❔┃main-quest

[cloud scaffold]

I have same issue 😦 reloaded a much earlier save and nada

[bright solstice]

anyone know the quest eternal shining - get ot the elevator control room? cant find a key or anything to get through the door

[opaque cliff]

fighting the colonel could take another pass i think, the audio feedback for his shield taking damage or going down likes to mute itself, and the first time i fought him he froze on the staircase without hulk jumping to the first vent and just stayed immobile and invulnerable

[topaz turtle]

After the patch I still have the issue with not being able to progress Visions of Truth quest - Meet up with Scar in X17. Scar is just not there. I saw fellas on reddit having the same issue. I guess most of players haven't reached this quest yet. Here is a video: https://medal.tv/games/s-t-a-l-k-e-r-2-heart-of-chornobyl/clips/jbsdPufZNmOxFITI6?invite=cr-MSxMdnYsNTIyODcyOSw

[native vortex]

I saw the patch, saw it fixed EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION, I got a crash with this and 0x0000000000000020

I still cant finish the game
(last mission with ward faction)

[half rover]

was it to fix the "help solder" thing?

[torpid vector]

bro i stopped because i couldnt progress on that quest before the patch and i cant progress it now, scar just wont come now

[topaz turtle]

It's so annoying. Who do we tag to raise awaireness on this?

[torpid vector]

idk but i was so hopefull they'll fix it

@fathom marlin can you help us forwarding this to the dev team?

[fathom marlin]

Go to https://support.stalker2.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

And submit it here

[topaz turtle]

Already did, hope they'll see it

[torpid vector]

yup

[torpid vector]

so we just have to wait? we already submited requests, there is no fix provided to progress the story forward?

[deft charm]

chaskyythedeer has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[slow jolt]

Submitted too, for Zalissya and Visions of Truth

[fathom marlin]

Nothing I can do to force them to update

[worldly sparrow]

my mistake original gangster

[fathom marlin]

I don’t even work for gsc

I’m just a random guy legally speaking

[worldly sparrow]

That scene where Strider is beating the heck out of you when you try to save the doctor is scary as heck

[fathom marlin]

Zalissya can be saved currently

It’s just super frustrating

Basically if you make a save right before the first few monolith come outside

Eventually you can get all the monolith to exit the building so you can kill them

It took me over 15 attempts for this to happen

[torpid vector]

Im gonna try this now

When outside of the Malachite base, press F10 for console, type XStartQuest E09_MQ01, this should re-run the dialogue with Scar telling you to meet him in Malachite, going to the quest marker after the command, he was spawned in, and I could progress.

[scenic bramble]

Hello everyone
Maybe I searched badly, but in the quest for the Vision of Truth, you need to talk to the scar, but it's not there. Any ideas how to fix it?

[slow jolt]

(I don't really care about them) buuuuut i'm a completionnist XD

Nah this bug don't happen know, you can kill all monoliths, etc etc. But it is now the second part that is bugged out

[fathom marlin]

Oh

Where it says you failed?

[slow jolt]

Nothing tells you you fialed, monoliths just don't attack the village anymore

[fathom marlin]

Oh wack

That didn’t happen for me

I did get told I failed but I walked away and came back and then it changed to I succeeded

[slow jolt]

Same gonna try it

[topaz turtle]

fingers crossed. let me know if it works

[topaz turtle]

this is what we are discussing right now

[torpid vector]

YESS HE SHOWED UP

[scenic bramble]

Yeah, I see, thx

[topaz turtle]

omg I'll put a candle for you in church

[scenic bramble]

Can you please write us the process of what needs to be done?)))

[torpid vector]

I cant post screenshot but im talking with him right now

[slow jolt]

Shit it tells me to search faust body..

[topaz turtle]

how far outside were you from malachite base?

[torpid vector]

To fix the quest Visions of Truth you must:

When outside of the Malachite base, press F10 for console, type XStartQuest E09_MQ01, this should re-run the dialogue with Scar telling you to meet him in Malachite, going to the quest marker after the command, he was spawned in, and I could progress.

[scenic bramble]

Do we need to enable the console in Steam?
Or what do we need to do?

[topaz turtle]

I use this mod to enable console When outside of the Malachite base, press F10 for console, type XStartQuest E09_MQ01, this should re-run the dialogue with Scar telling you to meet him in Malachite, going to the quest marker after the command, he was spawned in, and I could progress.

[scenic bramble]

THX, I understand, but does consol always work, does it not need to be enabled by mods?

[topaz turtle]

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/64

[slow jolt]

Did you had to search faust body again?

[scenic bramble]

I'm lighting a candle for you too))

[rotund birch]

Any fix for Zalissya quest bugs?

Or just wait another week to play

[bright solstice]

anyone know how to progress 'get to the elevator control room' ?

[valid cloak]

Mb smb know how to fix? I have bug and can't talk to Roosevelt after side mission with Borodulin

[vital sparrow]

where is Richter???

[thorn coyote]

Lmao

Where patch2

[slow jolt]

My dialog is still buged for me :/

Scar is showing up but the dialog cut once the objective to talk is completed

[tawny fossil]

this worked for me, thank you very much!

[topaz turtle]

Strange it worked fine for me. Maybe try redoing everything again with that console command?

[slow jolt]

Will try again XD

[topaz turtle]

I skipped it it's optional

[slow jolt]

it bug when scars goes to talk with the C-con

Yeah definitly bugged for me /:

[visual pilot]

game is still crashing during the hot on the trail cutscene even after the patch

[inland lion]

My game is still crashing during down below. is it also for anyone else?

[dapper wave]

|| Ritcher is hidding from me can't go give him that mutant colar ||

[olive crater]

Patch didn't fix anything tbh

[worthy bolt]

So I'm to the point early in the game I've killed the guy that robbed me from the prolonge atlest it's the guy I belive I killed however in the basement I seem to be stuck venturing the opposite way I came in I'm lead to dead end with a rat swarm I go back the way I came into the building doors shut and can't be interacted with am I just stupid and missing somthing or has anyone eles had an issue I believe the quest itself is needle in a haystack but I can't exactly remember

[broken beacon]

Anyone having trouble with the quest that follows in search of past glory? I install the part, and no new main quest starts

Cant progress the game anymore

[plain sphinx]

Anyone know what to do after 'Visions of Truth' quest? I get no more missions :/

[slow jolt]

Currently blocked at this one XD

[broken beacon]

same situation as you, looks like we are stuck manually starting quests from the debug mod

[slow jolt]

I think i'm gonna start a fresh run without any mods or console commands. See if it change anything, and side with ward this time

[proper path]

Is performance in the sphere terrible for anyone else?

[slow jolt]

Was okay for me, but i play in high and not in ultra with a really decent rig. And in 1080p so it helps a lot

[twin osprey]

The only issue I'm encountering is having the collar and richter just doesn't want to take it at the bar and the obj marker highlights the barkeep and don't have a save before taking the quest besides a save that locks the loading screen so I guess I'll just have to get the game on steam so I can at least bypass anything if it happens again

[deep wedge]

i just hope it isnt going to be another week before they attempt to fix On the Edge again

[sick acorn]

Has the new patch fixed your problem? I still can't go any further on the quest. I thought such a huge patch would definitely fix this bug...

[plain sphinx]

Gents how do I spoiler tag?

[alpine schooner]

No fix for me, either. I'm 69.3 hours in, and I'm thinking I'll have to start a new game to get past this point.

[plain sphinx]

I managed to find a fix for quests after Visions of Truth. That fixes Scar as well but I'd like to spoiler it. Not sure how

[frozen tartan]

| | like this but no spaces between the lines like this -> ||

[plain sphinx]

So. For those having issues with quests like:

-> Visions of Truth
-> Malachite/Scar

And onwards. There's a sequence lock in the game. Every quest has an actor standby that pushes each event. Every sequence depends on the next in order to process the event board properly. If one of these things do not initiate, it breaks the next sequences and all future quests have a chance to break.

The major sequence break so far that was found is as follows:

||At Visions of Truth, before going to kill Faust on the roof, you will encounter a small device/emitter and a dead body. People usually shoot it before reaching to it and that's a sequence break. You are supposed to reach it and the dead body becomes an Illusion. Only then you kill it and that finishes the sequence. That fixes the entire quest for Faust AND for Scar.||

[sick acorn]

It just sounds terrible. The game deletes the quick saves and I can't even boot up until the moment when the antenna was not activated yet

[sage dock]

Hey, anyone had issues with talking to Smelter (?) and optional quest when going to Sphere after saving Ledchenko

the issue is i have no idea who that is and where he is, it suddenly just popped when i was gettinh through monolith ranks

the only living thing i found was 2 soldiers back in main entrance and one of them u cannot interact with

ooh i think my translation is bad, it is Solder and i killed him so obviously can't talk to him

[serene knoll]

I've finished stalker and with english dub i didnt hear not one CHEEKI BREEKI

[slow jolt]

Thanks i will try that !

[serene knoll]

so I'm sad

[proper path]

Still getting told zalissya is gone after saving it and doing all objectives

[serene knoll]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1gz8kia/zalissya_defence_guide_using_uetools/

[ashen knot]

Anyone have a problem after the cut scene on Ad astra per aspera with constantly losing health trying to esacape the swamps?

[jagged marlin]

Is it better to side with noontide or the ward i don't really like how they want to destroy the zone but their outfits are cool lol

[deep wedge]

teleporting away while the defense mission is active now immediately fails the mission and Zelissya falls for me

[serene knoll]

reload right before the deffend and make sure EVERY npc survivas that later should be in meeting with Garffer

otherwise it will bug out again

[deep wedge]

no Monolith Spawn for me. everyone is just standing around and gaffer cannot be interacted with

[serene knoll]

litteraly its 1st point in reddit guide that you can use command XKillNPCInRadius 5000000 -99999999999999999999999999 -1000 and it fix "invisible" monolits

[hardy robin]

richter is still not appearing at the slag heap for a minor incident

[ember oriole]

any ideas on how to load a mission , and then get ported to the starting point ? i did not get ported after the down below mission ended.

[bright venture]

i need help... which should i go for strelok/other ending or with the ward?

is the ward ending better or no?

[serene knoll]

both are.... not good

[bright venture]

really? fml, but which one is "better"

[serene knoll]

ward

at least for skiff

[bright venture]

okay cool, thanks. for first run ill do the ward

[vital sparrow]

same

[mint anchor]

I suggest deleting all saves and starting over - started a new game and i cant even speak to noon because the walkway is already broken when it shouldn't be

think the memory leaks are worse than we realize and its affecting other saves that exist

going to suck it up and try - goodbye to my 30+ hours

[frigid merlin]

Visions of Truth quest is still bugged for me. Scar isn’t even showing up at the malachite lab. Can’t progress at all -_-

[bright venture]

re-install the game, fixed it for me

[frigid merlin]

You’re kidding 🥲

[eternal ivy]

try validating your game first

[frigid merlin]

Will do. Thanks! Hopefully they patch this quest asap

[pseudo kettle]

guys, what's the fix for Rostrok cutscene not triggering? (fix: XTeleportNPCToPlayer Scar)

[deep wedge]

i just did everything again. did that post step by step and same problem. when the defend mission is supposed to start i return to Zalissya and the quest does not trigger the next part. NPCs are standing outside and no monolith ared spawning. the actual defence phase of the quest isnt triggering

[plain sphinx]

Scroll up bud. I left a fix

[sand depot]

Anyone know the Subtle Matter quest Search Kaymanov's Office Console trigger? Just looking to see if I can bypass it. I've reloaded but I think I explorerd here like 15 hours ago and messed up the quest

Thought the command would be XDKFinishQuestStage E11_MQ02 E11_MQ02_search_kaimanov's_office true

[ember oriole]

did you try just E11_MQ02 ?

[sand depot]

I tied XEndQuest E11_MQ02 but it brakes all quests afterwards

[ember oriole]

XEndQuest E11_MQ02 just go like this and end the hole quest. ist not worth the anger to wait for something to happen ^^

[sand depot]

I can trigger the next quest but through console but I have not tested if I complete that mission if everything goes back to normal

[ember oriole]

you could try spawn the quest item again maybe

[ember oriole]

i just skipped the quest. and since then sometimes a quest wont end or start. had to skip a quest now and dont have any enemys now xD

[sand depot]

The items were on the desk but the task didnt update. But worth a try how do I get the item id?

[ember oriole]

where there 3 items on the desk? the paper? the key card ? and the idk "talk massages in thingi"?

[ember oriole]

E11_MQ02_2ndKaymanovDiary
E11_MQ02_3rdKaymanovDiary
E11_MQ02_CodeToBunkerDoorNote
E11_MQ02_InstAntNote
E11_MQ02_KaymanovDiary
E11_MQ02_KeyCardX15

Oney of them is it

[iron lake]

Lodochka bunker still bugged, huh? Now after the patch you can actually enter it, but now you can't leave...
Edit: Nvm, it worked, whooof...

[hot granite]

Anyone know how to get the barn to work in “back to the slag heap”? I’ve been off doing side stuff for 20 hours before deciding to progress and I really don’t want to start over

[dapper lily]

Hi, did you managed to figure this out without breaking all quests afterwards?

[sand depot]

Thanks I'll try them when I get back home

[sand depot]

E11_MQ02_2ndKaymanovDiary
E11_MQ02_3rdKaymanovDiary
E11_MQ02_CodeToBunkerDoorNote
E11_MQ02_InstAntNote
E11_MQ02_KaymanovDiary
E11_MQ02_KeyCardX15

One of them is it

Try these commands. I'm out and about. Let me know if they work 🙂

[deft charm]

mix4trickz has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[ember oriole]

if its not in there you can look here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3370986723

[dapper lily]

Unfortunately it didn't help ||I know for sure that I picked up Kaymanov's voice recorder previously and that's why the quest can't progress ||

[ember oriole]

exactly what i did. .... if you end the quest by console now, game might start bugging like mine,,,,

[wheat shard]

Did the update fix the professors bunker

[jagged heron]

it should've

[wheat shard]

Good lol I can't wait till I get home then

[sick acorn]

I have the same problem. I have sent a request to GSC support. Maybe they will tell me something or fix this error in the next patch

[mint anchor]

14 gb update just to remove money duplication it seems smh - so glad i didn't spend money on this and am playing on game pass

nothing was fixed this patch basically lol and Alife is still broken what a joke

[sick acorn]

Maybe in a year the game will be ready to give us good impressions? We can still hope for mods that will probably fix all this 😎

[mint anchor]

definitely will be saved in the years to come - just disappointed we have yet another "cuberpunk" issue to deal with again as gamers

[sick acorn]

As I remember, I went through the cyberpunk storyline without bugs, it's a pity that I was so unlucky in stalker

[mint anchor]

definitely nothing game breaking like i've experienced in stalker 2

I have 2 different save files that are 2 different play throughs

One is bugged at Zalyssia and the main mission after involving the helicopter

the second play through is bugged worse, cant even speak to Noon, the plank walkway is collapsed when it shouldn't be

[small mountain]

for some reason, richter doesnt have the collar dialouge option in "A Minor Incident" after i retrieved it for the bloodsucker. does anyone know a fix or do i have to wait longer for another patch?

