In this article we will tell you in detail about the passage of the plot modification of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - "The Golden Ball or the Adventures of Zhekan."

The plot of the new mod centers on the second Chernobyl disaster, as a result of which the Zone began to grow rapidly. Its inhabitants mutate literally before our eyes, acquiring new amazing abilities. Expeditions by military and scientists inside the perimeter in order to find out the causes of the disaster end in failure over and over again.

In this situation, the young stalker Zhekan goes to the center of the Zone with a goal known only to him...

"Stalker: Golden Ball". Walkthrough of the "Cordon" location

After appearing in the Zone, move to the checkpoint until the chase begins. Surrender to the military to get into a cell. At the end of the interrogation, you need to pick up the first aid kit lying on the table, drink the pills and talk to the military man. You need to pretend to be sick. After a few seconds, a soldier will open the cell door - you must immediately run. You have about half a minute to hide in a safe zone, otherwise the hero will be shot by a sniper.

Beginning of the video walkthrough Stalker Golden Ball:

When you run away, you will need to go to a meeting with a man near the village. Together with him you will be taken to the camp, where you will meet the inhabitants. Skidan will give you the equipment. I recommend fulfilling all the requests that stalkers have in the location. To get to the other side, you must overcome the railway embankment. Near the mill near the bridge, catch a signal for help. Move to the window and chat with the Wolf. It was locked, and the key is in the hands of unknown people. Agree to help by stealing the key.

Move to the place where the unknown people stop, hide behind the boxes and take the key. You need to move to the key from the side where the sleeping sentry is located. When you open the Wolf's door, talk to him again. Agree to help and follow the unknown, hiding in the bushes. People will go inside the mill, but as soon as you get close to it, they will disappear. There will be a flash drive lying on the floor. Pick it up and move towards Skidan. Talk about a flash drive.

Skidan

When you walk past the carriage standing next to the road, you will again receive a distress signal. Approach a wounded person, agree to help him, after which you will immediately encounter unknown people. You can run away from here, you can kill everyone, one way or another the wounded person will disappear. Tell Skidan what happened. He will tell you that you need to move beyond the railway, and will also tell you exactly how this can be accomplished. After talking with the man, move to the indicated point and wait for the signal that the merchant gives. When you receive the signal, wait for the moment when the unknown persons are near the piece of iron.

Provoke them and wait until people pass into the anomaly, then run through the iron. It will be no more than 15 seconds! The path to the Zone is clear, but it’s impossible to go back yet.

There is an alternative way to pass this section. Skidan will tell you about the tunnel in which the anomaly is located. It's not that easy to get through! To do this, you will need a suit located at the military checkpoint. To get it, you will have to put on a camouflage outfit received from Skidan (which will allow you to hide from snipers), enter the territory of this camp and get inside the barracks (in this case, you need to find a hole in the fence near the toilet. But that’s not all! You must find the code from the safe, and you will be given a hint. You can pick up the suit from the safe, and then leave the checkpoint using any method.

So, as soon as you find yourself on the other side of the piece of iron, move to the farm and help the scout kill the mutants. After this, go with the man to a shelter near you. When you are there, talk to Andrey. During the conversation, you will see a military man who will fall to the floor and ask for help. Chat again with Andrey, who will say that you need artifacts from the cache (a marker will appear on the map). Do what you need to do, go back and see that the soldier has already recovered. In a conversation with Andrey, you will learn that the intelligence officer tested the hero for decency.

Talk to the military man to find out who he is. The soldier wants to get to the checkpoint, but he can’t get through the piece of iron. To get through it, you will need a unique artifact, which is owned by Vasily, a stalker living in the Landfill. The three of you go there. There will be corpses near the checkpoint, and on its territory you will see bandits. One of the most notable figures here is Abdul, who works for the gang.

To go further, the bandits demand 200,000 rubles, but we don’t have that kind of money. You are offered to escape from the checkpoint, but the main character decides to talk to Abdul. Show him the flash drive you found earlier. Give it back, and in return ask to neutralize the bandits. Abdul will fulfill the request. You will receive the key, after which you can move on. Abdul will disappear.

"Stalker: Golden Ball". Walkthrough of the "Dump" location

Once in the landfill, pay attention to the anomaly clouds. The hero must get to the carriage near the transition to the “Bar” location. The best option for this is to move along the right side of the location. Having approached the carriage where Vasily is hiding, you will find that the stalker is not at home. A little later, however, he will appear on the spot. Once inside, talk to Vasily and find out that you can’t get into the bar because of the minefield. You can get through it using an armored personnel carrier, but it is broken. You must find a gearbox for a car that was lost in the Dark Valley. However, the passage to the valley is already blocked by an anomaly called “Cloud”. In order to dispel it, you will have to combine three artifact balls - red, yellow and green.

Move to the cross near the shelter and read the clue. Find the yellow ball that is located inside the excavator. There is a green artifact on the tree. In front of the tree itself you will see an anomaly selecting artifacts. Before going there, it is best to hide the artifacts in another place in advance. Finally, the red ball lies on a barrel near the ruins. To climb the barrel, you need to catch the teleporter that lives right nearby. Wait for a teleporter (spot of light) to fly towards you so that it will take you to the red ball.

"Stalker: Golden Ball". Walkthrough of the location "Dark Valley"

Near the transition point you will meet Seryoga, who is a scout. Together with him you will find yourself in a shelter, where you will hear a story about the Pied Piper and mutants in the factory. You will also recognize the same gearbox. Find the remains of the Pied Piper inside the factory (there will be a marker) and take the flamethrower, suit and canister. Read the note to learn that another fuel canister is required. Go to the gas station, but be careful - there are security turrets here. Find the corpse, which will have an empty canister.

Climb to the top of the tank, hide from the turrets behind the barrels and fill the canister with fuel through the neck. Combine both canisters (to do this you need to use one of them), charge the flamethrower, put on the suit and clear out the mutant lair. After that, take the key and get inside the shelter. Find the Pied Piper's tools and equipment. The door to the laboratory will be closed. Find the parts to launch the cutter, cut the blockage and go down into the dungeon.

"Stalker: Golden Ball". Walkthrough of the location "Laboratory X-18"

At the entrance you are attacked by a test subject. After waking up in the punishment cell, talk to the mutant and find out what exactly happened here. After a few seconds you will see Thirteen. Together with him you will go on experiments. The hero will find himself in a chamber with increased radiation. Chat with another test subject to learn about the cache under the stairs. When you aim your sight at the box, you will see a riddle. As an answer, you will need to enter the date when the mainland was discovered (you will find it on the Internet).

After taking the items, you will be able to leave, as Thirteen will let you go. But you can’t leave the laboratory yet, but you can move around it freely. Search the room with the barrel, take the gearbox for the armored personnel carrier and meet other mutants. You can complete their tasks. Having done this, you will have to help Twelve in opening the safe. To do this, you will need a decoder located in the room near the entrance to the laboratory. Approach it, but the door will be closed. Electricity required. Interact with the electrical panel, read the instructions and try different combinations of pressing the levers. When you do everything correctly, the door will open, and you can take the decoder from the diplomat.

Having used it to open the Twelfth’s safe, give him the documents and agree to take the food to the punishment cell for the Tenth. Talk to the Thirteenth so that he allows you to go to the Tenth. Talk to him now to find out about the conspiracy. After the conversation, move towards the prisoners inside the cage and take their knife. Help the mutant near the barrel repair the wiring, and then patch the hole in the pipes. Follow the Thirteenth and agree to take part in the emitter test. Once the test starts, pull the lever located on the device on the side of the wall. The thirteenth will be neutralized, and you can finish him off.

Search the corpse and take the map, and then follow to the first tier, where you will need to finish off the mutants in bathrobes. Having met the prisoners near the door, you will receive the next task - to find three large and two small circuits. These parts are scattered in boxes and backpacks in the laboratory. After finding the schematics, open the door and make your way through the laboratory. After you enter the hall with the turrets, jump into the passage on the left side. There will be equipment there. Break the box to reveal grenades. Use grenades to destroy the turrets and go to the doctor's office. After talking with him, take the key and things and leave the laboratory.

Continuation of the adventures of Zhekan: passing the location "Dark Valley"

When you clear the laboratories and find yourself on the surface, you will receive a message from Seryoga. Go to him and chat. This is how you will learn about the building, the “Hive” artifact. The last one, by the way, needs to be found. Find the thief's lair, where you will meet with Izlom. Talk to the creature to learn about the headache. He asks to find the pills. Having agreed, use the laptop and talk to Pilman. This way you will learn about the scientists who are waiting for you at the location. Find the marker and follow them. Scientists offer to buy the artifact, but to get the tablets, you will need a third-level artifact. Agree, give the tablets to Izlom in the lair and ask about the Hive. Which is located near the metal building.

Talk to Seryoga and go to the box near the factory. Chat with the scout again and enter the factory territory. When you go down the stairs, an explosion will occur - this is a tripwire. Once in the cell, you will see how Seryoga is killed, and will also meet Abdul. Talk to him, ask about the experiment, find out how to leave the cell. Throw the bolt at the button on the wall. When the door opens, run to the dead in the far corner, search their bodies and take the knife. Talk to Abdul again, leave the basement and go in search of the key. You also need to find the door, and deal with the agents along the way.

