Stalkers!
The latest update has been deployed to the Anomaly Zone Renovation server, including bug fixes, balance adjustments, and a number of gameplay improvements.
The full list of changes is below:
Balance
Equipment and weapons
- Multiple balance adjustments to bullet resistance for all equipment
- Increased shotgun damage against mutants
- Increased accuracy for most weapons
- Reduced the price of 12x70 0000 and 12x76 0000 ammo by 40% at all vendors
Mutants
- Multiple balance changes to mutant HP, defense, and damage
Loot
- Balance changes to item drop rates
Karma (quest limits)
(You can take quests from these factions for up to 150 karma)
Up to 150 karma:
- Hope Station
- Military Commandant's Office
- Gourmet Village
- Imarek Post
- Crow's Forest Mercenaries
- Radio Tower
- Aegis Scientists' Camp
- Junk Dealer's Camp
- Finn's Camp
- Distillery Bar
- Zapolyarye
- Radius Village
- Witch Doctor Camp
- Al-Jaffa Village
- Khajra Village
(You can take quests from these factions up to 0 karma)
Up to 0 karma:
- Musaddar Village
- Culture Center (DK)
- Renegades Camp
- Tatar Island
- White Brethren
- Owl's Brigade
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UI / display
- Added item drop display
- Added item drop chance display
- Changed base and fortification point tracker display
- Added localization for frostbite and fire debuffs
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Mechanics
Flags at bases and fortified points
- When a player exits the flag, the flag remains in place.
- Removed the quick descent mode.
- New timings: 70 seconds ascent, 35 seconds descent.
Spawn
- White bear spawn time: from 30 minutes to 15 minutes
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Perks
Added:
- Strong pockets
- Packaging
- Stash
- Greed
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Bug fixes
- Ammo transferred from the warehouse no longer disappears when reloading magazines.
- Incorrect NPC names have been fixed.
- The firing range of many NPC guards has been fixed.
- The guide in the tunnel of the Junkman's camp can no longer be killed.
- The NPC for Maslov's quest no longer dies in anomalies.
- The durability of the TOZ-34 sawed-off shotgun for the "Big Hunt" quest has been fixed.
- Removed irrelevant story dialogue with Grechkin after "Mysterious Artifact."
- Removed irrelevant information in dialogues and quest descriptions (Piper, Gourmet, Sour).
- Alternative methods of turning in the book in "On the Futility of Everything" (Captain Blood) without opening the book have been fixed.
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Traders
Added:
Aegis Scientists - Doctor Verkhovtsev
- Recipe for WWII anti-radiation agent
- Recipe for 100 ml copper solution
- Empty test tubes
Crow Forest - Egyptian
- Recipe for a 100 ml copper solution
- Empty test tubes
Bar LVZ - Flint
- Molotov
Owl's Brigade - The Pot
- 1-liter bottle of drinking water
- Small dry ration
- Medium dry ration
- Large dry ration
- Can of suspicious stew
- Box of canned goods
- Matches
Radio Tower - Morse
The number of trade points has been changed:
- Armor Restoration Kit Level 3: 1500 → 1000
- Armor Restoration Kit Level 4: 2000 → 1500
- Protective Suit Restoration Kit Level 3: 1000 → 800
- Protective Suit Restoration Kit Level 4: 1500 → 1300
Radio Tower - Pasha Arsenal
- 40 mm grenades
Zapolyarye - repairman
- Tool kits
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Caches
Added:
- Vesuvius - Terra Nova - Marshes (medicine):
- Potassium Iodide Tablets
- Empty Test Tube
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Craft
Added to the workbench:
- Test tube with copper sulfate
- Bottle with acid
- WWII anti-radiation agent
- Copper solution 100 ml
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Quests
General
The re-acquisition time for many daily quests has been changed to 18 hours (quests for Scientists, Station Stalkers, Ailment, Butch, Veterinarian, Imarek, Maslov, Grishkovets, Piper, and others)
White Brethren
Pretzel — quest "Boxy's Debt": the quest coin has been replaced. Since the item itself has been changed, the active quest must be abandoned and re-accepted (if the "Coin" has already been obtained).
Captain Blood — fixed alternative methods for completing the quest "On the Futility of All Things," allowing you to turn in the book without opening it.
Scientists of Aegis
Doctor Home — added quests for turning in the "Vesuvius" artifact.
Simonov — the quest item in the "Lost Glasses" and "And I Put on My Glasses!" quests has been fixed. The item has also been modified to avoid bugs with other glasses. The active quest must be abandoned and re-accepted (if the "Glasses" have already been found).
Hope Station
Misha the Hunter — the "Hunting Knife" quest has been simplified for re-acceptance; the quest can now be taken by a character of any level.
Community House (DK)
Zhora the Crucian — quests added:
- "Two Bottles for Picket"
- "Zhora's Debt"
Handling spider legs to Metrofan now awards the new DK reputation instead of the Traders.
Military Commandant
Quests added
- Private Snegov - "To the Last"
Private Podushkin:
- "Lost from the group"
- "Responsible Podushkin"
LVZ
Hints have been added to Muddy's quests, indicating where to get the quest scalpel and tools.