ADDITIONAL TRIVIA: The player can kill the "quartet" commander before the emission, granting him additional gear and completely disrupting military comms. The terms "200" and "300" refer to wounded and dead soldiers respectively. The "Armored bastard" that the troops refer to at 3:15 is, in fact, the player. This voice line can play at any moment during the CNPP assault and will cause one or two helicopters to stop following their scripted paths and instead target the player. All helicopter radio transmissions heard in the other parts of the game (such as during the Agroprom factory assault) are the same ones as here. Matter of fact, all CNPP radio transmission were recorded first and then cut in order to make them usable in other parts of the game. The helicopters that pass over Pripyat in SoC are all scripted to crash into a building. If they had reached the CNPP too, the military might have won here. Not only that, but the crashing helicopters will actually Feature a squad of 4 BULAT-wearing soldiers getting out of it alive. They will stay near the Crashsite and call for backup, after which they will run around the Pripyat map for a bit before either attacking the player or dying to a Monolith sniper. All vehicles can be destroyed with a knife by the player. Hitting or shooting a helicopter while its landing will prevent it from spawning its infantry and cause it to fly away again.
Damn, truly a Zone veteran, I played the games many times, but never knew this. Guess I was just too busy staying alive in the hardest part of the game.
Man if I were any of those grunts seeing that I would sh!t myself and turn around and go back to base on foot not even caring if I got court martialed for abandoning the mission and my squadmates.
Damn, I was always in such a hurry to make it inside the NPP, I never really appreciated how big this operation was, or how much effort the devs put into it.
I can spend hours looking at the NPCs battling and never getting bored of it. While the main things are scripted, things always go down in a unique way.
Same, I never really had a chance to take some more times. The helicopter harrass you with one hit kill rocket all the time... you can damaged them with the sniper but cant take them good. I had already almost reach my 60kg limit so no rocket laucher possible... Plus BMP at the entrance and monolith and military veteran that can kill you in seconds...
holy shit and i thought this was just a bunch of stalker ai chaos and the heli chatter was just heli voicelines but it was actually a fully planned out operation
few more points of trivia, the "Owl'' sniper squad guy who clutters the comms sings the following tune: - 'I'm not jealous of another, but that's about to change... *rifle shot* you'll be mine anyway... *rifle shot* yes, you won’t go anywhere...' (lyrics of one of the songs from a 1934 Soviet musical film "Jolly Fellows") The Harrier, Owl, Peregrine, Falcon, Kite Vulture, Kestrel, Hawk squads are or were a part of a bigger force, part of which is already wiped out right by the time you reach CNPP being present by the number of APCs and other already destroyed army vehicles and many army corpses there.(and some voice lines like at 0:23 let you know that they've lost 2 radiochemical reconnaissance vehicles ) The APCs on that map are called Armadillo-1 Armadillo-2 Armadillo-3 (not sure what Armadillo-2 gets destroyed by but it does) In the beginning of the level, you see a searchable army military stalker corpse named Vasil Luckless near the convoy from whom you receive data about Operation Monolith in the PDA Originally it was a wounded enemy military stalker that you could talk to and had the following conversation: dialogue from build 2571: Vasil: Help... Help... Marked One: Whoa... You got chopped up pretty bad, soldier... Vasil: Are you a... monolithian? I've... heard... that's how the colonel called you... Marked One: If I were one of them, you wouldn’t be talking anymore... I’m Marked One, a stalker. But what kind of weirdo are you? Vasil: I am... sergeant... Vasil Luckless... Marked One: Yeah, I can see. Vasil: Who... who else of us survived? Marked One: It seems no one. Damn, a doctor should be here. A medkit won't help you, brother. Vasil: Looks like it's time... for me too... with my comrades... Marked One: There's no need to rush. We'll all end up there anyway. Vasil: Thanks, man... Colonel said... that you are all freaks here, inhuman... but you're normal... Marked One: There are plenty of freaks here. Tell me, who did this to you? Vasil: Like little children... There was a radiochemical reconnaissance... led by choppers... we relied on them... and they were gone in five seconds... And then our column... was pinched... and we got screwed... in a few minutes as well... Only I... managed to... blow the heads off of two of them... Marked One: Warriors... You showed up here quickly! The radar was just shut down. Vasil: We've been here for a month... two steps away, on the very border of the zone... in full readiness... The battle... is the battle still going on?.. Marked One: That's a case. Someone got really noisy. Vasil: Maybe one of ours is alive... was able to hold on... We had... a task - to capture the road to the Sarco... Sarcophagus... if anything happens, wait for reinforcements... Marked One: Reinforcements? Vasil: Our pop... colonel said - there will be almost no resistance... beasts... a couple of freaks... Marked One: So what's with the reinforcements? Vasil: There are special forces... as well... we screwed up, they'll begin... I thought we'd shoot... a little... and there's war... Don't walk straight down the road... Marked One: Vasil! What were you saying about special forces?.. Look at me! Don't close your eyes, come on!.. Vasil: A-ah, it hurts!.. A-ah... take me home... without choppers you won't get through here... Marked One: Sergeant!.. Vasil: Yessir... sergeant Luckless Schaslivenko... The enemy... has at least three machine gun points, several snipers... Man, don't go... don't go there... Marked One: Just a little more, sergeant! When? When will the special forces arrive?.. Vasil: Huh? Stalker... special forces... we got screwed... now... Marked One: Now? Holy crap... Vasil: And you... what brought you here... Marked One: I wanted to get to the Monolith, but here you are... Vasil: I would... also like to take a look... but apparently it’s not my fate... Take my PDA... there is the sarcophagus seize plan... All our groups... are indicated... Maybe you'll be lucky... to break through... and the Monolith will grant... your wish... Marked One: Thank you.
even if military are portrayed as corrup and heartless most of the times in the franchise, i can´t avoid feel sorrow for them been send to die in the middle of nowhere only to achieve something that doesn´t exists. excellent video
i've always loved the radio chat on the cnpp assault, even before finding out about the context of them. I found it so immersive how the radio comms start being filled with the soldiers all talking over eachother as the fight gets in full swing, it felt like i was witnessing something bigger than what i was actually seeing.
