None. Best Zone state is at the beginning of the game - monolith is gone, monolothized are free. Everyone can risk and get rewarded here. But after any ending Zone suffers or Humanity suffers. Basically any actor is in a worsening situation with manual control of this breach in the Noosphere 👁️
i wish the last half of the game was actually playable and didn't rely on using dev commands to get the next main quest to pop up after completing the previous mission. The Strelok ending was completely out of character. He never "loved" the Zone like this freudian nonsense at the end. He just wanted to understand and protect it. Not play overprotective guardian with it. Why wouldn't he let Skif leave after all he did for him? It makes no sense. I was expecting more of the roadside picnic cover tease that faust showed us midway through the story, but that isnt relevant at all to the rest of the plot apparently. At least Strelok and Skif destroyed the STALKER program and we had some closure for the protagonists of all 3 of the original games in this one. Nothing nearly as cool as Call of Pripyat's amazing ending track either. Where is the hope for the future? This is just dystopian bullshit that was pulled out of nowhere in the ending. Your overall choices really dont matter in the endings just future side quests. Only what group/faction you chose to stick with matters in the end.
@ In the first ending, several separate Zones are created around the world, as in the book by the Strugatsky brothers. Even if they are without mutants, anomalies will bring death and destruction.
@@dmytrogalan1005 Bruh, you're still dealing with psi energy that can fry people's brains, and pockets of twisted space that tear apart people. All that requires is one of those anomalies hitting a Nuclear Power Plant and now you got multiple Chernobyl Zones throughout the earth. As more scientist begin to try to weaponize such things, mutants will begin to appear across the world. At least the 2nd one, the zone becomes fortified and essentially imprisons everyone and everything in it.
@@Strawberry_Tara I know I know, read it last year, great book. Its just that in STALKER, the Zone isn't the Zone without the occasional Geiger crackle, you feel me?
Skif Ending: Embrace aka. accelerate doom for mankind's civilization by force shoving the zone into their bedrooms globally. The terrorist ending. (Bad A) Strelok Ending: Contain aka. preservation of the zone as is, through giving strelok the control, even if he himself despises everyone else for wanting control, too, what a hypocrite. The isolation ending. (Neutral, probably DLC) Scar Ending: Salvage aka. worship the zone like a god and sell your soul and mind to the psi like a drug addict crazy bum. The hopeless cope end. (Bad B) Ward Ending: Mankind taking control of the fate of themselves and the zone, moving away from stagnation the zone has been in since every stalker game ever before 2 and a chance to a better future for mankind, finally taming the predatory beast that is the zone. (The Hope End) Personally, I really like the ward end as it gives me an option for a possibly good end and a goodbye to the zone after being in the zone for 4 games. Time to grow from your time in the zone and move on from it. Something Richter and the other guys who see it as holy land never understood. Good people that just couldn't let go and sooner or later would have been lost to the zone.
@kami.pimp. while ward may have good intentions, what repercussions will humanity suffer from by harnessing psi-energy and anomalies? I bet in the long run it will be just like the fall of the roman empire and while skifs ending is probably really bad at first, it will also be really good for the long run, and humanity I bet It won't go extinct
@@kami.pimp. Did you fail to see the thousands of mind control screens all over the ward ending and them seeing through your eyes like what happens to mind controlled agents? The ward is instituting authoritarian control all over the world and is fucking with c con tech
I feel like a lot of people missed the point of these endings. I want to explain what I think each of these mean. Skif - Skif ending is the most open ended. The “embrace” the zone ending, many are confused what this has to do with Skif, but remember this whole ordeal was lead by doctor, who is actually Faust. To embrace the zone and spread the zone is Fausts dream, and it seems to have snuck its way in with Skif. Skif ending imo is more like the Faust ending. Korshunov/Ward: The bad ending. The STALKER program is shown at the end to still be running, and is playing a fake memory of you getting your own home. This means you are either a brainwashed agent like strelok or a monolithian. The entire ending is fake since it was playing on the STALKER program tv screen. Bad guys take over the zone, you get brainwashed. Scar/Spark - Pretty straight to the point, these psychos believed the zone belongs to everyone, including the dead. But the dead are still dead. It’s just a psy hallucination. A happy ending for some, but possibly an even worse ending than Ward for the sake of the zone. Strelok - In my opinion, it’s between Skif ending and Strelok ending as being the true endings. I believe Streloks makes the most sense, but like others have said, Skifs ending opens the room for DLC the most. We’ll just have to see which one it is in the future. Anyways, lots of people are overthinking Streloks ending. He is not monolith or c-consciousness 2.0. The STALKER program is gone, there’s no more hypnotizing. He is containing the zone once and for all. Some ask what his motive for this is. Considering the true ending of SOC is him destroying c-consciousness, he obviously wants the zone to be the zone still, for everyone, without anyone’s control. But with doctor coming back, Ward coming back, Scar coming back, Strelok knew the only way to keep the zone safe was to seal her off. As for if this was a dlc addition, we could see Skif doubt his decision as he wants to go home, or we could play as a new stalker or group of stalkers who find a way into the zone under Streloks control. Thanks if you read the whole thing! Drop me any questions if you may have. Good hunting, Stalker.
I think you got the Ward ending wrong. Quoting alphageekua´s comment below "In Ward ending it only implies that they can watch through Skif eyes via technology mentioned in the game, but that's it. Everything else is real." So ye, its "bad" for humanity, but Skiff is ok (except his does not have any privacy anymore, but he does not know that) and will be enjoying his new house etc. For me the Ward ending was best. I would hate the existence of the Zone in the real life (not the game ofc), so Skiff ending is a big no, Spark are lunatics and it is a very bad ending for Skiff. Strelok´s ending is interesting, I would like to continue the story there (I get you cant enter the Zone anymore, but can´t leave?) This inprisonment makes Strelok quite a bad guy for the people in the Zone.
@@petrbarta99 I think you are right about monitoring him via tech, hes not monolith or any other shit, he got his home but they deem him extremely valuable for what he achieved and could be used for future experiments, missions and shit
@@petrbarta99 Sorry I’m sure there’s a chance you’re correct, but you’re still missing the point. In the ward ending the STALKER agent brainwashing is never destroyed. In the ward ending, it cuts to a tv screen of your life playing on the STALKER program. So in the nicest way possible, no you are wrong. If you don’t know what I mean, look at the TVs at the end of the game. These tvs are the source of the brainwashing of the agents, the agents that have the STALKER tattooed (like strelok). These TVs play fake memories to brain wash you into completing a specific task for the c-consciousness. In streloks case, he was brainwashed to kill strelok. Which is why he broke away from the brainwashing, because he is strelok. So no, ward ending is indeed the bad ending! I love to discuss though, so feel free to question any statements I may have made. Also to clarify something on the spark being lunatics, there seems to be some backing on why. Apparently Scar was a c-conciousness agent (he got brainwashed by the stalker program) and I mean the dude got blasted by multiple emissions, so his brain is completely fried. Explains why in his ending he creates a psi dream, this psi nonsense is probably what goes through his mind too. That’s completely my theory though.
@@petrbarta99 shoot, I typed out a pretty long winded response to this and must’ve forgotten to hit send, darn. Anyways I don’t want to rewrite the whole thing, but I’ll try my best! For starters, I love discussing lore about this game, it’s very convoluted and you’ll find very few UA-camrs (credits to people like anamolous dugout!) who actually know what they’re talking about. So with that out of the way, I am 100% sure that you are wrong. Sorry. To first disprove your point, you claim it is ward technology. That’s not possible, as the ending scene is a cutaway of the C-Conciousness stalker program. The same thing that makes the agents, and brainwashes stalkers. I feel as though there’s confusion on how these tvs work, and how they’re connected to the c-conciousness. Let me explain! In the Strelok ending, your main goal is to destroy the Stalker program. Doing that therefore makes it so nooone can ever be brainwashed by the c-consciousness again. In the wars ending, the program is never destroyed, leading to why we see the cut away at the end. How does the brainwashing work? The screens play fake memories and instill a task in your brain. The brainwashed agents are then sent back into the zone, without a clue of their past, they only know what the screen showed them. So, therefore, since Skifs “memory” of getting a home is on this tv screen, it is NOT Ward technology, it was what was used to brainwash him into believing he got his home and a happy life. Like c’mon, it’s stalker, ofcourse it’s not a happy ending. If you have any other questions, please ask, like I said I love discussing the lore of stalker!
Man, my english is not good, so please tolerate😂. But! The process of brainwashing is long. It s not about days, it's about weeks. Skif doesn't spent much time in the room with screens. Next in game it was. Strelok showed how this TV screens can work + you say about memory - correct, but memory of "coordinator" must be. Strelok was haunted down according to "С-Свідомість", according to their memory and will, not his own. I 100% believe that now Skif is their one "recruiting" goal and when he is going to be in need, they will come first. Or they will make an occasion for this. + TV screens = "computer code". All people always got one orde - protect Zone. And individual work was with every soldier separately, as I understand/remember correctly. So your idea is good, but ... Time will show. @1llusi0n2
I think Skif's ending is not that he wanted the Zone to be everywhere for everyone, since he didn't really want anything other than his house back and he already experienced what will happen if the Zone's stuff leaks out. Throughout the story Ritcher, Faust, Doctor, and so on always talks about freedom and I think in the end Skif wanted the Zone to be free, to make choices of its own, and it seems that the Zone wants to expand...
Honestly skif's ending probably something like a "not making a choice being the worst choice" ending. People all over the world are curious about the zone. They want it's riches and it's secrets. They want the zone. The zone is probably a result of a breach of the noosphere causing a collapsed into a sort of singularity that pulses and reacts to the rest of the noosphere. The zone expands because people is constantly have the zone on their conscious minds. You're basically trying to treat an open bleeding wound with a medieval blood letting treatment and the wound starts cartoon level shooting blood like it's trying to use hydro pump
@@NanashiCASTthat's an interesting way to look at it 🤔. The zone as a runaway feedback loop. In that case we could see the Strelok ending as somewhat neutral. Since the zone becomes essentially isolated its influence on the noosphere might diminish allowing the noosphere itself to stabilize. But at the same time there's nothing to prevent governments from creating a new link to the noosphere and it's more of a temporary solution since the zone will never really leave the public consciousness, it will always exert some influence.
i think the zone was still chained at place but with the wish for freedome, skif removed the chains and the zone expanded cause nothing is holding it back
@@NanashiCAST The zone is a hole in the noosphere and its shaped by human thoughts. It was contained by the C-Con before Strelok offed them all, but somehow it looks like they managed to still keep it contained, before Skif kinda overruled them since they are "dead". Also Skif was making a choice, that is to free the zone since it seems to be somewhat sentient.
@@talizorahnarrayya5916 Doesn't matter if the noosphere is in the public consciousness or not, since the noosphere itself is the combined consciousness of all living things (or at least human consciousness). The noosphere will always exist and always has existed, its the scientists in X-labs that tried to tap into it and use it for their own goals that caused all shit to go out of whack.
Tbh I kinda feel bad for Korshunov. He seemed like he really cared for his men and Skif. When I talked with him, he always sounded like that Uncle who would always greet you first and gave you the best presents. Even if you betray him several times, he still welcomes you to his group and carries on his orders. Its just sad he ends up like that.
And given the TV screens, Skif gets screwed over. As that is the STALKER program in a nutshell. So now SIRCAA ends up with a vast PMC group they can take the Zone to the rest of the world as a New World Order.
In playing stalker I realized that, no matter how Good or bad we did in the end? it'll always have an outcome so tragic that it'll affect the world around us.
By panning out you see his memory on the screen. That is what the lead up to fighting Scar was all about, all those people in the hallway were brainwashed agents and Monolithians waiting to be deployed out into the zone. Skif joins them in this ending, waiting for Agatha to give him a directive.
All of them are such a good bunch of endings and I can totaly see how any of these endings cannot be objectively said to be best to worst as all of them have merit to every player depending on how they observe the Zone existence end behavior. Ward ending - anomalous free energy and artifacts to be harnessed for good, will eventualy lead the world towards a darker path though. Corpo basicaly rules the Zone's power. Scar ending - as humanity will never be singularily happy and kind to each other, a matrix like world is created. Happiness for Everyone like one of the quest states. The Zone is the same on the inside of course, but everyone can be happy in the illusion. Strelok ending - The Zone is to be protected from everything and everyone and will continue to exist as is, protected from Wards and Sparks of the world that would like to exploit them for their singular benefit. The Zone will not spread but will not dissipate either and will continue to exist, impenetrable from in or out. Skif ending - On the experiences Skif has with Richter, the Doctor and Faust, Skif steps into the pod himself, a person with no personal interest or wish towards Zone and lets the Zone choose for itself what to do next. Skif decides to be the person that does not want to exploit the Zone in any way and wishes for it to be free to make its own choice since its inception for the first time. Of course if you dont sympathise with Faust on top of Duga when he shows you the Zone is technicaly a living organism or you dont like to be played by him with the twist at the end, this one is not for you. What a masterpiece this game is. I swear once its a bit more stable and runs a bit better this game will be just as a cult classic as the previous games.
I dont see how the Ward ending is anything but the best. The Zone is gone. Mankind has access to anomalous energy and teleportation. Skiff got his house. In Skifs ending the Zone becomes worldwide, causing immense suffering and the worst crysis in the history of mankind. Scars ending makes everyone a zombie. Its awful. Strelok's ending is ok, the Zone is now cut off from the mainland. The world doesnt end and stalkers keep their free will but they will die in the Zone
@@almightybogza I think there is an implication that Agatha or whoever is in charge of her now basically have unlimited control over other people. They can create a dystopian new world where, on the one hand, everyone can benefit from unique tech from the zone, but on the other hand, can be easily influenced if not mind controlled. At the very least we can definitely see that there is no such thing is privacy, as the corpos have unlimited access to psi-technology and they can literally see through Skif's eyes. Doesn't strike me as the best ending at all. I mean Strelok's ending is best in practical terms (no massive world-wide clusterfuck), but miracles of the zone are lost to the rest of the world. Skifs ending is ambiguous for now, impossible to tell how bad its gonna be in the rest of the world. Scar's ending is, indeed, the worst - brainwash everyone without any hope of ever seeing the truth again.
@@almightybogzathe wards ending sucks because you destroy this one place people can go to if they have nowhere else to go. The zone was a haven for those who are lost. You’re also destroying and killing what is arguably a sentient, living entity.
These endings are so good. The dev said only one ending is canon and can lead to the next dlc, but every ending here feels like a bad end, so I don’t know which one it is.
@@Berkelll I think thats wildly subjective but overall I believe theres only choice from Strelok and Skif's ending. Strelok basicaly shuts the zone for all stalkers to die out eventualy as there is no way to get any stuff from the Mainland and Monolith controlled by Strelok will eradicate everyone eventualy. Skif just lets the Zone to expand worldwide and the story can continue. There used to be a book story from STALKER universe about Zone someplace else in the middle east. But we will see. The DLCs are well away at this point.
