DEVELOPER'S CUT

USER'S MANUAL
INTRODUCTION

Dear Stalkers, Welcome to The Zone Once More!

We've started to develop Lost Alpha in the summer

of 2008. The project first started out as a
modification to add back the cut levels which all
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fans knew of. After a while, it became
more than just a modification, it became our dream
game, how we saw S.T.A.L.K.E.R.

We hope to give you the same feeling when you

first played S.T.A.L.K.E.R. A new chapter with
familiar elements without which S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
would not be the game we all grew to love. Lost
Alpha was a labor of love. We are passionate about
it and we hope you all will enjoy it as much as we
enjoyed creating it!

The Dezowave Team

MAP OF THE ZONE

Generators

Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Pripyat

Lost Factory

Outskirts

North Hills
Radar

Dead City Old Road

Swamps Military Warehouses

Great Metal Factory

Yantar Forest

Construction Site
Garbage

Agroprom Institute Dark Valley

Darkscape
Rostok Factory

Cordon
 HUD

Technician Task Objective Level Changer Online Contact: Guide Compass

Marker Red — Hostile, Yellow — Neutral,
Green — Friendly, Gray — Corpse

Contacts (Not
on Master Diff.)
Trader
Date & Time

Irradiation

Psi Level

Weapon
Condition

Thirst
Current Weapon
& Ammunition Hunger
Flashlight Health Bar
Battery Stamina & Bleeding Indicator Fire Mode Tiredness
PDA

Zoom out to the Zone Map Zoom In

Zoom in to Marked One Zoom Out

Place Map Marker

Downloads
Skills
Encyclopedia
Statistics
Ranking
Contacts
Diary
Map
Tasks
INVENTORY
Artifact
Detector
Slot Binoculars Flashlight Night Belt (to Drag Your Ammo &
Artifacts to)
Slot Slot Vision
Slot Note: You must have ammo for
Knife your guns attached to the belt to
Slot be able to reload, thus shoot the
weapon

Anomaly
Detector
Slot Item Name
Item Condition
Pistol Slot
Item Cost
Helmet Slot
Item Weight
First Weapon Slot Item
Stats & Descr.
Outfit Slot

Backpack
Second Contents
Weapon Slot

Immunities &
Penalties from
Equipped Items Water
Satiety
or Used Boosters
Stamina
Irradiation
Bleeding
Psi-Health

Walk Weight Limit

Weight Limit

Time Money
Total Weight
SAFES

Press right hand side of the wheel

to rotate it clockwise. Use it to set the
1st, 3rd, etc. number in the code sequence

Press left hand side of the wheel

to rotate it anticlockwise. Use it to set the
2nd, 4th, etc. number in the code sequence
CARS
DRIVING YOUR CAR

1. Press USE (F) to open the door 2. Press USE (F) to get in

Fuel level

Car condition

3. Press START ENGINE (B)

Tachometer (RPM)
Note: Check the default
controls page to learn the Speedometer
controls for your car
MAINTAINING YOUR CAR

1. Press USE (F) to open the trunk 2. Select an option from the menu

AVAILABLE CARS
Moskvich Moskvich Cabriolet Lada Lada Cabriolet
Cost: 35,000 RU Cost: 35,000 RU Cost: 35,000 RU Cost: 200,000 RU

Niva Hospital Service Niva Military Service UAZ RAF Truck

Cost: 75,000 RU Cost: 75,000 RU Cost: 75,000 RU Cost: 120,000 RU

Kamaz Truck Tractor BTR-70

Cost: 250,000 RU Cost: 18,000 RU Cost: 500,000 RU
DEFAULT CONTROLS

Menu ESC Ironsights/Scope Mouse 2 CARS

Console ~ Move Forward W Start/Stop Engine B

Knife 1 Move Backward S Drive Forward W

Pistol 2 Strafe Left A Drive Backward S

First Weapon 3 Strafe Right D Turn Left A

Second Weapon 4 Peer Left Q Turn Right D

Binoculars 5 Peer Right E Headlights L

Bolt 6 Crouch Left CTRL Horn U

Detector O Sprint Left SHIFT Trunk F

Grenade G Walk X

Prev Fire Mode 9 Jump SPACE

Next Fire Mode 0 Use F

U/B Grenade Laun. V Drop T

Reload R

Fire Weapon Mouse 1

Inventory I PDA Contacts H Quick Save F6

Medkit [ PDA Map M Quick Load F7

Bandage ] PDA Active Tasks P Screenshot F12

Flashlight L Enable UI Num +

Nightvision N Disable UI Num -

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

STATIC LIGHTING MODE:
Intel Core 2 Duo or an equivalent AMD CPU (around 2 GHz)
2 GB RAM
NVIDIA 9800 GT or an equivalent ATI/AMD HD3000 Series GPU
20 GB of free HDD space

