Flash Drive

Flash drive - convenient way to store and transfer information.
― Shadow of Chernobyl item description.

Flash drives are special mission items, featured in Shadow of Chernobyl and Clear Sky.

Shadow of Chernobyl

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Inventory icon.

Borov's key icon.

In Shadow of Chernobyl there exist only a few flash drives. Except for one, they are the object of delivery missions.

List of all Flash drives

Captive stalker's flash drive
Professor Kruglov's flash drive
Strelok's flash drive
The crazy stalker's flash drive
Special: Borov's key

Clear Sky

Inventory icon.

Flash drives in Clear Sky are a more significant part of the gameplay, compared to the first game. They are used to store upgrade information, and technicians that are capable of upgrading the player's equipment offer a reward for those that are delivered to them. Flash drives are obtained from stashes (whose locations can be bought from certain characters), or as rewards for certain missions. Note that if the player fails or cancels one of these missions, they may render a flash drive impossible to acquire.

Each flash drive contains data about only one specific upgrade, and since each technician in Clear Sky has a narrow area of expertise, they will only request flash drives that they can work with.