Faust had been using Skiff as a puppet since the beginning of the game, and after the battle at the radio tower, he made Skiff climb up on his own to impress upon him that he would achieve his ideals without the help of others, and it gave me goosebumps to think about that.
i don't thin Faust was really the Doctor at the end. I think it was just a representation of the zone. Frankly I think it less manipulation and more persuasion. Imo Doctor has a point, most of the zone dangers have been created by humans doing horrible experiments not the zone itself. And anomalies? The do feel more like immune systems rather than straight up malicious things.
Strelok Ending is probably the canon one, since in the ending it opens up the new area we're not able to explore yet, plus Skif is still alive and wandering the Zone, probably giving us the choice to kill the Super Strelok or escape the Zone in the DLC.
I doubt the DLC would be post-game. As far as canon go the Faust (skif) one seems the only one that could work and allow future titles. Strelok ending cut-off the zone and put it in total control of Strelok so there is little narrative that could go on there other than maybe your character somehow trying to break Strelok control but that would be a hard one since the ending is kind of saying he is in full control. Scar ending is just doomed and there is nothing to do. Ward is in control of the zone and is destroying it so there wouldn't be much to do there unless the story is about how it all go to hell somehow and the zone break out of control and get even worse. Faust ending is great because the zone is going global so they can now expand the game to anywhere and try something new with straight-up post-apocalyptic world, possibly somewhere with informations and installations from the Regulatory Board Agatha speaks about.
And I feel escaping the Zone could very well break containment and unleash the Zone upon the world thus giving us a Skife ending without losing Skif as a character.
So Scar ending basically put every Stalker within the Zone in the Poppy Field anomaly? Where everyone lives in eternal sleep. That's honestly depressing as hell. In getting rid of all of mankind's evils, they put everyone in a paradise, a fake paradise however, a Matrix of some sorts, one you will never ever wake up.
@@moonscript4675Not to the movie, but to the first part of the game. There the main character is also lying on the ground and everything is calm around. This is a secret-positive and canonical ending
Wait so Scar wanted fake happiness Strelok want to keep the zone as is Korshunov wanted the Zone gone But what does Skif wants? I don't really get the message on his ending
"Agatha: People do not wish for the pursuit of happiness; they need their happiness here and now." - This is so true, and I feel this resonates with the current world we are living in now....
Skif's ending is probably the most canon due to being the most close to stalkers original inspiration/material of the book roadside picnic. Since in Roadside picnic there are multiple zones across the planet
@@jackvernian7779 I mean shit if a big neongreen face started talking to me while the sky was storming blood red and lightning was vaporizing people - I would call that aliens unleashing hell on Earth myself.
For anyone wondering - the screen flicket @28:16 is a red screen, with an exclamation mark in a triangle, and the text "Media Offline" written beneath it
To those who don't know, the generators seen in the Ward ending is actually a throwback to the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R Oblivion lost's final map level called "Generators"
yeah its a location you got to but literally online underground, they have everything there but like 50% of the map filled it with random insta kill radiation zones so you cant even explore one of the few actually new things that they added
If you pay attention, you can actually see that the currently active generators are a newly built installation further away from the CNPP and as the helicopter flies, we can also see the original generators from Clear Sky - the new one's are installed in a circle, whereas the old ones are in a 3x2 pattern.
For people thinking that Strelok's ending is canon, it's not. Here's why.. The key story plot elements doesn't support that. If Strelok ending is canon, then why are we playing as Skif and why the Zone invited him by destroying his home? See, this part of story can be perfectly explained because Zone called for Skif's help. And when you think about it, Zone never wanted to be destroyed or tamed by Strelok. Since the first day he took the Heart of Chernobyl, Zone tried to kill him so many times with emmisions. Do you remember why all these emmisions in Clear Sky story took place? Every time Zone was reacting to Strelok moving to north to contact with Noosphere. Once Scar disabled his artefact psy protection during final chapter of Clear Sky, she then immediately started the strongest emmision in history to stop him for good. It all make sense now. Zone always wanted to kill Strelok because he wanted to first destroy her and then to tame her. So she called for Skif's help to stop Strelok and let her free. And he did just that.
The Zone did NOT call for his help, it was SIRCAA experimenting and one particular experiment happened to destroy a person's home who in going to a friend, happened to be connected to SIRCAA and brought him into the chaos. It was orchestrated, you learn this when you're at SIRCAA and find out that Heirman set you up from the beginning. The Zone wanted Streylok to cease because the lure of the Wishgranter was losing its appeal and it's secrets were becoming widely known. The C-Conscientious was a machine and Streylok was the hammer threatening to the break the cogs. In the end, the fact it made a big goof, they succeeded in brainwashing Streylok and sent him back out into the world. Were it not for that PDA entry, I do wonder what would have happened.
The Devs themselves said Strelok was originally supposed to be the Player Character in Stalker2, and the ending is the only one that leaves Skiff with free will and capable to, you know, have a DLC. Unless the DLC is some new character or Deggy, I can't see any other ending possible.
Hell no Scars ending is third impact The world ends and everyone dead or alive goes off to lah lah land Skiffs ending is more like chaos ending, the zone is allowed to expand to the whole world and everyone starts running into artifacts and anomalies.
The moral is that there is no Best/Good/Bad/Worst - it all depends on your perspective. Some will say that the Zone is bad and needs to be contained (Strelok/Korshunov), although majority of the issues with it come from the various experiments. Others can argue that the Zone itself is not a bad thing and instead can bring peace to the world or at least create spots all over it for people to choose for themselves who they want to be (Skif). And I bet there are people that would rather prefer Scar's matrix to a miserable reality, because life is pointless anyways, so shy suffer through it? To me, Skif - best, Strelok - good, Korshunov - bad, Scar - worst.
@almightybogza you haven't played or seen much of the game, have you? Check out Dr. Kaymanov scenes. The zone isn't necessarily hostile. Anomalies is an immune reaction because it was always abused, born in numerous experiments and exploitations. Also, other endings are far worse - all of them are about controlling/abusing the zone.
@@ssponk he is just a narrator. To me he is dead physically, but a part of him survived in subtle mater. Or it is a projection that the zone uses. After all, Faust was abused same as "she".
In fact, this game has found the Stalker's balance in terms of the ending. There is no really bad ending and no really good ending. Of course, the same can be said about the Shadows of Chernobyl, but given the events of the Call of Pripyat, the ending with the destruction of O-Consciousness led to nothing except the discovery of the Zaton and the Surroundings of Jupiter. This is exactly the ending a Stalker should have, without a happy ending, but also with hope for a bright future. In my opinion the best ending of them is Skif ending and the good one is Ward ending. But they are also not ideal. "These violent delights have violent ends" Arnold, Wild West World.
Heh, it is similar yet opposite to WW. "They are not looking for a story to tell them who they are. They already know who they are. They're here because they want a glimpse of whom they could be." Stalker is a complete opposite, because coming into a Zone is a life choice and another was supposed to be a harmless amusement park, at least for clients. Some could saw WW s1 also has a bad ending, but that's mostly based on a tribal human instincts and fears.
There is clearly a bad ending. Skif's ending will cause immense suffering. Its the worst possible outcome. Scars ending afaik only affects people in the Zone and it makes everyone zombies. It robs them of free will and reality. Its SHIT. Strelok just cuts off the Zone. Neutral ending. Status quo maintained with the caveat that stalkers will die off eventually. Ward ending = best ending. The Zone is gone. Skiff got his house. Mankind now has OP shit like teleportation.
@@almightybogza The suffering can cost the great opportunities what the Zone can give. Skif ending is just expending of anomalyous Zone, not redioactive. So, the only suffering will be that some zones will become anomalies and people in them will die. But it isn't apocalypse. People will survive and adapt. And why did you solve that Skar ending affects only people in the Zone. It wasn't shown. Maybe he imprised people in all the world to his "heaven" and if it is, this ending is worst. But if it isn't, Strelok ending is worst, because people in the Zone don't have almost not chance to survive. The Ward ending is good one because it destroys the threat of the Zone and don't end by the apocalypse, but it deprive the humanity of freedom.
@@ВладимирК-ч9шin Skifs ending, Skif let the zone make its own decisions. ie lots of emissions, lots of anomalies, and lots of deaths. The rest of the world isn't ready to handle the zone. Don't forget that they all move every emission as well, which crippled the militaries operation in Shadow of Chernobyl. Humanity will survive yes, but itd take such a long and unbelievable amount of time restore the progress lost.
Scar's ending where everyone became zombified? Skif's when the whole world turned into an exclusion zone and millions died from monsters and anomalies? Ward's ending, where an evil corporation took control of the entire world using the energy of the noosphere? Of course not! And Strelok, who made the Zone the same as after the second disaster and closed it.
@CRXHVRD This ending isn't as drastic as the others, even though Strelok is an asshole. And you apparently like it when people are brainwashed or killed... Misanthrope.
@@evileyes274 the life in the zone will be indeed destroyed with strelok's ending. no enter, no exit, no supply delivery from ouside. strelok made his own dictatorship, which is way worse than you think
1. Korushunov and (The Watch) - This is quite a logical ending from the perspective of achieving the original goals of the protagonist Skif. The idea itself ("Happiness for everyone, and for free") was present in the works of the Strugatsky brothers, and we even hear this phrase at the conclusion of The Watch's ending. However, in my opinion, this ending in the book is neither positive nor a "happy ending." Nevertheless, following the path of the main character, Redrick Schuhart, it is entirely logical. 2. Scar and (The Spark) - (The Spark, in this case, is irrelevant since only the name remains from its original participants and ideas.) I believe this ending is phenomenally poetic and captivating, and the character Scar is deeply developed and charismatic. He had his own beliefs and desires, which share some commonalities with The Watch’s ending. However, as The Marksman said, Scar is like a dog accustomed to taking orders. This time, using his unstable mental state, the orders were given by the Bridge. Since he was exposed to several emissions, his actions and, so to speak, "madness" are entirely justified. Reflecting on his past, he was a mercenary-a person without ideology (in my opinion, chasing money is not an idea). Throughout his story, he continually searched for purpose, which the Bridge exploited. 3. Strelok - Many might claim he is the main protagonist of all parts of S.T.A.L.K.E.R., but I must disagree because, in all these stories, the Zone remains the true main character. It is true that he is the only one who reached the center of the Zone three times and knows perhaps the most about it. However, he turned out to be greedy, ungrateful, and cruel-or so it seems at first glance. In the episode where he sends Skif to kill the Doctor, we clearly see that this decision, as well as the path he chose, weighs heavily on him. It's as though he has lost himself a few times already, so he stopped struggling with positive or risky choices and decided to act decisively and without risk-to seal the Zone off from everyone. This is a dead-end ending, and it’s a pity that his journey ultimately reached its conclusion. 4. Skif - The Doctor, aka Faust (his name is a reference to Goethe’s play of the same name), is a very intriguing character who answers almost all of our questions but doesn't persuade us to make any specific choices. This compels freedom-loving people to choose this particular ending. To me, this ending feels the most original (something tells me that a third part of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. might never come, so debates about which ending is "canon" are pointless). In most books within the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe, the idea that the Zone is as we perceive it-as a reflection of human thoughts-remains the most "authentic." Therefore, I disagree with the theory that the world has undergone a global apocalypse. This ending symbolizes that Skif allowed the Zone to pass through him without adhering to the plans or motives of others regarding the Zone (this is evident in the method of choosing the ending-by refusing the options offered by The Watch, then The Spark, and finally The Marksman). Instead, he walks his own path and makes his own conclusions. Faust, as the author correctly points out, is the most intriguing character. From our first meeting with him, he undergoes significant changes, abandoning blind faith in the Monolith (the Light Zone). At the start of the game, he appears genuinely villainous-a person who doesn’t consider consequences and seeks to rid himself and his comrades of freedom. However, over time, he grants freedom not only to himself but to the entire world and becomes one of the most extraordinary protagonists. Thank you for your attention! I wish everyone a wonderful New Year!
Skif came to the Zone for one purpose. Home. But after some event, he start questing... What is "Home"? Is the Zone home? Or the Mainland was the home he want? In his ending, he found himself an answer. The Zone embraced despite he's outsider, makes Skif feels he is in the home. He embraced the Zone's gift also. That's why he want to share the Zone together with all the people in this world.
Skif ending sounds like the Sequel potential ending. You can set Stalker games anywhere in the world now. The Korshunov ending is the only ending were Skif gets a home and lives a life of Luxury. But the whole Zone including Skif are now under 24/7 surveillance. Now living in a Dystopian society. The other 2 I can't see as canon.
So Strelok's ending is basically the first Shadows of Chernobyl's C-Consciousness ending where he joined them, except now he's just one, not a member of a group
Not real. C-consciosuness wanted to control Noosphere and have inflence all over the world. While Strelok simply wants to contain zone once and for all. To preserve it as it is
Never in my 14 years playing Stalker, have I been like "I wouldn't mind getting the worst possible ending". In dozens of playthrough I've never sided with any "Evil" faction, such as the bandits in CoP, but now, siding with the Ward, seems like something I'd do. I just finished my first playthrough loyal to the legend of the zone, and I just started a new playthrough, I'm siding with the Ward
Skif ending is closest to the book. The thing is about the spreading of the zone across the planet or multiple zones is that in Roadside Picnic, the book is based off of, there six zones. Of course, we saw many markers in multiple locations in the ending, but this is the closest it comes to the book lore. Now, in the book theres a different reason for their existence (likely), but it just makes sense that this is the cannon ending. Like, even if he did merge with the C-Conciousness, it's possible even still that somehow he could return. The zone holds many mysteries, and we can not begin to fathom the C-Conciousness.
Actually no. In Ward ending it only implies that they can watch through Skif eyes via technology mentioned in the game, but that's it. Everything else is real.
@@alphageekua That would imply that he was a STALKER agent previously brainwashed by c-consciousness. He did not die in the same trap with Dark, so he is obviously not.
@@mindaugasbarkauskas9894 He might have gotten brainwashed into a STALKER agent while he was knocked out, dude woke up lying on the floor. Or the screens are just people under the influence of Korshunov.
All the endings are crazy... Skif ending is the most weird, why would Skiff want to do any of that? Doctor is Faust? Is it all fake? Faust is a controller, was Doctor always faust? We are being controlled? I think we are being "controled", persuaded, at least, it doesn't align with "skiff". It'd be Skiff's if he just got his home back rebuilt lol Strelok... he is THE legend of the zone, he was right about everything he said, but Richter was also right, he was hiding something, the fact that he would KILL anyone that would try to leave or enter the zone. Ultimately, controlling the zone, by not controlling it. It's weird... Scar ending, what was that? I think there is real value if the people there were "real", and they were all connected. Where is Strider and Faust, if we can see them after they die too? Ward, what did they do? Implant the stalker program on everyone? We were never affected by the tvs, we were NOT on the program, were we converted in our blackout? The ending is not bad per se, but when you add that they can potentially sneak a code into your brain that will make you have a single objective... and they did it with everyone in the zone, probably? If the person in that fucking tank gets so much power, why the scientists failed? Why did they just not control everyone? Make what Strelok did? Wasn't one person not enough to enter the Noosphere? Maybe the true ending is in the future? on a DLC? All the endings are too shady. Like we're being misled every step of the way, there isn't ANY agency at all. At least i know that, on strelok's ending, we helped Richter achieve what he wanted the most. That was worth everything. He should've had an ending. One where we just didn't do anything radical, we conquer the zone, become legends and... come back. New legends of the zone.
