Yeah I know someone like that IRL. It's me. It's not a good thing. You gotta know you're just pretending you're this big shot saviour that has to brave difficulties for others. In reality maybe you just don't wanna think about the difficulties and that would be fine, but no, we have to think we're fucking superman and be sorely disappointed when we have to cope with the fact that we very much are not. But from the way you wrote that I suspect you know this feeling very well
@@pengclaudiosarno1372 Alphas don't pretend though. Nor does anyone in service and the like. Yes if of course you mean ''in your head'' you are a martyr yes you are a loser. Learn to understand people.
I mean, if you think about the entire purpose of Duty, they gave themselves to fight and most likely die for the safety and security of all mankind or so they say and from what I know, that's basically what a martyr is.
I have always loved the faction of loners and mercs, but "duty" evoked at least a note of respect in me, this is a kind of what they are called in the books “Witchers” of the zone, in fact they act as the police, catching inveterate assholes in the Zone and transferring them to the mainland. They create raids to search for information and against mutants where there are too many of them. Scientific institutes cooperate with them and provide them with equipment for testing. They hand over all artifacts to the mainland for study, not into private hands. They protect scientists and accompany them for free. Despite the fact that they seem to want to destroy it, deep down in their hearts they most likely understand how incredibly difficult or even impossible it is, so without giving up their work they do everything to at least restrain it while doing, to some extent, many useful actions.
Thanks for the translation! While Duty has its flaws and corruptions, I've always appreciated that most of its members do seem to be motivated to protect the outside world from the horrors of the Zone - it's more than just rhetoric. “The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
i always felt like most of the factions had some good and bad ideas, which is why I love all of them on some level. I can relate to Duty the most, though.
Corruption and flaws are always there, they can never go away. But Duty is ultimately the good guy in my opinion. The zone is spreading out of control, Duty is one of the few factions that stand in its way.
For those who dont know what Hard tack is, its the highly dense and compressed bread crackers that would sometimes break your teeth because it was so hard and it was commonly known to be used by soldiers back in the american civil war. it was said you could break off some of just one to put into your cup of water or broth and it would be dense enough to absorb the entire cup of water to keep your belly full until your next meal. as far as i know this is the only game to ever even mention about hard tack
Hard Tack or ,as I personally know it, "Ship Biscuit" is great for crumbing up and making a "bread soup" with some kind of broth and preferably some cheese.
@@Muster_Muckee_II "hard tack" nowadays or even in across eras can also mean any hard biscuit rations. Historians have described Roman legionnaires being rationed "hard tacks", and today's German military ration biscuits have been described as "hard tacks", even though none of either one or the variations are close to the Golden Age of Piracy or Civil War era hard tacks.
It was also used by pirates And again, while eating up "biscuits" that are as sturdy as hockey pucks doesn't seem pleasant, i understand they were made out of necessity
"What, humanity's defender, you wanna sleep? Must not. No way. People rely on you." These lines are just so masterfully written, you can just feel the essence of every faction in the lines the stalkers that make it up say; Duty soldiers are tired, they hate this place, they want to go anywhere else, yet they remain because it is their duty and if they don't do it how do they know the others will?
Imagine seeing a snork, zombie, bloodsucker etc. and thinking it deserves "free" access. Freedom and the rest of the factions work to achieve Duty's goals just to stay alive whether they like it or not
Always felt like Duty had the right idea about the zone. I like how they even acknowledge their crusade will not be known by those they want to protect from the Zone. Very down to earth.
The problem with duty is that they basically ignore the fact that this whole mess and experiments were made possible by government, if military wanted it could easily take cnpp, but in reality they dont, thats the stalker "conspiracy" if you want, ask yourself this where do you think monolith gets all that top tier high tech gear ? duty is very naive and I think thats the main drawback of the faction.
@@tezwoacz Duty was formed by ex-military Stalkers who where fed up by the inactivity of the military, who didn't seem to try and do anything about the Zone. So them ignoring the goverment makes no sense, they where created because the goverment is seemingly not taking dangers of the Zone seriously.
I'm a Loner by heart and I mostly like to stay unaligned with the other factions in the zone but Duty always seemed like the one I'd join the most. Yeah Freedom is also cool and does a lot of good for the zone but I don't really like the idea of a "free" zone. Duty for me has the right intentions just not the right means of achieving them.
well free zone is true there main idea is not just to throw man power at it like duty that its not that simple and that you have to kind of play by the zones rules, so i agree i dont really like the idea of the zone as like it own state but i think there way of pushing the zone back makes more sense.......then again iam at heart a dirty little bandit =)
Personally I always supported Duty more than Freedom. A good arguement could be made that Freedom was the right choice prior to Clear Sky, that co-existance with the zone is the best choice and trying to fight it only makes things worse, but that was when the C-Consciousness was containing it. But during and after the events of the game, Duty is the right choice, the C-Consciousness was causing emissions and using the Monolith and Mutants to cull the Stalkers and kill Strelok. After Strelok kills the C-Consciousness the zone turns from a dangerous but contained phenomina to a threat to all humanity. Emissions become a daily occurrence, which lore states causes the zone to expand, mutants that were previously only spotted close to the center are now encountered near the perimeter, and Duties fear of the mutants spreading past the Cordon seem all the more likely now that they are no longer being controlled or influenced by the C-Consciousness.
@@GateCaptain Problem is, trying to kill the zone is the reason it has got this bad in the first place. Strelok trying to end it only made it worse, which basically confirms Freedom’s whole idea; trying to fight the zone will only make it worse for everyone.
@@declanedmison5442 That is in part true, Strelok did make things worse by destroying the C-consciousness. But now that the zone is expanding, there are daily emissions, and mutants are spreading further than they ever have before, it makes duties job more vital than ever. The zone is no longer a contained oddity that only poses a threat to those who venture into it, it is a growing cancer that will gradually absorb more and more territory, spreading dangerous creatures outside of its borders. Freedom is right in that people shouldn't just prod at the zone, and they are right in that we cannot just destroy it. But now Duty is correct in that they must find a way to contain the zone and eventually destroy it, that co-existance is no longer a viable long term solution.
You get more and more jealus of Russian speaking people can understand what these NPCs are speaking. A true STALKER experience. Now I understand that I am a tourist with gun not an actual stalker among this depressing atmosphere.
