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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Scar have nothing to do with Freedom, he's an ex-merc programmed by monolith to protect it from intruders to the center of Zone (Strelok, Fang and Ghost) and in the end of Clear Sky he was reprogrammed again. In the end od Stalker 2 he's basically converting everyone to the monolithians, to the zombies, fulfilling his purpose (whatever it was)
I think Strelok Ending is basically Duty's ending because Duty wants to protect outer people from The Zone and keep The Zone stays as it is undisturbed
@@Chastity_Belt You got it wrong. Scar was after Strelok to stop the emissions from occurring, something he was told would eventually kill him. He was programmed after Clear Sky for the first time, not the second, since Strelok explains that the second time will kill you.
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!"
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.
Best - Strelok Good - Col Bad - Scar Worst - Skif For humanities sake here, strelok separates humanity from tampering and abusing the zone from inside and out. Col ends the zone and ideally life goes back to normal albeit some serious power possibly to control the planet so ehhh idk maybe not so great. Scar makes anything in the zone lala land but i think outside the zone is still normal? And skif lets the zone take over and completely destroy the plant ending humanity as we know it. So idk, overall id say strelok is the only good ending. I suppose as long as scar only affects things in the zone who really gives a shite. Col could end humanity with the tech which blows. And skif literally ends humanity. Soooo...
Strelok - true Vard - mb true Skif - bruh Scar - The ending that ends is stalker. I hope this will be the last game of the series and it ended with a golden cage with lsd
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
I see a lot of people talking nonsense about the game having a canonical ending or not and the series ALWAYS had a canonical ending, after all, how the hell do you think that Strelok is alive in the fourth game (2), when in the first he was the one who opened the way to the center of Zona, as well, was evacuated from Pripyat by Degtyarev at the end of Call of Pripyat? This ending should probably be true, since before GSC canceled STALKER 2 for the first time, it was going to be called "Apocalypse" and the plot was basically the Zone getting along around the planet.
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.
So, there is not a single ending in which skif does not get shafted, bar possibly the last shown, unless that is also only in his mind. And I would not classify living my life in a tube/ in a time loop as not getting shafted for the first ending, not being stuck in Chernobyl forever tho some may disagree on this one
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.
All endings we're vague. Seeing as the Strolok ending was in Stalker1, its all confusing. See as its all vague asf, that could only mean there might be a next Stalker game. haha
I wouldn't be so sure. No one can enter or leave the Zone. Strelok has taken the Zone for himself alone, the people inside cannot survive without supplies of food, weapons and ammunition from the outside world. For people outside, it is now an inaccessible and unexplorable fortress of anomalous energy. There is no possibility of continuation, because there will be no new characters, no development, total stagnation and death. Unless a new plot begins with the destruction of Strelok's force field.
It's a wonderful ending the zone is no longer controlled and true freedom has for the first time been given to it. It also opens up the most options for new games or dlcs
@IC3DZOMBIE I mean, I get it, but realistically nobody wants The Zone everywhere, that's why it's referred as the zone and not Chornobyl, anyways, we'll see what the future holds 😎
@@The7OmObut majority of Zone's horrors and dangers come either from experiments with mutants and '86 radiation. Other than anomalies, what's bad about having a Zone in each country? Let it be. A place people choose to go to, to decide for themselves.
i believed what happened is that the actually managed to tap into the noosphere thus deleting the zone and really gaining control over the whole world. Why else would they be able to see through Skif's eyes? technically the government found a way to control quite literally the whole planet and everything in it.
Because the evil supra-governmental organization gained access and full control over the most powerful of Kaymanov psi-emitters, which essentially zombify the main character and apparently everyone they want. They never wanted to create the Zone. C-consciousness created the zone because they opposed this organization. And now all representatives of C-consciousness are killed, the zone is destroyed, everyone who knew anything was killed or zombified and all the original inventions have been captured. They can take over the world with this technology and no one will even understand what happened, because they will just see "cartoons" like the main character. At least that's how I see it.
Well, thanks for explaining guys. I do think that this ending is still better. I still don't trust Strelok (if he'll continue to honor containing the Zone). Scar's ending is just insane Skiff's ending is bad too
These are good, but personally I liked it better when the zone was created by aliens and the anomalies are garbage, trash from a messy picnic, they could of done cool things with that. Like, what would happen if they had another picnic like us doing it again in the same park? Read "Roadside Picnic" bdw.
Roadside picnic, Stalker movie and STALKER the game are three separate universes in it of themselves. Picnic inspired the movie in which an undefined zone is a ground zero for something alien that is never realy uncovered. STALKER takes that premise and puts it into Chernobyl exclusion zone and alters the story to be about anomalous, psychic and manipulation. All of them have merits, I like the game's story the most as its arguably the most fleshed out of them all now.