Skif ending is a tribute to the novel: Zones all over the world as was the novel's original premise, and "HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE OF CHARGE, AND MAY NO ONE BE LEFT BEHIND!"
It seems like there's no "good" or "bad" ending. I decided to do the Ward's storyline, and that seemed to get Skif back home in the end - although now the military controls the Zone.
I love how this game doesn't really tell you what is the good or bad ending its just all up to how you see it, its genuinely really cool that the devs didn't force the easy route of making obvious good/bad endings
Knowing Strelok can sense everything now, at least in the Zone, and contact everyone telepathicly, and he's not an insane person, people could've negotiated with him about leaving the Zone
dlc will probably be something like streloks is some sort of wish granter now so you gotta get to him and ask him if you can leave, as for the survival of the people in the zone there is unlimited food, women and men, water, and if something needs purification the artifacts can take care of that probably,
Streloks ending clearly give us some clues about what migh come next. Skif can't get away from the zone back to his home, people from outside 100% would try to figure out what the hell happened with the zone. Nothing rlly changed that much, except now it's just harder to get in and out of the Zone.
@@sweeney_bot1104 Harder or straight impossible since he will just cause emissions constantly and will wipe anyone out thats trying to get in/out with the Monolith or mutants. Also good luck getting supplies like food and water into the Zone.
I love how a concept of happiness is being mentioned many times in a game and I am sure it is a reference to original Stalker story by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, when the protagonist Red says at the end (facing wish granter): 'Happiness for all, for free. And let no one go away hurt'.
but what he actualy did? Removed the Zone? or just turn people minds in the zone into happy mode by big psi emission and some turn into zombies? Its looks weird like another catastropy
The ending I picked was with Korshunov he actually has very legitimate reasons for being the one to go in the pod. You hear why through the dialogue. But at least with this ending we know Skif got out of the zone and is going to have his nice new home. The scary part is every one of those tvs are broadcasting from one of us beating the game😂
The thing is it is very much likely that under Ward's control the Zone is controlling everyone, including Skif and the dream of him getting home and a perspective job in the military is an illusion.
There is no best ending in that game imo, there are better or worse. 1.Ward Ending - You can say it's good ending, but just for Skif(I guess becuase of what we saw in the end). Ward did a typical goverment and military thing, Control. They took full control of the Zone and for sure gonna use it for the military improvement and to try taking control of the world later on, the classic. They let Skif go becuase he was too dangerous to go against him, but they can oberve him now. 2.Strelok Ending - It's kind of neutral ending and probably true ending considering who he is, when Strelok want Zone to be as it is, but did big restrictions where u can't leave or enter the zone or u will be instantly killed. I don't really get what is his main purpose and motivation, he seems crazy guy too and looks like thinking that Zone is his love/mother. I need to play first stalkers to get more informations about his character. Also that last walk of Skif was confusing too. 3.Scar Ending - Nothing to say lol, fake world ending, the guy was so chill that he created the matrix for Skif and others(?). Really boring tbh. 4.Skif Ending - Worst ending of them all for sure, easy to say it's bad ending, he turned whole globe into the Zone and wtf for what? Well it was planned and manipulated by the Faust as well because that scene when Doctor turned to Faust was crazy plot twist. Somehow myself i got the Strelok ending accidentaly lmao. I was always against the ward, only give the PDA to the Dalin & Korshunow first because i felt like it will be alright so i got the ward badge too which was nice, it turned out to be easier to move around those bases, but after the story quest in the labs i was with fully with Stalkers. I killed the doctor at the end too because he was really sus and felt crazy(when i never killed anyone with that choice tbh) and ofc rejected this crazy ass Faust. After that one ending it turned out that this doctor was ilusion too and that was still living Faust so i did good decision. Sad there is no ending that ends it all, like the ending when u can destroy the Zone and leave/die. That would've been the best ending of them all. Ngl the game story only getting better later on, but i heard in other stalkers it was the same. At start it's kinda boring, later after you first time meet Dalin and Korshunov it's getting interesting and later even more ofc. Sadly the game has a lot of technical problems and they need a lot of time to fix it. That game has tons of potential to be really good if they gonna fix it all and modders will make it even better.
I think they did Strelok dirty. From what I know, he first was brainwashed (partialy to Scar's fault), then fought Monilith to reach Wish Granter and finally help player in the third game, so he becoming one of the villains seems odd
I wonder what they're going to add for DLCs and if any of them are Story related or just stupid cosmetics ala modern gaming. Since there were several zones hidden by fog that are currently inaccessible.
Fix 😂 Wait 5+ years Strelok had an episode of brainwashing after which his personality may have been lost. this person function that he can perform, because of the brainwashing, or thanks to
@@ltraltier6009 I hope the DLC will continue the story or something to explain it more, there is a rumor that DLC will depend on one of those 2 endings right?
If they go with Skif, there can be some DLCs with new locations, but that would be hard to pull since Zone was always tied to CNPP and areas around it are iconic. The other option for Skif's ending is that future (most likely a single) DLC could be still played in the old Zone and the idea would be to severe its links to the new locations around the world. Strelok's ending is ok, but its somewhat repeated, kinda Monolith 2.0. It helps the Zone to exist and not harm the world around it but that's it, meh for me. Scar and Kornushov are somewhat same in the same they change the Zone. Scar replaces it with a dream and it seems like stalker's in the ending shot are dying brainwashed, so I don't see how that would be fixed by future DLC. Kornushov actually harness the Zone, so it is not a threat anymore. I could very well see them picking this one, and story could revolve around that woman who got mad and wanted to dominate the world with the power she gained from the Zone and Skif fixing what he helped to unleash upon the world. For me its Kornushov -> Skif -> Strelok -> Scar but I can see either of the first three to be continued upon on.
Normally im not a fan of authority types...but ill give it to the Col.....That's a stand up dude right there. He let me choke the dude out for a bit, gave me a 2nd chance, then he took one for the team at the end. Stand up dude, i must say
Honestly the english voice acting really feels like it doesn't have the same vibe as Stalker. The Strelok Ending, the Ukrainiane VA has extra effects added onto his radio broadcast from the Noosphere that makes it feel so much more eerie
Yes, I wish there was a Russian Voiceovers also, but its fine. I did a playthrough in Ukranian and then swapped to English for my second one.. Eurghh.. It somewhat disgusted me
Skif ending - repeated story into a loop. Strelok ending - the transformed into a prison. Scar ending - shining zone was zombification. Korshunov ending - going home but it’s never a happy ending.
I think it pretty much is a (sort of) happy ending :D You get what you wanted. Possibility is that Ward would've gotten what it wanted sooner or later, you just sped things up and got yourself a lasting job offer in turn, if you want it.
The sad part was his apartment ever fixed from the destruction. You never know because they don’t show that part. He just got his apartment keys is all the show.
The Ward ending is honestly the best in my personal view. It rewards the character for his initial motivations or goal (new guaranteed upgraded house), plus giving him a career chance and not have to rely on the odd job, plus it dissolves the dangers of the zone. A sort of happy end, with maybe some underlying twists of a finished X project. The Strelok ending I can still get behind as it tries to limit the zone and solidify its boundaries, at the disadvantage that actual moving back and forth seems even harder or near impossible. But it's the least-worst ending to me. The zone being everywhere is... yeah no thanks. And the Scar/Shining zone ending is just BS, an illusion. I honestly wonder what ending they will pick as canon in the DLC. While I like the Ward ending I chose myself the most, I sadly don't think it'll be canon: While it would allow Skif to return to the zone if he picks the Colonel job, the zone would be kinda gone at that point I reckon? Unless they will retcon it going away or whatever. Guess we'll see.
all four endings are kind of a dead end as far as the future of the series goes. the only ones that even remotely work are the strelok and skif ones. but they have problems strelok - the zone stays the same, but now people and goods can't pass through, everyone in it will eventually die. skif - the whole world has been turned anomalous. which basically removes the whole point of a setting in stalker. I suppose after all the time that it took to get here, An ending to the series is still probably okay. there probably wont be a stalker 3. it was a miracle we got this. Im honestly okay with that. I just hope we will see some sandbox mods eventually, Im sick and tired of the Xray engine, it was one of the main reasons I was excited for stalker 2.
The thing with Streloks ending is that it isn't actually confirmed if anyone will instantly die.. it'll just be harder for people to get in and out now due to the new monolith guards, isn't impossible though.
Scar is worst ending. You just have nightmares in the real world. And I think karsunov is a good ending. And Skif is's a best ending. Strelock It's a bad ending.
Skif Ending: Freedom Ending Strelok Ending: Military Ending Colonel Ending: Duty Ending Scar Ending: I still don’t know what faction this would fit with it
well I got the Ward ending. my whole goal was to control/remove the zone and after a lifetime of fighting have a place to call home. a place to rest my gun. Im content with my play througuh.
Same. Part of me wishes they pick it as canon ending as you could technically return to the zone as colonel, but it's very unlikely as most of what defines the zone would be gone or would have to be retconned to stay. So I think the Strelok ending is more likely to end up canon.
@@Unknown-ek1oxI think it’s skifs bc the zone wanted you to share its gifts with the world and trust me I liked the ward up to that lady she was my issue with them but skifs ending no one is dictating the future besides nature itself or the zone if yiy want but yeah that’s what makes since to me
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Well you might not , it is implied Skif might take Korshunov's place as "Colonel" as Mommy Agatha offered him
It's really optional at that point. It appears to be a genuine offer if he changes his mind, but not a forced requirement. She would not have said "Anything this Stalker wants, he gets" otherwise. If I was Skif and after having consciously picked the Ward and gone through with it, I might've personally taken the offer. The new home is a bonus on top but it doesn't mean the Ward or regulatory board is gonna pay your bills forever, so you might as well go for a safe ever-lasting job paying your bills and doing what you already are good at.
I went with Strelok ending and it seems would be the best choice. Skif didn't end miserably, no one else suffer or die or become zombie. Just the Zone now completely isolated. Scar's ending is definitely the most depressing one, he's not right in the head from the beginning already. The other 2 ended up Skif loosing his life and freedom, which ehhhh.... it's game over. If there will be one canon, at least for Skif's adventure to continue, it will be Strelok's ending.
imagine stalker 3 with the whole world as your playground. and you can get the guides to move you from one country to the next but with in each area you have to walk. now that would be awesome and then they don't need to make the map so big because we get more maps.
I got the Scar ending. AAfter fiishing the game and loading my last save I could walk the last room before the cutscene freely and I could put the artifact that Strelok dropped when I killed him into the machine in the middle of the room. What iis up with that??
I think Korshunov's ending is the best overall and the most reasonable, Skif gets what he wants and gets to go home and lives his life nicely and peacefully, while the zone begins to disappear and everything in the world returns to normal. To me, it seems like the most humane and reasonable outcome, even if it's not great for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. story and won't lead to any DLCs or sequels, it is the 'happiest' of the endings with the best overall outcome because everyone wins, Skif wins and the world wins. As much as i want to like Skif's ending and Strelok's, for one - with Skif's ending it implies that Skif sacrifices himself to have control over the zone, meaning this couldn't really lead to another continuation of the story from Skif's perspective, yet the zone expands across the world AND the Doctor turns out to be Faust in disguise which can only be a bad thing. As for Strelok's ending, although the zone is protected by him and the Monolithians become 'good guys' towards Skif under Strelok, until the zone eventually disappears, nobody is allowed to leave it which means Skif and other people are trapped and doomed to forever be locked in the zone akin to a prison. The zone becomes a dictator's regime and Strelok may very well become the bad guy in a DLC if Skif decides that he's tired of the zone and wants to leave it and go back home. I dont even have to mention Scar's ending as being the worst, Scar is just a deluded maniac who wants everyone in the zone to be happy mindless fools living inside their own happy delusions, making everyone in the zone be not much different than zombies or Monolithians.
@@6XxRafaxX9 Every ending comes with some kind of downside, the the zone disappearing and no longer harming anyone or threatening to expand is a good thing in my eyes. Of course the downside is that you put a lot of power into the hands of some people but it doesn't have to end bad. It's also not a megacorp, it's the "Regulatory Board", tied to Ukraine (realistically seen), but by then I'd argue they are their own 'state within a state' I suppose. In the best case scenario they use that power to propel humanity forward. Not a bad thing.
Peaceful? It shows the STALKER program still running, with Skif being controlled by it. Even if he actually gets out of the Zone hes under Agathas control. It can also be an illusion by the program and Skif is more or less Monolithian and still in the zone...
uh check the ending again. Skif did not get what he wanted. The Stalker program is still active shown on the tv screen with his POV. Bro is probably a monolithian. He's been given a false reality.
Here is short vision on all endings with their rating of goodness. 1. Korshunov's (Ward). It is the best one for the goodness of humanity and the Zone in general. The zone is disappearing even tho SIRCAA gets their knowledge and control of anomalies and Skif gets his home new benefits back (what he is originally seeking). Considering that humanity already has weapons of mass destruction, getting a few more as controlled anomalies doesn't make it much worse. Having Skif under surveillance/control is an unpleasant fact, but most probably it is just for safety and secrecy reasons, not for abuse. 2. Strelok's. It is the second best as it holds the Zone where it was and makes it even more preserved (if y'all think that Zone will be fully locked in and out, forget about it, it is not). Although Skif's physical freedom might seem affected, he is safe, and most probably will find his way back to the mainland. This ending keeps everything real and just, rough, but fair. (I get this one, because siding with 'wish-to-control-and-get-everything' overentitled Ward, who was trying to kill me in SIRCAA, is a big naiveness and pure forgiveness). 3. Scar's. Although Scar indicates his delusion, angriness, and narrow vision of things, seemingly guided by revenge, his ending may be considered neutral or lesser evil of what may happen. The really grim outcome of delirious stalkers (basically every human being) inevitably dying after entering the vicinity of the 'Shining Zone' basically makes it a real exclusion zone. Where no one going to crawl around chasing their own unnecessary goals, scientific ambition, or whatever. Just because Scar sounded like a fanatic, always talking shady and blindly pushing his agenda, makes him the least likable sidekick. Although his egoistic passion still delivers a generally harmless ending. 4. Faust (mistakenly named by many 'Skif's' ending). Way worse ending than any. Many people fall into simping for Faust as his controlling abilities surprisingly pushing beyond the limits of the Zone and the game itself. The terrible outcome turned the whole world into a huge anomaly field and started chaos worldwide. Just so one unlucky loner, who survived experiments gaining controller abilities can set himself free for a nice walk wherever he wants. No general idea (unlike Scar's) was motivating sneaky Faust, but solely a desire for his freedom and a bit of revenge on everything in the Zone (although the ones to blame are a few scientists and Faust himself). Guy is restarted Monolith on people who are trying to start a new life (even tho some of them are struggling) just to turn them into brainless puppets, who still may understand what is going on. It turns the life of the Zone into a bloody battlefield again. Endangering Skif while he is trying to catch Faust, attempting to kill Stif multiple times, and deceiving him to death. And then finally killing (getting into the capsule is equal to death) by manipulating Skif mind and unleashing Zone's deadly power worldwide.
