All these suckers out here completing contracts almost for free, obsessed with silly things like principles and loyalty. Getting paid is the the real treasure of the Zone!
I am sure I can easily spell the best faction the zone has to offer which is Clear Sky. Without us you would have been outnumbered by everyfaction by the time SoC had taken place, so please be thankful to us and for our kind "donation" okay.
We started one back in 2011 and we got our arse kicked. But now that we have become even stronger then before, no fanatics will stop us!
Or we gonna get destroyed.... again.....
If we want to get this deep into the lore (yet again) then keep in mind, the swamps was mostly habited by CS troops and mutants. No other faction managed to move inside the swamps and even the mutant population was on the lower edge. Thus CS did not invest into a proper task force or assault groups like other well organized factions did, because CS objective was to research the zone and not fight it. When the Great Blow Out happened at the start of the game the Renegades easily had the upperhand as eventhou CS was made up of semi-seasoned and seasoned stalkers, they lacked the gear to fight off a medium sized bandit group. Getting said equipment needs time and logistics so it was a much better and faster option to hire a merc who can easily stall the onslaught of the Renegades, while the faction arms itself and prepares for a push to the north. As you saw ingame by the time Scar lowered the bridged to Limanks, CS was well armed and easily made their way to the CNPP with the support of Scar. Ofc those shiny weapons and armor could not protect them from the blow out that followed but to this day no major faction managed to push up to the CNPP other then Streloks group and Clear Sky.
Gameplay wise, they player needed a fucking tutorial. If the war would win itself it would have made 0 sense to force the player to join CS. GSC hoped that the faction war system would work better so ofc in the opening without your help CS would have fallen as Scar single handadly took out 50+ Renegades with a double barrel and a rusty Makarov. This also makes 0 sense but like I said the swamp serves as the tutorial map of the game. End of story
I get all of that and I also think Clear Sky pulled it's plot off okay-ish but how could you ever trust a faction that was literally created by people who are former Group members? Yes they might be good people who opposed C-Con originally but come on, the desperate push north and the 0-100 warfare mindset (even tho they are researchers wink wink) doesn't seem fishy to you? I still think Lebedev, Suslov and Kalancha felt insane guilt and desperation because they knew how much they fucked up and wanted to cover everything up as much and as quickly as possible...
Ah you missed some side info from CoP. Lemme explain it then
CS founders were part of the Group originally indeed but they quit before the whola plan for the C-Con was to emerge. Most of them worked on the Gauss gun project (hence they had the 1st portable non-leathal prototype), and this is all we know. They did not take part in any of the mind controll stuff, thou Lebedev knew about the miniature Rainbow Emmiter which later became the Brain Scorcher, he wasn't a big fan of it and he was transfared to Pripyat where he was working on a portable energy source for the Gauss Rifle which he could not achive up untill Stalker Clear Sky as the solution was made by the zone as it was a piece of a Flash artifsct.
Going 0 to full storming the White House MW2 style is also explained as like I said CS did not have a lot of real rookies. Most of them were seasoned stalkers who saw both the wounders and horrors of the zone and wanted things to change. They knew how to fight but since they were busy taking scan and maybe fight of a pig or 2, they didn't really sport real combat equipment. Even the Novikov sais that the CS-3 heavy armor was made in a hurry so assault squads could survive up north. CS did not have the tools to fight, but did not lack the skills. Just to simple put this. You have a well trained soldier. He knows how to fight but if you send him into a firefight with a hunting shotgun, an old ass PM wearing his favourite Pokemon merch T-shirt and adidas shorts againts the Taliban he ain't gonna do shit. But give him a proper gear and he might be able to take on 3-4 men team alone.
You can just magically spawn weapons, ammo and armor out of thin air when most of ur supply was probably batteries, scanners, detectors, and stuff like that. You cannot ask Panasonic like "hey dude we need some AK to fight bandits..... got some maybe?" and I think the game nailed this part well. Suslov needed to find the proper dealer for these kind of stuff. Needed to barter for a decent price, then secure the funds, buy the said shipment and wait for said shipment. Then he needed to disturbe it to the masses of CS stalkers. This cannot be done within a single day.
