Easily. His only choices were to do good in the world, and that was ripped away from him too... Strider was a good man. Rare thing in the zone, rarer than any artifact.
The writer who wrote the strider and full noon put a lot of effort into it and wanted them to resonate with people. It's really incredible and great that it turned out that great. My fav character there, indeed, seemed like the most noble guy out there. Wanted just peace and normal life for his pals
Actually we don't know who was the Strider before Monolith. We met him with amnesia. In the game Doctor once hints us that Monolith people forget their previous life.
@@ShootsVal what about Korshunov? his ending feels the best (and is the best for Skif). It seems that Korshunov just wants to shut down the generators and destroy the zone. Now, of course, the generators are now in the hands of the (shadow) government, but Korshunov personally had good intentions.
@ZabZabZabie That doesn't change how it felt to me, no matter what it was, it was still a chance to speak to what little was left of a good man. You are welcome to your own opinions and insights.
@@Markok1911 i believe it's because we really do not care about getting to know better people around us these days, in games we tend to be pretty much forced to meet and interact with npcs, and their motivations and thoughts which are portrayed by developers are so (if) well written that, when they're gone, you realise how much you cared. spent time with your closest, you don't know how much time you have left together.
The most insulting thing is that none of this is real. The casing falls through your hand, Strider only remembers what happened before the signal but conveniently forgot weeks of everything that happened after that before his death. This is Wish Granter all over again.
"Only I didn't choose that path. Unlike you." Hits hard. He calls you a puppet because you betrayed him and allowed yourself to be used for something material. Only he was a brainwashed puppet, but you were a willing one.
I ended up going with the Ward not because I cared about Skif getting rewarded with a home but because I genuinely believe General Korshunov when he says he wants to shut down the Zone for good. Unfortunately he much like Skif was being used by Agatha, kept in the dark until the very last moments when it was far too late for any of them to turn back. It's a shame we couldn't do an independent ending with Korshunov where the Zone is destroyed along with C-Consciousness for good.
@beefestrogen5276 the cannon ending is the skif ending where he takes control of c consciousness. When you are in control you can destroy the zone. Or use the wish granter for just about anything you want
@@beefestrogen5276 Colonel is by far the most likeable character in the game despite how harsh he is. The only one who in the entire game who does what he does not for personal gain but because he wants to stop the threat of the Zone. Korshunov is what Voronin wishes he could be. But to quote the Colonel himself: "What happens when the dog catches it's tail? What happens when it catches the damn tail?"
Honestly, the general ending is the best you get a home and can leave the zone. The rest of the other endings are either moderately bad or extremely bad.
A lot of people say that Strider in Cop wasn't a memorable character or that he didn't have much of a role. The simple fact that these guys managed (even for a brief moment) to escape Monolith's control is a miracle.a feat worthy of being remembered, a noble desire to be free.
I like how this scene shows the perspective of a simple Monolith fighter. It portrays the Monolith not just as whispering religious nonsense during battle, but as fulfilling a spotter's role with a robotic, commanding voice. Major Terminator vibes, would love to see more of this. Or it's the actual spotter and i'm just confused.
Powerful scene. Ukrainian voice actor did a good job too. When you tell him the truth, and he immediately tales the blame and reminds you to stay strong. That’s a true leader.
If anyone is wondering, when Strider removes his boots it might have a religious implication of preparing to depart, in a metaphorical sense. In religion, at least in orthodox, when one entered a church - the realm of divine and Heaven - they would leave their boots at the entrance.
There needs to be an alternate 5th ending, The noontide ending: Destroy Monolith, c-consciousness and the zone itself once and for all, so that everyone may be free.
@@wnstn1310 нет изюма в мире багов и тщетного игрового процесса. Финалы все отвратительные впрочем как и последние пол часа перестрелок с Монолитом...геймдизайн 2000х
They'll never give you a full 'destroy the zone' ending because it would be non-canon, and there would be no more 'stalker' games in that sense as sequels, lol. They know that the zone contains a ton of anomalous energies and this can have sentience and whatnot, but they never got into the whole anti-zone possibilities, like anti-matter, that can consume or destroy said energy. Though in real life, there is nothing that can 'dismantle' radiation in general, unless it vaporizes it.
I was not ok after getting to the basement last night. I sure as hell am not ok after getting to X-15 tonight. Damn it. I told him the truth. He deserves to know. False hope is just cruel when he's already lost it all.
But he is already dead. What you tell him only changes what sort of afterlife is he going to have. Will be forever be tortured by the fact that he failed? Or will you give him a lie, just so he is one of the few to actually have a somewhat happy afterlife?
@@TheoneknownasVC yeah you only consider and protecting yourself with that mindset. Strider wants to be free for mind control. Lying to him is an example of mind control. I dont think he will like if you lie to him. The only hope he has was Skif. Lying to him will make him an eternal puppet. Its better to say the truth. Its the same in real life.
Just realized he was referencing the attack on the CNPP at the end of Shadow of Chernobyl, Quartet is the callsign of the military commander you can find, Lun and Sova is referenced in a PDA article you can find on a dead military corpse. Maybe the radio guy in the cutscene is supposed to be or reference Quartet, regardless they probably all died due to the blowout.
yeah, it's amazing to know the developer did add the details of the entire CNPP operation just for the player to skip it and to run to the sarcophagus 🤣 you can search video: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Operation Monolith - Military Perspective to see it
I wonder - how did the Monolithians survived the CNPP blowout? Strelok disabled Monolith after the blowout so when they were under influence of Monolith they survived?