I didn't expect a gam from 2007 with such a unstable engine to feature such cool scripted events like this, you don't see anything like that on the 2 sequels it had afterwards too
Ehh, there *ARE* some cool scripted events that happen in Clear Sky & COP but they aren't really on the same level as the march through Pripyat to reach the CNPP in SOC. Most of the scripted events that happen in those two games are groups of allied & enemy npcs engaging each other. COP has the standoff with the remnants of the Monolith forces as you wait for the heli to land and some memorable parts such as the watershed task w/ the various faction agents present. (super jank, has broken and left me unable to join either Freedom or Duty later on). But yeah, I suspect the nightmare of getting the event to work (and subsequently seeing the heli's floating through the map) probably made the developers reconsider the scale of these events for the rest of the series. Though considering the spectacle of the Stalker 2 trailers, I'd be impressed if we didn't get something equally epic in the new game.
The first time i made it into the CNPP when i first played this game, was a hell of a time, my SEVA suit on half, only 2 medkits, no antirads, and ony 90 bullets for the FN2000, it was really insane, and the fact that what i witnessed was just the late begining of the operation it really puts into perspective how much the Military and Monolith fought over. Just imagine how much happened all around while Strelok was inside dealing with the Monoliths, of course there was an emission, but remember that after that the military sended in another smaller attack. It would be really cool if in Stalker 2 they give some kind of like old-media type videos in-game that the players find and could show the entire operation going.
As soon as i saw what i was up against at the end my first playthrough, said screw it and restarted the game and then became a hoarder lol@@anomalousdugout9557
This was really cool. All these years I've been playing this game and I never realized the level of detail that is happening in the background during the power plant fight. I actually feel really bad for shooting the soldiers during this sequence, they were putting up a brave fight. I've been to Quartet's command post many times, and always wondered about why it was there. Makes so much more sense now. This video seems like it took a ton of work to produce, thank you for making it!
In Lost Alpha I think the soldiers were friendly during the assault on NPP. You actually had to drive BTR and shoot them with the machine gun in BTR. Not sure why they made them enemies in the original game.
@@ee214verilogtutorial2 Because the development of the game took up to 7 years instead of the planned 3. The development budget was exhausted, and the publisher THQ demanded to speed up. Everything that needed improvement was mercilessly cut out. Repair mechanics, A-life, quests, mutants, cars... There was so much content that there was enough for two subsequent games.
Some helis move in a veird way, nocliping through ground and objects, but still quite enjoyable from a game that old. Comms are completely on spot, they have set the bar high with this one. The fact, that we can see the aftermath of this battle in later iterations and mods is nothing short of amazing. I hope S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 HoC will be as good, with "relics from the past", like destroyed military equipment and remains of both monolith and military lying around, just like in the original trilogy.
I might be wrong but when 097 is shot down it’s stated it’s from a guy on roof and in the stride trailer for stalker 2 there is a flashback to this battle where a helicopter is shot down by a guy with a rpg on the CNPP rooftop I think the scenes from stalker 2 will actually match up with heart of Chernobyl which makes me even more excited for stalker 2’s release
It was only after watching this video that the idea occurred to me that Operation Monolith was just a continuation of the ground operation, which we did not find in the active phase. As soon as we approach the CNPP, there is a lot of burning military equipment on the road with the corpses of soldiers, which is still burning, and there are also a lot of other burning military equipment scattered throughout the location. It is quite possible that the dispatch of combat helicopters and special forces was intended as a complement to the ground attack using armored personnel carriers and other equipment, which, as we saw, went very poorly. Moreover, the officer with the call sign “quartet” had to somehow get there in advance in order to lead the entire operation
Not only that but a few of the APCs made it through and are a pain in the ass to get past. I wonder just how far they had to move them through the zone to even get to the NPP. If they had some kind of military base near the zone, or if they were dropped with MI-8 transport helicopters or something nearby.
Now we need an analysis on whether the operation was planned well. From the radio chatter seems like monolith was wiped and only had successes with ambushes, but military lost that entire mechanised column at the main entrance and several choppers. Caught unprepared by the emission though. I had no idea most choppers managed to evacuate.
I suspect the operation's failure actually had little to do with planning. COP does a fairly adequate job of explaining that the issue with moving this many armed personal through the Zone is that, the Zone seems to react like a body with an infection. Anomalies crop up like white blood cells and EMP vehicles, unexpected & unprecedented blowouts happen, that sort of thing. It's a miracle anyone evacuated at all, considering the blowout & sea of anomalies that could exist in the air in addition to the ground.
@@ahealthkit2745 Yet military routinely flies helicopters into the zone, as far as yantar, and even further, to the brain scorcher in SoC. They also send in troops to the dark valley and agroprom, also partially by air, on mass and without issue. Their land invasion of the power plant also only encounters problems at the destination. So clearly operating vehicles by itself isn't the issue. The blowouts are controlled by the c-con as a defence mechanism, AFAIK that's canon. So could be the appearance of some anomalies.
It failed because the main ground force pushed ahead too quickly and left key support units back in pripyat and the air support side was delayed like 10 -20 minutes due to pripyat and the anomalies in the air.
