Stalker secret paths 2 plot. Helping Mahon and interrogating the spy

Introduction

Secret Paths 2 is a new prequel to the original Shadows of Chernobyl. A new storyline that intertwines with the quests already known from TT, and which reveals more deeply the reason for the appearance of the main character in the Zone. The main goal that faces him is now quite specific and clear. Quests that were known from NS5 and TT have undergone a lot of changes. Supplemented and adjusted in order to correct a lot of errors and plot gaps, as well as to more fully reveal the main storyline.

Some tips for passing

Hang up the dosimeter from the very beginning and do not remove it to avoid problems with grenades. The dosimeter should always hang - even during a robbery when everything can be put away until the robbery itself - leave the dosimeter on your belt, and the sleeping bag always remains in the inventory during the GG. Problems with grenades usually arise after robberies. There should be one dosimeter in your inventory and hang on your belt. The amount of captured radiation can be viewed by pressing the TAB key (default). If, nevertheless, grenades are no longer picked up, we begin to “shamanize”, first we look to see if there is a second (third, etc.) dosimeter lying around in the inventory - we should sell it and move to another location, throw away the grenades one by one and at once the ground and pick it up, remove/lay out/hang the dosimeter on the belt, put ALL the swag down to the underpants together with the dosimeter in the bag, take one dosimeter, hang it on the belt, take one grenade - it should be taken, then we take all the swag NOT AT ONCE, but individually.

Make saves in key places before moving to another location, before taking and handing in or after handing in tasks, especially if you are not sure that you have chosen the right road, or you do not know whether there will be a way out from the location you are going to move to. This will help you replay if something goes wrong. Carefully read the dialogues with the characters, many clues are contained in the dialogues - you can take screenshots of the dialogues by pressing the F12 key.

Search the corpses of killed enemies for the presence of quest items - amulets, parts of maps. Corpses disappear after a reboot, and even more so after re-entering a location.

With the release of the Update, many items are not only hidden, but may also end up in different places for different players and during different playthroughs, look more carefully.

Quest characters must be protected, well, everyone who plays Stalker should know this rule; for those who like to shoot, there are other wonderful games. If you still kill the quest giver, it’s better to replay it, and not ask what to do, then you’ll end up in an impenetrable bottleneck, and you’ll have to replay it a lot more.

Transitions between locations are also Secret Paths, some will have to be searched for, some are given for completing tasks, some are temporary, some are permanent, some are opened by finding special artifacts - “guides”. There will be a separate description for transitions.

According to the passage itself - you will be robbed several times during the game, if this situation does not suit you, put away your property before the robbery, then you will take it. The robbers take those things from the inventory that can be put in the pockets, the rest remain with the GG and do not disappear during the robbery. The dosimeter cannot be taken away and must remain on the belt; problems with taking grenades arise precisely after robberies. Also, some Persians, who in the game need to hand over property for a while, then when returning, do not give back all the things - it is also better to dive before “undressing”.
Now, after a robbery, the money taken by the robbers can be returned back - search the corpses of the offenders, in the robbers' inventory you will see bundles of money - this is your money, and bundles of money can also fall out of some corpses (not all).

On the first trip to Pripyat you will be robbed to the bone, so you can put away anything especially valuable either before going to the MG at Lesnik, or stock up on Mozart and make a hiding place in the MG. Your money will also be lost. Before the transition itself, we carefully examine the sewer - we pick up Krol's diary from the floor, we will need it later.

Don’t prescribe everything to merchants yourself - they may go for a walk and then you won’t find them. Also, when registering a large number of items, these items are “ejected” from the merchants’ inventory, which leads to the game freezing and even to a dead freeze. It is better to register if you know what you are doing and only quest items in case of their loss. If you don’t know, don’t bother, it’s better to ask in the topic - maybe you can do without this item, there will be an incentive to go through the mod a second time. If you really want to register something for trade, register it in a single copy; to get several items of the same type, it is better to make a save/load next to the merchant - the item will appear on sale again. Before registering, make copies of the files that you will edit so that you can return them back if the edit is unsuccessful; you should also return the original files after you have received the required items and there is no longer a need for them. In case of unsuccessful edits and rollbacks of edited files to their original state, load saves made before making the edits, otherwise glitches cannot be avoided.

