S T A L K E R: Call of Pripyat - ( 2022 ) Video #142: Different Paths of Travel
I started my Game again today only to discover where I thought I made my last Manual Save last night did not in fact exist. It was only where I had stopped recording. The nearest one to where I left off was where the Loners and I were at the Concrete Bath Anomaly before we used fast travel to the Container Yard. That means everything that happened after that, in the last video was lost. So instead of repeating the places I had gone, I got the same Loners to take me to the Cement Plant and from there I had an entirely different experience.
I meet some Dutyers at the northern pond where one of them was running from rodents and appeared unarmed. When I caught up with him he was crouched on the ground and bleeding. I talk to his squad leader and use them for fast travel to the Container Yard. They immediately start going north to hunt mutants. If you watch the things I do, I am able to successfully give him a loaded weapon that he actually starts using. Both of them aren't moving very fast and seem stuck.
I use them again for fast travel to the Ash Heap Anomaly and they immediately kill the two Freedom that none of us knew where going to be there. Fast travel always has that risk that it can be enemy NPCs or mutants but also neutral NPCs who are the enemies of those you choose to travel with. From there I end up in the train tunnel where you are sure to run into newly spawned Controllers and usually some NPCs fighting them.