@@vladoshka9014 But it still is cool in my opinion. I also play Metro series with Russian audio + English subtitles so the experience game offer doesnt disrupt.
When you think about it. Duty is the polar opposite of Monolith and yet the exact same. They fight for a purpose they believe in, and they are sworn to it.
I kinda feel sad to Monolith... that Radioactive Pillar isn't going to save them but.. they got their ends already. While Duty is doing their jobs where no one's going to do it but their own selves who are willing to sacrifice time and life. They just do it out of their worries against the Zone's negative effects on its surroundings and fighting every oppressive mutants they see. Freedom however are a bit crazy, but not as crazy, sadistic and psychopathic as Mercs.
Duty is morally good, they choose freely to fight the zone. They could be back home living comfortable and blissful lives. But they don’t, because the zone is ultimately the greatest threat.
Out of all factions, they seem to be the ones that are still the most humane after continuing to live in the zone. Interesting. And thank you for those translations.
@@killingfields6599 You're right. I think they may be very similar to mercenaries with that. But their "mission" in the zone is different. Mercenaries are lead into it by a new possibility of earning money, duty are here to don't let the zone expand.
This makes me love them twice as much. Tireless Crusaders in black armor, exhausting every last grain of their soul for a cause greater than themselves, no matter the fact that nobody will ever celebrate these heroes.
Man it's so interesting hearing all this dialogue that is decades old at this point about the different factions of the Zone and their ideologies. Impeccable worldbuilding.
out of all factions dialogue it seems duty had remained the most human out of all of them, taking on an unshakable stoic martyrdom to destroy the zone.
They’re so hard on themselves. They’re very dedicated. I really appreciate these videos. I always wanted to know what the inhabitants of the Zone were talking about. I always felt like an outsider when standing at a camp fire, unable to understand what the others were talking about.
Duty is my faction of choice. Even if I play as a loner/ecologist/military, duty is the faction i'll get my standing with first. They are the most reasonable and level-headed and fair. They don't attack others senselessly, they protect the smaller and weaker factions and take pride in it. Most importantly, I hate the zone... Well.. The C-Con and those responsible for it's creation. Duty has taken upon themselves to control it and make sure it does not impact or harm people, especially those outside of the zone. It's a very noble cause. Military are literal pussies, too afraid to venture in again. Duty are ex-military that saw and experienced the zone and it's horrors and took it on a personal level. Against all odds determined to complete their original military mission (to destroy it) as it was made up of surviving members from the second disaster that were tasked to destroy it, so they will - come hell or high water, while the actual military are just sitting around the zone, too afraid to go back in until all anomalies have been mapped out and save paths guaranteed (which will never happen since it forever changes) you just have to take your losses and push in, just like Duty is doing! My utmost respect for them.
@@erin9I6 They are partly responsible for the creation of the zone as well as the largest emission that killed so many, including themselves. Not to mention their leader Lebedev was the lead scientist in X8 which was the main lab that worked on the brain scorcher and inhumane experiments creating a lot of the human mutants... Then he actually joined his fellow bastard colleagues in the C-Consciousness pool. There's absolutely nothing to like about them. They are one of the main bad guys in retrospect. If it wasn't for them - the zone, including a lot of the atrocities going on in it would either not exist or would exist in a lot more stable state.... My first priority is to either wipe them out (if I play with a enemy faction of theirs) or do enough of damage to faction relations so they declare war and then I wipe them out. They only exist as a faction because they broke off from the other scientists due to some squabbles, but their guilt in all the atrocities that lead to the creation of the zone and everything bad in it is just the same. They can try to redeem themselves all they want but in my eyes even bandits and renegades have more redeeming qualities.
@@erin9I6 I proudly represent myself as Clear Sky member. They are somewhat similar to Ecologists, although I think they're more focused on Emissions and how to stop them, rather than Artefacts and other wonders of the Zone.
First i want to say thank you for doing all these translations. A lot of STALKER players have spent many many hours myself included playing the game without knowing what anyones discussing. These really add a lot of atmosphere and lore. Youre the first person to do this, and its very appreciated. Secondly, the common theme i notice with basically every faction is that theyre all starving for decent food. It seems that food would be a huge moneymaker in the zone if you could ship it in since everyones living on bread, sausage and canned meat. I imagine that the factions whether duty, bandit, loner, or everyone in between would pay good money or even kill for good stuff like sweet canned peaches, candy bars, and good quality MREs
Constant lack of good (or even remotely decent) food is one of the reasons why “bars” are so profitable in the Zone. After days or weeks of living off hardtack, crappy sausage and canned meat stalkers are ready to pay hard cash for a portion of fried potatoes, pickles and tomatoes with some questionable (but freshly cooked) meat. Problem is that Zone does not grow anything remotely edible and no farms exist inside for obvious reasons, while food traffic from outside is blocked or fleeced heavily by military. However some stalkers developed a taste for mutant meat, eating bizarre “delicacies” like bloodsucker tentacles, flesh’s eyes (or whole Flesh) or mutated boar. Of course eating any mutant meat is risky since it carries unstable DNA strains, possibly unknown viruses or mutated parasites and of course radiation.
@@MrVlad12340 Not to mention that you gotta cook and purify the mutant meat instead of eating it raw. I imagine eating raw mutant meat would cause Clostridium, Listeria, and Campylobacter and also imagine the amount of radiation you would be consuming...
Moraly speaking, with Clear Sky gone theyare the only ones who try to fight of the Zone. Yes it's npt going too well but everything they do is what I would expect from a bounch of people who saw the horrors of the Zone and thought "This cannot be allowed to exist"
They didn't really fight the Zone tho, rather, they knew it couldn't be destroyed since their leaders are ex-c-consciousness. They gave their all to stop Strelok from advancing into the Zone since they knew that would provoke the Zone. They are never portrayed fighting the Zone itself Also, despite most of the CS being mercenaries, they somehow had unshakable trust in their leader and followed every order no matter what, as if there's some controlling going around
Duty are true heroes. They go into the zone without a single thought for themselves, they know they will never be known on the outside but they still fight to eradicate the zone to keep the world safe.
I appreciate their intentions and dedication, but their methods seem like an exercise in futility. To borrow a quote from someone else, if the Zone could be destroyed by shooting at it, it would've vanished long ago. While the C-Consciousness was still active, Duty's actions only seemed to provoke it, like poking a hornet's nest. Now that the C-Con is gone and the Zone is wild and uncontrolled, who knows if Duty's provocations will make things better or worse.