@@Benetkabc2nd Monolithians are immune to Blowouts regardless if they are controlled by the Monolith, I heard that once on their island. But gameplaywise they still die without a cover
Feels so bad for him to fail his own dream to be free once and for all. We didn't know much about him in cop so we basically didn't give much shit, but from now on it feels bad
straight up cyberpunk 2077 vibes after watching edgerunners on netflix. strider and noontide deserved to be free, but i respect the grim dark story that is told... still hurts.
In Original Stalker 2 Strider was Charon, the leader of Monolith and he was fighting a guerrilla warfare in Pripyat against Monolithians saving them and hunting down preachers, he had 2 endings where he kept saving the brainwashed and saved most, or where you convince him that his past as Charon is a cardinal sin and no matter what he does, he'd never find redemption, and he will then kill all the monolithians without saving any. Also their faction was called Redemption, and they were non-violently stopping stalkers from going to the centre and if they didn't listen they saved said stalkers from trouble, ex-bandits and other zone trash joined the faction hoping to find salvation and forgiveness. I wish Strider could have had his break, and actually survived and did something good for his people, instead he died. I also am not a fan of what they did to Scar and Doctor. I hated Faust, but in the end felt bad for him though.
This cutscene is the best and the most tragic part of the game. And 4:25 moved me to tears... I feel so sorry for Strider and his men. Everything he fought for was in vain. And lying to him, that they prevented the experiment to start. I just can't lie. Sorry, Strider. I am really sorry...
once i met strider and did those few quests on wild island i was fully throwing my hat into Noontide, its a tragedy how quickly everything they built is wiped away by the Monolith
Ive felt quite emotional listening to Strider laughting out loud, i could almost feel the pain in that laugh, that feeling of everything you worked hard for was all in vain, trying so hard to achieve redemption for their past actions only to become those mindless monsters once again...
He didn’t try his best. He should’ve killed Faust. Everything that happened to noontide is Strider fault. He did not see what was happening under his nose, he was not a good leader.
That was a real gut punch having to tell Strider the truth, especially with that music and setting. I really love he and Faust's characters, they feel like real people with legitimate motivations
@@rosgoncharuk2403 vessel for Marshall? you sure about that? he’s more like a vessel of the C-Con using the memories of Marshall. there is no Marshall personality fighting for control with Scar. Scar was literally given Marshall’s memories through the Stalker program
Same, things like this happened a lot throughout the game, are u on PC? I’ve been using a mod to stabilize the game and get better FPS and I’m wondering if that’s the cause of these issues
@@emt0000I don’t think it’s the mod, cause I don’t run any mods and I had the same issue, there are also cutscenes where you supposed to look at the security cameras but they are all static in my game, but i found them on UA-cam
Once I fully realized that there was no way to save Strider and Noontide, I made up my mind to destroy everything to do with the Monolith, C-Con, the Shining Zone, everything. Strelok was right about all of it, the only thing with Strelok is that he really was an ungrateful narcissist in the end who eventually wanted to control everything in the Zone. It is only through throwing away the ashes of the past that the Zone can be free and make its own choices. Sure, Skif’s ending means the Zone expands to the entire planet, but it’s factual that if anyone tries to control the Zone, nothing good ever happens for humanity or the Zone. The Ward want to control it for power and resource to expand more power for SIRCAA and themselves. Scar wants it for the “Shining Zone” which is nothing but a Psi-induced illusion of a healthy and bright Zone, but it’s just an illusion only he can see in the end. But he wants it so badly because of the mental health issues he has that are a result of him surviving multiple emissions, watching all his friends die, and being mind-fucked by C-Con in the Stalker lab. Strelok believes only he knows what’s best for the Zone and becomes a literal dictator controlling the Monolithians and caging every living thing in the Zone whilst keeping out anyone new. But Skif gives the Zone the choice. I just wish there was Noontide Ending where they break free entirely from the Monolith and they finally make their own destinies, but with how the endings take dark turns it would probably end up with them all being killed by the rest of the factions, but they at least die knowing they are free. I also wish there was a Monolithian ending where Skif doesn’t kill Faust, helps the Monolithians, and the ending has Skif and Faust at the Monolith surrounded by the old Monolithians and newly indoctrinated Monolithians all worshiping the Monolith in the CNPP.
You hated the zone so much you decided to expand it to the world lmao, where artifacts are bandits, stalker and factions will go. Plus you dont know if theres gonna be mutants or if monolith will continue as now Faust has control by manipulating you.
Didn't actually care for strider didn't enjoy his history or his thoughts, but I fought amazing the ralation between Project-X and Faust, because faust was created to belive in monolith, because Project-X scientist saw that belief was stronger than leash.
Wait you saw Strider's flashback??? For me he was just acting in front of the capsule, I didn't get his POV from the signal 's activation either... F*kin anomalies robbing me from witnessing absolute cinema
I didn't see it either in my game, and also pretty much any time the player character is looking at TV screens in cutscenes and there's clearly supposed to be some kind of video playing on them, the screens were just white.
So tragic character. Be monolith puppet , than release from monolith control and try to just live, but cant do it normally, because almost everybody hate you for thing you dont do it(or dont control yourself), try best to your people. And be control by monolith again.
It looked so real. But it's a lie in the end. Like almost everything else in the Zone. A powerful moment. The casing falling through Skif's hand, but also that Strider remembers being under control of the Monolith at CNPP but not how he tried to kill Doctor and was killed himself. This is a lie, just like Wish Granter was, just like Klondike was. Except unlike those times this feels insulting because this isn't just a trap that appeals to your greed, it tries to use an image of a good man to control you.
