Stalker 2 - Get the Best Weapons & Armor FAST!

[@IceNinja2007]

The artifacts don't make you "weaker" to radiation, they irradiate you while you're wearing them.

[@everythingpony]

Technically that does make you weaker the radiation

[@spicydeath82]

thats what i was thinking.because that's how they worked in the older games.

[@jordanscott4543]

That stacks with environmental radiation though, so it does make you weaker to it

[@jakekilley9037]

@@jordanscott4543 how are you weaker to radiation you just get radiated faster

[@elchancho8432]

Yeah why I don’t put any artifacts on atm Idk I just found that annoying

[@praetormaximus]

Just at the beginning of the video, where you get the extended mag, if you search for the other stalker stash (is on top of the building) you will get a AR416 monolith AA

[@everythingpony]

That's if you preordered Edit It was a pre-order bonus or a higher edition bonus?

[@Justin-ly9zw]

@@everythingponybro u just answered and then asked if ur answer was right

[@ESOdanny]

I kept it separate from this video because its deluxe edition pre-order content only. You can check out my video on it here for all the stash locations: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJzTqK1me7acnJYsi=qXTR8MHS_zlcVp0J

[@DuramaxZack]

Played this all day yesterday and I absolutely love it. I just wish they would add some binoculars or something similar so you could scout things from a distance

[@percpete]

just use scoped guns man same thing

[@SnackGodd]

First stalker game had binoculars that could tell you who is friendly or not

[@eurosonly]

There's also no night vision goggles.

[@myrlewulf6256]

Enemies don't spawn far enough to warrant binoculars or even a sniper rifle for now

[@Mr_wisk]

you have binoculars what are you talking about you can even upgrade them edit: just to clarify im stupid and my brain is worst so i remember the binocular but not from 2 but IWP that i played right before the launch of the game and my brain is stupid sorry

[@rayshaudmcneill66]

If you kill the two guys in the compound before you get on the pipes, tune the radio one time after and you’ll hear a transmission coming in saying you’re coming in from the east and back up is on the way. Thought that was really dope 😊

[@ESOdanny]

That's a really cook detail! I'll actually start tuning radios more often now.

[@rayshaudmcneill66]

@ oops 😬 too much 🍃 I was very immersed lol

[@nunyabidness5424]

A small little tip for stalkers that actually want a unique shotgun. Go to Zaton by way of Cordon through Wild Territory. In Zaton, there is a unique shotgun with a considerable damage increase. People who have played Call of Pripyat likely know it's name already.

[@Mr_wisk]

the best armor early game is the BREAD armor, it drops from bandits at random, my dropped at the silos bandit base close to the poppy field, i killed like 12 bandits there and it dropped, i has a lot of def/res and has 19% psy resist too is super good

[@waveboi7063]

I have it too

[@Mr_wisk]

@@waveboi7063 found another bugged armor on first map idk the name but the military guys dropped go to the bottom of the first zone where the military base close to the start of the game, where he entered in this video and kill everyone there and maybe it will drop there, it has better defense than the BREAD armor and is INVISIBLE when you look at it you will see nothing in the inventory but a empty item

[@DarkTranqz]

I mean, some of the best free armor that you can get early game are the SEVA suits. SEVA-V, D, and I suits can all be grabbed right away. Hell, while you're at it, you could run and grab the Cuirass Exosuit as well, up at the SKD building in the Cooling Towers area. Won't be able to sprint in it until you upgrade it, but you can do it. Problem is getting the Koupons to repair them after they're damaged, but that's a problem for future you 😅 Another good runner-up to these if you've damaged them and can't fix them or just want to collect good armor, is the Guardian of Freedom armor, which can be found in a stash. All that said, there's plenty of armor that can be grabbed right away early game that is better than the bread armor 😆

[@Mr_wisk]

@@DarkTranqz the invisible armor i found from the military guys has every resistance 40 to 50% and 65% for physical res is soo good and it has 2 slots for artefacts from the start without upgrades but also i cant upgrade it because is bugged

[@ViceMightBeTaken]

Calling a shotgun a hunting rifle is funny, but the description saying its a rifle is most likely an inside joke from the devs, in shadow of chernobyl there was a quest in the english dub version to "Retrieve my old rifle" where you find a double barrel shotgun.

[@Flare-s3c]

Technically correct because the word for rifle and double-barrel hunting shotguns like that is the same in the original language.

[@MrMightyZ]

My grandfather here in Australia called his shotgun his “bird rifle” when telling his stories. I’m very old (literally middle aged) and he was born in 1918 so maybe some older folks in the west called them rifles? Or at least here in Australia. Or maybe just my Grandad😁

[@ViceMightBeTaken]

@@MrMightyZ Haven't heard of anything like that myself, but it could be a local thing.