Am i glad i got the strelok ending for my first completion, that scar one was depressing as hell. With Korshunov, Skif seems to be under the stalker mind control, and the Skif ending seems to pretty cool, and very intriguing.
My first playthrough was my first experience with stalker. I somehow ended up destroying the zone and helicoptering away, and i can just imagine Skif going "well, glad that's dealt with"
I chose to be with the ward because, let's face it, in Col. Chadsunov's own words: "You may have heard many things about us, but none of them called us swindlers." Our goal, when we step foot in this shit hole, is to have a new house, and we got it, better ending by far if you asked me. To further my point, please let me know how many corpses you saw during your journey in the zone? Countless, both fresh and bones, even mutants we killed were once human. Whenever you save someone in this game, the first thing they said that it is rare for someone to show up and help them. So many life lost, just because of the Zone. So yeah, I will take my house, thank you very much.
I remember reading somewhere that that was actually a plan for a sequel of Oblivion lost, it was supposed to take part in a world overtaken by the Zone. Sadly I don't remember where I read it or how true it is. But I hope it was true and maybe we will get to see it in the next game (if there will ever be one), honestly this type of endings affecting whole Earth are already a bit of a throwback to the old Oblivion lost era lore.
@@justinchau70 Considering how multiple new zones have been formed, you can imagine how stronger their ability to alter reality has become. This could bring many new gameplay/lore oportunities. I somewhat agree that the lack of radiation and mutants definitely would impact the experience, but by no means it would straight up become boring.
I didnt like any of the endings tbh mainly because of there being no resolution for the noontide/monolithians. I really wanted an ending or resolution where we found the "wishgranter" and was given the option to hijack or turn it off ....perhaps even turn it off painfully for the wishgranter. I hated the monolith and what it did to the poor fellas it mindwiped and ,if given the option , wanted to deal it all the pain in the world before it died and if it was just a machine with no sentience then just destroy it for good by melting it into slag. But... We didnt get anything like that so im pissed.....hoping the DLC gives us some sort of closure for the monolith. As for as Strelok's ending goes, i like it the best simply because it redirects the monolithians from cold blooded murderers to cold blooded prison guards which is slightly better but not great.
Skiff ending seems like the best choice to be canon. The Zone called him because it knew he had the spirit to fight through everything to accomplish what the Zone wanted: to finally be free. In my opinion, his ending seemingly had the most effort put into it.
Good: Skif - Zone spreads and is free (no need for change) Neutral (Canon): Strelok - Zone stays as is but there is conflict (a need for change and skiff is still alive for DLC purposes) Bad: Col. - Zone is dead (no conflict) Worst: Scar - Everybody is dead (no people left to make change)
Agatha is still alive or whatever that agatha thing is. I think its a potential for DLC, to learn about agatha, maybe fight her, it could be canon, in every other ending, there are no new characters that can be explored. In ward ending, you have a clear villain.
I just beat the game with the Col. Korhsunov ending. I love the Ward. They all wanted the Zone to stay. The Zone is what destroyed my home. I get to go back home a hero with the world being a better place.
Wrong, you just gave the government total control and on top of that they now abolished your privacy, they can observe every single thing you do as well as every other individual. You essentially gave up your own privacy and freedom as well as the worlds so that you can have a home. A government puppet that sold out the world, tisk tisk
Juat beated the game got Streloks ending, helped him cause knew him from first game. came to watch all other endings and got to say sorry i dindt chose army.. would have loved that new apartment.. :D
There isn't really a good ending at all, there are just less bad. The Doctor ending is less dystopian than the ward one, but it's still nightmarishly horrible for the entire world. Stalkers like saying that the Zone is beautiful but it's nothing like that. The worldwide Zone is when you can step out to get bread and die to an imperciveable anomaly before you get out of the front door with no one being able to help you or even knowing what happened to you. That's not even mentioning more physical dangers, like mutants. Strelok's ending is better but only for those outside because everyone else is locked in the Zone like in a prison, only so that Strelok can protect his precious Zone, becoming no different from C-Consiousness he destroyed.
How is it safe? The same dudes who directed project X are again in charge of anomalous energy and have a monopoly on controling the noosphere for their own endings. Thinking that pepople like that holding that power means Earth is safe is pure dellusion.
There is no good ending. In the end only The Zone wins in 3 of the 4 endings. But Humanity loses in all of them. At least with Strelok's ending impact is minimized to the boundaries of the Original Zone. So in terms of The least harmful impact Strelok's encapsulation of the Zone is the best.
So scar is the best ending for the zone, and colonel is the best ending for scar, I personally think I will have to side with skif, while yes I would like to also be a colonel I think the zone is meant for everyone, and shouldn’t be tampered with by others.
I think Strelok's ending is the best and most logical for a sequel. The monolith patrolling the border is not going to be top different to the military or ISPF, if anything - easier to bypass due to limited manpower and lack of Helis. It's just pre-SOC Zone, things will be shaken up short term, but long term... it is just the same old zone. Skif's ending I hope is not canon as I believe having multiple zones diminishes the awe and spectacle of Stalker, I don't want other zones, I want THIS zone. Stalker just isn't Stalker without the Chornobyl zone. So in total, Strelok's ending isn't as bad as it initially looks, it's just the monolith replaced the military as border patrol. Sultan, Beard, Sidorovich, Duty, Freedom, etc, they'll still find ways to get their contacts in & out. Monolith simply don't have the logistics to keep it up forever - if Strelok starts brainwashing like c-con did, just paves the way for a new Stalker to do to him, what he did in SoC.
I think the giant electric blue wall stops people from coming in. I think the monolith in the zone is just meant to target those within the zone who are a threat to it
@CyrodiilCome The zone is always shifting, there's things even the most experienced stalkers will miss. In a way, he will be forced to relent at some point, again back to the monolith no longer having any known means of replenishment. It's also not known if the border Anomaly extends the entire perimeter, or is just local. I find it likely Sultan and Beard have means of rowing people and supply into the zone through the waterways, degtayrev ensured the military can fly in via mapping out anomalies and every other faction will be vying to find other ways in - in fact sircaa and ecologists may even have the means to temporarily disable any anomalous obstacles, sensors have been able to do that in that yaniv mission.
"Skif's ending I hope is not canon as I believe having multiple zones diminishes the awe and spectacle of Stalker, I don't want other zones, I want THIS zone. Stalker just isn't Stalker without the Chornobyl zone." The story Stalker is based on has multiple zones throughout the world. The original story is strongly implied to take place in North America.
I know a lot of people Think the skif ending is canon but idk it’s no longer the zone if it’s the entire world. No more stalkers, no more artifact trade, just pure survival. The world at that point becomes Metro. Perhaps some may argue that’s precisely why it’s canon as metro was a spiritual successor to stalker before stalker 2 went back into production. But idk it sort of loses the whole zone setting. Not that I’m against that, I’d think that would be cool and it’d be a true post apocalypse world. At that point there is no need for Stalkers so I’m not sure that it would be canon. I think Streloks ending makes more sense. The zone becomes even more exclusive and therefore more important. The thing about Streloks ending is he can TRY to contain the zone like many before him. But it will NEVER be truly contained. People will squeeze through the cracks. It just becomes more difficult and therefore Stalkers become the most important faction within the zone. But because the zone is contained there’s no need for people like the Ward. Or Sircaa. Or any factions that want power for the sake of it. At that point the zone is in the most pure form. The people who want to go into the zone from then on want to go because they want to be a part of it. Whether they’re tired of society, have nowhere else to go, seek adventure, wealth. All those in the zone are free to do that as long as they don’t try to control the zone.
i think it could be canon too. because Agatha is still unexplored. every other ending, it ends with old characters. Only warden ending has the new character agatha, maybe we wil have to fight her.
@@cruelworld1902 I'm sure that with all endings, a lot of explanation is missing. I hope they will have updates or even DLCs for it somehow to explore more in the story aspect of the game.
Tbh, i think Korshunov ending is the best for the mankind and for the Skif. The advance in technology will be tremendous, how will they achieve that we dont need to know. But Strelok ending is 2nd best imo. World continue as before, zone is closed permanently.
Korshunov ending gang zone reigned in and got a house vs destroying other places with building zones, or living in delusion of a shining zone, having the monolith kill all the stalkers
@@CrazyChuck I'd guess the radioactive stuff would still be there, unless the zone going poof as a side effect also removed any radiation, lol. TIME TO PUT HOMES THERE
Korshunov/ward ending is not what it seems. Pay closer attention to the very end, this is the c-consciousness stalker brainwashing that’s still going on. Your memories are playing on one of the c-con agent screens. The only way for this to happen is if these are fake memories fed to you, making you an agent to c-con. Korshunov is bad ending, the stalker program was never destroyed, it’s just the canon 100%
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Korshunov is the true ending. Those monolits lunatics good riddance. Plus agatha is the best.
None. Best Zone state is at the beginning of the game - monolith is gone, monolothized are free.
Everyone can risk and get rewarded here. But after any ending Zone suffers or Humanity suffers.
Basically any actor is in a worsening situation with manual control of this breach in the Noosphere 👁️
Whichever you choose
i wish the last half of the game was actually playable and didn't rely on using dev commands to get the next main quest to pop up after completing the previous mission. The Strelok ending was completely out of character. He never "loved" the Zone like this freudian nonsense at the end. He just wanted to understand and protect it. Not play overprotective guardian with it. Why wouldn't he let Skif leave after all he did for him? It makes no sense.
I was expecting more of the roadside picnic cover tease that faust showed us midway through the story, but that isnt relevant at all to the rest of the plot apparently. At least Strelok and Skif destroyed the STALKER program and we had some closure for the protagonists of all 3 of the original games in this one. Nothing nearly as cool as Call of Pripyat's amazing ending track either. Where is the hope for the future? This is just dystopian bullshit that was pulled out of nowhere in the ending. Your overall choices really dont matter in the endings just future side quests. Only what group/faction you chose to stick with matters in the end.
the Scar ending is imo the most interesting
The true ending was Sidorovich selling us items at no extra charge.
What will happen if sid enters the pod
@@omardarwish958 Every human will be transformed in some kind of looter and Sid will lowball everybody forever.
@@omardarwish958 it scares me9
@@omardarwish958 he'd turn the zone into a capitalist hellscape
1)Apocalypse
2)Maximum security prison
3)Eternal tsukuyomi
4)1984
The First One just turns earth into the zone, without mutants and radiation though
The second one enhances the zone
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In the first ending, several separate Zones are created around the world, as in the book by the Strugatsky brothers. Even if they are without mutants, anomalies will bring death and destruction.
@@dmytrogalan1005 Bruh, you're still dealing with psi energy that can fry people's brains, and pockets of twisted space that tear apart people. All that requires is one of those anomalies hitting a Nuclear Power Plant and now you got multiple Chernobyl Zones throughout the earth. As more scientist begin to try to weaponize such things, mutants will begin to appear across the world.
At least the 2nd one, the zone becomes fortified and essentially imprisons everyone and everything in it.
@@Ragabash7Something poetic about STALKER beginning with Roadside Picnic and then ending with Roadside Picnic.
Tf is eternal tsukuyomi
Skif just turned the entire planet into the Zone, he's just a chill guy xdd
He experienced such a great time in zone that he wanted to show others around the world to play with him as well.
Skif Conducted multiplayer @@Blind240390
But is the Zone "the Zone" without mutants and radiation?
@@antondavidovic3996that’s exactly what The Zone is in Roadside Picnic. Definitely a good ending for fans of the book / movie
@@Strawberry_Tara I know I know, read it last year, great book. Its just that in STALKER, the Zone isn't the Zone without the occasional Geiger crackle, you feel me?
OST (Original Sound Track) Clarifies each ending & it's purpose via sound track titles
Skif Ending: Embrace
Strelok Endling: Contain
Scar Ending: Salvage
Korshunov Ending: Control
Skif Ending: Embrace aka. accelerate doom for mankind's civilization by force shoving the zone into their bedrooms globally. The terrorist ending. (Bad A)
Strelok Ending: Contain aka. preservation of the zone as is, through giving strelok the control, even if he himself despises everyone else for wanting control, too, what a hypocrite. The isolation ending. (Neutral, probably DLC)
Scar Ending: Salvage aka. worship the zone like a god and sell your soul and mind to the psi like a drug addict crazy bum. The hopeless cope end. (Bad B)
Ward Ending: Mankind taking control of the fate of themselves and the zone, moving away from stagnation the zone has been in since every stalker game ever before 2 and a chance to a better future for mankind, finally taming the predatory beast that is the zone. (The Hope End)
Personally, I really like the ward end as it gives me an option for a possibly good end and a goodbye to the zone after being in the zone for 4 games. Time to grow from your time in the zone and move on from it. Something Richter and the other guys who see it as holy land never understood. Good people that just couldn't let go and sooner or later would have been lost to the zone.
@kami.pimp. while ward may have good intentions, what repercussions will humanity suffer from by harnessing psi-energy and anomalies? I bet in the long run it will be just like the fall of the roman empire and while skifs ending is probably really bad at first, it will also be really good for the long run, and humanity I bet It won't go extinct
@@kami.pimp.Kitchens, not bedrooms
@@kami.pimp. Did you fail to see the thousands of mind control screens all over the ward ending and them seeing through your eyes like what happens to mind controlled agents? The ward is instituting authoritarian control all over the world and is fucking with c con tech
@@kami.pimp. The Ward ending is the only ending where he gets his fuckin house back 🏘
“Where to boss”. “Home”. “Sir that’s not a destination where tf do you want me to take you”
I feel like a lot of people missed the point of these endings. I want to explain what I think each of these mean.
Skif - Skif ending is the most open ended. The “embrace” the zone ending, many are confused what this has to do with Skif, but remember this whole ordeal was lead by doctor, who is actually Faust. To embrace the zone and spread the zone is Fausts dream, and it seems to have snuck its way in with Skif. Skif ending imo is more like the Faust ending.
Korshunov/Ward: The bad ending. The STALKER program is shown at the end to still be running, and is playing a fake memory of you getting your own home. This means you are either a brainwashed agent like strelok or a monolithian. The entire ending is fake since it was playing on the STALKER program tv screen. Bad guys take over the zone, you get brainwashed.
Scar/Spark - Pretty straight to the point, these psychos believed the zone belongs to everyone, including the dead. But the dead are still dead. It’s just a psy hallucination. A happy ending for some, but possibly an even worse ending than Ward for the sake of the zone.
Strelok - In my opinion, it’s between Skif ending and Strelok ending as being the true endings. I believe Streloks makes the most sense, but like others have said, Skifs ending opens the room for DLC the most. We’ll just have to see which one it is in the future. Anyways, lots of people are overthinking Streloks ending. He is not monolith or c-consciousness 2.0. The STALKER program is gone, there’s no more hypnotizing. He is containing the zone once and for all. Some ask what his motive for this is. Considering the true ending of SOC is him destroying c-consciousness, he obviously wants the zone to be the zone still, for everyone, without anyone’s control. But with doctor coming back, Ward coming back, Scar coming back, Strelok knew the only way to keep the zone safe was to seal her off. As for if this was a dlc addition, we could see Skif doubt his decision as he wants to go home, or we could play as a new stalker or group of stalkers who find a way into the zone under Streloks control.