Which ending do you think is the best?
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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
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.
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.
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.
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
Shout out to skif for starting the resonance cascade
Do you know who ate all the doughnuts?
@@rouxgreasus Probably Sidorovich
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.
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.
Skiff laying on the ground in the Scar ending is a reference for the good ending of Shadow of Chernobyl
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.
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.
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.
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
Skif Ending
World is now the zone
Strelok Ending
Zone is being protected
Scar Ending
Freedom Faction Ending
Colonel Korshunov
Duty Faction Ending
I think I'm going to take the colonel ending
Scar have nothing to do with Freedom, he's an ex-merc programmed by monolith to protect it from intruders to the center of Zone (Strelok, Fang and Ghost) and in the end of Clear Sky he was reprogrammed again. In the end od Stalker 2 he's basically converting everyone to the monolithians, to the zombies, fulfilling his purpose (whatever it was)
I think Strelok Ending is basically Duty's ending because Duty wants to protect outer people from The Zone and keep The Zone stays as it is undisturbed
@@Chastity_Belt You got it wrong. Scar was after Strelok to stop the emissions from occurring, something he was told would eventually kill him. He was programmed after Clear Sky for the first time, not the second, since Strelok explains that the second time will kill you.
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.
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.
Everyone want to control the zone
she just wants to be free :(
Strelok: "I want.... To be rich" (Shadow of Chernobyl bad ending 1)
None of these endings are nearly as hopeful for the future as the open ended endings of the original stalker games.
So play those
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?
Best - Strelok
Good - Col
Bad - Scar
Worst - Skif
For humanities sake here, strelok separates humanity from tampering and abusing the zone from inside and out. Col ends the zone and ideally life goes back to normal albeit some serious power possibly to control the planet so ehhh idk maybe not so great. Scar makes anything in the zone lala land but i think outside the zone is still normal? And skif lets the zone take over and completely destroy the plant ending humanity as we know it. So idk, overall id say strelok is the only good ending. I suppose as long as scar only affects things in the zone who really gives a shite. Col could end humanity with the tech which blows. And skif literally ends humanity. Soooo...
Strelok - true
Vard - mb true
Skif - bruh
Scar - The ending that ends is stalker. I hope this will be the last game of the series and it ended with a golden cage with lsd
I feel like all are good endings, I went for Stralok on first playthrough as he is a hommie, I hope this is the cannon ending
Stalker 3 will be a post apocalyptic game since the zone has spread
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
Not shocked getting the Scar ending, since he got Emission blast on his brain 3 times directly.
Skif just really wants to go home and laugh at funny cat videos on the internet.
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 ?
I see a lot of people talking nonsense about the game having a canonical ending or not and the series ALWAYS had a canonical ending, after all, how the hell do you think that Strelok is alive in the fourth game (2), when in the first he was the one who opened the way to the center of Zona, as well, was evacuated from Pripyat by Degtyarev at the end of Call of Pripyat?
This ending should probably be true, since before GSC canceled STALKER 2 for the first time, it was going to be called "Apocalypse" and the plot was basically the Zone getting along around the planet.
Strelok just kills himself in the most miserable way in his ending, too bad thing will eventually come back to where it started
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.
War Never Changes !
So, there is not a single ending in which skif does not get shafted, bar possibly the last shown, unless that is also only in his mind. And I would not classify living my life in a tube/ in a time loop as not getting shafted for the first ending, not being stuck in Chernobyl forever tho some may disagree on this one
The way i see it is that
Strelok ending - the best
Scar ending - the good one
Korshunov ending - the bad
Skif ending - the worst
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 :(
For me:
Skif Ending - Good
Strelok Ending - Best
Scar Ending - Worst
Colonel Ending - Bad
how do you consider skif ending as good? it's the worst one
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.
Ending 2 is canon for me
All endings we're vague. Seeing as the Strolok ending was in Stalker1, its all confusing. See as its all vague asf, that could only mean there might be a next Stalker game. haha
My ending was the best too bad colonel sacrificed himself but I got new home. I wish we could have choose to be with Agatha I was simping her.
strelok ending seems the best tbh, i dont think the ward spying on and controlling everyone is good lol
Yeesh absolute bad take... All for a Karen. Major L
Ward is the responsible ending, the other are selfish
Streloks Ending by far the best.
I wouldn't be so sure. No one can enter or leave the Zone. Strelok has taken the Zone for himself alone, the people inside cannot survive without supplies of food, weapons and ammunition from the outside world. For people outside, it is now an inaccessible and unexplorable fortress of anomalous energy. There is no possibility of continuation, because there will be no new characters, no development, total stagnation and death. Unless a new plot begins with the destruction of Strelok's force field.
the only futureproof endings are skif,strelok & Colonel, however you dont play as skif if thats the canon ending.
