Friends!
23 of February is the importand holiday in Russia - Defender of the Fatherland Day.
In anticipation of which you will find a series of in-game events with awards for real men!
To take part, talk with Mark in Lubec.
In addition, from 12:00 (CET for EU and EST for US) on February 22 to the end of the day on February 24, the experience gained with killing Jellys, young and regular Boars, Brown and Red Bears, Verliokas, Outcasts and Polar and wild dogs will be increased x2 for all players.
Please note that the exact names of mobs, and not their types, are indicated!
Have a great weekend!

Closing of N-Town

N-Town says goodbye to the Stalkers until next year.

New Capture point
The road leading to the Airport has always been a strategic target for various groups within the Zone. Control over it is of great importance and allows you to speak on equal terms with influential figures in the Zone, for example, with the Retired Colonel. However, it is not enough to capture this point near Firestation and place your people there. It is necessary to clean the territory and find a common language with local hucksters and people from the airfield, thereby proving their strength and seriousness of intentions. And this will bear fruit by raising the status of a group capable of carrying out this kind of business.

A new capture point at “v. Krasnoe”, the capture of which begins at 19-30 Moscow time.

In addition, a number of quests have been added, available to the owners of the new fortification, as well as their allies. We plan to develop a quest system based on groupings and fortifications in future updates.

Game mechanics and Items.

• Now the flasks have a limited number of uses for boiling water, after which they become unusable.
  
• The number of possible boiling of the airborne flasks increased from 5 to 6
  
• Added “Soldier Flask”, which can be purchased from Gourmet, Jacob Samuilovich and Metrofan
  
• Now when created from tinctures, cleaned rather than strengthened injectors are obtained
  
• All players added a learned recipe for water purification flasks. This functionality will be improved in the future.
  
• Activated carbon is added to all medical containers scattered around the world.
  
• Added a new base available for purchase by the clans at the Airport.

NPC and Quests.

• 6B2 bulletproof vests were removed from quest rewards, including those from Packed Armor (replaced by NATO)
  
• The helmet SH-68 in rewards for some more or less complicated quests (for example, "To hell and back") was replaced by the NATO PASGT
  
• For quests "A pair of spiders for a snack" and "Twilight genius" you can now get a random recipe for charging injectors
  
• The competition to collect literary magazines at Rashid’s in the Lubeč Police Station is now slower and takes into account two different tasks - one and two literary magazines with different rollback times. These tasks can be taken on the walkie-talkie.
  
• The quest of Belyash on the Feet of a boar now has no limit on the number of accomplishments, but the reward is slightly reduced.
  
• The number of simultaneous patrols at Kolya Acid increased from 5 to 10.
  
• Fixed an issue with closing the gates of Dima Bugay after passing any patrol at Sour (those who encounter an error should pass any patrol)
  
• Significantly increased rewards for most quests related to the New Earth (this applies to experience and sometimes money and reputation).
  
• A number of issues with coordinates in quests descriptions have been fixed, as well as incorrect descriptions of job requirements (for example, the wrong type of artifacts in the English localization of Professor Shleimovich’s jobs). We also ask you to send information about such errors to technical support if you encounter them.
  
• Ordinary Fiends (rather than slow ones) now live in an abandoned warehouse near the Aegis camp
  
• In the quest "Dissonance: Assembling an Amplifier for Morse," now 1 soft metal plate is required, rather than 20 bimetal plates
  
• Changer, that at the airport, now changes squirrels for the same items as Johnny in N-town, until next big update.

Environment and locations

• Boar models updated
  
• Some houses updated interiors
  
• Some updates of environment near Gourmet's village

Interface

• The size of the dialog box has been increased
  
• Added camera zoom when pressing RMB without weapons

Sound

• Sounds of hitting into different parts of the body of other players (head, torso, arms / legs) are added
  
• Carl, at the Airport, now plays music for all Stalkers nearby. Come to the dance!
  
• Now, in some locations, you can turn the sound of radios on and off

Friends, please note that the events "Gingerbread Madness" and "Snowball Battle" will be held until the end of January 31 (CET for EU and EST for US).
After this, players will still have time, until the next update, to exchange the accumulated "Belochka's".
Have a nice game!

