The Heartbreaking Fate of Zombified Stalkers

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  • "The loners call them lost souls. The scientists call them anomalies in human form. But the truth is crueler... they are proof that the Zone never lets go."
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    Dying light - Revival [My personal edit]
    #stalker #stalker2 #stalkersoc

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  • @ZoneSlug
    @ZoneSlug  วันที่ผ่านมา +50

    Let me know what you'd like me to cover next, really enjoyed looking into this and making it for you guys.
    Thanks for watching!

    • @knightenjoyer
      @knightenjoyer วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      Monolith 🙏 them boys don't get enough love ;-;

    • @dragonsgaming5921
      @dragonsgaming5921 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@knightenjoyer 3а монолит!

    • @Снайпер_Хренов
      @Снайпер_Хренов วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Location overviews. Explain what the area Was used for pre-incident and what it has become due to the zone

    • @TheFredJack
      @TheFredJack วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      Like Knight said, Monolith. Fuck me this video is SO good. Really hope you keep this up.

    • @stalker4474
      @stalker4474 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Subtitles of the stories the mercenaries of the trilogy say? Those guys always have been weirdos

  • @Снайпер_Хренов
    @Снайпер_Хренов วันที่ผ่านมา +104

    In CoP, they are covered in blistering pimples and swarmed by flies, implying that they are literally rotting alive. Imagine being forced to walk around by an unknown force while having open wounds and being unable to treat them

  • @ahmadsyauqikhairi344
    @ahmadsyauqikhairi344 วันที่ผ่านมา +108

    They said man doesn't cry, but this is just...

  • @Uniform_Loners
    @Uniform_Loners วันที่ผ่านมา +53

    I like that they showed what disarmed zombified stalkers act like.

  • @he2a
    @he2a วันที่ผ่านมา +96

    Since the zombie voices are not subtitled, I always thought it was gibberish. Bro now I can't even kill zombies.

    • @peterli9433
      @peterli9433 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      I do not speak any Russian but have been playing stalker for over several years. Now I know what they mean it certainly makes the game that much more immersive with the lore.

    • @Extreme96PL
      @Extreme96PL วันที่ผ่านมา +15

      Half Life 2 have zombies that at first glance speak gibberish, but if you play the voices backwards, they actually speak real words.

    • @patriktoth6258
      @patriktoth6258 วันที่ผ่านมา +20

      You should tho. In Stalker 2 most stalkers says they want a quick death instead of being zombified

    • @karparik07
      @karparik07 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

      @@peterli9433 Original voice acting and the best in Ukrainian

    • @Schrodingers_kid
      @Schrodingers_kid 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@karparik07 Original games are in russian though

  • @obie1984
    @obie1984 วันที่ผ่านมา +41

    i love how subtle but in depth the story and world is in stalker

  • @TRISSER39
    @TRISSER39 วันที่ผ่านมา +25

    quite literally the most realistic depiction of zombies in media

  • @daghan9749
    @daghan9749 วันที่ผ่านมา +43

    I used to headshot and pass them and i saw them as easy enemies, but now they are most hard enemies to kill for me. All words stucked in my throat.

    • @TheRama2299
      @TheRama2299 21 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +9

      Quite the opposite you're freeing the man from eternal suffering

  • @corhellion
    @corhellion วันที่ผ่านมา +17

    The echoy psy-radiation sound effect is perfect. You IMMEDIATELY know that you're someplace you're not supposed to be. Very fight or flight triggering.

  • @curry117brine6
    @curry117brine6 วันที่ผ่านมา +21

    Yeah I never gave the zombies much thought at first. It was my Clear Sky play through, yantar.
    Too many voice lines at the beginning but when the fighting was over I was the last standing. The last one was bleeding out and muttered something.
    As I shot it to finish it off, he called for his mom.... Got me good that did I had to pause for a bit

    • @FinUgShiet
      @FinUgShiet 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

      Yeah, that "mama...!"'s creepy allright

  • @hassansong7630
    @hassansong7630 วันที่ผ่านมา +44

    *Girls : Do guys have feelings ?*
    *Boys : watching this video 😢*

    • @karparik07
      @karparik07 วันที่ผ่านมา

      @@hassansong7630 дівчата теж плачуть

  • @THEGATESAREOPENED
    @THEGATESAREOPENED วันที่ผ่านมา +22

    3:15 This shows that most of people in the Zone are there to make money by getting artifacts because of family problems.

    • @dybek0062
      @dybek0062 วันที่ผ่านมา +4

      why else would you risk your life for money?

    • @THEGATESAREOPENED
      @THEGATESAREOPENED วันที่ผ่านมา

      @dybek0062 No idea, but thats just how they do it. Cant find any actual good paying job, so they risk their life.

