S T A L K E R: Call of Pripyat - ( 2022 ) Video #221: Jupiter Roundabout
At Yanov Station I was suddenly being detected by something and I went to both sides of the main doors and opened them to see what was there. I was not getting the usual red dots on my Mini-Map telling me Zombies were passing by. I soon heard the breathing of a Bloodsucker that was staying invisible, leaving me not knowing which door it was waiting to attack me. I peeked out the north door, then went to the south door and exited quickly, making my way to a pile of concrete pipes where I could get up off the ground from the unseen danger that I could still hear.
The Bloodsucker ran back and forth and then I noticed a couple of Zombies on the train tracks that appeared behind the tanker car that I shot quickly. The Bloodsucker was too agitated to uncloak, so I ran over to the damaged corner of the brick building and got up beyond its reach. Eventually it finally appeared at my feet just long enough for me to kill it. Soon the Loners felt safe to exit even though it was past the typical time of 8am.
I asked the various squads where they were going and chose a two-man team that was going to the Cement Plant where I was hoping to find more people to sell some guns to. I went to the top of the tower with them and found nothing surrounding us but the typical mutants at the Quarry and Zombies at the Plavni Anomaly. I shot them from afar but made no attempt to loot them at this point. I was well supplied and did not need the meager payout from grabbing, transporting, repairing and selling the low-grade Zombie weapons.
With not much going on, I descended the stairs and went south across the road to the Quarry, but not directly in the usual place, going instead along the eastern edge where I saw two Zombies at the bottom of the Quarry and shot them. Then I ran into three Bandits and was able to sell an SPSA-14. I left them and traveled around the Quarry on the upper bluff and soon came upon two more Zombies at the Bitumen Anomaly, that I shot and did not loot. Continuing south, I crossed the broken sections of the road and made my way over to the Concrete Bath Anomaly, where I killed three Snorks and found an artifact.
Going westward, I got up on the road and crossed the bridge but got off of it and approached the Checkpoint that I found empty. On the high hill overlooking the Parking Lot, I saw three more Zombies below that I shot and then lightly looted them of food, medkits, a little ammo and a detector. Someone else could have their guns. Leaving them I made my way to the road where I met two Boars running at me at the bridge. There I stopped and spotted a Chimera in the grove to the north-east and zapped it with my Gauss.
I continued on the road, arriving at the gate of the Volkhov AA Complex, that appeared deserted at first until I heard gunfire and saw some mutants. I moved in as quickly as I could to be attacked by three Pseudodogs and sadly I was too late to save the two Freedom soldiers. These were the first Faction members I had found outsise the typical Loners and Bandits. I took their loot, moved north to Kopachy and then eastward towards the Mobile Lab and then past it to Yano Station. Just Zombies everywhere and not enough friendly forces so far this day.