Keep an eye on the level of captured radiation - more details about the levels are written in the mod description. Hang artefacts on your belt in accordance with their properties and make sure that radioactive artefacts are compensated by artefacts that remove radiation, it is also advisable to compensate for the harmful properties of some artefacts with the beneficial properties of others, cook artefacts - modifications, as a rule, have more pronounced positive properties, and negative ones are reduced.

Tips for quest characters (1)

I will describe the most common problems that may arise with some, I will not describe all the characters.
Do not rush to immediately complete tasks to kill some Persians - they may turn out to be key or can give something in their lives. Murder is not an end in itself for the Stalker at all.

When we go on a search mission Vasilyeva it is advisable to kill the controller before meeting with Vasiliev. Vasiliev he might get stuck in the cave - we go down into the cave and push him in the butt, he should come out, if you run out in front of him, he might stay there. You can save before descending into the cave and talking with him - the next save is after he leaves the cave, it is better not to save in the cave. We help on Yantar Vasiliev fight off the zombies, when the task works, go up to him and talk, accompany him to the camp and talk to Denom, and only after talking with Denom let's go to the bunker Sakharov.

Many can't find Griga in MG, although they see the mark and hear his voice of greeting. Walk around the rooms and you will find him - he is on the second floor in a dead-end room.

Don't refuse to help Dyaku in the shooting of military personnel at Chernobyl NPP-1, he will then give a tip to a case with medicines for Solomon. He also has to shoot a spy. If he died at the hands of the military, replay the game. If he can’t shoot the spy, it means he dropped his gun, sell him a loaded gun, or throw it next to him, he’ll pick it up and do his dirty deed, otherwise you’ll have to dirty your hands by killing a neutral stalker.

When rescued Ghost from mercenaries on assignment Paramedic we must protect him from injury (and, of course, from death), because during treatment Shooter members of the Monolith, Ghost will also become a Monolith and turn out to be an enemy after brainwashing Paramedic. A ghost sent to kill Charon, a quest character, so we’re not in a hurry to finish him off, but respond to the message Paramedic approach him.

Another quest character - Fang, also needs protection when leading to show the transition from Pripyat to the Swamps. After Fang will show up at the AS, where he will have to be saved from the mercenaries once again. On AC Fang will appear after completing all tasks Count and also find documents in the X-16 - laptop.

Some characters change their locations, and if you need to find someone in one place, and you take too long to find him, he may end up in another place, and he may no longer have the necessary dialogues.

The paramedic migrates from the stadium to the house with the grocery store, so we don’t delay the search for PDA for Borov and a trip to Pripyat, for a copy of the PDA to to the ghost we need to go before the assault on Bar, Ghost will send to To the magician, and the one to To the paramedic. Paramedic in the grocery store will not give you a murder task Magician, will move to the grocery store after the storming of the Bar "Dolgy".

Magician stands behind the fence near the transition to the Swamps, you can approach it using the teleport in the garages, read the dialogue with Ghost. Way back from Magician is located near these same garages from the outside - the teleport will return the GG to the playing area of ​​the location.

When you first enter the Bar, find the stalker Sokhaty and talk to him, then to Prince and again with Sokhatym- several branches of the plot begin with a conversation with him - work on Prince, search for cache Semetsky and then search for PDA Borov. We immediately take from Prince task to deal with the stalker Zheka- the search for the cache will begin with it Semetsky. Don't forget to talk to Borovoy- he will talk about what he has Count, the local security chief for the gang, has work for GG. First task Count You can do it right away at the same location - it won’t take much time. You can also go straight to a mechanic Potapov in the Bar and take on a quest to find a minigun circuit - a killer thing when dealing with crowds of evil spirits. To start searching for PDA Borov we need to complete all the "Duty" tasks in the TD, get the TD-Cordon transition, when we return to Bar we hand over the hard drive Prince and come to Borov- ask him about work - not to be confused with cyclic quests.

