USER'S MANUAL

INTRODUCTION

Dear Stalkers, welcome to The Zone once more!

We've started to develop Lost Alpha in the summer of 2008. The project first started out as a modification to add back the cut levels which all Stalker fans knew of. After a while, it became more than just a modification, it became our dream game, how we saw S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

We hope to give you the same feeling when you first played S.T.A.L.K.E.R. A new chapter with familiar ele-ments without which S.T.A.L.K.E.R. would not be the game we all grew to love. Lost Alpha was a labour of love. We are passionate about it and we hope you all will enjoy it as much as we enjoyed creating it!

The Dezowave Team

MAP OF THE ZONE

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Lost Factory

Countryside

Military Warehouses

Great Metal Factory

Forest

Dark Valley

Garbage

Darkscape

Dead City

Generators

Pripyat

Outskirts

Radar

Swamps

Yantar

Construction site

Agroprom Institute

Rostok Factory

Cordon

HUD

Minimap Online contactRed: hostileYellow: neutralGreen: friendly

Task objectivemarker

Onlinecontacts

PDAnotification

Date & time

Compass

Irradiation

TirednessFire modeHealth bar& bleeding indicatorStamina

Flashlightbattery

Current weapon& ammunition

Thirst

Psy level

Hunger

Weaponcondition

PDA

Downloads

Place map marker

Zoom outZoom in to actor

Zoom inZoom out to Zone map

Encyclopedia

Skills

Statistics

Ranking

Contacts

Diary

Map

Tasks

INVENTORY

BeltDrag your ammo & artefacts here

Knifeslot

Flashlightslot

Sidearmslot

Item name

Main weapon slot

Suit slot

Item condition

Item weight

Item value

Item description

Bleeding

Armor condition

Irradiation

Stamina

Satiety

Hydration

Immunites& penalties fromequipped items

Backpack contents

Total weightMoneyTime

Weight limit

DEFAULT CONTROLS

Menu

Console

Knife

Pistol

Rifle

Grenade

Binoculars

Bolt

Next weapon

Fire mode

Prev fire mode

Next fire mode

Reload

Fire weapon

Ironsights / scope

Inventory

Medkit

Bandage

Flashlight

Nightvision

First person view

Second person view

Third person view

Move forward

Move Backward

Turn Left

Turn right

Strafe left

Strafe right

Peer left

Peer right

Crouch

Sprint

Toggle sprint

Jump

Use

Drop

Start the engine

PDA

Map

Active tasks

Enable UI

Disable UI

Quick save

Quick load

Screenshot

ESC

~

1

2

3

4

5

6

Y

V

9

0

R

Mouse 1

Mouse 2

I

[

]

L

N

F1

F2

F3

Up arrow

Down arrow

Left arrow

Right arrow

A

D

Q

E

Left CTRL

Left SHIFT

X

SPACE

F

G

B

TAB

M

P

=

-

F6

F7

F12

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

STATIC LIGHTNING MODE:Intel Core2Duo or equivalent AMD CPU around 2 GHZ Speed2 GB RAMNVIDIA 9800 GT, or equivalent ATI/AMD HD3000 SERIES vGA Card20 GB Free space on HDD

FULL DYNAMIC LIGHTING WITHOUT SPECIAL EFFECTS:Intel Core2Duo or equivalent AMD CPU around 3 GHZ Speed4 GB RAMNVIDIA GT500 series, or equivalent ATI/AMD HD5000 SERIES VGA Card20 GB Free space on HDD64bit operating system

FULL DYNAMIC LIGHTING WITH ALL SPECIAL EFFECTS:Intel MULTICORE (I3, I5) or equivalent AMD CPU around 3 GHZ Speed4 to 6 GB RAMNVIDIA GT600 SERIES, or equivalent ATI/AMD HD6000 SERIES VGA Card20 GB Free space on HDD64bit operating system

FULL DYNAMIC LIGHTING DX10 WITH ALL SPECIAL EFFECTS:Intel I5, I7 or equivalent AMD CPU around 3.5 GHZ Speed8 GB RAM or more!NVIDIA GT700 SERIES, or equivalent ATI/AMD HD7000 SERIES VGA Card20 GB Free space on HDD64bit operating system

Please Note: Laptop mobility vga chipset performance is not equal to the desktop version!