Friends!

We always care about the safety of your accounts and do everything in order to protect them.

Now, within 14 days, items purchased in the in-game store will be blocked for transfer to other players and selling the NPC.

You can still use the item on yourself (put on clothes, repair weapons, shoot cartridges), but you will not be able to transfer it to another player, sell it on the board or NPC during these 2 weeks.

In addition, items received during the exchange, in which the goods purchased in the in-game store participated, will also receive a two-week block on transfer and sale, regardless of how much time was left for the item involved in the exchange.

These items will be marked in yellow in the inventory, and the expiration date of the restriction will be written in its properties.

This change is intended to protect user accounts that may become victims of fraudulent actions by other players.

Friends!
We heartily wish you a Happy New Year!
Let all your dreams and desires come true, and close and loved ones will be nearby.
Whatever happens outside the window - in severe frosts, our bonfires continue to warm you and illuminate dark nights!

Happy New Year!

Friends! Those of you who were already in N-Town and spoke with Santa Claus could notice the presence of an arena on which to build "something."

Today we announce a competition of New Year's buildings!

Theme: "Snow Shelter".

So, for participation you need:

1. Create a building on a location specially designed for this, which you can get into by talking to Santa Claus
2. Create a topic in the appropriate forum
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1180380/discussions/3/
Or in a special album in the vk group
https://vk.com/album-56942860_269366805
Please note that topics will be moderated.
3. Attach screenshots of your building and description.

Work will be accepted until January 28, after which we will summarize.

Winners will get valuable prizes!

1st place - AK hundredth series, to choose from (AK74M / AK105 / AK103 / AK104), 3 magazines + 1 month premium + x 2.5 booster
2nd place - AK hundredth series, to choose from (AK74M / AK105 / AK103 / AK104), 3 magazines + 1 month premium
3rd place - AK hundredth series, to choose from (AK74M / AK105 / AK103 / AK104), 3 magazines

Also, here is what stalkers did earlier




Good luck!

Intelligence reports that not far from the N-Town Santa Claus left his presents and left the guard.
Zombie? Dogs? Hogs?
Of course no. This time, anomalies and the spirit of Christmas helped him.
You hear?
Bummm, bummmmm ...
No, these are not explosions in the porches.
This is a fierce, incredible, fifty meter ... gingerbread man!
What? Gingerbread Man?
Santa Claus has his own sense of humor.
Stomping kicks! Gushing all around with deadly marzipan and marshmallow, giant buttons! Full of glaze and hate, the cyclopean eyes of the monster will peer out among the fir trees and snow.
Grab the presents and run to the car, until he trampled you!
And it would seem, much worse? But Christmas magic causes joy and good, and you can’t get away from it. A player will sit in the body of the Christmas monster!
Here you are, or you, or there you are, in a vest. Each of you can be in the ginger elemental.
Christmas is coming. Tremble!

N-town opens its doors for stalkers!

• Talk to the barkers located in the village of Gurman, on the Radio Tower, near the Lyubech recreation center or in the village of Radius to go to N-town, where the mysterious Cat Jim is waiting for you!
  
• Take part in the new holiday event - “Gingerbread Madness”, and in a traditional snowball fight, talk with Santa Claus!
  
• Please note that events are held every two hours, alternating.

And of course, find many gifts scattered throughout N-town!
Over the N-town players may find "Belochka" candies, that you may exchange at Johnny in N-town police.

Game mechanics and Items.

• The mechanics of dealing damage have been redesigned: now each type of cartridge has a “Penetration” indicator, and body armor and armored helmets have “Penetration Protection”, which reflect the probability of penetration of one or another armor by one or another cartridge.
  
• Reworked damage zones for all creatures and players. Now every creature in the game has its own strengths and weaknesses.
  