Many people die before completing the task, a stalker nicknamed Noodles. I advise that when we go towards the Landfill from the Bar for the first time, the last thing to do is approach the last bandit in the Bar in the bar itself and take an order from him for Noodles, save after this and run to the Landfill if you receive a message about death Noodles- you can replay. This character likes to die in anomalies, get caught by wild boars and get shot by bandits, killing him is not necessary - just talk to him. Further, he is not needed - most likely he will die on his own. Will give a tip on Antique dealer, you will have to ask about him Borov.

After talking with Noodles are looking for Zheku- it's in the depot, you can find it Tank driver at the Landfill behind an abandoned equipment parking lot - he will talk if you picked up a stalker's diary in the MG sewer Krola, or approach it after the first descent into X-18 - there will be fewer monsters on the second visit to X-18. Tankman gives a tip to the place where the bioradar dropped.

Lefty, whom he asks to find and persuade to join Freedom Lukash, asks you to bring him a weapon and a suit - they must be in full working order and be in the inventory in a single copy. After you have brought him everything he requires and given it to him, do not immediately follow him, try to be outside the a-life zone with him, so he will get to the AS without problems, but it is better to be in other locations altogether, he needs some time to move on AC. In the line of sight, even if you do not see him, he may die. If you go straight to the Landfill after giving him the equipment, you can see him wandering around the Landfill, here he can be killed by the mercenaries that we meet when we carry rifles from Besa Petrenko, and the pigs may meet, and the bandits at the checkpoint are also unlikely to let him through. Also in a-life he can end up in an anomaly. Me after talking with Left-handed I'm going down to Varyag in the dungeon while I'm running in circles Lefty already calmly gets to the AC. To be on the safe side, you can put a mark on Lefty and watch how it moves - you can also make sure not to get too close to it.

A tip to the major Yarofeeva at the checkpoint gives Varangian after talking with Bartender, but he will talk only after the circles of hell. Myself Yarofeev will appear after talking with Bartender when we come to him from Varangian.

Petrenko will appear in the TD after successfully defending “Duty” from the attack of bandits on his first visit to the TD. I need to talk to Voronin, then with Sobolev and again with Voronin.

After being persuaded Lefty(i.e. they brought him what he asked for) and he went to the AS to the Svobodovites, and also if they talked with Bartender and then with Varyag about the major Yarofeeva, will appear in the Bar Pathfinder, I recommend that before your first trip to the DT, go on assignment Pathfinder to a meeting with Incognita, after this meeting Pathfinder There will be a task for DT - you can complete it along the way.

Miser With Screw They immediately take their positions after we take on the task of storming the Barrier.
The Svoboda guard appears at the armory a little later.

Hints on quest characters (2)

Miser in one of the quests he asks to bring bread and says that he needs to talk to Sidorovich at the peacekeepers' location - he knows where Baker find, you need to have time to talk to Sidorovich while he is at this location, then he moves to the Cordon to “his” well-known place, there he tips on Baker will not give.
After we bring the flour Baker and take the task for the toolbox in the utility room Baker his assistant will appear - Vano, he will also have one task for the GG - to bring a box with mines, I advise you to make a save because there will be a “warm” meeting with the Marauders, with the leader of the Marauders Razuvaeva there will be a fragment of the map with a cache later Semetsky, you can complete the Marauders’ task in different ways - your further passage through the plot may depend on your progress.

