Anabiotics
Anabiotics are a rare medicinal item introduced in Call of Pripyat. Despite their rarity, they're cheap to sell and thus a player may be more inclined to keep them in their inventory.
Effects
The Anabiotics one purpose is simple: Survive the Blowout. Ingesting the Anabiotics during the lead up to a Blowout allows the player to survive unscathed even if he's nowhere near shelter. The obvious drawback is that the player is knocked unconscious - if he's under attack when he goes under, the enemies may kill him in his sleep.
Aside from this, the Anabiotics serve no purpose, and have no effect when used outside of a Blowout. Given their rarity it's a waste to use them in regular walking, as it doesn't advance the time when the player is out cold.
After a certain number of uses, you earn the Marked by Zone Achievement and no longer need anabiotics so long as you are fully healthy when the blowout strikes.
Finding Anabiotics
The Anabiotics can only be earned through a handful of ways:
- Caches in the Yanov area.
- In a Controller's cave north of the Burnt Farm Anomaly in Zaton.
- A reward for Poplar's Ecologist quests (x2).
- Bookstore and Department store in Pripyat.
- For sale from the Ecologists after earning the Researcher and Friend of Stalkers achievements.
Glitch
The Anabiotics serve a rather dastardly purpose. While for the most part, A-Life automatically simulates stalkers running to shelter and taking cover, any stalkers within the player's viewing range - roughly a 150m radius - stay where they are for the entire blowout, their positions fixed. This means a player can make clever use of anabiotics to slaughter an entire party of friendly Stalkers at no penalty - a handy way to get powerful weapons such as the G36 and Abakan without hurting any relationships.