Yoga

Yoga
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Rank	Expert
Affiliation	Bandits
Equipment	Leather trench coat AKM-74/2 Black Kite
Technical
Class	gar_bandit_leader

Here's what I think: Yoga ain't gonna be the boss for long. I have this feeling Borov is gonna make his move sooner or later, 'cause Yoga is getting a bit too big for his britches, and he can't seem to see an inch beyond his nose. He's got him a snake in his bosom and it's gonna bite him sooner or later...
― Tooth

Yoga is the leader of the Bandits faction in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky, he is also mentioned in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl.

Background

Yoga was the first bandit seen in the games who managed to create a real faction from small bandit gangs. He settled in an old train hangar and soon began to control almost the entire Garbage, as well as raid other locations. However, Yoga was not the best leader. He did not value his people and was a greedy, cruel and very dangerous man. For example, he killed his man (called Chef) when he demanded an bigger payment, and beat up a bandit who sheltered a wounded Chernobyl dog puppy (Kirill Spotty). The player can notice Yoga's miserliness when completing quests: Yoga gives out rather small rewards for his quests. Moreover, after capturing Flea Market, he can give a tip on the stash where the modified Kora-919 is stored. If Scar talks to Borov about it, he will warn that this stash is in a very dangerous place, and Yoga uses it to fend off those demanding extra cut. That's why Yoga was disliked by many bandits, and most of all by Borov, who was at the time a barman.

Yoga tried to raise his authority, openly intimidated and humiliated the ones, who were disgruntled. There is a chimera head, as well as a boar and a stuffed blind dog in his place. Nevertheless, Yoga didn't take much into account: cleaning up the Flea Market resulted in losing the best place to skim cash from diggers.

Appearances

Clear Sky

Yoga leads the Bandits from the Train hangar in the Garbage. Scar may go to him to join the bandit faction but not before proving himself with a job, which involves killing a digger named Stringov near the bus stop for the delay in paying his debts. When confronting Stringov, the player may choose to either execute him on the spot or bargain with him for the coordinates of a weapon smuggler's stash that contains several assault rifles, located in the trunk of a derelict car. Even if the player should spare Stringov in exchange for the stash coordinates, the bandits will still kill him, thinking he got nervous and fled.

After that, one must clear out the flea market of diggers; once done, the player will be awarded a pocket change of 1000 rubles by Tooth, and can talk to Yoga and demand a bigger pay, whereupon Yoga will give the coordinates of a stash with a fully modified Kora-919. The player can also ask Tooth for 2000 more rubles. As an additional prize, it is confirmed that there are at least two artifacts in the anomaly cluster near the stash given by Yoga.

Call of Pripyat

Well, I heard a funny story once. Basically, the boys at Garbage started a rumor about where the Oasis is, and made it real believable, too. Then, they went to that location and waited. Well, what can I say? So many gullible losers showed up to share their stuff that the boys who started the whole thing left the Zone soon afterwards. And why not? Fellas were set for life. Only one of them stayed behind, some guy called Yoga...
― Bandits in Call of Pripyat

Yoga does not appear in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat but can be mentioned by random Bandits when asked about the Oasis while the associated mission is active. They may tell the player that Yoga and his men spread rumors of the Oasis' location and took advantage of it to rob numerous unsuspecting stalkers, earning enough money out of these robberies that they managed to leave the Zone forever, save for Yoga who chose to stay behind.

Heart of Chernobyl

Yoga is mentioned in dialogue by Father Valerian after helping him fend off a wave of zombies, stating that Yoga was a scumbag who was staking a claim in Cordon before the Second Emission hit.

Dialogue

Quote	Audio
Greetings
Say what you got to say or get the hell out.	noicon
Who is this pretty boy we got here?	noicon
And to what do we owe this honor?	noicon
Farewell
That was time well spent.	noicon
Thanks a lot, have a nice day.	noicon
Pop in my crib if you need something.	noicon
Something new comes up, you holler at me.	noicon

Related missions

• Take out a guy known as Stringov: Kill a guy called Stringov per Yoga's instructions.
• Take out the smuggler and diggers: Kill the smuggler and the diggers who want to buy weapons from him.
• Take over the flea market together with the bandits: Massacre the diggers at the flea market to teach the others a lesson, and make sure that one of the bandits stays there to guard it.
• Take the shooter from stash in the anomaly: Take the shooter Yoga talked about from the stash in the anomaly.

Bugs and flaws

• When stalkers attack the hangar, Yoga may get out of his place and start shooting. He can either stuck in the gate or at the fence (in the second case Yoga dies). The same bug happens with Senka and Flayer.
  • After Yoga's death, Duty and free stalkers' spawn is going to be disrupted, causing the faction's resources to always be at zero. The only way to fix this is to load the older save befoe killing Yoga.
• Yoga can also leave the train hangar and go to capture a point as part of a group of bandits if the quest to clear the concentration camp is completed and a large number of bandits on the points are dead.
• Even if Yoga is hostile to the player, Yoga will still say his greeting phrases if Scar gets close enough to him.