Day And Night

Far Cry 2 aims to improve your gaming experience by changing from day to night as you play, but the original Stalker already did this. During the day, contaminated areas and certain anomalies are easier to see, as are renegades, soldiers, and wild animals roaming through the environment. At night, human enemies sit around the fire or guard their camps with flashlights, mutants hunt in packs, and if you’re unlucky, you will run into a feeding frenzy where you become dessert.

At night the flashlights are only effective at short distances, but you can buy night-vision goggles as an upgrade for your armor suit. In many cases you navigate blindly with a mini-map because tall plants and bushes obscure your vision. But because the mini-map rotates with your point of view, you can follow a path even without light.