DEZOWAVE TEAM

Project lead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dez (Zoltan Munkacsi)Lead Programmers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Griph00n (Ventura Del Monte) utak3r (Piotr Borys)Features / Gameplay Programmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Skyloader (Vladislav Skuratov) Griph00n (Ventura Del Monte)Core / Engine Programmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kolmogor utak3r (Piotr Borys)Shaders Programmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cjayho (Henry Hey)Lead Level Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dez (Zoltan Munkacsi)Lead Environment Artist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cromm Cruac (Marcin Zemczak)Lead Game Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vintar (Bradley Hean)Game Designers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Loxotron (Oleg The Bitard) Dez (Zoltan Munkacsi) Griph00n (Ventura Del Monte)Modellers / Texture Artists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cromm Cruac (Marcin Zemczak) lijenstina (Vuk Gardasevic) Gnomus (Brian Frank) kailniris (David Kailniris) MaxOFF (Maxim Chernov) C*O*L*T (Eugene Wozniak)Animations Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Loxotron (Oleg The Bitard) Gnomus (Brian Frank) Skyloader (Vladislav Skuratov) C*O*L*T (Eugene Wozniak)Audio Engineers / Musicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LiquidBronze (Jason Stickel) Klangsegler (Marco Schink) Dez (Zoltan Munkacsi) cjayho (Henry Hey)Voice Actor Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LiquidBronze (Jason Stickel)Voice Actors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zerknautscher (Hauke Kolle) Eugene (Yevgeniy Malygin) Justin (Justin Hand) Brian (Brian McManus) Serafim12 (Sanya Mankov) Chris (Chris Dattoli) Austin (Austin Harris) Roman (Chris Roman) Sidorovich :) (Eric Tassil) Strelok :) (Jay Appleyard) Jim (Jim McCabe) Kerry (Kerry Dubyk) Sean (Sean Polite) Stig (Stig Sydtangen)Special thanks to the following Voice Actors . . . . . . . . Hauke Kolle (Narrator for the intro movie and many, many NPCs) Jim McCabe (Narrator for the 2012 Trailer and Various NPCs)Localization Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . basist (Aleksey Petrenko) NoSf3rAtU (Leonardo Sassi) atikabubu (Lukasz Stanczak) Boris47

Designers (artwork, gui) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tzupi (Robert Haab) Cromm Cruac (Marcin Zemczak) Someguy 353 (Sheng Guo Wu) Dave (Emich dEfidieu) czechdeath (Daniel Tejnicky)Q/A Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tejas Stalker hhiker (Laura Loolaid) czechdeath (Daniel Tejnicky) Killer Angel (Cristian George) atikabubu (Lukasz Stanczak) Maximus (Drikus Oosthuizen) basist (Aleksey Petrenko) NoSf3rAtU (Leonardo Sassi) PlotnikoffDD (Dimitry PlotnikoffSite / Forum Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bg (Balazs Hajdu) jwknaggs (John Knaggs) atikabubu (Lukasz Stanczak) nemo (Piotr K.) Tejas Stalker

Former Lost Alpha project members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barin: programmer, Nova: modeller, Neo: programmer, Artos: scripter, Nick: programmer, Haron: modeller, Alejandro: modeller, iWann: modeller, Dzastreux: modeller, Magpie: modeller, Jack: modeller, Freddy: writer, Orion: forum support, [SOC]: forum support

Special thanks to Sergiy -GSC- Grygorovych and all former, and current employees of GSC Gameworld, who helped us in creating our dream game.

Furthermore, we would like to greet for their contribution: Bac9-flcl, Sergy172, Vandrerer, Ux.loki, Jim, Vora Bat, Hornes, Dargalon, xStream, Macron, K.D., Gosuke, Alwen, Darkman, xKoweKx, Imperialreign, WheelJack, KazakHD

Last but not least, we would like to thank everyone for your support during this long development time. See you in the Zone!

