Nearly fifteen years within the making, S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl has lastly launched its open-world for gamers to discover and scavenge for loot. Like all video games of its ilk, STALKER 2 has a punishing financial mannequin in place, the place cash is at all times in brief provide, and godly objects are priced astronomically.
This STALKER 2 information has each technique you should use to earn coupons shortly and effectively, in addition to an ongoing exploit/glitch.
Aspect Quests
Attempt to uncover and full each potential facet quest at any given level in the principle story, since they’ll grow to be unavailable as you make additional progress. These brief quests present a fast and comparatively straightforward infusion of money.
Some facet quests are repeatable, and will be grinded with a brief interval between runs.
Loot Stashes
Be looking out for stash areas as they seem in your map, and scavenge them for his or her loot. These recovered objects are typically of remarkable worth to merchants. Collect up all the PDAs off of the corpses as a result of they’ll usually result in but extra stashes.
Anomalies And Artifacts
Artifacts are useful prizes and are sometimes discovered amongst clusters of anomalies, so remember to use your Echo Detector within the neighborhood to identify them; the echo will flash blue when an artifact is detected. The beep price will speed up as nicely. Spare your armor the injury, and your self the restore invoice, by taking it off earlier than navigating the world. Unload duplicate artifacts, or people who do extra hurt than good.
Offsetting Encumbrance
With stock administration comes weight issues, and that is the place the beforehand talked about artifacts can come in useful. Equip any artifacts that assist scale back that encumbrance, thus permitting you to pull much more useful loot again dwelling.
Weapon Sorting
Prioritize yellow broken weapons over purple damaged ones, as a way to squeeze out most worth on your effort and time when lugging loot again to a dealer. Pink weapons are unsellable (besides to Ragman at Rostok base) earlier than being repaired, and grow to be unprofitable after restore. Yellow weapons are sellable even of their broken state, and will promote for extra after restore, however profitability within the latter case is minimal.
Select Your Buying and selling Companions
Besides underneath essentially the most dire circumstances, keep away from promoting to anybody however a correct dealer with an institution of their very own. It is because they’ll provide the biggest potential worth on your items, with different NPCs providing considerably decrease percentages.
Do Not Hoard Consumables
You’ll come throughout giant portions of meals and medical provides in your time within the Zone, greater than you’ll ever really want your self. Be happy to eliminate extra shops in change for coupons.
Farm Respawn Places
Non-story areas with enemies will finally respawn after being cleared out. If the earlier loot run was notably good, take into account returning to farm it, after a brief interval.
Economize Restore Prices
Restore prices are the first cash sink in STALKER 2. Each journey into the Zone principally boils all the way down to the revenue remaining between the worth of the loot scavenged and the price to restore all the injury incurred by your gear. One solution to offset these prices is to depend on the starter Makarov PM/Skif’s Pistol; it has a really low price of sturdiness loss or decay, making it cheap to restore over time. With most human enemies, a headshot is an prompt kill, as are lesser mutants.
Preserve a cheaper-to-repair set of armor for coupon farming runs.
Unload Magazines
If you happen to can not or don’t wish to choose up a weapon, at the least unload the ammunition. Each single bullet has sale worth, and all of it provides up. Weapons on the bottom must be picked up first, however these on corpses and inside containers will be unloaded immediately through the menu.
Infinite Cash Exploit
Having a variety of ammunition readily available from the earlier tip lends itself to a buying and selling glitch that’s at the moment nonetheless energetic. Go to a dealer, similar to Hamster in Zalissya, and provoke a commerce. Out of your stock discover a stack of one thing with the very best sale worth. Ideally this may be a big amount of ammunition, but in addition works with drinks, consumables, and grenades, if that’s all you might have readily available. The dealer should not have the very same merchandise in their very own stock, however you possibly can remedy this by merely shopping for up the complete inventory of that merchandise on your personal stack, in the event you can afford it; this may solely add to the profitability of the exploit.
- Drag the stack out of your ‘Stock’ part into the ‘Promote’ part
- Within the foreground there can be a brand new pop-up titled ‘Promote’: hit ‘Promote all’ or ‘F’
- Word the worth of the sale within the ‘You Get’ part on the backside, however do NOT press ‘Verify’ nor ‘F’
- Now drag the stack again from the ‘Promote’ part into your ‘Stock’ part
- The merchandise will snap again to the ‘Promote’ window within the background
- Within the foreground there can be a brand new pop-up titled ‘Return’: ignore it
- Word the worth of the sale within the ‘You Get’ part on the backside has jacked up sharply
- Click on ‘Verify’ (do NOT use the ‘F’ keybind at this level) within the ‘You Get’ part, and the Okay coupons can be added to your ‘Stock’
- The foreground pop-up ‘Return’ dialog will nonetheless be energetic: hit ‘Return all’ or ‘F’ to get better your stack as nicely
- Rinse and repeat to your coronary heart’s content material
These are all of the methods to shortly make (and save) cash in S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl.