Sviblov with a group of diggers is located on the Radar and the first approach to it must be done according to instructions Informant to help diggers. Informant gives a parcel to give to him, it contains food, first aid kits, vodka - in general, everything that Informant the dal must be brought intact and given back Sviblov, make sure not to overuse first aid kits and not to use up the parcel, the task will hang. Some people go to Radar from Yantar for the first time and find Sviblova dead - in theory Sviblov seems to need help, so you need to approach him by taking a task from Informant, it is not necessary to come with the AC, but the parcel should be delivered. Do not leave monsters and enemy NPCs near the group's campsite Sviblova. Also complete all tasks Sviblova on the first approach to him - on the super-bloodsucker, on the traitor and go down to X-10 for documents and a system manager. First take the system unit on the upper level, it is often thrown by the bureaucrats, it is located in the room in front of the room with a gap through which you can see the exit from the X-10. After you find everything in the X-10, try to clear all the enemies so that there will be fewer problems in subsequent visits.

When will you receive from Count a tip that Sviblov may give a transition to the MG, then get ready to immediately follow it. Grab a walkie-talkie for Zahara, give it back along the way. Transfer from Sviblova in MG it is temporary and then disappears. If you receive a tip from Count but are not ready to go to MG yet Sviblov there are still things to do, just don’t start a conversation with him about the transition. On this trip to the MG, don’t forget to find a character on the outskirts of the MG who will clarify the situation with Mohammed. A trip to the MG should be made before the assault on the Bar by "Dolg".

Mahomet will find you on its own - you just need to finish the dialogue with Sidorovich at the Cordon when he moves into his rightful place. Semetsky will appear in the Sarcophagus after talking with Mohammed.

If you take on some task and complete it, we don’t delay in submitting it. After the storming of the Bar by "Duty", some characters from the Bar fade - so try to complete and turn in all the tasks to the quest runners in the Bar before the assault. After the assault on Bar Dolgov you will not find Borov, Count And Pathfinder. Prince will be killed. If there are any tasks for them, complete them before taking the Bar, the last moment - before taking the Bar card from Borov.

Transitions in Secret Paths 2 (1)

In Secret Paths 2, many transitions between locations (they are also secret paths) should be discovered as the game progresses. Some must be obtained for certain tasks, some are found through tips, some open special arts - “Guides”, they should be found and taken to the Pathfinder - the stalker in the Bar, a specialist in Secret Paths. Some transitions become permanent, others will disappear after a certain time.

There are immediately only transitions in well-known locations south of Bar - from the Landfill and back - to Cordon, to Agroprom, to the Dark Valley and to Bar.

• Transitions of the initial stage of the game before the first entry into Pripyat

  At the beginning of the game, before the first entry into Pripyat, all transitions are temporary and are given for one time - go to another location, and the transition from the new location must be obtained/earned. After receiving the transition, the message “New path!” pops up; in the PDA you can see on the map where it is located. The main difficulty is the transition from Amber to the Forest; you need to find it yourself. Sakharov gives a fairly clear tip on where to look for him - in the eastern part of the location in the lowland there is a bus, in it in the Original PM we come to after the ejection when we go to take measurements with Kruglov. You need to walk around the northern part of the bus - where the cabin is, a passage will open at a certain point. Another transition can cause difficulties - from the MG to the Forest on the instructions of the Forester to bring a box of provisions, after talking with Leila, she says that we need to approach the Guide who brought the GG to the monastery, do not forget about this and approach him - he will take the GG to to an already familiar place and the transition from the MG to the Forest will again open for one passage. The transition to Pripyat is given by Grieg, we carefully read the dialogue with him and save immediately after it, the transition is one-time and if you managed to dive into the sewer, there will be no way back - you can climb out through the hatch, but we will not go back down into the sewer. In the sewer, don’t forget to look at your feet - we pick up the diary of the stalker Krol, you’ll need it later, it doesn’t disappear from your inventory.