@@blyatloregiver7950 hmm, what's your source on that? I think the destroyed btr group at the start of the cnpp level is a recon platoon, it might say so in the documents you pick up
Shadow of chernobyl is a work of art. Although I have played that game billion of times I didn't knew that military CNPP raid was done so well. I watched the whole thing literally like it was a real war movie.
what an elaborate setpiece for a section in which you are essentially pushed to rush as fast as possible, this also goes for pripyat, it almost makes me sad to know these two maps are, essentially, as open world as all the ones that came before it, yet their content goes in a straight line unless you're really passionate about exploring mostly empty areas
I always thought it was a shame the working BTRs as enemies was only ever used in this mission, would have been cool if it had been used in some other areas.
I hope that stalker 2 will have more vechiles, btrs, mbts, flyable helis, etc. I dont have a good enough computer to run stalker 2 sadly, but im waiting for stalker 2
To think that a bunch of nerds in blue hoodies with ak's lead by a merc with a scar made it to CNPP, it just insane , and its also how ironic they were wipe out by an emission to.
I simply love that video, cool idea and awesome execution. Apart from that, the amount of detail been put into that whole operation in game, which we only get a gist of, while actually fighting way in the plant. Partially, because of the action, and lack of real time translation. Whole operation actually looks well planned, and even with a lot of surprises soldiers had to overcome, might actually work out, if not this very sudden blowout. Again, awesome video, thanks for that brother.
This is a great video! Really operation Monolith is a very important page in the stalker lore. This is the turn around between the first trilogy and stalker 2
There was a video like this uploaded around 2 years ago, but it was taken down as the channel had posted NSFW content later. Thanks for making a suitable replacement, I love seeing the military AI in action
@@anomalousdugout9557 Speaking of language, how did you extract the voice lines from the game? I have been browsing the game files in search of them, but I just cannot find anything
I had no idea all this action was happening off screen between the Military and Monolith, props to the SOC devs for adding this much attention to detail.
You know what, I will try and recreate Op. Monolith on ARMA3 engine to force my hardcore milsim community to play it. I think the devs put some really good effort oven creating a really based military planning that feels realistic enough for the game's universe. Of course It'll be a planned defeat, but my test subjects are experienced enough fighting hard mode IA that they will carry on even during the Blowout.
I must say,this is truly a good work from you anomalous bro,I really liked this .I was always curious about what they said all that time while i was trying to do my storyline back then.But this work shows not only what they say,but also show what they do.Great work man.Oh and,big thumbs up for the guy who was singing in the middle of the operation lol.
What i would give to have subtitles for NPC's in any stalker game. Not understanding most people adds another layer of the zone being an "alien" place. But I know i am missing out on so much of the world not getting to understand what anyone's saying while telling stories by the campfire
Clear Sky was supposed to have a similar such event for the final battle with Clear Sky soldiers battling the monolith to almost the last man. It is cut but the voice lines remain.
Never got around to playing STALKER (My pirated copy couldn't save properly) But I would have never guessed it was this advanced, It was released around 2007/8? Crazy advanced especially since it was a pretty small dev team if I remember correctly.
Ukranian military personnel fate in the Zone has to be one of the saddest ones. Surely they must have the most casualties among all the Zone's factions, just think how many were lost at the border checkpoints alone when the first big emitions started. Or the ones send deep into the zone without knowing what they were getting into. And at the core, these guys just want to keep the Zone from engulfing their country, they don't have some borderline evil goal in mind like mercs ( kill for money ) or bandits. And if you follow dialogue from Call of Pripyat in the army base in Prypiat city they tell you just how much terrifying the Zone is to them. Can't help but sympathise with these guys.
@@billstrader4326 It brakes my heart when I go down to loot and I can see the ukranian flag. Luckly the uniforms don't look like the actual ukranian ones in the field and some mods, they speak russian and not ukranian, but still, its hard man. Especially since I am very pro Ukraine.
@@anomalousdugout9557 So true. The lore in these series is really deep. Especially I recall Lost Alpha ( you probably know about this one ), there was a military checkpoint in the Cordon, where the soldiers give you the option to use the main road and avoid a fight. If you talk to some of them they just say how they only want to get home to their wives. These poor guys man.
If not for the emission, the military would have won this. Excellent use of Mi-24s, deploying small teams of elite infantry and then proceeding to provide them with heavy covering fire, with Quartet being quick to relay information between the various units as needed. After securing the exterior of the C.N.P.P. with both airmobile and motorised units (something which they are well on their way to accomplishing), their next target would have been the Scarcophagus itself, which would have been up to the infantry alone. They would have suffered heavy casualties, but I imagine that, as Strelok does, they would have been able to fight their way through to the Monolith Control Centre and the C-Consciousness pods I imagine that the military's overall objective here, as with their previous deep raids into the Zone, would have been to destroy the Monolith crystal itself, and as a result the Zone of Alienation surrounding it, with a nuclear weapon. Given the nature of the Zone, this might not have been possible, but the Zone would have become a much safer place regardless in the aftermath of a successful Operation Monolith. Something people seem to forget in this fandom is that the government has always been the "good guys" of S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and Monolith has always been the "big bad".
Amazing how all this tuff is happening while you're running from cover to cover dodging bullets, accelerated bullets and rockets chuggin anti rad and redbulls LOL also i would have L O V E D a CG intro for COP with all the Stingray group "failing" and crashing all over the zone, idk why we did not get a CG intro in COP.