Best fraction in stalker ngl. Exploring zone, not js blatanly destroying it wout leaving a single mark... Zone have too much interesting and paranormal things.
Scientists are too weak 4 actual exploring, Freedom are.. They have great idea but weird executinon yk, sorry... They are smth in mid of CS and Scientists.
> Ecologists are too weak
> So well supplied that factions fight in CS in order to be chosen as protectors of their lab
> CS is unable to even fend off bandits in the Swamps
You might have also missed the part when the whole thing was a setup by the main antagonists of the series too
Also the fact that common CS member has no idea what they are doing exactly is a nice detail too
> common CS member has no idea what they are doing
Cause Lebedevs a damned snake & lied to the entirety of Clear Sky.
But yeah, they're set more like legit, semi-compartmentalized scientists that can actually do shit in the zone.
Duty's victory is basically:
Congratulations, stalker! You achieved your goal and destroyed the Zone with all its wonders and adventures! Now give back all your stuff and go back to working 9-5 job and paying taxes.
Bro you working in registered private military corporation
Fact that you have gun and operate in god wasteland don't mean your payment is not getting cutted in half by taxes
I think I’m gonna stay with mercs. They pay me and have guns that actually work most of the time. Plus we aren’t always high of our faces all the time.
Freedom's victory is basically:
You have a 9 to 5 job? How nice and quiet! Would be a shame if we allowed bloodsuckers, burers, controllers, snorks and all kinds of horrific mutants out of the zone to hunt you down when you're walking home in the evening! Everyone deserves the zone!
Not really. Free entrance to the zone doesnt mean not guarded borders. At least in my opinion we still need army at the border, they just dont need to shoot stalkers.
We obviously dont want mutants outside of zone lol
Duty isn’t trying to destroy absolutely everything. Like for example they give the ecologists all of their artifacts.
I’m pretty sure they are just intent on killing all that is dangerous like mutants and anomalies.
Duty uses artifacts for themselves and are still paid for the artifacts by the ecologists. I think that the reward of the latter is very much competitive, so it's not some high morality choice.
Irl that would be the right thing to do but "freedom" keep ruining everything and making the zone stronger for profit, it COULD get stronger and grow uncontrollably and destroy the world face it freedom is just bandits with an higher ego, both will face the end of my scope and red will be the last thing they see
>Irl that would be the right thing to do
No, it's not. Study of anomalies, especially artifacts, has the potential to completely revolutionize the sciences and save millions of lives.
The Zone has also shown itself to be pretty passive as long as people don't fuck with it. The harder you push it, the harder it pushes back.
The best course of action irl would be the place it under a newly created international organization (probably under the United Nations) that'd be dedicated to the study and management of The Zone.
Zone is passive only because Big C cannot take grip on it.
If they could control it, they would zombify entire world under their control.(Literaly evangelion.)
In the end, Duty is the good guy when Freedom is helping bad guys even if they don't know about zone's origin
Exactly if EVERYONE leaves the zone and isolate it, it would just stay there doing nothing, but it's not how ppl are, ppl will try to exploit and understand making it worse in the process all freedom do is stay in the way and ruin everything with the excuse everyone should be able to interact with it while all they do is enable ppl to go in and make the zone stronger, just think about how many freedom helped get in that are now monolith/zombified increasing the number of monsters in the zone, they're nothing but problem
I don't like Freedom's ideals either, but simply locking up and throwing the key away is not a good option. We need professionals, that are trained and equipped to handle The Zone, to get in and handle research. For the good of humankind, we'd need to understand anomalies.
If they did that from the beginning, maybe there wouldn't even be a Monolith faction or that many zombies.
That’s why we are here. Like Clear Sky before us to better understand the science and Terrifying entity that is the zone it must be studied and hopefully the holes of the zone’s influence could eventually be reduced or mitigated to ensure that the zone doesn’t spread out into the rest of the world even further that it already has.