You misunderstood that point. It was an imprint of the Strider consciousness in the past, so he doesn't remember what happened afterward. It's basically his second personality trapped forever in the noosphere.
@@dark-heraldA horrifying concept, is it not. I like how we don't need to think an idea such as the engrams from Cyberpunk to find an original proposal of playing God
@@candideoptimism8775 It always was fake, the only one who thinks otherwise is Scar. This isn't afterlife, at best this is an imprint of Strider in the Noosphere. This is just another trap of the Zone.
@@candideoptimism8775 Yeah, it is, they literally say that when you explain what you saw in the capsule to the Ward. It's also what happens if you reach the eternal spring ending (scar's ending), it's all an illusion.
Dude in my playthrough I never got any of those flashback cutscenes, all TV screens were blank. When I upgrade my rig I'm gonna play through this again.
Man I was so happy to see Strider again especially after Call of Pripyat, it was great seeing him try and help his men especially after all they’ve been through and it was even more heart wrenching when the Monolith turned back on and everything that Strider had tried to do was undone and the Monolith returned.
The saddest part about this was that it was an illusion. It wasn't strider... it was the C-consciousness manipulating your memories of strider. He never got his closure. He never got to know if he succeeded, failed, and never got to know the fate of his men... The fact we couldn't do anything to save moontide is tragic...
For "just an imprint" of personality Strider seems to have an excellent self-awareness of himself and his past. For me explanation "just an imprint" is a weak (and a natural) one for matters we still do not understand (as we always are trying to explain everything). Something similar I find in Cyberpunk with debates about nature of Soulkiller and whole conscience transfer. However I do like those debates exist. So 4 different reactions to Scar/Ward and Truth/Lie variations. Another reason not align with Ward for me.
I kept hoping that there would be some kind of happy ending for the tramp where he would survive, but alas. Of all the characters that I met both in the trilogy and in the second part, I only feel sorry for him.
Dead bodies can't take anything off, because their hands are also dead. A living person does that for them. The shoes and socks are removed so that a name tag can be attached to the toes for the mortuary people. In some religions, end-of-life anointing is done on the feet. Strider is prepearing to die. Suicidal attack or one way walk.
Coming from me, as a Soldier. Boots can have a lot of meaning, to take one’s boots off. It’s like, the end of the duty day. The end of Duty, his was to his men. Knowing he is now dead, his Duty is now over. Walking in those boots takes a toll on you. So after a long duty day, taking them off takes away all that tension, giving a form of relief. I’d interpret it as just that. His duty is over, the boots coming off signifying it is over and that he can relieve that tension. We’ve also got another tradition to on deployments. Where you throw your boots up top of this bunker, when you’re about to leave. If the boots stay up there and don’t fall, that means you won’t be going back there. If they do fall, then you will be coming back. A lot to interpret from this, but for me. Coming from my experience in the army and like Strider being a soldier. Taking those boots off signifies his Duty to his men is over now.
I did not get the flashback of him on the CNPP, I only got him holding an imaginary rifle and the audio of the flashback, I didn’t realize that was a glitch
When I lied to strider that we made it. It suddenly became clear that I was the last member of noontide. From that day on I played like a revenant seeking justice in a world full of pain and sorrow. I was going to avenge my boy strider and his men. They deserved better, but it made us seem inconsequential to the story to prevent such events from happening as if we were nothing but another man trying to survive in the zone. Little did they know, my boy skif is a walking War Crime wherever he goes and whenever he feels like it. But he's not some mindless fool like a Monolith soldier. No, he's the last member of Noontide giving the massive finger to the world and that stupid shiny rock.
The 4th one is the one i chosen and the best and the most tragic one, talking to dead man is just a illusion, but always a great chance to be a communication, i never want to give him false hope as we all want to be free from fake and control, he is so strong and take all responsibility to the lost of battle against monolith, and still told you to be brave, he is a true leader and good man. Reminds me of my father who passed.
I wanted to save Strider, I even cheated to go through the monolith hospital to not kill anybody as the doc said, to get the regenerator. Damn tragic character.
What I never got the cutscene of Strider on the roof of the CNPP I just got him narrating things. I did notice sometimes the dialog sections like where you meet Dalin with the colonel had bugs like missing chracters but didn't realize it wasn't loading cutscenes either. I wonder how many other cutscenes I missed.
пожалуй это самый тяжёлый момент всей игры, особенно для тех, кто играл пусть и не во всю трилогию, но дотошно проходили Зов Припяти... очень жаль Бродягу и Полдень...
I know that they were bad in the past stalker games, but it wasn't their fault. So i sided with them in my first playthrough, I never felt this bad for them, a faction that was a pain in the ass to deal with in the other stalker games, now freed (until the artifact triggered the monolith to come back). I told him the truth about them not being able to stop it. But in his perspective, he sees it useless to try to stop it from happening. So I lied to him to make him feel like a hero at the end. It was wrong to lie to him, but I see that as a better choice to tell him that.
I've just reached this cutscene and I have absolutely no idea what experiment he's talking about. The story is so damn long and confusing, I don't even remember his character (apparently he was the leader of the reformed Monolith?), let alone an experiment I conducted with him. As the game is too new to have the lore described somewhere, can anyone remind me please?
