will be an interesting addition to lore and theories.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

While Lost Alpha is interesting, I would rather not get started on mods lore.

[@abdullah_750]

@@anomalousdugout9557 I mean to make video only discussing its story or any cut out lore from pre-builds

[@volgrom6628]

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[@mingospup]

As always my friend - an excellent video. I had just ran through X8 a few weeks ago and missed a lot of what you showed here.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks!

[@savkemdfk]

Amazing video, you never dissapoint. Made my day :)

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks, that's nice.

[@XanderNiles]

My favorite locations out all of the 3 games always were Pripyat and Outkirts but there's something about the underground labs that keeps anyone with their eyes peeled. The mystery and the lore behind it is very intriguing.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yeah, the underground locations have something special.

[@whyjnot420]

4:22 This is a perfect illustration of something Mark Twain wrote in a letter to Rudyard Kipling.... "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

[@NIKSBR]

You did very awesome and detailed videos on Stalker Games brother..!! Great

[@thatoneguy-nf7su]

The crying burer gives me the chils

[@anomalousdugout9557]

That's understandable.

[@tungoviet6189]

Thanks for the video man, really appreciate your contribution to the stalker community. We would be very happy to some more content when stalker 2 release. Ps: Do you think that you will make a video about event that happened between CS-SoC and CoP, like how the CoP map was formed (the vanishing of southern part of the map...). 🤟🤟

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks. I'm not sure if I'll make such video, only time will tell.

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Privyet AD, love your short stories. Can you do more like about the Mercs or maybe mutant hunters.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Glad you like them. I am planing on making one about mercenaries.

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i was waiting for you for the best videos

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Patience is always rewarded.

[@viiikalendasjulii4649]

When playing, you never truly realise how much detail was put into these underground areas

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[@nikoslavigra3736]

Cool Videos again and again the Underground series is the best

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks, only one episode left though.

[@domothehomo6234]

Love how you see the burer and open fire, and he just yanks your pkm out your hands l, you go pick it up and do it again.

[@iehudim]

great video bro, greetings from southern Brasil

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks!

[@StalkerModDeveloper]

Amazing video stalker

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thank you.

[@WroobelChannel]

Long time no see friend. Good to have You back!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Is two weeks really that long?

[@WroobelChannel]

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[@3ure]

Man I love this channel even though I cannot ever hope to understand stalker lore

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Of course you can understand.

[@isaiahdees2309]

In both SoC and CoP you have Petruha, in SoC he was the leader of the experienced stalkers at the cordon attacking the bandits to get to Nimble and Petruha near the boiler anomaly in CoP. Major Alexander Alexandrovitsch Degtyarev is major Degtyarevs entire name.

[@davidponder1654]

The first few seconds of the video caused me physical pain. I got so sick and tired of those short little shits taking my gun from me in my first play through

[@alfredohernandez9247]

Such and amazing video..

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Thanks a lot.

[@DavidBrown-zp5br]

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[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yeah!

[@177Willy]

Maybe for the next Q&A: Because of many connections between the stalker games and roadside picnic, will you make any content on this?

[@anomalousdugout9557]

No, I don't think I will.

[@vanilla7751]

Nice👍👍.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes.

[@justmetonyxd3218]

Eyy a new video pls make a ranking video of all stalker games plus mods

[@anomalousdugout9557]

I don't think I'll do such rankings.

[@samargrewal929]

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! new lore video

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Indeed.

[@MrMastrmonstr]

so is the locked silver cabinet by the crying baby room

[@anthonyirwin6627]

Interesting, X8 was actually the original planned X18, albeit much larger. They recycled the X18 interior and cut some locations to make X8

[@falcomaksim3320]

Lets goooo

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes!

[@totalitarian_rock]

My man is looking at the weirdest little thing and making entire pot points from them

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Details matter :)

[@chongli8409]

X7 may be warlabs at generators

[@robcampbell2164]

Sin was cut from the game. The files suggest their locations were close to the labs. They were in competition for the data? What is the significance of the 'bogs'. Chernobog, Strilobog and I think one other? Great lore with a great story teller!