When you find the key inside the backpack on the first floor, in the room opposite the arsenal, then go to Borov’s office and pick up another key from the arsenal. Find a generator on the roof of this building, disarm the turrets and disable the protective barrier. On the same roof, destroy the crystal, go down to Abdul and talk with the man. Follow to the shelter, talk to Abdul there and return to the Landfill to the armored personnel carrier.

Dump

Unfortunately, there are no more partners at the Landfill. Find the note and read it. Talk to Abdul and tell him about the kidnapping. He will share the interception plan. Go to meet the bandits, talk to Abdul again near the camp and move to the racketeer with whom you need to talk. After completing the dialogue, activate the artifact and take the PDA from the corpse. Run to the marker that appears on the map and find friends in the indicated area. Chat with Vasily, return to the shelter, where you will continue the conversation with him. Give the gearbox, jump into the armored personnel carrier, start it and go to the bar.

"Stalker: Golden Ball". Walkthrough of the "Bar" location

Once in the bar area, leave the armored personnel carrier and talk to Abdul to then move forward. There is an anomaly on the bus. Without coming too close, talk to Abdul, then move over the corpses and jump to the door located in front. Taking the radio will turn off the anomaly. Move forward to the corpse of a soldier, near whom the walkie-talkie is lying. After taking it, contact the scientist to find out that he is located inside the tower at the factory. Talk to Abdul to learn about the machine gun inside the truck. Follow the tower and kill the dead. When you are near her, talk with the scientist about the virus, and then with Abdul to find out that the man is also infected, and the medicine is not working.

Talk to the scientist again and find out about another medicine that was lost during the landing. A marker will appear on the map where the cargo should be. Go to the indicated location, find the Dwarf and approach him. Follow him, approach the dead man and search to find the key. Continue following the Dwarf, find out that you must find a Cheburashka. Head back to the scientist and talk to him about the Cheburashka. You will recognize the warehouse and a mark will appear. When you open the door with the key, you will see a zombie with a weapon. Move to the basement and go through the door leading to the arena.

Talk to Alan, find out who the mutant is and go to battle. We are talking about a pseudogiant. There will be a green anomaly in the arena. The mutant can only be damaged if it is hit by a person located inside the anomaly. After each successful hit, the anomaly will move. It will take about ten shots from the anomaly to destroy the pseudo-giant.

After killing him, search the body and find the key to the safe. Talk to Alan and you will recognize him as a scientist. Take the toy lying in the safe, use it near the Dwarf and in return you will receive a vaccine. Return to the scientist to find out everything. The vaccine can be administered by a person in a helicopter. Also, a certain group of customers needs the vaccine, so the hero will have to buy it. To do this, you need to find a unique artifact. Hand over the artifact, the scientist will spray the vaccine and leave this place. Talk to Abdul to find out that he cannot leave here. After a while you will receive a message indicating that it is ready. In the meantime, you can help Alan.

"Stalker: Golden Ball". Walkthrough of the "Army Warehouses" location

Talk to Abdul and move towards the barrier, which will be closed by an electrical anomaly. The man will ask you to find a unique material with which you can pass through the anomaly. Go to the place where a scout is hiding inside the refrigerator in the central building. He pretends to be crazy and tries to escape from GG. There is no point in pursuing him. Go to the first barracks and take the documents from the box, killing the poltergeist. Follow the marker to find the scout's cache, pick up the key and go to the second barracks. There will be a spatial anomaly of different colors. It's easy to go through - white, blue and red.

After overcoming the anomaly, find other documents inside the box and see a marker pointing to the cache. There will be a bottle inside it. Drink the contents, and when you come to your senses, you will be in some village. It's not easy to leave her. You will receive a message from Makar. Run to his house, avoiding the bloodsuckers. Explore the buildings, bring the necessary items and receive the task. You need to either find the parts of the icon or repair the device. If you decide to repair the icons, then follow the markers and inspect the boxes. When you find four parts, they will be combined into one. You will return to Makar's house, and the anomaly will disappear and you will be able to move freely.

If you decide to work on the device, then climb to the top of the tower and use the device from your inventory. This will dispel the anomaly. Return to Makar and leave the village. Go to the madman, talk to him and show him the device. He will say that in order to defuse the anomaly at the barrier, you need to turn on the antenna. Do this and return to Abdul. Go with him to Radar.

"Stalker: Golden Ball". Walkthrough of the "Radar" location

As soon as you find yourself at the location, the main character will feel bad. You will lose consciousness, but will see a scientist in front of you, trying to figure out the plans. Talk to him, come to your senses and talk to Abdul. Follow forward, Abdul will be tripped and injured. Four agents will appear that you must finish off. Having done this, talk again with Abdul, who will ask for time to recover, but for now he will offer to work on the destruction of Agent Phoenix, the best in the business.

Go to the crashed helicopter, where the Phoenix will appear. If you shoot at him, he will use teleportation. You must get into the agent's head. This will cause him to fall down, and you will be able to interrogate him. Afterwards, return to Abdul and see that he has been kidnapped. Read the note at the crime scene to learn about its location - the X-10 laboratory. You can immediately go to Pripyat, or you can go to the laboratory and try to save Abdul. If in this case you put on an agent suit and a gas mask, then they will not recognize the GG. You can even chat with them and complete a series of quests to get to X-10's laboratory. But you can immediately attack them in order to find the key to the entrance to the bunker from the Prophet.

"Stalker: Golden Ball". Walkthrough of the location "Laboratory X-10"

If you get here with a fight, the timer is activated. When time runs out, Abdul will be killed by agents. Therefore, you need to try to get into the far room as quickly as possible, killing everyone in your way. Save Abdul, he will ask you to turn on the brain burner. Do this using the lever in the hall, and then run away from here.

Radar

Run as quickly as possible to the transition point to Pripyat. If you don’t make it before the time runs out, the burner will also kill the GG.

"Stalker: Golden Ball". Walkthrough of the location "Pripyat"

If you came here without saving Abdul, then the task related to finding his cache will be activated. In the cache you will find a note that tells you what to do next. If you came with a character, then talk to him and move across the street. At the fork, Abdul will be mortally wounded by a sniper. In the last conversation you will learn about the time capsule. Follow the marker to the kindergarten, find a case in the yard near the car and take out the documents from it, and then get inside.

In kindergarten you need to avoid the teleporter moving along the corridor, otherwise you will return to the yard. On the first tier, find the brownie. After killing him (focus on the sound), pick up the key to the first aid station. Inside the first aid station on the second tier, read the magazine, proceed down and kill the second brownie. Take the key to the refrigerator, go to the kitchen and find a jar of pills inside the refrigerator. Jump into the teleport located in the corridor so that it will transfer the main character to a secret room with teleports. Go through three similar rooms and at the end you will find yourself in the director's office. Inside the safe there is a newspaper that talks about the time capsule. Now go to the bus station.

On its territory, find a room with a safe. Fight the bloodsucker, kill him and open this safe with your claw. There will be a note inside with the meeting location. Go there, talk to the Apostle, who will be a neutral character. You will have two options - agree and listen to him, or attack the agent. If you attack, be prepared to fight with a dozen more enemies that should be killed. The Apostle will have the key to the stadium on his body. Head there. If you agree to listen to the sermon, you will find yourself at the stage where the agent is reading the speech. Once completed, he will ask you for a drink. You will lose consciousness and come to your senses on the roof of the house. The Mind will appear. Chat with him, protect him from ghosts and then return back. Agents will be deactivated. Interrogate the Apostle, take the key to the stadium and go to him.

When you are on its territory, a helicopter will appear. Run away from him towards the fallen helicopter, take out the rocket launcher and shoot down the enemy helicopter with one hit. Search the agent's corpse inside the carriage and follow the marker to the time capsule in which the diagram is located. Now you can go to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

"Stalker: Golden Ball". Walkthrough of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant location

There is an anomaly here that changes the weather and increases the level of radiation. There are also several armor-destroying whirlwinds. In this area, it is best to use a scientific suit. Search the corpse near the bridge to get a task to find the fourth part of the code for the door leading to the station. Follow the markers and search the dead. A radioactive storm will begin. Hide from him in specially designated areas indicated on the map.

Find another agent who turns out to be alive, but will be hiding from the GG. Read the information on his laptop to get the marker on the altar. Search him, take the fragment and return to the agent. Give the shard to receive part of the code. Open the door, after which you will find yourself in an ambush.

"Stalker: Golden Ball. Completion." Walkthrough of the "Control Center" location

This is the last level that you will overcome without interference. Find a computer on the table in the central room. Use the microcircuit on him to make the chief scientist appear. Talk to him. Using the computer, deactivate the Golden Ball's protection to open the door to the hall with it. Approach the Ball, after which there will be two options - touch it or wait until it overheats and escape through another door. This will determine the gone ending.

About the plot:
The action takes place in 2008 (more specifically, August 18). A year has passed since the second explosion. The Zone is still young, but anomalous activity in it is already widespread. There are no groups (everyone who got inside calls themselves “scouts” or “newcomers” depending on their experience), there are no bases, in total there are from 30 to 50 people in the Zone (not counting the military at checkpoints). No one really knows anything about anomalies, mutants, etc., but the first artifacts have already fallen into the hands of scientists and humanity has been able to appreciate them.
A young man comes to the Zone. Only the following are known about him: 1) Nickname (Zhekan); 2) Goal in the Zone (find the “Wish Granter”); 3) In the past, he is an ordinary person, with no experience of surviving in extreme conditions.
Secondary quests: Walkthrough guide:

1) CORDON.