FULL DYNAMIC LIGHTING WITHOUT SPECIAL EFFECTS:

Intel Core 2 Duo or an equivalent AMD CPU (around 3 GHz)
4 GB RAM
NVIDIA GTX 500 Series or an equivalent ATI/AMD HD5000 Series GPU
20 GB of free HDD space
64-bit operating system

FULL DYNAMIC LIGHTING WITH ALL SPECIAL EFFECTS:

Intel i3/i5 or an equivalent AMD CPU (around 3 GHz)
4-6 GB RAM
NVIDIA GTX 600 Series or an equivalent ATI/AMD HD6000 Series GPU
20 GB of free HDD space
64-bit operating system

FULL DYNAMIC LIGHTING (DX 10/11) WITH ALL SPECIAL EFFECTS:

Intel i5/i7 or an equivalent AMD CPU (around 3.5 GHz)
8 GB RAM
NVIDIA GTX 660/760 or an equivalent ATI/AMD HD7000 Series GPU
20 GB of free HDD space
64-bit operating system

Please note: A laptop VGA chipset performance is not equal to the performance of the corresponding
desktop version!

SCREEN SPACE OCCLUSION MODES

In the Advanced section of graphics options, you can choose from the available SSAO (Screen Space
Ambient Occlusion) modes. There are 3: the general SSAO, then HBAO, and HDAO. HBAO was optimized
for NVIDIA cards, while HDAO was made for ATI/AMD cards, therefore, please select the proper one to
avoid slowdowns. Eventually, if you don't need this feature, you can disable it.
DEZOWAVE TEAM
Project Lead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dez (Zoltan Munkacsi)
Lead Programmers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Griph00n (Ventura Del Monte)
utak3r (Piotr Borys)
Features / Gameplay Programmers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Skyloader (Vladislav Skuratov)
Griph00n (Ventura Del Monte)
Rafa (Rafael)
phobos2077 (Vladislav Kolosovskiy)
Core / Engine Programmers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Kolmogor
utak3r (Piotr Borys)
Shaders Programmer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . cjayho (Henry Hey)
Lead Level Designer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dez (Zoltan Munkacsi)
Other Level Designers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rastamichael (Michael Kalmykow)
Rastaman_vip74 (Rastaman)
Lead Environment Artist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cromm Cruac (Marcin Zemczak)
Environment Artist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Domestos (Alexandr Ivanov)
Lead Game Designers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RastaMichael (Michael Kalmykow)
Vintar (Bradley Hean)
Loxotron (Oleg The "Bitard")
Game Designers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dez (Zoltan Munkacsi)
Griph00n (Ventura Del Monte)
phobos2077 (Vladislav Kolosovskiy)
Alexl (Alexander Lyamin)
Rietmon (Ilya Sakhno)
Modellers / Texture Artists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cromm Cruac (Marcin Zemczak)
lijenstina (Vuk Gardasevic)
C.O.M.R.A.D.E (Maxim Sukhodolov)
Gnomus (Brian Frank)
kailniris (David Kailniris)
DemonShrams (Sergey Shrumchenko)
MaxOFF (Maxim Chernov)
C*O*L*T (Eugene Wozniak)
aleksei13075 (Aleksei Postrigan)
Rastaman_vip74 (Rastaman)
KingFriday1989 (Friday Night)
Animations Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Loxotron (Oleg The "Bitard")
Gnomus (Brian Frank)
Skyloader (Vladislav Skuratov)
C*O*L*T (Eugene Wozniak)
KingFriday1989 (Friday Night)
Audio Engineers / Musicians . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LiquidBronze (Jason Stickel)
Klangsegler (Marco Schink)
Dez (Zoltan Munkacsi)
cjayho (Henry Hey)
Voice Actor Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . LiquidBronze (Jason Stickel)
Voice Actors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zerknautscher (Hauke Kolle)
Eugene (Eugene Malygin)
Justin (Justin Hand)
Brian (Brian McManus)
Serafim12 (Sanya Man'kov)
Chris (Chris Dattoli)
DEZOWAVE TEAM

Voice Actors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Austin (Austin Harris)