[@mitchellmcguire1121]

Shotguns actually are rifles sometimes as it simply refers to a long gun with a rifles barrel. The Shot in Shotgun comes from the shell type it was invented to originally use being a big bore rifle

[@doccalis3150]

@@mitchellmcguire1121 yeah exactly. if you put slug rounds in a shotgun doesn't it literally work like a rifle

[@blehhgg]

Ill save this for later. Kinda want to explore by myself. Found an SVD with a scope from a random enemy today and started screaming from excitement.

[@envy_zz5706]

youll get a fully repaired one with an okay skin on it from one of the main missions in the third area i believe

[@veevoir]

@@envy_zz5706 Depends on your choice in Lesser Zone main quest, as you can go in other direction

[@zexy4472]

At the end of video, where you go trough the Military Compound. You can actually fight Military NPCs and one of them drops really good full repaired Military Armor. Insane Phys protection.

[@Supreme-Moose]

This must be a random drop then, because i killed about 30-40 of those military guys(they seem to spawn endlessly at that point in the mission) and none of them dropped that armor.

[@DanielGray-tv7xm]

@@Supreme-MooseI got the armor in question, maybe it was a random drop? But he also had. Really advanced looking gun. It was on a guard who was walking around the stairs you go down to the basement to finish the mission. Try around there!

[@Matt-uv7mc]

Don't know if someone posted this. But when getting the aurora gas mask in this video, proceed north where where you will see a truck, there is a backpack hidden and an ammo drum for your viper-5.

[@RaccoonLex]

For a little bit clarifying,, it's in the compounds north east corner where is a blue truck, next to it there is some boxes, the stash is behind them

[@whiterex3409]

Thank you

[@menaceiwill1]

Thank you and yes it's on the out skirts next too the building, look on the map and there's a blue van top right.

[@Killer2Croc]

You are a legend, I remember watching your videos on KCD1, can't wait to see the STALKER 2 and the KCD2 in a couple of months

[@patrickbennett10]

Dude, I just want to say thank you so much for making these videos. I was about to give up playing the game even though I didn't want to because I was struggling to find good loot and learn the game mechanics. It's my first ever stalker game, but I've always wanted to play them ever since I used to watch my older brothers play the old ones. Thanks again for all the helpful videos and you gained one new subscriber😊

[@JayDidntDoIt]

Nice i found all of these naturally apart from the poppy house stash in roof and the raider jacket. Found a few other things as well that aint on here. Theres an anomaly artifact and a secret sort of hide out behind it. i went in there but got freaked out from some sounds so left and for got to put a marker on my map before I ran away lol

[@MaciejM891]

I don't know if it's just me, but it frustrates me that he calls artifacts anomalies.

[@joshinwitya4220]

You didn’t catch him saying “East” whilst he was motioning west?

[@partcyborg]

17:45 there is no bandit jacket there for me, just the ammo. I wonder if this isn't guaranteed, or was removed in the recent update?

[@menaceiwill1]

Same not there for me either

[@GrimResper19]

Same

[@johnbaker1901]

Just east of the vodka place there is a little covered area with 3 breakable boxes, behind them is a stash that I found a drum mag for the viper five smg

[@nikolajenoksen7232]

Found another location that you can get the SVDM-2 sniper rifle in game; it is at the plant mission 'Deal with the Devil' will send you their.

[@jordan321able]

Good Work ESO! Been using these guides on the channel all day!

[@johnbaker1901]

The artifact at 2:09 was a fireball for me not the gravi shown in the video, wonder if some drops are rng based

[@BlackOpsCTR]

Think they are since I got something different from both of you too

[@gost]

The baseline is the same, by the world around never repeats. So the next time you play it will feel differently.

[@BlackOpsCTR]

@@gost so randomized each play through. Cool. At least spices it up for people who play over again

[@gost]

@@BlackOpsCTR Actually, there are four endings and nobody knows yet the decisions in the game to see every ending. So, the baseline is not really the same either.

[@lovefmx4ever822]

I dunno but that one guy was right.. content creators and videos like this destroy video games. Long time ago we had to explore the games the unreaval their secrets, nowadays everyone watched guides at release day, and after a month they move to the next game. It takes the fun out of these games.

[@kafka5187]

you can simply avoid this by not watching the video. Right?

[@brucejohnson5914]

You have a choice to choose what you look at. Do you not? Fun is what you make it

[@Contagion49]

Some of us work to much to walk around aimlessly

[@jakstheoneandonly]

But watching the video is optional, u kno?