Thanks if you read the whole thing! Drop me any questions if you may have.
Good hunting, Stalker.
I think you got the Ward ending wrong. Quoting alphageekua´s comment below "In Ward ending it only implies that they can watch through Skif eyes via technology mentioned in the game, but that's it. Everything else is real." So ye, its "bad" for humanity, but Skiff is ok (except his does not have any privacy anymore, but he does not know that) and will be enjoying his new house etc.
For me the Ward ending was best. I would hate the existence of the Zone in the real life (not the game ofc), so Skiff ending is a big no, Spark are lunatics and it is a very bad ending for Skiff.
Strelok´s ending is interesting, I would like to continue the story there (I get you cant enter the Zone anymore, but can´t leave?) This inprisonment makes Strelok quite a bad guy for the people in the Zone.
@@petrbarta99 I think you are right about monitoring him via tech, hes not monolith or any other shit, he got his home but they deem him extremely valuable for what he achieved and could be used for future experiments, missions and shit
@@petrbarta99 Sorry I’m sure there’s a chance you’re correct, but you’re still missing the point. In the ward ending the STALKER agent brainwashing is never destroyed. In the ward ending, it cuts to a tv screen of your life playing on the STALKER program. So in the nicest way possible, no you are wrong.
If you don’t know what I mean, look at the TVs at the end of the game. These tvs are the source of the brainwashing of the agents, the agents that have the STALKER tattooed (like strelok). These TVs play fake memories to brain wash you into completing a specific task for the c-consciousness. In streloks case, he was brainwashed to kill strelok. Which is why he broke away from the brainwashing, because he is strelok.
So no, ward ending is indeed the bad ending! I love to discuss though, so feel free to question any statements I may have made.
Also to clarify something on the spark being lunatics, there seems to be some backing on why. Apparently Scar was a c-conciousness agent (he got brainwashed by the stalker program) and I mean the dude got blasted by multiple emissions, so his brain is completely fried. Explains why in his ending he creates a psi dream, this psi nonsense is probably what goes through his mind too. That’s completely my theory though.
@@petrbarta99 shoot, I typed out a pretty long winded response to this and must’ve forgotten to hit send, darn.
Anyways I don’t want to rewrite the whole thing, but I’ll try my best! For starters, I love discussing lore about this game, it’s very convoluted and you’ll find very few UA-camrs (credits to people like anamolous dugout!) who actually know what they’re talking about. So with that out of the way, I am 100% sure that you are wrong. Sorry. To first disprove your point, you claim it is ward technology. That’s not possible, as the ending scene is a cutaway of the C-Conciousness stalker program. The same thing that makes the agents, and brainwashes stalkers.
I feel as though there’s confusion on how these tvs work, and how they’re connected to the c-conciousness. Let me explain! In the Strelok ending, your main goal is to destroy the Stalker program. Doing that therefore makes it so nooone can ever be brainwashed by the c-consciousness again. In the wars ending, the program is never destroyed, leading to why we see the cut away at the end.
How does the brainwashing work? The screens play fake memories and instill a task in your brain. The brainwashed agents are then sent back into the zone, without a clue of their past, they only know what the screen showed them.
So, therefore, since Skifs “memory” of getting a home is on this tv screen, it is NOT Ward technology, it was what was used to brainwash him into believing he got his home and a happy life. Like c’mon, it’s stalker, ofcourse it’s not a happy ending.
If you have any other questions, please ask, like I said I love discussing the lore of stalker!
Man, my english is not good, so please tolerate😂. But! The process of brainwashing is long. It s not about days, it's about weeks. Skif doesn't spent much time in the room with screens. Next in game it was. Strelok showed how this TV screens can work + you say about memory - correct, but memory of "coordinator" must be. Strelok was haunted down according to "С-Свідомість", according to their memory and will, not his own. I 100% believe that now Skif is their one "recruiting" goal and when he is going to be in need, they will come first. Or they will make an occasion for this. + TV screens = "computer code". All people always got one orde - protect Zone. And individual work was with every soldier separately, as I understand/remember correctly. So your idea is good, but ... Time will show. @1llusi0n2
Shout out to skif for starting the resonance cascade
Do you know who ate all the doughnuts?
@@rouxgreasus Probably Sidorovich
G-Man origin story.
@@rouxgreasus why do we have to wear these ridiculous ties?
Don't shoot! I'm with the science team!
I think Skif's ending is not that he wanted the Zone to be everywhere for everyone, since he didn't really want anything other than his house back and he already experienced what will happen if the Zone's stuff leaks out. Throughout the story Ritcher, Faust, Doctor, and so on always talks about freedom and I think in the end Skif wanted the Zone to be free, to make choices of its own, and it seems that the Zone wants to expand...
Honestly skif's ending probably something like a "not making a choice being the worst choice" ending.
People all over the world are curious about the zone. They want it's riches and it's secrets. They want the zone.
The zone is probably a result of a breach of the noosphere causing a collapsed into a sort of singularity that pulses and reacts to the rest of the noosphere. The zone expands because people is constantly have the zone on their conscious minds. You're basically trying to treat an open bleeding wound with a medieval blood letting treatment and the wound starts cartoon level shooting blood like it's trying to use hydro pump
@@NanashiCASTthat's an interesting way to look at it 🤔. The zone as a runaway feedback loop. In that case we could see the Strelok ending as somewhat neutral. Since the zone becomes essentially isolated its influence on the noosphere might diminish allowing the noosphere itself to stabilize. But at the same time there's nothing to prevent governments from creating a new link to the noosphere and it's more of a temporary solution since the zone will never really leave the public consciousness, it will always exert some influence.
i think the zone was still chained at place but with the wish for freedome, skif removed the chains and the zone expanded cause nothing is holding it back
@@NanashiCAST The zone is a hole in the noosphere and its shaped by human thoughts. It was contained by the C-Con before Strelok offed them all, but somehow it looks like they managed to still keep it contained, before Skif kinda overruled them since they are "dead". Also Skif was making a choice, that is to free the zone since it seems to be somewhat sentient.
@@talizorahnarrayya5916 Doesn't matter if the noosphere is in the public consciousness or not, since the noosphere itself is the combined consciousness of all living things (or at least human consciousness). The noosphere will always exist and always has existed, its the scientists in X-labs that tried to tap into it and use it for their own goals that caused all shit to go out of whack.
Skif just really wants to go home and laugh at funny cat videos on the internet.
And play Coassacs 3
And play Cossacks 3.
So you have chosen the ward ?
Relatable
Tbh I kinda feel bad for Korshunov. He seemed like he really cared for his men and Skif. When I talked with him, he always sounded like that Uncle who would always greet you first and gave you the best presents. Even if you betray him several times, he still welcomes you to his group and carries on his orders. Its just sad he ends up like that.
And given the TV screens, Skif gets screwed over. As that is the STALKER program in a nutshell. So now SIRCAA ends up with a vast PMC group they can take the Zone to the rest of the world as a New World Order.
In playing stalker I realized that, no matter how Good or bad we did in the end? it'll always have an outcome so tragic that it'll affect the world around us.
not really, i had a good ending
Which ending is that?!@@ThornsOfOurTime
@@muhammedwisam8761 a good one , that i agreed with, saved the zone
@@ThornsOfOurTime you mean the Strelok one?!
Honestly, I'm getting the ward ending just because that's the only ending in which my boy Skif gets what he really wants: a goddamn house
He doesn't. It's a false memory. Seeing him on the screen means he is being brainwashed.
Насправді він втратив все. І власну свободу і став зомбованим агентом моноліту.
By panning out you see his memory on the screen. That is what the lead up to fighting Scar was all about, all those people in the hallway were brainwashed agents and Monolithians waiting to be deployed out into the zone. Skif joins them in this ending, waiting for Agatha to give him a directive.
That's just brainwashing
All of them are such a good bunch of endings and I can totaly see how any of these endings cannot be objectively said to be best to worst as all of them have merit to every player depending on how they observe the Zone existence end behavior.
Ward ending - anomalous free energy and artifacts to be harnessed for good, will eventualy lead the world towards a darker path though. Corpo basicaly rules the Zone's power.
Scar ending - as humanity will never be singularily happy and kind to each other, a matrix like world is created. Happiness for Everyone like one of the quest states. The Zone is the same on the inside of course, but everyone can be happy in the illusion.
Strelok ending - The Zone is to be protected from everything and everyone and will continue to exist as is, protected from Wards and Sparks of the world that would like to exploit them for their singular benefit. The Zone will not spread but will not dissipate either and will continue to exist, impenetrable from in or out.
Skif ending - On the experiences Skif has with Richter, the Doctor and Faust, Skif steps into the pod himself, a person with no personal interest or wish towards Zone and lets the Zone choose for itself what to do next. Skif decides to be the person that does not want to exploit the Zone in any way and wishes for it to be free to make its own choice since its inception for the first time. Of course if you dont sympathise with Faust on top of Duga when he shows you the Zone is technicaly a living organism or you dont like to be played by him with the twist at the end, this one is not for you.
What a masterpiece this game is. I swear once its a bit more stable and runs a bit better this game will be just as a cult classic as the previous games.
scar is the wishmaker but Larger
Scar ending is that meme where you get off of your schizo meds and finally starts to become happy
I dont see how the Ward ending is anything but the best.
The Zone is gone.
Mankind has access to anomalous energy and teleportation.
Skiff got his house.
In Skifs ending the Zone becomes worldwide, causing immense suffering and the worst crysis in the history of mankind.
Scars ending makes everyone a zombie. Its awful.
Strelok's ending is ok, the Zone is now cut off from the mainland. The world doesnt end and stalkers keep their free will but they will die in the Zone
@@almightybogza I think there is an implication that Agatha or whoever is in charge of her now basically have unlimited control over other people. They can create a dystopian new world where, on the one hand, everyone can benefit from unique tech from the zone, but on the other hand, can be easily influenced if not mind controlled. At the very least we can definitely see that there is no such thing is privacy, as the corpos have unlimited access to psi-technology and they can literally see through Skif's eyes. Doesn't strike me as the best ending at all.
I mean Strelok's ending is best in practical terms (no massive world-wide clusterfuck), but miracles of the zone are lost to the rest of the world.
Skifs ending is ambiguous for now, impossible to tell how bad its gonna be in the rest of the world.
Scar's ending is, indeed, the worst - brainwash everyone without any hope of ever seeing the truth again.
@@almightybogzathe wards ending sucks because you destroy this one place people can go to if they have nowhere else to go. The zone was a haven for those who are lost. You’re also destroying and killing what is arguably a sentient, living entity.
Not shocked getting the Scar ending, since he got Emission blast on his brain 3 times directly.
i genuinely wanted to kill him multiple times in my playtrough, hes so obviously beyond braindead
The documents contain the profiles of STALKER agents provide information about Scar - he is naturally immune to emissions
These endings are so good.
The dev said only one ending is canon and can lead to the next dlc, but every ending here feels like a bad end, so I don’t know which one it is.
I assume it's Skifs as the rest inherently lead to the destruction or utter control of the zone
i guess only strelok ending is good enough to continue the story of the zone
@@dmytroizotov true but skif tho.. imagine if thats canon then it could not only expand by dlc but a sequel or spin-offs.
I think Strelok ending is a canon one.
@@Berkelll I think thats wildly subjective but overall I believe theres only choice from Strelok and Skif's ending. Strelok basicaly shuts the zone for all stalkers to die out eventualy as there is no way to get any stuff from the Mainland and Monolith controlled by Strelok will eradicate everyone eventualy. Skif just lets the Zone to expand worldwide and the story can continue. There used to be a book story from STALKER universe about Zone someplace else in the middle east. But we will see. The DLCs are well away at this point.
Faust had been using Skiff as a puppet since the beginning of the game, and after the battle at the radio tower, he made Skiff climb up on his own to impress upon him that he would achieve his ideals without the help of others, and it gave me goosebumps to think about that.
i don't thin Faust was really the Doctor at the end. I think it was just a representation of the zone. Frankly I think it less manipulation and more persuasion. Imo Doctor has a point, most of the zone dangers have been created by humans doing horrible experiments not the zone itself. And anomalies? The do feel more like immune systems rather than straight up malicious things.
Strelok Ending is probably the canon one, since in the ending it opens up the new area we're not able to explore yet, plus Skif is still alive and wandering the Zone, probably giving us the choice to kill the Super Strelok or escape the Zone in the DLC.
I doubt the DLC would be post-game. As far as canon go the Faust (skif) one seems the only one that could work and allow future titles. Strelok ending cut-off the zone and put it in total control of Strelok so there is little narrative that could go on there other than maybe your character somehow trying to break Strelok control but that would be a hard one since the ending is kind of saying he is in full control. Scar ending is just doomed and there is nothing to do. Ward is in control of the zone and is destroying it so there wouldn't be much to do there unless the story is about how it all go to hell somehow and the zone break out of control and get even worse. Faust ending is great because the zone is going global so they can now expand the game to anywhere and try something new with straight-up post-apocalyptic world, possibly somewhere with informations and installations from the Regulatory Board Agatha speaks about.
@@ponytoast1231 Faust ending seems like the beginning of Metro tbh
"Varta" - A good ending to the game
And I feel escaping the Zone could very well break containment and unleash the Zone upon the world thus giving us a Skife ending without losing Skif as a character.
So Scar ending basically put every Stalker within the Zone in the Poppy Field anomaly? Where everyone lives in eternal sleep. That's honestly depressing as hell.
In getting rid of all of mankind's evils, they put everyone in a paradise, a fake paradise however, a Matrix of some sorts, one you will never ever wake up.
Madara ending)
Year... It broke my heart. It was painful to watch. 26:16 Just look at Scar`s face. He realises that they f@cked up
"a matrix of some sorts"... So the matrix from the movie The Matrix
Beyond the Aquila Rift from Love Death and Robots
More like into an illusion where they all feel happy.
Skiff laying on the ground in the Scar ending is a reference for the good ending of Shadow of Chernobyl
wasn't he the one who's actually sitting at the campfire after illusion fades away?
@platypusimagination that's Scar
@@maeviu-twich6280man rewatch it
Which, in turn, is a reference to the Stalker Movie from 1979.
@@moonscript4675Not to the movie, but to the first part of the game. There the main character is also lying on the ground and everything is calm around. This is a secret-positive and canonical ending
Wait so
Scar wanted fake happiness
Strelok want to keep the zone as is
Korshunov wanted the Zone gone
But what does Skif wants? I don't really get the message on his ending
I think he wanted to lift the secret if the Zone; aka. spreading it globally, for everyone to call it home.
@@kevin14games yep, everyone get their own "Zone" so "The Gift" (aka; artifact) can be obtain by everyone.
Scar wanted no happiness but redemption for him being mistaken in strelok. Ending is similar to strelok's fake good ending from the first part
He wanted to get his apartment fixed so he killed everyone in his way.