1. We appear in the zone, go to the checkpoint, where the military are immediately sent in pursuit of us, we surrender, we end up in a cell
2. After the interrogation, we need to take the first aid kit from the table, drink the pills, and talk to the Soldier who is running to the toilet (We need to pretend to be sick).
3. After some time, the Soldier will open the door for us, and we need to immediately run. We will have about 30 seconds to run to a safe distance, otherwise the sniper will kill the GG
4. After escaping, we need to meet a man near the Village, he will take us to the camp, where we get to know its inhabitants. We can get equipment from Skidan. Then we can act independently. I advise you to fulfill all the requests of the Stalkers in the Village
5. The path to another part of the location is blocked by a railway embankment, which kills anyone who approaches it. At the Old Mill, which stands near the bridge, we catch a request for help
6. We go to the window, talk to the Wolf, find out that it was locked, and strangers have the keys. We agree to paint the keys.
7. We go to the Strangers' parking lot, and while remaining unnoticed, we take the key from the backpack (Strangers will also sit by the fire, so that we are not discovered, we need to approach the backpack from the side of the sleeping sentry)
8. After we open the door, we need to talk to the Wolf, he offers to follow the strangers. We agree, we hide in the bushes
9. Strangers enter the mill, as soon as we approach them, they will disappear, leaving an object on the floor that looks like a flash drive
10. We go with the Flash Drive to Skidan, he recognizes some kind of electronic device in the Flash Drive.
11. After we pass by the trailer by the road, we will catch a call for help.
12. We approach the wounded man, agree to help, but after that we are immediately attacked by strangers
13. You can run, you can kill strangers, in any case, after the conversation the wounded person will disappear.
14. We tell Skidan about what happened. He advises going for the piece of iron, Skidan tells how this can be done.
15. After talking with Skidan, go to the indicated place, wait for a signal from the merchant
16. As soon as the signal is received, we wait until strangers approach the piece of iron
17. We provoke them with our appearance, wait until they get into the anomaly, and then quickly cross the piece of iron (We will have about 15 seconds). The path to the zone is clear, but it is not possible to return back at the moment.
    1. Alternative passage option!!!
    2. Skidan tells us an alternative option for passing through a tunnel with an anomaly through which it is impossible to just get through
    3. To get through the Tunnel we need a suit from a military checkpoint, to get it we need to:
       a) put on Skidan’s camouflage suit (for shelter from army snipers),
       b) quietly get to the checkpoint and into the barracks itself (you should climb over the fence near the toilet and try not to be noticed),
       c) pick up the code to the safe with the arsenal (there will be a hint) and, taking the suit from there, leave the checkpoint in any possible way.
18. After we made our way behind the piece of iron, we go to the farm, where he helps the scout fight off the mutants, and we go with him to a shelter nearby.
19. After we arrive at the shelter, we speak with scout Andrey
20. During the conversation, a military man enters the shelter, falls to the floor, and asks for help.
21. We speak with Andrey, he asks to bring an artifact from the cache (the cache will be marked on the map)
22. Upon our return we see a healthy Military man. In a conversation with Andrey, we learn that the task was to test the GG for integrity.
23. We talk with the military man and find out that he was the co-pilot of the downed helicopter. The major wants to return to the checkpoint, but Zhelezka is blocking the way. The ability to cross the piece of iron without casualties can be provided by a special artifact that the stalker Vasily has in the Landfill. Since there are no more options, we go to the Landfill at 3.
24. At the checkpoint we find the corpses of newcomers. At the checkpoint itself we see racketeers Tyrsa and Shustrila and a certain Abdul, who is in the service of the racketeers.
25. The bandits ask for 200 thousand for passage, and since the GG does not have that kind of money, Andrei begins to threaten Tyrsa, for which he receives a psychic blow from Abdul, the major is also disarmed, Tyrsa invites us to get out of the checkpoint
26. In order to resolve the situation, we turn to Abdul, show him the flash drive from the elevator, give it back, and in return ask him to neutralize the racketeers.
27. Abdul fulfills our request, we receive the key to the door, and Abdul disappears, like the strangers from the mill.

2) DUMP.

3) DARK VALLEY.

4) X-18.

1. Upon entering, the test subject immediately attacks us
2. We wake up in a punishment cell and talk to the mutant. Let's find out what's going on here
3. After some time, the Thirteenth comes to us, who takes us to experiments.
4. GG is forced into a radiation-contaminated chamber
5. We talk with another test subject and learn from him about the stash under the stairs. (When you point the sight at the box, a small riddle appears. The answer is a code, the date of discovery of some continent, or something similar)
6. We take the items, after which the Thirteenth releases us, but we cannot leave the laboratory, although we have received freedom of movement.
7. After that, we search the room with the barrel, take the gearbox for the armored personnel carrier
8. We meet other mutants and carry out their tasks.
9. After completing the tasks of other mutants, you will need to help the Twelfth open the safe, for this we need the Decoder, which lies in the room next to the entrance to the laboratory
10. We arrive at the room, but it is locked. Food needs to be served. We interact with the panel, read the instructions, and try different combinations of turning on the switches one by one. After we do everything correctly - the door will be open, there will be a decoder in the diplomat
11. We open the safe using the Decoder, give the Twelfth the documents, and agree to give the Tenth some food in the punishment cell.
12. We talk to the Thirteenth, he lets us in to the Tenth.
13. We talk to the prisoner, we learn about the conspiracy
14. After the conversation, we go to the prisoners who are sitting in a cage, we take a knife from them
15. We help the mutant at the barrel fix the wiring and then patch up the holes in the pipes
16. We go to the Thirteenth, agree to participate in the test of the emitter
17. After starting the procedure, we must press the lever, which is located on the unit itself, on the wall side
18. The thirteenth faints, we kill him
19. We take the map from his body, go down to the first level, where we kill all the mutants in bathrobes
20. We meet with our accomplices at a closed door. They ask us to find 3 large microcircuits, 2 small ones. They are scattered in backpack boxes throughout the laboratory.
21. We find the microcircuits, open the door
22. We carefully move into the laboratory, after entering the hall (Be careful, there are turrets there) - quickly jump into the passage on the left. There we will find some equipment, and in a breakable box there are grenades
23. Using grenades, we destroy the turrets and go up to the Doctor’s room.
24. We talk to him, after the conversation we get the key
25. We take our things
26. Getting out of the laboratory

5) DARK VALLEY.

1. After the GG finishes his business in X18 and comes to the surface, a message will come from Seryoga. We go to the shelter, talk to him
2. In the conversation we learn about an unfinished building, about a stolen artifact “hive” that we need to find.
3. We find the thief's hideout. There we meet a break, we talk to him, we find out about the headache, we agree to bring pills
4. Through the laptop we turn to Doctor Pilman. We learn that a group of scientists will be waiting for us somewhere on location. We are looking for a mark - we go to them
5. Scientists can buy artifacts, but for tablets they will ask for a level 3 artifact, we agree
6. We give the tablets to the fracture, we find out about the hive that lies nearby on a metal structure
7. We talk to Seryoga, go to the box near the plant, talk to Seryoga, make our way to the plant.
8. After going down the stairs, we explode on a tripwire. We find ourselves in a cell, Seryoga is killed, and we meet an old friend
9. We talk with Abdul, learn about the experiment, as well as how to get out of the cell. Throw a bolt at the bullets on the wall
10. After the door has opened, we run to the far corner to the corpses, search, find a knife
11. We talk to Abdul, get out of the basement, go look for the key, the right door, killing agents along the way
12. We find the key in the backpack (1st floor, room opposite the arsenal)
13. In Borov's room we find the key to the Arsenal
14. We find a generator on the roof of an unfinished building, turn off the turrets and the protective field
15. There on the Roof we destroy the crystal.
16. We go down to Abdul, talk to him, go to the shelter
17. In the shelter we talk with Abdul, then we head to the landfill to the armored personnel carrier

6) DUMP.

1. At the Dump in the shelter we don’t find our partners, but we find a note and take it.
2. We talk to Abdul and tell him about the kidnapping. Abdul tells us the interception plan, we go to a meeting with the racketeers.
3. Not far from the racketeers' camp we talk to Abdul, then we go talk to the Racketeers.
4. After the end of the dialogue, activate the artifact, take the PDA from the corpse, and quickly run to the marker that appears
5. We find comrades in the indicated area, talk to Vasily, go to the shelter
6. In the shelter we talk with Vasily, give him the Reducer, get into the armored personnel carrier, start it up, go to Bar

7) BAR.

8) ARM.WAREHOUSES.

At the beginning, we talk with Abdul and go to the barrier, which is closed to passage by a large electrical anomaly. Abdul asks to find special material at the military unit that will allow us to overcome it, let's go there. In the central building, in the refrigerator, we find a frightened scout who pretends to be crazy and runs away from us. There is no need to chase him, you should go to barracks 1 and take the documents in the box there (killing the poltergeist along the way). Then, using the mark, we find the psycho’s cache, take the key there and go to barracks 2, we see there a spatial anomaly that shimmers in different colors. Passage order: white-blue-red. We go through it, find more documents in the box there and get a mark for another cache. In this hiding place we find a strange bottle, drink, pass out and come to our senses in a forgotten village. You can't just get out of it. We receive a message from grandfather Makar, we run to his house, dodging the bloodsuckers. We examine the houses he asks for, bring him objects (including a strange device), then we receive the task of finding either parts of a broken icon, or doing something with the device. If you choose to search for an icon: we find the parts by the marks in the boxes. When we find all 4, they will be connected together, we will return to our grandfather’s house and the anomaly around the village will be discharged, it will be possible to move freely around the location. If you have chosen a device: we climb with it to the upper tier of the water tower, there we use the device in the inventory and the anomaly is discharged, you can return to your grandfather and leave the village. Now we go to the crazy warrant officer, talk to him and show him the device. He confesses everything, tells us that to defuse the anomaly on the barrier, you just need to turn on the antenna installation here, on the territory of the unit. We do this and return to Abdul. Now you can go with him to the Radar.