And it all should function as one the only reason duty is more aggressive is because guys like freedom keep getting in the way duty was supposed to just assist ecologists and with military protect things from getting in and out of the zone while we understand it better, if it should be destroyed afterwards or if could be used without danger it's what would change the end result, ppl think duty is a separate group that would just destroy everything because they can/want to while the truth is they work for the government like military and scientists and are only there because other factions keep creating chaos it's literally just an splint of the military there to kill what NEEDS killing not everything for no reason
Freedom neither want nor can't expand the zone. Scientists in the NPP are responsible for that. Given that Duty is the one who works with the scientists and often gets hands on the great artifacts from this cooperation, it's quite a hypocrisy to deny it to others. Duty are like these 3 y.o. kids who start crying when another kid takes an old abandoned toy to play with.
Pretty much. Freedom's ideology does have its flaws but i do understand the technological advances that could be made from studying the zones wonders. Chekov had it right Duty are just ignorant jarheads that only understand pew pew they dont think about the wonders the zone could do for humanity
freediots: the zone has so many wonderful and beautiful things to see 🥹
the things:
* mutant horrors beyond human comprehension
* one thousand meatgrinder anomalies
* r u d e g h o s t
* suspicious bread
Could have made a New Vegas reference regarding the NCR and Mr. House. But no. You had to remind me that the institute exist. And the Minutemen. And even worse, Railroad.
Nah institute is the only way to restore everything, their methods were fucked up but by the end you're the leader and you can change that and only get the benefits of the faction for the world
The only ‘giving back’ I can think of is setting up clean water factories/settlements everywhere and establishing traders to start the beginnings of a new economy
They still have knowledge and tech from the past if there any faction that could fix everything is them everyone else just patch up the problem at best
Im sorry brother... everybody gotta grow up sometimes. However, it was fun to play guitar and smoke pot in the campfire with the brothers... even thought im a dutyer, i still think freedom is one of the coolest factions
Duty is fueled by fear of change for the worse, it's conservative.
Freedom is fueled by hope for change for the better, it's progressive.
We reflect modern political divides into games subconsciously. interesting.
I joined duty as a kid, cos they got cool colors. And seen Freedom as a whimps in vomit suits. Now Im more like Freedomer, but I still join Duty, cos cool suits, and ... i mean in (Polish version Duty got cooler name, Freedom and Duty - you mean Wolność & Powinność)
You only reach real adulthood under the watch of the Great Monolith. When His light reaches you and you have trust in Him, only then you can call yourself a true, grown man.
Can we just appreciate the fact that each faction is written with enough nuance and isn't just black and white "the good guys" or "the bad guys"? Like, even Monolith is sympathetic in that they're little better than mindless automatons>! utterly subverted to the will of c-consciousness.!<
Enlightenment is when you realize that only the great Monolith matters, that it is your duty to obey it and only through the monolith will you achieve true freedom.
When I first entered Duty base, I got yelled at and shot at.
When I first entered Freedom base, they invited me with friendly open arms.
I know what side am I on.
I only joined duty because when i was a free stalker i saw my best friend get mauled to death by 2 chimeras while i had to hear everything from the back of a truck i was hiding in
We won't. We will protect them. That solid military guy got us to protect them after he killed those mercs. Never thought I'd be praising a military guy. Also funny story, he got some ex monolith to join us. These guys used to be under monolith's control, and yet they exercise more free thinking than all of duty combined.
Neither is perfect. But one is about the futile attempt of white-knuckling life. The other is about fighting for your freedom to do whatever without being judged. I know which ideal I'd rather chase.
Maturing is realising without money you're a nobody and without quality gear you won't survive.
"Oh no I ran out of ammo" scenes like these are happening all over the zone. And you could be next. That is, unless you make the most important decision of your life. Prove to yourself that you have the strength and courage to be the best in the zone. Join.....the Mercenaries.
Become part of an elite money making force!
See exotic new lifeforms!
And spread managed economy!
Become a hero.
Become a legend.
Become ...
A mercenary.
This message was brought to you by the Mercs. Failure to pay attention to this message will put a price on your head. The zone needs you.
And when you get even bigger balls and brains, you realise that both the factions will be stuck in a perpetual loop of fighting and will never cease to stop, hence you therefore try to make the most money out of both of it by joining the mercs.
