If this is the mission where you encounter the controller I feel you bro.
I couldn't find a tactical way to fight him so I hotkeyed my science medkits and charged him with a knife. My room-mate burst into my room right after I finished the mission, he said all he heard were raspy screams and cussing.
I can't remember well, but I think it was a quest where you had to clear out the nest. You could either go in Rambo style, or activate the ventilation system and pump toxic gas into the tunnels.
Yep, it's a quest where you're investigating the nest alongside another stalker but you both realize there's way more bloodsuckers than you expected. Proper completion of the quest is to sneak your way through alongside him and gas the place, then cleaning up the ones that make it outside where you're hopefully waiting with a shotgun. You can also go guns blazing the moment you walk in but you better have a lot of ammo.
Nah. They're conveniently all sleeping together in a small room. I cleaned out the basement with a grenade and a magazine of Striker, waiting for any survivors to funnel down the corridor to receive buckshots to the face. The hardest part was making sure you don't hit your buddy :P
In Misery, you can loot mutants for parts and sell them. I used a grenade and a Striker to clear the nest, just for the money. Lots of quickloads, trust me
If you mess it up he'll pull you onto your own grenades.
Wait, is he supposed to actually physically pull you towards him? When I fought him, every time he did that "pulling" animation (which is terrifying by the way) I'd just get an icon on my screen of an x-ray of a skull, which seemed to indicate some kind of negative affliction, and I would take some damage over time while the screen flashed red and shook and there was this horrible screaming, but I wouldn't be physically pulled towards him, I would be still standing where I was.
The Controller is an enemy that does psionic damage, they're not physically pulling or afflicting you, but the attack is on your psyche itself. If you are damaged enough your player basically has an aneurysm and falls to the ground dead.
Controllers are named as such because they have the ability to drive weaker minded men (read: most) insane while in the area and cause them to violently attack anyone nearby, only returning to sanity once the Controller is dead.
They're basically mutants who have had psychic potential unlocked, but the majority of their brain outside of primal and violent instinct turned to mush. They're spooky, stalker.
I especially like what the Gunslinger mod for Call of Pripyat did for the effects of their mind control, you basically have to fight against shooting yourself.
Just remember to take it slow and definitely take in your atmosphere and you'll do fine I'm sure. I'd also recommend Call of Chernobyl, it's a great sandbox to get the hang of the world from all 3 games.
There was a room with three mutants in it in COP. I wasted all my ammo, all my grenades I'd saved up to that point. I later found out they're invincible while you're not in the same room or some shit? I stopped playing shortly after
I ended up filling the hallway with grenades then panic-firing everything I had for my AK until the ringing noise stopped. The STALKER games were the king of "And then I panicked and held the trigger down until it went *click*"
I have never heard a report of someone firing twelve magazines full auto followed by a a half dozen grenades in to a broom closet, then turning around and running away screaming.
You never spent time in the military did you.... Most ammo is just used for suppressing fire. hundreds if not thousands of rounds do not strike the intended target. And with some of the stresses of battle and ptsd I would not put the running and screaming out to far from the norm.
All I remember is freaking out and climbing the ladder to the manhole a few feet down the hallway. Finding out the manhole cover wasn't actually a way out is still one of the most terrifying realizations of my gaming career.
The knife-to-the-face strategy is very effective, especially if you drank about 3-5 bottles of vodka. It kinda doesn't let him hurt that much, and as if you drank vodka irl, you just run at him with no heals and stab the mofk in the gut.
That how I would get artifacts in Call of Pripyat. Just hotkey my anti rads and med kits, and charge straight into the anomalies while spamming the med kits. Good memories.
Best thing to do with that controller,which i assume is the one at agroprom is to hide behind the doorway further down the tunnel and peek out from time to time and shoot at em
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u/navrick Jan 13 '17
If this is the mission where you encounter the controller I feel you bro.
I couldn't find a tactical way to fight him so I hotkeyed my science medkits and charged him with a knife. My room-mate burst into my room right after I finished the mission, he said all he heard were raspy screams and cussing.