@@LitchGaming yeah i get Scar's ending, almost 1:1 to Strelok fake c-con ending
"Agatha: People do not wish for the pursuit of happiness; they need their happiness here and now." - This is so true, and I feel this resonates with the current world we are living in now....
It's just sad that Skif becomes just another brainwashed STALKER/Monolithian
Skif's ending is probably the most canon due to being the most close to stalkers original inspiration/material of the book roadside picnic. Since in Roadside picnic there are multiple zones across the planet
But in the game it's not the alien visitation that creates the zone, it's the experiments with the Noosphere of the O-Consciousness.
@jackvernian7779 yeah hence the "most close" part of the sentence
@@jackvernian7779 I mean shit if a big neongreen face started talking to me while the sky was storming blood red and lightning was vaporizing people - I would call that aliens unleashing hell on Earth myself.
For anyone wondering - the screen flicket @28:16 is a red screen, with an exclamation mark in a triangle, and the text "Media Offline" written beneath it
I don't think it has anything to do with the game, it's just a video editor bug.
@@JF-vz1juyes, premiere's fault, sometimes that happens after exporting
To those who don't know, the generators seen in the Ward ending is actually a throwback to the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R Oblivion lost's final map level called "Generators"
yeah its a location you got to but literally online underground, they have everything there but like 50% of the map filled it with random insta kill radiation zones so you cant even explore one of the few actually new things that they added
If you pay attention, you can actually see that the currently active generators are a newly built installation further away from the CNPP and as the helicopter flies, we can also see the original generators from Clear Sky - the new one's are installed in a circle, whereas the old ones are in a 3x2 pattern.
For people thinking that Strelok's ending is canon, it's not. Here's why..
The key story plot elements doesn't support that. If Strelok ending is canon, then why are we playing as Skif and why the Zone invited him by destroying his home? See, this part of story can be perfectly explained because Zone called for Skif's help. And when you think about it, Zone never wanted to be destroyed or tamed by Strelok.
Since the first day he took the Heart of Chernobyl, Zone tried to kill him so many times with emmisions. Do you remember why all these emmisions in Clear Sky story took place? Every time Zone was reacting to Strelok moving to north to contact with Noosphere.
Once Scar disabled his artefact psy protection during final chapter of Clear Sky, she then immediately started the strongest emmision in history to stop him for good.
It all make sense now. Zone always wanted to kill Strelok because he wanted to first destroy her and then to tame her. So she called for Skif's help to stop Strelok and let her free.
And he did just that.
It was C-consciousness making those emissions in clear sky,no?
Because endings are poorly written, main story has a lot of plot holes.
The Zone did NOT call for his help, it was SIRCAA experimenting and one particular experiment happened to destroy a person's home who in going to a friend, happened to be connected to SIRCAA and brought him into the chaos. It was orchestrated, you learn this when you're at SIRCAA and find out that Heirman set you up from the beginning.
The Zone wanted Streylok to cease because the lure of the Wishgranter was losing its appeal and it's secrets were becoming widely known. The C-Conscientious was a machine and Streylok was the hammer threatening to the break the cogs. In the end, the fact it made a big goof, they succeeded in brainwashing Streylok and sent him back out into the world. Were it not for that PDA entry, I do wonder what would have happened.
Everything you said proves that Strelok's ending is canon because Skif's work is not done yet so DLC will follow this ending.
The Devs themselves said Strelok was originally supposed to be the Player Character in Stalker2, and the ending is the only one that leaves Skiff with free will and capable to, you know, have a DLC. Unless the DLC is some new character or Deggy, I can't see any other ending possible.
Skif's ending is basically him starting the 3rd Impact, lol
i appreciate the Evangelion reference.
Hell no
Scars ending is third impact
The world ends and everyone dead or alive goes off to lah lah land
Skiffs ending is more like chaos ending, the zone is allowed to expand to the whole world and everyone starts running into artifacts and anomalies.
Get into Zone, Skif.
The moral is that there is no Best/Good/Bad/Worst - it all depends on your perspective.
Some will say that the Zone is bad and needs to be contained (Strelok/Korshunov), although majority of the issues with it come from the various experiments.
Others can argue that the Zone itself is not a bad thing and instead can bring peace to the world or at least create spots all over it for people to choose for themselves who they want to be (Skif).
And I bet there are people that would rather prefer Scar's matrix to a miserable reality, because life is pointless anyways, so shy suffer through it?
To me, Skif - best, Strelok - good, Korshunov - bad, Scar - worst.
How is Skif's ending the best ? Anomalies everywhere in the world is a good thing ?
Wtf
@almightybogza you haven't played or seen much of the game, have you? Check out Dr. Kaymanov scenes. The zone isn't necessarily hostile. Anomalies is an immune reaction because it was always abused, born in numerous experiments and exploitations.
Also, other endings are far worse - all of them are about controlling/abusing the zone.
@@rosgoncharuk2403 how is Faust not controlling/abusing and playing you in Skif ending?
@@ssponk he is just a narrator. To me he is dead physically, but a part of him survived in subtle mater. Or it is a projection that the zone uses. After all, Faust was abused same as "she".
@@rosgoncharuk2403disagree. Have you seen the kinds of mutants that roam that place? None of them are ‘peaceful’
In fact, this game has found the Stalker's balance in terms of the ending. There is no really bad ending and no really good ending. Of course, the same can be said about the Shadows of Chernobyl, but given the events of the Call of Pripyat, the ending with the destruction of O-Consciousness led to nothing except the discovery of the Zaton and the Surroundings of Jupiter. This is exactly the ending a Stalker should have, without a happy ending, but also with hope for a bright future. In my opinion the best ending of them is Skif ending and the good one is Ward ending. But they are also not ideal.
"These violent delights have violent ends" Arnold, Wild West World.
Heh, it is similar yet opposite to WW. "They are not looking for a story to tell them who they are. They already know who they are. They're here because they want a glimpse of whom they could be." Stalker is a complete opposite, because coming into a Zone is a life choice and another was supposed to be a harmless amusement park, at least for clients.
Some could saw WW s1 also has a bad ending, but that's mostly based on a tribal human instincts and fears.
@@rosgoncharuk2403 I know but both stories couldn't have the ideal end.
There is clearly a bad ending. Skif's ending will cause immense suffering. Its the worst possible outcome.
Scars ending afaik only affects people in the Zone and it makes everyone zombies. It robs them of free will and reality. Its SHIT.
Strelok just cuts off the Zone. Neutral ending. Status quo maintained with the caveat that stalkers will die off eventually.
Ward ending = best ending.
The Zone is gone. Skiff got his house. Mankind now has OP shit like teleportation.
@@almightybogza The suffering can cost the great opportunities what the Zone can give. Skif ending is just expending of anomalyous Zone, not redioactive. So, the only suffering will be that some zones will become anomalies and people in them will die. But it isn't apocalypse. People will survive and adapt.
And why did you solve that Skar ending affects only people in the Zone. It wasn't shown. Maybe he imprised people in all the world to his "heaven" and if it is, this ending is worst. But if it isn't, Strelok ending is worst, because people in the Zone don't have almost not chance to survive.
The Ward ending is good one because it destroys the threat of the Zone and don't end by the apocalypse, but it deprive the humanity of freedom.
@@ВладимирК-ч9шin Skifs ending, Skif let the zone make its own decisions. ie lots of emissions, lots of anomalies, and lots of deaths. The rest of the world isn't ready to handle the zone. Don't forget that they all move every emission as well, which crippled the militaries operation in Shadow of Chernobyl. Humanity will survive yes, but itd take such a long and unbelievable amount of time restore the progress lost.
there are really no good or bad endings at all, thats what stalker about. you see the zone exactly how you wish to see it
Exactly! That's what Faust tells us through the story.
Scar's ending where everyone became zombified? Skif's when the whole world turned into an exclusion zone and millions died from monsters and anomalies? Ward's ending, where an evil corporation took control of the entire world using the energy of the noosphere? Of course not! And Strelok, who made the Zone the same as after the second disaster and closed it.
@@evileyes274 you point only bad things about skif/ward/scar endings and only good about strelok... Not right at all
@CRXHVRD This ending isn't as drastic as the others, even though Strelok is an asshole. And you apparently like it when people are brainwashed or killed... Misanthrope.
@@evileyes274 the life in the zone will be indeed destroyed with strelok's ending. no enter, no exit, no supply delivery from ouside. strelok made his own dictatorship, which is way worse than you think
1. Korushunov and (The Watch) - This is quite a logical ending from the perspective of achieving the original goals of the protagonist Skif. The idea itself ("Happiness for everyone, and for free") was present in the works of the Strugatsky brothers, and we even hear this phrase at the conclusion of The Watch's ending. However, in my opinion, this ending in the book is neither positive nor a "happy ending." Nevertheless, following the path of the main character, Redrick Schuhart, it is entirely logical.
2. Scar and (The Spark) - (The Spark, in this case, is irrelevant since only the name remains from its original participants and ideas.) I believe this ending is phenomenally poetic and captivating, and the character Scar is deeply developed and charismatic. He had his own beliefs and desires, which share some commonalities with The Watch’s ending. However, as The Marksman said, Scar is like a dog accustomed to taking orders. This time, using his unstable mental state, the orders were given by the Bridge. Since he was exposed to several emissions, his actions and, so to speak, "madness" are entirely justified. Reflecting on his past, he was a mercenary-a person without ideology (in my opinion, chasing money is not an idea). Throughout his story, he continually searched for purpose, which the Bridge exploited.
3. Strelok - Many might claim he is the main protagonist of all parts of S.T.A.L.K.E.R., but I must disagree because, in all these stories, the Zone remains the true main character. It is true that he is the only one who reached the center of the Zone three times and knows perhaps the most about it. However, he turned out to be greedy, ungrateful, and cruel-or so it seems at first glance. In the episode where he sends Skif to kill the Doctor, we clearly see that this decision, as well as the path he chose, weighs heavily on him. It's as though he has lost himself a few times already, so he stopped struggling with positive or risky choices and decided to act decisively and without risk-to seal the Zone off from everyone. This is a dead-end ending, and it’s a pity that his journey ultimately reached its conclusion.
4. Skif - The Doctor, aka Faust (his name is a reference to Goethe’s play of the same name), is a very intriguing character who answers almost all of our questions but doesn't persuade us to make any specific choices. This compels freedom-loving people to choose this particular ending. To me, this ending feels the most original (something tells me that a third part of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. might never come, so debates about which ending is "canon" are pointless). In most books within the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe, the idea that the Zone is as we perceive it-as a reflection of human thoughts-remains the most "authentic." Therefore, I disagree with the theory that the world has undergone a global apocalypse. This ending symbolizes that Skif allowed the Zone to pass through him without adhering to the plans or motives of others regarding the Zone (this is evident in the method of choosing the ending-by refusing the options offered by The Watch, then The Spark, and finally The Marksman). Instead, he walks his own path and makes his own conclusions. Faust, as the author correctly points out, is the most intriguing character. From our first meeting with him, he undergoes significant changes, abandoning blind faith in the Monolith (the Light Zone). At the start of the game, he appears genuinely villainous-a person who doesn’t consider consequences and seeks to rid himself and his comrades of freedom. However, over time, he grants freedom not only to himself but to the entire world and becomes one of the most extraordinary protagonists.
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Skif came to the Zone for one purpose. Home.
But after some event, he start questing... What is "Home"?
Is the Zone home? Or the Mainland was the home he want?
In his ending, he found himself an answer. The Zone embraced despite he's outsider, makes Skif feels he is in the home.
He embraced the Zone's gift also. That's why he want to share the Zone together with all the people in this world.
Skif ending sounds like the Sequel potential ending. You can set Stalker games anywhere in the world now.
The Korshunov ending is the only ending were Skif gets a home and lives a life of Luxury. But the whole Zone including Skif are now under 24/7 surveillance. Now living in a Dystopian society.
The other 2 I can't see as canon.
also potentially ward fucking up and creating multiple zones
Eh not exactly. There will be no mutants since those weren't created by the zone
The Colonel's ending is just him being brainwashed and either awaiting Agatha's next directive or being thrust into the New Monolithian lines.
So Strelok's ending is basically the first Shadows of Chernobyl's C-Consciousness ending where he joined them, except now he's just one, not a member of a group
Not real. C-consciosuness wanted to control Noosphere and have inflence all over the world.
While Strelok simply wants to contain zone once and for all. To preserve it as it is
Never in my 14 years playing Stalker, have I been like "I wouldn't mind getting the worst possible ending". In dozens of playthrough I've never sided with any "Evil" faction, such as the bandits in CoP, but now, siding with the Ward, seems like something I'd do. I just finished my first playthrough loyal to the legend of the zone, and I just started a new playthrough, I'm siding with the Ward
Exactly what I did, my first playthrough I was loyal to straylock and now on my second playthrough I'm trying the ward route.
Skif ending is closest to the book. The thing is about the spreading of the zone across the planet or multiple zones is that in Roadside Picnic, the book is based off of, there six zones.
Of course, we saw many markers in multiple locations in the ending, but this is the closest it comes to the book lore. Now, in the book theres a different reason for their existence (likely), but it just makes sense that this is the cannon ending. Like, even if he did merge with the C-Conciousness, it's possible even still that somehow he could return. The zone holds many mysteries, and we can not begin to fathom the C-Conciousness.
I like how Scar and Ward endings are so very similar, despite both being so at odds with each other - both trick people into illusions of happiness.
Actually no. In Ward ending it only implies that they can watch through Skif eyes via technology mentioned in the game, but that's it. Everything else is real.
@@alphageekua That would imply that he was a STALKER agent previously brainwashed by c-consciousness. He did not die in the same trap with Dark, so he is obviously not.
@@mindaugasbarkauskas9894 everyone in the game calls skiff stalker
@@alvareichon Almost everyone in the game call each other that. Stalker the Zone scavenger =/= Stalker the brainwashed agent
@@mindaugasbarkauskas9894 He might have gotten brainwashed into a STALKER agent while he was knocked out, dude woke up lying on the floor. Or the screens are just people under the influence of Korshunov.
All the endings are crazy...
Skif ending is the most weird, why would Skiff want to do any of that? Doctor is Faust? Is it all fake?
Faust is a controller, was Doctor always faust? We are being controlled?
I think we are being "controled", persuaded, at least, it doesn't align with "skiff". It'd be Skiff's if he just got his home back rebuilt lol
Strelok... he is THE legend of the zone, he was right about everything he said, but Richter was also right, he was hiding something, the fact that he would KILL anyone that would try to leave or enter the zone. Ultimately, controlling the zone, by not controlling it. It's weird...
Scar ending, what was that? I think there is real value if the people there were "real", and they were all connected. Where is Strider and Faust, if we can see them after they die too?
Ward, what did they do? Implant the stalker program on everyone?
We were never affected by the tvs, we were NOT on the program, were we converted in our blackout? The ending is not bad per se, but when you add that they can potentially sneak a code into your brain that will make you have a single objective... and they did it with everyone in the zone, probably?
If the person in that fucking tank gets so much power, why the scientists failed? Why did they just not control everyone? Make what Strelok did? Wasn't one person not enough to enter the Noosphere?