Those who supported usAdrian Turcek, Alek Bassel, Aleksei KazakHD Kazakov, Alex Grobler, Alexander Schmidt, Alois Smolik, Andre Esbjornson, Andrzej Nowicki, Anton Ivanov, Antony Naylor, Arend Westra, Bastiaan Tolsma, Bene, Chezzlor, Chris Nightingale, Clint Garrett, Clive Lawson, Cristian George, Daniel Tejnicky, D1mon, Darkman, Dave Edwards, David Caplin, Demichev Sergey, Dietmar Stockenreitner, Dmitri Tochnov, Eduard Mkrtchyan, Geoff Henderson, Grazyna Struginska, HarD313, Johannes Saccone, Ray, Jim, Joseph Ingram, Joseph James, Kenny Swift, Kirill Medvedev, Lucian Mangu, Luke Cantrell, Maciej Gurtowski, Marek Boguta, Mark Semak, Martin Hajek, Martin Klinger, Michael Salmon, Michal Schongut, Mikko Taipale, Nathaniel Laney, New World Creative, Nick Simm, Nikolay Popov, Ory Viktorio Drilon, Pablo Dallas, Paul-Erik Lunde Nysted, Petr Kobrle, Raphael Dordeins, Raphael Tiziani, Raven, Rimantas Janulevicius, Rohit Sawant, Roman Konyshev, Roman Mainer, Shadow, Shai Gelbaum, Skyline Team, Stefaan Meul, Steinar Hallberg Mikkelsen, Steven Ashworth, Tamas Balogh, Tero Valtteri Tammisto, Thomas Uhlarik, Tibor Steinbrunner, Tomasz Skalski, Vilmantas Pocius, Volker Dannenberg, ves Maisch, Aleksey Khesh, Aleksandr Balan, Dmitriy Bobylev, Andrey Vladykin, Pavel Vysotskiy, Il'ya Konobeyev, Vladimir Lozovskiy, Sergey Lementarev ... and many more!

Project lead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dez (Zoltan Munkacsi)Lead Programmers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Griph00n (Ventura Del Monte) utak3r (Piotr Borys)Features / Gameplay Programmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Skyloader (Vladislav Skuratov) Griph00n (Ventura Del Monte)Core / Engine Programmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kolmogor utak3r (Piotr Borys)Shaders Programmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cjayho (Henry Hey)Lead Level Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dez (Zoltan Munkacsi)Lead Environment Artist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cromm Cruac (Marcin Zemczak)Lead Game Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vintar (Bradley Hean)Game Designers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Loxotron (Oleg The Bitard) Dez (Zoltan Munkacsi) Griph00n (Ventura Del Monte)Modellers / Texture Artists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cromm Cruac (Marcin Zemczak) lijenstina (Vuk Gardasevic) Gnomus (Brian Frank) kailniris (David Kailniris) MaxOFF (Maxim Chernov) C*O*L*T (Eugene Wozniak)Animations Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Loxotron (Oleg The Bitard) Gnomus (Brian Frank) Skyloader (Vladislav Skuratov) C*O*L*T (Eugene Wozniak)Audio Engineers / Musicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LiquidBronze (Jason Stickel) Klangsegler (Marco Schink) Dez (Zoltan Munkacsi) cjayho (Henry Hey)Voice Actor Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LiquidBronze (Jason Stickel)Voice Actors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zerknautscher (Hauke Kolle) Eugene (Yevgeniy Malygin) Justin (Justin Hand) Brian (Brian McManus) Serafim12 (Sanya Mankov) Chris (Chris Dattoli) Austin (Austin Harris) Roman (Chris Roman) Sidorovich :) (Eric Tassil) Strelok :) (Jay Appleyard) Jim (Jim McCabe) Kerry (Kerry Dubyk) Sean (Sean Polite) Stig (Stig Sydtangen)Special thanks to the following Voice Actors . . . . . . . . Hauke Kolle (Narrator for the intro movie and many, many NPCs) Jim McCabe (Narrator for the 2012 Trailer and Various NPCs)Localization Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . basist (Aleksey Petrenko) NoSf3rAtU (Leonardo Sassi) atikabubu (Lukasz Stanczak) Boris47

