Repair weapons in STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl is critical because you don’t want to end up in the irradiated wasteland with broken tools.
In this STALKER 2 guide, we will guide you through it how to repair weapons and details what to do with broken weapons.
How to repair your weapons and equipment STALKER 2
As you use your gear or carry it across the wasteland, they lose their durability. After a while they will develop a little yellow iconindicating that they have been knocked down. At that point you should consider repairing or selling them. If you continue to use them, they will continue to deteriorate and break.
To prevent this, you can contact a technicianwhich in each major city on your map is indicated by a small wrench icon. The first technician you encounter is in Zalissya, the first village you encounter STALKER 2 (and also where you start the side quest “The Poppy Field”). His name is Lens and he teaches you how to use the services of a technician.
While interacting with Lens, press the button prompt in the lower right corner to open its upgrade menu. Here you can pay to upgrade your equipment, but you can also pay him to repair it. Repair costs continue to rise as your items break, so it’s best to visit a technician regularly to prevent an item from becoming too expensive to ever reasonably repair.
What to do with broken equipment in STALKER 2
Unfortunately, broken gear is the best you can do STALKER 2 is to not let it break in the first place.
Once an item has a red shield on it, it means its durability has decreased to the point where it is considered broken or nearly broken. At this level, suppliers will no longer buy these items from you, and repairing them will be extremely expensive, with one item requiring thousands of coupons.
When you find an item that has broken out in the wild, or an item you are using breaks, it is best to unload the weapon (which is an option when you hover over it in the menu) to recover any ammo that may have accumulated. in the weapon. drop it to the ground and continue.
If a weapon or piece of equipment you love breaks, throw it into your stash until you can afford to repair it. But given the amount of broken items in the resource pit, you want to keep the threshold for “costly” very, very high.