I love these translations videos, it's worth understand what they say to comprehend their way of thinking. Looking forward to seeing translations for Svaboda !
Mе friend you're writing the word a little wrong. In fact it is written with an "o". But it is pronounced with "a" so I'm sorry that I dug into the details
@@Furry_Hunter_420 Lol yeah i recently took some interest in the russian language and learnt how to read cyrillic. I don't understand why sometimes o is pronounced a. Thanjs anyway ^^
@@thelightside77 Lol yeah i wish i could actually ^^ Gotta finish math prep school first to have the time to do literraly anything else than math or physics...
As an English speaker, I've really missed a lot with these campfire stories. In spite of everything, the only thing that holds Duty together is 'if not me, then who?'
don't remember if it was an official NPC who told me this, but he said 'the Duty members are all great guys, but put enough of them together and they become raging zealots'. this dialogue cements that. they sound like average joes who had enough of the Zone and decided to do what others could not, or would not do.
I have played this series from the first game and have enjoyed most of them. I really enjoy the setting and gameplay, but never bothered to look up what the actual spoken lines were. So I was basing that opinion of solely the text boxes and translated spoken bits, projecting my own opinion of factions personalities without understanding the untranslated stuff fleshing them out. So Duty goes from being just another bland ‘generic mil dudes’ group into a bunch of world-weary special operations types exhausted from having to spend years fighting nigh unending hordes of horrific mutants breaking free, random thugs, morons messing with reality warping artifacts, and the world itself. All this with next to no supplies in a world where no one seems concerned about this active tumor on reality slowly spreading. I actually like the series more now than before, a nice surprise for today.
Shit, I'm a diehard for Freedom, and I've had playthroughs where I'd go and wipe out the Bar of every single Dutyer I could find. But now, I'm not so sure. I feel like a greater monster than anything the Zone could ever create. These were men, with the same needs and wants as anyone else, shaken to their very core by the horrors of the Zone. Now, I'm not so sure about where my ideas have led me.
I mean, Duty would literally go hell and high water to defend against the Zone. I'd argue that their points to destroy all of the Zone can be quite tempered with goodwill, as seen with their defense for the Ecologists.. and even the Loners. If their flaw is that they will not allow anyone to use the Zone for gain... then why do they establish a base in the center of the Zone where Loners are allowed to roam and have a safe place to sleep before heading to the more dangerous parts of the Zone? If Freedom wasn't the one who was defending the Barrier, they'd protect that area aswell. I'd wager they'd practically even eat their own guts and ask for more. Duty is fucking relentless. With the Zone even increasing now, because of the deaths of C-Consciousness... we need more people like the Duty.
This one is really making me look forward to the Clear Sky campfire conversations. I feel like if they hadn't been wiped out that there would have been more than a few joint operations between Clear Sky and Duty.
Love the line where the duty soldier gives freedom credit for warfare. My first impression of them was negative in SOC since they block you from entering the bar unless you have something they want. They also mocked me for not killing enough mutants when they attacked the encampment out side. Maybe I would of been more receptive if I understood the small talk they had. They are clearly exhausted from a mission that may very well be impossible to accomplish.
Там ещё проблема в недоработанности этого квеста с помощью отстрела мутантов. По идее вы должны были получить награду или раньше времени получить проход на территорию Бара, но в итоге вышел такой вариант.
@@K555-v2q Them and military, the State service runs a program that sends soldiers who know nothing about the zone to the zone, at least they're fighting for a good cause but the sacrifices
@@Meldstoridk, I don't think people who go to Zone do that from a good life. Due to that, stalkers might be really desperate and willing to do anything to not go to prison, including murder. Zone is basically a chaotic hotspot where everyone is on their own
I love your videos You make STALKER feel like there's actual pain and struggles in the zone, I was having a burnout on the series with the same shit it had to offer, until I watched the translated videos of dialogues you did, there are actually struggles in the zone
I love playing as Duty in Anomaly Warfare mode fighting back the inevitable Monolith rush towards Rostok. Just trying to survive, protect your brothers, and have a drink at the end of the day. That's all you really can do; just hold the line.
Maaan, this translation videos are awesome and great. And with that music from Metro in background... Perfection. Unbelievable that 13 year old game can still surprise me :D
Started stalker a few days ago, my first impression of Duty was they were army dogs put it more inside of the zone, but with time I saw they were a really cool faction and they I trying to actually help the others instead of other more selfish factions around here. Even im doin now my base inside his headquarters (they holded a chimera last night, my god)
Hey Stalker Info? Could you perhaps make a list of all the songs Stalkers mention in-game? I was thinking about making a lore friendly music list about it. Thanks a lot in advance. I apricate your work a bunch :)
Many of them have it already, even the military guys at the borders of the Zone. I'm sure i heard in SoC military recruit uniform talking about the body of his friend that was mangled by some creature . 'Как его тварь разделала' or smth like that
This is how Stalker got factions right. In games like Skyrim, the only major two factions are either imperialist empires played like a puppet by elves or nord supremacists who want to kick out all non-nords. In Stalker, every faction actually makes sense. Freedom, who’ve seen the beauty of the Zone and want to live in harmony with it. Duty, who’ve seen the horrors of the zone, and want to destroy it to protect humanity. Ecologists, who want to understand the Zone to better mankind. Military, who try to contain the Zone and cordon it off to prevent people from getting hurt. Mercs, who want to make a quick buck. There are a couple others, but you get my point. The player is able to choose from a cornucopia of complex moral dilemmas and doesn’t railroad the player into ends that they don’t agree with. More than that, the game doesn’t shame you for choosing any of them.
Humanity's last defense, whether you like to agree or not they'll still try to destroy the zone to keep people from getting hurt by it even if the military decides to run away from it.
Prefer not to pick sides, but I feel closer to Duty. I enjoy helping the people of the zone. Duty, freedom, mercenary, bandit. Doesn't matter. They're all the same. Bunch of people suffering. You can't just stand there and watch.
Duty can be extreme but atleast at the core they want to do good, them actively hunting mutants and create safe zone like the Bar has helped alot of stalkers.
Man after seeing the zombie video it's not surprising how they are so jaded and depressed but bound by duty in a hope that they accomplish their mission.
