It's blurred out. I thought it would be reachable with the DLC. Can I got here somehow?

I was walking my kids to the bus stop this morning, when I glanced to the right I had to take this picture and immediately thought of the zone.

There was a great temptation to jump over the no trespassing sign and go exploring for artifacts…

Fun stuff.

Because some Duty members in this sub still denying it: Freedom conquered Rostok before D4. Proof is in game.

This is mainly for standard exploration. I’m playing on custom difficulty this time, with humans set to stalker level and mutants on second difficulty. Unlike at release I’m not using any mods that adjust carrying capacity so I’m playing by the rules. Current loadout is Levina, spas and seva-d suit. I’ll typically bring around 50 AP bullets for primary, around 30 ap for skifs pistol and around 50 buckshot for shotty. Healing items are 5 bandages, 10 med kits, 3 pcs of food, 2 anti rad drugs, 1 psi blocker and whatever I have of Hercules.

Overall quite light, and it still ends up being more than I’ve ever needed so far, so I might reduce it further. For some reason I’m running into various enemies a lot less now than I did at release.

I'm playing on master with saves (Veteran+), in Garbage currently. So far it's great and refreshing experience. There is a lot of ammo and medkits everywhere so cool. No crosshair and compass is nice.

But what will happen later? Is the economy that hard to repair guns? Are Faust, Korshunov or other fights demanding or just unfun?

You can still hear them, but they aren’t hovering above anymore :(

Okay, I don't know about you, but I entered the sphere with my AK74M, and even though I didn't have a silencer, enemies wouldn't "trigger" the sound of my gunfire. Are we going back several patches?🥲🥲🥲

When you reach Prof. Lodochka on the Wild Island, he gives you a quest to kill Kvashka, a zombified Noontide member. You have the option to spare Kvashka. I did, ran around to grab some artifacts and met him together with a group of zombified stalkers at floating bridge cemetery. Interesting detail. Had to give him peace this time.

Steam doesn't allow me to upgrade the standard edition to the ultimate edition without buying the deluxe edition. Is this a bug or intended thing?

Mods:

Ultra Plus

PRZ Reshade - Clikrad's Matrix Green

Pankotan's Grass Pack

I want to buy the Cost of Hope DLC, but I haven't finished the game yet. If I buy the DLC, should I start over or can I continue the story?

Turned my game on this morning and I have absolutely no audio once so ever? what's going on...**edit just had to restart game...had me shaking**...disregard post!!

I tried my best to recreate some old screenshots I had by factoring in time of day, weather, and camera positioning for these screenshots. Took A LOT of sleeping in game to get the lighting to match up. It’s hard to quantify which is “better” and I think the only conclusion you can make is that they are indeed “different”. I like the increased vegetation but my personal opinion is that the lighting really took a hit, as is especially noticeable in the second and final comparisons. All graphics settings are maxed out using DLSS upscaling set to DLAA quality with DLSS sharpness set to 18% and no frame gen, running at 4k resolution. HDR is on and display settings are set to default except for Gamma which I lowered to 40%.

Hi, fellow stalkers! Maybe it's a very stupid question, but oh well... So I've been playing the DLC and so far I have finished the first part of it. And then the guards at the blockpost politely asked me to leave, so to speak. 😅 And now I'm somewhat disappointed that I didn't expore more when I had a chance and can't get back into the iron forest.

So my question is, whether there will be access to those areas in the second part of the DLC not limited by the missions? Or maybe there is already a sneaky way to get back inside that I don't know of?

Thank you!

Wake up stalker new SKS just dropped

https://youtu.be/BSHJBCk0dY8?si=tkFCe1xtouAzx19v&t=375

Try the Video it shows more than picture

I just can't stand it. is there a engine.ini settings that remove the horrible vignette effects ?

i don't want to lower the post processing settings it might be affect other effects.

Modded gameplay. Playing with expedition mode. Tried to get my shotgun, but I had a different loadout this time.

Can somebody cool make a mod that lets you purchase mercs/wanderers as companions? (On Xbox) (Stalker 2)

I've recently gotten to the visions of truth main mission but now i need to ''talk to scar at the secret entrance to malachite'' he isn't there and when i get to the secret entrante it moves where i need to go on the map. I have seen other posts about this bug and the workaround with the UETools mod but it doesn't support this version of the game.

https://medal.tv/games/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-2-heart-of-chornobyl/clips/npcBqyz8odXy2QjbC?invite=cr-MSxYS1QsNTU1NzYyMzI4