    • @Broken_Savior
      @Broken_Savior วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@dybek0062Greed. Hunger. The need to simply feel safe and secure. There's plenty of good reasons.

    • @marz9914
      @marz9914 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

      @@THEGATESAREOPENED yea the stalker world lore is pretty depressing, even out in the mainland people try to escape

    • @nudanuda11
      @nudanuda11 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@THEGATESAREOPENEDbasically, this is why rusia still attacking Ukraine. Survived rusians in captivity are telling that in 90%

  • @karparik07
    @karparik07 วันที่ผ่านมา +43

    -"А чи бачив ти тут хоч когось по справжньому щасливого, Скіфе?" - Фауст

    • @xsyst1337
      @xsyst1337 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      still fuck faust, my boy strider :(

  • @Kalashnikov-v4k
    @Kalashnikov-v4k 15 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +6

    That girl must miss her dad

  • @deltaforce2780
    @deltaforce2780 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

    With the things some of the zombies say about their families outside the zone i often wonder if in the stalker universe there are any projects/ groups dedicated to identifying all the human remains found in the zone. So many people go to the zone and are swallowed by the black hole that it can be, there's often so many bodies sometimes reduced to mere bones or other fates such condemned to live shamble around as a zombie or turn into a snork it makes me ponder how many families outside the zone are missing loved ones that just vanished into the zone for a quick buck.

    • @redsun9261
      @redsun9261 18 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +4

      Look at what happening in Ukraine right now. A lot of bodies(tens of thousands or even more) wouldn't ever be recognized. There is like 200k mia from ukr side only

  • @Huy-G-Le
    @Huy-G-Le วันที่ผ่านมา +26

    This is why they shouldn't cut the original zombie concept, instead rework it, as these zombified stalker regress into a worst stage if they manages to survive long enough, regression into melee only zombie, that talks in their most distance memory, that being of their mothers.
    Remade it's so that, zombified stalker are weaker, easier to knock down, and finish up with a headshot where zombie stalker can only be kills with a shot in the head, and can only get knock down with shotgun, indicates the body had lost most of their pain reaction function.

    • @jabroniyumerale6204
      @jabroniyumerale6204 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      The OG lore implied that the X Project went FUBAR so hard, it zombified the people from the towns around it, be it grown ups (which will get the fate of being a "citizen" zombie) and even kids (which, arguably, is a fate worse than death in more than just one way to think about it).
      But yeah, if to take in the "they deteriorate" logic up to extreme - we get those cut zombies.

    • @Huy-G-Le
      @Huy-G-Le วันที่ผ่านมา +2

      @jabroniyumerale6204 at this points all the original zombies from back went probably decays aways already, it's make little sense for there to be anyone left.
      Irl, most of the death isn't due to the radiation, but the trauma of the experience.

  • @MostlyTypical
    @MostlyTypical 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    i love how some voice lines are actually a nod towards the movie (stalker 1979), things like this being the last time and getting medicine for the daughter, then again these may also be references to the novel but i haven't read it (yet)

  • @dragonsgaming5921
    @dragonsgaming5921 วันที่ผ่านมา +13

    For those who are confused by the subtitles of what the zombified stalkers say
    SoC clear sky and call of prypiat are all voice acted Russian hence why I can understand clearly what they say
    Stalker 2 is voice acted in Ukrainian since I cant understand some words but others like "Help me" but other words just sound like gibberish paired with the broken speech of zombified stalkers

  • @ivaylonikolov7138
    @ivaylonikolov7138 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

    The saddest thing in the stalker universe

  • @og_sane
    @og_sane 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Great video, props for making it. I'm still pretty new to Stalker games, "only" played the new Stalker 2 for about 130 hours. But these zombified stalkers always make me feel something when encounter them. And one of my first thoughts when watching this video was the idea of this happening in real life. That seems so unimaginably heartbreaking. Stalker 2 is an amazing game overall and would be much better without continuing bugs and especially crashes.

  • @Marrecs1
    @Marrecs1 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +3

    They've done went hollow. Stay safe Stalker.

  • @knightenjoyer
    @knightenjoyer วันที่ผ่านมา +43

    "Stalker isn't that sad!!!"
    Stalker:

  • @Schrodingers_kid
    @Schrodingers_kid 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    3:20 "Daughter, how big you've become...Soon dad will be coming back" is what he's actually saying
    3:44 And here he's using a more endearing form of "Brother", actually
    2:20 "Blood, blood...Mama" he sounds very shocked here, like he doesn't even understand what's actually happening, he's just scared of blood

  • @donnekko
    @donnekko 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    I had no idea of what the zombies where saying. Now that I now it is f**king sad. :(
    Good video!