9) RADAR.

Immediately after switching to the Radar, we feel sick, we lose consciousness and see the Chief Scientist in front of us, who is trying to find out our plans. After talking with him, we come to our senses, talk to Abdul and move forward. Abdul falls into a tripwire (he is wounded), 4 agents immediately appear, they must be eliminated. After the fight, we talk to Abdul, he asks for time to recover and sends him to fight with the best agent Phoenix. We go to the fallen helicopter, when we leave, Phoenix comes running. If you just shoot at him, he will teleport, you need to hit him in the head, then he will fall and you can interrogate him. After this, we return to Abdul and see that he was kidnapped. In the note he left, he says that they want to take him to an underground bunker (X-10). We can go straight to Pripyat, or we can go to the entrance to X-10 and try to save Abdul. If we wear an agent costume and a gas mask, then they will not attack us first, we can communicate with them and gain access to X-10 through a chain of quests. You can attack immediately, then the key to the entrance will be on the body of the Prophet's agent.

10) X-10.

If we fight our way into the bunker, a timer will start, after which Abdul (who is in the back room) can be killed by the agents, so we will need to have time to get to him, eliminating everyone along the way. We save Abdul, he asks us to turn on the brain burner. We turn on the switch in the main hall and quickly run to the exit.

11) RADAR.

If we came to Pripyat without Abdul, then the task to search for his cache will be automatically activated, which will contain a note with instructions on what to do next. If we came with Abdul, then we talk to him and move along the street. At the crossroads, Abdul is mortally wounded by a sniper; in the last conversation, he asks us to find a time capsule. We follow the new mark to the kindergarten, there, first in the yard by the car we take documents from the suitcase, then we crawl inside. We need to beware of the teleporter in the corridor, it will throw us into the courtyard. On the first floor we find a brownie, kill him (by sound, but you can just beat around yourself at random), the key to the first-aid post falls from him. In the center (second floor) we read the magazine, go to the first floor, there we kill the second brownie and the key to the refrigerator falls out of him. We go to the kitchen and find a bottle of pills in the refrigerator. Now we jump into the teleport in the corridor, it will transfer you to a secret room with teleports. We go through three such rooms in turn and eventually find ourselves in the director’s office. There in the safe we ​​find a newspaper with a mention of a time capsule. Now we need to go to the bus station.
At the bus station we see a safe in the room, we fight with the bloodsucker (it’s very easy to kill him with a military icon), we kill him and open the safe with his claw. It contains a note that you need to meet at the specified place. We go there, the leader of the agents, Apostle, meets us there (he will be neutral). We talk to him and we have 2 options: either agree to listen to his sermon, or attack. If we attack: 10 more agents come running, we kill them. We take the key to the stadium from the body of the Apostle and go there. If we agree: we are transported to the scene where the Apostle is reading a speech. After finishing, we approach him, he makes us drink something and we lose consciousness, coming to our senses on the roof of the house. Our Mind appears, we talk to it, protect it from the ghosts of obscurantism, and as soon as the last one is killed, we are transported back to the stage. All agents will be inactive; after interrogating the Apostle, you can take the key to the stadium from him and go there.
As soon as we step into the stadium, a helicopter will fly in and shoot at us. We quickly run to the fallen turntable, take an RPG from the box and shoot it down (1 hit). Now you need to search the agent’s corpse in the trailer and find the time capsule, which will contain the microcircuit, using the marks. We can safely go to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

13) Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

The entire area is under the influence of a large weather anomaly and is highly radioactive. There are many vortices here that damage our armor and infect us with radiation. It is necessary to put on a scientific suit, then search the agent’s body at the bridge. A task will appear to find 4 parts of the code from the door to the station. We find the tag and search the corpses of the agents; when we do this, a radioactive storm begins. You need to hide from him in special places (marked on the map). We find the last agent, he is alive, but running away from us. We read the information from his laptop (where he was sitting), get a mark on the altar and search it. We find a fragment in the altar, return to the agent and hand it to him, for which we receive the last part of the code. We open the door. Outside the door there will be an ambush waiting for us and a transition to the control center.

14) CONTROL CENTER.

This is the last location, we overcome it without interference. In the central hall we see a computer on the table; we activate it using a microcircuit. The Chief Scientist appears and explains what's what. Next, we use the computer to disable the Golden Ball’s protection system and the door to the hall with the Ball will open. We approach it and we have 2 options: touch the Ball or wait until it overheats and escape through another exit. Depending on the choice, we get one ending or another.

The mod has an interesting plot, which should be completed step by step, as the author intended it. If there are strong deviations from the main plot in the direction of exploring the zone, the plot scripts may break and the mod will become impassable. Therefore, follow our instructions for the correct passage of the Golden Ball mod. Completion."

1. We cross the cordon with the military. In captivity, we ask the recruit to bring us medicine, while he is busy searching, we run away from the camp. We find ourselves in a shelter.

1. In the scouts' shelter we speak with Sanya, then with the merchant Skidan. The “Zhelezka” anomaly is blocking our way. Near the bridge we catch an SOS signal on our PDA. We see the Wolf locked in the mill. He asks us to free him. From the camp you need to steal the key lying in the backpack by the fire. We follow the Wolf, we see three who disappeared in the mill, in their place we take the flash drive and give it to Skidan.

1. We receive a message on the PDA about a wounded man, he is in a carriage near the road. Three people attack us, we fight back and tell Skidan about what happened. We organize an ambush with Skidan. Three people will look for us at the bridge, we won’t stick our heads out. When they approach the “Zhelezka” anomaly, we provoke them to attack; if one of them is killed, we immediately run through the anomaly - there will be no turning back.

1. On the road to the landfill we find a checkpoint. We communicate with the inhabitants of the checkpoint, and as a result, after strange events with Abdul’s psionic blow, we gain access to the landfill.

1. At the landfill we go through the field of anomalies together with Andrei and the major, but so that they both survive. We go into Vasily's carriage. We learn from him about the armored personnel carrier, we find three artifacts in the landfill to neutralize the anomaly that prevents us from getting into the dark valley.

1. In the dark valley we speak with Seryoga. Based on his guidance, we look for parts of the welding machine on the territory of the plant and find ourselves in the underground laboratory X-18.

1. In the laboratory we speak with the experimental subject. In the room with the tank we pick up the gearbox from the armored personnel carrier. After a series of small quests with laboratory test subjects, we get the key and run to the exit, destroying the turrets with grenades.

1. In the dark valley we are looking for the “Beehive” artifact with Seryoga, we help the lonely kink - we receive an artifact from him. We get caught in a tripwire and wake up already in captivity. We throw the bolts at the button on the wall and run. We crawl quietly past the agents upstairs and turn off the generator and break the crystal. We take our swag, talk to Abdul, then run to the carriage, hiding from the helicopter.

1. At the landfill, together with Abdul, we deal with the racketeers, repair the armored personnel carrier and drive through a minefield on it, we go to Bar.

1. When we get into a bar, we immediately jump out of the armored personnel carrier, otherwise we will explode. We pass the “Bus” anomaly by jumping from skeleton to skeleton, turn off the tape recorder. We find a walkie-talkie near the broken UAZ and contact the scientists. We solve quests with the dwarf and scientists, we shoot the pseudo-giant when approaching the anomaly, it will kill him. We are heading to the army warehouses.

1. At the warehouses we meet a scout who is running away from us. In the first barracks we take documents. We find the psycho's cache and gain access to the second barracks. We pass through an anomaly in the barracks, the order is white, blue, red. We find a bottle in the hiding place, drink it and find ourselves in a forgotten village. A series of quests follows with grandfather Makar and the ensign. After them we return to Abdul.

1. We follow the radar. Abdul is wounded, we remove 4 agents, then we proceed to deal with Agent Phoenix, shooting him in the head. We quickly run to Pripyat, otherwise the brain burner will eat us, we make it before the countdown.

1. In Pripyat we head to the kindergarten. In the yard near the car we pick up the documents and climb inside. We don’t get caught in the teleport, we kill the brownie simply by shooting in all directions, and we pick up the key. Then we kill the second brownie, the key is ours again, we jump into the teleport in the corridor. Next comes a series of teleports; in the safe we ​​find a newspaper with a note about a time capsule.

1. At the bus station we kill the bloodsucker and open the safe with his claw. We speak with the apostle, it is better to kill him and 10 of his minions. We get to the stadium. We select an RPG and shoot down the helicopter, search the agent’s corpse in the carriage - our time capsule plus a microcircuit.

1. We rush to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, wearing a scientific suit, otherwise it will be difficult. We search the agent's body at the bridge. We solve an easy series of quests with agent codes and find ourselves in the control center, having fought off an ambush.

