"Stalker" is a true legend. A whole generation lived and breathed this game. A game that spawned a real book universe and captured the imagination of hundreds of thousands of people or more. What attracts us all to this project? First of all - the atmosphere and some lamp. Native landscapes and variability Caches in the stalker "Shadows of Chernobyl" and characters who live not according to scripts, but by themselves - all this makes the game world more than alive and quite realistic.
The dream of generations
Even before the advent of the book universe, Stalker literally blew up the gaming community from the CIS. Indeed, it is precisely to all residents of the near abroad that the disaster of 1986 that occurred at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant is close . Starting the game, the player immediately sees the elements that "relate" him to the game world. Familiar to the eye landscapes, realistic sounds and such a familiar atmosphere. It seems to the player that he did not start the game, but came home to that country, which has long been gone.
Traveling around the world, finding caches in the Shadow of Chernobyl stalker, fighting hostile stalkers, bandits and the military, the player feels familiar and a little warm. There is no thought that the events unfolding in the game take place somewhere far beyond the ocean. On the contrary, it seems that the plot of the game unfolds outside the window of the apartment, as if all these dangers of the anomalous zone actually exist.
The player is really transported into this computer universe. He is impressed by her. Many modern travelers and researchers from the direction of urban tourism began to engage in their dangerous hobbies precisely after passing the stalker and familiarizing themselves with the game’s book universe.
When the world is real
In the modern world, one of the factors for a successful start for any game project is precisely the graphic component. Indeed, playing projects that contain realistic models of objects is much more pleasant than playing old games with a huge number of polygons. However, graphics are not so important. In the stalker, by modern standards, graphics are morally outdated and are about to move into the category of retro graphics. However, thousands of people still play the game. It's all about the atmosphere. When you can just pick up and find a random cache in the Shadow of Chernobyl stalker and find out what happened to the person who made this cache or then, wandering through the anomalous zone, find the corpse of the cache’s owner, it is addictive.
The study of secrets, the study of a network of government laboratories, monsters and other dangers - they do not scare the players, but only attract and drag them even more into the game world.
What are the caches for?
A cache is a small secret warehouse of ammunition, weapons, food, or all at once. Roughly speaking, this is a "nest egg". In the Shadow of Chernobyl stalker, caches allow you to revive empty and uninhabited sections of locations. It is the presence of hiding places that gives the feeling that the location is still alive and, from time to time, lonely travelers or expeditionary groups visit it.
It is also one of the foundations for standard quest chains. There is nothing easier than receiving a tip to the caches to find it, extract the contents and transfer it to the customer. Especially when they pay for it. Some of the hiding places are plot and are part of a common story. You can find flash drives and various documents in them. For example, information about ongoing military medical experiments on people, about the locations of laboratories and how to get into them.
How to search for caches
How to find caches in the Shadow of Chernobyl stalker? Actually it is very simple. Many of them replenish themselves and appear randomly. It is worth searching various places, such as fallen pipes, trees, stones, cars and so on. Many hiding places are in backpacks. If you walk around the anomalous zone and examine the world around carefully, the player will find a lot of hiding places even at the very start of the game. For example, in the beginner's village, on the roof of one of the houses, you can find a new mercenary jumpsuit, which is very good.
Cron Arrow
We should also talk about the cache of Strelka in the stalker Shadows of Chernobyl. The fact is that this is the main plot cache, a visit to which is mandatory, and several times if you need a good ending to the game. At this point, Strelok hid not only information, a stalker overalls, a modernized Kalashnikov assault rifle and many bullets. You can also find artifacts here. The player gets into the given cache according to the plot, but you can also get there earlier by simply purchasing information about it from the informant at the location “Bar”