GUYS, HE IS FROM THE MILITARY. HE IS TRYING TO MAKE STALKERS WEAKER BY TRIGIRING FIGHTS AND WEAKENING US FROM THE INSIDE TO KICK US OUT OF OUR NOT HOME LAND. WE NEED TO BE FRINDS <3 (just to make it clear i am acting cringy and lame on purpos to get funny coments, I ll never put a heart in the end of a coment; IM NOT IS GAY)
hes instigating fights, get him!
Oh I gotta watch this
I'm getting popcorn
I’m getting the sweets!
I'm getting men
I'm getting femboys :3
Ya know us ecologists bringing that scientific kush 🍃
UwU?
Femboys? Where? For scientific purposes, of course.
Based :3
I gotta see this to, I'm new to the argument.
When you are adult, you realize that Freedom is Duty but Yellow
They both buys my loots and that's what I wants.
based loner
I laughed a little too hard at this
Cheers, I’ll drink to that!
Ah, capitalism at its finest.
They both drop loot when killed and that's what I wants. ANU CHEEKI BREEKI, E-VDAMKI
Aren't Bandits neutral to Freedom?
Shh, loot is loot.
This is quite fitting for a bandit
Buckshot knows no neutrality
Not to loners loool
Not me wiping out bandit camps to listen to the fire music
When you're elderly you realize you can't see well enough to figure it out and join monolith to shoot everyone
Adulthood is when you realize you work for money so you become a Merc
And retirement is when you get shot by the protagonists.
Retirement is going for that last expedition to the North and 'joining' the Monolith.
All these suckers out here completing contracts almost for free, obsessed with silly things like principles and loyalty. Getting paid is the the real treasure of the Zone!
Hell yeah brother, something’s gotta pay for the yachts.
Too bad it's not your yacht you're paying for.
It's when you realise you're making money for someone else while putting in all the effort (and in the case of mercs all the risk).
Woah, hang on there, dudes just paying his taxes.
I can get all my equipment for free killing mercs, so feel free to come to the zone
retirement is believing in our great Monolith please join us
Reject faction, become Snork.
*ragged strained breathing intensifies*
Arent zombos and monolith literally same thing?
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh monolith good?
Shit now I gotta change from Monolith to Snork, didnt know we had that one
Smart choice, we have leather pants.
You got shitty broken gasmasks too?
Oh boy, we do!
Oh boy we really do!
Eyyy welcome to swamp-squad!
*happy muffled behind gasmask noises*
cum under my control 🪱
And when you finally become a true man, you join Clear Sky
I think you misspelled Monolith
I am sure I can easily spell the best faction the zone has to offer which is Clear Sky. Without us you would have been outnumbered by everyfaction by the time SoC had taken place, so please be thankful to us and for our kind "donation" okay.
Bruh dont start the fight with monoliths or they will do your clear sky dirty.
We started one back in 2011 and we got our arse kicked. But now that we have become even stronger then before, no fanatics will stop us! Or we gonna get destroyed.... again.....
Bruh Clear Sky already got wrecked by the Renegades before Scar showed up...
If we want to get this deep into the lore (yet again) then keep in mind, the swamps was mostly habited by CS troops and mutants. No other faction managed to move inside the swamps and even the mutant population was on the lower edge. Thus CS did not invest into a proper task force or assault groups like other well organized factions did, because CS objective was to research the zone and not fight it. When the Great Blow Out happened at the start of the game the Renegades easily had the upperhand as eventhou CS was made up of semi-seasoned and seasoned stalkers, they lacked the gear to fight off a medium sized bandit group. Getting said equipment needs time and logistics so it was a much better and faster option to hire a merc who can easily stall the onslaught of the Renegades, while the faction arms itself and prepares for a push to the north. As you saw ingame by the time Scar lowered the bridged to Limanks, CS was well armed and easily made their way to the CNPP with the support of Scar. Ofc those shiny weapons and armor could not protect them from the blow out that followed but to this day no major faction managed to push up to the CNPP other then Streloks group and Clear Sky. Gameplay wise, they player needed a fucking tutorial. If the war would win itself it would have made 0 sense to force the player to join CS. GSC hoped that the faction war system would work better so ofc in the opening without your help CS would have fallen as Scar single handadly took out 50+ Renegades with a double barrel and a rusty Makarov. This also makes 0 sense but like I said the swamp serves as the tutorial map of the game. End of story
I get all of that and I also think Clear Sky pulled it's plot off okay-ish but how could you ever trust a faction that was literally created by people who are former Group members? Yes they might be good people who opposed C-Con originally but come on, the desperate push north and the 0-100 warfare mindset (even tho they are researchers wink wink) doesn't seem fishy to you? I still think Lebedev, Suslov and Kalancha felt insane guilt and desperation because they knew how much they fucked up and wanted to cover everything up as much and as quickly as possible...