I'm ashamed that I never got to finish SoC in full, I was right after the bridge leading to the CNPP... Y'wanna know why I never finished the game? My last manual save was before disabling the brain scorcher and my last quicksave was right before some helicopters blow me up with missiles... Each time I quicksaved back, I'd die the next second. With no escape neither, I was low on ammo and medications anyway. I was already a dead man anyway so I just accepted that I die here. All because I didn't wanna go through disabling the scorcher again... It could have given me thrilling flashbacks for when we see this operation in STALKER 2 via flashbacks. And ironically I am proud of the PTSD Stalker has given me.
je me rendais pas compte a quelle point cette opération était énorme dans le jeu on rush juste on prête vraiment pas attention a tout c'est détail sinon merci pour la vidéo sa ma permis de mieux comprendre se bordel qu'est cette opération :)
This might be an impossible request, but could you make video about all of the nimble quest in LA? It would be cool for newbies and those who are interested into the series as well as me who also had hard time finishing those quests xD
Interesting that at 7:42 Hawk calls it in as unidentified weaponry, whilst random Loners in Dark Valley actually name the Gauss Rifle correctly. How could they know about that?
@@anomalousdugout9557 Depends if they went in after strelok because he murdered all the guards. In the least worse scenario they became monolith or deathtruck agents.
@@anomalousdugout9557 Love your vids man, if I didn't see your vids and a friend recommending me to play S.T.A.L.K.E.R. I wouldn't have been introduced to this great community and series :D
I can't understand how they've managed to move commander's post so close Monolith's positions? At this point he should be somewhere on the rear, giving orders from command vehicle
gameplay reasons but there is a quirk in soviet style command control system in that it rely on direct line of sight for effective control of sub units, since the subunits themselves lack autonomy unlike NATO counterparts, this is less of an issue in the multi kilometers plains of Europe, but in case like this where visibility is restricted, weird stuff like this can happen
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ADDITIONAL TRIVIA:
The player can kill the "quartet" commander before the emission, granting him additional gear and completely disrupting military comms.
The terms "200" and "300" refer to wounded and dead soldiers respectively.
The "Armored bastard" that the troops refer to at 3:15 is, in fact, the player. This voice line can play at any moment during the CNPP assault and will cause one or two helicopters to stop following their scripted paths and instead target the player.
All helicopter radio transmissions heard in the other parts of the game (such as during the Agroprom factory assault) are the same ones as here. Matter of fact, all CNPP radio transmission were recorded first and then cut in order to make them usable in other parts of the game.
The helicopters that pass over Pripyat in SoC are all scripted to crash into a building. If they had reached the CNPP too, the military might have won here.
Not only that, but the crashing helicopters will actually Feature a squad of 4 BULAT-wearing soldiers getting out of it alive.
They will stay near the Crashsite and call for backup, after which they will run around the Pripyat map for a bit before either attacking the player or dying to a Monolith sniper.
All vehicles can be destroyed with a knife by the player. Hitting or shooting a helicopter while its landing will prevent it from spawning its infantry and cause it to fly away again.
Thanks Sniper_XPEHOB! Very cool!
Thank you for sharing!
Damn, truly a Zone veteran, I played the games many times, but never knew this.
Guess I was just too busy staying alive in the hardest part of the game.
200 is dead, 300 is wounded
So I guess by "mutants" they meant Monolith grunts
Imagine operating at a deadly mission near the cnpp and you just see a guy running towards the plant chugging vodkas and energy drinks
😆
Man if I were any of those grunts seeing that I would sh!t myself and turn around and go back to base on foot not even caring if I got court martialed for abandoning the mission and my squadmates.
Reminds me of a certain SoC speedrun
Damn, I was always in such a hurry to make it inside the NPP, I never really appreciated how big this operation was, or how much effort the devs put into it.
I can spend hours looking at the NPCs battling and never getting bored of it. While the main things are scripted, things always go down in a unique way.
Same, I never really had a chance to take some more times. The helicopter harrass you with one hit kill rocket all the time... you can damaged them with the sniper but cant take them good. I had already almost reach my 60kg limit so no rocket laucher possible... Plus BMP at the entrance and monolith and military veteran that can kill you in seconds...
holy shit and i thought this was just a bunch of stalker ai chaos and the heli chatter was just heli voicelines but it was actually a fully planned out operation
Shocking, right?
@@anomalousdugout9557yup
few more points of trivia,
the "Owl'' sniper squad guy who clutters the comms sings the following tune: - 'I'm not jealous of another, but that's about to change... *rifle shot* you'll be mine anyway... *rifle shot* yes, you won’t go anywhere...' (lyrics of one of the songs from a 1934 Soviet musical film "Jolly Fellows")
The Harrier, Owl, Peregrine, Falcon, Kite Vulture, Kestrel, Hawk squads are or were a part of a bigger force, part of which is already wiped out right by the time you reach CNPP being present by the number of APCs and other already destroyed army vehicles and many army corpses there.(and some voice lines like at 0:23 let you know that they've lost 2 radiochemical reconnaissance vehicles )
The APCs on that map are called Armadillo-1 Armadillo-2 Armadillo-3 (not sure what Armadillo-2 gets destroyed by but it does)
In the beginning of the level, you see a searchable army military stalker corpse named Vasil Luckless near the convoy from whom you receive data about Operation Monolith in the PDA
Originally it was a wounded enemy military stalker that you could talk to and had the following conversation:
dialogue from build 2571:
Vasil: Help... Help...
Marked One: Whoa... You got chopped up pretty bad, soldier...
Vasil: Are you a... monolithian? I've... heard... that's how the colonel called you...
Marked One: If I were one of them, you wouldn’t be talking anymore... I’m Marked One, a stalker. But what kind of weirdo are you?
Vasil: I am... sergeant... Vasil Luckless...
Marked One: Yeah, I can see.
Vasil: Who... who else of us survived?
Marked One: It seems no one. Damn, a doctor should be here. A medkit won't help you, brother.
