IGN: S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl Cheats, Codes and Cheat Codes

Which are you? IGN doesn't care so long as you read this guide! If you need to know what to bring along and where to stash it, then look no further.

What's more, all the potential crashes from the launch version are noted so you can avoid having an honest to goodness dead game. Maps, points of interest, and hard to find weapons are all found here.

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Hint - Kosteyer Grenade Launcher Attachment

Find a grenade launcher attachment for the AKM 74/2 in the Dark Valley's secret lab. It is on the first level of the lab, in one of the many, many lockers in the locker room.

Submitted by simalcrum

Hint - Free Stalker Suit From A New Game

At the very beginning of the game, you need to talk to a stalker named Wolf in the Cordon newbie camp. Behind Wolf is a ladder that leads to an empty backpack in the attic.

Climb the ladder but do not enter the attic. Instead, walk around the ledge formed where the roof and walls meet. You can work your way onto the roof of the house that way.

Once on top of the roof of this house, there is an identical house north of the one you are on. You can sprint and jump to the roof of that adjacent house (you take a little damage).

When you get to the second house's roof, carefully make your way to the side with a hole in the roof -- just past it, you should be able to make out a wooden crate you can destroy. If you spoke to Wolf and accepted the mission to rescue Nimble, you should have a pistol.

Shoot the wooden crate and a Stalker suit (worth 15,OOO Rubles) will be inside. Simply grab it and you'll be immediately better off than you think you could be!

Submitted by Photec

Hint:Ammo and Armor

Up the road outside the village where the Trader is a Box Car with two crates in it. Inside the crates is some ammo and another armor suit.

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Hint - Barrels of Fun

If you shoot an NPC in the game, he and his faction will open fire on you. However, you can use the red explosive barrels to kill them and it will not count as a "source of damage" against your character.

You can try this against some of the Freedom NPCs in the Army Warehouses who are standing next to what amounts to a giant bomb that only needs your gunfire to detonate. In fact, if you have the patience to locate red explosive barrels in pacified areas, you can use this exploit to bag a lot of items and loot.

Submitted by Taylor Forestman (Virginia Tech)

Hint - M203 Grenade Launcher Attachment

Find a permanently placed 203 grenade launcher attachment in the Warehouses. Apparently, placed items (as opposed to stash boxes) are not randomized.

Talk to the guards at the Freedom base and tell them about the Duty raiders so you can enter their headquarters building. Once inside, there are two NPCs on the first floor -- Skinflint (their trader) and some guard in front of their armory.

Save the game (in case something goes wrong), and use the knife's secondary attack (the puncture) to kill the armory guard. Because the attack is silent, no one should hear the scuffle. You can enter the armory and make use of their stash boxes, and take the TSR 301 with the attached 203 launcher.

If in the case the gun is no where to be found, it might have fallen off the table it was resting on. You should be able to spot it on the floor in the corner of the armory. With a little crouching and manuevering, you should be able to pick it up.

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Hint - Make the Dead More Useful Than Radioactive Fertilizer

Normally, you can only carry 50 kliograms of weight, which pretty much you can lug around several hundred rounds of ammunition, the weapons that fire the ammo, armor, grenades, etc.

However, you should notice you can load all of those items on a human dead body (not animals or mutants), and simply use the SHIFT + USE function to drag the corpse along with you. This way, you can load a corpse with any number of items and move them from one location to another.

Since you cannot attack while dragging a corpse, you may only want to use this "one slow trip" when in a situation that has left very few enemies on the map.

Additionally, you cannot take a dead body from one place to another (meaning all this must take place on the same map). Items on dead bodies also randomize once you switch maps, so never leave items you want to keep on a dead body, or you lose them forever when you go to another place.

Submitted by John Ciesla

Easter Egg - Gordon Freeman

If you have played Half-Life, you know the main character is Gordon Freeman. His events are set prior to the events you are now involved in. Ever wonder what happened to him?

After you have escorted Kruglov to Lake Yantar, go back to the downed HIND helicopter in Rostok Wildlands (where you first triggered the escort Kruglov mission).

Nearby, you can see where there is an entrance to an underground garage area. Various anomalies are active in the area but are easily avoided. Looking in you can see a campfire. Head there and check around. There will be the remains of a corpse on a mattress inside a large metal ship container. Near the fire is a dead body.

Searching the body you'll find a unique handgun called Big Ben that fires PAB-9, SP-5 and SP-6 ammo. You will also acquire a new entry in your PDA (about other PDAs) with a number of notes as to what happened to Dr. Freeman.

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