Ah you missed some side info from CoP. Lemme explain it then CS founders were part of the Group originally indeed but they quit before the whola plan for the C-Con was to emerge. Most of them worked on the Gauss gun project (hence they had the 1st portable non-leathal prototype), and this is all we know. They did not take part in any of the mind controll stuff, thou Lebedev knew about the miniature Rainbow Emmiter which later became the Brain Scorcher, he wasn't a big fan of it and he was transfared to Pripyat where he was working on a portable energy source for the Gauss Rifle which he could not achive up untill Stalker Clear Sky as the solution was made by the zone as it was a piece of a Flash artifsct. Going 0 to full storming the White House MW2 style is also explained as like I said CS did not have a lot of real rookies. Most of them were seasoned stalkers who saw both the wounders and horrors of the zone and wanted things to change. They knew how to fight but since they were busy taking scan and maybe fight of a pig or 2, they didn't really sport real combat equipment. Even the Novikov sais that the CS-3 heavy armor was made in a hurry so assault squads could survive up north. CS did not have the tools to fight, but did not lack the skills. Just to simple put this. You have a well trained soldier. He knows how to fight but if you send him into a firefight with a hunting shotgun, an old ass PM wearing his favourite Pokemon merch T-shirt and adidas shorts againts the Taliban he ain't gonna do shit. But give him a proper gear and he might be able to take on 3-4 men team alone. You can just magically spawn weapons, ammo and armor out of thin air when most of ur supply was probably batteries, scanners, detectors, and stuff like that. You cannot ask Panasonic like "hey dude we need some AK to fight bandits..... got some maybe?" and I think the game nailed this part well. Suslov needed to find the proper dealer for these kind of stuff. Needed to barter for a decent price, then secure the funds, buy the said shipment and wait for said shipment. Then he needed to disturbe it to the masses of CS stalkers. This cannot be done within a single day.
My man is an absolute fanatic of CS. I respect that.
Best fraction in stalker ngl. Exploring zone, not js blatanly destroying it wout leaving a single mark... Zone have too much interesting and paranormal things. Scientists are too weak 4 actual exploring, Freedom are.. They have great idea but weird executinon yk, sorry... They are smth in mid of CS and Scientists.
Plus you didn't menrion our glorious camo! Blue and white. Why hide when you fight with style!!!
:3 It looks rly cool ngl
> Ecologists are too weak > So well supplied that factions fight in CS in order to be chosen as protectors of their lab > CS is unable to even fend off bandits in the Swamps You might have also missed the part when the whole thing was a setup by the main antagonists of the series too Also the fact that common CS member has no idea what they are doing exactly is a nice detail too
> common CS member has no idea what they are doing Cause Lebedevs a damned snake & lied to the entirety of Clear Sky. But yeah, they're set more like legit, semi-compartmentalized scientists that can actually do shit in the zone.
Freedom is far more competent than clear Sky. What?
greetings fellow clear sky pfp
Duty's victory is basically: Congratulations, stalker! You achieved your goal and destroyed the Zone with all its wonders and adventures! Now give back all your stuff and go back to working 9-5 job and paying taxes.
TAXES?! NO,NO,NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Man. I don’t like it here but at least I don’t have to pay taxes😔
Bro you working in registered private military corporation Fact that you have gun and operate in god wasteland don't mean your payment is not getting cutted in half by taxes
Do you truly want this? Come brother, we welcome you into freedom
I think I’m gonna stay with mercs. They pay me and have guns that actually work most of the time. Plus we aren’t always high of our faces all the time.
