STALKER 2’s latest update adds an easily missed new questline, while dispersing accidental mutant crowds

Sealed Truth update nixes immoderate glitches and teases the Cost of Hope expansion

Get successful here, stalker. STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl conscionable got its meatiest spot successful months, the Sealed Truth update, which has added a spooky, story-based caller questline on with assorted bug fixes.

The caller quests, which instrumentality you heavy into the monster-infested bowels of the X-18 laboratory (previously visited successful STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl), seemingly play up HoC’s fearfulness side, and connection is it’ll loosely necktie into the crippled of the incoming Cost of Hope expansion. Which sounds good, though you mightiness request to occurrence up an older prevention to footwear it off, arsenic it’s seemingly lone disposable for a little play aboriginal successful the game.

Well, I accidental "brief". Depending connected however acold you stalk from the main ngo flow, that model could past hours, though it’s inactive a finite opportunity. Basically, you tin commencement the Sealed Truth storyline by speaking to Diode, the nonmigratory techie wrong stalker hub/literal trash heap Garbage, but lone betwixt (minor spoilers for a 17-month-old shooter) gathering Scar astatine his sawmill campy and visiting SIRCAA office with the retrieved Scanner. Before oregon aft these respective points, Diode’s dialog enactment to statesman the questline isn’t available, adjacent if he’s live and uneaten. Harsh!

Annoyingly, this item isn’t elaborated successful GSC’s spot notes; I’ve double-checked it by jumping done my ain saves, but did lone find retired the timing done a video by reliably in-the-know STALKERtuber Vatislavovych. I accidental it’s perchance that the questline itself requires mounting successful the pre-SIRCAA shenanigans play for its crippled to marque sense, though it’s a shame that Sealed Truth doesn’t person arsenic flexible a starting constituent arsenic STALKER 2’s erstwhile escaped narrative-heavy update, Stories Untold.

At slightest the caller bug fixes tin beryllium much universally enjoyed. Addressed issues see unsafe anomalies catching/burning/crushing you successful a wider than intended radius, a fewer instances of excessively clippy manus animations, and 1 peculiarly lethal techno-whoopsie wherever large groups of mutants would spawn together. Not specified a large woody if it’s conscionable an unusually ample battalion of radioactive dogs, but little than perfect erstwhile it’s a twelve thirsty Bloodsuckers.

The Sealed Truth update is retired now, for free; Cost of Hope is coming sometime this Summer, astir decidedly for Not Free.