Player should be given a starting rifle or shotgun, pistol, knife, medkits, ammo, water, and food. Never start player with explosives. Jobs and loot usually give low payout. Player can loot for damaged equipment off other dead stalkers. Artifacts can only be found in anomaly fields and are quite rare and valuable.

[Common locations: "Rostok", "Cordon", "Great Swamp", "Garbage", "Yantar", "Dead City" "Pripyat", "Pripyat Outskirts." "CNPP"]

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