Fantastic work. Do you have plans to do translations from original Shadow of Chernobyl? I love these translations of the Call of Pripyat dialogue, but I'm curious what characters talked about in SoC. There are loners and bandits that sit around campfires telling stories and jokes to each other, I've always wondered what they are saying.
Everyone starts a neutral stalker, enjoy the stay as freedom enjoyer but at the end, at the end we all rather die protecting our love ones from the zone with our brothers from duty
Oddly, this gives me a much greater appreciation for Duty. I have only played Anomaly upto the point of driving out Sin as a Loner. I thought Duty was too square like Military but i might have to dig into them deeper.
absolute chads, instead of leaving the zone aftrr getting their asses kicked they made their own faction and stayied to fight for the safety of everyone
Loner and Bandits are the working poor, looking for things that will improves their economic situations. Duty forces themselves to not stops out of fears toward what will happen if they stops, they are scares in the unknown possibility of what would happen if they stops destroying things of the zone.
I can definitely respect duty for what they believe in, but I'm Clear Sky at heart, plus, I highly doubt that even with all their high end gear and noble cause, they can hold back The Zone, mutants, and C-Con forever, and the Zone doesn't seem like something that can be destroyed
The Khan music in that spooky level did fit well DUTY soldiers background. A tired person pushed to it's limits in a cold and cruel zone where you're used to kill inhumane things that go away from your understanding
In fairness, the Dolgovites can (and should) be understood - for the most part they come from the army, police and other security forces who are accustomed to strict control, and the average age of a member of this group is around 30-40 years old (and some Dolgovites are old enough to be fathers to their ideological opponents from the Svoboda group). These are people who are used to responsibility for their loved ones and their homeland, so even the very existence of such an abomination as a Zone (from which it is not clear at all what to expect) forces them to take up arms.
Duty ppl can be assholes, but they are the best faction. They lost brothers and want their revenge to protect others. Freedom is ambiguous with bandits, recruiting either from them or from loners. Pretty sure they buy their drugs from them, showing brotherhood to loners but helping their bullies prosperate.
Freedom and Duty reminds me of the SCP foundation and the chaos insurgency, in how one side wants to learn about the anomalies and the other side wants to destroy them
@@skyyy7544I think duty is more like the global occult coalition since they both want to destroy their own world anomaly’s. I think the ecologists are more like the Scp foundation
Братья Сталкера, теперь я завидую англоязычным, что не понимали о чем говорят Сталкера,для них внутри игровой мир да и вообще представления об игре перевернулись:)
sounds like all of them have taken on the mindset of martyrs, exhausting themselves for entire humanity without receiving a trace of acknowledgement.
From your point of view maybe.
Yeah I know someone like that IRL. It's me. It's not a good thing. You gotta know you're just pretending you're this big shot saviour that has to brave difficulties for others. In reality maybe you just don't wanna think about the difficulties and that would be fine, but no, we have to think we're fucking superman and be sorely disappointed when we have to cope with the fact that we very much are not. But from the way you wrote that I suspect you know this feeling very well
@@pengclaudiosarno1372 Alphas don't pretend though. Nor does anyone in service and the like. Yes if of course you mean ''in your head'' you are a martyr yes you are a loser. Learn to understand people.
@Theo F I fucking wish lmao at least I would be irresponsible enough to not give a fuck
I mean, if you think about the entire purpose of Duty, they gave themselves to fight and most likely die for the safety and security of all mankind or so they say and from what I know, that's basically what a martyr is.
I have always loved the faction of loners and mercs, but "duty" evoked at least a note of respect in me, this is a kind of what they are called in the books “Witchers” of the zone, in fact they act as the police, catching inveterate assholes in the Zone and transferring them to the mainland. They create raids to search for information and against mutants where there are too many of them. Scientific institutes cooperate with them and provide them with equipment for testing. They hand over all artifacts to the mainland for study, not into private hands. They protect scientists and accompany them for free. Despite the fact that they seem to want to destroy it, deep down in their hearts they most likely understand how incredibly difficult or even impossible it is, so without giving up their work they do everything to at least restrain it while doing, to some extent, many useful actions.
Thanks for the translation! While Duty has its flaws and corruptions, I've always appreciated that most of its members do seem to be motivated to protect the outside world from the horrors of the Zone - it's more than just rhetoric.
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
i always felt like most of the factions had some good and bad ideas, which is why I love all of them on some level. I can relate to Duty the most, though.
Corruption and flaws are always there, they can never go away.
But Duty is ultimately the good guy in my opinion. The zone is spreading out of control, Duty is one of the few factions that stand in its way.
Can you tell me what Duty has done in the Zone that is not good? I don't understand the comments about it.
@@GeneralTantzu
Then who fights because he hates what is in front of him and doesn't care whats behind him?
For those who dont know what Hard tack is, its the highly dense and compressed bread crackers that would sometimes break your teeth because it was so hard and it was commonly known to be used by soldiers back in the american civil war. it was said you could break off some of just one to put into your cup of water or broth and it would be dense enough to absorb the entire cup of water to keep your belly full until your next meal.
as far as i know this is the only game to ever even mention about hard tack
Hard Tack or ,as I personally know it, "Ship Biscuit" is great for crumbing up and making a "bread soup" with some kind of broth and preferably some cheese.
@@Muster_Muckee_II "hard tack" nowadays or even in across eras can also mean any hard biscuit rations. Historians have described Roman legionnaires being rationed "hard tacks", and today's German military ration biscuits have been described as "hard tacks", even though none of either one or the variations are close to the Golden Age of Piracy or Civil War era hard tacks.
It was also used by pirates
And again, while eating up "biscuits" that are as sturdy as hockey pucks doesn't seem pleasant, i understand they were made out of necessity
Navy hard tack is where I learned about this type of ration food.
There are eatable Russian MRE hard tracks in Escape from Tarkov, although i think it's translated as simply "crackers" in eng versions.
"What, humanity's defender, you wanna sleep? Must not. No way. People rely on you."
These lines are just so masterfully written, you can just feel the essence of every faction in the lines the stalkers that make it up say; Duty soldiers are tired, they hate this place, they want to go anywhere else, yet they remain because it is their duty and if they don't do it how do they know the others will?
It gives personality to the factions, which can easily tell how they operate or goals
a faction from an another Ukranian game once said "If not us then who?"
