The main feature:

Surely, there are many fans of the "Clear Sky" faction here, and everyone knows that the faction plays a key, if not the main role in the game. Many hate the "Renegades," considering them worse than "Bandits." And yet. The "Renegades" faction is initially given the worst position in the game. It's initially set up so that the protagonist has to fight against them, and the "Renegades" themselves can be destroyed by "Clear Sky" without the protagonist's help, having a numerical advantage, better armor and weapons for the Swamps, knowing the area well, and understanding the Zone better than the "Renegades." It seems somewhat unfair that after the "Renegades" are destroyed, they don't even have a chance to counterattack or exist in the Zone at all. Essentially, the developers made the "Renegades" expendable, "meat," and so on.

However, in essence, the "Renegades" don't bother ordinary stalkers (judging by the captured "Renegades" at the "Stalkers" base in the basement), don't get involved in faction wars, don't try to destroy the Zone, don't attack military outposts, ecological expeditions, and so on. They are decent people who find common ground with each other, although they adhere to different ideologies and always help each other.

And let's think logically? How did the small, secretive "Clear Sky" faction grow to two hundred fighters? And judging by the plot of the next game ("Shadow of Chernobyl"), "Clear Sky" almost completely leaves the Swamps, breaking through to the Chernobyl NPP, where they all die. It makes sense that no more than a couple dozen people should remain? Otherwise, it seems like "out of the blue": "Clear Sky" captured the entire Zone and then suddenly disappears...

I think these thoughts should be interesting.

To make the "Renegades" friendly to you, join the "Stalkers" faction (I don't know, I calmly bypassed the Swamps, didn't meet a single "Renegade," and no one chased me... after all, I was delivering flash drives to Novikov and taking weapons to Suslov for sale...)

But, after a small introduction, something like a disclaimer, let's move on to describing this main feature.

The "Clear Sky" faction is destroyed, having no respawn points, base, or leadership. A couple of squads will operate in the Zone (in the Red Forest and Limansk, but they won't play a role in the faction wars). Lebedev is killed in the Swamps (otherwise, there would be two Lebedevs in the Zone, since one remained in the "Red Forest"?). The "Clear Sky" base is empty (which makes sense, since all the fighters went to storm Limansk, right?).

The "Renegades" have completely taken over the Swamps, destroying the surviving "Clear Sky" fighters and mutants (which makes sense, judging by the game's plot, and mutants always bothered everyone).

Also, mutants are destroyed throughout the entire Zone (they can appear near the military outpost on the Cordon and in the Red Forest (there, near the "Dark Hollow," is a mutant spawn point, there are "Stalker" squads, but upon arriving in the Red Forest, there's a chance of mutants spawning at the point and the "Stalkers" disappearing).

Main description:

The protagonist is at the "Duty" base. All "Freedom" leaders are killed. Four stashes have been added to the base area (in the zoo; in the garage with the UAZ, where the "Electra" anomaly is; on the third floor, near General Krylov, and near Major Zvyagintsev, where the protagonist is... A couple of stashes are located at the "Stalkers" base in the Agroprom and outside the "Duty" base!

The "Duty" faction controls the Army Warehouses, part of the Red Forest, most of the Agroprom, the Garbage, and the entire Dark Valley.

The "Freedom" faction is completely destroyed along with all key characters, so joining "Freedom" is not possible. There are three stashes on the base territory: in Uncle Yar's hangar, in the bar (main entrance to the base, under the canopy), and in the main building of the base.

The "Bandits" faction is destroyed, leaders eliminated. The depot is controlled by "Stalkers," and there's a stash present.

The "Clear Sky" faction is destroyed, all armed personnel on the base are eliminated, Kalancha and Shustry are killed. Suslov, Novikov, Kholod, and Ivan Tropnik (disarmed) were kept alive in case of further visits to the Swamps (reward after lowering the bridge in Limansk).

The "Stalkers" faction captured the Cordon, Yantar, most of the Red Forest, the Garbage, controls the Barrier at the Army Warehouses, and the Bloodsuckers' Village.

The protagonist has 3,005,000 rubles (earned another 400,000 rubles), a high reputation among all factions except for the "Monolith" and the "Military" (neutral reputation with the "Bandits").

The protagonist's task is to break into Limansk.

P.S. Screenshots will be posted later.

Installation:

Unpack into the save folder. Different Windows versions will have different locations.

The save was created by me personally and was not shared anywhere. Compatibility with later versions of the game is guaranteed.