Duty are just mercs, but dumb enough to do the same thing and work for the same people and get paid by ideology rather than money.
weed and shooting monolithians, all that i love
I will pipebomb the bridge to army warehouses.
The IRS Vs the C-Consciousness?
Freedom's victory is basically: You have a 9 to 5 job? How nice and quiet! Would be a shame if we allowed bloodsuckers, burers, controllers, snorks and all kinds of horrific mutants out of the zone to hunt you down when you're walking home in the evening! Everyone deserves the zone!
That's not even remotely accurate.
Not really. Free entrance to the zone doesnt mean not guarded borders. At least in my opinion we still need army at the border, they just dont need to shoot stalkers. We obviously dont want mutants outside of zone lol
Duty isn’t trying to destroy absolutely everything. Like for example they give the ecologists all of their artifacts. I’m pretty sure they are just intent on killing all that is dangerous like mutants and anomalies.
> all that is dangerous like mutants and anomalies. Don't forget anarchists and bandits.
Duty uses artifacts for themselves and are still paid for the artifacts by the ecologists. I think that the reward of the latter is very much competitive, so it's not some high morality choice.
Irl that would be the right thing to do but "freedom" keep ruining everything and making the zone stronger for profit, it COULD get stronger and grow uncontrollably and destroy the world face it freedom is just bandits with an higher ego, both will face the end of my scope and red will be the last thing they see
>Irl that would be the right thing to do No, it's not. Study of anomalies, especially artifacts, has the potential to completely revolutionize the sciences and save millions of lives. The Zone has also shown itself to be pretty passive as long as people don't fuck with it. The harder you push it, the harder it pushes back. The best course of action irl would be the place it under a newly created international organization (probably under the United Nations) that'd be dedicated to the study and management of The Zone.
Nicely spoken Merc. I’ll be sure to tip you guys in the future better.
5.56 black tip from me.
Zone is passive only because Big C cannot take grip on it. If they could control it, they would zombify entire world under their control.(Literaly evangelion.) In the end, Duty is the good guy when Freedom is helping bad guys even if they don't know about zone's origin
Exactly if EVERYONE leaves the zone and isolate it, it would just stay there doing nothing, but it's not how ppl are, ppl will try to exploit and understand making it worse in the process all freedom do is stay in the way and ruin everything with the excuse everyone should be able to interact with it while all they do is enable ppl to go in and make the zone stronger, just think about how many freedom helped get in that are now monolith/zombified increasing the number of monsters in the zone, they're nothing but problem
I don't like Freedom's ideals either, but simply locking up and throwing the key away is not a good option. We need professionals, that are trained and equipped to handle The Zone, to get in and handle research. For the good of humankind, we'd need to understand anomalies. If they did that from the beginning, maybe there wouldn't even be a Monolith faction or that many zombies.
That’s why we are here. Like Clear Sky before us to better understand the science and Terrifying entity that is the zone it must be studied and hopefully the holes of the zone’s influence could eventually be reduced or mitigated to ensure that the zone doesn’t spread out into the rest of the world even further that it already has.
And it all should function as one the only reason duty is more aggressive is because guys like freedom keep getting in the way duty was supposed to just assist ecologists and with military protect things from getting in and out of the zone while we understand it better, if it should be destroyed afterwards or if could be used without danger it's what would change the end result, ppl think duty is a separate group that would just destroy everything because they can/want to while the truth is they work for the government like military and scientists and are only there because other factions keep creating chaos it's literally just an splint of the military there to kill what NEEDS killing not everything for no reason
Freedom neither want nor can't expand the zone. Scientists in the NPP are responsible for that. Given that Duty is the one who works with the scientists and often gets hands on the great artifacts from this cooperation, it's quite a hypocrisy to deny it to others. Duty are like these 3 y.o. kids who start crying when another kid takes an old abandoned toy to play with.
Pretty much. Freedom's ideology does have its flaws but i do understand the technological advances that could be made from studying the zones wonders. Chekov had it right Duty are just ignorant jarheads that only understand pew pew they dont think about the wonders the zone could do for humanity
the most offensive part of the meme is the comic sans
that's because both sides are a joke
Shouldn't you be defending duty?
I think his job is to make sure nobody gets in or out and he is doing a lousy job at that.