After dying over 5,000 times to chimeras, bloodsuckers, dogs, I agree that the zone needs to be fucking destroyed
lmao 😂😂😂
skill issue
@@SodziausPilietis i agree
Most of my deaths are from Monoliths at the CNPP and Spetsnaz
Imagine seeing a snork, zombie, bloodsucker etc. and thinking it deserves "free" access. Freedom and the rest of the factions work to achieve Duty's goals just to stay alive whether they like it or not
Always felt like Duty had the right idea about the zone.
I like how they even acknowledge their crusade will not be known by those they want to protect from the Zone. Very down to earth.
Это не приземлённо, это - по-русски…
The problem with duty is that they basically ignore the fact that this whole mess and experiments were made possible by government, if military wanted it could easily take cnpp, but in reality they dont, thats the stalker "conspiracy" if you want, ask yourself this where do you think monolith gets all that top tier high tech gear ? duty is very naive and I think thats the main drawback of the faction.
@@tezwoacz holy fuck the Monolith being part of something like the Illuminati, why haven't I ever thought of that.
@@tezwoacz You're right they should let regular stalkers die and mutants running around.
@@tezwoacz Duty was formed by ex-military Stalkers who where fed up by the inactivity of the military, who didn't seem to try and do anything about the Zone. So them ignoring the goverment makes no sense, they where created because the goverment is seemingly not taking dangers of the Zone seriously.
Even if you don't agree with their mission, you have to respect their dedication to humanity.
Ha I'm the Russian
Короче ты братан они долгавцы самые опасные сталкеры
I've always liked their voices, deep, gritty, and intimidating
After decades of smoking dirt-cheap cigarettes, you too can achieve such voice.
@@infinitificator4629 No, not really, only a raspier version of your same voice.
If you are interested they were voiced by a Ukrainian actor Aleksandr Vilkov
@@Private_FloppaAll of them voiced by one guy?
@@Private_FloppaOne guy voiced all of Duty? Impressive, it’s like Dawn of War where all the actors voiced more than one character.
I'm a Loner by heart and I mostly like to stay unaligned with the other factions in the zone but Duty always seemed like the one I'd join the most. Yeah Freedom is also cool and does a lot of good for the zone but I don't really like the idea of a "free" zone. Duty for me has the right intentions just not the right means of achieving them.
100%
well free zone is true there main idea is not just to throw man power at it like duty that its not that simple and that you have to kind of play by the zones rules, so i agree i dont really like the idea of the zone as like it own state but i think there way of pushing the zone back makes more sense.......then again iam at heart a dirty little bandit =)
Personally I always supported Duty more than Freedom. A good arguement could be made that Freedom was the right choice prior to Clear Sky, that co-existance with the zone is the best choice and trying to fight it only makes things worse, but that was when the C-Consciousness was containing it. But during and after the events of the game, Duty is the right choice, the C-Consciousness was causing emissions and using the Monolith and Mutants to cull the Stalkers and kill Strelok.
After Strelok kills the C-Consciousness the zone turns from a dangerous but contained phenomina to a threat to all humanity. Emissions become a daily occurrence, which lore states causes the zone to expand, mutants that were previously only spotted close to the center are now encountered near the perimeter, and Duties fear of the mutants spreading past the Cordon seem all the more likely now that they are no longer being controlled or influenced by the C-Consciousness.
@@GateCaptain Problem is, trying to kill the zone is the reason it has got this bad in the first place. Strelok trying to end it only made it worse, which basically confirms Freedom’s whole idea; trying to fight the zone will only make it worse for everyone.
@@declanedmison5442 That is in part true, Strelok did make things worse by destroying the C-consciousness. But now that the zone is expanding, there are daily emissions, and mutants are spreading further than they ever have before, it makes duties job more vital than ever. The zone is no longer a contained oddity that only poses a threat to those who venture into it, it is a growing cancer that will gradually absorb more and more territory, spreading dangerous creatures outside of its borders. Freedom is right in that people shouldn't just prod at the zone, and they are right in that we cannot just destroy it. But now Duty is correct in that they must find a way to contain the zone and eventually destroy it, that co-existance is no longer a viable long term solution.
You get more and more jealus of Russian speaking people can understand what these NPCs are speaking. A true STALKER experience. Now I understand that I am a tourist with gun not an actual stalker among this depressing atmosphere.
Сочувствую, брат.
There are many more pieces of art in English that Russian speakers can't understand :)
@@vladoshka9014 But it still is cool in my opinion. I also play Metro series with Russian audio + English subtitles so the experience game offer doesnt disrupt.
@@Oscar-us6sv Just learn russian
It's not impossible
@@ivannegrozny5388 thats true ivan. How couldnt I think of that comrade. Here, have nice bottle of vodka.
Представляю как трудно будет анекдоты перевести да еще и что бы смешно получилось!
Вот кого я точно не ожидал здесь увидеть!
Вот это да
this is impossible.
Это невозможно
Даа
Братан, боричелло! Перевели!
When you think about it. Duty is the polar opposite of Monolith and yet the exact same. They fight for a purpose they believe in, and they are sworn to it.
At least Duty members have free will, they actually could choose their cause.
@@GeneralTantzu This is also true.
I think it's even more interesting that they have absolute polar opposite color schemes, Duty with Black and Red and Monolith with White and Green
I kinda feel sad to Monolith... that Radioactive Pillar isn't going to save them but.. they got their ends already.
While Duty is doing their jobs where no one's going to do it but their own selves who are willing to sacrifice time and life. They just do it out of their worries against the Zone's negative effects on its surroundings and fighting every oppressive mutants they see.
Freedom however are a bit crazy, but not as crazy, sadistic and psychopathic as Mercs.
Duty is morally good, they choose freely to fight the zone.
They could be back home living comfortable and blissful lives. But they don’t, because the zone is ultimately the greatest threat.
Out of all factions, they seem to be the ones that are still the most humane after continuing to live in the zone.
Interesting.
And thank you for those translations.
Ofcourse because they are one of the powerful factions and got to live comfortably in the zone
@@killingfields6599 You're right. I think they may be very similar to mercenaries with that.
But their "mission" in the zone is different. Mercenaries are lead into it by a new possibility of earning money, duty are here to don't let the zone expand.
You clearly forget about Clear Sky...well, when theyre actually alived
They are former military men that are being deserted alone in the zone of course.
@B.L.I.N. or Monolithians, but I prefer to be dead instead of being rock prayer.