[sick acorn]

It seems to me that serious bugs make it clear to us that it is better to give the game time to fix all the error. And then we will be able to get a pleasant passing experience. But it turns out to be very sad when you spent 8 days playing stalker without rest and your quest just broke 🫤

[dapper lily]

yea, very frustrating, I spent 100 hrs of playing and I'm afraid it's all gone now

[small mountain]

yes, its very disappointing. my diamond exoskeleton is bugged too. i already have purchased the sewn on pockets upgrade and the sprint upgrade and it bugged out and took them both from me after using a guide and wont let me buy them again 😕

[sick acorn]

It's sad that the game punishes you for exploring the world. Although this is the main features of the game

[small mountain]

if i want to sprint, i have to unequip the armor lmao

[mint anchor]

if you take it off and put it in your inv it can bug out too

[small mountain]

i feel like i've done every solution from reloading a save to verify and repair the files. i even went out a found the liberty exo and the same thing happened!

[mint anchor]

i had issues upgrading it yesterday but got it working- not to mention the audio glitch ; the exosuit stops making the proper noises after a save or reload

[small mountain]

thats so dumb how it glitches. how did you get it working?

[sick acorn]

a true stalker always walks with an overload of weight and cannot run 😋

[mint anchor]

reloaded a save im pretty sure

[small mountain]

i'll see if it works this time

[manic thunder]

Bug: on the mission Dangerous liasons after waking up in the cell Dr Dalin says he needs to speak with me then runs out the room. Then an emission comes in and killed me in the cell.
I will try the other dialog option to not end up in the cell for now

[mint anchor]

debating deleting both saves and starting over for a third time - think having any old saves is messing up new ones - goodby 40 hrs

[silk mason]

Before patch i had issues starting the next quest to the point where i had to get a mod that opens commands and manually triggering each quest up until the end but im hoping on my second play through it wont be like that

[sick acorn]

I'm scared to start a new game. What if something breaks again the second time?

[small mountain]

thats so unlucky. i just wish game breaking bugs weren't occurring. wiht my diamond exo sprint upgrade, its saying that i havent purchased it at all

[mint anchor]

im sure thats the issue they just havent made a statement- think we may have an outlaws issue were you have to start entirely over

[small mountain]

i really hope not bro

[silk mason]

Doesnt hurt to try and if it does just make a bug report and go back to ur first save unless thats bugged to all hopes

[mint anchor]

im saying nuke it all and start over

[silk mason]

Fax

[manic thunder]

Where can i make a bug report?

[mint anchor]

memory leak may be affecting new saves it's definitely possible - a fix would be to remove all existing saves

[silk mason]

#s2-support

[sick acorn]

It seems to me that in the previous parts of the stalker series there were saves that the game makes automatically at key points and you could always go back. But in Stalker 2, I lose all quick saves only if I didn't make them manually through the game menu

[mint anchor]

think you can only have a max of 5 quick saves then it begins to overwite the older one

[silk mason]

I think its a bit more than 5 but theres saved saves

[sick acorn]

I used the link that GSC left under the patchnout https://support.stalker2.com/hc

[sick acorn]

In stalker CoP, I remember for sure that I had saved from the beginning of the game to the very end, and the saves were not deleted

[iron lake]

Guys, how to progress "On the Edge" I came back to Zallisya after saving it, I got the objective complete, but the quest is still ongoing and no targets to shoot on sight, if I leave and go far away, Zallisya dies.

[solid shoal]

#❔┃seeking-for-advice message anyone else getting this error?

[manic thunder]

Got it thanks

[cedar elbow]

Has anyone figured out how to progress "subtle matter" quest? Quest marker is stuck on "search office" and the sequence to get in the pod won't trigger

[sick acorn]

Nope, there are already several people here who don't understand why the patch didn't fix this problem.

[main sigil]

If you picked up the weird bolt that’s what causes problems on down below

[cedar elbow]

Damn. I take solace in not being alone i guess lol

[sick acorn]

I sent a question to GSC support and if they answer me, I will definitely write here

[cedar elbow]

I genuinely appreciate it! Thank you!

[inland lion]

i already got it fixed but than you for the reply

[solid shoal]

what's the fix? dropping the bolt?

[main sigil]

There’s a mod on nexus that fixes it

[inland lion]

theres a mod that removes the bolt and fixes the emissions but i didnt try dropping it

[solid shoal]

I'm not crashing at that point (not there yet) but I am crashing well before it, wonder if that could be the cause as well

[main sigil]

Picking up the weird bolt causes the game to crash during any scripted emission

[solid shoal]

Is the emission when you get to the ||Sircaa|| base scripted, or did I just arrive at the right time?

[tiny rune]

what I need to do|| if "granite" squad doesn't spawn and i can't proceed further?||

[twilit current]

Is the main quest going to take us through every part of the zone? Or do I need to “complete” an area and then go exploring?

My loop has basically been exploring the area, finding stashes, THEN do the main story quest and move to a new area.

[dapper flint]

No - you will have not affected areas

[twilit current]

Okay great

[dapper flint]

You will obtain warning from game about point of no return

[twilit current]

Thank you!

[mint anchor]

deleted all my saves and re-installing the game; guess ill be one of the first testers of delete everything and start over

[main sigil]

Yes that’s one of the scripted ones

[small mountain]

lmk how to goes man

[solid shoal]

Ok, I didn't crash there and I had the bolt equipped, so it might not be all emissions

[frozen crag]

My game keeps crashing on “ Happiness for everyone” bc of enemy grenades and cant progress the mission

[dull bobcat]

is there a crash report in the files somewhere? even after waiting all week for the patch, im still soft locked and crashing at the same point in the cutscene for "an invisible threat" with dr dalin and korshunov. was really hoping for it to be fixed.

[tiny rune]

Someone else had problems with|| "The Eternal Shining", especially with Granite squad?||

[warm jacinth]

Hey Devs, Since Patch on Xbox Series X, Mainmission Stuck again. I have to meet Scar at X 17 Lab, but Scar isn't there. Questmarker is there. Are u kidding me, I'm really pissed off. That's not ok. You got my money, but I got a broken Game. Why didn't you test it

[frozen crag]

Go to their support page, you can get there through #s2-support

[solid shoal]

simmer down there, I bet they did test it, but they can't test EVERY SINGLE way one can get to a quest, try loading an earlier save

[void relic]

In the mission A Minor Incident where do I bring richter the collar I don’t have a map marker

[warm jacinth]

@solid shoal I did it, Same Result.

[tiny rune]

man, it doesn't work with "try earlier save" bulls**t. It's just full of softlocks, I already count 3 for myself (2 of which were fixed, 1 is still present)

I want to play it, I want to like it, but I can't

[solid shoal]

Hey, it works, i solved 4 out of the 4 SOFT locks I had, now I did have to take one about an hour from the last save to fix it, so it can be done. Now I'm stuck w/ a hard crash in the middle of a main quest

[feral relic]

So what happens when I just abandon Zalissya? Considering the quest is just turbo bugged rn and literally CANNOT be completed even with exploits do I just ignore it and do it on the next run? What are the consequences of just ignoring it and letting them die?

[muted lion]

I also didn't bother with the quest in my save and it's gone. Mostly the consequences are no guide, traders, bed and stash anymore. Hoping the story doesn't take me back there much bc I would probably have to walk a lot more lol.

[frozen crag]

Ahh yay a new hard lock bc of main quest yay

[spring willow]

As any1 found a fix to the "answer to come at a price" quest. THe patch didnt fix it

[frozen crag]

Yea if you havent made it to “Happiness for everyone” dont at least if youre on console im hard locked bc the game keeps crashing. Do what you will with this info

[jagged marlin]

What point in the game do you get that mission?

[frozen crag]

I dont really know how far it is in the game but its after sircca

[jagged heron]

why the hell does scar attack me with a gauss rifle when fighting off the ward

[vapid pike]

because hes an A-Hole 🙂

[jagged heron]

:(

I can’t tell if it’s a bug or not cause I just helped him

[vapid pike]

dunno, i didnt side with him

[jagged heron]

ohhh ok, I honestly probably just shot one of his men accidentally

[nocturne stone]

Anyone siding with spark not get the “reward” from powerplug (im guessing armor) when talking to him and getting the emitter?

[fair glacier]

anyone have a fix for crashing after killing ||korshunov?|| in the cutscene immediately after, once it ends, my friend keeps crashing, it was happening last night and even after the patch it's still happening

[frigid merlin]

Tried the fix posted here for visions of truth and nothing is working to finding Scar in the Malachite facility.

Such a shame. Really wanted to power through the bugs but I legit am hardlocked at this point.

Gonna put the game down until they actually finish it now 😢

[coarse hare]

hello. im on a mission called "answers come at a price". My quest marker is gone and my objectives are X'ed in red, how do I reset this mission or continue?

[placid dawn]

Take the elevator down to the underground and just follow the hallway. That should get you to him

[frigid merlin]

He's nowhere to be found inside the lab! Searched every inch of the facility

[placid dawn]

Oh right, I'll let you know if I see anything to fix it

[placid dawn]

Maybe try loading the last save you have and go there again. That fixes like 90% of the issues I had

[frigid merlin]

Trust me I've tried lol

[spring willow]

AS of right now the only fix is to check all your saves and see if there is a one before you spoke with the colnel and he give ytou the mission opitons

[frigid merlin]

It's how i got passed every bug previously lmao

[coarse hare]

damn, ok thanks

[spring willow]

im stuck in the same boat man, and does no use to even playing the game because you cant make any new saves either

[placid dawn]

Icl I gave up on finishing the game. I get 80% through the last mission and it just crashes on the same unavoidable loading screen lmao

[delicate kettle]

I can’t seem to interact with Dvupalov to give him the collar in the “In Search of Past Glory”. Great. And this is a main quest. I am on the latest patch. Wouldn’t be surprised if the patch broke it.

[wooden totem]

is it worth completing the game now after the update or should i keep waiting

[timid linden]

is on back to the slag heap, cannot enter saw mill no option to open door, after 15 seconds of being near the building it spawns me inside scar is not there to talk to and i get locked in 🥲

[kind yoke]

is there any downside to keep playing with solder bugging out dead?

[coral perch]

ok this is riduculous, loaded an earlier save for minor incident, still cant get into STC Malachite

[digital imp]

Solder || only matters if you want a little help later on down the story line||

|| otherwise, not so much. He’s not too big a chess piece. ||

[ancient wing]

So I waited until this patch to fix the Just Like The Good Old Days mission. Before the patch, there was no map marker and he wasn't where he is supposed to be. Now he is here but he wont talk to me. Just says his one voiceline over and over but I can't actually speak with him. What do I do??

[jagged marlin]

I'm doing the zalissya defence mission and warlock and the bodyguard just died after they come back to the main building out of nowhere

Like they just walk into the door and it slowly closes in their face and kills them 💀 😭

[final wagon]

hello stalkers i have a question i am stuck in a mission, i can't go anywhere, tried again for 3 hours but in the end i can't go anywhere. the name of the mission to the drop of blood

[jagged marlin]

Average stalker 2 experience

[final wagon]

who should I ask for help? reinstalled but same problem again

[patent arch]

Anyone else in Yaniv experience the guide disappearing after a main quest story beat: ||doing the Monolith fight in The Boundary main quest?||

[nocturne stone]

Im about to get into this point and im going to be so mad if it locks for me 😭

[eternal hemlock]

I am doing the quest "A minor incident" And it is asking me to install fuses into fuse boxes, WHERE ARE THESE FUSES!?

[timid linden]

alright reloaded a save 2hrs prev of just looting before the slag of the heap and now i can enter the saw mill normally, just need to regrind 2 hrs of looting

[gleaming geode]

in the misson "an invisible threat" you have to give the emitters to Scar, i get to rostok and scars no where to be found? i followed the mission marker and it js stops and doesnt go any where?

[lucid nest]

What is the faction guarding Yaniv? I thought they were mercs at first but they are definitely military ||and/or related to Degtyarev?|| but I've never seen their faction patch before

[nocturne stone]

Ecologist i believe

[frigid merlin]

Ahhh I think I’m joining you on that. So frustrating! Done playing till these things are ironed out. Or modders fix it lol

[stable plover]

hey does anyone else have issues with the mission "once more unto the breach" i legit cannot get into the tunnel entrance cuz the door is just locked

[naive ore]

same here. it worked before patch but I had to restart it as the armored guys I was not prepped for. But now when i load it the characters just stand there and the mission doesnt start

[north prawn]

cant sprint after update

[supple robin]

Can't get out of SIRCAA. Cutscene won't trigger. Anyone know a workaround?

[lyric axle]

Hey guys, how to return to the game after ending scene? as I cannot.... the cutscene ends and i'm at main screen, and if try to go into game it's again ending scene....

[marble viper]

hey once i give the ||faust key to dalin and after he kaboom booms the visograph where he gets angry at his papa my game|| tries to load something and then crashes, i tried to verify files decrease my graphics and even reinstall my game but it still crashes.

[warped gulch]

HELP Subtle Matter Mission. Search Kaimanov's office is still in trouble.
Long before I explored the area and took the documents and turned on the antenna.
Now it asks me to get the documents and turn on the antenna but it's done!

I accessed the banker, turned on the power at the bottom and put the card in.
The Vermelhor button to open the capsule has no interaction.
the hallmark of the mission was Kaimanov's office

[earnest pasture]

Help , stock in the main mision .Main mission in search of past glory
when i complete the mission ,it gives me veles detector
My game does nothing but crashes, do you know how I can fix this error?

[kind yoke]

Are there any quests in cement factory and cooling towers? Or just exploring?

[stray aspen]

Hey I have a question? I just downloaded the new patch on Xbox, and the quest [Answers came with a Price] is still broken. I found Chronozem's body (he was randomly already dead when I found him) and picked up his PDA, but there's still no progression. When I try talking to Colonel Korshunov, all I get is a "Dismissed, soldier."
I can't reload an old save because I've progressed a lot of hours in exploration, is there a way to skip this quest or does anyone have a fix?

[sick zephyr]

I cant talk to doctor, he keep saying "I'm busy", what can i do?

[wide wren]

I need some help, I am at the "A minor incident" quest in Duga ||after defeating Faust. Ever since the attack at SIRCAA, going trough all the quests (wild Island, Losing Zalissya (bugged quest sucks balls), Rostok, Promin, im running on fumes! Ammo is long gun, armor is practically gone and I am using left-over weapons, but I have no outsights for a camp I can repair/sell. Never sided with ward, so cant use that base.|| Any tips on where to go?

