S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: How Large Is The Monolith Faction ? - Counting The Monolith 

Why, why COD?

**Bulletproof starts playing**

@@streylok439 He is a western spy. :D

@@streylok439 very simillar tbh

More like Doom soundtrack kick in

Basically, yes.

Militaries : How does it feel to carried 69 different artifacts inside your backpack? Loners : Radiation

@@GuguMimi Loners: Your too overloaded to move

@@zherean42069you say that, but one day the loners will get so radiates they turn into the Hulk! -Freedom member that has his Empty artifacts stuffed full of burning… lucky charms?

Yeah it does make sense.

Maybe, I don't know Anomaly that much to be honest.

@@anomalousdugout9557 its more like 80 Monlithians if all the patches I looted are accurate, which is still a whole hell of a lot

I looted 150 monolith patches just by shutting off the Scorcher and getting to Zaton lol.

@@barkasz6066 and yet you still hardly get any ranks

The loot you get out of that makes you really rich. They can be a huge headache without AP ammo or higher caliber guns. I spend more time looting them than fighting them.

Yeah it's tempting to loot as much as you can, but greed is usually not left unpunished by the Zone.

Exactly

walked out of the reactor with several gauss rifles and artefacts for barkeep

The c-conciousness' best defense wasn't the monolith or it's brainwashed soldiers But it's tempting, tempting loot

I always just crank up my maximum carry weight to 60kg by fiddling with the game files. Typically any fully-kitted stalker of mine ends up with around 46kg at the very least in SOC.

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I guess the Monolith have even more troops in other parts of the Zone that the player does not visit. Also, originally they were a normal stalker faction, so their number was probably much lower. The majority of those that you can see in game are stalkers who were brainwashed by the Brain Scorcher, so I think having hundreds of them is already very impressive in that regard.

They have some sort of cloning machine in the cnpp or the generators or even somewhere else in the North.

@@the100radsstalker93 I haven't heard of that, but that definitely seems plausible. Do you have a source for that?

@@scottm8292 I really am not quite sure, just my theory. The fact that there are shit loads of them with high level equipment just boggles my mind Also, how is recruitment possible when people keep switching off the brain scorcher and more than half of them turn into zombies. It's just impossible.

@@the100radsstalker93 It's a theory which makes sense

Maybe, but remember that they were a faction before their brainwashing. We don't know where their base was or what territories they occupied or frequented.

At first I really though it was a crazy idea, but the more I though about it and the more I wanted to know their numbers. I spent so much time on it but it was worth it !

@@anomalousdugout9557 haha yeah i bet you did ! so i guess this is the start of a new series xd make a count for every faction haha :D

Yes, of course. The goal of the video was to get an idea of the order of magnitude of the faction. Also, there are probably some that I missed or misscounted, so it's an approximation.

they really feel like an ant hive in Shadow of Chernobyl, it's impressive how they show their magnitude with masses of their dead bodies.

judging by clear sky faction sizes the only thing preventing the monolith from wiping the zone is the lack of a command.

@@ShishouDzukiZaManako also the fact they are mostly trying to prevent excursion into the deeper part of the zone if they have like a thousand soldier its nothing comparing to what the Ukraine army could muster to take back the zone but having that amount in high concentration location make it way easier to defend that how the high concentration of them was at the CNPP and managed to resist Operation Monolith

Yeah there is plenty of them ! And no, I won't get Patreon.

@@anomalousdugout9557 just thought it would be a good way for viewers to support the channel. But your channel man :)

@@anomalousdugout9557 is there no way to donate to the channel?

@@latewizard301 No, I cannot accept donations. But you can support the channel by commenting your thoughts on the videos, I really like to discuss S.T.A.L.K.E.R. topics with the viewers :)

@@anomalousdugout9557 alright i understand :)

Yes it's quite surprising that Shadow of Chernobyl has so much more.

It's probably because when you play you don't do one pass in an area and then be done. In CoP for example I spent tons of hours running around Pripyat killing Monolith but I guess if you did one pass then it's about 100 guys.

I think the reason why SoC has so many monolithians because in stalker clear sky, at the end of the game clear sky members are being brainwashed into monoliths (Maybe all clear sky members)

In SoC,Monolith was at its height,so it's normal for them to have more members.