This makes me love them twice as much. Tireless Crusaders in black armor, exhausting every last grain of their soul for a cause greater than themselves, no matter the fact that nobody will ever celebrate these heroes.
Man it's so interesting hearing all this dialogue that is decades old at this point about the different factions of the Zone and their ideologies. Impeccable worldbuilding.
out of all factions dialogue it seems duty had remained the most human out of all of them, taking on an unshakable stoic martyrdom to destroy the zone.
They're also implied to be paid by Russia to stop Clear Sky and Ukraine from changing the zone, but they don't know.
They’re so hard on themselves. They’re very dedicated. I really appreciate these videos. I always wanted to know what the inhabitants of the Zone were talking about. I always felt like an outsider when standing at a camp fire, unable to understand what the others were talking about.
Duty is my faction of choice. Even if I play as a loner/ecologist/military, duty is the faction i'll get my standing with first. They are the most reasonable and level-headed and fair. They don't attack others senselessly, they protect the smaller and weaker factions and take pride in it. Most importantly, I hate the zone... Well.. The C-Con and those responsible for it's creation. Duty has taken upon themselves to control it and make sure it does not impact or harm people, especially those outside of the zone. It's a very noble cause. Military are literal pussies, too afraid to venture in again. Duty are ex-military that saw and experienced the zone and it's horrors and took it on a personal level. Against all odds determined to complete their original military mission (to destroy it) as it was made up of surviving members from the second disaster that were tasked to destroy it, so they will - come hell or high water, while the actual military are just sitting around the zone, too afraid to go back in until all anomalies have been mapped out and save paths guaranteed (which will never happen since it forever changes) you just have to take your losses and push in, just like Duty is doing! My utmost respect for them.
Military is about not letting anyone in that's all.
Same
I am dutyer also
@@erin9I6 Got wrecked in the same game they were introduced in pretty sure.
@@erin9I6 They are partly responsible for the creation of the zone as well as the largest emission that killed so many, including themselves.
Not to mention their leader Lebedev was the lead scientist in X8 which was the main lab that worked on the brain scorcher and inhumane experiments creating a lot of the human mutants... Then he actually joined his fellow bastard colleagues in the C-Consciousness pool.
There's absolutely nothing to like about them. They are one of the main bad guys in retrospect. If it wasn't for them - the zone, including a lot of the atrocities going on in it would either not exist or would exist in a lot more stable state....
My first priority is to either wipe them out (if I play with a enemy faction of theirs) or do enough of damage to faction relations so they declare war and then I wipe them out.
They only exist as a faction because they broke off from the other scientists due to some squabbles, but their guilt in all the atrocities that lead to the creation of the zone and everything bad in it is just the same. They can try to redeem themselves all they want but in my eyes even bandits and renegades have more redeeming qualities.
@@erin9I6 I proudly represent myself as Clear Sky member. They are somewhat similar to Ecologists, although I think they're more focused on Emissions and how to stop them, rather than Artefacts and other wonders of the Zone.
First i want to say thank you for doing all these translations. A lot of STALKER players have spent many many hours myself included playing the game without knowing what anyones discussing. These really add a lot of atmosphere and lore. Youre the first person to do this, and its very appreciated.
Secondly, the common theme i notice with basically every faction is that theyre all starving for decent food. It seems that food would be a huge moneymaker in the zone if you could ship it in since everyones living on bread, sausage and canned meat. I imagine that the factions whether duty, bandit, loner, or everyone in between would pay good money or even kill for good stuff like sweet canned peaches, candy bars, and good quality MREs
Constant lack of good (or even remotely decent) food is one of the reasons why “bars” are so profitable in the Zone. After days or weeks of living off hardtack, crappy sausage and canned meat stalkers are ready to pay hard cash for a portion of fried potatoes, pickles and tomatoes with some questionable (but freshly cooked) meat.
Problem is that Zone does not grow anything remotely edible and no farms exist inside for obvious reasons, while food traffic from outside is blocked or fleeced heavily by military.
However some stalkers developed a taste for mutant meat, eating bizarre “delicacies” like bloodsucker tentacles, flesh’s eyes (or whole Flesh) or mutated boar. Of course eating any mutant meat is risky since it carries unstable DNA strains, possibly unknown viruses or mutated parasites and of course radiation.
@@MrVlad12340 Not to mention that you gotta cook and purify the mutant meat instead of eating it raw. I imagine eating raw mutant meat would cause Clostridium, Listeria, and Campylobacter and also imagine the amount of radiation you would be consuming...
Moraly speaking, with Clear Sky gone theyare the only ones who try to fight of the Zone.
Yes it's npt going too well but everything they do is what I would expect from a bounch of people who saw the horrors of the Zone and thought "This cannot be allowed to exist"
They didn't really fight the Zone tho, rather, they knew it couldn't be destroyed since their leaders are ex-c-consciousness. They gave their all to stop Strelok from advancing into the Zone since they knew that would provoke the Zone. They are never portrayed fighting the Zone itself
Also, despite most of the CS being mercenaries, they somehow had unshakable trust in their leader and followed every order no matter what, as if there's some controlling going around
Every faction in the zone: *Hehe Cheeki Breeky*
Duty: _Why are we still here..._
Military's the latter, though.
Duty are true heroes.
They go into the zone without a single thought for themselves, they know they will never be known on the outside but they still fight to eradicate the zone to keep the world safe.
they are doomed soldiers that didnt give up after the failure of their mission
entered as military or ex stalker military and stayed as duty
I appreciate their intentions and dedication, but their methods seem like an exercise in futility. To borrow a quote from someone else, if the Zone could be destroyed by shooting at it, it would've vanished long ago. While the C-Consciousness was still active, Duty's actions only seemed to provoke it, like poking a hornet's nest. Now that the C-Con is gone and the Zone is wild and uncontrolled, who knows if Duty's provocations will make things better or worse.
I love these translations videos, it's worth understand what they say to comprehend their way of thinking. Looking forward to seeing translations for Svaboda !
Mе friend you're writing the word a little wrong. In fact it is written with an "o". But it is pronounced with "a" so I'm sorry that I dug into the details
СвОбода
@@Furry_Hunter_420 Lol yeah i recently took some interest in the russian language and learnt how to read cyrillic. I don't understand why sometimes o is pronounced a. Thanjs anyway ^^
@@louison3216 If you learned cyrillic like that you should get a scholarship immediately.