Vasil: Looks like it's time... for me too... with my comrades...
Marked One: There's no need to rush. We'll all end up there anyway.
Vasil: Thanks, man... Colonel said... that you are all freaks here, inhuman... but you're normal...
Marked One: There are plenty of freaks here. Tell me, who did this to you?
Vasil: Like little children... There was a radiochemical reconnaissance... led by choppers... we relied on them... and they were gone in five seconds... And then our column... was pinched... and we got screwed... in a few minutes as well... Only I... managed to... blow the heads off of two of them...
Marked One: Warriors... You showed up here quickly! The radar was just shut down.
Vasil: We've been here for a month... two steps away, on the very border of the zone... in full readiness... The battle... is the battle still going on?..
Marked One: That's a case. Someone got really noisy.
Vasil: Maybe one of ours is alive... was able to hold on... We had... a task - to capture the road to the Sarco... Sarcophagus... if anything happens, wait for reinforcements...
Marked One: Reinforcements?
Vasil: Our pop... colonel said - there will be almost no resistance... beasts... a couple of freaks...
Marked One: So what's with the reinforcements?
Vasil: There are special forces... as well... we screwed up, they'll begin... I thought we'd shoot... a little... and there's war... Don't walk straight down the road...
Marked One: Vasil! What were you saying about special forces?.. Look at me! Don't close your eyes, come on!..
Vasil: A-ah, it hurts!.. A-ah... take me home... without choppers you won't get through here...
Marked One: Sergeant!..
Vasil: Yessir... sergeant Luckless Schaslivenko... The enemy... has at least three machine gun points, several snipers... Man, don't go... don't go there...
Marked One: Just a little more, sergeant! When? When will the special forces arrive?..
Vasil: Huh? Stalker... special forces... we got screwed... now...
Marked One: Now? Holy crap...
Vasil: And you... what brought you here...
Marked One: I wanted to get to the Monolith, but here you are...
Vasil: I would... also like to take a look... but apparently it’s not my fate... Take my PDA... there is the sarcophagus seize plan... All our groups... are indicated... Maybe you'll be lucky... to break through... and the Monolith will grant... your wish...
Marked One: Thank you.
Still the best S.T.A.L.K.E.R. channel put there.
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even if military are portrayed as corrup and heartless most of the times in the franchise, i can´t avoid feel sorrow for them been send to die in the middle of nowhere only to achieve something that doesn´t exists. excellent video
this operation represents them as a real soldiers that have a tactic and experience
Seeing their perspective makes us understand them a bit better.
Kvartet is one of my favourite obscure characters. The voice acting for this segment was done very well.
Oh yeah!
The C-Con ability to trigger a blowout as a defense mechanism was saving their ass on a regular basis.
Indeed.
i've always loved the radio chat on the cnpp assault, even before finding out about the context of them. I found it so immersive how the radio comms start being filled with the soldiers all talking over eachother as the fight gets in full swing, it felt like i was witnessing something bigger than what i was actually seeing.
Yeah it adds so much to this moment.
I didn't expect a gam from 2007 with such a unstable engine to feature such cool scripted events like this, you don't see anything like that on the 2 sequels it had afterwards too
Ehh, there *ARE* some cool scripted events that happen in Clear Sky & COP but they aren't really on the same level as the march through Pripyat to reach the CNPP in SOC. Most of the scripted events that happen in those two games are groups of allied & enemy npcs engaging each other. COP has the standoff with the remnants of the Monolith forces as you wait for the heli to land and some memorable parts such as the watershed task w/ the various faction agents present. (super jank, has broken and left me unable to join either Freedom or Duty later on).
But yeah, I suspect the nightmare of getting the event to work (and subsequently seeing the heli's floating through the map) probably made the developers reconsider the scale of these events for the rest of the series.
Though considering the spectacle of the Stalker 2 trailers, I'd be impressed if we didn't get something equally epic in the new game.
This operation is like the biggest set piece in the trilogy.
@@anomalousdugout9557 It looks to be very important to a few of the characters from the Stalker 2 trailer, as well.
@@ahealthkit2745 i wonder if in stalker 2
military control the cnpp
@@razielstalkerProbably because most helicopters fell for no reason and they were quite co ordinated.
For those who don't know:
200 = dead
300 = injured
Yes.
300 30 3 was the code word for the Russian invasion has begun on the Ukrainian side.
@@ryanr.3925 nah this is just an analogue of US military "fire for effect" term, a short and clearly audible command for the artillery crew etc.
@@karolusrex4711 Yep, theres even a song about the russian artillery called "333"
whats the point of using those codewords, though?
One random gopnik did what they couldn't
I still don't know how he did it.
@@anomalousdugout9557he's a main character, duh
@@anomalousdugout9557 with the power to manipulate space and time (quick save and quick load)
@@rimtas04 the "mystical quicksave key"
power of AKSU
The first time i made it into the CNPP when i first played this game, was a hell of a time, my SEVA suit on half, only 2 medkits, no antirads, and ony 90 bullets for the FN2000, it was really insane, and the fact that what i witnessed was just the late begining of the operation it really puts into perspective how much the Military and Monolith fought over. Just imagine how much happened all around while Strelok was inside dealing with the Monoliths, of course there was an emission, but remember that after that the military sended in another smaller attack. It would be really cool if in Stalker 2 they give some kind of like old-media type videos in-game that the players find and could show the entire operation going.
The endgame is always tough the first time.
Another smaller attack? Huh, did I miss it?
@@piotrgrzelak2613 The one with Buzzard force, behind the CNPP. That one was both a Before and After emission attack.
@@yeetus9146 Are they there when you exit the sarcophagus for part 2 of the map?