Yes, it is no secret that Call of Pripyat is easier than Shadow of Chernobyl and Clear Sky.

That's because Scar, Strelok and other groups of stalkers very much thinned their numbers in the previous games. What you see in CoP is just the remains of what used to be a big faction.

just a military soldiers couldnt kill as many monoliths as strelok or scar those guys are legends, while in call of pryipiat u play a random military soldier ....wouldnt be authentic if he could be as good as strelok or scar, nah man i think they made the game easier on purpose so they could attract more people to play it, but also seriously soc was pretty tough end game. i liked the game but not the end game in soc it was just a little bit to much in my opinion ^^

@@General_Xrex degtyaryov isn't a random military soldier he's an ex-stalker and an agent of the SBU

@@bmp-2m931 u ever heard of him before his Part? No ? Random military soldier

My videos are mostly about the old S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, so I don't expect anything too crazy. But thanks for the support !

Yeah, that's possible. About the corpses, some of them may date from the old days when the monolith faction was not brainwashed yet. They used to be neutral stalkers before they made their trip beyond the scorcher, after which they came back as defenders of the center of the Zone.

The zone if the clear sky leader didn't deploy many clear sky members: *insert futuristic city*

@@zherean42069 Lebedev be like : *what am i doing?*

They probably also concentrated fheir entire force on stopping Strelok once they realized he was back Considering just how close Strelok was to getting to the truth two times before that.

Thank you very much, but I can tell you, there are some stalkers who know even more than me. I did miss a few things in those loot videos.

@@anomalousdugout9557 the only one I knew about that you didn't mention is a silencer in the back of a truck at the vehicle graveyard at the garbage.

Yes, that's right.

Yes, that's right.

Ahah yes, that's what psy-emissions do to your brain right :)

Destroy the zone, join duty

7.62x51 is a NATO Caliber tho

They did yeah. Rumors say that the Monolith is secretly supplied by corrupt military commanders, but who knows...

Yes, definitely true, I just counted what I could count to get a general idea of what their number is !

@@anomalousdugout9557 Of course, this number you counted is probably the size of their faction at all times, which gets progressively smaller after the end of Call of Pripyat.

Yes, true.

And yet they got fucked by a random loner with a rusty AK-74U and a SEVA Suit (not even wearing the helmet)

It took some time for sure, but it was worth it, thanks.

Thanks you ! I will try to continue to post regularly.

Technically because random stalkers close enough become monolith

@@streylok439 Brain Scorcher was deactivated by the time CoP took place though.

Well it just started as a weird idea, but I went with it, and yeah in the end it's quite interesting. Thanks !

Haven't finished SoC yet still playing it. But you'd think with the Brain Scorcher turned off. You'd see Duty and Freedom bust a move trying to surge into Pripyat and the CNPP. Not just the military.

I must be blind then.

@@anomalousdugout9557 I am sorry for the double comment. I thought RU-vid deleted one :( sorry.

@@CharcharoExplorer No problem :)

Thank you, you are indeed correct !

@@anomalousdugout9557 they also have btr and maybe one because there is a soldier between the wheels of a btr on the entry of the lab x16 complex

And i also fanaticaly in love with stalker

Thanks, I will never make a Patreon though.

@@anomalousdugout9557 why not, many stalker fans are more than willing to help out their favorite creator, but if ur are so humble, that makes you an even better person keep it up

Yeah they have a lot of troops.

Yeah probably.

Thanks !

Very good guess then.

I will say the numbers could be off in CoP, it only shows three smaller parts of Chernobyl, there could very much be Monolith outposts in Dead City, Duga, other parts of the Chernobyl region. Hard to say

Maybe I'll do it for other factions one day, but currently I don't have the time. If I wanted to do so, it would mean no other video for at least 1 or 2 weeks, and I don't want that. I hope I get more time in the future to count other faction as well.

@@anomalousdugout9557 a successful Stalker is a patient Stalker. I have spent long time huddling and crawling in the rain in garbage to avoid mutants and bandits. I will wait.

@@akale2620 Wise words, thanks for your understanding.

There would be no use,in clear sky faction strength is the number of members in each faction,though if ur talking about soc and cop then id understand.

Thats the authors mistakes :) how can be only 300 People? Bandits has half of them

And most of those Monolith got Strelok'd. THRICE. Freaking Legend

I doubt that they would be that many, but who knows, it's possible.