[warped gulch]

go to an outpost near the swamp and teleport to others, it will make them return to what it was

[wide wren]

What? Swamp is at the other side of the map. You mean Zalissya work-around? I tried the two defense quests couple times, still lost the town.

[wide wren]

Nevermind, Thanks 😉 || the minor incident is a base. Finally||

[vestal breach]

During A Minor Incident, after getting the collar, Richter says hes nearby. No quest marker is present. Where do i go?

[muted lion]

Small gate house right next to the other house where you killed the mutant

[vestal breach]

Is it the parkinglot to the east?

[muted lion]

It's to your left when you come out of the building that has the mutant

I also got confused because it's so close

[vestal breach]

I see my issue. I got a collar from a mutant in the red forest. Richter is nowhere near the redforest.

[marsh oracle]

Hello, guys. ||Did someone know how to get Dalin to cage at "Escape from cage" mission? Because after his dialog he just standing on his place and dont move, even after 1.0.2 downloaded||

[olive crater]

Start a new game. That's how the game is

[scarlet arch]

Sooo, the zalissya defence mission and Lodochka's door bugs have been fixed or still broken?

[silent canopy]

Hamster and ricochet still dies in the door

[cyan pawn]

Hey stalkers, I've tried searching through the help channels here and havent found a solid answer, so i was wondering if anyone else has had this specific bug and solved it: I'm stuck on the || assault on the duga questline (sided with the ward) on the 'secure the checkpoint' quest step. ive killed all the enemies, broken the 2 psi emiters, and made it past the gate. then all my allies just freeze in place, it spawns 2 waves of 3 enemies behind us, and killing them just softlocks progression. even if i dont kill them, my allies just stand around and do nothing to them|| ive waited for almost an hour realtime to see if it is some weird pathing/timing bug, ive jumped over the walls to make sure there are no hidden enemies, but nothing. I was hoping these patches would help clear these issues, but so far nothing.

[vernal plank]

hey guys, i tried this morning after doing the sphere mission to return to zalissya but the doors are locked, and even if i progress, hamster and richocet die on contact when entering the building, is it fixed in this new 1.0.2 patch?

[echo jasper]

Yes BUT if you speak to the quest giver fast enough he will acknowledge that you were able to make a deal and once the city saved well they just respawn !

I even walk away and hear the positive message on the radio

[vital sparrow]

My mission a minor incident is still bugged, Richter has not yet appeared

[finite raven]

same 😦

[marble glen]

literally the same problem. After the recent patch, 2 stalkers hang outside Zalissya's townhall, but the doors are still locked :/

Before the recent patch, there were 0 stalkers in the town.

[frigid merlin]

Damn… Patch 1.0.2 still hasn’t fixed the “Visions of Truth” quest. Scar still hasn’t shown up in the Malachite facility. Did this new patch work for anyone?
I explored for about two hours yesterday and refuse to re load the Faust fight scene and lose all that time🥲 lol

[spring willow]

wonderful.....[Answers came with a Price] is still broken

[winter pivot]

Had the same thing. There's a big possibility that some of the enemies are stuck in a inaccesible place. I'm on PC so I could use console to noclip and search for them. When I've killed some stuck behind a wall the quest stage updated.

The only possible fix I can think of for consoles is to reload the save from before you were sleeping and try again... and again... and again...

[cyan pawn]

okay, thank you so much. ive been trying to avoid modding before a completed run, but if that seems to be the only way, ill try the console mod to check inside the terrain. thank you for the reply!

[winter pivot]

I hope it will work for You!

[olive shard]

Is the mission „Hapiness for everyone“ fixed? Couldn't finish it because the body didn't spawn at the end.

[wheat turtle]

Any way I can have Richter spawn in the Water Tower for mission "The Boundary" ? I tried reloading an earlier save, fast traveling and what not. The guide in Yaniv is also missing.

[cedar elbow]

Subtle matter quest is still bugged and non progress after patch 2. The pod still doesn't open/cutscene still doesn't happen. Quest marker still stuck on "search office". Ffs I just wanna progress the damn game.

[spring willow]

dude, i cant get past [Answers came with a Price]

its such a joke, like like and 3rd main quest in the game

[deft charm]

semper299 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[cedar elbow]

I have a feeling my subtle matter quest issue is gunna result in me having dead save......I'm gunna uninstall if I have to backtrack 10+ hours of exploring because I unknowingly picked up the quest tape recorder early and the gane doesn't recognize it in my inventory now

[dull bobcat]

2 patches and im still softlocked from progressing after|| bringing the emitter to the chemical plan||t. is there any way to skip a cutscene? any mods? constantly crashing during the cutscene with|| dr dalin and korshunov.|| i just wanna play the damn game

[ruby tangle]

Question: So i killed Varan instead of killing Roosevelt and shah and progressed my game and then later went and killed Roosevelt and took his pda. what do i do with the Roosevelts pda? it still has a check mark by it stating its a quest item and idk what other quest it has me doing beside the one i already passed up. is this a bug that its stuck in my inventory or is there another quest i need it for?

[urban osprey]

hi, got a question, quest "down below" i need to come back to the control unit but when i do it the cutscene plays and at the end my game just crashes every time. So i saw people get further in to the story, do i wait for the next patch or is there a solution?

[cedar elbow]

Is there a certain place for bug reprorts?

[jagged marlin]

I just found bread armor???? 💀

[muted lion]

Has anyone fixed the issue of Scar not appearing in "Visions of Truth"? I downloaded the new patch but he's still not there in my save game. If anyone fixed it, how far back was the save you loaded? Trying to find out if I "only" have to|| fight Faust again|| or replay even more.

[muted lion]

https://support.stalker2.com/hc/en-us/articles/29872226088209-How-to-Report-a-Bug-for-S-T-A-L-K-E-R-2-Heart-of-Chornobyl

[shadow pike]

Hi, on quest "In Search of Past Glory" i need to give schematics to Dvupalov but he is sitting at table and i cant speak to him, Any fix or tip please.

[last notch]

same he doesnt talk or have a voice

[shadow pike]

btw it is broken in 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 version too

[jagged marlin]

yep hamster and ricochet still die going through the door

[north oracle]

any1 else with OCD seeing all the quest items in their inventory taking space and weight? its driving me insane

[round wharf]

Its HORRIBLE

[jagged marlin]

same i don't even know what missions half of these items are even for

[vital iris]

a minor incident bugged. Acquire the collar from the mutant, i kill it and it despawns instantly. so it cant be looted. real nice work. 3 missions after previous softlock...

[last notch]

anyone else cant progress on "In Search of Past Glory"?

bro i cant save either im stuck on prof. Dvupalovs lab 😭

[deft charm]

nerrafall has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[muted lion]

Update: ||Fighting Faust again|| doesn't fix it lol. Wondering if there is any specific 'proven' point in the game that works if loaded. Starting a new game isn't really an option for me ||50h into the story.||

[last notch]

it got fixed in the worst way possible : Im at duga and they started talking to me telepathically???

[frigid merlin]

EXACT same issue man. Not playing the game until I can find a fix unfortunately lol

I’m 62hrs in and this bloooows

[muted lion]

Yeah don't|| try and fight Faust again||. Just tried and it didn't fix it. Feels like this is the worst point in the game for this to happen

[marble cobalt]

Bug with the quest who strider attacks the Doc. I go " Wasted" after the dialogue with the Doc, now i see his boots standing in front of me is there any solution ? https://prnt.sc/xPhOelk3LyAV

edit

There was a emission starting right in the second i entered the Room where strider and Doc are fighting. had to reload and sit the emission out in a safe room

[vernal plank]

same for me now, anyone has solution? so there are no monolith in zalissya and none inside the building. you can start and reset quest and you can progress but richotet and hamster die upon contact with the doors, anyone have fix pls, i tried all options on reddit and such.

[keen willow]

I fought against faust and cleared x17
How far am I in the story ?
In % I mean

[ember oriole]

88

[keen willow]

Thanks

[floral steppe]

last mission:
||im at the end where it says "kill strelok" but he literally disappeared??? where is he||

[opal panther]

Ok mission "The Hornet Nest" i talked to Solder, have to help him, but what actually im supposed to do? I switched some switch, but he is nowhere to be found etc.

[quiet delta]

When the doctor asks not to kill
Monolith during the Mission. What are the consequences for actually killing them?

[spice sandal]

I had the same issue you can try this you have to DL the console mod, and then use a line to restart the quest when you are outside the area (i went just a little far away behind the gate) and it's retrigger the dialogue you had after the fight, you go back again and he should be there ! https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/s/6VAA25y37R

[muted lion]

Thanks a lot for that! I'll try it right now 🙂

[delicate kettle]

This Faust fight is total trash

[ember oriole]

its okey ... after finding out what to do 😄

[delicate kettle]

I need to shoot his little power source on his hip but I am getting overwhelmed by the ghosts he makes. Like wtf was the point of that upgrade. It does nothing lol

I take psi blockers and those seem to not help either

I’m past the first part where you have to destroy the different power sources around the rooftop. It makes an autosave once you do. So I’m just trying to do this last part but holy shit I get shredded

Faust seemingly has infinite ghosts he can spawn to fight you? I’m trying to kill them first and then focus on him but they seem to come again and again forever. This just plain sucks.

Again and again I feel like this game was not playtested

Yeah I can’t do this. I run out of ammo and can’t even get the one on his hip to explode. This all feels so cheap

Any advice?

[cunning ether]

OK I am looking at a guide for disabling the beacons in the swamp, but I have not talked to anyone in camp icarus yet as they won't let me in, any help is appreciated

[delicate kettle]

I literally cannot even get his hip one to explode. I keep hammering shotgun blasts into it so close. This is insane.

Ok I guess you just need to damage it enough because it never exploded or anything and eventually the cutscene hit. Horrible fight. Needs some proper balancing and playtesting. Basic recommendation would be to not make the ghosts infinite or at least make the length between waves a little bit longer. Oof.

[dapper flint]

||you need to shot on lamps located on area and destroy his lamp as last one ||

[delicate kettle]

Yeah I got it. Appreciate it

[jagged marlin]

Will the bulletsponges ever be changed or do i need mods? shooting someone 8 times with mk14 is not fun

[ashen violet]

||also found out an rpg one taps faust||

[worthy bolt]

Hi I can't get to Dubny. The little bridge that leads to him is broken. Is this a bug

[terse aurora]

In 'Once more unto the breach', after helping Alpha team take the checkpoint, I need to get into a tunnel in the small building but the door is locked. Is this a bug? Anyway to fix if so?

[modest lark]

is CTD when entering SIRCAA in the cutscene a common thing or did I messed up my game?

[shadow pike]

I GOT IT. YOU NEED TO MAKE BASICALLY SPEED BUILT, HIGH ENDURANCE ARTIFACTS AND THEN SPRINT LIKE CRAZY FROM ENTRANCE TO BUNKER RIGHT TO HIM BEFORE HE SITS, THEN I CAN TALK WITH HIM AND PROGRESS. IF HE STILL SITS WHEN YOU RUN INSIDE GA FRTHER FROM AREA FOR SOME TIME.

[wind snow]

Is there a workaround for the vision of truth where scar doesn't show up?

[versed slate]

Anyone have an issue with the mission Legends of the Zone? I go to the rendezvous point and Dark just isn’t there 🤦🏼‍♂️

[worthy bolt]

Try going to the boathouse in wild island 👌 he was there in my game, I had the same issue

[desert forge]

Is back to the slag heap supposed to be fixed or no

[thick adder]

Guys, is ||Solder ||bugged in the mission "||The Hornet Nest||"?
I ||spared him before||, but when|| I save him from the Monolith soldiers the objective "help solder" doesn't complete nor can I talk to him.||

[manic thunder]

Cant complete 'The Road to the Foundation' anyone got past this or had problems with the 'fight off the monolith' fight?

[plain prawn]

how to kill controller in the tunnel

[alpine spear]

Shoot at it A LOT and heal quicker than you loose health

[vital sparrow]

thanks bro, there it was, i was really stuck for not finding, you saved me

[muted lion]

Just can't get it to work. :/ GSC also replied to my support ticket, saying that it should be fixed. Think my save files might be corrupted, tried multiple ones but no luck. Thank you anyway, maybe I can just skip the dialogue entirely with UETools.

[worthy bolt]

I'm stuck at subtle matter 😔

[sleek inlet]

On the mission Subtle Matter, theres a large door locked behind a code. Its not the one the Doctor tells you. Anyone know what the code is? Or know if ill just come across it later?

[obtuse wind]

@thick adder yes he's bugged

[ashen violet]

shoot him lots

[analog aspen]

I'm guessing Roosevelt is still bugged in "Legends of the Zone?" Really don't want to have to smoke him just to get the decoder

[frigid merlin]

I finally got Scar to spawn in on Visions of truth. Loaded the previous save i had immediately after the faust fight and BEELINED it straight to malachite.

Previously i explored around chernobyl for about two hours and maybe that caused him to disintegrate for some reason lol

[muted lion]

Tried the same and the console command to restart the mission, no luck. Reinstalling the game rn lol

[stray aspen]

Hey I have a question? I just downloaded the new patch but the quest [Answers came with a Price] is still broken. I found Chronozem's body (he was randomly already dead when I found him) and picked up his PDA, but there's still no progression. When I try talking to Colonel Korshunov, doesn’t do anything , I can't reload an old save because I've progressed a lot of hours in exploration, is there a way to skip this quest?

[frigid merlin]

Another thing I did was shoot out the emitter on the first floor before I left lol
I dont know if that’ll make the difference but I made sure to get all emitters SHOT before heading to malachite

[low rain]

Happiness for everyone quest.
The worst design in the game so far.

I love this game but God damn every hateful thing I could say I said it during happiness for everyone

[muted lion]

Ah good to know thank you! Yeah I have a feeling I need to ||play the whole mission in Duga and kill Faust again ||for it to finally work lol

[wooden fjord]

Did that Faust mission yesterday, low ammo, durability is below the dirt, medkits? Lol?... I had about 30 rounds in my svd thing an maybe 80 for my pistol when I got to that roof

Just glad it wasn't a particularly combat heavy fight

[vital iris]

Duga gave me PTSD, used up all my meds and ammo just to get there to begin with. Doing side missions etc, by time I got there i was so under prepared. Wasn't a huge fan of that mission.
Enemies take 3 headshots to die like wth

[mighty parcel]

should I side with dubny or the ward?

[low rain]

After like an hour trying to find a way inside I'm at the point to go to his meeting and I'm again one shot by the snipers

L I'm convinced that if you try to run in any part where visible what's towers exist you instantly die.
At places where visibly there is no one there

[carmine agate]

Stuck in Garbage. Diode is missing… there’s just a dead soldier flopped backwards in Diode’s chair now. This has got to be a bug…
Can’t progress my main mission now.