I didn't see the Strider PoV video of the army assault on th CNPP (same as none of the monitor screens showing up for me) but the Ukrainian actor's delivery, watching Strider just acting out the shots as if haunted by it felt so Correct for the moment I'm choosing to believe GSC intended it to be that way 😅
He did not deserve what happened to him in the slightest. Probably one of the most tragic characters in the entire series now
Easily. His only choices were to do good in the world, and that was ripped away from him too... Strider was a good man. Rare thing in the zone, rarer than any artifact.
The writer who wrote the strider and full noon put a lot of effort into it and wanted them to resonate with people. It's really incredible and great that it turned out that great. My fav character there, indeed, seemed like the most noble guy out there. Wanted just peace and normal life for his pals
Actually we don't know who was the Strider before Monolith. We met him with amnesia. In the game Doctor once hints us that Monolith people forget their previous life.
I told him the truth, even though it broke me 🥲
Strider is probably the only character in the entire game that you really want to empathize with.
he was the only character I cared for (Skif included) and he died 😅
Yep. The only decent human being who isn’t led by his greed or will to get power.
@@ShootsVal what about Korshunov? his ending feels the best (and is the best for Skif). It seems that Korshunov just wants to shut down the generators and destroy the zone. Now, of course, the generators are now in the hands of the (shadow) government, but Korshunov personally had good intentions.
Richter was another empathetic guy i can relate too. He has golden retrievers energy lol
@@raphmaster23Indeed.
It felt wrong to lie and tell him we made it in time, but I wanted whatever was left of him to feel like a hero in a world of victims.
I felt the same way for what is a lie to the dead for them to rest
it didn't "feel" anything. it was not him, nor his ghost. just a digitalized souvenir floating in the noosphere
@ZabZabZabie That doesn't change how it felt to me, no matter what it was, it was still a chance to speak to what little was left of a good man. You are welcome to your own opinions and insights.
Games are something else, aren't they?.. We care more about NPCs "feelings" than some of the real people living among us.
@@Markok1911 i believe it's because we really do not care about getting to know better people around us these days, in games we tend to be pretty much forced to meet and interact with npcs, and their motivations and thoughts which are portrayed by developers are so (if) well written that, when they're gone, you realise how much you cared. spent time with your closest, you don't know how much time you have left together.
I could not lie to a dead man that lost everything he ever fought for.
The most insulting thing is that none of this is real. The casing falls through your hand, Strider only remembers what happened before the signal but conveniently forgot weeks of everything that happened after that before his death. This is Wish Granter all over again.
@@BIGESTblade damn I wanted to piss him off even when he was dead. He was too gay, glad he died so soon
"Only I didn't choose that path. Unlike you."
Hits hard. He calls you a puppet because you betrayed him and allowed yourself to be used for something material. Only he was a brainwashed puppet, but you were a willing one.
I ended up going with the Ward not because I cared about Skif getting rewarded with a home but because I genuinely believe General Korshunov when he says he wants to shut down the Zone for good. Unfortunately he much like Skif was being used by Agatha, kept in the dark until the very last moments when it was far too late for any of them to turn back. It's a shame we couldn't do an independent ending with Korshunov where the Zone is destroyed along with C-Consciousness for good.
@beefestrogen5276 the cannon ending is the skif ending where he takes control of c consciousness. When you are in control you can destroy the zone. Or use the wish granter for just about anything you want
@thebuckster101 Except Skif doesn't whilst he could he always ends up expanding the zone instead.
@@beefestrogen5276 Colonel is by far the most likeable character in the game despite how harsh he is. The only one who in the entire game who does what he does not for personal gain but because he wants to stop the threat of the Zone. Korshunov is what Voronin wishes he could be. But to quote the Colonel himself: "What happens when the dog catches it's tail? What happens when it catches the damn tail?"
Honestly, the general ending is the best you get a home and can leave the zone. The rest of the other endings are either moderately bad or extremely bad.
A lot of people say that Strider in Cop wasn't a memorable character or that he didn't have much of a role. The simple fact that these guys managed (even for a brief moment) to escape Monolith's control is a miracle.a feat worthy of being remembered, a noble desire to be free.
Glad i choose to be friend with Duty and Stalker, because duty is the only faction who can accept those poor survivor on their number.
@@strix501 actually freedom can accept them too, just like duty. you need to get good reputation with that faction.
A lot of people? The existence of this video proofs that people think otherwise.
I like how this scene shows the perspective of a simple Monolith fighter.
It portrays the Monolith not just as whispering religious nonsense during battle, but as fulfilling a spotter's role with a robotic, commanding voice. Major Terminator vibes, would love to see more of this. Or it's the actual spotter and i'm just confused.
its monoliths voice inside his head, not only a spotter, but a mind ruling all monolith soldiers, like playing RTS game with them
Ещё больше подчёркивает, что это никакое не чудо Зоны, а дьявольская машина, манипулирующая одними людьми в угоду другим.
the jargon it used to designate reminded me a lot of the Combine overwatch jargon in Half Life 2
На украинском это не совсем голос робота
@@delorian12flying скорее даже голос совсем не робота.
Powerful scene. Ukrainian voice actor did a good job too. When you tell him the truth, and he immediately tales the blame and reminds you to stay strong. That’s a true leader.
For me the actor of strider dose a good job
Yeah. I wouldn't expect that, but in my opinion, he's the best returning character.
@primkup yup
Probably the best of all legacy characters...
Definitely an improvement over his goofy voice in call of pripyat lmao
@@boone4531"And i don't gives a rat's ass who's working for who 🦉🦉🦉"
This scene is so fucking powerful no matter how it goes. That walk back to Rookie was full of contemplation... Bravo to the writing team.
