As you explore the Zone, encountering all sorts of mutants and freelance stalkers looking for secrets and money, you'll inevitably overhear stories of unusual anomalies – the stuff of legends. As it turns out, the zone produces legendary artifacts STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl that offer significant improvements to those willing to exercise their power. However, this service often comes at a high price.
Look out for the legendary artifacts throughout the zone
While Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl has many anomalies to discover throughout the zone. Most of them offer unique buffs. Only ten legendary artifacts in the game are worth their reputation. These range in rarity from story-centric end-of-game anomalies that change the outcome of the entire game, to smaller improvements such as: B. reducing bullet damage when completely immobile. It's a compromise, like everything in the Zone!
compass
- Effects: Increases physical protection while increasing radiation
- Location: Gravity anomalies
Heart of Chernobyl
- Effects: Necessary for the end of the Kaimanov game
- Location: Kill Strelok
Hypercube
- Effects: Provides maximum bleed resistance and thermal protection, but increases radiation
- Location: Thermal anomalies
Liquid stone
- Effects: Increases chemical and radiation protection.
- Location: Acid abnormalities
- Description:
Thunderberry
- Effects: Increases maximum stamina, but increases radiation
- Location: Electrical abnormalities
Strange bolt
- Effects: Reduces damage from anomalies when fully charged
- Location: Yaniv (Tornado Anomaly Area)
Strange flower
- Effects: When you sleep with the flower, your scent is actively reduced
- Location: poppy field
Strange nut
- Effects: Reduces blood loss during a hemorrhage, but wound healing takes longer
- Location: Cooling Towers (Fire Vortex Anomaly)
Strange pot
- Effects: Reduces hunger but increases psionic hallucinations
- Location: Scorched Forest (Fog Anomaly)
Strange water
- Effects: Radiation doesn't hurt you as much and you move faster, but you take more falling damage
- Location: Zaton (Wandering Light Anomalous Area)
Many of these items can be found by interacting with anomalies in the zone of their respective type. For example, to find Compass you need to track and interact with gravitational anomalies that you can find everywhere.
As for the Heart of Chernobyl, it is perhaps the rarest of all the anomalies in the game, but it is also the only one specifically designed to change your path. It doesn't provide a boost or sustained radiation damage when explored, but it does unlock the Kaimanov ending. Additionally, it is only available if you kill Strelok during the Ward, Spark, or Kaimanov end paths.
If you take a quick detour to find this The best submachine gun in the gamehave a powerful melee weapon that makes it easier to deal with anomalies and the mutants that surround them!
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