Not all of the dogs in the pack will attack at once, so the player will have to run out of the thicket and entice the remaining dogs back to the thicket.ĭue to their speed and small size, the best window of opportunity for dispatching blind dogs quickly, is when they run directly towards the player for the kill, giving ample opportunity for delivering headshots, and dealing enough damage to either kill the dog outright, or cause it to retreat.īlind dogs can be found in almost any area of the Zone but they tend to be most dominant in the Cordon, Wild Territory and Army Warehouses. The player can safely hide in a thicket and kill the dogs as they try to enter. In Clear Sky the Blind Dogs cannot enter thickets of bushes, they will circle the thicket and try to enter and attack. When surrounded in an open area, kill several as quickly as possible to break the horde and then sprint away. In Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat the player can also "run for the hills", just pick higher ones so their jump can't reach you. One way of dealing with Blind Dogs is finding high ground - in Shadow of Chernobyl they can't jump at all which means any rock is a safe haven. They also have higher "morale" and don't run away as easily, and their constant attacks, though weak, will interrupt your sprinting as you try to run away. While in theory second-weakest mutants in the game after the Flesh, packs of Blind Dogs should not be underestimated - like Fleshes they hunt in groups, but unlike Fleshes they are both small and fast targets, making them difficult to hit.
Perhaps due to radiation in the Zone and subsequent mutations, many Blind Dogs are albino.
They also seem to have developed an unusually high resistance to electricity.
Rather than rely on eyes, Blind Dogs have extremely keen senses of hearing and smell and can hunt, fight, and navigate through both pockets of radiation and fields of anomalies without much problem. An encounter with a large group of these animals can be dangerous even to an experienced and well-armed stalker.Īs the name implies, these dogs have lost their eyesight, possibly due to some form of warped, mutation-induced evolution. Like their wild ancestors – the wolves – blind dogs hunt in packs. The animals instinctively identify and avoid anomalies, radiation, and other invisible dangers that plague the Zone. As a result, the common dog quickly became extinct in the Zone, giving way to a new breed – that of blind dogs. As it turned out, blind pups survived in the Zone as well as normal ones, if not better. The most notable biological change was the loss of sight, paired with an uncanny development of smell. Rapid mutation lead to a vast improvement in previously peripheral abilities, frequently at the expense of primary ones. Each was more affected by the Zone than the previous one. Several generations of the dog species have lived and died since the catastrophe.
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