The fact the first thing he cared about was if they stopped the experiment, and then asked if any of his men were hurt, strider was a real g
Thats how you write a character.
If anyone is wondering, when Strider removes his boots it might have a religious implication of preparing to depart, in a metaphorical sense. In religion, at least in orthodox, when one entered a church - the realm of divine and Heaven - they would leave their boots at the entrance.
I think it's more of a reference to his comment during the argument with Faust "My boots are fine for the road I walk."
@@raphmaster23 Could also be, good point.
From the smallest tiny guy under the bridge in COP that you can even easily miss, to this. God bless you, Strider. We tried and that was a good try.
There needs to be an alternate 5th ending, The noontide ending:
Destroy Monolith, c-consciousness and the zone itself once and for all, so that everyone may be free.
If i was skif, i wouldve walked over to the Tube, and destroyed it.
Игра имеет 4 концовки и нет ни одной хорошей…разве это не ломает стандарты хэппи эндов в играх?Это даёт свою изюминку
This X5000! Leaving a Noontide ending out where Strider comes out on top just feels wrong to me.
@@wnstn1310 нет изюма в мире багов и тщетного игрового процесса. Финалы все отвратительные впрочем как и последние пол часа перестрелок с Монолитом...геймдизайн 2000х
They'll never give you a full 'destroy the zone' ending because it would be non-canon, and there would be no more 'stalker' games in that sense as sequels, lol.
They know that the zone contains a ton of anomalous energies and this can have sentience and whatnot, but they never got into the whole anti-zone possibilities, like anti-matter, that can consume or destroy said energy.
Though in real life, there is nothing that can 'dismantle' radiation in general, unless it vaporizes it.
Tragic, Victim to monolith brainwashing & only wanted to do write by his men, Died fighting the hood fight, shame we went out like he did.
Hood fight lmao
this guy was the realist comrade out of all them characters, it hurted me deep when he died
I wish there was a way to save him
also he dies? btw he must die ?
@@PattyKs94 Scripted cutscene death, yes.
Doctor just need to chose between you and him.
unfortunately, he suppose to be dramatic character, a reflection of your own choices.
This way hits harder than just saving pinacolada best ending
The zone gives, it must also take…
I was not ok after getting to the basement last night. I sure as hell am not ok after getting to X-15 tonight. Damn it.
I told him the truth. He deserves to know. False hope is just cruel when he's already lost it all.
But he is already dead.
What you tell him only changes what sort of afterlife is he going to have.
Will be forever be tortured by the fact that he failed?
Or will you give him a lie, just so he is one of the few to actually have a somewhat happy afterlife?
@@TheoneknownasVC yeah you only consider and protecting yourself with that mindset. Strider wants to be free for mind control. Lying to him is an example of mind control. I dont think he will like if you lie to him. The only hope he has was Skif. Lying to him will make him an eternal puppet. Its better to say the truth. Its the same in real life.
Just realized he was referencing the attack on the CNPP at the end of Shadow of Chernobyl, Quartet is the callsign of the military commander you can find, Lun and Sova is referenced in a PDA article you can find on a dead military corpse. Maybe the radio guy in the cutscene is supposed to be or reference Quartet, regardless they probably all died due to the blowout.
yeah, it's amazing to know the developer did add the details of the entire CNPP operation just for the player to skip it and to run to the sarcophagus 🤣
you can search video: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Operation Monolith - Military Perspective to see it
of course it is. he describes the moment when Strelok turned off the Monolith. It's a culmitaion of SoC story.
Faust on Swamps says "...Dead. Hanged. Operation Monolith..."
I wonder - how did the Monolithians survived the CNPP blowout? Strelok disabled Monolith after the blowout so when they were under influence of Monolith they survived?
@@Benetkabc2nd Monolithians are immune to Blowouts regardless if they are controlled by the Monolith, I heard that once on their island. But gameplaywise they still die without a cover
Feels so bad for him to fail his own dream to be free once and for all. We didn't know much about him in cop so we basically didn't give much shit, but from now on it feels bad
straight up cyberpunk 2077 vibes after watching edgerunners on netflix. strider and noontide deserved to be free, but i respect the grim dark story that is told... still hurts.
This scene was sooo emotional for me.
Very tragic character :(
Also i think he takes off his boots coz it's basically end of the voyage for him and his men.
He deserved better than this.
@@raphmaster23 sadly the zone has other plans...
Remember his argument with Faust where he says "my boots are fine for the road I walk"?
Which player saw only 3 times during the game.
Strider should have deserved better, His story should not have ended like this.
In Original Stalker 2 Strider was Charon, the leader of Monolith and he was fighting a guerrilla warfare in Pripyat against Monolithians saving them and hunting down preachers, he had 2 endings where he kept saving the brainwashed and saved most, or where you convince him that his past as Charon is a cardinal sin and no matter what he does, he'd never find redemption, and he will then kill all the monolithians without saving any. Also their faction was called Redemption, and they were non-violently stopping stalkers from going to the centre and if they didn't listen they saved said stalkers from trouble, ex-bandits and other zone trash joined the faction hoping to find salvation and forgiveness. I wish Strider could have had his break, and actually survived and did something good for his people, instead he died. I also am not a fan of what they did to Scar and Doctor. I hated Faust, but in the end felt bad for him though.