@@thelightside77 Lol yeah i wish i could actually ^^ Gotta finish math prep school first to have the time to do literraly anything else than math or physics...
As an English speaker, I've really missed a lot with these campfire stories. In spite of everything, the only thing that holds Duty together is 'if not me, then who?'
don't remember if it was an official NPC who told me this, but he said 'the Duty members are all great guys, but put enough of them together and they become raging zealots'.
this dialogue cements that. they sound like average joes who had enough of the Zone and decided to do what others could not, or would not do.
mob mentality, all it takes is one in a group to move them to violence
I have played this series from the first game and have enjoyed most of them. I really enjoy the setting and gameplay, but never bothered to look up what the actual spoken lines were. So I was basing that opinion of solely the text boxes and translated spoken bits, projecting my own opinion of factions personalities without understanding the untranslated stuff fleshing them out.
So Duty goes from being just another bland ‘generic mil dudes’ group into a bunch of world-weary special operations types exhausted from having to spend years fighting nigh unending hordes of horrific mutants breaking free, random thugs, morons messing with reality warping artifacts, and the world itself. All this with next to no supplies in a world where no one seems concerned about this active tumor on reality slowly spreading.
I actually like the series more now than before, a nice surprise for today.
Shit, I'm a diehard for Freedom, and I've had playthroughs where I'd go and wipe out the Bar of every single Dutyer I could find.
But now, I'm not so sure. I feel like a greater monster than anything the Zone could ever create. These were men, with the same needs and wants as anyone else, shaken to their very core by the horrors of the Zone. Now, I'm not so sure about where my ideas have led me.
I mean, Duty would literally go hell and high water to defend against the Zone. I'd argue that their points to destroy all of the Zone can be quite tempered with goodwill, as seen with their defense for the Ecologists.. and even the Loners. If their flaw is that they will not allow anyone to use the Zone for gain... then why do they establish a base in the center of the Zone where Loners are allowed to roam and have a safe place to sleep before heading to the more dangerous parts of the Zone? If Freedom wasn't the one who was defending the Barrier, they'd protect that area aswell. I'd wager they'd practically even eat their own guts and ask for more. Duty is fucking relentless. With the Zone even increasing now, because of the deaths of C-Consciousness... we need more people like the Duty.
Good thing this evaluation happened through video games
This one is really making me look forward to the Clear Sky campfire conversations.
I feel like if they hadn't been wiped out that there would have been more than a few joint operations between Clear Sky and Duty.
Not really, clear sky don't have a very good opinion on duty due to their struggle for power in the żonę. Source: there is a campfire phrase about it
Love the line where the duty soldier gives freedom credit for warfare. My first impression of them was negative in SOC since they block you from entering the bar unless you have something they want.
They also mocked me for not killing enough mutants when they attacked the encampment out side. Maybe I would of been more receptive if I understood the small talk they had. They are clearly exhausted from a mission that may very well be impossible to accomplish.
Там ещё проблема в недоработанности этого квеста с помощью отстрела мутантов. По идее вы должны были получить награду или раньше времени получить проход на территорию Бара, но в итоге вышел такой вариант.
The best so far. Were all others succumb to the Zone's influence (with good cause no doubt) Duty keep their courage.
I love how they’re so depressed and all when speaking at a campfire, but when you speak with them they’re like "join dooty they gave me cool uniform"
If the zone really existed id join Duty
Skinwalker Ranch is the closest thing to a real life "The Zone"
if I had to make an absolute choice between all the factions in the zone, I'd stand with Duty.
They are the true good guys of the zone
@@K555-v2q Them and military, the State service runs a program that sends soldiers who know nothing about the zone to the zone, at least they're fighting for a good cause but the sacrifices
@@jordanrasoldier4691Sometimes they do garbage, for example, they shoot stalkers, they can simply send or insult them.
@@Meldstoridk, I don't think people who go to Zone do that from a good life. Due to that, stalkers might be really desperate and willing to do anything to not go to prison, including murder. Zone is basically a chaotic hotspot where everyone is on their own
I love your videos
You make STALKER feel like there's actual pain and struggles in the zone, I was having a burnout on the series with the same shit it had to offer, until I watched the translated videos of dialogues you did, there are actually struggles in the zone
I love playing as Duty in Anomaly Warfare mode fighting back the inevitable Monolith rush towards Rostok. Just trying to survive, protect your brothers, and have a drink at the end of the day. That's all you really can do; just hold the line.
Maaan, this translation videos are awesome and great. And with that music from Metro in background... Perfection. Unbelievable that 13 year old game can still surprise me :D
I don't think you have any idea how ready I am for Clear Sky's campfire chatter.
clear sky says the same thing as loners, with the exception of quest characters
@@Свиньявзиндане :(
Started stalker a few days ago, my first impression of Duty was they were army dogs put it more inside of the zone, but with time I saw they were a really cool faction and they I trying to actually help the others instead of other more selfish factions around here. Even im doin now my base inside his headquarters (they holded a chimera last night, my god)
These are awesome, I always wondered what exactly the npcs said. I could make out some, but not all of it. Thank you a lot stalker info !
Love the old Metro soundtrack
Do you know the track's name?
@@gigagleb9842 найти просто достаточно, Metro 2033 - The Anomaly
@@maksos9268 Ага, отыскал уже. Спасибо все равно
Hey Stalker Info? Could you perhaps make a list of all the songs Stalkers mention in-game? I was thinking about making a lore friendly music list about it. Thanks a lot in advance. I apricate your work a bunch :)
Bumping so the homie can see it
The things those experienced stalkers say and talk about... I wonder why they haven't got PTSD yet.
they probably have it tbh
Many of them have it already, even the military guys at the borders of the Zone. I'm sure i heard in SoC military recruit uniform talking about the body of his friend that was mangled by some creature .
'Как его тварь разделала' or smth like that
it’s more traumatic stress disorder than post traumatic stress disorder
You're a blessing brother thank you for these
3:01 Since when was Cascade featured? Eternal respect to the soliders who fought in that dammed country.
I afraid we won't able to hear Kukushka anymore in Stalker II probably,in today's rate...
Waiting for a Freedom one. Need to hear them say “bro” a thousand times!
This is how Stalker got factions right. In games like Skyrim, the only major two factions are either imperialist empires played like a puppet by elves or nord supremacists who want to kick out all non-nords.