Thanks !

I think it's interesting, you are not the first one to say that, but I would have thought people were underestimating their numbers and not the other way around. Thanks for sharing your thoughts !

@@anomalousdugout9557 Im usually pretty good at shooting games specially multiplayer but the AI of even base games but with the good mods can be better than a player...

Yes, that is correct, actually there are a bunch of other corpses that I missed, especially in the great swamp. But that would not change the result too much. Also thank you !

@@anomalousdugout9557 you're welcome

Not sure I get it, but ok.

I think you have it backwards... Who would win: Hordes of devoted, fanatical warriors who don't even flinch at pain, who have the best combat equipment, weapons and armor not even known to the military Or... A loner with a receding hairline...

Oh I did not know him, until now.

@@anomalousdugout9557 I think he made some super interesting (but not too well recognised) observations about the game. And i got the same feeling watching your videos. :)

No thanks, I'll keep my brain intact.

Yes, the number surprised me as well. And speaking of the military, maybe I'll count them next !

@@anomalousdugout9557 But aren't they sometimes respawn randomly? Edit: I mean the military.

@@londomollari1082 Yes, yes they do. It will make it even more interesting, I'll have to find a way to work around that !

Well they had something like 6 years to snatch stalkers and brain wash them plus the clear sky forces. Theres only ever like 1,000 other stalkers in the zone but it's a constant stream considering the zone is such a meat grinder so plenty of people to suddenly "disappear"

Duty as well if I remember correctly ?

I found it in the forest area north of the clearing with the symbiont anomaly but south of the tank with the space anomaly, in the electro field. Since I made the video I've realized that it might not always be there. Perhaps its appearance is random, I'm not sure.

@@anomalousdugout9557 Thanks stalker!

Yeah I forgot a few.

Bro just enter the fight save at the start and reload Then don't miss a single shot while hiding behind some metal things and strelok will be gone before you have to shoot 1 monolith by yourself

Yeah and that's only the ones that we can see in the games, most likely they are in even greater numbers.

@@anomalousdugout9557 Yeah, I wonder they are the biggest faction in the games beside CoP, lore wise too?

@@yellownomadglitch3309 The lore does not tell anything about the size of factions, except from what you can see by yourself. I would say that if you consider the whole Zone, the two largest factions are probably the Military and the Monolith.

Yes, that's right.

I'm pretty sure this is a bug in their AI. Sometimes, the NPCs can be extremely smart, outflank you and kill you with pinpoint accuracy, and other times, they can be very dumb. It's one of the weird things in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. that players have to deal with.

Yeah they can be annoying when not well prepared, but it's much easier when you know what to expect.

Novikov? He was the technician for Clear Sky before the faction disbanded.

Marked One, you forgot to turn off the Brain Scorcher ?!

@@anomalousdugout9557 i did but someone turn it on

@@skullgaming5405 Interesting, wonder who could it be...

@@anomalousdugout9557 probably a monolith stalker

I think the C-Consciousness still exists. Strelok destroyed their physical bodies, but they already uploaded their Consciousness to the Noosphere. Judging by the "Come to me" trailer for Stalker 2, I'd say this is true...

Some people like the ending sections more than others, but these parts of the games definitely feel weird and kind of out of place. I think it could be an interesting subject for another video, so I'll keep that idea in mind !

I felt like an unstoppable killing machine for about the first 75, after that all my stuff started breaking and I felt pretty helpless and naked. Even bringing extra gear isn't enough sometimes.

@@prind142 Yep, the ending sections are very long and it looks like they have not been designed with item durability in mind. Hopefully there are hidden armors throught the game that can replace yours, for example there is a bulat suit in pripyat, another at the entrance of the power plant, and even an exoskelton inside the sarcophagus. Knowing where these items are really helps with the final hours of the game.

@@anomalousdugout9557 The OP really downplaying our efforts, like we didn't work for that body count. By the end of it I was using severed limbs to beat monolith to death because the stock of my gun broke off and my knife was worn down to just a handle.

@@anomalousdugout9557 Yea but even then if you have bad luck the exo will tear up pretty quick, just takes the right kinds of damage to spare you but not the suit.

I don't know, I'm not Ukrainian.

