In this Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl walthrough guide, we take you through the Dawn of a New Day, Assault on the Duga, Minor Incident, In Search of Past Glory, and Happiness for Everyone main missions. These are the set of main missions that revolve around how to deal with Faust. We are on the Spark path for now, so some of the missions differ from the Ward path.
00:01 - Intro
Dawn of a New Day
00:04 - Speaking with Scar to get the plan
01:10 - Skipping ahead, here is the recommended way to approach the Promin Factory Abandoned Complex
07:20 - Enter underground complex
09:17 - We'll be back to insert the code here
11:05 - Grab the Hilka Detector
13:20 - The code to the door leading to the device
15:00 - The code is 1976
21:21 - Before leaving the facility, grab the Mercenary Suit
The Assault on the Duga
26:40 - The underground entrance to get into the area
35:55 - Just use the facility as protection, no need to get aggressive since there's no winning this battle
A Minor Incident
40:50 - You can talk your way into Malachite by talking about what happened at Duga
41:00 - Worth buying the SSP-100 Suit from Viktoria Dorozhnyuk at this base
45:23 - Approach the Mirror VPC and enter the bunker
50:35 - Grab the unique Gangster weapon and install the fuse into the middle box
55:00 - Optional objective: Find the connection instructions (sometimes this can bug)
1:01:43 - Get rid of the obstruction by shooting the Chimera, but don't worry about killing it
1:04:37 - When you're ready to leave, just sprint, don't worry about fighting the Chimera
1:06:20 - Talk to a guide and fast travel to Rostok
1:08:20 - Chat with our old pal Richter
1:10:30 - We grabbed a collar during an earlier mission, but if you don't have one, Richter will take you to where you can get one
In Search of Past Glory
1:12:40 - Stash under a bridge on the way to the professor
1:15:30 - Location of special vodka
1:17:00 - Take a couple drinks but you can progress after that
1:20:50 - Grab Dvupalov's artifact
1:24:00 - Dead Sponge artifact
1:26:40 - Grab the Ecologist suit
1:36:00 - This Controller can be a little buggy, but don't think you can kill it yet during this part. The Cloaked mutant you can kill.
1:38:30 - There is a blue safe with a Counterweight blueprint for the APSB, but it doesn't show up here during the main mission, you'll need to come back later.
1:42:20 - Optional objective: Find the papers for Shcherba (good reward when you give him the papers)
1:45:38 - We don't recommend fighting the enemies here, just sprint and platform and deal with the Controller in the room
1:51:10 - Custom Spitfire weapon
1:52:25 - Bit of a nightmare fighting up this staircase, probably should be more aggressive than we were or have a strong sniper
2:00:40 - You get the Veles Detector for doing Shcherba's optional objective
2:03:40 - Head back to Rostok to install the Suppressor (since we're on the Spark path)
Happiness For Everyone
2:05:08 - Fast travel back to Malachite, then let's grab a very good suit from a stash, bit of a platforming challenge to grab it (PSZ-91 Falcon suit)
2:08:57 - Make the walk to meet Spark at Duga
2:25:30 - After dealing with various waves of enemies, go chat with Star
2:35:30 - Stash with Anatomical Adjustment Blueprint for Zubr-19
2:44:45 - Work fast and try to quickly get to all three switches for the "switch the substation to maximum power" objective
2:53:01 - Before going into this Faust fight, we recommend making a safety save here, you can get some bad quicksave luck for the fight itself that makes it very hard if you die during the Faust fight itself
2:53:25 - As the cutscene ends, deal with the rough framerate (if you're on Xbox) and quickly try to destroy the three psi installations
2:54:20 - With those destroyed, you have to shoot the canister on Faust's belt to win this fight. We think tanking damage is really the best method to try and burst him down before his copies get out of hand as the longer the fight goes on the more miserable it gets, but this is a tough fight overall.
2:58:18 - If you accept Faust's help, you die and have to do the whole fight over, so don't choose that option
2:58:24 - Cutscene (Faust's farewell)
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