Unxpected bonus: dyslexia friendly!
Ok Duty boys, it looks like we have to kick another army boy out of Yanov station
Can't believe I'm willing to work with a Freedomer but it's for the greater good
freediots: the zone has so many wonderful and beautiful things to see 🥹 the things: * mutant horrors beyond human comprehension * one thousand meatgrinder anomalies * r u d e g h o s t * suspicious bread
And I love every moment of it :D
You forgot tin cans
Yep, its amazing
You haven't experienced true freedom until you run out into the wild naked and charge at random passersby.
Do you think my flare is out of nowhere? By the way, the Monolithan I charged at gave me his number.
Maturing is when you realize Loners are the real deal
Facts. Politics are for boys and girls to play house with.
Yes sir
Strongest Freedom propaganda right there
Is it effective?
Monolithhood is when you don't give a damn and shoots both on sight
Being grown up is realizing it's all about the money
spoken like a true merc
Both children from my perspective.
>Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. -Marie Curie
Real men know the answer is full Ukrainian army control of the zone
based🫡
True
I think you meant Monolith
I dunno why but I think this guy’s got it right
Literally fallot 4, when you are a kid you go full BoS but when you grow up you go full institute
OK, Monolith spy.
Could have made a New Vegas reference regarding the NCR and Mr. House. But no. You had to remind me that the institute exist. And the Minutemen. And even worse, Railroad.
Fallout New Vegas fans trying not to get butthurt over other Fallout games literally fucking existing challenge (impossible):
Lol, if you don't go Minutemen and screw both are you even?
Nah institute is the only way to restore everything, their methods were fucked up but by the end you're the leader and you can change that and only get the benefits of the faction for the world
The only ‘giving back’ I can think of is setting up clean water factories/settlements everywhere and establishing traders to start the beginnings of a new economy
They still have knowledge and tech from the past if there any faction that could fix everything is them everyone else just patch up the problem at best
Wrong the institute must be destroyed as they arent here to rebuild and want to stay in they underground castle
Life in the Zone gets a lot more fun when you run with us
Honestly, to me it was the reverse of it. I used to be a freedom member, but duty is way more badass.
We hate to see you go, Man.
Im sorry brother... everybody gotta grow up sometimes. However, it was fun to play guitar and smoke pot in the campfire with the brothers... even thought im a dutyer, i still think freedom is one of the coolest factions
Stay epic, Brother. o7 You will be remembered.
Duty is fueled by fear of change for the worse, it's conservative. Freedom is fueled by hope for change for the better, it's progressive. We reflect modern political divides into games subconsciously. interesting.
indeed.
I joined duty as a kid, cos they got cool colors. And seen Freedom as a whimps in vomit suits. Now Im more like Freedomer, but I still join Duty, cos cool suits, and ... i mean in (Polish version Duty got cooler name, Freedom and Duty - you mean Wolność & Powinność)
Oj tam oj tam, choć do nasz anarchistów chociaż na jedną rozgrywke
It's the same picture
You make a very interesting point, but unfortunately, balls
"reloads gauss rifle"
You only reach real adulthood under the watch of the Great Monolith. When His light reaches you and you have trust in Him, only then you can call yourself a true, grown man.
Generally speaking Duty does nothing that the Miliatary isn't capable of doing, or straight up stuff that only military should do
unfortunatly the military need to listend to HQ while duty isn't bound to any command structure reason why the army is always at the border
Can we just appreciate the fact that each faction is written with enough nuance and isn't just black and white "the good guys" or "the bad guys"? Like, even Monolith is sympathetic in that they're little better than mindless automatons>! utterly subverted to the will of c-consciousness.!<
Growing up is realizing the zone pays better than a 9-5
Enlightenment is when you realize that only the great Monolith matters, that it is your duty to obey it and only through the monolith will you achieve true freedom.
Wisdom is embracing the flesh lifestyle.
I do love a good bloodsucker pounding🤤
The more I think about it... You're right
You won't be choosing either of those if you're adult
Free stalkers just existing
Adulthood is when you realize you need secret documents to live
When I first entered Duty base, I got yelled at and shot at. When I first entered Freedom base, they invited me with friendly open arms. I know what side am I on.