@@iljasidlun1952 I feel like the writing was best with noontide and after you kill Faust it goes downhill
i truly felt sorry for him
lost his men and his life
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This cutscene is the best and the most tragic part of the game. And 4:25 moved me to tears... I feel so sorry for Strider and his men. Everything he fought for was in vain.
And lying to him, that they prevented the experiment to start. I just can't lie. Sorry, Strider. I am really sorry...
I wish they'd add a route where we could save Strider and the other Monolithians
i totally agree. insane enough mess with the entire zone's center just to retrive back strider.
I just got the sad version of this yesterday and I also told Strider the truth , his reaction really fucked me up :(
That's what a true Art can do.
What an amazing character and a true leader!
I chose to lie to Strider, that way he can finally have some peace in the Noosphere and rest thinking he won
But does he really continues life in noosphere or is it just C-Cons psi radiation lie
I tried *so* hard Strider. I did everything I could to help you guys stay free. I'm sorry....
😢
Im so sad that he and the noontide have no success in surviving
I hoped for an ending where they could be free...
once i met strider and did those few quests on wild island i was fully throwing my hat into Noontide, its a tragedy how quickly everything they built is wiped away by the Monolith
upsetting that they were such a short lived faction.....
I wanted them to be free.
But thats how things are.
In the zone.
Ive felt quite emotional listening to Strider laughting out loud, i could almost feel the pain in that laugh, that feeling of everything you worked hard for was all in vain, trying so hard to achieve redemption for their past actions only to become those mindless monsters once again...
I feel sorry for him. He try his best to not let this happens.
He didn’t try his best. He should’ve killed Faust. Everything that happened to noontide is Strider fault. He did not see what was happening under his nose, he was not a good leader.
After watching this, none of the available endings seemed satisfactory to me.
Ward ending is the only good ending for Skif. But the fact that Noontides are screwed either way is just so sad
That was a real gut punch having to tell Strider the truth, especially with that music and setting. I really love he and Faust's characters, they feel like real people with legitimate motivations
Is this same Strider from CoP?
Yeah, there's tons of characters from the old games in it seems like. Only ones I haven't seen at this point is guys like Beard.
@@quantras2673 he is in zaton, on one of the ships
@@quantras2673Zaton:
Beard is on Schevchenko
Sultan is on Skadovsk (Sultansk)
Degtyaryov is on Yaniv Station
@@Childv-ul8xt Degtyaryov is in Pripyat's Palace of Culture
A lot of mercs like Hog pop up here and there but don’t do much
I believe scar is the saddest of them all but strider is the most tragic of them all so unfortunate we couldnt save him and the ex monoliths
Scar is just a vessel for Marshall, we never really knew him tbh.
@@rosgoncharuk2403 agree. and he's just a C-con agent. In his ending you can see how truly fucked up it is
@@rosgoncharuk2403 vessel for Marshall? you sure about that? he’s more like a vessel of the C-Con using the memories of Marshall. there is no Marshall personality fighting for control with Scar. Scar was literally given Marshall’s memories through the Stalker program
for some reason this cutscene bugged for me and did not show the sniping footage and it was just strider tweaking in front of me
Same shit for me
Same, things like this happened a lot throughout the game, are u on PC? I’ve been using a mod to stabilize the game and get better FPS and I’m wondering if that’s the cause of these issues
@@boldfacedbroom3374 i also used a fps mod, also had issues with monitors being all white when they were supposed to show something
@@emt0000I don’t think it’s the mod, cause I don’t run any mods and I had the same issue, there are also cutscenes where you supposed to look at the security cameras but they are all static in my game, but i found them on UA-cam
i couldn't have managed to lie to a dead man, very tragic character
Strider is one of my favorite characters
Hurts a lot more if you helped him Call of Pripyat
Once I fully realized that there was no way to save Strider and Noontide, I made up my mind to destroy everything to do with the Monolith, C-Con, the Shining Zone, everything. Strelok was right about all of it, the only thing with Strelok is that he really was an ungrateful narcissist in the end who eventually wanted to control everything in the Zone. It is only through throwing away the ashes of the past that the Zone can be free and make its own choices.
Sure, Skif’s ending means the Zone expands to the entire planet, but it’s factual that if anyone tries to control the Zone, nothing good ever happens for humanity or the Zone.
The Ward want to control it for power and resource to expand more power for SIRCAA and themselves.
Scar wants it for the “Shining Zone” which is nothing but a Psi-induced illusion of a healthy and bright Zone, but it’s just an illusion only he can see in the end. But he wants it so badly because of the mental health issues he has that are a result of him surviving multiple emissions, watching all his friends die, and being mind-fucked by C-Con in the Stalker lab.
Strelok believes only he knows what’s best for the Zone and becomes a literal dictator controlling the Monolithians and caging every living thing in the Zone whilst keeping out anyone new.
But Skif gives the Zone the choice.
I just wish there was Noontide Ending where they break free entirely from the Monolith and they finally make their own destinies, but with how the endings take dark turns it would probably end up with them all being killed by the rest of the factions, but they at least die knowing they are free.
I also wish there was a Monolithian ending where Skif doesn’t kill Faust, helps the Monolithians, and the ending has Skif and Faust at the Monolith surrounded by the old Monolithians and newly indoctrinated Monolithians all worshiping the Monolith in the CNPP.
The monolith was moved to SIRCAA so they'd be there if they wanted to worship it.
You hated the zone so much you decided to expand it to the world lmao, where artifacts are bandits, stalker and factions will go. Plus you dont know if theres gonna be mutants or if monolith will continue as now Faust has control by manipulating you.