[manic thunder]

Did you get past this?

[delicate kettle]

Lol these last mission achievements show I’m in the 0.72% who have gotten this far haha

[random pumice]

My mission is to enter the "Foundation" is it end game ?

[floral steppe]

HOLY MOTHER OF GOD was that ending a brain**
did not expect that at all

[hallow cypress]

anyone else had an issue with x-5? i jump into the anomaly and the game just breaks.

[uneven ibex]

It is the ending, which will take approximately an hour. Take all you need from your stash before entering, mainly all your ammo (I took 1000 AP 5.45 rounds, it was more than enough for me). In my route, the game gave me a chance to repair my gear and replenish ammo from my stash mid-ending once

Also, apparently, after you ||kill Korshunov, you are awakened in the Corps main base. From there, you can use a guide to fast travel to any other location.|| What does it break? Can you accept any new side quests if you do that? It's funny how the game didn't despawn him lol

[dapper inlet]

||Is it just me or are all the endings kinda bad outcomes?||

[uneven ibex]

I consider ||Strelok's|| ending to be the best one. Others suck.

[dapper inlet]

||I went with Strelok as well but I still don't really like it. I guess this is the Freedomer in me but I feel like nobody should be in direct control of the Zone like that||

[uneven ibex]

||I'd personally go with the Ward ending, but only if they didn't get the control of Noosphere||

[restive escarp]

||Is there any impact from deciding between whether to take readings or destroy the antennas for Like a Moth to the Flame? I saw destroying adds a few steps to Dead Frequency, but do we find o it if the antennas were actually up to anything bad/impacts the world after?||

[marble glen]

He literally dropped dead when I got back to him so no idea

[hallow cypress]

this faust fight is actually awful. you barely have any ammo. and its so laggy

[inner obsidian]

main story quest where you meet with Ward in helicopter base for 2nd attack on Duga, you get RPK74 mg, and there is a backpack with stash on table. It's intuitive to think you can store your stuff there, take RPK, then return for your other stuff after mission is complete. But no, it all disappears...

[long geode]

Anyone else unable to find richter during "A Minor Incident"? I got the collar but he is nowhere to be found and no mission marker

[nova grove]

I was told by || Spark's || technician and || Scar || that I'd be getting some gear to represent them... but I have nothing new in my inventory?

[light canyon]

Hello i got a problem subtle matter quest there is a way to skip it? I try "XDKFinishQuestStage E11_MQ02 E11_MQ02_search_kaimanov's_office true" but it wont work

[hallow cypress]

i hate the faust fight so much.

[rough patrol]

can someone help? im here and i installed the emitter but dalin was never here to ask me to break it, its for the mission "the assault on duga" i really wanna swap sides bc i didnt wanna side with scar.

[cobalt lagoon]

can some one help my in search of past glory quest is bugged and it wont let me give the blueprint to dvupalov so i can continue on ive tried the quest 2 times now and it bugs in the same spot

[frigid merlin]

Hopefully it works!

[warped gulch]

HELP Subtle Matter Mission. Search Kaimanov's office is still in trouble.
Long before I explored the area and took the documents and turned on the antenna.
Now it asks me to get the documents and turn on the antenna but it's done!
I accessed the banker, turned on the power at the bottom and put the card in.
The button to open the capsule has no interaction.
the trademark of the mission was Kaimanov's office

[forest imp]

||I'm trying this now, but the thing is still on the desk working, but the body is still just lying there, no trigger||

[dull bobcat]

are there any mods to skip main quest cutscenes? im softlocked from progressing "an invisible threat" when meeting with|| Dr Dalin and Korshunov||. 2 patches still hasnt fixed this crash :(

[delicate kettle]

Just finished Legends of the Zone. 0.64% of players of gotten this far

Also I’m impressed they were able to bridge together the three original games into this one. Way more than I expected. Love it. It doesn’t give a shit if you ever played them lol a lot won’t make sense without playing the original games haha

It reminds me of metal gear solid 4 lol

[shell spear]

Is it a bug to have a uncurable bleed during the Law and Order mission?

and your weapon durability to go to hell way too fast?

[bleak meadow]

How did you guys killed faust on the roof near "Duga"?
he just keeps spawning phantoms, while he is not even on the roof

[delicate kettle]

I had trouble too. Just keep shooting that thing on his hip

[frigid stratus]

search kaimanovs office mission won't progress

[echo zephyr]

Man... ||Is there no way to save Strider?||

[little abyss]

||hey so i’m fighting faust in the mission Happiness for Everyone and chose to accept help to climb up and died, but now i respawned and i can only look up and down??? has anyone had this issue at all?||

fixed this by restarting game

[bronze elk]

There's a bug in Visions of truth mission. Dalin is supposed to follow Korshunov after the cutscene is over but he just stands there.

[bronze elk]

This progression stopping bug has made me reload a previous save, now i am doing some side quests till they fix this in the next patch.

[timid mirage]

||i cant find fausts body after killing him, do i needto reload the quest>?||

[muted lion]

Yeah I've been using the mod "Abundant Ammo" (on 20%) for the past ~15h of my playthrough. The fact that enemies fire hundreds of rounds at you and then drop 3 bullets when you kill them was a bit too unbalanced for me.

[wooden fjord]

Not only that, they only ever have regular ammo... I want slug rounds lol

[muted lion]

That's a great find, thank you! ||Can you tell us where exactly the emitter is, is it the same building or one of the previous ones? ||

[muted lion]

Would make sense for ||the 'super soldiers' you're fighting later on, also feels a bit bad they're rocking exoskeletons and heavy armor but use some broken af AKs lmao||

[graceful wren]

Hi guys, I can't find the NPC in Ahroprom doctor Shcherba once I found him outside the factory but the interaction didn't work so I reloaded the save and he's not here at all... any advice?

[rough patrol]

who is strelok? im in the mission "vision and truth" and they keep mentioning him. i dont remember him at all.

[gloomy lake]

||i think you played as him in one of first 3 games maybe but i cant remember 🤔||

[rough patrol]

Oh okay, I was confused it seems as though skif knows who strolek is. I have no clue who he is at all

[gloomy lake]

he is famous stalker in the zone so maybe just heard his name before 🤔

[rough patrol]

True, just seems rather weird that skif knows who he is but I have no clue who he is

[wheat turtle]

This same thing happened to me with Richter in the Water Tower and the guide in the Yaniv Station. Both are no longer where they're supposed to be after loading a save. Unfortunately, I can't progress cause it's a main mission.

[uneven ibex]

everyone in the zone knows who strelok is, maybe he's known even at the mainland as well

[worthy bolt]

i need go to duga and the soldiers in the watchtowers are not killable ? they are just knocked and stay up again or i give them 10 headshots and nothing is happening is it bugged ?

[uneven ibex]

Go around, you're supposed to go through South West entrance

[worthy bolt]

ah okay you mean south east i think ty

kinda sad its open world game and still game dont let me do stuff ;: /

[uneven ibex]

no? left is the Western side, right is the Eastern side?

as for Duga, it's an important location for a main story mission. You are free to explore it after a certain main quest.

[worthy bolt]

okay i thought you mean from the right side somewhere i will check it i check left side then i thought left side is kinda end of map cause of the fog

i found a way bottom right cornor to go in i think there is multiple ways then

[uneven ibex]

i meant south west in general. if you mean only the duga region, then it is south east, yeah

[worthy bolt]

ah okay

[uneven ibex]

I don't understand GSC's obsession with almost invincible NPCs. There's one at Malachite after a certain quest, there is one at the edge of the map, there is one at ||Zalissya if you fail to defend it||

There are also invisible snipers, RDR2 style lol

[graceful wren]

yes i can't continue the main story line....

[stray aspen]

Hey I have a question? In the quest [Answers came with a Price] I found Chronozem's body (he was randomly already dead when I found him) and picked up his PDA, and nothing happened. When I try talking to Colonel Korshunov, all I get is a "Dismissed, soldier." Is this bugged or am I doing something wrong

[wheat turtle]

Possibly, because you're supposed to assault that location with some of the Ward men and then go back to the colonel. If you didn't get the assault dialogue near the building, I suggest loading earlier.

[stray aspen]

Yeah I can’t reload, since I have a lot of hours and stuff on this save, but is there way to skip or bypass this quest?

[wheat turtle]

Well, there are 2 ways to do this and it depends on which way you take. Considering you found Chronozem, I guess you went there from the Chemical Plant. There's a second way to go about this quest, through the Northern Checkpoint.

Here's a guide for each path: https://game8.co/games/STALKER-2-Heart-of-Chornobyl/archives/485813

Also, try to save multiple times on different saves to make sure you have a point to start from again. The game gets buggy further on and reloading helps sometimes.

[marble viper]

even after patch 1.0.2 i still cant do my ending because of the same error

[lone gull]

I have a problem in the boundary main quest should i just use console and skip it or is there something worth trying to find a fix for?

[delicate kettle]

Yeah this shows that you should make a save after you finish “legends of the zone” as almost every mission after that have ending consequences\choices. It’s not the point of no return but there’s so many ending things happening it’s probably the better spot to make a save

[ashen finch]

Regarding visions of truth, anyone found a fix that doesnt break the questlines after? completing the quest and starting the next with UETools seems to brick the quests after, really bummed as I dont really want to do a bunch of sides now if I have to reload a save before the quest

[sage dock]

hey, feels like im hard locked but people finished the same so maybe there's a way to fix it? I just finished X-15 (?) for the professor that likes to drink a lot, now i need to find a technician or something and there's a marker on one but he doesn't have any dialogue options

[muted lion]

Just replayed ||the whole attack on Duga mission for the fourth time after a fresh reinstall, it's very interesting because the dead body next to the emitter never does anything for me, no matter how long I wait or how close I get to it.|| So if a sequence break is the cause, I guess it must be even earlier in the game/my savegame? Also, ||the fight with Faust and the cutscene after work perfectly fine for me.||

[muted lion]

It's just a normal upgrade, check out the upgrade options for your helmet 🙂

[sage dock]

oooh 😄 haha

i was so frustrated playing 1.0.0 that i assume everything may be a bug now

[terse aurora]

In the main mission 'Once more unto the breach' (Ward path), after helping Alpha team take the checkpoint, I need to get into a tunnel in the small building but the door is locked with no way to get in. Anyone else encountered this?

[delicate kettle]

Are there good or bad endings? I’m currently on track for the spark ending. I think there are 4 endings?

[coral sleet]

any one else game bugged and the door wont open to bring the suppressor blueprint to the one doctor

[tepid torrent]

During the final parts of the game, does anyone know if it's possible to kill both ||Strelok|| and ||Scar||, so that you can get both the ||Heart of Chornobyl Artifact|| and the ||EM-1 Gauss gun||? Thanks.

[uneven ibex]

There are no good or bad endings. Every ending has its upsides and downsides. Though I'd consider the Spark ending the worst one

After you encounter Strider in that cutscene from the trailer, ||you can switch to another ending one last time I believe. Or maybe there's another with the Ward, but I don't remember the chronology.||

[pseudo cobalt]

Can anyone help me get the command to skip the part to find the antenna instructions in subtle matter quest? Im stuck on it because i picked up the paper before i started the questline (prolly sold it) or it didnt spawn

[light canyon]

@pseudo cobalt i think no one figure it out yet i'm stuck there to 😦 and it is not the paper that didn't spawn its a recorder and it didn't have any id so no one could spawn it through console command

[pseudo cobalt]

i can spawn the instructions trough the console commands but it doesnt progress the quest any further. But i think if i could spawn it on the ground that might work if only i knew how to spawn something on the ground cant find a command for that

[light canyon]

@pseudo cobalt paper and the card spawn there normally but if u pick up the recoder earlier there is no way to spawn it again and pick it up

[pseudo cobalt]

what recorder tho?

[nocturne niche]

hello, on my map it says that i have a Main Mission in Rostok (orange marker) but i cant find any? just met Scar in Wild Teritory

[random pumice]

I don't know what happend , but i killed korshunov , the strelok asked me to kill the doctor , it let me choose so i chose not to kill him after that i had to kill strelok , now i killed scar and now i am searching for a lab underground fighting monolith ? what ending is that

[uneven ibex]

Skif/Kaimanov ending

i only like Strelok's and The Ward's endings

[chrome atlas]

Hey there's a guy blocking the doorway to strider can't progress further 😞

[civic merlin]

Walk away and come back in 10 minutes

[chrome atlas]

Thank you for replying I just loaded and old save fix it for me.

[civic merlin]

That’ll do it too lol

[ashen finch]

For visions of truth, anyone found a fix that doesnt break the questlines after? completing the quest and starting the next with UETools seems to brick the quests after

[grizzled gorge]

does anyone have the same issue with the mission happines to all. the guards on the towers are immortal. cant get trough them. wont get killed at all

[nocturne stone]

Anyone on visions of truth have no additional ward spawns when going to defend the check point?

[chrome atlas]

Man some of these main mission bug remind me playing Morrowind back in the days a lot of reloading usually fixes the problem lol.

[grizzled gorge]

Hello,

Going through the mission "Happiness for All" in Duga Territory, I noticed that the guards, specifically the ones in the watchtowers, cannot be killed at all.
After many headshots, I am sometimes able to take them down, but they get up again.

How is this even happening or possible.
I can't get through them at all as they one shoot me.

[radiant raven]

any idea how to fix this bug? || in a long overdue visit, dr dalin has been teleported to garbage from the meeting room so i cannot move forward ||

[golden turret]

need to get on to weird island but cant bring down the ladder

[half rover]

Umm, Im on the escape cage mission and theres an emission killing me -.-

[golden turret]

anyone know how to drop the ladder for wild island

[toxic falcon]

Pretty sure you just have to enter from the opposite side of the island

[golden turret]

HOW!?

[distant tulip]

How were you supposed to figure out the code with the buttons in the laboratory (1342). Were you supposed to try all the possible combinations? How was it possible with psi exposure? I didn’t have a psi-blocker anymore, so I just decided to look this puzzle up on the internet.

[toxic falcon]

from the west, not from the north

[golden turret]

is their no clip?

[toxic falcon]

The ladder will go down after you go there from the correct side

Im stuck on the "Dark Times" mission anyway, Tundra's body keeps blowing up as i try and search it and i havent seen anyone else have that problem

no idea whats going on as i need to loot him to go progress the mission, but i cant loot him and any walktrough ive seen dosent have this problem

[delicate kettle]

Uhhhh the monolith regenerator randomly disappeared from my inventory as I was walking around. The -1 pop up came up as I was exploring. Yay

[uneven ibex]

You're supposed to use it on Spirit, who was a Monolithian, but hid when the signal went back on. Not sure why the game doesn't give you a prompt to use it

[white kiln]

Anyone experience dr dalin not spawning during the escape from the cage? I just sit in the cell waiting for him?

