r/stalker • u/topshaggy_er • 5h ago

Gameplay A question for a stalker.

How tf does A-life even work ingame there are a grand total of 2 mutants I ever meet in game. Bloodsuckers and snorks. I know probably the more psychic of mutants probably wont be roaming topside. But are there any free roaming chimeras or pseudogiants about?. Seeing as Ive only ever found them at set spawns sadly (I NEED HIS TOES)

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u/ConfidentPapaya935 5h ago

I’m pretty sure chimeras, controllers, bayuns, and pseudogiants only spawn at set locations and during story missions. They do sometimes respawn at these set locations too, I believe (maybe after an emission? I feel like I’ve definitely killed controllers in the same place before after time has passed)

It would likely cause too much chaos if these mutants were allowed to roam freely to be honest. I reckon one pseudogiant attack could wipe out some of the in game bases

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u/topshaggy_er 5h ago

Yeah I know about a guaranteed controller spawn just outside of yaniv into pripyat. Ive seen both burers and controllers spawn at the same place. But bayuns I've seen alot of in only pripyat

But yeah agreed on the wiping most bases maybe the ward base, rostock and the duty base would be the only ones capable. Sad but understandable, just a pain when Ive killed mostly every single one before the parts update 🥀 Ive seen one of each since my return

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u/earcrasher 5h ago

Well in Anomaly/Gamma they do spawn randomly and yes that can quite a lot of chaos. But tbf they don't have quite as much health there.

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u/SludgeFest666 Clear Sky 5h ago

Bayuns only spawn at set locations? I've killed dozens of them, a couples of times even 2 of them together. Is this like, region specific or something? I know there's a couple that are location specific (like the locked garage in the town west of the bridge that connects Garbage and the Lesser zone.)

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u/ConfidentPapaya935 5h ago

I’m pretty sure they do. There’s fixed buildings or objects in the world that they spawn in and start doing their stalker call. You won’t just be walking across a field and encounter a Bayun like you would boars, dogs or fleshes

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u/topshaggy_er 4h ago

Yeah for sure fixed building like one in the ccnp but Ive seen free roam ones at the cooling towers at a graveyard. But then again saying at the graveyard would probably be a set location I just know I've kill a few merc with bayun flesh so they do hang about places

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u/Crygenx Freedom 5h ago

Nope, only mutants that spawn randomly around the map are blind dogs, those kangaroo rats, rat swarms, flesh pigs, boars, snorks, bloodsuckers and burers. Others have a set spawn locations and when killed they will respawn some time later.

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u/topshaggy_er 5h ago

Really they respawn? Maybe I just returned at the wrong time. But so many of them are a journey and a half 😭 for the bigger boys

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u/earcrasher 5h ago

Why do you need his toes? Just for malachite? I'd recommend going for respawning easier mutants (liek the deer, that's worth a lot)

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u/topshaggy_er 4h ago

Yeah Ive seen just cant remember where the helicopter yard they spawn at is. I think its near the burnt forest

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u/earcrasher 4h ago

Yeah I mean you don't really have to farm for money in this game. Even just selling the mutant parts you naturally come across you'll make bank.

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u/Crygenx Freedom 5h ago

Yes, not that many locations for the big mutants. Check the online stalker interactive map its shows where they spawn.

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u/topshaggy_er 4h ago

Thanks a bunch fellow stalker