Eliminate the Mercs and bandits in Rostok

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Eliminate the Mercs and bandits in Rostok is an optional mission featured in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl.

Description

There's a gang of Mercs not far away, in Rostok. They hit it off with the bandits, so now they're scheming to block the passage through the plant. I don't need to tell you what a nuisance it is, it's got to be resolved straight away. The Duty guys and some of the old-timers have already gone to teach them a lessons, but we haven't heard from them in a while… So why don't you… eh… go and check on them. The money's good, too.

Barkeep

Acquiring the mission

The mission by Barkeep.

Reward

• 2500 RU and an F1 grenade.

Trivia

• Duty members who left to "educate" mercenaries can be found on the Wild Territory. They've set up camp near the transition to Bar. Stalker Oleg "Fiend" Gusarov might also be part of their group. However, they won't dare to venture deeper into the location to where the mercenaries are. Lukash gives the task to eliminate the Duty members.
• There is a bug that makes completing this quest impossible. It manifests by part of the target group that needs to be eliminated not spawning in the game's physical world. For example, only two or three enemies will be at the location instead of four. The bug is related to NPCs who have gone offline being attached to the target group.
  • Often, the game adds a mercenary from Wolfhound's squad to the target group, who is no longer physically present in the game. Typically, this is a lone mercenary from the group pursuing Professor Kruglov, who arrives at the construction site after the Marked One and the scientist have already escaped from there.
    • In this case, to make the quest completable, it's crucial to remember the following: after the final conversation with Kruglov on the Wild Territory, you must go back and check if any survivors from the mercenaries who ambushed ecologists remain. Do not rush to Yantar immediately with Kruglov. Otherwise, you will either have to replay the Yantar storyline or accept the automatically failed quest in your PDA.
  • In much rarer cases, the error might be related to the group of mercenaries on Cordon.
  • In some cases, the quest can be completed if the wandering bandit Poker is counted as part of the target group. He only appears in the game world after looting Borov's body – and immediately starts traveling around the Zone.
  • The bug is still present in Enhanced Edition.