1. In the control center we activate the computer with our microcircuit. We disable the Golden Ball protection on the computer. We will have two options - touch the Ball or wait until it overheats and go out the other exit. One or another ending of the game depends on our choice.

1. Once at the Rostok plant, we talk to the drunken Grigory. There is a note in the carriage nearby. We collect three parts of the diary and give them to Grisha. He directs us into a boarded-up house. Our goal is a bust of Lenin, we get the “Otrezvin” tablet and give it to Grisha. We are waiting for a helicopter with military personnel.

1. On Yantar we go to the scientists' base. We are not allowed in, but we receive a message on the PDA. We are completing the quest to kill the burer, you need to kill him with a sniper rifle when he approaches the tree, otherwise we will not get the coordinates of the cache. We find the walkie-talkie, and drag the corpse of the burer to the commander. We go hunting for burers, and as a result we end up with the king of burers.

1. In the laboratory we need to cooperate with Sakharov. We are looking for 2 parts of documents, the first is next to the acid anomalies below, the second is in the room with the snorks at the control panel. We turn on three switches and the installation. After the attack of the burers, we run with Sakharov, set fire to the canister near the wall and disappear into the resulting hole.

1. On Yantar, Sakharov asks to bring him a flash drive from the scout camp near the plant. We activate the device and three scanners. Bashka will fall out of the anomaly, we help him. Then a stretch and again Bashka ran away, who gives us a flash drive for Sakharov.

1. Having arrived on the outskirts, we can join either the military or the smugglers - the further small plot depends on this. Our task is to kill the warring faction and complete the last command quest. End.

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Golden Ball: Completion is a modification that has not only an interesting, varied main plot, but also no less interesting secondary quests that unfold at each location of the original TC, and also capture new territories from the modification.

The search for Maxim Kammerer

The story begins with the fact that the GG finds a doll in one of the houses, which asks him to find a certain Kammerer. We can agree to help the doll, or refuse. This story will take us to locations that the main plot does not affect.
1. Find the Doll in one of the Houses on Cordon
2. Based on the doll’s advice, we find the receiver and take out the part from it
3. Not far from the mill on Cordon we find an armored car, and not far from it a soldier with a walkie-talkie
4. We repair the walkie-talkie using parts from the receiver, learn about the tablet. We go to the village, ask the locals about the tablet
5. We learn from Sanya about the Tablet, but in return he asks for a special Artifact
6. We go to the anomalous zone, remove the artifact from the tree, give it to Sanya, get a tablet
6. We find out about the evacuation point at the research institute, we go there
7. We search the evacuation point, find out about the case at the research institute
8. In the building with the helipad we find the case, take it, find out about the convoy at the landfill
9. We find a convoy of cars at the Landfill, find out what we need for Yantar
10. Saving Professor Sakharov (See Below)
11. We speak with Camerrer, who is sitting in the bunker
12. We have a choice. Either give the doll away or keep it for yourself

Outskirts of the Zone

As soon as we appear at this location, we witness a clash between the military and smugglers at the checkpoint. We can choose the side of one or the other, depending on the choice we get the storyline:

A) Smugglers. We kill the military, talk to Savik and quickly run with him and the others to the camp (otherwise a helicopter will fly to the checkpoint and open fire). In the camp we speak first with the merchant Moishe, then with Boar, he sends us to examine the body of the smuggler Zub, who died in the anomalies. We examine it, find the “Deception”, and bring it to the Boar. He teaches us how to activate it, we activate it and a teleport appears. We jump there and find ourselves in a cave. In the cave, you must first search Ruslan’s corpse, take the keys from him, unlock the cell with the master key, take another “decoy” from him, activate it and jump into the teleport again. Now we find ourselves in the secret room where Beatard sits, talk to him and choose whether to kill him or not. If we kill, then we get a tip on the swag and the opportunity to get out, if not, then there will be no swag, but he will periodically supply us with various “deceptions”. After we come to the surface, we go to Boar and talk about the cave and Ruslan. He asks us to go to the abandoned factory and check there. At the factory we make our way between dangerous barrels, go to the second floor, there we meet Bolt. He will tell us that the smugglers betrayed him and ask us to bring herbs for treatment. We go to an abandoned village to get some grass. In the village we catch an SOS signal on the PDA; if you respond to it, you will need to complete the quest “Under the Hood” to get out. If you don’t respond and just take the herb, you can return to Bolt and exchange it with him for a thermos with a decoction. We bring a thermos to Boar, he treats the wounded with a decoction. He comes to his senses and tells about the place where the valuable cargo is hidden. The boar asks us to help the Courier deliver this cargo to its destination, we agree. The Courier arrives, we talk to him. He sees a helicopter patrolling the location and refuses to go on a hike. We talk to Boar, he asks to shoot down the helicopter, we agree. We go to the fire station, there we meet three looters fighting off the dogs. We help them and together with them we begin to look for an underground warehouse. We find the grate in the basement (you will need to activate it once), report to Lyonka. He says his men will break the lock. We bring them a set of master keys, the lock opens and we find ourselves in the basement, where we see a safe, but it is behind bars. We ask the marauders about this, they advise us to look in the apartment upstairs and give us a coin. On the stairs to the apartment, throw a coin into the jar to pass. In the apartment itself, we read the commander’s documents, find his key (in the Lenin monument), open the grate in front of the safe with it, and in the safe itself we take a note with the code to the base gate. We report to Lyonka, he says that we need to go to the military. base on the hill, we stomp there with them. At the base, we first approach the frozen military man and pick up the key, then in the warehouse under the canopy in a breakable box we take a bottle of oil and pour it into the generator. Then we open the room with the key, read the documents, go to the 2nd floor, press the alarm button there and return to the parade ground, kill the chimera. We take the key to the warehouse from the chimera, there we find an RPG. We go to the fire station, climb onto the tower, wait for the helicopter to fly up and shoot it down. We return to the Courier. We talk to him and accompany him through the entire location to his destination (mutants will attack). If the Courier is killed, then you can remove the cargo exoskeleton from him, pick up his cargo (safe) and deliver it yourself. After delivery, we return to the village and talk with Moishe. End.

B) Military. We kill the smugglers and talk to the Chernovs. He asks us to help catch the smuggler Kaban and his company and sends us for instructions to Alexandrov. He gives the coordinates of the camp, we go there, it’s empty. In the basement we take a PDA with a nifa from a corpse, and in the attic we take a key from another corpse. We unlock the basement of the house with this key, there on the table we take the list of radio frequencies and take it to Chernov. He sends us to the fire department, we go there and shoot three looters, we find a coin on the body of the main one (on the tower). We throw this coin into a jar at the entrance, go into the apartment, there we read the commander’s documents and, following a tip, take his key from the hiding place (the Lenin monument). Use the key to open the observers’ safe on the roof, take the documents there and return to Chernov. Now he sends us to explore the ravine, we go there and find the “decoy”, activate it and find ourselves in the cave. In the cave, you must first search Ruslan’s corpse, take the keys from him, unlock the cell with the master key, take another “decoy” from him, activate it and jump into the teleport again. Now we find ourselves in the secret room where Beatard sits, talk to him and choose whether to kill him or not. If we kill, then we get a tip on the swag and the opportunity to get out, if not, then there will be no swag, but he will periodically supply us with various “deceptions”. After we reach the surface, we go again to Chernov. Now he asks us to inspect the factory, we go there and there we meet Bolt, who will give us information about the smugglers' reserve camp. We arrive there, destroy the intruders and return to Chernov. He says that they spotted a Courier who must transport dangerous cargo and asks that he be eliminated and the cargo delivered to him. We agree, go to the farm, kill the Courier and the guards, take the cargo from his body (the safe is heavy, to drag it you need to use the cargo exoskeleton). When we approach the checkpoint, we see assistant Chernov, we hand over the cargo to him. At the checkpoint we take the key from Alexandrov and maybe open the commander's safe with a reward. End.

1. We talk with Vasily, we find out about the Dyatlov group.
2. We head to the hangar, but it is closed. We find the corpse, learn from the PDA about the hatch through which you can get into the hangar
3. Find the required sewer hatch. Let's go down

1. After the GG enters the territory of the complex, he receives a call for help.
2. We make our way through the roof into the complex, where we meet Stalker
3. We talk, we find out about the invisible brownie, we kill, we talk again. We learn about the dungeons, the safe, the documents.
4. Find 1 part of the documents in the frame of the truck

Fire Water and Copper Pipes

This quest is given by Red after the previous task is completed. See above
1. We receive a task, we learn about a group of scientists who are locked on the roof of the complex
2. Goes to the complex, we find corpses there, read the information we received from them, learn about the anomaly.
3. We need to start the elevator generator. For this we need a candle, which is in a box behind the garages

1. We arrive at a gas station, in the building nearby we see 2 yellow marks
2 On the 1st floor we find Patrick shooting himself in the head, we pick up his documents and key
3. On the 2nd Floor we find Angela, talk to her
4. After the conversation, bloodsuckers come running, kill, talk again
5. We leave the building
6. On the way to the lair, Angela is carried away by an anomaly
7. We talk with Seryoga, we learn about the same teleports in the swamp

1. We learn from Alan about the safe in Katelnaya, as well as about the key in the commandant’s room
2. We come to the commandant’s room, but it is locked
3. We approach this building from the other side, we see a Stalker in the window. We talk to him.

