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How to access the bonus side mission in Stalker 2: Heart Of Chernobyl
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Other Deluxe and Ultimate Edition items in Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl
Stalker 2 heart of Chernobyl it's a massive game with tons of content that will keep you busy for hours on end. It offers many missions that can lead to difficult choices, takes you down several branching paths that can seriously change the course of the game. And, if you want a little extra, grabbing the Deluxe or Ultimate Editions of the game will offer even more quests for you.
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The zone is a harsh place and you will have to fight to survive in Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl.
But in true Stalker fashion, purchasing these editions won't automatically grant you free items or bonus quests. You will need to earn them by playing the game and mining them yourself. Fortunately, it's not too difficult, but it can be time-consuming, especially since you have to go through the game to get some of them.
How to get Deluxe and Ultimate Edition items in Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl
If you pre-ordered Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl or have purchased the Deluxe or Ultimate Edition from this, you will be able to get your hands on a a bunch of exclusive goodies, but you have to take care of a few things first. For starters, you should progress in the game while you full the main mission is “Needle in a Haystack”.
After completing the game “Needle in the Haystack” you must automatically get a side mission under the title “Seek and ye shall find” which will force you to search for your hiding place to advance the quest.
Check your stash
After receiving Art Seek and ye shall find side mission, head to the tavern in Zalissi, make your way somewhere your stash is located in back room and seek it to find it Journalist flash stored inside. To get started, add a flash drive to your inventory playback of the Journalist's recording, who will tell you them Planted Stockpiles the wasteland around calling you find them.
All storage places for journalists
They will be A total of 13 journalist hiding places, which span across each zone forcing you to play through the game to access them. Picking up the flash drive will mark 12 caches on your map, which you can find by searching an icon that resembles the Triforce with three white triangles. If you hover over the cache icon, you'll see its name. Look for those named “Journalist's stash”.
Each reporter's hideout will contain DLC items from anyone Deluxe or Ultimate Edition, as well as Bonuses before ordering if you purchased the game before. You can find what each cache contains in the table below, matches the number on the map above!
Journalist's cache number |
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Edition |
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Treasury of the journalist 1 |
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Deluxe and Ultimate editions |
Treasury of the journalist 2 |
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Deluxe and Ultimate editions |
Treasury of the journalist 3 |
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Ultimate Edition only |
Treasury of the journalist 4 |
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Deluxe and Ultimate editions |
Treasury of the journalist 5 |
Pre-order bonus |
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Treasury of the journalist 6 |
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Deluxe and Ultimate editions |
Treasury of the journalist 7 |
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Ultimate Edition only |
Treasury of the journalist 8 |
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Ultimate Edition only |
Treasury of the journalist 9 |
Deluxe and Ultimate editions |
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Treasury of the journalist 10 |
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Pre-order bonus |
Treasury of the journalist 11 |
Deluxe and Ultimate editions |
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Treasury of the journalist 12 |
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Deluxe and Ultimate editions |
Treasury of the journalist 13 |
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Ultimate Edition only Hunter is available for Deluxe Editions |
Journalist's Secret 13 will not be available until you have found the first 12 journalist's stashes. After doing this, you will receive more information from the Journalist with information about where you can find the final one that can be found in Pripyat.
How to access the bonus side mission in Stalker 2: Heart Of Chernobyl
Aside from the “Seek and ye shall find” side mission, capture Deluxe or Ultimate Edition Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl will also give you access to dog fight quest, which is started talking to Nightingale in Zalissa. Completing this quest ultimately leads to the Nightingale Hunt side mission that lets you collect electronic collars from mutants and sell them Hamster.
Later in the game, you will gain access yes “In the name of science” side quest which goes a little further into e-collars, although this it looks like you don't need either of these editions to start this quest line. To access this quest, you must first full in “Visions of Truth” main mission after giving in Controller project documents to Shcherba in “In search of former glory” main mission.
If you do not own the Deluxe or Ultimate Edition of Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, the Nightingale will not appear in Zalissi, making the Dogfight and Nightingale Hunt side missions unavailable to you. Again, we believe the In the Name of Science quest will be available to you later, but these additional quests give you more context of what's going on.
Other Deluxe and Ultimate Edition items in Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl
For everything else that isn't an additional questline or unique weapons and armor, you'll also get access to various Guitar tunes and additional stories in the composition of Art Early Pre-Order Bonus, allows for a bit more content if sitting around fires with other stalkers.
The final edition owners will also get access to Season pass, which will give you access to two future story expansions, as well as all future DLC, which makes it a decent deal if the add-ons are even remotely as great as the base game, and that's in addition to the exclusives outlined in the table above.
Deluxe and Ultimate Editions owners will also get access to Digital artbook and digital soundtrack Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl and all related items highlighted in the table above. Also, whenever Multiplayer launches, you will get access to three outfits and seven weapon skins!
This only covers the Digital Deluxe and Ultimate Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl editions, as the physical editions will come with more goodies that cannot be used in-game. However, you'll get a lot of stuff no matter which edition you choose. Even the standard version has plenty to read, so you really can't go wrong with either one!
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