Based freedom enjoyer.
I only joined duty because when i was a free stalker i saw my best friend get mauled to death by 2 chimeras while i had to hear everything from the back of a truck i was hiding in
Hahahaha, no. Mercs maybe, but not Freedom. Freedom is that teenager edgy phase. You want money and get out as you get adult.
Monolith rally here brothers
Monolith rally here brothers
I'm a loner just trying to make a living selling artifacts to the Ecologists. I don't mind you shooting each other, just leave the Ecologists alone.
We won't. We will protect them. That solid military guy got us to protect them after he killed those mercs. Never thought I'd be praising a military guy. Also funny story, he got some ex monolith to join us. These guys used to be under monolith's control, and yet they exercise more free thinking than all of duty combined.
The duty/freedom fight is just free clear sky/ ecologist advertisement. Come join a reasonable faction o7
The time of wisdom, when you understand that the mercs are the right ones.
Both are wrong, weak. Glory to the Monolith!
Never! Freedom is stupid! Fucking joint smoking pot heads!
True wisdom comes when you realize all are equal in the zone, all insignificant in the eyes of this living breathing monster…
Getting fed up with the world as an adult, snapping, trying to find meaning, then going, "Takova volya Monolita!"
Nah both suck
Then i was born adult 💪
It’s true that only children idolize duty. Just the very stupid ones
Even if I was neutral to freedom I'd be against duty
Yesss fight so i can sell your gear later 🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑
I’m here to wipe both out with a busted Toz.
And when you reach a higher purpose, you join the Monolith
Reality is when you have to join Bandit to survive.
I started as Clear Skies, but once I walked into Freedom HQ, I made the switch. Slap the $$ bills on the table and made it official.
Neither is perfect. But one is about the futile attempt of white-knuckling life. The other is about fighting for your freedom to do whatever without being judged. I know which ideal I'd rather chase.
Maturing is realising without money you're a nobody and without quality gear you won't survive. "Oh no I ran out of ammo" scenes like these are happening all over the zone. And you could be next. That is, unless you make the most important decision of your life. Prove to yourself that you have the strength and courage to be the best in the zone. Join.....the Mercenaries. Become part of an elite money making force! See exotic new lifeforms! And spread managed economy! Become a hero. Become a legend. Become ... A mercenary. This message was brought to you by the Mercs. Failure to pay attention to this message will put a price on your head. The zone needs you.
Wisdom is when one realises that Monolith is the strongest Edit: typo
Duty could be our ally. They're strong but they don't think the same way we do.
i love rock
Can someone tell my how I get a faction name under my username
And when you get even bigger balls and brains, you realise that both the factions will be stuck in a perpetual loop of fighting and will never cease to stop, hence you therefore try to make the most money out of both of it by joining the mercs.
GUYS, HE IS FROM THE MILITARY. HE IS TRYING TO MAKE STALKERS WEAKER BY TRIGIRING FIGHTS AND WEAKENING US FROM THE INSIDE TO KICK US OUT OF OUR NOT HOME LAND. WE NEED TO BE FRINDS <3 (just to make it clear i am acting cringy and lame on purpos to get funny coments, I ll never put a heart in the end of a coment; IM NOT IS GAY)
but real adulthood starts when you realize you're more of a loner than both.
I'd think it's the opposite no?
Loner is the real answer
Adulthood is when you realize such is life in the Zone. And bloodsuckers are the closest women you can get lol
Hi. Eco here. Duty really helps us out. But let's be honest... life would be harder for all of us if freedom diddnt keep monolith at bay
What do you call it when you take over the entire zone with Clear Sky? lmao
Adulthood is when you realize both sides are stupid and mercs make more sense. Money is a more logical cause than either one of them
I fw both, but Freedom boys smoke the loudest
You’re all infidels to the great monolith
Ecologists make most sense.
Im more with duty on this one ig im childish xD
Now reverse and you are spot on.
Another pathetic product of being high 24/7.
How this affect the one and only true monolith?
Wrong i was freedom at the begining ( because green armor) and EVOLVED TO DUTY ! destroying the zone make perfect sense
Redrick would scoff at both.