Roman (Chris Roman)
Sidorovich (Eric Tassil)
Strelok (Jay Appleyard)
Jim (Jim McCabe)
Kerry (Kerry Dubyk)
Sean (Sean Polite)
Stig (Stig Sydtangen)
Special Thanks to the Following Voice Actors . . . . . . . . . . . . Hauke Kolle (narrator for the intro movie and many, many NPC's)
Jim McCabe (narrator for the 2012 Trailer and various NPC's)
Localization Team . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . basist (Aleksey Petrenko)
NoSf3rAtU (Leonardo Sassi)
Shahit_Ahn (Ivan Zhiryakov)
tomilovsenya (Arseny Tomilov)
atikabubu (Lukasz Stanczak)
Boris47 (Boris 47)
Pr0nomicon (Artem Khlopin)
Designers (Artwork, UI) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tzupi (Robert Haab)
Someguy 353 (Sheng Guo Wu)
Gusar (Konstantin Kulikov)
Ronic TH (Artak Avagyan)
Dave (Emich d'Efidieu)
czechdeath (Daniel Tejnicky)
Quality Assurance Department . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tejas Stalker
hhiker (Laura Loolaid)
Marius.Petran (Marius Petran)
WolfHeart (Dmitriy WolfHeart)
czechdeath (Daniel Tejnicky)
Killer Angel (Cristian George)
IvanB (Ivan Bayura)
Den-Wolf (Denis Den-Wolf)
atikabubu (Lukasz Stanczak)
Maximus (Drikus Oosthuizen)
Realm (Prepod)
Saw1once (Alexey Saw1once)
basist (Aleksey Petrenko)
NoSf3rAtU (Leonardo Sassi)
Avtoneru (Paul Zaitsev)
ChuniMuni (Vitaly Popravka)
PlotnikoffDD (Dimitry Plotnikoff)
Mot_Tor (Matvey Levkevich)
AnTuTu (Andrey Turin)
Site / Forum Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . bg (Balazs Hajdu)
jwknaggs (John Knaggs)
atikabubu (Lukasz Stanczak)
nemo (Piotr K.)
Tejas Stalker
Former Lost Alpha Project Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barin: programmer
Nova: modeller
 DEZOWAVE TEAM

Former Lost Alpha Project Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Neo: programmer

Artos: scripter
Nick: programmer
Haron: modeller
Alejandro: modeller
iWann: modeller
Dzastreux: modeller
Magpie: modeller
Jack: modeller
Freddy: writer
Orion: forum support
[SOC]: forum support
Power-cat: Detail Bump feature
Avtoneru: render tips

Special Thanks To
Sergiy "GSC" Grygorovych and all former/current employees of GSC Game World who helped us in creating our dream game

Furthermore, We Would Like to Greet for Their Contribution

Bac9-flcl, Sergy172, Vandrerer, Ux.loki, Jim, Vora Bat, Rainford: visual effects, Hornes, Dargalon, xStream, Macron, Gosuke, Alwen, Meltac:
shaders, Darkman, K.D, Imperialreign WheelJack, xKoweKx, KazakHD, OGSE Team: reflections

Last but not least, we would like to thank everyone for your support during this long development time.
See you in the Zone!

Those Who Supported Us

Adrian Turcek, Alek Bassel, Aleksei "KazakHD" Kazakov, Alex Grobler, Alexander Schmidt, Alois Smolik, Andre Esbjornson, Andrzej
Nowicki, Anton Ivanov, Antony Naylor, Arend Westra, Bastiaan Tolsma, Bene, Chezzlor, Chris Nightingale, Clint Garrett, Clive Lawson,
Cristian George, Daniel Tejnicky, D1mon, Darkman, Dave Edwards, David Caplin, Demichev Sergey, Denis "RazRuSchiTeL" Mayer, Dietmar
Stockenreitner, Dmitri Tochnov, Eduard Mkrtchyan, Geoff Henderson, Grazyna Struginska, HarD313, Johannes Saccone, John R. WIllis,
Jonathan Kennedy, Joseph Ingram, Joseph James, Kenny Swift, Kirill Medvedev, Lucian Mangu, Luke Cantrell, Maciej Gurtowski, Marek
Boguta, Mark Semak, Martin Hajek, Martin Klinger, Michael Salmon, Michal Schongut, Mikko Taipale, Nathaniel Laney, New World
Creative, Nick Simm, Nikolay Popov, Ory Viktorio Drilon, Pablo Dallas, Paul-Erik Lunde Nysted, Petr Kobrle, Raphael Dordeins, Raphael
Tiziani, Raven, Rimantas Janulevicius, Rohit Sawant, Roman Konyshev, Roman Mainer, Shadow, Shai Gelbaum, Skyline Team, Stefaan
Meul, Steinar Hallberg Mikkelsen, Steven Ashworth, Tamas Balogh, Tero Valtteri Tammisto, Thomas Uhlarik, Tibor Steinbrunner, Tomasz
Skalski, Vilmantas Pocius, Volker Dannenberg, Yves Maisch, Aleksandr Balan, Alexey Rakov, Alexey Hash, Andrey Vladykin, Vladimir
Lozovskiy, Dmitriy Bobylev, Ilya Konobeyev, Pavel Vysotskiy, Sergey Lementarev... and many more!

Thanks to everyone who helped our team finish Lost Alpha DC, and to those fans who were waiting.
Cheese :)