  • @myxa3842
    @myxa3842 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    2:32 the hesitation to kill… It speaks so much, that you must kill them to end their suffering, even though you know they’re still alive in their body… These old stalker games did world building so well..

  • @anipaint6130
    @anipaint6130 วันที่ผ่านมา +10

    Я тепер переосмислив ставлення до Зомбі 🤧. Дуже душевне відео. Величезна подяка тобі Автор 😭 Я плачу мені так шкода цих Хлопців. Які вже ніколи не повернуться до родини 😭.

  • @RahatTheKiller
    @RahatTheKiller 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    I knew these lines before but this edit just makes it so much more heartbreaking. Damn...

  • @Quaera
    @Quaera 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    One if my favorite moments from S2 was wandering into the tunnels where Goodwin tried desperately to save his friend as he decayed into a zombie. I first found the PDA, read it, then heard the horrible crying of the zombified friend…

  • @ultraelite143
    @ultraelite143 วันที่ผ่านมา +7

    Fate worse than death... dont let them suffer... i always free them from this tragic fate

  • @neonoxy
    @neonoxy 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    That one guy bleeding out and calling his mom got me good. It goes to show as to even the manliest of men still cling to their mothers when the end is nigh.

  • @livian2682
    @livian2682 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Found your Channel by Accident, instantly supscribed, keep up the work!

  • @acesas1
    @acesas1 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Only just discovered your channel but i must say i love the vids, keep up the amazing work brother!

  • @Stafbook
    @Stafbook วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Your one of the best stalker TH-camrs I love your vids

    • @ZoneSlug
      @ZoneSlug  วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Thank you it means a lot :)

  • @AverageReznovEnjoyer
    @AverageReznovEnjoyer 23 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    These were once father's, brothers and friends in a hallow shell that used to be themselves that they still live in they call out for their spouses and mothers and children but to no avail, It truly breaks my heart I cried ngl because the process is irreversible.

  • @proxodnik
    @proxodnik 6 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    3:20 translation is absolutely wrong. He says "Daugther! you've grown so much! Your father(him) will be back soon." "Донько,яка ти в мене велика стала,скоро батько повернеться"

    • @ZoneSlug
      @ZoneSlug  5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      I used the in-game subtitles for this translation apologies

    • @Schrodingers_kid
      @Schrodingers_kid 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      ​@@ZoneSlugOof, my bad for commenting the same thing

    • @proxodnik
      @proxodnik 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      @@ZoneSlug nic strasznego

    • @ZoneSlug
      @ZoneSlug  4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      @ it’s no problem :)

  • @balkangameszp
    @balkangameszp 5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Fate worst then death indeed they shouldn't suffer like this, knowing what they say now is just heartbreaking they had promises about going back home to their families but sadly they never made it...

  • @georgethekid5692
    @georgethekid5692 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Don't you dare go hollow, stalker.

  • @mortenroad09
    @mortenroad09 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Great content as always!

  • @Rohrbachc01
    @Rohrbachc01 11 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Im not crying. You're crying!

  • @smiffy5075
    @smiffy5075 22 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Another one lost to the zone...

  • @Ziegelisious
    @Ziegelisious 23 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    Wow this video hits me hard! 🥺 I remember the Zenith Zombie Kwatchga on the roof in there base, where you can decide if he lives or die…..i couldn’t kill him in no play through 4 times….😢 there is always hope….❤️‍🩹 poor Stalker, lost everything just to give there loved one‘s a better future……!
    Great video and deep feelings ❤

    • @xsyst1337
      @xsyst1337 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      I killed him after I realised Noontide is no longer more than me and the doctor on Wild Island.

  • @doggy2378
    @doggy2378 วันที่ผ่านมา +12

    i'm not crying! you are! 😢

  • @filipstudeny
    @filipstudeny 16 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    These are probably one of the saddest version of zombies ever created. Because all other shows/games/movies use virus that transforms people into one.
    But here, their brain is just fried. There was no virus, nothing. They are basically people with 95% of their memory erased.

  • @kennyalberto7257
    @kennyalberto7257 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    But what a sad situation those poor Stalkers live in. :(

  • @WHOPPER_JR-sx7ze
    @WHOPPER_JR-sx7ze วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    This is why I sided with The Ward and destroyed the zone. I don't care how many times an emission fried Scar's brain, his eagerness to use the psi-emitters is inexcusable.