Эх Бродяга... Отличный ты напарник был ещё с Зова Припяти... Даже хотелось обнять его в двух последних исходах.
Да и во втором исходе тоже, от такого и самому разрыдаться можно😢
Didn't actually care for strider didn't enjoy his history or his thoughts, but I fought amazing the ralation between Project-X and Faust, because faust was created to belive in monolith, because Project-X scientist saw that belief was stronger than leash.
Wait you saw Strider's flashback??? For me he was just acting in front of the capsule, I didn't get his POV from the signal 's activation either... F*kin anomalies robbing me from witnessing absolute cinema
I didn't see it either in my game, and also pretty much any time the player character is looking at TV screens in cutscenes and there's clearly supposed to be some kind of video playing on them, the screens were just white.
So tragic character. Be monolith puppet , than release from monolith control and try to just live, but cant do it normally, because almost everybody hate you for thing you dont do it(or dont control yourself), try best to your people. And be control by monolith again.
So it is a shallow copy of what he was in Zone or just our (Skif's) perception of how he would've talked to him?
Former
It looked so real. But it's a lie in the end. Like almost everything else in the Zone. A powerful moment.
The casing falling through Skif's hand, but also that Strider remembers being under control of the Monolith at CNPP but not how he tried to kill Doctor and was killed himself. This is a lie, just like Wish Granter was, just like Klondike was.
Except unlike those times this feels insulting because this isn't just a trap that appeals to your greed, it tries to use an image of a good man to control you.
You misunderstood that point. It was an imprint of the Strider consciousness in the past, so he doesn't remember what happened afterward. It's basically his second personality trapped forever in the noosphere.
@@dark-heraldA horrifying concept, is it not. I like how we don't need to think an idea such as the engrams from Cyberpunk to find an original proposal of playing God
yeah you don’t understand the point of this scene. it wasn’t fake or an illusion lol
@@candideoptimism8775 It always was fake, the only one who thinks otherwise is Scar. This isn't afterlife, at best this is an imprint of Strider in the Noosphere. This is just another trap of the Zone.
@@candideoptimism8775 Yeah, it is, they literally say that when you explain what you saw in the capsule to the Ward. It's also what happens if you reach the eternal spring ending (scar's ending), it's all an illusion.
No matter your choice this scene broke me… i felt so bad for strider and wish i could do anything to change that
Dude in my playthrough I never got any of those flashback cutscenes, all TV screens were blank.
When I upgrade my rig I'm gonna play through this again.
I've just finished this mission and i faced the same thing ,
I couldn't see any of flashbacks, Just ruined my experience with that cutscene
Game still needs a lot of work, but I'm enjoying it.
Man I was so happy to see Strider again especially after Call of Pripyat, it was great seeing him try and help his men especially after all they’ve been through and it was even more heart wrenching when the Monolith turned back on and everything that Strider had tried to do was undone and the Monolith returned.
Game bugged out for me on these cutscenes and didn't show me anything.
The saddest part about this was that it was an illusion. It wasn't strider... it was the C-consciousness manipulating your memories of strider.
He never got his closure. He never got to know if he succeeded, failed, and never got to know the fate of his men...
The fact we couldn't do anything to save moontide is tragic...
I like how the Monolith voice sounds.
He was the best of us
For "just an imprint" of personality Strider seems to have an excellent self-awareness of himself and his past. For me explanation "just an imprint" is a weak (and a natural) one for matters we still do not understand (as we always are trying to explain everything). Something similar I find in Cyberpunk with debates about nature of Soulkiller and whole conscience transfer. However I do like those debates exist.
So 4 different reactions to Scar/Ward and Truth/Lie variations. Another reason not align with Ward for me.
I kept hoping that there would be some kind of happy ending for the tramp where he would survive, but alas. Of all the characters that I met both in the trilogy and in the second part, I only feel sorry for him.
They did my boy Strider wrong 🥲 Rest in peace, buddy. I'll always remember how we stormed Pripyat together.
It would be interesting to play as a monolith controlled soldier
well, would it? since you'd be controlled by the Monolith and couldn't make any choices D:
@@LeoStep93 no. more like Cabal from Command and Conquer backing you up and giving you real time tactical data to fulfill the objective.
Would be a very linear gameplay lol
Omfg i finally figured why monolithians ask the monolith to guide them, because it literally spots enemies
Strider was one of my favourite characters in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 he didn’t have to die
Man that spotter voice is so intensely bad ass. I’d easily go full noon for the ending
STRIDER! WHAT'S WITH THE BOOTS?
he knows u are into feet >:F
Dead bodies can't take anything off, because their hands are also dead. A living person does that for them. The shoes and socks are removed so that a name tag can be attached to the toes for the mortuary people. In some religions, end-of-life anointing is done on the feet. Strider is prepearing to die. Suicidal attack or one way walk.
@@88Bulkoit is a symbol that his journey has come to an end
@@yakumoyukari4405 Valid point.
Coming from me, as a Soldier. Boots can have a lot of meaning, to take one’s boots off. It’s like, the end of the duty day. The end of Duty, his was to his men. Knowing he is now dead, his Duty is now over. Walking in those boots takes a toll on you. So after a long duty day, taking them off takes away all that tension, giving a form of relief. I’d interpret it as just that. His duty is over, the boots coming off signifying it is over and that he can relieve that tension.
We’ve also got another tradition to on deployments. Where you throw your boots up top of this bunker, when you’re about to leave. If the boots stay up there and don’t fall, that means you won’t be going back there. If they do fall, then you will be coming back. A lot to interpret from this, but for me. Coming from my experience in the army and like Strider being a soldier.