[noble glacier]

On the mission where you meet scar the first time at the sawmill I walk up to the building it’s closed and there are no doors open. Anyone know of a way to fix this?

[quiet delta]

Game crashes at the end of the game.
Did anybody met this issue?
Is there any way to avoid this crash?

[nocturne stone]

You’re supposed to use the south east entrance all the way down, theres rail gun snipeds all along the main entrances and wall. Go all the way around to the bottom

[slow viper]

Alright boys. I've completed the game on Stalker mode! ||I got the Spark ending. Hoo boy. What a lonely ending. So I'm guessing from what happens, Scar takes over the C-con, and amplifies the connection with the noosphere to such a degree that it fries the brains of every stalker in the Zone & "Frees them" to join the eternal shining, aka the noosphere post-life we see at the end there. Interesting stuff. A sad and lonely end for Skif most certainly, but I suppose in a way, the black mirror 'heaven after death' is real, Scar proved it was possible to exist post-death in the psi-sphere.||

[slow viper]

||In my experience, if you sided with Scar for the final leg of the journey, you can kill Strelok for the Heart of Chornobyl but you can't kill Scar.||

[halcyon trout]

how the check do i get down after getting nectors stash?

[stable dagger]

i got the mutant collar from somewhere that isnt where Richter told me and now i can only see the mutant collar waypoint, instead of wherever Richter is so i can give it to him. A Minor Incident.

[analog ivy]

What does the heart of Chernobyl even do

[lunar linden]

hello bro have u found any fix for this? I am stuck on the same, tried to do this quest from scratch like 4 times with the exact same result

Anyone else stuck on "Assault on Duga" on Ward side, stuck on objective "Secure the checkpoint", I am in checkpoint with my guys and nothing happens, this is stopping me from progressing main story, I've tried it from start like 5 times, it is definitely bugged

[sly prairie]

has anyone tried to do ad astra per aspera mission without any psi resistances to see how psychotic the mission gets? :D

[neat cedar]

is Extreme Simplicity mission ||get to SIRCAA|| fixed yet?

[lunar linden]

What problem do you have with it? I did it twice successfully

[neat cedar]

nothing, I just read somewhere that it was bugged. I didn't start it yet. I did some side missions in cordon for old times sake instead 😄

[hollow zinc]

Anybody has a workaround for a soft lock in "Once More unto the Breach" quest ? I need to find the entrance to the tunnel but the door of the building is locked gray. It happens right after the assault on the checkpoint... pls help

[lunar linden]

Worked fine for me and everyone I know has not had issues with this quest

[neat cedar]

Alright, thanks

[hollow zinc]

Yes that's exactly where I'm stuck

[patent timber]

same here :/

[hollow zinc]

So that's it right ? You just get soft locked and have to wait for the patch to fix it right ? It's the 2nd time ... do I have to wait a week every 5 hours of gameplay? And they said the game went gold ... yeah right

[lunar linden]

yeah i've looked for hours, theres no console commands or anything that can fix this issue, i've had other quest issues that were fixable but i cant find how to fix this

You could use a command to finish this quest and start the next main story quest but that would cause content to be missed and could cause issues down the line

[hollow zinc]

I'm on console brother. Its cooked for me.

Even checked some walkthroughs. You're just supposed to open the door like any other door and ... voila

[hollow zinc]

I might've found something

Nope

Its yucked

[delicate kettle]

Finished mission 30 of 34 for stalker 2. Achievement said only 0.53% of players have gotten this far. Almost at 70 hours.

[tropic loom]

E06_MQ01_C01 "The Forge of Progress" main mission PORTAL crashing, can't proceed the main game - any related topic around here or some guidelines how to get past this issue.

I tryied UETools for God/Fly mode and managed to get past 1st portal but on the 2nd I can't do anything - I have tried to bypass the quest through UETools XDKFinishQuest E06_MQ01_C01 - NOTHING

[dry elm]

how to kill last one in arena?

[worthy bolt]

This game so buggy it a joke how the he'll do you safely leave the crane in garbage The price goes up 104 deaths trying this

[stiff cipher]

I'm After the vodka mission. Is there long for the end?

[hollow zinc]

@lunar linden I FIXED IT !!!!!!!!

I FOUND A WORKAROUND

[cyan pawn]

Unfortunately, I have not found a fix. Even installing the console command tools and checking every inch above and below ground found nothing that could get past that step. It seems like I'm going ty have to shelve the game until a patch comes out directly addressing this issue. Sorry this isn't more helpful.

[cyan pawn]

Oh shit really? This is my exact issue too, did you mind sharing?

[hollow zinc]

This message will be big , stand by

[brisk leaf]

About second Duga Mission, anyone knows how to pass through immortal one shot snipers?

[hollow zinc]

For the locked door of the mission "Once more unto the breach" in the checkpoint, the workaround is :

1. Right before talking to Zotov , go to the checkpoint and kill everybody. The sniper in the left tower will be unkillable but can be downed, he will be very tanky. Down him !

2. Go back to Zotov

3. Proceed with the assault and kill everybody again.

4. The door should now be plenty open already , no door to open at all.

This worked for me , I hope it works for you stalkers !

Good hunting !

[cyan pawn]

ill give that a try, thank you so much!

[hollow zinc]

I hope to god it works for you guys !

[lunar linden]

No worries thank you for response it is helpful to know you have tried a lot too and also got nowhere so time to wait for a patch!

[hollow zinc]

I found a workaround, try it

[lunar linden]

I think there has been a confusion, I am not on that quest, I am on "Assault on Duga", not "Once More unto the Breach" but thanks

[hollow zinc]

Oh

[cyan pawn]

oooohhh damn, i read too fast and didnt realize it was a different quest. dang

[hollow zinc]

Where are you guys stuck ?

[cyan pawn]

assault on the duga, this post outlines the issues

[hollow zinc]

Is Faust there trying to stop you ? Does he do a controller type strike on you ?

[cyan pawn]

cant even get to that part. we get in the front gate and the quest progression freezes, and all the ai freezes in place. its essentially not registering that we cleared the enemies for some reason, so it wont go to the next step

[hollow zinc]

Okay no if the AI freezes it's a major bug

I'm so sorry ...

[stray aspen]

I made a new save and the same thing happened again, I have no clue what to do, besides do the Loner side of the quests

[deft charm]

yaboikraken has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[worn robin]

i think the devs are just expecting ppl to delete their save games after these patches. its the only explination i can fathom. i deleted my 48 hour + save game after these last patches, im fukking livid about it.

[nocturne stone]

Anyone else have a ward soldier thats immune at Malachite after the quest with Scar there

[worthy bolt]

extremelying frustrating mission Just Like the Good Old Days even with cheats. there's a ghost keep comming in me and can't shoot it

[solemn bloom]

a ghost is doing what to you?

[round crater]

damn, just explored pripyat for a little bit and randomly found ||foundation entrance coordinates missing most of the quest for it||

[slow viper]

||Literally nothing outside of open up a certain ending (the Skif ending)||

[stray aspen]

Yeah I ain’t doing that

[coral sleet]

any one else monolithian device for mission an act of mercy not spawning

[slow viper]

tbf I played with Ua voiceover and I did not hear a single CHEEKI BREEKI Y'DONKIV either

[worn robin]

i said the same thing but even with rolling back to other saves NOTHING would work that was stated to be fixed in any of the patch notes. idk. im ready to just give up and get my money back atp.

[slow viper]

It's unmarked which makes it tough to find, but there are walkthroughs online that can help. Not sure if it is a spawn issue or not.

[coral sleet]

its a spawn issue its just not here

[deft charm]

m3dk1t_ has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[worn robin]

they need to remove this retard fukk bot for swearing, whatis this a discord for children?

[coral sleet]

this game broke mission items not spawning is wild

[lunar linden]

if ur on pc cant u spawn it in with commands?

[coral sleet]

whats it called tho under the uetools

[lunar linden]

no idea but if you look hard enough there might be info for it, i saw a list of all quest IDs online, id imagine theres same for objects?

[coral sleet]

crazy i have to spawn a mission item

how to use th uetool to spawn a mission item

[restive escarp]

Does it make any story difference ||whether you help Spark or Ward forces (or ignore/just leave)||during Extreme Simplicity?

[lunar linden]

SID = E10_MQ02_Regenerator

idk the command to spawn item but thats the ID for the item

[deft charm]

calasmeer has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[novel pelican]

yes, but they can be ressumed in ||Good (faust), neutral (strelok), bad (scar), literally 1984 (ward)||

[unreal siren]

after defending Malachite's base from Varta, will there be a base anywhen or not?

[nocturne stone]

How do you side with faust? I thought spark was the good faction 😂

[novel pelican]

||if you choose strelok and dont kill the doctor you get the skif ending but the doctor is faust with coat and scar is a mentally unstable person (you get more info about him at the end) and his ending is only skif being schizophrenic||

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXP_1ktDe3w

[slow viper]

||It's not skif being schizo... It's Skif being the only one capable of withstanding the psi-effects that killed everyone else in the zone. Everyone is 'immortalized' in the zone, but in doing so they have to shed their mortal coil... Only true sparkers will understand.||

[novel pelican]

||I guess depending on how you see it, it's good or bad.||

||What is certain is that Lebedev is confirmed to be a traitor||

[slow viper]

|| Personally, I see it as a mix of both. It's actually quite terrible at face value. Everyone who died is dead. They can't change the real world and they exist only as ghosts in the noosphere, now. But at the same time, it does seem like Scar was right. The noosphere allows for humanity to escape their greatest flaw - physicality, in his own words. Being a psi-memory means they can live eternally, without pain or torment, without suffering. Imagine being able to jack in to heaven, if your heaven is the zone. Otherwise for those who don't want to be there forever, it would be like a hell. Forever trapped in the zone, unable to leave because in reality, you died to a super emission that turned your brain into black mould. It seems like the zone is only for the mutants in the version of Scar's ending.||

[urban mirage]

Hello everyone! I found a lever in a room where we fight with controller (waste processing station underground), but cant find any info about what it doing. I tried not turning it on, but it doesn't change anything.

https://imgur.com/a/G1kahxS

Room with it marked with red pointer (blue point to monolith stash and exit from underground). Also, I'm surprised no one noticed it, since there is not a single topic dedicated to this lever. All videos with walkthrough just ignore this room (players even don’t see it).

[slow viper]

The thing I'm most keen on is where the story will go with the dlcs.

I have to imagine they'll just be side stories, but the thought that we might get a "Broken Steel" coded dlc (One that continues the story of the game post-ending), that folows up the ||Strelok ending|| in which we explore the repercussions of that, I think it would be a great way to leave the story ambiguous in a way that shows ramifications of all the endings.

[novel pelican]

||It's probably the skif ending because it's the only one that is open about the consequences, because the others are scar: leave the zone or enjoy dia de muertos 2.0, strelok: leave the zone and ward: be happy. ||

or it can be like three missions on the iron forest

[slow viper]

||The Skif ending seems like sequel bait and is something that would be better explored with a spin-off series or something, imo. I feel like the Strelok ending shows us real consequences and implications for the people in the zone immediately, which is the anomalies preventing the entering/leaving of the zone & 'immediate death' of those that try. I assume the factions will have to band together to find some way to either end Strelok once and for all & free the zone (which presumably leads to major emissions & for the world-wide zones that come about as a result of Skif's ending anyway). ||

||I personally think regardless, one of the DLCS must be about Limansk. I can't see it not being a major area. It combined with dead city into one sprawling metropolis and mixed urban hilly environment with that unique architecture? the iconic unfinished skyscraper and presumably a whole x-lab hidden underneath the complex? Hell yeah brother, that's DLC content ripe for flavour. I think the other dlc will have to do with the remains of the Sircaa lab and the results of their connection to the noosphere & what the 'snow' is on the collector's edition map.||

[novel pelican]

||It makes sense what you say but honestly we could both be wrong and it could be a DLC about the faction war after the treaty is broken (when Noontide becomes Monolith) or about Sidorovich taking Rostok||

[urban mirage]

Hello everyone! I found a lever in a room where we fight with controller (waste processing station underground), but cant find any info about what it doing. I tried not turning it on, but it doesn't change anything.

https://imgur.com/a/G1kahxS

Room with it marked with red pointer (blue point to monolith stash and exit from underground). Also, I'm surprised no one noticed it, since there is not a single topic dedicated to this lever. All videos with walkthrough just ignore this room (players even don’t see it).

[novel pelican]

We are not GSC to choose what to do among all that can be currently done.

[slow viper]

|| Yeah, I totally agree. I just think it's fun to theorycraft with other fans. I personally did the Scar ending. I don't know that it'll be followed-up honestly but I would expect the dlcs to be somewhat intertwined with the game's story overall, so they have to be relevant to the plot in some way I guess.||

[slow viper]

Yup, totally agree. I just like to have fun and theorize what they might do, that way it's all the more fun when my expectation is way off.

[novel pelican]

yes

[shy dock]

!spoiler i just finished and got the zoom out skif ending. My god i was questioning myself even before when i read the files the Col had me keep

[slow viper]

And honestly, ||Limansk is just my hope bc we hear mention of clear sky being at the center of the zone, but we never find the hospital nor Limansk, but we do go to the bridge to limansk. It seems like that place is just waiting for us like Ravenholm from Half Life 2, lol. And where is Sakarhov? did he die? Suklov too. I think there's definitely some story threads that leave suspiscious gaps that seem to imply that they might come up in future dlc, but who knows, maybe you are right and we'll get two completely self-contained dlcs where we play as Skif's older brother, John Stalker, who comes to the zone in 2035 to shut down the generators or something.||

A big fun question is, ||Is Dr. Kaimanov even real? Or is he just a manifestation of the noosphere/C-con ghost? Bc he seems to be sort of a shapeshifter. If he's faust/doctor/possibly the one who saves Strelok from the deathtruck in soc... He's a shapeshifter. He might even be Noah from COP given his pets and Noah's ship left abandoned in Zaton.||

[novel pelican]

||Limansk is mentioned by Spirit||

[slow viper]

|| Ah, right. I don't think I heard much of his lines :< at least I don't remember them. My time with him was brief.||

[shy dock]

So my question is why didnt we go back in x-16? i wouldve thought the (long dead) miracle machine wouldve played a part in this

[novel pelican]

||In the cinematic of the Skip ending you can see how it was apparently an illusion by Faust to make you believe that the doctor was him, but it is not explained since when he is the doctor, what is understood is why he managed to survive the emision.||

||The real doctor may be killed after Strider dies because I don't know if it was a bug but in my game he changed hair color||

[slow viper]

Same! I'm very tempted to go there and forcefully explore it to see if there's anything there. My guess is, it wasn't relevant for this plot. Maybe it'll be relevant in some other dlc?

