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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat (2009)

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The first part of this video has me traveling at night to the Quarry and then to the Cement Plant where I meet some Freedom at the top. I use fast travel to go to the Container Yard where they help me clear out the Bandits guarding it at the front. Then we fast travel to the Concrete Bath Anomaly, a convenient location close to the Jupiter hostile "red" Bandits that I am still toying with. You can see when I leave there and visit the large group of neutral Bandits at the Checkpoint, how they follow me into the building and surround me but not harm me. From there I'm back at the Container Yard waiting for some Bandits to appear as the video ends.

As previously mentioned, in one of my Games back in 2009-2010, I discovered by accident in Free Play, a way to get the Monolith into the Freedom Faction after I had already earned the Man of Balance Achievement. Normally you can only recruit the Monolith into Freedom or Duty while getting the Friend of Freedom or Duty Achievement. This is also the only way to get the Leader Achievement since it requires more than just Vano and Sokolov as you must also recruit Strider.

However, I had found another way by a strange intentional or unintentional glitch in the Game mechanics. I discovered that if Bandits attacked the Monolith several times and the Monolith would win or survive the attacks, they would suddenly turn friendly "green" and then you could recruit them into the Freedom Faction. So how do you get the Bandits to attack them? It requires another unrelated Achievement called Artifact Hunter. You get that Achievement when you find every Artifact in the Game, as mentioned in video #112 and why I was doing it. The Artifact Hunter Achievement has strange properties where some squads or single Bandits will start following the Player if they are uncommitted to a specific location the Game assigns them to.

Up to this point I was having trouble making that happen ( Bandits following me ) as I had tried that earlier and depending on where you are located, the Bandits are erratic doing this or will stop and turn around at random demarcation lines and forget about you. In the past, it only worked if they were around the Container Yard, and I got them to follow me over the hill down to where the Monolith were gathered. The problem was the Container Yard Bandits were fixed in place guarding it, and no new Bandits were appearing on the road nearby. Then I remembered I needed to clear out the Bandits there so the location would be "open" and new Bandits would spawn in front of it. This is why I started using Duty & Freedom squads to fast travel there to get into firefights with the Bandits to slowly reduce their numbers.

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