1. When entering the Wild Territory, we carefully make our way to the Stalker (turrets from the building will shoot at us)
2. He's drunk as hell. He can't talk to us. Let's go to the outbuilding that is nearby

1. At the entrance to the scientists’ base, we speak with the Military man, give a bribe, and pass
2. The door to the scientists is locked, we talk to the local authorities
3. We fight off the attack of monsters
4. We talk to the authorities again, but no one is going to let us see the scientists.
5. We go to the helicopter that crashed near the swamps, but before reaching it we receive a message from a soldier. Let's go back

Enchanted Place, Anton, Search for a flash drive with research

1. After we bring Grigory’s flash drive to Sakharov, he will offer 1 more task to search for data from Anton’s group
2. We go to Anton’s Camp on the outskirts of Yantar, we find his PDA in the tent, read
3. Activate the Device, find 3 scanners near the Camp

Lost and Found, Search for a military container at a factory

After we save Professor Major, we will be given the task "Lost and Found", in which we will be required to find 2 containers on the territory of the Yantar plant (Containers may fall under the Save-Load textures, or re-entering the location will correct the situation)

First container



Second container

SMALL CREATURES IN THE WAREHOUSE

1. After talking with Warrant Officer Volodarsky and receiving the code from the antenna installation, the question appears in the dialogue about how he survived alone.

2. After the conversation, it turns out that he was “gotten” by small creatures in the warehouse. We agree to help, get the key to the warehouse and go to the building where the Cook was originally located.
3. In the back room of the warehouse, we break the box, which contains a red jerboa. We kill and when searching the body we find the Head of the Stew King

4. We shoot the running jerboas and return to the Ensign for the reward - the “Mushroom” artifact Old Nick

NEW LIFE

1. If, before talking with the Ensign, you try to influence him with an artifact of a mixed group (Spiral, Crystal, Snail, Donut), then in the dialogue “On the second floor of the building I saw a locked door. Is this the headquarters?” a new conversation option appears - “What do you have to lose?...”. As a result of the dialogue, the Ensign will ask you to find him new documents and 50,000 rubles.

2. To complete the quest, you need to save the scout and get the key to the scouts' hideout in the Army warehouses.
3. After turning on the antenna installation, the radio scanner finds 2 signals: the Chernobyl People's Republic and the Emergency Beacon of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. We contact the Chernobyl People's Republic using Prapor's radio and move towards the northern village.

4. At the farm we talk with Ataman Chekhov and choose one of the options for the development of events. If the aggressive option “The situation is bad. We need to solve it by force” is chosen, we receive the task “No pasaran” - to support Chekhov’s group in a battle with Ukrainian Armed Forces fighters. After destroying the military on the Southern Farm, we receive a reward - a western bulletproof vest and the Devil's Egg artifact.
5. If we choose the option of a peaceful development of events, “I think you should be told,” Chekhov entrusts us with the mission of negotiating.
6. Leaving the farm to the north towards the stones, we receive an SMS message asking for help. We need to go a little further to the stones and help scout Ivan.
7. Follow the scout to the western checkpoint.
8. During a conversation with the Goblin, you need to take the task “Golden Hands” to find a rangefinder on armored vehicles. The key phrase in the conversation is “Trunk... uh... what?”
9. The locations of armored vehicles will appear on the map. Every tank or armored personnel carrier has a cache. The note with the rangefinder guidance is in a box next to the armored personnel carrier in the swamp.

10. In the house in the swamp, we pick up the rangefinder and give it to the Goblin. The task "Golden Hands" is completed, the reward is Anomalous Gloves.
11. We ask the Goblin to help in destroying the “Weightlessness” anomaly; for this he needs fuel. We receive the task “If you don’t oil it, you won’t go,” a canister and head to the fuel tank at the fork in the road.

12. We return to the Goblin with fuel, give the canister (completion of the task “If you don’t oil it, you won’t go”) and go to the anomaly. When approaching the anomaly, we watch a cut-scene; the anomaly disappears. We search the body of Colonel Shariy.
13. We return to the scout Ivan, he gives the key to the scouts’ shelter. We go to the scouts' shelter and accept the task from Hoarse Hugh.
14. We find the artifact and call Hoarse Hugh again. We agree with him on the documents. We give back the found artifact and wait for the helicopter to fly away.
15. Again we take the order from Hoarse Hugh, find the artifact and call the customer. Now we get a ready-made passport and money for the artifact.
16. We go to the Ensign, give him money and documents, and get the key to the commander’s office. The task "New Life" is completed.
17. Open the grate and take the Military Unit Database from the computer

18. We go to Chekhov, talk to him, get a mine detector. The task "On the True Path" begins
19. We come to the southern farm and go around it on the right, climb over the fence near the barn, where there are no mines. The mine detector must be worn on the belt.

20. In the house we talk with Sergeant Gerashchenko (standing in the first room under the portrait of Bandera)
21. After the conversation, we find ourselves in the barn and talk with Private Petrenko. We receive a tip on a box with medicines.
22. We leave the barn and the same way we came, we leave the farm to look for the box. It is important not to get noticed by Sergeant Gerashchenko.
23. We find the box behind the scouts’ shelter and return to the farm.

24. We give the medicine to Major Tkachenko. We take our things from the box, which is located where Sergeant Gerashchenko stood.
25. We return to Ataman Chekhov and report on the work done. The quests "On the True Path" and "Small Country" are completed. Author of this quest:

Walkthroughs Stalker Shadow of Chernobyl: Walkthrough Golden Ball: Completion Guide

So: The action takes place in 2008 (more specifically, August 18). A year has passed since the second explosion. The Zone is still young, but anomalous activity in it is already widespread. There are no groups (everyone who got inside calls themselves “scouts” or “newcomers” depending on their experience), there are no bases, in total there are from 30 to 50 people in the Zone (not counting the military at checkpoints). No one really knows anything about anomalies, mutants, etc., but the first artifacts have already fallen into the hands of scientists and humanity has been able to appreciate them.
A young man comes to the Zone. Only the following are known about him: 1) Nickname (Zhekan); 2) Goal in the Zone (find the “Wish Granter”); 3) In the past, he is an ordinary person, without experience of surviving in extreme conditions.

1) CORDON.
The passage begins with the fact that you need to overcome the checkpoint at the Cordon in order to get into the Zone itself. In the process, the hero is caught by soldiers, locked in one of the rooms and interrogated. After the interrogation, the opportunity to escape appears. You need to talk through the window with a recruit who often runs to the toilet. During the conversation he will pretend that we feel bad. Ask for medicine, hurry up. The soldier will believe (to believe, you need to take the pills from the first aid kit on the table), open the door and we must run. We have about 30 seconds to get to a safe distance before the military opens fire. To make your escape safer, you can take morphine.
After liberation, we must meet with a person who will show us the shelter of local intelligence officers. We know the coordinates of the contact. We go to him, he takes us to the village. There we immediately talk to Sanya, he advises us to contact Skidan (merchant). Skidan in the bunker gives us some things and tells us about the local residents. Then we can act independently. While exploring Cordon, we come across an obstacle that makes it impossible to cross the railway bridge and the entire railway track dividing the location into 2 parts. This obstacle is a vast anomaly that kills anyone who approaches the railway. Locals also call it "Zhelezka". There is a version according to which the “Zhelezka” can only be overcome by sacrificing a living person to it. After this, it is deactivated for a short time and the railway track can be crossed in time.
Not far from the bridge, we catch a signal on our PDA asking for help, it comes from a locked mill. We approach it and through the window we talk to the newcomer sitting inside. This is the Wolf. He found himself trapped because of his curiosity: some strangers locked him here while he searched the premises. The wolf asks us to go to their camp, located to the east, steal the key to the doors from there and free him. After we do this (you need to steal the key from the backpack lying by the fire. You should approach the camp from the side of the sentry who is sleeping), the Wolf offers to wait until the strangers return and follow them. We hide in the bushes and wait. Three strangers enter the mill. As soon as we approach the window to look at them, they disappear, as if dissolving into thin air. On the floor in the place where they stood, we find an object similar to a flash drive. We take it and show it to Skidan (as the most experienced). It recognizes the electronic key in the flash drive. He has no versions regarding the appearance of strange armed people in the Zone. Further events develop as follows: not far from the village we receive a signal on the PDA that there is a wounded person nearby and he needs help. We find him in a trailer by the road, but as soon as we agree to help, we are attacked by three armed men who look just like the strangers from the mill. You can simply run away, or you can fight. After defeating them, we speak with the former “wounded” man, who threatens us and disappears out of the blue, like his comrades. During the conversation, he asks us to return the “key” we found earlier, but is refused.
We tell Skidan about the events. He is concerned about the threat that has arisen and advises us to overcome the “Zhelezka” as soon as possible and go to the Zone, arguing that on the small Cordon the pursuers will easily find us and innocent people may suffer along with us. We decide to follow his advice. The question arises: who should be sacrificed to the anomaly? Skidan tells us that we must first provoke the strangers to attack, then lure one of them into the anomaly, and when it works, quickly break through the Zhelezka. We agree and go to the bridge, lying down there and waiting for a signal from the merchant. The signal comes a few minutes later - strangers visited the village, asked about us and are now heading to the bridge. We are preparing for the attack. Three armed men approach the bridge and start looking for us. We provoke them to attack (before this you need to remain unnoticed!), after one of them is killed by the “Zhelezka” - we quickly break through the bridge (we have about 15 seconds). Thus, the path to the Zone is open for us, but the bridges back are burned.
If we do not have time to cross the railway track, there is another option. To the west of the bridge in the embankment there is a tunnel in which there is a powerful anomaly "Arc". It is impossible to pass through the tunnel because of it, but Skidan tells us that if we put on a special scientific suit, then theoretically we can withstand the blow of the Arc and break through to the other side. The suit is at the military checkpoint, it lies in a locked safe in the barracks where we were kept for interrogation. You need to: a) put on Skidan’s camouflage suit (to hide from army snipers), b) quietly get to the checkpoint and into the barracks itself (you should climb over the fence near the toilet and try not to be noticed), c) pick up the code to the safe with the arsenal (there will be a hint) and, taking the suit from there, leave the checkpoint in any possible way.

