Man of Honour
Saw this on my feed today and watched in hype of the game, quite cool and gnarly.
Stalker 2
- Thread starter Tombstone
- Start date
Soldato
Followed these guys a few years ago, they get up to some crazy crazy stuff inside the zone
Man of Honour
I plan to watch their other videos this weekend!
Soldato
If you like the vibes of Kreosan but with a bit less craziness, i'd highly reccomend Shieys.
Does a lot of exploring abandoned builders and some crazy trainopping stuff across Europe, and has two videos visiting Chernobyl:
Does a lot of exploring abandoned builders and some crazy trainopping stuff across Europe, and has two videos visiting Chernobyl:
Soldato
R5 never had it's core installed. The crane is nearby, huge black thing.
For us, it was a little tricky visiting R5. Half of it is privately owned, half by the power plant. The lad who organised our trips fell out with the private owner. We were supposed to only go in one part - we didn't obvs.
Always found the R5 visit a bit stressful. Spending a few hours in a concrete and metal box with few windows and lots of unseen holes in the floor. How no one has died I'll never know.
Last edited:
Man of Honour
I'm quite familiar with urbex having been part of a close group of friends where we explored much of the UK and some of Europe for a good 8 years before life stuff got in the way, miss it very much but also a lot of the proper urbexy locations have been knocked down so we were lucky to get into the places we did before it was too late.
Battersea power station before it got revamped? Completed it mate!
Blackfriars tower as it was still being built and climbing the crane on the top? Completed it mate!
A derelict prison in the south of France? Completed it mate!
Derelict cooling towers and blast furnaces tucked into Antwerp Belgium? Completed it mate!
NGTE Pyestock before it got demolished? Completed it mate!
To name a few.
The funkiest one was actually various mental asylums around southern UK where we had to enter via service tunnels under ground and the wash water tunnels under London, those were impressive stuff as well as the connecting tunnels under Portsdown Hill over this way, miles of tunnels under there
Battersea power station before it got revamped? Completed it mate!
Blackfriars tower as it was still being built and climbing the crane on the top? Completed it mate!
A derelict prison in the south of France? Completed it mate!
Derelict cooling towers and blast furnaces tucked into Antwerp Belgium? Completed it mate!
NGTE Pyestock before it got demolished? Completed it mate!
To name a few.
The funkiest one was actually various mental asylums around southern UK where we had to enter via service tunnels under ground and the wash water tunnels under London, those were impressive stuff as well as the connecting tunnels under Portsdown Hill over this way, miles of tunnels under there
Soldato
I'm quite familiar with urbex having been part of a close group of friends where we explored much of the UK and some of Europe for a good 8 years before life stuff got in the way, miss it very much but also a lot of the proper urbexy locations have been knocked down so we were lucky to get into the places we did before it was too late.
Battersea power station before it got revamped? Completed it mate!
Blackfriars tower as it was still being built and climbing the crane on the top? Completed it mate!
A derelict prison in the south of France? Completed it mate!
Derelict cooling towers and blast furnaces tucked into Antwerp Belgium? Completed it mate!
NGTE Pyestock before it got demolished? Completed it mate!
To name a few.
The funkiest one was actually various mental asylums around southern UK where we had to enter via service tunnels under ground and the wash water tunnels under London, those were impressive stuff as well as the connecting tunnels under Portsdown Hill over this way, miles of tunnels under there
We've probably been in a North Essex Asylum at the same time, grew up with one right behind my parents house and spent my childhood and late teens exploring and taking people over there!
Sadly gone and all houses now, but the water tower still remains and I enjoy telling people I've been at the top after climbing through a sketchy window to a flooded basement
Man of Honour
Sounds like one of the ones we did! One did have a water tower too. I've got all the photos so will try to remember to have a trawl later!We've probably been in a North Essex Asylum at the same time, grew up with one right behind my parents house and spent my childhood and late teens exploring and taking people over there!
Sadly gone and all houses now, but the water tower still remains and I enjoy telling people I've been at the top after climbing through a sketchy window to a flooded basement
Soldato
Oooo do share, i've got most of mine on a hard drive somewhere, but haven't had the time to properly trawl through the dozens of random old spinning metal i've got in cupboard to find them!
Man of Honour
I've uploaded a selection here:
URBEX Gallery (by @robbiekhan)
Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and so much more from users.
imgur.com
Sneaky preview:
Soldato
I've uploaded a selection here:
URBEX Gallery (by @robbiekhan)
Discover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and so much more from users.
Sneaky preview:
That's the one I was thinking of haha
Great photos! I dread to think about how much asbestos was in those tunnels
I was lucky, could just hop the back fence and was in the grounds and could walk over the ward buildings, but did spend some time in the tunnels popping up at random places too!
They've turned the old listed Admin building into this weird 5 bedroom house with ZERO garden, front or back, with footpaths either side, so you walk past it and look straight into someone's £1million plus house
Last edited:
Man of Honour
Hah we had face masks for the few places that had obvious asbestos so should be ok, should be...Great photos! I dread to think about how much asbestos was in those tunnels
Yeah, seems the lad dunked his head in the wrong place.
Soldato
I'm curious how the AI will be in this as it was legendary in the originals now that they are using UE 5. Style over substance? we shall see..
Last edited:
Associate
I can't wait to get this game I just hope that it isn't a disappointment as I loved the other games, such an atmosphere !
Soldato
- Joined
- 2 Jul 2019
- Posts
- 2,580
That's the main part of the game imo. If the atmosphere ain't there then we have problems. Though i don't see any cause for concern currently as mod support is there.
Associate
- Joined
- 11 Aug 2007
- Posts
- 1,662
I really wanted the ultimate physical edition of the game with the backpack, lamp and figurine. It sold out and they're doing one final run of it now, so it's still available, but it's like £430 including shipping, which is absolutely astronomical and ridiculous for a limited edition of a video game. You can basically buy a console for that. I might just buy the ultimate edition of the game on CDKeys, and see if there are any cheaper ultimate physical editions going on eBay in the new year.
Edit: I've just pre-ordered the ultimate edition on CDKeys, any idea if we get the early bird pre-order bonuses with this version as well? This is the stuff you get (on the Steam listing):
Edit: I've just pre-ordered the ultimate edition on CDKeys, any idea if we get the early bird pre-order bonuses with this version as well? This is the stuff you get (on the Steam listing):
- Extended Campfire Content: more guitar tunes and tales that you can hear in the game around the stalkers' campfires
- 'Early Bird' Weapon Skin
- 'Early Bird' Costume Skin
- 'Early Bird' Multiplayer Badge
- Steam Pack: Animated Avatar, Animated Avatar Frame & Animated Profile Background
Last edited:
That's crazy money for what you get