[lapis spruce]

I'm not a huge fan of the revelation in the story that the effects of psi radiation persist even after the source is removed, basically gives the story way too much room to handwave anything as "an illusion" for shock factor.

For all we know, the entire story of the game is an illusory fantasy made up to keep Skif inert the second the wishgranter is turned on.

[slow viper]

I suppose, I always felt like the reveals happened in a way that wasn't really that shocking ||(like in the fight versus infinite fausts). It does feel a bit broken, like. wth did we go to all the effort to get that psi-helm that is supposed to help us not see illusions if we still see faust's illusions. And we already know he can do it at that point, so it's no surprise. it's just sort of irritating.||

[shy dock]

it would have to be, there is no way that we didnt get to almost explore and find what the hell really happened back then with that site alone.

[lapis spruce]

The first time they were actual illusions, the second time he just made other actual people look like him, so they were at least "there."

[shy dock]

thats the point i found out the psi-block pills are utterly useless. hopefully they think about correcting that

[slow viper]

I mean, I don't think we really even explore the area around the ||rainbow emitters from the brainscorcher either. And the way the map is set up really leaves you scratching your head bc you'd be closer to the cnpp going through garbage than going through what is now 'malachite' to reach the center of the zone?||

[slow viper]

||TBF I played most of my game with the spark seva that gives you a ton of psi-resist, so I didn't really have to deal with the psi effects for long.||

[shy dock]

same with pripyat too, i was expecting for a new way to get to the CNPP, unless i havent done that scenario yet since i mistakenly sided with the ward

[slow viper]

||Did anyone else ditch their main suit + artifacts after being forced to wear the x7 suit? I was overincumbered so I discarded my suit and artifacts and ran the last bit of the game essentially naked but with the x7 suit.||

[slow viper]

||Nah, you never go directly to the CNPP. You head to some other areas which I won't spoil for you, and some locations that are close to it, but never explicitly do you 'enter' the CNPP like in SOC/CS.||

[crisp jolt]

||Sidorovitch, Wolf and the repairer have disappeared from the Rookies' camp. Does anyone know if this is a bug or normal?||

[slow viper]

Definitely a bug, sorry pal :c

[shy dock]

my suit was broken beyond all hell, but i had artifacts carry me. thank you compass and kolbrok with magma. that whole run through the emissions is pure bs since durability of everything is wet cardboard. but i dropped the suit after it was shot

[crisp jolt]

This is the second village to disappear in my game....

[lapis spruce]

tbf there's not really much reason to goto the CNPP anymore, the wishgranter isn't there anymore, c-consciousness isn't there anymore, Richter tells you outright that it's just a barren giga radiactive building now.

it was only ever the "heart" of the zone insofar as that's what c-con/wishgranter wanted everyone to believe so it could keep a measure of control on traffic/recruit new monolith, the generators have always been the actual heart of the zone, and they're already an area in S2, so I imagine we're going there eventually.

[shy dock]

i remember Richter saying that but nah, i want to go back. the Crystal is gone yess but in that scene with faust there is a HUGE wave of light in the background where i believe CNPP is or maybe it was Malachite. there is no way in hell they would just keep it a sarcophagus now. we saw the Noosphere and how expansive it is in the zone.

[lapis spruce]

I mean I guess, but nothing is there - the only reason CNPP was important to the zone is because c-cons wanted people to believe that, not because it of a nature was.

[shy dock]

we cant just take Richters word on that

[lapis spruce]

C-cons is desperately trying to keep other people busy mythologizing the zone so they can keep their levers of control hidden, but the zone is man made, born from labs, from human constructs, finding all those labs and exactly what the scientists did to make the zone and exactly what equipment they're using to interface with it is the only important thing.

The rest is superstition intentionally made up by c-cons to distract people.

[shy dock]

then itll be foolish to not explore the CNPP since it lead to the pods

[lapis spruce]

The pods are under the generators in X7.

[elfin talon]

Why are all the stalkers attacking me when I chose to go with them instead of ward inside siracaa? lol

[coral sleet]

why can i not run all the sudden not overweight and exo is full hp

[pseudo dove]

||is it worth siding with strelok instead of korshunov i been w ward all the way until now but im not sure who to trust anymore 😭 😭 (dangerous liaisons mission)||

[obtuse wind]

Is anyone else crashing at the end of the Faust fight? It's getting irritating

[slow viper]

|| Depends on what ending you want. Strelok has a unique ending from Ward but both are worth experiencing, up to you.||

[slow viper]

||Make sure you try clearing your mods folder of outdated files if you are running any, I did that and it solved my own problems with a different scripted fight||

[obtuse wind]

On console

[slow viper]

||yer f*cked||

[shut osprey]

i quite like this game. i think i would enjoy it a lot more if i wasnt forced ||to glitch myself into getting the ending i worked 74 hours for because everything just broke at the end. also a very pleasant perpetually wet underwear to who decided to give gauss rifles to enemies that also insta kill you whenever you pop your head out for 0.1 seconds||

[delicate kettle]

I think I’m soft locked? I’m on let no one leave unsatisfied. And a door won’t open

[sand valve]

just go directly to the other guy

[solar frost]

In the STC Malachite basement - ||After you finish talking to the C-Consciousness, we're being told we're under attack, Dr. Dalin and Col. Korshunov run to the elevator, then stop there and just... do nothing. I call for the elevator, go back up to the first floor, and the whole base is empty except for one guy who's just standing as if nothing's going on. There's no gunfire or a fight at all outside. Empty. Went back a couple of saves to re-do this, same result.|| Anyone else having this issue? Nevermind, I'm an idiot.

[chrome prairie]

||so it asks me to go to the detention center to get some collars but the quest marker just sits at the front entrance i went through the whole building and nothing||is this a bug or am i just missing something

[split sand]

||Any word on when they'll optimize the end game? Mostly Pripyat through the end? Fighting Granite-3 with 25-35 frames is almost impossible on Veteran ||

[novel pelican]

I dont think the problem are the frames ||(they killed me in less than a second and I had to use 6 rpg s to kill them)||

[split sand]

||Battling the frames and their aimbot accuracy with Gauss rifles is insane, one of them bob'd and weaved as I tried to hit them with the Gauss rifle back. Gauss will 1 hit them.||

[novel pelican]

you should try to stay on the door

[analog oak]

||On the Dark Times mission, I spared the bleeding out mercenary and he told me to go talk to wolfhound, yet their entire group is hostile upon arriving. The quest in journal said to talk, but grays out once combat starts. Is this unavoidable?||

[sand valve]

wrong quest on my reply but reload a save about 30 min and before you open the first button door make sure to kill all the enemies before going it, worked for me

[delicate kettle]

I missed a button. I got lucky.

[shadow solar]

Hey, I'm doing the ||chasing ghosts quest, respond to distress signal & retrieve an access key....|| When I got here, the quest markers disappeared & don't show up on the map either. Is this meant to happen?

[jovial folio]

Did anything weird happen for you during the raid right after this? I think I'm horrifically bugged right now.

[hasty rapids]

how come you can only use the ||regenerator on Spirit if you side with Ward? It just evaporates from your inventory if you side with Strelok/Scar and escape the chemical plant?|| what the literal f*ck???

[worthy bolt]

Requesting Workaround: So, how do I fix this bug where I'm stuck on Visions of Truth where I'm supposed to Follow Korshunov? And currently they're just standing around and wouldn't continue with the cutscene...

I've attached screenshot of this in #📸┃screens_and_videos

[echo zephyr]

is that.... really it?

Am I alone in the thought that ||Wow, there sure is a lot of almost perfect Monolith fanservice here aside from the whole inability to actually become Monolithian.|| May be a pipe dream...
||Like, I was mildly surprised there wasn't a real way to join Faust? If that makes sense.||

[nova grove]

I'm doing Visions of Truth, and while fighting off Ward... I get an alert that apparently scientists think I'm a boogeyman now? What did I do? Can I fix it? Haha.

[pallid grove]

it's a bug afaik, did you die during your first attempt?

[nova grove]

Yeah, when the entire army of Exo's spawned running at me from one spot haha

[pallid grove]

probably because ward takes over the settlement, it counts you as killing guards

[plain maple]

My game keeps crashing every time im in X5 going against the controller

[chrome prairie]

so im stuck on this mission where you need to get the collars i guy to the detention center and the quest marker is right there but i then go through everywhere even the area around and theres nothing

[chrome prairie]

nevermind issue resolved

[copper vector]

quest had me losing my mind when i googled it just to find out he was being a goon just a few meters to the west of me right when i got it

[hot sphinx]

Yes, you're meant to look around, loot the guy that you heard over the radio, he has some keys, get the keys and go down to the basement

[slender cliff]

I have reason to believe it's not just a pipe dream, but I don't have incontrovertible proof. But I was able to talk to some monolithians post signal when sneaking up behind them at duga. I have it on video. I also think that the part where you can grab Faust's hand was supposed to be maybe be a moment when you can side with monolith or something, because it's the only 2 way decision that doesn't align you with a faction like ward/spark/strelok/? and such.

[halcyon trout]

can anyone tell me what these guides do?

[obsidian fox]

If u grab fauts hand|| u die. ||Cannot side with them there either.

[olive shard]

fast travel that you have to pay for.

[slender cliff]

right... but what I'm saying is that perhaps it once was, or will be later an option from that point on.

[bronze island]

Ngl getting an achievement for grabbing his hand was pretty funny.

[uneven ibex]

What's the reason he drops you if you do grab his hand? What's the message here?

[vast inlet]

there is a second door, that is also locked. The one that leads outside the sewers, any solutions for that?

[bronze island]

I assume it's something like self reliance in the zone. But that's just me guessing.

[grizzled gorge]

Thanks mate.
U r right.
Finally continued the mission 🙌

[slender cliff]

My guess is it signifies acceptance of control or some such. Despite the fact you need to be "programmed", Faust may have a way to mind control you like a normal controller.

[warped gulch]

Help quest BUG https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2316401755

[slender cliff]

doesn't seem to work, clip is at 0 seconds.

[warped gulch]

showing that I've done everything that had to be done

[formal lily]

Can someone remind me what the unusual PDA is and what info does it have? Im at the part where I can decide to give it to ward or not, but I just forgot what it has cause I took a small break from the game lol

[bronze island]

||Pretty sure it details who was doing the shooting in the beginning of the game. And the faction it belonged to.||

[muted lion]

Any updates on a fix for ||"Visions of Truth"? Can't get Scar to appear even after reinstalling and replaying the previous mission entirely. ||

[quartz canyon]

So, I have a saiga D-12 that I got from nimble, I repaired it but I cannot find a single person that is able to actually UPGRADE it, where are these people?

[rare tree]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1h4pu6t/extreme_simplicitywishful_thinking_blocker_solved/

[coral urchin]

Yaniv

[quartz canyon]

Where is yaniv….

[coral urchin]

North of Red Forest!

[quartz canyon]

So it’s far into the game then?

[coral urchin]

Yes and No. Red Forest isn't as dangerous as it used to be. You can honestly just straight shot it from Rostok to Yaniv and be there in under 5 mins.

[quartz canyon]

Ah Alr, I might do that and just sprint through cuz I have 100k coupons that I want to use to upgrade it

[coral urchin]

But if you're following the MSQ progression then yes, it'll be a while before the game takes you to Red Forest.

[coral urchin]

100% worth. The Saiga is my go to secondary weapon.

[quartz canyon]

Yeahhhh it seemed to do a looooot of damage

I hope they add a NG+, I’d enjoy running through everything with the gear I already have

[uneven ibex]

Except that random psi effect area. I hate it.

[quartz canyon]

I can’t believe the bay harbor butcher plays stalker 2

[coral urchin]

You referring to the area on the East side of the Forest?

[uneven ibex]

somewhere in the middle or the east side yeah

[coral urchin]

Yea, thankfully it's completely avoidable and not a big deal till later in game.

[coral urchin]

I suspect it may be a thing in the future with so many items being acquired just before the end of the game, but it also may be up to mods to do something like that.

[quartz canyon]

I know the first couple games were heavily modded, I like vanilla personally but I also think it’s gonna take like, a verrrrry long time to 100%

[uneven ibex]

if you're referring to the regenerator quest, I literally just ran through the entire area. I ran through that psi area, I ran through the buildings without even using stealth, I ran back without stopping

[coral urchin]

hahahaha

I snuck through it

[uneven ibex]

I wish psi effects weren't that stupid. How the hell would an illusion make me to bleed?

Same thing with pseudo dogs

[coral urchin]

My understanding is you believe you are being injured, but also Stalker Psi effects have also been pretty crazy.

[uneven ibex]

At least in the trilogy it made more sense (though not by a lot, as you could still just shoot the illusions)

[clever orbit]

Hello! I keep crashing at one of the endings. Right after the boss fight, when the loading screen is supposed to appear, the game crashes immediately. With the following error message: Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000020 sometimes this too 0x0000000000000010 any solution?

[torpid belfry]

hey guys, i am at a Dangerous Liaisons quest at control pannel and cant press red button bcs interaction does not appear. any solutions?

[foggy crescent]

I'm finding it impossible to shoot out Faust's lantern - the other three are no problem at all. So I think this may be a bug... is anyone else experiencing the same issue?

[soft portal]

Any idea what to do when helping Ward secure the Duga Checkpoint? I kill all remaining monolithians and they just get stuck standing in the middle of the control point.
Any clues of a workaround?

[worldly sparrow]

this game is all about illusions bleeding into reality, you never know what is "real" and what is real to someone else might not be real for you and vice versa

[worldly sparrow]

just gotta try until you hit it. Hit box seemed pretty big I shot his hips until it broke. Might just need to aim better or not be getting flinched by getting shot. It took a few tries for me

[foggy crescent]

If its the mission I'm thinking of, when Faust (or whoever it is) says, 'You do not belong here!' that's the cue to run out the main gate through the incoming soldiers. But don't head for the marker, turn sharp left at the gate and run until the top bar turns blue. That's the mission done,

[worldly sparrow]

Spam with shotgun seemed to work best

[worldly sparrow]

yeah to "end" the mission it should say you have to retreat because wtf Faust is everywhere

[foggy crescent]

Thanks, I'll try that, it's the most tedious fight in what is otherwise a great game

[foggy crescent]

The first couple of times I ran to the gaurd post where the marker is and that was a big mistake

[worldly sparrow]

It's mostly that people kept spawning in and shooting me causing my aim to be off for me. Just keep trying or turn down difficulty, there is a fight near the end I kept getting one shotted and my fps was like 15 so I had to turn it down lol

Side note || strelok|| is such a hunk. He's the most handsome man in the game

So is Faust

[nocturne stone]

@zealous karma If youre on the quest for clear sky, you usually get the emission when you see the chimera, in which case you gotta leg it to the base past some shacks, chug energy drinks.

Are you getting the emission before this part not close to the objective?