Maybe the true ending is in the future? on a DLC? All the endings are too shady. Like we're being misled every step of the way, there isn't ANY agency at all.
At least i know that, on strelok's ending, we helped Richter achieve what he wanted the most. That was worth everything. He should've had an ending. One where we just didn't do anything radical, we conquer the zone, become legends and... come back. New legends of the zone.
Skif ending is a tribute to the novel: Zones all over the world as was the novel's original premise, and "HAPPINESS FOR EVERYBODY, FREE OF CHARGE, AND MAY NO ONE BE LEFT BEHIND!"
wait wait, you got the point there
i knew it
DLC gon go crazy
Yeah, there is a novel or supplement material focus on new Zone in Afganistan
@@huntermad5668 there is New Zone series of books about Zone in Moscow.
Funniest thing is, "Let No One Go Unsatisfied" is the name for final quest of Strelok's ending.
It seems like there's no "good" or "bad" ending. I decided to do the Ward's storyline, and that seemed to get Skif back home in the end - although now the military controls the Zone.
I love how this game doesn't really tell you what is the good or bad ending its just all up to how you see it, its genuinely really cool that the devs didn't force the easy route of making obvious good/bad endings
Scar's is pretty sad but I wouldn't expect much more from a guy who's brain was so fried that he is now a lunatic in control of the Noosphere.
Only problem with Strelok ending is that people cant leave, makes no sense. Let them leave dammit!
They would take things from the zone
@@CyrodiilCome Most important being Knowledge , which would make others seek it as well.
Knowing Strelok can sense everything now, at least in the Zone, and contact everyone telepathicly, and he's not an insane person, people could've negotiated with him about leaving the Zone
Containment can only go on for so long until someone finds a way to break in or out.
dlc will probably be something like streloks is some sort of wish granter now so you gotta get to him and ask him if you can leave, as for the survival of the people in the zone there is unlimited food, women and men, water, and if something needs purification the artifacts can take care of that probably,
None of these endings are nearly as hopeful for the future as the open ended endings of the original stalker games.
So play those
Meanwhile Clear Skys ending and majority of Shadow of Chernobyls endings
@@KrugerTheFox SoC had false endings with only one being canon and was not a negative outcome
Streloks ending clearly give us some clues about what migh come next. Skif can't get away from the zone back to his home, people from outside 100% would try to figure out what the hell happened with the zone. Nothing rlly changed that much, except now it's just harder to get in and out of the Zone.
@@sweeney_bot1104 Harder or straight impossible since he will just cause emissions constantly and will wipe anyone out thats trying to get in/out with the Monolith or mutants. Also good luck getting supplies like food and water into the Zone.
I love how a concept of happiness is being mentioned many times in a game and I am sure it is a reference to original Stalker story by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, when the protagonist Red says at the end (facing wish granter): 'Happiness for all, for free. And let no one go away hurt'.
21:16 LOOK AT SCAR`S SAD FACE! He realised how wrong he was.......
but what he actualy did? Removed the Zone? or just turn people minds in the zone into happy mode by big psi emission and some turn into zombies? Its looks weird like another catastropy
The ending I picked was with Korshunov he actually has very legitimate reasons for being the one to go in the pod. You hear why through the dialogue. But at least with this ending we know Skif got out of the zone and is going to have his nice new home. The scary part is every one of those tvs are broadcasting from one of us beating the game😂
The thing is it is very much likely that under Ward's control the Zone is controlling everyone, including Skif and the dream of him getting home and a perspective job in the military is an illusion.
After years of wait, getting a long campaign for stalker 2 plus 2 dlcs is all I wanted. I trust GSC with the expansions, main story so far was good
(secret ending) - you should jump through portals and then get to real ending, to Sidorovich, which one control the zone
There’s a media offline flicker at 28:16 in the ward ending
subtle foreshadowing
If not for you i wouldn't have known what that was
Ward is the only end that make sense.
it is a bug from editing software davinci resolve
There is no best ending in that game imo, there are better or worse.
1.Ward Ending - You can say it's good ending, but just for Skif(I guess becuase of what we saw in the end). Ward did a typical goverment and military thing, Control. They took full control of the Zone and for sure gonna use it for the military improvement and to try taking control of the world later on, the classic. They let Skif go becuase he was too dangerous to go against him, but they can oberve him now.
2.Strelok Ending - It's kind of neutral ending and probably true ending considering who he is, when Strelok want Zone to be as it is, but did big restrictions where u can't leave or enter the zone or u will be instantly killed. I don't really get what is his main purpose and motivation, he seems crazy guy too and looks like thinking that Zone is his love/mother. I need to play first stalkers to get more informations about his character. Also that last walk of Skif was confusing too.
3.Scar Ending - Nothing to say lol, fake world ending, the guy was so chill that he created the matrix for Skif and others(?). Really boring tbh.
4.Skif Ending - Worst ending of them all for sure, easy to say it's bad ending, he turned whole globe into the Zone and wtf for what? Well it was planned and manipulated by the Faust as well because that scene when Doctor turned to Faust was crazy plot twist.
Somehow myself i got the Strelok ending accidentaly lmao. I was always against the ward, only give the PDA to the Dalin & Korshunow first because i felt like it will be alright so i got the ward badge too which was nice, it turned out to be easier to move around those bases, but after the story quest in the labs i was with fully with Stalkers. I killed the doctor at the end too because he was really sus and felt crazy(when i never killed anyone with that choice tbh) and ofc rejected this crazy ass Faust. After that one ending it turned out that this doctor was ilusion too and that was still living Faust so i did good decision.
Sad there is no ending that ends it all, like the ending when u can destroy the Zone and leave/die. That would've been the best ending of them all.
Ngl the game story only getting better later on, but i heard in other stalkers it was the same. At start it's kinda boring, later after you first time meet Dalin and Korshunov it's getting interesting and later even more ofc. Sadly the game has a lot of technical problems and they need a lot of time to fix it. That game has tons of potential to be really good if they gonna fix it all and modders will make it even better.
scar just seems like the wishmaker but larger
I think they did Strelok dirty. From what I know, he first was brainwashed (partialy to Scar's fault), then fought Monilith to reach Wish Granter and finally help player in the third game, so he becoming one of the villains seems odd
I wonder what they're going to add for DLCs and if any of them are Story related or just stupid cosmetics ala modern gaming. Since there were several zones hidden by fog that are currently inaccessible.
Fix 😂
Wait 5+ years
Strelok had an episode of brainwashing after which his personality may have been lost. this person function that he can perform, because of the brainwashing, or thanks to
@@ltraltier6009 I hope the DLC will continue the story or something to explain it more, there is a rumor that DLC will depend on one of those 2 endings right?
If they go with Skif, there can be some DLCs with new locations, but that would be hard to pull since Zone was always tied to CNPP and areas around it are iconic.
The other option for Skif's ending is that future (most likely a single) DLC could be still played in the old Zone and the idea would be to severe its links to the new locations around the world.
Strelok's ending is ok, but its somewhat repeated, kinda Monolith 2.0. It helps the Zone to exist and not harm the world around it but that's it, meh for me.
Scar and Kornushov are somewhat same in the same they change the Zone.
Scar replaces it with a dream and it seems like stalker's in the ending shot are dying brainwashed, so I don't see how that would be fixed by future DLC.
Kornushov actually harness the Zone, so it is not a threat anymore. I could very well see them picking this one, and story could revolve around that woman who got mad and wanted to dominate the world with the power she gained from the Zone and Skif fixing what he helped to unleash upon the world.
For me its Kornushov -> Skif -> Strelok -> Scar but I can see either of the first three to be continued upon on.
Normally im not a fan of authority types...but ill give it to the Col.....That's a stand up dude right there. He let me choke the dude out for a bit, gave me a 2nd chance, then he took one for the team at the end. Stand up dude, i must say
Agatha was super shady, but the Colonel was a very respectable man
Honestly the english voice acting really feels like it doesn't have the same vibe as Stalker. The Strelok Ending, the Ukrainiane VA has extra effects added onto his radio broadcast from the Noosphere that makes it feel so much more eerie
Yes, I wish there was a Russian Voiceovers also, but its fine. I did a playthrough in Ukranian and then swapped to English for my second one.. Eurghh.. It somewhat disgusted me
Skif ending - repeated story into a loop.
Strelok ending - the transformed into a prison.
Scar ending - shining zone was zombification.
Korshunov ending - going home but it’s never a happy ending.
I think it pretty much is a (sort of) happy ending :D
You get what you wanted. Possibility is that Ward would've gotten what it wanted sooner or later, you just sped things up and got yourself a lasting job offer in turn, if you want it.
@@Unknown-ek1ox you are completely delusional if you think that's how the ending plays out. It literally tells you it's all fake.
The sad part was his apartment ever fixed from the destruction. You never know because they don’t show that part. He just got his apartment keys is all the show.
The Ward ending is honestly the best in my personal view. It rewards the character for his initial motivations or goal (new guaranteed upgraded house), plus giving him a career chance and not have to rely on the odd job, plus it dissolves the dangers of the zone. A sort of happy end, with maybe some underlying twists of a finished X project. The Strelok ending I can still get behind as it tries to limit the zone and solidify its boundaries, at the disadvantage that actual moving back and forth seems even harder or near impossible. But it's the least-worst ending to me. The zone being everywhere is... yeah no thanks. And the Scar/Shining zone ending is just BS, an illusion.
I honestly wonder what ending they will pick as canon in the DLC. While I like the Ward ending I chose myself the most, I sadly don't think it'll be canon: While it would allow Skif to return to the zone if he picks the Colonel job, the zone would be kinda gone at that point I reckon? Unless they will retcon it going away or whatever.
Guess we'll see.
But ur just another victim of the stalker program?
all four endings are kind of a dead end as far as the future of the series goes.
the only ones that even remotely work are the strelok and skif ones. but they have problems
strelok - the zone stays the same, but now people and goods can't pass through, everyone in it will eventually die.
skif - the whole world has been turned anomalous. which basically removes the whole point of a setting in stalker.
I suppose after all the time that it took to get here, An ending to the series is still probably okay. there probably wont be a stalker 3. it was a miracle we got this. Im honestly okay with that.
I just hope we will see some sandbox mods eventually, Im sick and tired of the Xray engine, it was one of the main reasons I was excited for stalker 2.
The thing with Streloks ending is that it isn't actually confirmed if anyone will instantly die.. it'll just be harder for people to get in and out now due to the new monolith guards, isn't impossible though.
Scar is worst ending.
You just have nightmares in the real world. And I think karsunov is a good ending. And Skif is's a best ending.
Strelock It's a bad ending.
Skif Ending: Freedom Ending
Strelok Ending: Military Ending
Colonel Ending: Duty Ending
Scar Ending: I still don’t know what faction this would fit with it
Zombie ending
Clear Sky Ending
Worth the wait..... Game story is insanely good.
God I was always wondering about how first games cut scenes were random and have no meaning and that artifact was just cut from the game
@@kaestruukaestru9798 случайными? Не имели значения? Ты или не проходил сталкер, или совсем не понял сюжет первых частей
@@МаксимМягков-ч7н huh?
Lol no it isn't 😂
All endings are bad because in every ending someone gets control of something that nobody should have control of.
well I got the Ward ending. my whole goal was to control/remove the zone and after a lifetime of fighting have a place to call home. a place to rest my gun. Im content with my play througuh.
Same. Part of me wishes they pick it as canon ending as you could technically return to the zone as colonel, but it's very unlikely as most of what defines the zone would be gone or would have to be retconned to stay. So I think the Strelok ending is more likely to end up canon.
But weren’t you being controlled by that angry lady the whole time if you side with the ward it implies you were adopted by the stalker program
@@Unknown-ek1oxI think it’s skifs bc the zone wanted you to share its gifts with the world and trust me I liked the ward up to that lady she was my issue with them but skifs ending no one is dictating the future besides nature itself or the zone if yiy want but yeah that’s what makes since to me
Well you might not , it is implied Skif might take Korshunov's place as "Colonel" as Mommy Agatha offered him
It's really optional at that point. It appears to be a genuine offer if he changes his mind, but not a forced requirement. She would not have said "Anything this Stalker wants, he gets" otherwise.
If I was Skif and after having consciously picked the Ward and gone through with it, I might've personally taken the offer. The new home is a bonus on top but it doesn't mean the Ward or regulatory board is gonna pay your bills forever, so you might as well go for a safe ever-lasting job paying your bills and doing what you already are good at.
I went with Strelok ending and it seems would be the best choice. Skif didn't end miserably, no one else suffer or die or become zombie. Just the Zone now completely isolated.
Scar's ending is definitely the most depressing one, he's not right in the head from the beginning already.
The other 2 ended up Skif loosing his life and freedom, which ehhhh.... it's game over.
If there will be one canon, at least for Skif's adventure to continue, it will be Strelok's ending.
Man, I just want to be able to save Strider.
imagine stalker 3 with the whole world as your playground. and you can get the guides to move you from one country to the next but with in each area you have to walk. now that would be awesome and then they don't need to make the map so big because we get more maps.
I got the first ending, I gave the zone a chance to make its own choice
What I noticed in the Colonel's ending, is that near the CNPP, the original generators are completely destroyed, with the ones ingame eing new
Everyone want to control the zone
she just wants to be free :(
Strelok: "I want.... To be rich" (Shadow of Chernobyl bad ending 1)
I got the Scar ending. AAfter fiishing the game and loading my last save I could walk the last room before the cutscene freely and I could put the artifact that Strelok dropped when I killed him into the machine in the middle of the room. What iis up with that??
I think Korshunov's ending is the best overall and the most reasonable, Skif gets what he wants and gets to go home and lives his life nicely and peacefully, while the zone begins to disappear and everything in the world returns to normal. To me, it seems like the most humane and reasonable outcome, even if it's not great for the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. story and won't lead to any DLCs or sequels, it is the 'happiest' of the endings with the best overall outcome because everyone wins, Skif wins and the world wins.
As much as i want to like Skif's ending and Strelok's, for one - with Skif's ending it implies that Skif sacrifices himself to have control over the zone, meaning this couldn't really lead to another continuation of the story from Skif's perspective, yet the zone expands across the world AND the Doctor turns out to be Faust in disguise which can only be a bad thing.
As for Strelok's ending, although the zone is protected by him and the Monolithians become 'good guys' towards Skif under Strelok, until the zone eventually disappears, nobody is allowed to leave it which means Skif and other people are trapped and doomed to forever be locked in the zone akin to a prison. The zone becomes a dictator's regime and Strelok may very well become the bad guy in a DLC if Skif decides that he's tired of the zone and wants to leave it and go back home.
I dont even have to mention Scar's ending as being the worst, Scar is just a deluded maniac who wants everyone in the zone to be happy mindless fools living inside their own happy delusions, making everyone in the zone be not much different than zombies or Monolithians.
Except it's all clearly a brainwashing sequence. That's why it fades out to the TV. Skif has been Monolith'd
Korshunov's ending = give a megacorp full control of a world change technology to bring a 1984 like scenario how this can be good?
@@6XxRafaxX9 Every ending comes with some kind of downside, the the zone disappearing and no longer harming anyone or threatening to expand is a good thing in my eyes. Of course the downside is that you put a lot of power into the hands of some people but it doesn't have to end bad.