Wait, I don't get it, how is Faust still alive??
so who the hack is they guy from the trailers who talk about zone, black long hair?!?
It was strelok, that character was red herring so we wouldnt know strelok was in the game
Wait what, C conscious still working!?
There was an empty pod but they sorta are still "alive" in a different plane of existence
gaming frog is online
28:16 - Media Offline
I have no more main missions left and I haven’t got to any of these endings 😂
Is it me or are there a lot of parallels to evngelion here?
Getting in a liquid filled pod to connect human consciousness?
I got the Skif ending, but no way it's the good ending...
It's a wonderful ending the zone is no longer controlled and true freedom has for the first time been given to it. It also opens up the most options for new games or dlcs
@IC3DZOMBIE I mean, I get it, but realistically nobody wants The Zone everywhere, that's why it's referred as the zone and not Chornobyl, anyways, we'll see what the future holds 😎
@@The7OmObut majority of Zone's horrors and dangers come either from experiments with mutants and '86 radiation. Other than anomalies, what's bad about having a Zone in each country? Let it be. A place people choose to go to, to decide for themselves.
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
Guys what song plays at the end of the Skif??????/
Strelok is good and weird,Skif is a best
03:58 bro wtf is El Temach doing in Stalker 2 :0
anyone knows the song playing during skif's ending?
i think wait until they release the album i guess
it's on the OST called "_SET_MODE --EMBRACE"
Its Einar singing from the band Leprous.
Wait I dont understand, Doctor is Faust?
im just sad for scar
why
@@sl_viking old scar better than this,look he now like a crazy man,ik monolith brainwashed him but bruh
@@meirintheguard monolith brainwashed him yeah
@@meirintheguardI mean surviving that def would make anyone crazy that all make sense
Not only did the Scar undergo the brainwashing to become C-Con agent, he survived three emissions.
His brain is basically a lightbulb at this point.
Can someone explain the endings? And what happened to the three original protagonists in these endings.
What does it say?
Aside from Zone being gone why is Ward ending bad?
i believed what happened is that the actually managed to tap into the noosphere thus deleting the zone and really gaining control over the whole world. Why else would they be able to see through Skif's eyes? technically the government found a way to control quite literally the whole planet and everything in it.
They used the zone technology to control everyone
2 sides. Totally control of humanity or matrix.
Because the evil supra-governmental organization gained access and full control over the most powerful of Kaymanov psi-emitters, which essentially zombify the main character and apparently everyone they want. They never wanted to create the Zone. C-consciousness created the zone because they opposed this organization. And now all representatives of C-consciousness are killed, the zone is destroyed, everyone who knew anything was killed or zombified and all the original inventions have been captured. They can take over the world with this technology and no one will even understand what happened, because they will just see "cartoons" like the main character. At least that's how I see it.
Well, thanks for explaining guys. I do think that this ending is still better.
I still don't trust Strelok (if he'll continue to honor containing the Zone).
Scar's ending is just insane
Skiff's ending is bad too
Wonder what happens if you kill Doc. on the best ending.
so this all ending about Illution and nightmare..
I think strelok ending is the best
Is the cold korshunov is the good ending???
I think Skif ending is the worst ending because humanity is not ready to survive in the Zone. So Strelok and Ward are the good endings.
I don’t want to watch the video and get the endings for myself, can someone tell me the best ending to the worst ending in order please and thank you
Best - Col. Korshunov / Ward
Good or Neutral - Strelok
Neutral or Bad - Skiff
Objectively Worst - Scar
Every player is free to interpret which ending is better
@@Varok8870This man said the world getting destroyed because odfzone ending is better that just matrix for skif.
I think strelok ending is cannon
Can someone explain that bs in that endings?
No views after 3 minutes bro fell off
I'm sick of ukraine
is there a freeplay after any ending?
No
These are good, but personally I liked it better when the zone was created by aliens and the anomalies are garbage, trash from a messy picnic, they could of done cool things with that.
Like, what would happen if they had another picnic like us doing it again in the same park?
Read "Roadside Picnic" bdw.
Roadside picnic, Stalker movie and STALKER the game are three separate universes in it of themselves. Picnic inspired the movie in which an undefined zone is a ground zero for something alien that is never realy uncovered. STALKER takes that premise and puts it into Chernobyl exclusion zone and alters the story to be about anomalous, psychic and manipulation. All of them have merits, I like the game's story the most as its arguably the most fleshed out of them all now.
this game is so shit
The overall atmosphere + cutscenes are so badass 😤 it’s too bad much of the gameplay seems like mundane dogshit. I really want to get into the story
yeah played over 25 hours and watching youtube videos now because I cant stand the buggy gameplay anymore.