In Stalker, every faction actually makes sense. Freedom, who’ve seen the beauty of the Zone and want to live in harmony with it. Duty, who’ve seen the horrors of the zone, and want to destroy it to protect humanity. Ecologists, who want to understand the Zone to better mankind. Military, who try to contain the Zone and cordon it off to prevent people from getting hurt. Mercs, who want to make a quick buck. There are a couple others, but you get my point. The player is able to choose from a cornucopia of complex moral dilemmas and doesn’t railroad the player into ends that they don’t agree with. More than that, the game doesn’t shame you for choosing any of them.
Duty > those anarchists in green
Лучшая группировка!
Humanity's last defense, whether you like to agree or not they'll still try to destroy the zone to keep people from getting hurt by it even if the military decides to run away from it.
Prefer not to pick sides, but I feel closer to Duty.
I enjoy helping the people of the zone. Duty, freedom, mercenary, bandit. Doesn't matter. They're all the same. Bunch of people suffering. You can't just stand there and watch.
Nah, I don't feel bad for mercenaries because they are here only for money and chosen their own destiny
Wow thanks, you just make me to love Duty even more
The reason why i love stalker is because every faction actually are really amazing
And the they took a step out of the bar and whole squad wiped out by 4 Blind Dogs, such is life for a Dutier.
Lets be honest, the AI isn’t really state of the art.
Duty can be extreme but atleast at the core they want to do good, them actively hunting mutants and create safe zone like the Bar has helped alot of stalkers.
I usually play as a merc, but whenever I run into duty, I do everything I can to avoid killing them. I like dolg.
And people still like "freedom"
Man after seeing the zombie video it's not surprising how they are so jaded and depressed but bound by duty in a hope that they accomplish their mission.
And my request has come true, great work man
Freedom have cool uniforms, but Duty is the way. Not everything should be free. Dangerous stuff should not for sure
Thank you for capturing the damnation that is the zone
I was planning to do a Merc playthrough so I listened to the campfire translations of both. Imma play Duty next.
Man, if I better understood the code of the old subtitles mod, I'd love to incorporate all this stuff.
Brothers, only in Death does Duty end!
Emperor protects... oh wait :)
Fantastic work. Do you have plans to do translations from original Shadow of Chernobyl? I love these translations of the Call of Pripyat dialogue, but I'm curious what characters talked about in SoC. There are loners and bandits that sit around campfires telling stories and jokes to each other, I've always wondered what they are saying.
Everyone starts a neutral stalker, enjoy the stay as freedom enjoyer but at the end, at the end we all rather die protecting our love ones from the zone with our brothers from duty
Oddly, this gives me a much greater appreciation for Duty. I have only played Anomaly upto the point of driving out Sin as a Loner. I thought Duty was too square like Military but i might have to dig into them deeper.
absolute chads, instead of leaving the zone aftrr getting their asses kicked they made their own faction and stayied to fight for the safety of everyone
Average Duty:
Redpilled Authoritarian who wants to destroy the zone.
BASED
@Theo F Bro, I'm Duty lol
Sometimes you gotta be authoritarian.
my man i have been looking for these chatters for a long time, thank you. Can you make the music a bit less?
0:05
I guess he means for 10 hours
He actually says six hundred, like he starts with "Six..." and adds a "hundred minutes" after that
Loner and Bandits are the working poor, looking for things that will improves their economic situations.
Duty forces themselves to not stops out of fears toward what will happen if they stops, they are scares in the unknown possibility of what would happen if they stops destroying things of the zone.
I can definitely respect duty for what they believe in, but I'm Clear Sky at heart, plus, I highly doubt that even with all their high end gear and noble cause, they can hold back The Zone, mutants, and C-Con forever, and the Zone doesn't seem like something that can be destroyed
The Khan music in that spooky level did fit well DUTY soldiers background. A tired person pushed to it's limits in a cold and cruel zone where you're used to kill inhumane things that go away from your understanding
sheesh your channel is blowing up.
Amazing videos. Please make one about Freedom next, I love those bros.
I would like to see what things the ecologists say. That would be interesting.
Duty= A good way die, serving humanity
1:50 мысли кладмена
Орнул с подливой
In fairness, the Dolgovites can (and should) be understood - for the most part they come from the army, police and other security forces who are accustomed to strict control, and the average age of a member of this group is around 30-40 years old (and some Dolgovites are old enough to be fathers to their ideological opponents from the Svoboda group). These are people who are used to responsibility for their loved ones and their homeland, so even the very existence of such an abomination as a Zone (from which it is not clear at all what to expect) forces them to take up arms.
Make english translation for Operation "Monolith" sequence.
The metro music is so good bro
man the duty's is like SCP foundation, they contain the anomalies inside the zone, and will do anything to do it.
Концовка шикарная.
Will you also do combat voice lines?
Can't wait for the next video, what faction are you gonna do next?
Duty ppl can be assholes, but they are the best faction. They lost brothers and want their revenge to protect others.
Freedom is ambiguous with bandits, recruiting either from them or from loners. Pretty sure they buy their drugs from them, showing brotherhood to loners but helping their bullies prosperate.
Да.... Правду говорят парни
I will always join Duty. I will not let the zone claim another life.
In Anomaly the also tell some scary stories but I don't fully understand
Huh at 0:06 is that a literal translation? If so, that's interesting the use minutes to emphasize sleep time.
Yes it's literal translation. Basically means he would like to take a long nap.
Freedom and Duty reminds me of the SCP foundation and the chaos insurgency, in how one side wants to learn about the anomalies and the other side wants to destroy them
Duty studies the anomalous
Freedom doesn't care about them (and even attacks research groups)
@@skyyy7544I think duty is more like the global occult coalition since they both want to destroy their own world anomaly’s. I think the ecologists are more like the Scp foundation
Duty is Based
Уменя идея, сделай озвучку на английский язык из билдов(по типу 2205) там озвучка как по мне ещё атмосфернее чем в оригинале
What soundtracks plays on the background?
Ghost tunnel from Metro 2033 OST
Join Duty!!! Destroy The Zone!!!
will do clear sky and freedom too ?
Are you doing freedom campfire conversations
JOIN DUTY AND SAVE THE INNOCENT!
Братья Сталкера, теперь я завидую англоязычным, что не понимали о чем говорят Сталкера,для них внутри игровой мир да и вообще представления об игре перевернулись:)