Next, our goal will be to meet with a local intelligence officer (scouts are the prototype of the first stalkers). We find him on a farm, where we help him fight off the wild boars. Then we go with him to a shelter located nearby. There we can find water, a fireplace and a place to sleep (there are similar shelters in other locations). During the first conversation, Andrey (that’s the intelligence officer’s name) treated us coolly, without much trust. Suddenly, footsteps are heard and a wounded man in military uniform runs into the room screaming for help. After this, he falls to the ground and loses consciousness. Andrei orders us to immediately go to his cache and bring an artifact that has healing properties - they can help the wounded. We bring the artifact and see that the military man is already much better and is conscious. Andrey admits that he needed the artifact as a test of our integrity. We talk with the military man (Major Ovrakh). He says that he is the co-pilot of an MI-24 helicopter that crashed nearby. During landing, the car hit a moving anomaly, the crew died and only he managed to escape. The major wants to return to the checkpoint, knowing that a rescue expedition will not be sent for him soon. Andrei, who intervened in the conversation, says that although the way back is blocked by the Zhelezka, there is supposedly a way to get through it without making human sacrifices. To do this, you need to have some unique artifact with you - this will give you a single opportunity to overcome this deadly barrier. This artifact is owned by another intelligence officer named Vasily, who lives further north, in the Landfill. Since Andrei also needs to get there, we have no choice. The three of us decide to go to the Landfill.
On the way to the Landfill there is an old checkpoint. On the approaches to it, Andrei notices the corpses of the newcomers whom he met here earlier and warns us of the danger. At the checkpoint itself we see a company of people settled there. This is Tyrsa (the main one), Shustrila (his assistant) and a certain Abdul, who at first glance looks like he’s crazy. The passage to the Landfill is blocked by a door, the key to which is in Tyrsa’s pocket. He demands a lot of money for passage: 200 thousand rubles. Since there is nowhere to take them, Andrei begins to threaten Tyrsa, but Abdul hits him and the major with a directed psionic blow emanating from his body, from which they lose consciousness. We ourselves also suffer from it, but much less. After this, Tyrsa invites us personally to get out, claiming that the intelligence officer and the military man will be finished off anyway, and there is nothing to take from us personally. Seeing the helplessness of our friends, we can do the following: contact Abdul directly, show him the found “flash drive-key” and when he demands to give it to him, in return demand a psi-strike now on Tyrsa and Shustrile, which he does. Having regained consciousness, Andrei and the major drive away the racketeers from the checkpoint (we will meet with them later), having previously taken from them the key to the door to the Landfill. Abdul, having received our "key", disappears like strangers from the mill.

2) DUMP.
After we have received access to the Landfill, we all go there together. At the entrance we see that the northern part of the location is occupied by many strange anomalies that are constantly moving. We overcome the danger zone, leading Andrei and the major (we must try to keep them alive). We get to the southern edge of the location, where we find the trailer-shelter of scout Vasily. Soon he himself appears. We all settle down together in his shelter and talk with the owner. We ask him about the way to the center of the Zone (where, according to legend, there is a “Wish Granter” that we need). He says that the passage directly to the north (to the territory of the Rostock plant) is mined. You can't sneak through the mines, but there is another option: repair the abandoned armored personnel carrier and cross the dangerous section of the road with it. It is possible to get into the Dark Valley, where we can find a spare part to repair the car. According to Vasily, it should be in an abandoned factory. In turn, the passage to the Valley is blocked by the large Cloud Cloud anomaly. To defuse it, you need to find artifacts “green”, “red” and “yellow balls” in the Landfill. We find them and find ourselves in the Dark Valley.

3) VALLEY.
Near the crossing we are met by local intelligence officer Seryoga, he shows us the way to his shelter and explains the situation. Mutants and many anomalies have settled in the factory. His comrades, who had previously set up a shelter in the basement of the factory, died. Since they were engaged in collecting all sorts of things in workshops and premises, they most likely had the spare parts for the armored personnel carrier that we needed. You will need to find their remains, get the key to the shelter, unlock the door and enter the basement. In the basement we find the scouts' diary, it says that someone who got out from behind a rusty door in the very corner of the basement robbed their cache and, among other things, took away a part from an armored personnel carrier. Our next step will be to find spare parts for the welding machine on the territory of the factory, use it to unlock the aforementioned door (welded by the scouts) and enter the secret laboratory (X-18).

4) X-18.
At the entrance, we are immediately attacked by experimental subjects (mutated people) and locked in a punishment cell. Another of the mutants is sitting with us, we can talk to him. It turns out that the dungeon is inhabited by a number of former experimental subjects of the X-18 laboratory. After the second accident, the staff hastily left it, and the experimental subjects, having got out of the cells, founded a kind of society with their own hierarchy. Their society is built on semi-religious principles and rules, somewhat similar to the biblical commandments. They consider their “God” to be a certain “Great Doctor” - the last surviving scientist of the laboratory, who has barricaded himself at the lowest level and controls the lives of the experimental subjects through a surveillance system and intercom. Our main task (along with searching for spare parts for the armored personnel carrier) is to find a way to leave the laboratory, since the experimental subjects, observing the Doctor’s rule, do not let anyone out of it. After some time, test subject Thirteen comes to the punishment cell, he conducts a short interrogation, after which he sentences us to death. However, he is not interested in simply killing us and decides to take advantage of it. We are driven into a heavily radiation-contaminated section of the laboratory, where we must fix a broken electrical device in a short time. Thus, the test subjects, in turn, want to conduct an experiment on a person, wanting to find out how long his body can resist deadly radiation. A chance comes to our aid: among the wreckage of equipment, we find a stash of anti-radiation drugs left by someone and thus stay alive. After this, the Thirteenth releases us, but we still cannot go outside the laboratory. The test subjects give us the following task - to find a certain number of electronic circuits on the first level of the laboratory and install them in the generator processor. This generator must be started on the orders of the Doctor himself. In the process of searching, we get acquainted with some members of this society and find out that among them a conspiracy is brewing against second-level test subjects - more privileged ones, chosen by the Doctor for a certain purpose. The chosen ones do not engage in menial labor or food gathering; all supplies for them are supplied by first-level test subjects. IMPORTANT: as soon as you gain freedom of movement in the lab, immediately go to the room with the tank and take the gearbox from the armored personnel carrier in the box there. Next, we must first help Nineteen (find the encoder and unlock the safes), then he will ask us to give food to his comrade sitting in the punishment cell. We talk to Thirteenth, he lets us in there. We talk to Ten, he explains the situation and we agree to help him make a coup. After the punishment cell we go to the prisoners sitting in the kitchen and exchange three rat carcasses for a knife. Next, we go to the Thirteenth and ask to participate in the test of the Caymanov emitter. During the procedure, we press a hidden switch (from the wall), the device overloads, a surge of radiation occurs and Thirteen faints. You need to have time to kill him with a knife. Then we take the map from his body and go to the door to the lower tier, together with other experimental subjects we go downstairs. Aggressive test subjects roam below, killing with their gaze; you need to run up to them from behind and hit them with a knife. The tenth asks to find 5 microcircuits, they are in boxes on the lower tier of the lab. We bring them, a controller (mutant) appears, we bring him down. Then the door opens, but you shouldn’t immediately run forward - there are two turrets there. They can be neutralized with grenades from the pantry. Then we make our way into the room at the top, there we talk with the Great Doctor, we get the key and the opportunity to get out of the X-18 laboratory.

5) VALLEY.
As soon as we get out of the dungeon, a message comes from scout Seryoga, he wants to talk. Let's go to him. Seryoga noticed something interesting in the unfinished building, wants to get there and asks us to cover it. We agree. Seryoga first sends us in search of the “Hive” artifact, we go to the indicated place, we see Izlom the werewolf there. You can immediately attack him, but you can talk to him. If you agree to get him medicine, you will need to call the scientists from Dr. Pilman on the laptop (in the shelter), then buy pills from them and bring them to Izlom. He will give us "Hive". We return to Seryoga, make our way with him through the gallery into the unfinished building. We get caught there in a stretch, we come to our senses already in captivity of the agents (in a cage). Our agents are executing Seryoga. Abdul is sitting in prison with us, we ask him and get detailed information about the Chief Scientist and a little about the Golden Ball (supposedly it is located in Pripyat). Next, we agree to escape, throw bolts at the button on the wall until it breaks and the cage door opens. Now you need to carefully make your way past all the agents (there are about 15 of them) and climb to the upper floor, where you can find the generator (according to the sound) and turn it off. This will also disable the security turrets around the base. Not far from the generator there will be a crystal of Gamma substance; it must be broken. As soon as we do this, all agents will fall unconscious. You can also go to the leader’s office, where you can take the key to the armory in the box (our confiscated things are there). Next we talk to Abdul, he warns about the agent’s helicopter coming towards us. We run with him to the shelter car (hiding from the bullets of the helicopter), as soon as we go inside, the helicopter will fly away. We talk to Abdul and he offers to go to Pripyat together. Let's go to the Landfill.