[@Polkzxx]

The guy on the right is really helpful i wouldn't have found most of this stuff just Don't watch it you literally clicked on the video and commented just scroll past it 😂

[@XaendrOlivera]

you should remark that some of that equipment is tied to exclusive preorder bonuses, deluxe or ultimate dlcs

[@noxiousomen8839]

This helped me out so much with the poppy field.. thanks man. 👊

[@grimey5.565]

Thankyou so much for your help and hard work on putting this all together.

[@Evo-ib4kg]

Awesome guide thx for taking time to share with us I’m going back to get some of stuff I missed thanks to ur guide super helpful 👍👍

[@Lufaine01]

Was this recorded on the prepatched version of the game? the gravi artifact you mention at 2m45s isn't in the dead stalkers body, but there was a separate (different) artifact on the floor next to him

[@TheMigoMan]

Maybe they don’t want us to know exact loot location 😭 am now there for the gravi but same here

[@citizen1894]

same, i got 'chocolate bar' artefact, was next to body

[@menaceiwill1]

It's random what artifacts you get.

[@TrashspectAU]

There's a decent exo-suit in the cooling towers area which isn't too far to get from the starting area. Takes aproximately 20-30 minutes to get to once you get to zalissya. if you're playing on veteran difficulty, it'll save your life. SKD Assembly Unit, climb around and you'll find it.

[@Hollow_Hollowed]

Thanks For the Guide im a new stalker myself Keep helping others like how you're helping me

[@meta-mario]

So basically explore the first area thoroughly got it!!

[@Shadow6Gaming]

16:54 you missed a stash up there! you can see it at my timestamp.. bottom left :)

[@jacobpeeples7800]

There is an 81% SVD in the swamps in the watch tower south of the old church. Technically you could leave the starting area and bee line it through the eastern check point, cordon, and the southern wild islands to go get it. It's a long hike but fans of earlier games get to explore rearranged early game zones on the way. Just maybe skip checking out the church if you don't like mutants. Walk around through the graveyard. Bonus points to anyone who tries this before seven seals using the irradiated route mentioned on the dead stalker at the eastern checkpoint; I don't know if it can be done or what the inside of the checkpoint looks like before that quest is over. Also there are a few boxes of ammo next to the rifle and you can get more from Sidorob1tch and Beard one the way back. I made the walk in a broken merc suit from cordon and random guns I picked up along the way. Just watch radiation if you're checking anomaly fields on the way, or until you snag the SP-99 Science suit from a certain railcar on the border of the swamps; could just bring a bubble with you if you grinded for one.

[@saikat7457]

As helpful as always...love these videos Danny❤

[@TheEpicplushgod]

Anomalies and are not artifacts, anomalies are the hazardous stuff around the map that kills you if you walk into it, and artifacts are the special rocks that give you powers

[@MrMightyZ]

ESO this is freaking awesome, I didn’t know 90% of these👍✌️ Fun fact: the plural of “buckshot” is just “buckshot”, the same as its singular with no “s” on the end🤓

[@Cerberus0076]

Great content Mate 👍 just subscribed because of all them useful Tips,thx

[@aleksanderf4672]

14:10 you can also loot the grenades the tripwires are connected to. There's a lot of them in that building

[@ChrisLemmer]

This loot weighs a lot! Do you store some of it, or what do you recommend?

[@GreyKnightOfChrist]

Thank you so much for taking the time to make these vids brother man we really appreciate it, loving the game and your content please keep it cooking :)

[@mikewills2025]

I love your videos well done I subscribed

[@LightningStorm73]

Thank you for another great video.

[@victortorres637]

If you kill the stalker on the stash for the smg... Does it affect your reputation?

[@Sykxplaysgames]

I don't think this game actually has reputation

[@gost]

There are no good or bad parties in the game. You choose the side. And even after becoming an enemy with someone you can become friends again after healing or helping someone of your enemies.

[@nwheatcraft]

@ESO - What I did was I collected EVERYTHING I could in the prologue and hid it in the safe in the shed at the post office before putting the scanner on the final scan location. It didn't stow the guns but it kept EVERYTHING ELSE that I put in there.

[@triggernator6666]

Love your vids dude, they really help alot 👍

[@Awoodcock30]

Stalker has always been a tough game so I put this one on rookie to start and I got hammered lol so honestly for first time players go rookie

[@matthewrezuke8130]

Apparently I have to explore even more than what I am doing, missing a lot of stuff!! lol

[@Contagion49]

@@matthewrezuke8130 same

[@johnnym9761]

were you had to get the brother in the middle of the anomaly you said to not search, I finish the quest but if you go back in and use your scanner the artifact is there to get

[@TiberiusAlpha]

I found an extended mag for the MP5 in a stash just to the east of the sign disposal (where you get the mask on the roof) There is like a vehicle storage bit just outside of the main compound. Not seen anyone mention it yet, maybe it was just random, but super helpful as you can get in in the first hour or so.