[worldly sparrow]

Psi effects change your reality

[zealous karma]

Thank you, I managed to spam about 10-15 medkits and save myself by just going straight for objective

repair bill is gonna be insane. everything taken to 0 durability. lmfao

[nocturne stone]

No worries man, same thing happened to me and in another boss section further into the game. Its bound to happen . Just gotta have other weapons and armor ready to switch out so you can catch up with coupons

[sage sable]

maybe reload then, i think you wasted to much time when the emission started. You should be able to run away from the chimera and run to the bunker without the emission actually starting

[worldly sparrow]

I'd have reloaded an earlier save tbh it didn't happen like that for me

[deft charm]

chaskyythedeer has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[nocturne stone]

There is a way to not get hit by chimera 100%

[zealous karma]

yes the huts are glitched and it doesn't get in.

I am playing master difficulty mod and it kills in 2 hits

[lapis spruce]

There is no message, Faust is a man-made science experiment, worshipping a man-made machine designed to control people - even his name is extremely on the nose for his literary purpose: Faustian Bargain - he traded his independence and free will for psi powers and the illusion of purpose/happiness.

[twilit current]

What suit would y’all recommend for disabling the pay beacons?

The psy damage isn’t an issue?

Okey-dokey

I will take this time to stock up on ammo and health kits then

[limber quest]

Pripyat is blocked off by Yaniv station. How do I gain access?

[tidal pilot]

Hey guys, run into a weird softlock issue.|| I got thrown in the Ward cell at the Chemical Plant after siding with Strelok. However, the second i get the option to escape, I start taking extreme Psi-damage. Not sure if this is normal but Skif only lasts like 20 seconds before dying||. Anyone else run into this?

[coral urchin]

Story Progression

[coral urchin]

There are a few areas you can jump over the train and go early is that's your thing. I would look up a video guide if thats the route you wanna take.

[full remnant]

Bruh in the quest when your at SIRCAA and you go through the wormhole anomaly to confront the doctor my game crashes after you see the PSDEOGIANT in the small room when you go back through the portal, anyone else have this?

[supple hemlock]

||I travelled to Slag Heap after escaping SIRCAA facility (actually fast travelled) and once I arrived, there was a radio message about Noontide attacking Slag Heap but there's nothing happening outside at all. I assumed this would be similar to Zalissya situation. Is it bugged or I'm missing something?||

[uneven ibex]

I've never heard anything about Slag Heap getting attacked at all. Only Zalissya.

[analog trench]

I need help.

The quest 'Assault on the Duga (Ward)' I am stuck on securing checkpoint issue. No enemies are spawning, the Ai are standing still. Nothing is happening.

Anyone got a solution?

[supple hemlock]

||Lt.Maystrenko: Base, this is Slag Heap. Noontide is storming in here like crazy. Definitely headed for Duga.||

Is what is being said

and sounds of gunfire in the background. Almost as if there should/should've been event similar to Zalissya but it's not there

[uneven ibex]

||I think they're just supposed to go through Garbage to Duga, but Slag Heap isn't their primary goal, though I wonder why Zalissya is||

[novel pelican]

I heard it but its only a message without relevance

[supple hemlock]

feels like cut content

[novel pelican]

there are a lot of things like that

[stuck abyss]

In regards to "Just Like The Good Old Days" after completing it ||You can speak to Lodchonko and hell give you "The Hornets Nest" mission, whilst richter wants you to cautiously visit scar in "An Invisible Threat". Are these quests mutually exclusive or can i complete both one after the other?||

[novel pelican]

||you can complete both but you need to complete the hornets nest first||

[novel pelican]

Zalissya is a route for supplies and rookies

[fierce chasm]

sorry not sure where to post, but im on the boss fight on the roof where you have to kill the 3 lanterns, and the game literally wont function

drops to 1 fps, have reloaded outside and walked back up, literally just cannot progress through the game lol

[novel pelican]

probably memory leaking

[fierce chasm]

memory leak is normally based on run time, happens on restart

[oak tide]

Don’t know if this is the right spot to post, on Visions of Truth quest, during the part where you meet scar in the secret entrance, he like legit doesn’t spawn for me, and when I go in the quest marker jumps back to the representative, anyone with that issue, and any work around?

[cloud leaf]

i am close to the mission to go to clear sky's base, does the game still have a lot of bugs after sircaa or is it better now? is the famous Zalissya bug fixed?

[full remnant]

Did you have any issues going through wormhole at SIRCAA? I crash everytime

[cloud leaf]

haven't gone to sircaa yet, i've been avoiding going even to clear sky since i heard about many bugs after sircaa

[full remnant]

Aw shit my bad hope that wasn’t to crazy of a spoiler [e-mail]_7567

[cloud leaf]

nah, i've had worse spoilers when trying to protect my save from corruption or game breaking bugs 😂

[lucid bluff]

Every time I go through wormhole at circaa the game drops to 1 fps for about a 30 seconds and then slowly builds back up its FPS at the new location.

[deft charm]

praisethelord04 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

[sharp flower]

Boys I just finished the mission/cutscene where strider rips out that artifact after breaking free from the dudes holding him down can that be stopped with earlier choices ?

[hard mural]

had this, gotta redo the faust fight to ensure you receive the quest again, after that should work

[oak tide]

I’ll see if that works when I get home, thank you

[round crater]

I need some advice (very minor beginning of the final quest spoilers)

||is it mandatory to use the X7 suit when going to visit the doctor? I'm at this point in the game where I'm told without X7 suit I'll die, but it is so much worse than my current armor||

[worthy bolt]

I’m stuck on the mission “Visions of truth” where you’re suppose to meet scar in X17 at malachite. When I enter the room he’s not there. Any advice, I’m on Console btw

[near star]

Man that x3 lab stealth objective took me an hour... And no koupons for it either, lol

At least I found the %100 condition RPG that was in there, guess that counts as good loot for the objective. Hopefully buys me some more time with Scar and he doesn't know I snuck out the pod and lab 😅

[stuck abyss]

After which main story mission to side quests become available again?

[sonic sage]

i didn't use it and i lived so i guess so

[round crater]

thanks
it really bugs me to drag it with me (along with the helmet) when it can't be upgraded and also is marginally worse

[wind bluff]

Where is richter after the Rostock part where u get the mutant collar I found it and he’s no where to be found

[nimble pollen]

im stuck on down below quest in the end where i have to talk to dalin and sterlok after waking up but i only see sterlok and i can only ask him about whats new in the zone

have no clue on how to progress, turned of my mods and still no sucsses

[upbeat python]

Once again unto the breach I'm stuck in the locker room where it says get to location d

[bleak siren]

I'm stuck on Ad Astra. I cant make the jump from ledge to stairwell. How do you make this jump?

[wide wren]

Might be here: https://www.gamespot.com/gallery/stalker-2-richter-collar-minor-incident/2900-5969/

[bold vault]

a minor incident: is there ||a second fuse around||? i think i sold one very eary in the game, maybe something different happens when u have 2?

[wide wren]

Was wondering that too! Never found the second one, or if you insert it in the second fuse-box, something else happens?

[hardy phoenix]

(Spoiler if you haven't done the mission "The Assault on the Duga")
||So there's the part when you need to get inside the Monolith HQ during the Duga assault, I kill the few guys there and then the mission says to kill their leader. I see Faust on the upper floor, just standing still, not saying a word. I popped a single bullet in his head and he died. That's it? Isn't there supposed to be something more epic like a battle or speech or anything? Or is my quest bugged?||

[sonic sage]

||Yeah that's it, it's not actually faust but a projection i think||

[hardy phoenix]

Yeah that's what I assumed, cheers!

[hidden quest]

did you figure this out?

[radiant raven]

I ended up using wemod to tp away to garbage and he then teleported back to where he was supposed to be so i went back, but now i have an issue later in the story 😦

[hidden quest]

oh dang, i'll give it a try, hopefully the later issue isn't caused by this one

[celest rock]

I need help! Im stuck in the mission subtle matter, I kill all the mutants in the lab (3), but it seems to bee a fourth one that isnt there, I cant find it, I watched playthrought and there are only 3 mutants, any advice??

please help

[radiant raven]

let me know if you run into another issue..this one i cannot figure out what to do now

[rough patrol]

How far am I through the game if I just met dark, and I’m going to find his loot he wants me to?

[full remnant]

My game crashes everytime I go through it

[inner current]

Any one can plz help me with 'Hot on the Trail' the Wood plank are gone so i can't cross to talk to dubny

[sonic sage]

that's weird, maybe try loading a previous save? pretty sure the planks are supposed to break after you talk to dubny|

[inner current]

yes 1save slot it brake after i'm talk to him now i can find a way to jump a cross ,and i try reload game many time some time it bug come time don't

[hidden quest]

now dr dalin and the commander arent at the top of the stairs. is that it?

on wishful thinking

[rough patrol]

im doing the subtle matter quest, in the orbita. am i supposed to have high psi this whole time? i am starting to leave it and still have high psi. even when i use psi blockers

[wind bluff]

Why tf do monolith sniper guards at dugga one shot am I not ment to go there how do I get into there terf for the territory

[hidden drum]

you only need to be there for the main missions, depending on each mission theyll guide you through the walkable parts of duga

there are parts of duga where the invisible snipers will one shot you, even through walls

[wind bluff]

It’s not very clear lol it’s all dugga but I guess to the left of mono held areas there is a completely similar structure

[hidden drum]

id attach a screenshot of where you can be in, but the entrance into duga is at its southern part, if youre looking for the stash, its more south of it, near the "boiler room" POI

[wind bluff]

I’ve already made it it’s just weird the barrier is so close to the objective but the entrance isn’t specified

[charred pasture]

Yeah dunga mission is bugged the snipers are in God mode and one shot you

[mighty oracle]

I just finished Happiness for Everyone and now, as of the last update, I crash as soon as I get to the gates of the Malachite base. Anybody have any ideas as to what could be causing the Access Violation it cites/anyone else have this issue? I tried using a guide to travel directly there and it crashes as well

[charred pasture]

How did you pass the invicible sniper?

[mighty oracle]

Go waaayy to the south past the bridge into the Duga and you should be able to get in, the quest areas past that are safe just don't get to close to the perimeter walls of the Duga
(I know of no other invincible snipers other than the buzz off this is a quest zone one)

[radiant raven]

Yep lol

And I can’t tp to them. It keeps throwing me on the roof 🙃

[chrome prairie]

cant give dvupalov the documents he just sits there a bug or am i missing somerhing?

[hidden quest]

you have to use "save location" and "tp to saved location" so you:

1. save location
2. tp to marker elsewhere
3. tp back to saved location

that way it doesnt throw you up on the roof hopefully

[oak tide]

After reloading a save 2 quests before unfortunately, I had fight him again and reload 4 times to get it to work, but it worked, thank you

[hidden drum]

its not a bug
scripted that way, they have "super gauss snipers" that monitor the entire duga

[mental drift]

anyone know what to do about the sniper at duga? im starting to get pissed off

[novel pelican]

there are some like that in Jupiter

[narrow zenith]

im currently doing subtle matter and i cant seem to find the last mutant on the objective to clear out the mutants in the area

i killed 3 so far but the quest isnt progressing. it looks like theres a way down to a lower level but i cant seem to find it
-# there is no lower level its just a pit at the bottom of the elevator shaft

ive reloaded the save and killed the 3 again but it didnt progress

[narrow zenith]

you gotta take a wide berth. theyre gauss snipers that will 1 shot if you get too close. enter the compound from the south

theres a door i dont have a code for and shit is still getting launched at my head

i turned on the power switch by the door and it did nothing as far as i can tell

idk what im supposed to be doing
all these mutants are dead

[novel heron]

I'm doing hot on trail mission at Waste Processing Station and the door to underground is locked help!

[novel heron]

Nvm all I needed to do was kill the guys where "side quest" is pointing at but not main mission.

[green shore]

so i am currently on the main quest to get to foundation and its point of no return. Is there a after game when i finish the story?

[narrow zenith]

didnt realize i could kill the blue cloud thing upstairs

[hidden drum]

thats the poltergeist
those are the things that launch shit at you

[narrow zenith]

i made it like 50 hours in and i had no idea you could kill them lol

closer to 60 more accurately [insert the screenshot i cant send saying 58.1]

[delicate kettle]

3 of 4 endings done. One left!

[echo salmon]

idk if my dead frequency quest is bugged ive saved alpha and bravo team and know i have no quest marker i dont know what to do help

[waxen bramble]

Anybody know of a workaround for this bug?
Once More Unto The Breach mission, Ward faction, door that you need to use to go into tunnels is locked. Any other way to get down there?

[radiant raven]

The issue was I hadn’t been in this area yet there’s a door that’s showing locked

[hidden quest]

they’re not behind that door they’re supposed to be there on the 2nd platform at the top of the stairs

[echo salmon]

someone please am i missing something?

[coral edge]

uhh i just completed that q. after i saved them u should try talking to commander in the base where u took quest. i forgot his name

[echo salmon]

ive tried the one on the 3rd floor of the building correct?

[coral edge]

yes

[echo salmon]

i think my game is bugged i might just have to go back in my saves until i get the save thats before i accept the quest and just retry

[coral edge]

yeah i think is best to do.

[echo salmon]

yea i appreciate it thank you

[coral edge]

before u reach the icarus base(around it) it should trigger an conversation. after u save them

[echo salmon]

ok thanks again im gonna try this out now wish me luck

[coral edge]

k gl

[rough patrol]

the story just brought me to prypiat, how far through am i?

[mental hearth]

Close to the end.

[rough patrol]

really? like how many more quests you think?

[mental hearth]

One or two until you get to point of no return I think?

[nocturne niche]

hello, in the tunnels in Promin Factory durin Dawn of the new Day quest i got a dialog from "Unokwn", but i couldnt find any person?

[rough patrol]

oh yeah they want me to check out some theatre or something rn i think for blueprints

[mental hearth]

Yep, next one will lock you in.
Diegtyarev even warns you and you get a pop up.

[rough patrol]

oh wow, prypiat is that short? ig im kinda ready to finish the game. didnt do that many side quests tbh but not many seemed worth it

[mental hearth]

Lots to explore outside the MQ though. Found a bunch of exos for example, multiple Gauss rifles, etc.

[gray yoke]

So I did the big SIRCCA mission and after I passed through Zayssia to give the emitter to Scar and a little later Zayssia said it had fallen, honestly I don't really feel like reloading a save and doing the missions to rebuild it but should I?

[stuck abyss]

After which main story mission to side quests become available again?

[sand dust]

is anyone else having a problem with a crash after ||the second fight with faust at the duga rader where he talks to you at the top of duga||? everytime he asks me ||at which time i want to talk to him|| but my answer doenst matter, it just always crashes.

[tough tapir]

wtf keeps one shotting me at the granite squad fight?