As soon as i saw what i was up against at the end my first playthrough, said screw it and restarted the game and then became a hoarder lol@@anomalousdugout9557
The only time an emission appeared in shadow of chernobyl...
What about the one at the yantar, when you escort Kruglov
@@shindrowWasn't taht a psy emission?
@@shindrow there was no emission weather there. It was probably a huge surge of psi emissions
You mean when you lose consciousness after reaching out of tunel?
@@The_great_M0N0LITH yh, it should be psy, remember u fall in lab x18 too from that
This was really cool. All these years I've been playing this game and I never realized the level of detail that is happening in the background during the power plant fight. I actually feel really bad for shooting the soldiers during this sequence, they were putting up a brave fight. I've been to Quartet's command post many times, and always wondered about why it was there. Makes so much more sense now.
This video seems like it took a ton of work to produce, thank you for making it!
Nice! It took a lot of time indeed.
In Lost Alpha I think the soldiers were friendly during the assault on NPP. You actually had to drive BTR and shoot them with the machine gun in BTR. Not sure why they made them enemies in the original game.
@@ee214verilogtutorial2 Because the development of the game took up to 7 years instead of the planned 3. The development budget was exhausted, and the publisher THQ demanded to speed up. Everything that needed improvement was mercilessly cut out. Repair mechanics, A-life, quests, mutants, cars... There was so much content that there was enough for two subsequent games.
Some helis move in a veird way, nocliping through ground and objects, but still quite enjoyable from a game that old.
Comms are completely on spot, they have set the bar high with this one.
The fact, that we can see the aftermath of this battle in later iterations and mods is nothing short of amazing.
I hope S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 HoC will be as good, with "relics from the past", like destroyed military equipment and remains of
both monolith and military lying around, just like in the original trilogy.
Let's hope for the best.
I’d love to see something like this in stalker 2
I might be wrong but when 097 is shot down it’s stated it’s from a guy on roof and in the stride trailer for stalker 2 there is a flashback to this battle where a helicopter is shot down by a guy with a rpg on the CNPP rooftop
I think the scenes from stalker 2 will actually match up with heart of Chernobyl which makes me even more excited for stalker 2’s release
That could be, yeah!
03:34 "got two 300s" meaning two wounded allied soldiers.
amazing video by the way
Yes, thanks!
It was only after watching this video that the idea occurred to me that Operation Monolith was just a continuation of the ground operation, which we did not find in the active phase. As soon as we approach the CNPP, there is a lot of burning military equipment on the road with the corpses of soldiers, which is still burning, and there are also a lot of other burning military equipment scattered throughout the location. It is quite possible that the dispatch of combat helicopters and special forces was intended as a complement to the ground attack using armored personnel carriers and other equipment, which, as we saw, went very poorly. Moreover, the officer with the call sign “quartet” had to somehow get there in advance in order to lead the entire operation
Not only that but a few of the APCs made it through and are a pain in the ass to get past.
I wonder just how far they had to move them through the zone to even get to the NPP. If they had some kind of military base near the zone, or if they were dropped with MI-8 transport helicopters or something nearby.
For 2007 game this was most epic moments in my gaming history, i really love this section. And voice acting is so good
Indeed, I love this moment as well.
Now we need an analysis on whether the operation was planned well. From the radio chatter seems like monolith was wiped and only had successes with ambushes, but military lost that entire mechanised column at the main entrance and several choppers. Caught unprepared by the emission though. I had no idea most choppers managed to evacuate.
I'm not a military expert, I would not dare attempt such an analysis.
I suspect the operation's failure actually had little to do with planning. COP does a fairly adequate job of explaining that the issue with moving this many armed personal through the Zone is that, the Zone seems to react like a body with an infection. Anomalies crop up like white blood cells and EMP vehicles, unexpected & unprecedented blowouts happen, that sort of thing. It's a miracle anyone evacuated at all, considering the blowout & sea of anomalies that could exist in the air in addition to the ground.
@@ahealthkit2745 Yet military routinely flies helicopters into the zone, as far as yantar, and even further, to the brain scorcher in SoC. They also send in troops to the dark valley and agroprom, also partially by air, on mass and without issue. Their land invasion of the power plant also only encounters problems at the destination. So clearly operating vehicles by itself isn't the issue. The blowouts are controlled by the c-con as a defence mechanism, AFAIK that's canon. So could be the appearance of some anomalies.
It failed because the main ground force pushed ahead too quickly and left key support units back in pripyat and the air support side was delayed like 10 -20 minutes due to pripyat and the anomalies in the air.
@@blyatloregiver7950 hmm, what's your source on that? I think the destroyed btr group at the start of the cnpp level is a recon platoon, it might say so in the documents you pick up
Shadow of chernobyl is a work of art. Although I have played that game billion of times I didn't knew that military CNPP raid was done so well. I watched the whole thing literally like it was a real war movie.
Indeed.
Love to see events like that from different perspective.
Yes, it's interesting to put yourself in the place of others.
4:27 "Nailed it!" -Pilot
anomalous heli
Some of them are a bit janky 😅
Average Rising Storm 2 heli landing be like:
what an elaborate setpiece for a section in which you are essentially pushed to rush as fast as possible, this also goes for pripyat, it almost makes me sad to know these two maps are, essentially, as open world as all the ones that came before it, yet their content goes in a straight line unless you're really passionate about exploring mostly empty areas
They put a lot of effort to make these moments memorable.
I always thought it was a shame the working BTRs as enemies was only ever used in this mission, would have been cool if it had been used in some other areas.
yes
I guess it could have.
