I managed to get in some time in STALKER tonight before being forced to retreat to a bundle of blankets in the living room (damn you winter!), though nothing too interesting happened.

I had previously made it to The Bar, but still had to go back to Sidorovich to turn in a couple of missions, so I grabbed a couple more missions that were along the way and headed back. One of them was to take out a camp of bandits, who I found attacking the stalker camp I’d defended before, and they were fairly easy to dispatch. The other was to kill a deserter, and I had to head west to the research station map to find him. While I was there I also finished off a few guards that were still around the military base, and restocked on machine gun ammo from them.

Upon getting back to Cordon, I figured I’d finally meet up with the military squad guarding the bridge underpass, and they want money in order to let you pass. Feeling a bit cockier than I did the previous time I’d been this way, thanks to being more heavily armed, I poked my AK74/2 in his face instead and a bit of a firefight broke out. They wound up being easier than I expected, and although their machine guns weren’t any better than my own, one of them did have a better pistol than I had.

And now, having turned in the former quests, I have to trudge all the way back to The Bar and turn in the ones I did along the way… I think some of these missions are randomly generated, so I might have to focus on getting back to the storyline missions instead of constantly being distracted by these minor ones. I should probably get the mod that tells you what the quest reward is so I at least know which ones are actually worth doing.