[vocal valve]

Hey does anyone know the spawn command for quest item "Sircaa Flash Drive with Archive" for mission where you're supposed to find it in a red room on the desk during mission "To the last drop of blood"? I tried reloading save multiple times but the quest item itself just doesn't spawn in, I can't progress the story further.

[supple hemlock]

Do you guys know if there's any way around the "NPC door of death" at Zalissya

[sweet wind]

I have a question about one of the endings. ||In the Ward ending Dalin betrays the Ward and gets shot. Is there any way to prevent this? Some choice or hidden conversation trigger?||

[plain sphinx]

Nope. Dalin's situation is kinda forced on you and you can't interact with it.

[uneven ibex]

The Foundation is the point of no return.

I started the quest and for some reason I don't have any emissions anymore. I am free to explore The Zone without getting into cover every 20 minutes or so

[keen willow]

so i just finished the game and i feel like i got hit big a big psi wave i dont really understand anything
i played ||the skif and strelok ending|| and watched ||the other endings aswell||
feels like the ||skif one might be the best ?||

[uneven ibex]

Why'd ||Skif ending|| be the best? You're basically ||turning the entire world into The Zone. Not as dangerous, but anomalies would still spawn||

[lilac ether]

so I accidentally put ||Strider|| corpse into whirlgig anomaly, Am I softlocked myself?

[uneven ibex]

No

accidentally

happens to the best of us.

[golden hearth]

players do love to be in control, it's considered your own victory, not anybody else's
i still prefer ||the varta ending, skif got himself a new home, went through the journey with a really likeable character by his side||

[golden hearth]

why.

[keen willow]

i guess the ||new zones wouldnt|| be riddled with mutants like the chornobly one so in that regard it might be safer but ||the new zones still|| would be dangerous just because of how we humans are greedy or want to explore new things which could just end ||any new zone|| into the ||same old ||one we have

[distant smelt]

I just read the ||scanner scheme|| note from Nestor and... I'm just trying to figure out how this thing works.
The basic idea is that ||hermann gets them in the trash||, ||Nestor recovers and bugs them once they've been thrown out||, ||they place them on the dig site|| and then ||jump the loners that recover and use those scanners?!||

I mean it sounds wildly convoluted, Skif I get 'cause ||he has the weird artifact|| but what's the angle on ||jumping loners that just happen to find a scanner in the dig site?!||

I mean do stalkers even know how scanners work just from coming across them?

[teal patrol]

Hey, guys! I encountered the problem that when ||i enter the portal after a talk with Herman under NDICAZ when jumping to pseudogiant|| the game crashes. Is someone had something simillar? How to fix that? Tried with GeForce Now, the same

[supple hemlock]

I'm at the point where I have the ||emitter and have to bring it to Scar or head to Sphere after showing it to Lodochka. Does one cancel the other||?

[jovial folio]

It didn't for me, but I went to ||Lodochka, then did Sphere, then Scar|| so I technically had two.

[supple hemlock]

Yep, I ended up doing the same

[jovial folio]

Not that it mattered, seeing as ||Spark|| had a literal ||TRAIN FULL OF EMITTERS.||

[delicate kettle]

Almost got my 4th and final ending!

[jovial folio]

I haven't been able to beat it yet, game keeps soft locking after the Malachite raid. How close am I to the end?

[stuck abyss]

||Boss fight with faust is legitamitley the worst part of this game so far, at 7fps have to fight 10 differen phantoms on a pitch black roof with all broken gear because the game does nothing to prepare you for this COD boss fight by shipping you to one of the most remote parts of themap with out any technicians or traders or bed to change to daylight and even if you get him you can accidentally choose the wrong dialogue option and be loaded back to the start of the fight||
Its not challening its not difficult its just obtuse

[viral grove]

say if I killed hermen or what ever is the name of the dude that comes with you, would I kept that gun that lady was hending to me?

[sonic sage]

i agree sadly

[fluid veldt]

Without any spoilers, how many hours did it take for you guys to complete Main Quest ? I am at Icarus and want to pace myself

[stuck abyss]

Regarding Vision of Truth ||is the mission supposed to make me the scientist faction hostile to me? Ive foughtt of about 50 ward exo enemies and now im hoostile in malachite?||

[dapper flint]

Yes because ward now protecting it. You still can visit it with help of conductor. If you do it you can chat with merchant - he will explain whats going on

[stuck abyss]

so to progress msq you have to get hostil with the faction?

[dapper flint]

you decide to kill Ward - here your consequences) this is related to Scar which works with Ozerskiy so Ozerskiy is a traitor actually

[stuck abyss]

ah
And at which point in the MSQ can i start doing side quests again? still no one will give me side quests

cus i still cant accept any side quests atm

[dapper flint]

yes but only way to get inside is via conductor you need to pay to him

[stuck abyss]

Through the whole map I mean

Any NPC with a blue flag map marker won't give me their quest ever since leaving sirca, I thought finishing the Faust quest would fix it

[round wharf]

I thought the || Faust || fight was pretty straight forward

[daring nova]

dang the ||zombies at icarus after the sircaa sequence|| soaked so many nades xD

[uneven ibex]

You can find a secret entrance to Malachite during a certain main quest. Though it's still a bit bugged since a Ward guard may spawn in the safe zone, leave it, immediately go hostile and lock your entrance.

You may leave safely whenever you want to but getting back in can be a problem

[noble glacier]

Is anyone having problems with the back to the slag heap quest where it won’t start the cutscene?

[worthy bolt]

A little quieter channel perhaps but keep up the good work devs. I love the patches that are coming in and dedication to making this the best game possible.

[simple wave]

does anyone have the problem where Strider not spawning in extreme simplicity mission?

[halcyon trout]

hey guys quick question || After bringing the emiter to Dr lovotschka realising he hand a hand in the monolithians he starts attacking me but i cant attack him is this a bug?||

[floral vessel]

who the hell designed the last mission its so bad, i stepped in the underground of pripyat with 58 deaths and now im stuck with 98 deaths at the granite boss fight what the hell

i literally had to reduce the difficulty to rookie just for this last mission gosh

[verbal depot]

You can run past granite. Also you're given tons of great guns, don't see the problem

[floral vessel]

bruh i didnt even notice that lol

the enemies just do way too much damage they can one shot your whole health bar

[verbal depot]

I did it yesterday on Veteran.
To do it:
1: Grab 2 dnipros
2: Go in guns blazing and aim for the head.
3: Kill the one's on the ground
4: Hide from the Gauss riffles that are on the right side
5: Hide, spam heals, reload.
6: Repeat #2

Headshots only. The enemies have 5x the HP of normal monolithians

[untold hearth]

I threw a nade down and another one after jumping down the air duct during "happiness for everyone" - "get inside the duga compound" but there are still these rats in the back making noise and distracting you, I think those should not spawn there

[burnt willow]

Who? Where do you find this npc?

[lunar linden]

Report it to GSC so hopefully they actually fix, 1.03 has not fixed this issue still. I have been hardstuck on this days after spending hours trying to look into a solution/retrying the same quest from the sleeping in the delusional hope this will eventually actually work https://support.stalker2.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

[analog trench]

So I fixed it and the fix is to revert to a save before an emission kicked off.

[lunar linden]

damn that would require me rolling back hours but thank you for the heads up

[analog trench]

Yeah I had to roll back about an hour and a half of gameplay which wasnt too bad but was annoying

[topaz atlas]

Anyone managed to fix the bug in "Visions of Truth" where ||Korshunov ||just stands still in some stairs when we need to follow him ? Been stuck on this for a while now and 1.03 didn't fix it.

[charred pasture]

I need help when I fight Faust I noticed I have ghost attacking me I take a bunch of psi drug and still die to ghost even after

[quartz canyon]

So like, now that they patched some stuff, does it FIX stuff if it already happened? or no.

[rough patrol]

im on the mission "the road to the foundation" how far through am i?

[grim fable]

Hello !
I have a blocking bug ... 😢
I looked on the internet tried several tips but nothing works,|| after the return of the Monolith and the attacks of Zalissya|| I can no longer enter the Zalissya building ... I moved away, I looted the buildings, I went to sleep in the camp in the south and I came back, everything is bugged and I no longer have a solution ...

[rough patrol]

wait so siding with the corps is siding with strelok right?

[coral urchin]

Guass Rifle one shots them

I've done all four endings now so im so used to fighting Granite Team lmfao

[coral urchin]

Yea this quest is still having many issues. Thankfully its just a sidequest and doesnt affect your story outcome at all so you can just move on and attempt it later.

[stray aspen]

I need Help I found Chronozem's body (he was randomly already dead when I found him) and picked up his PDA, but there's still no progression in the story the lasted patch didn’t help

[rough patrol]

for the final mission is there a bug where the colonel will just stand still and not fight back? bc right now im experiencing it and i do not want to start this fight over

[dense tapir]

||anybody knows how to stop Korshunov from glitching on the "Down Below" quest?||

[rough patrol]

youre dealing with that too? where he just stands still?

[random pumice]

he should fight the basic soldiers

[rough patrol]

wym? im fighting him and when i get him to phase 2 after the cutscene on the vent he just stands still when i break his shield

[dense tapir]

yes, idk if its the last mission but Ive been stuck here for days waiting for a fix, before it would crash my game if I damaged him too fast, now after some time he just stands still and I cant damage him or anything. Cant even get to the phase 2

[rough patrol]

ah, im on phase 2 rn where he calls out the ward troops but hes just not doing anything

[dense tapir]

I didnt even know there was a phase 2 😭

how did you get past 1? Everyime he just glitchs for me

[rough patrol]

i just damaged him enough then he stands on the vent

[dense tapir]

Yea and then you shoot him on the vents? at some point when hes about to jump to another he glitches, guess his pathfinding is broken. So idk if I should wait for another patch or something because I dont think everyone is having this problem

[halcyon silo]

Anyone had problem with Solder hornets nest quest

[dull bobcat]

man, 3 patches and my game still crashes during cutscene with dr dalin and korshunov in "An invisible threat" am i the only one having this crash? been waiting over a week to have it fixed but still cant play. incredibly frustrating

[rough patrol]

holy how long is this final mission

[barren fossil]

I have a completly glitched "Vision of truth" quest , i do not want to restart the whole game so i want to know is there a way to skip the quest using the console ?

[errant lynx]

Am I going to need to restart for Strider to spawn at the Ranger Station? Three patches now and nothing

[bronze drum]

i'm bugged on that quest too, but in my case, scar won't spawn at the rostok depot.

[desert forge]

When is back to the slag heap going to be fixed the sawmill is still bugged for me.

[rocky palm]

cant save from the start to through x5 lab mission (in search of past glory) wondering if anyone else has experienced this this

got all the way through and died falling off a ledge on the way back to Dvupalov gotta do the entire lab again

3rd times the charm?

[short abyss]

Subtle matter quest the audio recorder bug is it fixed?

[wispy bluff]

did anyone encounter a bug after killing ||Scar|| in the ||anomaly room||, i went through the ||sealed doors|| threw a bolt at an anomaly and the went through it, but i get sucked in even if i'm not in range, then it's like i'm teleported 1000 km away, grey/black screen and game freezes

this happened only on the vortex anomalies since the new update 1.03

[lapis spruce]

yeah springboard anomalies are borked af rn, it's like a solid 25% chance when you touch one it'll crash the game

[finite remnant]

Anybody have a fix for ||Faust's body not spawning during Visions of Truth?||

[dim crypt]

Stupid ass x5 lab mission can't quicksave and have to go all the way back I'm quitting this game for a little while stupid shit

[wispy bluff]

awesome

[solemn bloom]

What difficulty? because when i beat the game last week it took me multiple head shots to kill most of the dudes encountered through the final stretch. Gauss headshots on stalker difficulty. i hated it but if they toned down the bullet sponginess it might be worth doing another ending

[grand igloo]

Just battled against ||Faust||, and honestly, it was a really sick fight.

The soundtrack was something else and how the it is easy to imagine Skiff in such a situation powered by artifacts and his will to recover what he once had is really insane XD

I did burn through almost everything i had though, including all of my medkits. The only thing that really saved me was the legendary artifacts that i have

[stray aspen]

Does anyone have a fix I found Chronozem's body (he was randomly already dead when I found him) and picked up his PDA, but there's still no progression in the story the lasted patch didn’t help, I can’t reload before this quest.

[olive shard]

I have the same issue 🥲

[finite remnant]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1gxwtr1/visions_of_thruth_quest/

The top comment on this thread worked for me. Just adds the necessary items to your inventory. Resetting the saves or trying to forward the quest with the console didn't work for me

[olive shard]

I am on Xbox 🥲😆

[finite remnant]

Oh no

[obtuse wind]

Does anyone know faust fight in happiness for everyone is fixed with it crashing at the end of the fight for console?

[deep wedge]

has anyone else encountered a bug where after the ||Visions of Truth ||quest when you successfully ||hold of The Ward to let the Doctor escape with Scar,|| he ends up dying after the mission and ||the scientists ||hate you?

[mental hearth]

1. STOP SCREAMING
2. Where are you at?

Technical Tunnel Descent?
#📸┃screenshots_and_videos Can you post a screenshot there? With the map preferably?

[grand sigil]

has GSC decided which ending is cannon yet?

[sullen stone]

Yo! So In the quest Visions of Truth, I am supposed to fight a group of...people assaulting a...base at the "North Eastern Checkpoint" I gear up, go there ready to kicks some ass, and nobody shows. Anyone encountered this issue yet?

[coral urchin]

Veteran lmfao

Guass one shots them as well as Slugs from the Saiga or RAM.

[nocturne stone]

It was a cool fight and i love the soundtrack too but man was it laggy for me. Also, i lost all my supplies in the fight cause i didnt know what to do. Cost me like 30k coupons to come back 😂

[nocturne stone]

Reload, it happened to me but managed to do it,

[floral vessel]

only on rookie it one shots them otherwise you need to head shot

[coral urchin]

Yea i was referring to a headshot, my b.

[grand igloo]

It cost me almost 70k to repair and rebuy everything too XD

[zealous karma]

can anyone confirm is zalissya defense is OK to do now? it is a side quest for me. or still bugged?

I can see a bunch of monolith guys running around inside the building with the side quest market, which is locked. I can't get in. I'm assuming that's the bug

[lavish aspen]

Question im on Subtle Matter quest is that final? I haven't event able to enter Pripyat

[coral urchin]

No but its first major decision point, what you choose here starts your path for ending.

[nocturne stone]

Anyone do that quest with the doctor to retrieve the medicine from the monolith hospital thing to try and save strider? It says i can do it without killing anyone but my god does it seem impossible

[unreal siren]

#📸┃screens_and_videos message
why doesn't he want to talk with me lol

[sick zephyr]

I'm i only one how has 100gb update for patch 1.0.3?

[unreal siren]

Nope