[@anomalousdugout9557]

I believe Sin's base was supposed to be in the Military Warehouses. A similar group that was cut was indeed interested in the labs (X-18 at least), it was called Black Slugs. I have no idea what Chernobog and Strilobog are.

[@raphmaster23]

The bogs are various God's in the Slavic Pantheon

[@robcampbell2164]

@@raphmaster23 Interesting, I did not know that. I wonder what, if any, the connection the devs were making.

[@Tyme_Whyrlwynd]

X-8 is the creepiest laboratory in my opinion. It's a lot larger than X-18 and X-16, and the sound of the crying baby emitted by the Burer is incredibly unsettling.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

It's debatable, but I understand and respect your opinion.

[@iamrussian5023]

are all labs connected since traveling from lab to lab would be extremely dangerous?

[@ResistanceLion]

In real life we had spec ops versions of m-tac sniper rifles by the beginning of the war in 2014 acquired by smugglers/black market gun dealers, and we had some tropheic/looted russian weapons as well, but after the mass attack in 2022 (& bullets for them, of course). It may just be a part of a real world - i know where to get sub-mil grade FPGA and non-chinese, but not mass-produced intel chips just because i have studied for electronics engineer, same thing with military professions i'll guess, or another way to acquire service weapon - is to steal it, being a service man, russian soldier could probably be a stalker in S.t.a.l.k.e.r universe

[@nicaalex6062]

those burer mfs are so annoying and hard to kill.even with an auto shotgun.but they are interesting in a way and I wonder about their lore and how they look like mutated bandits with super powers

[@brambourgojgurt7973]

I dont understand it, the name of the clear sky scientist is not Kalachanka but Beanpolev, can somebody explain? btw nice solving of burer problem at the end of video :D

[@anomalousdugout9557]

That's a problem of translation. In some languages he is named Kalancha and others Beanpolev but it's the same person.

[@brambourgojgurt7973]

@@anomalousdugout9557 ok, thanks

[@jfs1291]

Just a quick correction... The weapon in the storage room is an AN-94. Not 95.

[@prophetthelast7849]

I never got he second card and never opened the room wih the RU weapons.I will,next time i play the game.But i had this theory about the Russian army being involved in the expeiments somehow.Nice knowing this detail.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Alright.

[@guidoferrari5415]

Krug antenna complex has a wierd underground area

[@anomalousdugout9557]

True, it's a bloodsucker lair.

[@juho3434]

Important note: Laboratory X-8 was originally supposed to be located not in Pripyat but in cut map Generators as "War Lab"

[@anomalousdugout9557]

That is correct. The location was recycled in Call of Pripyat.

[@juho3434]

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[@anomalousdugout9557]

@@juho3434 Thanks a lot.

[@dutyer2005]

Haha I’m finally not late

[@anomalousdugout9557]

Yes!

[@ryanvandoren1519]

Ah yes, I still remember the way my pants smelled after I heard the baby crying for the first time.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

RIP pants.

[@scorchdraken3513]

It could be possible that the document referencing lab "X10" might have been intending to say "X19" and just happened to be a typo that was missed by the developers before the game was released. As for the steam coming from that tank, it could be possible that it is a steam anomoly. As you had mentioned in previous videos of fire anomolies and chemical anomolies existing in places that flammable substances and toxic chemicals had been previously.

[@loader2755]

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[@lebedev7153]

I wonder if x8 is connected to the other labs.

[@anomalousdugout9557]

In terms of story, it definitely is. In terms of tunnels, who knows? It may have a connection with the Pripyat 1 Underpass.

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[@anomalousdugout9557]

No, and I never will.

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@@IKVID Making videos is a hobby for me, not my job. Besides, I don't deserve to earn money while making videos about something that isn't mine (property of GSC).

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[@myeenah9111]

What happen if we don't leave the zone in the end of the game?

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You can continue to play and complete quests.

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[@anomalousdugout9557]

@@myeenah9111 I'm not sure about the crash, but the "I don't trust you" line is quite a mystery among the players.

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