@@anomalousdugout9557 lol

Yes, indeed.

Very good guess then. Yes, CS is great.

Ik your probably playing the game now, but tbh Clear Sky was actually my favorite S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game

cs is the best game in the trilogy

No you cannot. You can check the names used by unique and non-unique stalkers through in-game archives. None of them contain 'Scar'.

@@surdno5796 Same BS rumor as the Difficulty bullet sponge one

Yes, good.

but dont count the randomly spawning ones

@@robloxdude9957 Honestly, I would make all the factions if I had the time. Unfortunately this kind of video takes very long to create, so it's not really in my plans to make more right now. But maybe I'll do it in the future, it's still very possible.

Over 4k to make sense on how big the some factions are

The 3 games take place on a span of less than a year.

@@anomalousdugout9557 Ok that is fair point. But... 1. considering the "supply" of Monolith is nearly indefinite based on how many stalkers are converted into Monolith by brain scorcher and other means 2. considering that CS is the first in the sequence and killing 150 Monolith caused them to have "last stand" in hospital. ... this still means that at any given time there was couple of hundred of them. It is unlikely (actually impossible) that at any point there were 762 of them around the zone. So most likely there were 100-200 of Monoliths at any given time, once major battle ensued and most of them got killed CC had made new ones to protect itself. This sort of makes sense chronologically - there were 150 of them at first and they all got killed by the end of CS, because there was huge influx of various factions and loners at the time, many got turned into Monolith at the end of CS. Comes to the time of SOC number of monoliths had increased, although it should be noted that largest number in SOC are corpses... so how can you tell they are not the same monoliths who were just killed in CS? Taking that to account we again have ~150-200 actual fighters in Monolith faction. Finally, the end of SOC CC gets destroyed, basically capping the supply of Monoliths, this is why in COP we only have remains of what Monolith was as members now free from brainwashing roams the zone... that is why less of them exists. In conclusion... it is still the same there were never 762 of them at any given point, dead bodies are likely double counted and alive ones were likely just turned into Monoliths when previous group died. At the end of CS, the ones we encounter in SOC did not exist yet (else there would be no last stand), and the ones we killed in CS, no longer exist by the time SOC starts. I guess it depends on definition of "faction strength" in the end. I see it as a "number of people in the faction at any given moment", your definition seems to be more - "number of bodies CC managed to turn into Monolith during the events of OG trilogy".

Its just a game, we don't need to search for a reasonable answer. There are simply as many as the developers need for the game to be challenging.

​@@lp9280remember that clear sky was made after soc yet it is a prequel So blame the devs for the inconvenience rather than the number of monolith

@@khaledomar6019 Not sure how that changes what I said in anyway?

*NO*

@@veteranloner9892 *sad monolith noises*

@@skullgaming5405 *i don't think so since Monolith hostile to everything in the zone i can't belive you*

@@veteranloner9892 we preachers are trying to protect the holy monolith from non believers.cuz they are not worthy to see the holy land of the monolith

@@skullgaming5405 what!?!?! So you mean killing innocent Factions and destroy a beautiful Zone because we not worth *i better load my AS VAL*

I'm not sure where that is stated in the lore, do you have the exact source ?

@@anomalousdugout9557 I remember that it was in some kind of russian video but unfortunately i cant give you a source because i watched it a long time ago, i dont have russian keyboard and i dont know russian (just looked at the numbers of soldiers)

@@viper6022 Alright so maybe it's best to not consider that info cannon then.

No, I used the SA Avanlanche, while Scar uses the Vintar BC. They are quite similar, but still not the same weapon.

@@anomalousdugout9557 I've been playing anomaly lately. What do you think of it?

@@Ming1975 I prefer to not answer that question.

Yes, they can also be seen praying in Shadow of Chernobyl as well, around campfires and in the center of pripyat.

@@anomalousdugout9557 Thanks interesting info

Yeah, they are quite annoying, but it would be too easy to get to the center of the Zone if they weren't there.

@@anomalousdugout9557 Yeah I kind of like them too actually :) I love/hate them. Of all the factions I would like to know the most what they are saying during combat, they say it with a bad ass tone.

@@lukasgroot Yes the voice lines are epic. I wish I knew Ukrainian and Russian !

No, I do not speak Russian.