It's also not a megacorp, it's the "Regulatory Board", tied to Ukraine (realistically seen), but by then I'd argue they are their own 'state within a state' I suppose. In the best case scenario they use that power to propel humanity forward. Not a bad thing.
Peaceful? It shows the STALKER program still running, with Skif being controlled by it. Even if he actually gets out of the Zone hes under Agathas control. It can also be an illusion by the program and Skif is more or less Monolithian and still in the zone...
uh check the ending again. Skif did not get what he wanted. The Stalker program is still active shown on the tv screen with his POV. Bro is probably a monolithian. He's been given a false reality.
Here is short vision on all endings with their rating of goodness.
1. Korshunov's (Ward). It is the best one for the goodness of humanity and the Zone in general. The zone is disappearing even tho SIRCAA gets their knowledge and control of anomalies and Skif gets his home new benefits back (what he is originally seeking). Considering that humanity already has weapons of mass destruction, getting a few more as controlled anomalies doesn't make it much worse. Having Skif under surveillance/control is an unpleasant fact, but most probably it is just for safety and secrecy reasons, not for abuse.
2. Strelok's. It is the second best as it holds the Zone where it was and makes it even more preserved (if y'all think that Zone will be fully locked in and out, forget about it, it is not). Although Skif's physical freedom might seem affected, he is safe, and most probably will find his way back to the mainland. This ending keeps everything real and just, rough, but fair. (I get this one, because siding with 'wish-to-control-and-get-everything' overentitled Ward, who was trying to kill me in SIRCAA, is a big naiveness and pure forgiveness).
3. Scar's. Although Scar indicates his delusion, angriness, and narrow vision of things, seemingly guided by revenge, his ending may be considered neutral or lesser evil of what may happen. The really grim outcome of delirious stalkers (basically every human being) inevitably dying after entering the vicinity of the 'Shining Zone' basically makes it a real exclusion zone. Where no one going to crawl around chasing their own unnecessary goals, scientific ambition, or whatever. Just because Scar sounded like a fanatic, always talking shady and blindly pushing his agenda, makes him the least likable sidekick. Although his egoistic passion still delivers a generally harmless ending.
4. Faust (mistakenly named by many 'Skif's' ending). Way worse ending than any. Many people fall into simping for Faust as his controlling abilities surprisingly pushing beyond the limits of the Zone and the game itself. The terrible outcome turned the whole world into a huge anomaly field and started chaos worldwide. Just so one unlucky loner, who survived experiments gaining controller abilities can set himself free for a nice walk wherever he wants. No general idea (unlike Scar's) was motivating sneaky Faust, but solely a desire for his freedom and a bit of revenge on everything in the Zone (although the ones to blame are a few scientists and Faust himself). Guy is restarted Monolith on people who are trying to start a new life (even tho some of them are struggling) just to turn them into brainless puppets, who still may understand what is going on. It turns the life of the Zone into a bloody battlefield again. Endangering Skif while he is trying to catch Faust, attempting to kill Stif multiple times, and deceiving him to death. And then finally killing (getting into the capsule is equal to death) by manipulating Skif mind and unleashing Zone's deadly power worldwide.
스키프가 집에 대한 갈망이 얼마나 컸는데! 대령 엔딩이 굿 엔딩이다. 스키프가 존에서 보낸 모든 시간은 오로지 그의 집과 집의 안전을 위해서였다.
최종임무 설명에서도 그의 집에 대한 갈망이 잘 드러남. 스키프는 원하는 것을 얻은거야.
Am i glad i got the strelok ending for my first completion, that scar one was depressing as hell. With Korshunov, Skif seems to be under the stalker mind control, and the Skif ending seems to pretty cool, and very intriguing.
Wait, I don't get it, how is Faust still alive??
His illusion bullshit. The Faust you killed probably was not the real one.
Doctor was Faust. Always.
In fact I suspect that the scene that shows Faust is not on the plane of life, but rather in something similar to subtle matter
My first playthrough was my first experience with stalker. I somehow ended up destroying the zone and helicoptering away, and i can just imagine Skif going "well, glad that's dealt with"
I chose to be with the ward because, let's face it, in Col. Chadsunov's own words: "You may have heard many things about us, but none of them called us swindlers."
Our goal, when we step foot in this shit hole, is to have a new house, and we got it, better ending by far if you asked me.
To further my point, please let me know how many corpses you saw during your journey in the zone? Countless, both fresh and bones, even mutants we killed were once human. Whenever you save someone in this game, the first thing they said that it is rare for someone to show up and help them. So many life lost, just because of the Zone.
So yeah, I will take my house, thank you very much.
Best ending is we never went to the zone and just stayed in the cell. nobody dies, nothing bad happens, and we don’t have to care about the zone
Hearing the English dub after playing the whole game with the Ukranian voices is like whiplash lmao
If you pay atention, the scar ending, when everyone is surrounding the fire, the have nearly the same dialog which they had in the campfire trailer.
I hope Skif's endings is cannon, and we get to see a world trying to Co-exist with a unshackled zone.
I remember reading somewhere that that was actually a plan for a sequel of Oblivion lost, it was supposed to take part in a world overtaken by the Zone. Sadly I don't remember where I read it or how true it is. But I hope it was true and maybe we will get to see it in the next game (if there will ever be one), honestly this type of endings affecting whole Earth are already a bit of a throwback to the old Oblivion lost era lore.
That would be mad boring though since there wouldn't be any mutants or radiation, just pure anarchy without the slav goodness we get in stalker
@@justinchau70 I mean it would be interesting in the sense that you could go back to the actual zone after some time maybe to what happened and stuff
@@justinchau70 Considering how multiple new zones have been formed, you can imagine how stronger their ability to alter reality has become. This could bring many new gameplay/lore oportunities. I somewhat agree that the lack of radiation and mutants definitely would impact the experience, but by no means it would straight up become boring.
I didnt like any of the endings tbh mainly because of there being no resolution for the noontide/monolithians. I really wanted an ending or resolution where we found the "wishgranter" and was given the option to hijack or turn it off ....perhaps even turn it off painfully for the wishgranter. I hated the monolith and what it did to the poor fellas it mindwiped and ,if given the option , wanted to deal it all the pain in the world before it died and if it was just a machine with no sentience then just destroy it for good by melting it into slag.
But...
We didnt get anything like that so im pissed.....hoping the DLC gives us some sort of closure for the monolith.
As for as Strelok's ending goes, i like it the best simply because it redirects the monolithians from cold blooded murderers to cold blooded prison guards which is slightly better but not great.
28:16 - Media Offline
That part is the most replayed bruh 😂
Skiff ending seems like the best choice to be canon. The Zone called him because it knew he had the spirit to fight through everything to accomplish what the Zone wanted: to finally be free. In my opinion, his ending seemingly had the most effort put into it.
Good: Skif - Zone spreads and is free (no need for change)
Neutral (Canon): Strelok - Zone stays as is but there is conflict (a need for change and skiff is still alive for DLC purposes)
Bad: Col. - Zone is dead (no conflict)
Worst: Scar - Everybody is dead (no people left to make change)
Agatha is still alive or whatever that agatha thing is. I think its a potential for DLC, to learn about agatha, maybe fight her, it could be canon, in every other ending, there are no new characters that can be explored. In ward ending, you have a clear villain.
I just beat the game with the Col. Korhsunov ending. I love the Ward. They all wanted the Zone to stay. The Zone is what destroyed my home. I get to go back home a hero with the world being a better place.
Wrong, you just gave the government total control and on top of that they now abolished your privacy, they can observe every single thing you do as well as every other individual. You essentially gave up your own privacy and freedom as well as the worlds so that you can have a home. A government puppet that sold out the world, tisk tisk
Skif's ending is the best. The Zone spilling into the rest of the world has the most potential for future games.
So I got the control ending. Is this the worst? Are your videos in order to the title?
Juat beated the game got Streloks ending, helped him cause knew him from first game. came to watch all other endings and got to say sorry i dindt chose army.. would have loved that new apartment.. :D
Have you seen full ending it's all fake XD
@@kaestruukaestru9798it is not fake. Its the only true ending it is just show that skiff is like agent or like being controlled brain washed maybe.
@@Cyprienne yeah exactly what I think happen is they used the stalker project but this time on everyone they can brainwashing them
Does game let you play after ending or it's like SoC where you can't go back after entering cnpp ?
@@SilverDashies no it doesnt let you, warning is coming bofore entring last missions line.
There isn't really a good ending at all, there are just less bad. The Doctor ending is less dystopian than the ward one, but it's still nightmarishly horrible for the entire world. Stalkers like saying that the Zone is beautiful but it's nothing like that. The worldwide Zone is when you can step out to get bread and die to an imperciveable anomaly before you get out of the front door with no one being able to help you or even knowing what happened to you. That's not even mentioning more physical dangers, like mutants.
Strelok's ending is better but only for those outside because everyone else is locked in the Zone like in a prison, only so that Strelok can protect his precious Zone, becoming no different from C-Consiousness he destroyed.
For me the best is Korshunov ending. Zone is no more. Earth is safe from an disaster
How is it safe? The same dudes who directed project X are again in charge of anomalous energy and have a monopoly on controling the noosphere for their own endings. Thinking that pepople like that holding that power means Earth is safe is pure dellusion.
pretty much duty ending
Good end but IT hot Matrix Vibe
There is no good ending. In the end only The Zone wins in 3 of the 4 endings. But Humanity loses in all of them. At least with Strelok's ending impact is minimized to the boundaries of the Original Zone. So in terms of The least harmful impact Strelok's encapsulation of the Zone is the best.
So, Freedom was right all along.
So scar is the best ending for the zone, and colonel is the best ending for scar, I personally think I will have to side with skif, while yes I would like to also be a colonel I think the zone is meant for everyone, and shouldn’t be tampered with by others.
just had an idea.
what if you put Everyone in those tubes? all four of them, used.
I was low-key upset col dyegtarev didn't get an ending since the other 2 main protags got a tube ending :(
they wont work properly since they are severely damaged and also because of them being already used before
there is no more tubes lol all of the rest are destroyed with roting skelletons
interesting how in the scar ending the text is mirrored in the illusion
I think Strelok's ending is the best and most logical for a sequel.
The monolith patrolling the border is not going to be top different to the military or ISPF, if anything - easier to bypass due to limited manpower and lack of Helis.
It's just pre-SOC Zone, things will be shaken up short term, but long term... it is just the same old zone.
Skif's ending I hope is not canon as I believe having multiple zones diminishes the awe and spectacle of Stalker, I don't want other zones, I want THIS zone.
Stalker just isn't Stalker without the Chornobyl zone.
So in total, Strelok's ending isn't as bad as it initially looks, it's just the monolith replaced the military as border patrol. Sultan, Beard, Sidorovich, Duty, Freedom, etc, they'll still find ways to get their contacts in & out.
Monolith simply don't have the logistics to keep it up forever - if Strelok starts brainwashing like c-con did, just paves the way for a new Stalker to do to him, what he did in SoC.
I think the giant electric blue wall stops people from coming in. I think the monolith in the zone is just meant to target those within the zone who are a threat to it
@CyrodiilCome
The weird border Anomaly is liable to have some holes in it somewhere, or ways through, just as the brain scorcher before it did.
@Dandroid_1 idk. Strelov isn't a pencil pusher. He's probably very aware of the previous gaps and knows how people would try and sneak in
@CyrodiilCome
The zone is always shifting, there's things even the most experienced stalkers will miss.
In a way, he will be forced to relent at some point, again back to the monolith no longer having any known means of replenishment.
It's also not known if the border Anomaly extends the entire perimeter, or is just local.
I find it likely Sultan and Beard have means of rowing people and supply into the zone through the waterways, degtayrev ensured the military can fly in via mapping out anomalies and every other faction will be vying to find other ways in - in fact sircaa and ecologists may even have the means to temporarily disable any anomalous obstacles, sensors have been able to do that in that yaniv mission.
"Skif's ending I hope is not canon as I believe having multiple zones diminishes the awe and spectacle of Stalker, I don't want other zones, I want THIS zone.
Stalker just isn't Stalker without the Chornobyl zone."
The story Stalker is based on has multiple zones throughout the world. The original story is strongly implied to take place in North America.
I know a lot of people
Think the skif ending is canon but idk it’s no longer the zone if it’s the entire world. No more stalkers, no more artifact trade, just pure survival. The world at that point becomes Metro. Perhaps some may argue that’s precisely why it’s canon as metro was a spiritual successor to stalker before stalker 2 went back into production. But idk it sort of loses the whole zone setting. Not that I’m against that, I’d think that would be cool and it’d be a true post apocalypse world. At that point there is no need for Stalkers so I’m not sure that it would be canon. I think Streloks ending makes more sense. The zone becomes even more exclusive and therefore more important. The thing about Streloks ending is he can TRY to contain the zone like many before him. But it will NEVER be truly contained. People will squeeze through the cracks. It just becomes more difficult and therefore Stalkers become the most important faction within the zone. But because the zone is contained there’s no need for people like the Ward. Or Sircaa. Or any factions that want power for the sake of it. At that point the zone is in the most pure form. The people who want to go into the zone from then on want to go because they want to be a part of it. Whether they’re tired of society, have nowhere else to go, seek adventure, wealth. All those in the zone are free to do that as long as they don’t try to control the zone.
I did the ward ending and I'm happy about that.. the other endings were bad for me...
i think it could be canon too. because Agatha is still unexplored. every other ending, it ends with old characters. Only warden ending has the new character agatha, maybe we wil have to fight her.
@@cruelworld1902 I'm sure that with all endings, a lot of explanation is missing. I hope they will have updates or even DLCs for it somehow to explore more in the story aspect of the game.
@@cruelworld1902uh no it's impossible as in ward ending the zone is just straight up gone
@@amak8935 it's very much possible
@Gizz101 it can be created again, if ward fucks up
Tbh, i think Korshunov ending is the best for the mankind and for the Skif. The advance in technology will be tremendous, how will they achieve that we dont need to know. But Strelok ending is 2nd best imo. World continue as before, zone is closed permanently.
Korshunov ending gang
zone reigned in and got a house vs destroying other places with building zones, or living in delusion of a shining zone, having the monolith kill all the stalkers
with the Korshunov ending they can finally go into the zone and clean up all the radioactive debris and corpses 💀
@@CrazyChuck I'd guess the radioactive stuff would still be there, unless the zone going poof as a side effect also removed any radiation, lol.
TIME TO PUT HOMES THERE
Korshunov/ward ending is not what it seems. Pay closer attention to the very end, this is the c-consciousness stalker brainwashing that’s still going on. Your memories are playing on one of the c-con agent screens. The only way for this to happen is if these are fake memories fed to you, making you an agent to c-con.
Korshunov is bad ending, the stalker program was never destroyed, it’s just the canon 100%
@@Unknown-ek1ox Time for the low-income housing :)
Execpt skif is being shown though TV screen meaning the STALKER program is active and now Ward can control all the agents for their own purposes
What is the word/phrase mean, that flashes on the bad ending? 28:14
"media offline", it is a bug from editing software davinci resolve