• Transitions Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant - Sarcophagus - Control Bunker - Pripyat

  The transition to Chernobyl NPP-2 (this is the northern part of the Chernobyl NPP, the southern part will be called Chernobyl NPP-1) is issued along with Charon’s task to destroy the “infidels”. The transition is located in the upper part of the Sarcophagus (the interior of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant) in the room where the Monolith stone itself is located. We climb up the reactor, see a stone and a teleport, dive into the teleport and find ourselves on the wall, then along the inclined beam of the destroyed structure we pass through the gap in the wall and go left all the way, then turn left again and find ourselves at the transition.
  The return passage to the Sarcophagus will be located in the central part of Chernobyl NPP-2 near Solomon.
  Charon's next task is to clear the Monolith's Control Bunker, you need to get into it from Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant-2 where in the Original PM we exit the Bunker at the end - in the western side of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant-2, the transition is marked on the map. At the end of the game this transition will disappear.
  Afterwards, Charon will send to Pripyat for medicine to the Paramedic. The transition to Pripyat is located at Chernobyl NPP-1, to get to Chernobyl NPP-1 we go down into the basements where the bureaucrats were shot on the first task. At the end of the corridor in the shaft with a broken spiral staircase there will be a transition; in this place in the Original we find ourselves in the Sarcophagus from Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant-1. From Chernobyl NPP-1 it is not difficult to find the transition to Pripyat. Anyone who has completed the Original TC can easily find all these transitions. These transitions will be permanent until the end of the game, except for the transition to the Control Bunker.

In the Swamps we will meet the Doctor, he will help you get out of the Swamps, he will send Drifters to the checkpoint, from them we will get the transition to the Forest, in the Forest the Hunters will help you find the transition - to the Army Depots (AS). This path is temporary.

Further, as the game progresses, we will have to discover or receive transitions between the main locations, well known from the Original TC and from other mods, most of these transitions will be permanent. Temporary transitions will be specifically indicated.

Once on the AS, you can see that there are no transitions from them, so you will have to work hard for the inhabitants of the AS.

• Transitions from speakers

  The transition to the Bar will be passed off by the Informant as a special folder, which must be brought from the AS Base, where “Svoboda” is setting up; the Pathfinder will talk about the transition after a tip from Lukash - so you will have to bring the “Svobodovites” to the AS Base.
  We also receive a transition to Radar from the Informant along with a task to help the diggers led by Sviblov. Here the following point should be taken into account - the first approach to Sviblov must be precisely on the instructions of the Informant, and the parcel must be delivered safe and sound. You can not immediately take the task to help the diggers, but combine a trip to Radar with other tasks in this location, the main thing is not to get carried away with going through other branches of the plot, and not find yourself in a situation where you need to go to Sviblov on another task and on another transition without taking missions for help from the Informant, you can find Sviblov already dead or lose him later for “incomprehensible” reasons.

In our passage we come up against the need to get to Yantar. The first approach to Yantar must be made through the Wild Territory (DT - aka the Rostok plant adjacent to Bar).

• Hiking to Yantar

  To open the transition from Bar to DT, you need to complete the following tasks:
  - complete the first two tasks of the Count - one at the Bar location, does not require any transitions, the second - to help the Prince on the Radar, will require the AS-Radar transition, we receive from the Informant, it is convenient to combine with the help of Sviblov’s diggers;
  - go to the peacekeepers at the "Walking Room" location or the Peacekeeping Corps (MK) and talk afterwards with the Bartender, he will say that the GG was looking for the Count and he has another task, when you go to the Bar location a message will pop up - go to the Count.
  After completing these tasks, the Count will send to Amber to Caesar to bring him three flash drives, we find the flash drives on the territory of the Bar behind the fence, you can go the same way that you followed the Count’s first task, when we find it, the message “New path” will immediately pop up! and the transition will be available.
  You can also talk and take tasks for DT from the Pathfinder - it will be in the Bar, it is advisable to go to a meeting with Incognito at Agroprom before this - the meeting is possible if you use the temporary transition from Agroprom to the dungeon, it is located on the street in a destroyed descent into the dungeon, the transition will then disappear.
  At the DT, you can complete tasks from the Pathfinder and go to the Railwaymen, they will also give you several tasks to be completed at the same location.
  To go to Yantar, you need to find another Secret Path - after the tunnel with "Zharki" we explore the area to the right of the road, near one of the bushes we will find a Secret Path - now we will have constant transitions Bar-DT-Yantar.

