Mercenary plant respawn Thread - MISERY mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

I'm playing as recon now and planning on taking out 1-2 mercenaries each day till I can take the base. Will they spawn over an over again?

Edited by: Gordyne

Oh yeah. In groups of about 10. After you return from Pripyat the first time then Monolith groups of 10 or so. Nice loot

I'm talking about taking 2 of them and coming back the other day.

Will these 2 spawn again or can I kill 2-3 each day and take their base in a week maybe?

Nvm. I guess i'll have to fight the whole base at once, lol.

My bad, I should have figured that out. No, there will be no replacements until you clean whole base out. Be careful, you either need to save Ridge or Hook for last or be able to loot at least one body to get the PDA. I don't think it breaks the storyline, but it will eliminate at least one dialog option. My last time, I engaged another group of NPC's nearby and the whole bandit base trickled out to engage me. They all walked well outside the walls, I looted everybody, but was missing Ridge. I came back hours later and caught him alone hunched behind cover.

Interesting. Thanks for the tips.
I'm more interested in the calibration tools, but i'll try to save the PDA

Sniper tools are in different locations, I just kill them for fun and money.

Gordyne wrote: Interesting. Thanks for the tips.
I'm more interested in the calibration tools, but i'll try to save the PDA

If your playing with Recon, you wont find calibration tools in there. Just sayin. xD

Edited by: *Raubtier*

It's still a good place to practice your sneaking skills and tactics... As long as you don't let the loot disappear with the bodies (1 hour). I edit my monsters.ltx decay and removal times to 3 hours for duration of that battle so as not to miss out on the goodies. Performance hit is too high to keep it there, but for a single battle well worth it.

I've been headshotting them with silenced Colt, loot the body and run.
The exoskeleton one is giving me trouble. I'm trying to buy an AS val but owl never offers it to me

You've got a decent chance of finding a fixable one. The better weapons don't start becoming available for sale until you progress a bit. Your best chance of them early is looting.

Just to be sure: I've found basic and fine tools in zaton. There are 1 calibration in zaotn and 1 in jupiter for recon right?
I'd hate to look for Cal tools in Zaton if both are in Jupiter.

I don't know the Recon tool locations, but I'm sure there are calibration tools in all 3 maps. No idea why there's 3, because you can't sell the extra one. My first play through as Sniper I finally resorted to hints via google, and still had fun spotting them If you want to avoid cheating, just explore everywhere. It's kind of the point of moving them from the vanilla locations. Some are zero challenge to grab, some can be very fun depending on the lucky roll of the mutant spawning dice.