Name:
Faction: Loner for start
Rubles: 40 starting out
Equipment: Raincoat, Makarov, medkit, bread, 60 9x18mm rounds, PDA
You arrive in the zone on a truck. Making it past the Cordon, you arrive in a rookie camp. All info points to Sidorovich, an experienced trader.

The player will be able to choose a faction he likes best and lead it to victory, weakening the other factions in the process. The stronger your faction becomes, the better munitions the fighters will have. The war of factions will often change direction. Transition points and resources get captured, unexpected attacks are carried out. It all happens randomly, and your actions affect events in the Zone. One of the new locations is the Swamp, which will be larger than any other area. One new mutant, from Clear Sky the "Marsh Bloodsucker", who will be invisible. This bloodsucker was seen in the swamplands level, and has the ability to grab NPCs and the protagonist and throw them high into the air, before taking them back into the swamps to eat. The anomalies, artifacts, and their detectors will be greatly varied. For example, the detector will be a device that is held in one hand, while the other holds a small firearm, like a handgun. Long-barreled weapons such as rifles cannot be held at the same time as the detector. There will be a person in almost every faction base, who will repair and upgrade weapons. For a price you will be able to keep your favourite weapons in good condition. You can pay an experienced Stalker, like Guide from Shadow of Chernobyl to lead you through a short, but very dangerous path full of hazards from one area to another, in order to avoid having to run through the entire area. Weapons and armor will be repairable, and both will have a new upgrading system. There will be more new unique weapons. It will be possible to upgrade them very extensively in all categories by the player. Finding such weapons will be much more difficult. More ammo types (unconfirmed reports of 7.62x39mm hollow point and FMJ rounds being included). There are, of course, plans to add new weapons.

What awaits you, Stalker, in the Zone?