They were meant to be featured on a large scale during (basically every single) encounter with the military in SoC but were cut like many other things
I hope that stalker 2 will have more vechiles, btrs, mbts, flyable helis, etc. I dont have a good enough computer to run stalker 2 sadly, but im waiting for stalker 2
@@bluelobster420Driveable vehicles would be really fun and would make a large map more fun
To think that a bunch of nerds in blue hoodies with ak's lead by a merc with a scar made it to CNPP, it just insane , and its also how ironic they were wipe out by an emission to.
The context was a bit different, but it was indeed a great accomplishment.
It's great that you still make lore videos after all theese years. I appreciate your content.
I try to do what I can.
Damn, that was ambitious... great job as always!
It sure was, thanks!
I simply love that video, cool idea and awesome execution. Apart from that, the amount of detail been put into that whole operation in game, which we only get a gist of, while actually fighting way in the plant. Partially, because of the action, and lack of real time translation. Whole operation actually looks well planned, and even with a lot of surprises soldiers had to overcome, might actually work out, if not this very sudden blowout. Again, awesome video, thanks for that brother.
Glad you liked it.
Cool stuff
This is a great video! Really operation Monolith is a very important page in the stalker lore. This is the turn around between the first trilogy and stalker 2
Yes!
There was a video like this uploaded around 2 years ago, but it was taken down as the channel had posted NSFW content later. Thanks for making a suitable replacement, I love seeing the military AI in action
Yes, there are also a few other similar videos in other languages.
@@anomalousdugout9557 Speaking of language, how did you extract the voice lines from the game? I have been browsing the game files in search of them, but I just cannot find anything
This was fucking radical! I would love to see more of these in the future. The pacing is very tense. That emission feels like a fever dream.
Truly one of a kind moment in the trilogy.
The helicopter's going through the ground is hysterical but it is amazing to see the first STALKER game to be able to make such a good scripted event.
I had no idea all this action was happening off screen between the Military and Monolith, props to the SOC devs for adding this much attention to detail.
I had no idea how in depth this operation was ingame. Thank you!
You know what, I will try and recreate Op. Monolith on ARMA3 engine to force my hardcore milsim community to play it. I think the devs put some really good effort oven creating a really based military planning that feels realistic enough for the game's universe.
Of course It'll be a planned defeat, but my test subjects are experienced enough fighting hard mode IA that they will carry on even during the Blowout.
I must say,this is truly a good work from you anomalous bro,I really liked this .I was always curious about what they said all that time while i was trying to do my storyline back then.But this work shows not only what they say,but also show what they do.Great work man.Oh and,big thumbs up for the guy who was singing in the middle of the operation lol.
Glad you liked!
Wonderful video, the effort the devs put into this event needed to be seen. Thanks for your work!
Indeed!
Anomalous Dugout employee: Anomalous, I'm over the CNPP, awaiting further orders for file extraction.
Good video keep it up❤
I also read the Desc, a lore video about op Monolith can be cool
Thank you Anomalous, I thoroughly enjoyed that! Well shot footage 👌
Nice!
I'd love to see a re-imagining for Operation Monolith in S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2!
What i would give to have subtitles for NPC's in any stalker game.
Not understanding most people adds another layer of the zone being an "alien" place. But I know i am missing out on so much of the world not getting to understand what anyone's saying while telling stories by the campfire
Clear Sky was supposed to have a similar such event for the final battle with Clear Sky soldiers battling the monolith to almost the last man. It is cut but the voice lines remain.
Never got around to playing STALKER (My pirated copy couldn't save properly) But I would have never guessed it was this advanced, It was released around 2007/8? Crazy advanced especially since it was a pretty small dev team if I remember correctly.
They were going so good, sad to see they got wiped out by the blowout
The goddamn commander did what he could and even gave his life leading his troops mad respect for the man.
Damn ! SoC is so legendary.
Of course.
Ukranian military personnel fate in the Zone has to be one of the saddest ones.
Surely they must have the most casualties among all the Zone's factions, just think how many were lost at the border checkpoints alone when the first big emitions started. Or the ones send deep into the zone without knowing what they were getting into.
And at the core, these guys just want to keep the Zone from engulfing their country, they don't have some borderline evil goal in mind like mercs ( kill for money ) or bandits.
And if you follow dialogue from Call of Pripyat in the army base in Prypiat city they tell you just how much terrifying the Zone is to them.
Can't help but sympathise with these guys.
With the invasion of Ukraine the idea of killing their soldiers in this game hits a bit different.
@@billstrader4326 It brakes my heart when I go down to loot and I can see the ukranian flag.
Luckly the uniforms don't look like the actual ukranian ones in the field and some mods, they speak russian and not ukranian, but still, its hard man.
Especially since I am very pro Ukraine.
It's a complex faction but once you put yourself in the shoes of the basic soldier you understand them better.
@@anomalousdugout9557 So true. The lore in these series is really deep. Especially I recall Lost Alpha ( you probably know about this one ), there was a military checkpoint in the Cordon, where the soldiers give you the option to use the main road and avoid a fight. If you talk to some of them they just say how they only want to get home to their wives.
These poor guys man.
@@Vlad_-_-_ I need to play Lost Alpha again, it's pretty good.
Fact: these same call signs were used during the real life battle for Donetsk airport
Interesting.
it was cool. I never thought how long this military operation lasted
It's filled with many cool details.
"You cannot kill God, just like you cannot get rid of the sky up above"
I am blind, but it is you who cannot see!
Man this is awesome, thanks bud
:)
love how the helicopter 2 mins in goes underground then suddenly flies out like its reminded its a helicopter and went th ewrong way
If not for the emission, the military would have won this.
Excellent use of Mi-24s, deploying small teams of elite infantry and then proceeding to provide them with heavy covering fire, with Quartet being quick to relay information between the various units as needed.