DEZOWAVE TEAM

Designers (artwork, gui) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tzupi (Robert Haab) Cromm Cruac (Marcin Zemczak) Someguy 353 (Sheng Guo Wu) Dave (Emich dEfidieu) czechdeath (Daniel Tejnicky)Q/A Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tejas Stalker hhiker (Laura Loolaid) czechdeath (Daniel Tejnicky) Killer Angel (Cristian George) atikabubu (Lukasz Stanczak) Maximus (Drikus Oosthuizen) basist (Aleksey Petrenko) NoSf3rAtU (Leonardo Sassi) PlotnikoffDD (Dimitry PlotnikoffSite / Forum Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bg (Balazs Hajdu) jwknaggs (John Knaggs) atikabubu (Lukasz Stanczak) nemo (Piotr K.) Tejas Stalker

Former Lost Alpha project members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barin: programmer, Nova: modeller, Neo: programmer, Artos: scripter, Nick: programmer, Haron: modeller, Alejandro: modeller, iWann: modeller, Dzastreux: modeller, Magpie: modeller, Jack: modeller, Freddy: writer, Orion: forum support, [SOC]: forum support

Special thanks to Sergiy -GSC- Grygorovych and all former, and current employees of GSC Gameworld, who helped us in creating our dream game.

Furthermore, we would like to greet for their contribution: Bac9-flcl, Sergy172, Vandrerer, Ux.loki, Jim, Vora Bat, Hornes, Dargalon, xStream, Macron, K.D., Gosuke, Alwen, Darkman, xKoweKx, Imperialreign, WheelJack, KazakHD

Last but not least, we would like to thank everyone for your support during this long development time. See you in the Zone!

Those who supported usAdrian Turcek, Alek Bassel, Aleksei KazakHD Kazakov, Alex Grobler, Alexander Schmidt, Alois Smolik, Andre Esbjornson, Andrzej Nowicki, Anton Ivanov, Antony Naylor, Arend Westra, Bastiaan Tolsma, Bene, Chezzlor, Chris Nightingale, Clint Garrett, Clive Lawson, Cristian George, Daniel Tejnicky, D1mon, Darkman, Dave Edwards, David Caplin, Demichev Sergey, Dietmar Stockenreitner, Dmitri Tochnov, Eduard Mkrtchyan, Geoff Henderson, Grazyna Struginska, HarD313, Johannes Saccone, Ray, Jim, Joseph Ingram, Joseph James, Kenny Swift, Kirill Medvedev, Lucian Mangu, Luke Cantrell, Maciej Gurtowski, Marek Boguta, Mark Semak, Martin Hajek, Martin Klinger, Michael Salmon, Michal Schongut, Mikko Taipale, Nathaniel Laney, New World Creative, Nick Simm, Nikolay Popov, Ory Viktorio Drilon, Pablo Dallas, Paul-Erik Lunde Nysted, Petr Kobrle, Raphael Dordeins, Raphael Tiziani, Raven, Rimantas Janulevicius, Rohit Sawant, Roman Konyshev, Roman Mainer, Shadow, Shai Gelbaum, Skyline Team, Stefaan Meul, Steinar Hallberg Mikkelsen, Steven Ashworth, Tamas Balogh, Tero Valtteri Tammisto, Thomas Uhlarik, Tibor Steinbrunner, Tomasz Skalski, Vilmantas Pocius, Volker Dannenberg, ves Maisch, Aleksey Khesh, Aleksandr Balan, Dmitriy Bobylev, Andrey Vladykin, Pavel Vysotskiy, Il'ya Konobeyev, Vladimir Lozovskiy, Sergey Lementarev ... and many more!