Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl Gets Free Update This Week Adding New Quests, Locations and Hub

Just weeks aft making its PlayStation 5 debut, Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is getting a large escaped contented update adding caller quests, characters and a caller hub, arsenic good arsenic an further weapon.

In a station connected the PlayStation blog, Stalker 2's Ukranian developer GSC Game World announced the caller update and noted that it would beryllium "completely escaped to each owners of the game" — truthful anyone who whitethorn person played antecedently connected PC and Xbox Series X/S should expect to person the further contented also.

Xbox owners who played the shooter via Xbox Game Pass erstwhile it primitively launched successful November 2024 whitethorn request to cheque if they inactive person access, however, arsenic Stalker 2 departed from the subscription's catalog past month, causing thing of a stir.

"Strange things commencement happening adjacent the Malachite connected the occidental portion of the map," GSC says of its caller questline. "The probe groups sent by scientists were reporting a awesome interfering with their accustomed PDA communications. After listening to it, stalkers were suffering from headaches, chemoreceptor bleeds, and hallucinations."

It each sounds similar thing interesting, if perchance deadly, that's good worthy investigating. Eight missions are included, with 7 locations to explore, six much characters to meet, positive a caller firearm to master: the GP37V2. You'll besides get the accidental to found a caller hub successful the Burnt Forest region.

GSC had antecedently promised caller quests were connected the mode arsenic portion of its 2025 improvement roadmap, which included caller gameplay featurs and communicative missions, arsenic good arsenic continued method upgrades — specified arsenic a determination to the latest mentation of Unreal Engline. Memorably, Stalker 2 launched successful a spot of a state, though GSC has pledged to proceed moving to crook things around.

"Underneath the method problems that plague Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is simply a unsocial greatness," IGN wrote successful our Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl review, giving it 8/10. "It emerges arsenic a refreshingly brutal shooter that strives to hook you with its unthinkable ambiance and permission you invested by the extremity of this long, arduous journey." Read much connected however Stalker 2 has changed everything for the workplace amid the full-scale penetration of Ukraine here.

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