[@3431Ghost]

Not sure if it made it into a recent video, there's a high capacity Viper-5 magazine beside the Radiation Hazard Signs Storage area. The blue truck by the little carport has a stalker stash hidden behind some wooden boxes. 10:33

[@That_1_romanian]

Can't wait to see the next video this really helped me in my stalker 2 gameplay

[@conski1]

I LOVE THIS GAME MAN !! Finally a game that iv been geting lost in for like hours n hours special when you past the garbage town place it's starts opening up and the gun fights get crazy good. Il play this for 3 months and then BOOOM !!!! Kingdom deliverance 2

[@D4an09]

11:00 right next to the compound there is hidden stash with viper drum mag between piles of boxes

[@bromanchoo9863]

What are you playing on and if PC - what settings? You seem to have pretty stable FPS. Just curious how yours compares to mine. I sit about 85fps at medium/high/epic but stuttering at times bugs me despite how small I experience it.

[@DoughboyAnt]

I appreciate all of your work giving us these useful videos. Thank you!

[@TheZeusWolf]

The artifact I got from the body didn’t match yours, I got the crystal thorn artifact instead 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@TheBluntMan69]

Where are your settings at cuz you seem to see much better at night then I do lmao

[@troy4312]

when collecting the bandit outfit the pipe you walk along, after drop off the raised section of pipe turn around big stash bag full of goodies

[@realpetrovsky]

please do a full playthrough! Love your vids

[@Ripdinklson]

Thanks went back after doing some story to grab some stuff knew a few things already but it was cool to get other stuff i missed

[@pastorsleep]

this is a game where u should full focus main story missions and replay it then do all the secret stuff

[@joshuadearwester268]

12:30 OMFG that jumpscare got me! 🤣

[@ryanhamilton2579]

I watched the first video and then in the process of going to get the gear, I stumbled across even better gear XD

[@DrSnackCake5]

The gravi artifact was not on the body, its right next to the body. Just a heads up.

[@jPup_]

Mine's a Horn and I've even reloaded the save a couple times. The loot on their body changes but the artifact is always a horn :/

[@DrSnackCake5]

@@jPup_ curious to know if it’s a loot pool spawn. Could be a gravi or a horn?

[@lokoyoko4408]

Thorn maybe? That's what I got

[@NS_MeatFarm]

I got Droplets, it sucks compared to Gravi, I tried reloading a bunch too and always the same. I wonder what determines it

[@The_dark_one18]

At the body near the compound I didn’t find a gravi but a battery so might be random what low level artifact drops there

[@BIOSHOCKFOXX]

@14:58 - you are comparing sniper rifle to an assault rifle that has simply a scope, it doesn't make it a sniper rifle. So the comparison is invalid. If there isn't any other sniper rifle in the game but the SVD, then it's the best one because it's the only one. By the way, I wonder how the choices will affect the end game, so while you can get two rewards at the same quest, with the icon quest, shooting him might result in some sort of bad ending. While it is tempting, I will abstain from shooting him, because I think you can upgrade it to that level yourself.

[@nicholasbodine1638]

The amount of mutants and rat swarms I had to fight off at the levitating silo was ridiculous

[@chaddscoville]

11:15, there's another artifact in that anomaly that he was after, as well as the one on him.

[@Sch1z0Aff3ct1ve-xm1bt]

I play on an Xbox series X and Almost every stash location I go to literally has none of the items mentioned. I don’t know if it’s because I am not playing on difficult settings or if I am just getting loot screwed. But every time I restart my game from scratch to see if perhaps I will find some the loot nothing happens.

[@blightwolf5858]

The invisible monster hopping out on you made this video all but better

[@The007Steiner]

If you get detected and kill a guard at the AR416 location, they will literally chase you all over the map. I ran a loop from the base, to the starting area, then back to the first settlement and was chased the entire way.

[@frankinstine2007]

So picking up the pda in the stash in the pol depot is what spawns the enemies with the better weapons. When I go to pick up the pda nothing is added to inventory and the enemies do not spawn. Any idea how to fix this?

[@MUCKYON]

An important question is it possible to craft in this game?

[@iamradical]

So I just finished the prolog and went up to that tower where that person was shooting at us in the video. I looted two things of ammo and all of a sudden I had two M701 Supers in my inventory. Together they are worth 36k. Is this a bug? I didn’t loot any guns and I am right at the start of the game, I just got the bolt for throwing at anomalies.

