Gas

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Gas
Location of the Gas cluster at Stranded Tree.
Overview
Type	Chemical (Delayed action)
Internal ID	zone_isparenie
ID location	zone_isparenie.ltx (v1.30013 - 1.4005) zone_buzz.ltx (v1.4007)
Lost Alpha Statistics
Artifacts	Crystal Thorn 2% Urchin 1%
Locations	Damned
Developer's Cut Statistics
Artifacts	Liver (Flesh Chunk) 50% Slug 50% Rock (Stone Bile) 20% "Soul" 20% Slime 20% Mica 20% Bubble 20% Pellicle 10%
Locations	Dark Valley Damned Old Road

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Gas is an anomaly appearing in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Lost Alpha from v1.30013.

Overview

v1.30013 - 1.4005:

• The gamefile control codes were almost certainly defined by "zone_isparenie".
• Largely unproductive. Difficult to explore.
• The locations of several underground specimens has long been a source of confusion as to its identity.

v1.4007:

• Spawn set completely revised, old set assigned to Rusty Hair.
• New spawn set very similar to Witches' Jelly. The difference being that this anomaly attacks after a delay, hence they may be sprinted through without penalty.
• Also present in Dark Valley and Old Road.
• Exceptionally dangerous to explore without suitable precautions.

Notes

• The anomalies may be explored provided that the player uses a high level of "chemical burn" protection. Other protection is not needed.
• Without protective "chem burn" measures, death is very rapid.

Trivia

• There is some wildlife nearby in the sewers, getting them to expire and trigger the anomalies may be frustrating.
• As with the Grabber anomaly, players may again kill their actor in the anomaly to precipitate Artifact Spawns (ironically fulfilling the initial Kill Strelok task that was cancelled)
• N.B. The spawn results may be observed on the console, but actual spawns usually take over 20 seconds to activate.
• N.B.2 'Actor suicide' at the examples on Stranded Tree will probably be unproductive. The player's actor is indeed killed by any of the anomalies but then falls off the tree removing the object from the spawn radius.

Gallery

An easier example to trigger-spawn in the sewers.

There are several of these anomalies up both of the wrenched (stranded) trees in Old Road. They look like whirlwinds.

The 'Stranded Tree'.