• Clans can now enter into Alliances. To do this, open the “Relationships” tab in the grouping menu. At the moment, any clan can create only one alliance with one clan. When creating an alliance, clans receive common enemies that remain in the event of the dissolution of the alliance. During the capture, members of the alliance will have a common point of revival, and in peacetime they will be able to take a safe zone at the base of an ally. In addition, alliance members can take advantage of a common chat, and will also see each other from afar thanks to the tags. This functionality will certainly be developed in the future.
  
• 12x70 bullet, 12x76 bullet, .357 defensive, 5.56x45rem, 7.62x25 ek, 7.62x51 ek, 7.62x54R ek, 9x39 PAB-9, SP-5 and SP-6 now have an inhibitory effect.
  
• M1 and PASGT helmets, as well as M1952 and PASGT-V bulletproof vests will now be sold to you by Huckster, in the Lubech Outlands.
  
• Improved protection against cold short fur coat "Bekesha"
  
• Increased minimum height when a player falls when it falls
  
• The station became a PVP free zone

NPC and Quests.

• Now the guides take the fare on both sides at once and give the players a return ticket. Players who are at the time of the update are on Novaya Zemlya, Caravan and Tunguska can leave the location once for free.
  
• The guard now kills all loners 30 seconds before the capture.
  
• Artem, on Novaya Zemlya, is now also a storekeeper.
  
• Now the quest “Business Relations” is required to bring 4 TTs instead of 10 Nagans.
  
• Possible errors that occurred while completing the Mystical House on the Caravan quest were fixed.
  
• The coupons for Sergeant Kozhemyaka are now personal, in addition, there was an opportunity to go to prison with a very high karma rate, bringing immediately 200 coupons.
  
• Added a chain of quests for receiving TOZ at the Station
  
• Reddy at the Airport is now buying up artifacts, and in return will offer you various spare parts for electronics.
  
• Arsen, that on Gourmet, can exchange your TOZ for 6B2
  
  

Interface

• Now in the trading window with NPCs the accumulated number of trading points is displayed. In addition, trading points are displayed in the arrival-care window.
  
• The squares on the map changed their designations from Cyrillic to Latin. If you find a mistake in the quest description (where old coordinates are indicated) - please report!
  
• Updated MZA interface. Now the procedure for its use will be more understandable to beginner stalkers.
  
• Now the progress board is displayed on the competition board.

Environment

• Updates on Lubech suburbs, Airport and Station
  

Other changes

• Fixed animation of the explorer on the station
  
• Holster added when equipped with a pistol
  
• Environment objects added to the buildings of the Forest Station
  
• Grass can no longer be completely disabled
  
• Added death animations

Sounds

• Added sounds using MZA;
  
• At some locations added music from the radio.

Store

• Now the premium subscription increases the gain of trade points for completing tasks by 20% or 40% depending on the duration of the premium, and the owner also gets the opportunity to put 1 additional lot on the board.
  
• Boosters of trading points have been added to the store, which summarize with the premium, and can also be used without it.
  
• The activated premium account and booster are now displayed near the character’s health.
  
• Helmet covers SSH-68, 6B7, PASGT and M1 are available for purchase.

Friends.
Unfortunately, over the weekend, on the EU1 server, many players were faced with the fact that after restarting the server they have lost ingame values. This time we were not able to quickly respond and prevent this.
We heartily apologize to you for ruining your game on the weekend.

If you are affected by this problem, please contact our techsupport https://stayout.kayako.com/en-us/conversation/new and write what are you missing.
For those of you who have already managed to contact techsupport earlier, missing items will be returned today until 17:00 CET.

All other returns will be made within two days.

In addition, in order to mitigate the loss, starting from 17:00 CET today, all EU1 server players will be given a premium for 7 days in compensation.

We will also continue to work to improve server stability, so that this does not happen in the future.

Best regards,
Team Stay Out.

Stalkers!
We will make servers restart and maintenance every thursday in 9 CET
Apologies, that not said it earlier.

• Now players can skip the tutorial by pressing on the appropriate button;
  
  
• A box with things from the guide, at the beginning of the station, now appears immediately in the inventory, and not on the stone, next to the player;
  
• Added ability to edit the character’s face from the main menu;

Have a good game!