[@magicpyroninja]

If anybody here is playing on console and they're having a hard time putting things in their stash other than guns, you have to close your equipment inventory before you can access it properly

[@jacobklein7871]

The gavi artifact can or can not be there because I got someone different with the artifact called mold for chemical resistance

[@Wolfraven777]

I've watched multiple videos that you have about where to find anomalies and not a single one of them is lining up with the game, found jellyfish in a place where it's supposed to be the fly trap or whatever for carrying weight and the dead body did not have the gravity one wasn't even in his body

[@Raider-28]

what i do with the pdas i found? keep them or sell?

[@swankflea5550]

Sell. Even the notes

[@maverick8777]

What difficulty are you playing :)?

[@BenPray]

At 16:53 you missed a stash, on top of the left pipe

[@DartDneid]

I went to for sniper location but by the time I'm there Lesky is dead near the garage below with few other corpses around. There was no sniper rifle on his body or anywhere near his corpse. I guess this i missable? Btw at that point I already gave the ward to Ritcher.

[@foundernodeholder5097]

8:40 theres actually 2 more bandages in the bottom drawer

[@elchancho8432]

What’s the point In grabbing broken weapons? They cost to repair is much higher then the sale price I understand the unique weapons but the basics ones I don’t see the point in grabbing

[@warlord0331]

That grav artifact was endurance one for me when i found the body

[@JMPERager]

Apparently you don't get the same artifact from the guy in the gap of the wall. I got the one that cancels out radiation damage from other artifacts 'Slime'. I wanted the Gravi... But the slime is also good..

[@HANNHARIRI]

i dunno which one to get earlier, better weapon or armor or RTX10000

[@Agent-jp9eb]

Are there any side quest out side of the lesser area seems like a waste to make a big ass map and not have Anything to do in other areas

[@EeeZeey]

you missed a stach at primetre, behind the parkour building between back wall and silos, is another back back to loot : )

[@blakekiddy1390]

Well that one location where you said you'll get a gravi artifact instead for me it was a glowing Battery Artifact that gives Endurance and rads weak also About the poppy field the energy drinks are kinda bugged they dont work or at least on the xbox i popped back 17 once every second still died my first try i popped 4 and still died so its either bugged or can get bugged to where they dont work

[@kirasan1313]

for the leshy did not spawn the sniper rifle (before this video i was looking for viper monolith and i trigger some trap and ran away) after the video when i came back here leshy is dead and no sniper on his body

[@Shadow6Gaming]

hmm thats weird.. that first "plain looking stash" is the same stash location for my collectors edition bonus goodies

[@ShaddyzZz]

These attachments seem bugged as hell. Got a 870 Cracker with a 10 round mag for it, so it's mag fed instead of loading single shells, one by one. And somehow it just disappeared, so now I have no extended magazine for it. Back to 6 shells, loading them one by one. I don't know why this happens, but it's kinda annoying.

[@NS_MeatFarm]

Did anyone else find "Droplets" at the corpse and not Gravi? I thought it was RNG but it never changes after reloading the game, is there a distance on it spawning needed to reset it or am I stuck with this crap until I can find a Gravi?

[@crazycrentax]

Just out of interest, I somehow got a Mk 1 EMR in the lesser zone, but for the life of me I can't remember where the hell I got it. Any ideas?

[@FinUgShiet]

11:11 Not a "screw", a Bolt. 17:50 Not a "tablet", not a "data slate". a PDA.

[@FhargaZ]

25:48 was expecting that 😂

[@thegamegallery8091]

At 08:53, you can actually run through the compound to get to the stash. But they will chase you for a while. 😂

[@RacketyPaul]

I went artifact location from body you show me. I search it but it didn't have Grave. It only got me meat chunk.

[@PsychNurseHaldol]

12:50 I went there after advancing the story to the Garbage Zone. That sniper is not there. Do I need to get a PDA or quest to active him spawning there?

[@gost]

Things usually do not spawn in this game. But things appear randomly. You can get even better guns and artifacts in the places where he did not get luck. The whole world in the game is random.

[@masonharkness6437]

13:08 you can cross that bridge btw that’s how I got across to the garbage zone initially

[@morvek]

the loot must be different on my game i got the mica artifact and the opticon gasmask instead of the grav artifact and aurora gas mask, no bandit coat spawned,

[@Q..M]

So whats the point in collecting red durability weapons if you can’t sell it..?

[@mcRAVENgaming]

its now removed, after the patch ! please upvote so people can see .. its now a flash artifact insted. or Random Artifact :/