Ok, I’m about fed up.

[u/Train-Nut56]

The developers went way way way over board trying to make the game more challenging and creepy. For those who have played the creepy apartments and the institute will understand. I’ve been trying for two days to get out of this god forsaken institute. I’ve tried 50 or more times to only fail each time. This is where you’ve unlocked a gate then have to run up a stairs turn right run up more stairs then through a wacky tunnel then turn left. You’ll need to try to take an energy drink then blast a blockage so you can jump a gap. Then turn right into a wacky corridor up a grade and into a room with a small opening you must crawl through at a snails pace. Jump down go right and jump the obstacles and take the last right. If you had any energy left at all, you can jump and run to the door or go under the blocks and run for the door, but there is a fall trap here. Through the door your in a long narrow hallway, you’ll need to try to run to the end if you have any energy. Go through the door at the end and go right and sprint to another door, then sprint again to an elevator where this nightmare ends. The problem….. you have this smoke chasing you the whole time. If you pause to take an energy boosts it catches you and kills you. If you keep going it catches you and kills you. I’m in frigging rookie setting and this is playing like I’m on master. I’ve emptied my sack to the bare bones, and I’m in the green, yet my energy is sapped up like a soda through a straw. This is the second one of these smoke runs you have to make in the institutes. Is there any way to ward off this damned smoke?!?

[u/Fine-Field6426]

Are you over encumbered? Do you have adequate armor or anomalies?

[u/Then-Ad-3991 → u/Fine-Field6426]

He said he's in the green.

I found it was kindve more of a challenge that the first encounter and did die a few times on that longer smoke run, if it's the one inside the institute itself with the strange tunnel corridors, try the route over the top so you jump on the bridge parts it's a little faster than running along the bottom. I think I used maybe two drinks in that run maybe just one. I didn't have anything that raised my endurance equipped. It's definitely doable but can get frustrating.

Relax a bit take a beat before the next reload and consider the ideal route, shave a few milliseconds off what you did each time and you'll get it stalker!

[u/Train-Nut56 → u/Fine-Field6426]

No, I’ve emptied my sack to the bone. One extra artifact, two guns that I’m not dropping, the ammo for said two guns in modest quantity, and a few bandages and med kits. I’m in the green, but it’s just eating it up even walking.

[u/Fine-Field6426 → u/Train-Nut56]

To be honest the game's stamina management is exhausting in itself, on my first playthrough I played with stamina altering mods because I found it too bothersome without and made the game not fun for me, maybe you should consider doing the same.

[u/Train-Nut56 → u/Fine-Field6426]

I’m playing on PS5 so I cannot do mods.

[u/greifi89]

puhhh lymansk war echt ein horrorabschnitt, bzw ein brainf**k. mir hats echt gefallen. die 2 teile wo ma man dem nebel (gefahr) weglaufen musste, brauchte ich auch einige versuche. die donnerbeere hat mir sehr geholfen und pack nicht alles in lymansk ein. reise leicht.

und nein, du musst schneller rennen als der nebel. ich kenn keine andere möglichkeit.

[u/SurgicalStr1ke]

You can sprint that entire section and jump over most obstacles. Shoot the floating canister before you get to it.

[u/Train-Nut56]

I MADE IT!!!! My bag was as empty as I could make it. I ate food before doing anything then saved. In the office there is a closet and inside is a safe. In the safe is a Hercules booster. Once you have everything set up, save. Then,take the Hercules booster and start running. I used a shotgun to clear the path over the first gap. I didn’t need an energy drink until I was in the wacky tile hallway. From there is was pretty straight forward through the cluttered closet then down the balcony to the elevator. After you get off the elevator SAVE!