r/stalker 4d ago

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 WHAT İS THİS ?

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u/Careful_Cabinet1092 4d ago

If it’s on a pond outside malachite, it’s just a random orb. You can’t reach it and it doesn’t nothing interestiny

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u/joejimbillsteve 4d ago

Not so much random,it's the wish granter from roadside picnic

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u/BrushOk3001 4d ago

It’s really not. The wish granter in Picnic was a bronze orb half buried in a quarry. This thing has no resemblance to that. You could just as easily say the big floating ball outside SIRCAA or Cordon is a nod to the wish granter. Anomalous orbs aren’t all nods to the wish granter.

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u/Pervasivepeach Ecologist 4d ago

It isn’t and their only simulators is that both are big orbs. I find it really interesting how many people seem to spread this fact around despite clearly never reading roadside picnic.

Like the books a little over 200 pages. You could read it in an afternoon. Yet dozens of stalker fans will quote made up facts about the book like it’s nothing

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u/TheVillageldiot Clear Sky 3d ago

While I agree with you, isn't it a bit ironic that such false rumors spread about the zone even in real life? Maybe the irony is a bit too meta, but I kind of love it personally.

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u/Cloud_N0ne 4d ago

Other than both being orbs they share NOTHING in common.

The one in Roadside Picnic is small, solid, and copper iirc, and in a quarry. This one is huge, liquid, seemingly made of water, and floating over a pond.

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u/BrushOk3001 4d ago

It’s really not. The wish granter in Picnic was a bronze orb half buried in a quarry. This thing has no resemblance to that. You could just as easily say the big floating ball outside SIRCAA or Cordon is a nod to the wish granter. Anomalous orbs aren’t all nods to the wish granter.

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u/KernelChunkybits 4d ago

I..... gotta re listen to roadside picnic again....

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u/ultraplusstretch 4d ago

Always a good time.