After securing the exterior of the C.N.P.P. with both airmobile and motorised units (something which they are well on their way to accomplishing), their next target would have been the Scarcophagus itself, which would have been up to the infantry alone. They would have suffered heavy casualties, but I imagine that, as Strelok does, they would have been able to fight their way through to the Monolith Control Centre and the C-Consciousness pods
I imagine that the military's overall objective here, as with their previous deep raids into the Zone, would have been to destroy the Monolith crystal itself, and as a result the Zone of Alienation surrounding it, with a nuclear weapon. Given the nature of the Zone, this might not have been possible, but the Zone would have become a much safer place regardless in the aftermath of a successful Operation Monolith.
Something people seem to forget in this fandom is that the government has always been the "good guys" of S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and Monolith has always been the "big bad".
Why is it give me operation black mesa vibes
Amazing how all this tuff is happening while you're running from cover to cover dodging bullets, accelerated bullets and rockets chuggin anti rad and redbulls LOL
also i would have L O V E D a CG intro for COP with all the Stingray group "failing" and crashing all over the zone, idk why we did not get a CG intro in COP.
Damm, GSC should remake this great game
No need to remake it when the original is still great.
@@anomalousdugout9557 it's great but I think we only need upgrade in graphics and and more gun, nothing more
@@anomalousdugout9557If you put a fresh coat of paint on it people would want to play it more
More like remastered
@@thecommunistloli1042 that what I want to say
Another excellent video comrade, I finally know what they were saying.
Nice :)
I'm ashamed that I never got to finish SoC in full, I was right after the bridge leading to the CNPP...
Y'wanna know why I never finished the game? My last manual save was before disabling the brain scorcher and my last quicksave was right before some helicopters blow me up with missiles... Each time I quicksaved back, I'd die the next second. With no escape neither, I was low on ammo and medications anyway. I was already a dead man anyway so I just accepted that I die here.
All because I didn't wanna go through disabling the scorcher again...
It could have given me thrilling flashbacks for when we see this operation in STALKER 2 via flashbacks.
And ironically I am proud of the PTSD Stalker has given me.
I hope one day you will be able to finish it.
I wonder what GSC will do to the UA mil in stalker 2? After all, it changed drastically.
We'll see soon.
Its actually insane how Monolith members are as strong as Military.
well Monolith got new army after that blowout
woah never thought this was so well planned out by the devs cause I always rushed to get in the cnpp lol
I hope you can discover more next time you play.
This is crazy. I thought they all just spawn in the map along with them cultists and duke it out
man i love these helicopters
They are nice.
Love this dudes videos so much
Nice.
Excellent video.
je me rendais pas compte a quelle point cette opération était énorme dans le jeu on rush juste on prête vraiment pas attention a tout c'est détail sinon merci pour la vidéo sa ma permis de mieux comprendre se bordel qu'est cette opération :)
Cool!
I hope they remake this game one day if it's possible, will definitely come back
If Stalker was not a breakthrough in the grafics in 2007, then otherwise it was in 1st place
It remains 1st in my eyes.
Amazing work Anomalous!
Thank you Dreamer!
We need a full video with the two sides
Like strategic video on how the monolith defend the cnpp and how the military moves
Incredibly well done!
Thanks!
the video is really well made, very cool
NIce!
Amazing. I am speechless.
Nice.
So all of this is actually happening while you're going for the power plant?
Best music to sleep to
The fact that the game is made in 2007 is goddamn impressive
This might be an impossible request, but could you make video about all of the nimble quest in LA? It would be cool for newbies and those who are interested into the series as well as me who also had hard time finishing those quests xD
It's a shame something like this will never probably be done again since air anomalies will be around
I always thought what if Strelok helped them and Kvartet wasn’t hostile
Interesting that at 7:42 Hawk calls it in as unidentified weaponry, whilst random Loners in Dark Valley actually name the Gauss Rifle correctly. How could they know about that?
Tbf Gauss rifles are a thing irl too, so they could be refering to one of those and not Item 62.
hey! new tariler for s.t.a.l.k.e.r. 2 just dropped , its titled "not a paradise"
So it looks like those soldiers found cover safely?
Depends, some might have found cover and evac after the emission
Most probably didn’t made it
We don't really know for sure.
@@anomalousdugout9557 Depends if they went in after strelok because he murdered all the guards. In the least worse scenario they became monolith or deathtruck agents.
I wonder what happened to Hawk and Peregrine.
They probably died but you never know.
Thank you soo much.
Glad to help.
New to this but lookin good
Great Video
Thanks.
I remember there was a russian video about this but it also included map and where are things are on the map like the player etc
i bet a lot of time went into this and you will barely notice it while under the stress of... well everything being thrown at you at the CNPP
This is so good!
Thanks.
Cool video man love it
Great!
Yay, new video :D
Yes!
@@anomalousdugout9557 Love your vids man, if I didn't see your vids and a friend recommending me to play S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
I wouldn't have been introduced to this great community and series :D
@@V1_TheBlood-FueledMachine Glad you made it :)
Gah - I was always, "RUN Red Forrest Gump Run!" in this bit -
I understand that.
Hey anomalous, can you please make a video about operation monolith but from monolith perspective.
I can't understand how they've managed to move commander's post so close Monolith's positions? At this point he should be somewhere on the rear, giving orders from command vehicle
gameplay reasons but there is a quirk in soviet style command control system in that it rely on direct line of sight for effective control of sub units, since the subunits themselves lack autonomy unlike NATO counterparts, this is less of an issue in the multi kilometers plains of Europe, but in case like this where visibility is restricted, weird stuff like this can happen