Yar Clear Sky Rank Veteran Affiliation Freedom Equipment Guardian of Freedom Suit

Chaser 13 Call of Pripyat Rank Veteran Affiliation Freedom Equipment SVDm-2

Guardian of Freedom Suit [Source]

Once I'm done with it, it'll shoot like a Spetsnaz SVD and if you get your hands on a real sniper rifle, whoa boy people are gonna take long detours to avoid you that's a promise. Yar

Yar, often called Uncle Yar (russian: Дядька Яр / Dyad'ka Yar) by his fellow Freedom members, is a character in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat.

A genius technician specializing in precision weapons such as sniper rifles, Yar is an elderly man working with Freedom. Although he jokes about his age, he is an expert stalker and marksman who continues to actively work for his faction in the Zone.

He was well known by stalkers outside Freedom for being a technical genius. As such, stalkers joking that he can make an anti-aircraft gun from a rusty AK might not be that far from the truth.

He claims that when he was younger, he "used to walk to Siberia and back", and now tries to "keep [his] trips short these days".

Clear Sky [ edit | edit source ]

Is it just me, or have peoples' hands been growing out of their asses lately? ... No, it's not me. Yar

He is the technician and mechanic of the Freedom faction and resides in the hangar in the northwest section of the main Freedom base in the Dark Valley. Yar can repair and upgrade weapons and armor and offers the standard mechanic quests to find USB drives with upgrade schematics (in Yar's case, for the SVUmk-2).

Yar also gives a quest which can only be undertaken after 11:00 PM and which involves getting a PDA from a friend of his who was killed by Bloodsuckers outside the base. Yar being a sniper expert can upgrade all types of sniper rifles and specializes in turning assault rifles into high powered sniper analogues, meaning Yar can turn AC96/2s and TRs 301s into precision rifles as he can place the final upgrade for superior accuracy for all weapons, he cannot however install the final upgrade for increased firing rate for all assault rifles. Yar is also one of the few technicians who can upgrade an Exoskeleton.

Yar and the Freedom trader Ashot occasionally tease and taunt each other via the base's intercom system, prompting Lingov to step in and shut them up.

For his full offer, see this article.

Call of Pripyat [ edit | edit source ]

Good day to you, stalker. I'm Uncle Yar... I guess you're tired from the road, eh... Have a bite to eat, since you're here. You chose a good time to show up, too - I need some help. At my age there are things I can't do on my own. Back in the day, though... Yar introducing himself

He returns in Call of Pripyat, and is found in the Yanov station. He has one mission available where the player must help him by sniping a team of Mercenaries that wander into the zombie-infested ruins of Kopachy. Yar escorts the player to the vantage point, somehow blending in with the zombified stalkers in the area. Yar can be found in the Freedom wing of the Yanov station out of the mission. He will give the player a Tourist's Delight the first time they talk to him.

According to him, he overheard a mercenary team while he was concealed, about a laboratory in Pripyat and then he was shortly compromised when he stepped on a branch, barely escaping with his life. He says that he knows the mercenary dispatched a hit squad to kill him and didn't ask other Freedomers as so not to bring them into conflict with the mercenaries.

The player can ask him to go to Pripyat, but he will refuse, saying he's "getting old".

After this, he remains inside Yanov, but if the player chooses to do a free-play game after the ending, he appears in Pripyat as a technician and medic when the player returns to the Laundromat after completing the final mission.Though he can only repair, he does it for free, but cannot perform upgrades, essentially filling the roles of Kirillov and Rogovets.

Even though the "Upgrade" button is lacking until the player enters free-play, Yar can still repair the player's equipment if the player presses the upgrade/trade window button ("X" by default) in Yanov.

Conversation with Ashot [ edit | edit source ]

An example of teasing with Ashot

Stalker Clear Sky - Freedom's Best. Ashot and Yar!

Yar: Yo, Ashot, are you gonna bring that here or what?

Ashot: That will be 20 dollars!

Yar: You cheapskate! ...All right, get them from the commandant.

Ashot: Come again?

Yar: So how 'bout it, Ashot?

Ashot: If you want it, you get it, m'kay? Move your ass!

Yar: You're a real jerk, you know that? You're just sitting there, doing nothing all day!

Ashot: Hey, you go suck my--

Freedom officer: Cut the bullshit, you bozos! You're making the whole base sound like a used car dealership!