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The note suggests that the Miner might know something...

The PDA itself is not there - you have to read the note that is there to figure out where to go next.

in the room next to Kolmogor. He should have moved there earlier, after you scouted the village for Kolmogor after the military attack.

When you give Pilgrim the photo, it shouldn't take more than a few minutes before he calls you to say it is ready. If he doesn't, it may be because he is in the wrong location - although if that is a problem I wouldn't have thought he would have taken the original photo. I don't know what the triggers are, though.

If you haven't already done so, try reloading from when you took the photo. If you get the same result, a couple of other things you could try...

Info portion pili_poddelka_est gave me Pilgrim's next dialogue after he edits the photo. The "Retouched photo of the Monolith Stone" then appeared in my inventory. I took this to Maximilian and he accepted it.

If Pilgrim still won't talk, try spawning in the photo itself (item psewdofoto) and see if Max will take that.

head off to Dark Valley. He is often in the bandit's camp on the ground floor below the staircase and usually wears an exoskeleton outfit. Do a quicksave and lob a grenade for no witnesses to keep bandits friendly or wait until he moves off and unseen bump him off then. If unfriendly to bandits it is easier. You will know if you have succeeded with the blue message and pda in your sack.

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]quote="Vadrigos"]Thanks. I solved the issue with the playboy thing using quick-spawn. I didn't feel like doing THAT particular fetch quest. I did not help the wounded bandit though. Bandits are for satisfying my need to shoot things that can still shoot back.

I might make peace later on, but there's not much point since I already killed them all

EDIT: Actually I'm starting to abuse the quick-spawn menu more. Some of these quests are just pure tedium. The level of fetching going on is getting annoying.[/quote]

o Degtyarev's Light machine gun 'RPD'
o Mercenary researcher suit
o Five bottles of 'Nemiroff' vodka
o Three cans of 'Chernigov' beer
o Five cans of 'Adrenaline Rush'
o Two green military ration packs
o Three 'Yantar' cheeses
o Five cans of nuts

Syak normally gives MO the number to open the door that eventually opens Warlab, but despite doing several jobs for Syak and having the job for the Duty Captain for a certain edition of Playboy, no number has been forthcoming

fetch some tools from Sid. When you return with them, he gives you your reward (Soul recipe + Tirex' suit) then tells you the door code.

if you heal the wounded bandit, and do the missions which include one to get a pda back for Borov, it leads to a recipe; recipes are important not only for helping to make your character more protected from bullets psi attack etc, but because parts of the game require them. Once Borov has given you the reward for getting him the pda: which helps in a mission for Akim, he can be killed by MO. If done carefully, it is possible to gain. If NPCs do not witness a kill they remain friendly, so room by room, they can be sold whatever spoils you sell & get to a previous group, and then all comes back to you, so at the end you have more money than bumping the whole lot off as enemies. In the armoury is a pile of vodka, giving this to bandits gets you stash info, provided you have the money decoder. After the lab, there are plenty of military to engage with. If you go to the script, you can make fighting a lot tougher for you. If you really want it tough, try spawning in some LDK special soldiers.
Stalkersoup, is essentially a story FPS. It is quite linear, if you spawn in, then this could frustrate mission goals. For a first attempt imo, reading through the walkthroughs which do have spoilers in, will let you know whether you feel it suits you enough in the FPS aspect sufficiently. Good hunting.
pchester has produced 2 excellent walkthrough guides.

I went up, killed the two mercenaries who were up there, and I found the portal.
After many laps, I returned to Recon, where I could not find either Fang or Pilgrim.
Many laps later, and seeing the forum, I discovered that they were in Warehouses.
(This is a serious error that there is not a clue to find them, they could be anywhere in the Zone).



And when I finally talk to Fang, he tells me that I should ask Lukash for the favor.
And my problem is that ... well, this is Lukash when I go to see him:



He's been dead for a long, loooong time, when I help Duty attack the Freedom base.
I even have a bugged quest to find two controller brains.

So it's simple: I need a way to continue this mission, revive Lukash, or whatever, that does not involve returning 80 saved games back, because it would be the fourth time that as long I have been playing, that I must return several savegame back.