Taking those boots off signifies his Duty to his men is over now.
My take on the four scenarios: Acceptance. Grief. Relief and Despair.
pretty crap we cant save him. dude deserved to be saved.
I did not get the flashback of him on the CNPP, I only got him holding an imaginary rifle and the audio of the flashback, I didn’t realize that was a glitch
When I lied to strider that we made it. It suddenly became clear that I was the last member of noontide. From that day on I played like a revenant seeking justice in a world full of pain and sorrow. I was going to avenge my boy strider and his men. They deserved better, but it made us seem inconsequential to the story to prevent such events from happening as if we were nothing but another man trying to survive in the zone. Little did they know, my boy skif is a walking War Crime wherever he goes and whenever he feels like it. But he's not some mindless fool like a Monolith soldier. No, he's the last member of Noontide giving the massive finger to the world and that stupid shiny rock.
The 4th one is the one i chosen and the best and the most tragic one, talking to dead man is just a illusion, but always a great chance to be a communication, i never want to give him false hope as we all want to be free from fake and control, he is so strong and take all responsibility to the lost of battle against monolith, and still told you to be brave, he is a true leader and good man. Reminds me of my father who passed.
I wanted to save Strider, I even cheated to go through the monolith hospital to not kill anybody as the doc said, to get the regenerator. Damn tragic character.
This is the saddest fuckin thing in all game, I wanted to save Strider so badly.
oh man in my game there are no fancy videos playing during cinematics, there's just white void
What I never got the cutscene of Strider on the roof of the CNPP I just got him narrating things. I did notice sometimes the dialog sections like where you meet Dalin with the colonel had bugs like missing chracters but didn't realize it wasn't loading cutscenes either. I wonder how many other cutscenes I missed.
I've heard it's consistent with the game pass version. I have the game pass version and didn't get any cutscenes through my whole playthrough
@@SapperDaddy_ Oh okay yeah I have gamepass version too. Got gamepass for this game specifically.
When i got the one he is just sad, it hit me so fucking hard
I would never lie to a brother-in-arms. Even if the truth is painful.
Man I really wanted to save Strider and Noontiders. He was a good man.
I got the 4th one. I just hope he knew we did try our best.
How do you get the first 2 scenarios? I was only able to see the last two
пожалуй это самый тяжёлый момент всей игры, особенно для тех, кто играл пусть и не во всю трилогию, но дотошно проходили Зов Припяти... очень жаль Бродягу и Полдень...
sounds like the army warehouses theme remixed in the background
Where are timestamps.............................................................................................................
How did I not see these flashbacks of Strider sniping the military?? I chose the last option, to tell him the truth.
I know that they were bad in the past stalker games, but it wasn't their fault. So i sided with them in my first playthrough, I never felt this bad for them, a faction that was a pain in the ass to deal with in the other stalker games, now freed (until the artifact triggered the monolith to come back). I told him the truth about them not being able to stop it. But in his perspective, he sees it useless to try to stop it from happening. So I lied to him to make him feel like a hero at the end. It was wrong to lie to him, but I see that as a better choice to tell him that.
Me are allowed to cry here 8:42
8:19 what the music?
An Empty Puppet, apart of the OST
Anyone has a link to soundtrack (sad version 8:21 start) this theme hit so hard
The theme is called ' an empty puppet'
Southeast, 180. Landmark: Inspection Tower...
I lied to him, a good choice was made
I got the scene where he goes Joker mode
Strider was my favorite character I think.
Give them another month or 2 when most issues will be gone then its gonna be the goated game
I prefer to play my STALKER game as god intended - with all the jank and anomalies.
@@zanriel6059you and only you alone
@@imLeyt0n that’s a stalker games natrual state heart of Chernobyl isn’t the first stalker game with this but not as bad as most Bethesda games
Проблема не в багах, свинявый. Мир пустой, в огромных сейфах, за дверью с кодами - 2 палки колбасы и аптечка.
@@imLeyt0n he's not alone.
I am so glad that I lied to him. Rest in Peace free man and a great leader of his people.
(I know that he is not the main leader)
Please explain me,we have 4 scenes,What choices affect the conversation with Strider??
I've just reached this cutscene and I have absolutely no idea what experiment he's talking about. The story is so damn long and confusing, I don't even remember his character (apparently he was the leader of the reformed Monolith?), let alone an experiment I conducted with him. As the game is too new to have the lore described somewhere, can anyone remind me please?
The experiment you and Strider failed to stop in the big modern government research centre.
Because of it Strider and all Noontiders aka (former) Monolithians became hostile to everyone (as it was in previous games of the series)
@@CYbeRuKRaINiaN Thanks!
Still wished we could have the option to save them, just feels wrong that they were screwed from the beginning.
3rd ending feels so scuffed. He just stabds there and then bam, casing story
I got the last scene... Can't tell if I did good or bad... I felt really bad for Strider and the rest of the former Noontiders.
Just the scenario when he become controlled again, if it could be different...
Heartbreaking story 😭😖
I didn't see the Strider PoV video of the army assault on th CNPP (same as none of the monitor screens showing up for me) but the Ukrainian actor's delivery, watching Strider just acting out the shots as if haunted by it felt so Correct for the moment I'm choosing to believe GSC intended it to be that way 😅
I saw only 2 of these cutscense, how to get other two? can't find information
It depends on the choice made way earlier in the game.