6) DUMP.
At the Dump in the shelter we see the absence of Vasily, Andrei and the major; there is a note on the floor. In it, on behalf of Tyrsa, there is an invitation to the “strelka” and words about ransom. We tell Abdul, he gives us the “Itching” artifact, we go to the place of the “arrow”, Abdul hides. We speak with Tyrsa, immediately after the last remark we use “Zuda” in our inventory. The bandits fall unconscious, Abdul kills Tyrsa from an ambush, we take the PDA from his body and read the information. We run quickly to the point that appears on the map. There we kill the last recruiter and free the prisoners. Now we talk to Vasily, give him the gearbox, he repairs the armored personnel carrier and you can drive it through the minefield to Bar.

7) BAR.
IMPORTANT: as soon as we appear in the Bar, it is tedious to immediately jump out of the armored personnel carrier, because it will soon explode. We talk to Abdul, go to the Bus anomaly. To overcome it, we need to quickly move from one skeleton to another until we find ourselves at the front door of the bus. We see a tape recorder in the cabin, turn it off and the anomaly is discharged. We talk to Abdul, go to the place where a broken UAZ stands by the road and the radio hisses. We select it, use it and get in touch with the scientist. We talk to Abdul again, find out that a virus is raging in the bar and break through the crowds of infectious zombies to the tower. In the tower we speak with Vladimir, he asks us to find the medicine that fell from the helicopter and gives a mark to it. According to the mark, there is no cure, but there is a dwarf mutant, he takes us to the corpse of another scientist, from whom we take the key. We talk about this with Vladimir, we get a mark on the door to the basement. We go there, kill the zombies along the way and go down into the dungeon. There we see the exhausted scout Alan, who asks to kill the pseudo-giant. The monster is very tenacious, it is almost impossible to stupidly shoot it in the forehead. To kill him, you need to shoot at him while being near the green anomaly that periodically appears on the boxes. 6-7 hits from the anomaly are enough and the monster is ready. We talk to Alan, take the Cheburashka from the safe next to it, go to the dwarf and use the toy near him. The dwarf gives in return a can of vaccine. We go to Vladimir, he reveals the cards. We come to an agreement with him, after which he disinfects the territory and flies away. After some time, Abdul will be ready to continue his journey to the Army warehouses.

8) ARM.WAREHOUSES.
At the beginning, we talk with Abdul and go to the barrier, which is closed to passage by a large electrical anomaly. Abdul asks to find special material at the military unit that will allow us to overcome it, let's go there. In the central building, in the refrigerator, we find a frightened scout who pretends to be crazy and runs away from us. There is no need to chase him, you should go to barracks 1 and take the documents in the box there (killing the poltergeist along the way). Then, using the mark, we find the psycho’s cache, take the key there and go to barracks 2, we see there a spatial anomaly that shimmers in different colors. Passage order: white-blue-red. We go through it, find more documents in the box there and get a mark for another cache. In this hiding place we find a strange bottle, drink, pass out and come to our senses in a forgotten village. You can't just get out of it. We receive a message from grandfather Makar, we run to his house, dodging the bloodsuckers. We examine the houses he asks for, bring him objects (including a strange device), then we receive the task of finding either parts of a broken icon, or doing something with the device. If you choose to search for an icon: we find the parts by the marks in the boxes. When we find all 4, they will be connected together, we will return to our grandfather’s house and the anomaly around the village will be discharged, it will be possible to move freely around the location. If you have chosen a device: we climb with it to the upper tier of the water tower, there we use the device in the inventory and the anomaly is discharged, you can return to your grandfather and leave the village. Now we go to the crazy warrant officer, talk to him and show him the device. He confesses everything, tells us that to defuse the anomaly on the barrier, you just need to turn on the antenna installation here, on the territory of the unit. We do this and return to Abdul. Now you can go with him to the Radar.

9) RADAR.
Immediately after switching to Radar, we feel bad, we lose consciousness and see the Chief Scientist in front of us, who is trying to find out our plans. After talking with him, we come to our senses, talk to Abdul and move forward. Abdul falls into a tripwire (he is wounded), 4 agents immediately appear, they must be eliminated. After the fight, we talk to Abdul, he asks for time to recover and sends him to fight with the best agent Phoenix. We go to the fallen helicopter, when we approach, Phoenix comes running. If you just shoot at him, he will teleport, you need to hit him in the head, then he will fall and you can interrogate him. After this, we return to Abdul and see that he was kidnapped. In the note he left, he says that they want to take him to an underground bunker (X-10). We can go straight to Pripyat, or we can go to the entrance to X-10 and try to save Abdul. If we wear an agent costume and a gas mask, then they will not attack us first, we can communicate with them and gain access to X-10 through a chain of quests. You can attack immediately, then the key to the entrance will be on the body of the Prophet's agent.

10) X-10.
If we fight our way into the bunker, a timer will start, after which Abdul (who is in the back room) can be killed by the agents, so we will need to have time to get to him, eliminating everyone along the way. We save Abdul, he asks us to turn on the brain burner. We turn on the switch in the main hall and quickly run to the exit.

11) RADAR.
Here we need to run very quickly to the transition to Pripyat, if we do not make it before the end of the countdown, the Burner will turn on and kill us.

12) PRIPYAT.
If we came to Pripyat without Abdul, then the task to search for his cache will be automatically activated, which will contain a note with instructions on what to do next. If we came with Abdul, then we talk to him and move along the street. At the crossroads, Abdul is mortally wounded by a sniper; in the last conversation, he asks us to find a time capsule. We follow the new mark to the kindergarten, there, first in the yard by the car we take documents from the suitcase, then we crawl inside. We need to beware of the teleporter in the corridor, it will throw us into the courtyard. On the first floor we find a brownie, kill him (by sound, but you can just beat around yourself at random), the key to the first-aid post falls from him. In the center (second floor) we read the magazine, go to the first floor, there we kill the second brownie and the key to the refrigerator falls out of him. We go to the kitchen and find a bottle of pills in the refrigerator. Now we jump into the teleport in the corridor, it will transfer you to a secret room with teleports. We go through three such rooms in turn and eventually find ourselves in the director’s office. There in the safe we ​​find a newspaper with a mention of a time capsule. Now we need to go to the bus station.
At the bus station we see a safe in the room, we fight with the bloodsucker (it’s very easy to kill him with a military icon), we kill him and open the safe with his claw. It contains a note that you need to meet at the specified place. We go there, the leader of the agents, Apostle, meets us there (he will be neutral). We talk to him and we have 2 options: either agree to listen to his sermon, or attack. If we attack: 10 more agents come running, we kill them. We take the key to the stadium from the body of the Apostle and go there. If we agree: we are transported to the scene where the Apostle is reading a speech. After finishing, we approach him, he makes us drink something and we lose consciousness, coming to our senses on the roof of the house. Our Mind appears, we talk to it, protect it from the ghosts of obscurantism, and as soon as the last one is killed, we are transported back to the stage. All agents will be inactive; after interrogating the Apostle, you can take the key to the stadium from him and go there.
As soon as we step into the stadium, a helicopter will fly in and shoot at us. We quickly run to the fallen turntable, take an RPG from the box and shoot it down (1 hit). Now you need to search the agent’s corpse in the trailer and find the time capsule, which will contain the microcircuit, using the marks. We can safely go to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.

13) Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
The entire area is under the influence of a large weather anomaly and is highly radioactive. There are many vortices here that damage our armor and infect us with radiation. It is necessary to put on a scientific suit, then search the agent’s body at the bridge. A task will appear to find 4 parts of the code from the door to the station. We find the tag and search the corpses of the agents; when we do this, a radioactive storm begins. You need to hide from him in special places (marked on the map). We find the last agent, he is alive, but running away from us. We read the information from his laptop (where he was sitting), get a mark on the altar and search it. We find a fragment in the altar, return to the agent and hand it to him, for which we receive the last part of the code. We open the door. Outside the door there will be an ambush waiting for us and a transition to the control center.

14) CONTROL CENTER.
This is the last location, we overcome it without interference. In the central hall we see a computer on the table; we activate it using a microcircuit. The Chief Scientist appears and explains what's what. Next, we use the computer to disable the Golden Ball’s protection system and the door to the hall with the Ball will open. We approach it and we have 2 options: touch the Ball or wait until it overheats and escape through another exit. Depending on the choice, we get one ending or another.

That's all.

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The ritual began with the young man being dressed in every possible way in gold jewelry, given clean and expensive clothes, and shown signs of attention. For some time he is taught to play the flute, manners, food and drink culture. When the young man went out for a walk, the people who met him fell to their knees and prayed with tears, honoring him as a god. The chief priest himself made sure that the young man had everything, but at the same time that luxury did not affect his physical attractiveness. The protection of the “young god” was carried out by a special detachment, which was responsible for its safety. Twenty days before the ceremony, the young man was given four noble maidens as his wives, and five days later, magnificent feasts were held in his honor. Finally, on the last day, he was taken to a separate island, accompanied by servants. On that island, the priests opened his chest, took out his heart, and carried his body down in their arms, after which they cut off his head.