    • @myxa3842
      @myxa3842 8 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

      this is how I felt too.. Skif came for answers, to avenge what he lost. I also sided with the ward. The zone only destroys people in search for wonders. You made the right choice

  • @АналитическийВампир
    @АналитическийВампир 14 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    3:14 The translation is incorrect. The brainwashed one says, "My little daughter, how grown-up and beautiful you are. Daddy will be back soon."

    • @ZoneSlug
      @ZoneSlug  5 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

      sorry this translation was from in game subtitles

  • @neonoxy
    @neonoxy 2 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    Worst thing about all of this is that those zombified-phrases are probably real to some degree. It's very possible that some young guy on World War 2 or Iraq went through that shit.

  • @renathy
    @renathy วันที่ผ่านมา +11

    Silly question: How do they sustain themselves?

    • @ZoneSlug
      @ZoneSlug  วันที่ผ่านมา +17

      @@renathy they have voice lines asking for rations and that they are hungry, I assume find it hard to get food now

    • @zlostnypopolnik
      @zlostnypopolnik วันที่ผ่านมา +9

      Maybe some still have the instinct to feed, but I doubt they'll last long in the Zone. They become victims of the mutants who hunt them. They can't even pull their pants down when they have to "do their job". They must be very stinky, their bodies must be rotting alive.

    • @mikaeldahlqvist399
      @mikaeldahlqvist399 วันที่ผ่านมา +8

      With whatever food they get their cold hands on, be it genuine rations and food, the dead body of a mutant or wildlife, or the corpse of a stalker they just killed. And they drink whatever source of water they can, which, in the zone is not the best idea. The cut Zombies from the OG triology had a lore blurb that they could also sometimes enter a dormant state, slow down their metabolism and more or less go into a pretend-to-be-dead comatose state, looking like a corpse until something, or someone disturbs them.

    • @Снайпер_Хренов
      @Снайпер_Хренов วันที่ผ่านมา +5

      You can find food in their Inventory and there are Idle animations of them eating at a campfire. They may be zombified but still follow their instincts

  • @RandomPostsOnTheWeb
    @RandomPostsOnTheWeb วันที่ผ่านมา +3

    Bro… 😔

  • @Beef42331
    @Beef42331 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    This uhhhhhhhhhh kinda broke my heart

  • @cowpens6
    @cowpens6 21 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    I really like this game and this video too.

  • @skjelm6363
    @skjelm6363 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The mind of every gamer...

  • @kotaroyamada4272
    @kotaroyamada4272 วันที่ผ่านมา +5

    a friend of mine: "you should try this game".
    me: "I know stalker. It's a survival horror".
    a friend: "It's...more than a survival horror".
    several gameplay later...
    me: "he was right..."

  • @prezlamen7906
    @prezlamen7906 วันที่ผ่านมา

    The heart breaking fate of zombified stalkers is that they are prolly 110€ short.

  • @livian2682
    @livian2682 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

    i have an very interesting video Idea, there is an stalker appearing in clear sky which is named heremit, he is also appearing in stalker 2 he leaves 3 notes in the zone, one stash is in the burned forest, the other one i cant remember, his body is found in the Dead Valley on the way to the Generators, very interesting i did an research and only found one video about that in russian maybe you can make a video about that very interesting!

    • @ZoneSlug
      @ZoneSlug  3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      That’s interesting thank you!

  • @DreamerFMG
    @DreamerFMG วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    😢

  • @insockie4534
    @insockie4534 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    what game is this? SoC, CoP or CS?

    • @IcedFREELANCER
      @IcedFREELANCER วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      Those are all games in series, from SoC to S2

  • @none91none
    @none91none วันที่ผ่านมา

    Мне кажется идею взяли из хл2

    • @jabroniyumerale6204
      @jabroniyumerale6204 วันที่ผ่านมา

      В диздоках по ОЛ подтип Паразитных Зомби ещё больше был похож на хедкрабнутых.

    • @Schrodingers_kid
      @Schrodingers_kid 4 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา

      Ты так говоришь, будто в игре нету отсылки на халфу...

  • @sturmmagnunstein1008
    @sturmmagnunstein1008 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

    Is this a reupload? Ive seen this a long time ago i swear

    • @ZoneSlug
      @ZoneSlug  วันที่ผ่านมา +15

      There is a good video of somebody translated all the voice lines maybe you’re thinking about that?

    • @eyeballpapercut4400
      @eyeballpapercut4400 วันที่ผ่านมา +3

      StalkerInfo did the vid on the Stalker 1 Zombiefied voicelines.
      This vid extends a bit into Stalker 2.

  • @Kalashnikov-v4k
    @Kalashnikov-v4k 19 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +2

    Privet

  • @macaroonina
    @macaroonina 3 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    As a Ukrainian, appreciate your work, man. Instant subscribe 🫴♥️