• Transitions from Yantar

  On DT - we get it as soon as we find the transition from DT to Yantar;
  To the Radar and back - after placing tags on mutants;
  To Agroprom and back - after a showdown with Associate Professor Dorodin in the TD.
  Transitions from Yantar and back are constant.

Transitions in Secret Paths 2 (2)

We will receive one of the important transitions from Lukash - the Radar-Pripyat transition, we will receive as a result of a multi-step quest to find a PDA for Borov.

• Transition Radar-Pripyat

  It begins, oddly enough, with the stalker Sokhaty, who asks for help in freeing his friends from a gangster prison. Without a conversation with Sokhaty, the Prince will be silent, there will be no conversation about the hard drive, about the debtor Zheka, who will give the first fragment and the task to collect all the fragments of the map with Semetsky’s hiding place. After we bring the hard drive to the Prince, we approach Borov and take on the task of searching for the missing Courier and the PDA with him. After failing to find the PDA, the message “Talk to Borov” pops up in the TD, we talk - and he says that the Svoboda members have scouted out the road to Pripyat, we talk to Lukash and undertake to bring a certain radioactive container from the Radar, in exchange for it Lukash will give the Radar-Pripyat passage. The transition is permanent. Searching for a container can also be combined with the help of diggers and the Prince.

• Transitions MK-Bar and Radar-TD

  The baker, to help find bags of flour on the AS, gives a tip where you can find the MK-Bar transition, we look around the swamp in the south of MK behind the factory with zombies, we examine the boulders near the swamp.
  The informant will give out the Radar-TD transition for a couple of “Tears of the Chimera” artifacts. On the Radar it starts at a dead end where the Prince is standing.

• Transitions obtained using the "Explorer" arts

  From Cordon to Agroprom - located on Cordon near the western end of the railway tracks:
  From Agroprom to Cordon - located in the south of the location near the barbed wire gate, there are many anomalies and wild boars nearby;
  From DT to AC - located behind the fence at the north-western end of the railway tracks, there are many anomalies, dogs and pseudo-dogs nearby;
  From AS to Yantar - located in a hollow near a fallen helicopter, Svoboda members can pick it up from the Barrier. There is one important note about this passage - do not use it until the regular passage to Yantar through the DT has been opened, there will be no way back. I also don’t recommend using it without special protection from radiation - we prepare art, look for a good suit, when descending on Yantar we pass the radiation barrier and you can grab a lot - even death ( in the Update, this “guide” opens a path from the AS to the TD - thus, it will not be possible to get to Yantar bypassing the standard path through the TD).

• Transition Radar-MG

  After completing all the Count’s tasks, he gives a tip that the Chistonebovites seem to have a transfer to the MG, and that they have lost a person, you need to volunteer to help find this person and get a transfer to the MG for this. We approach Sviblov on the Radar (I hope we helped him by this point, brought the parcel and completed his tasks), he tells how to get to the MG, first you need to find a teleport that will throw the MG over the thorn, then we go to the transition itself. We take a walkie-talkie with us for Zakhar - we’ll give it to him along the way. You should not delay your trip to the MG - the transition will disappear. In the MG we speak with Leila - it temporarily opens a path to the Forest, and also do not forget about the meeting with Mohammed or a person who can give a tip to him. He will be waiting in one of the houses on the outskirts of the city. Then we go to the Forest, the Forester sends us to the Hunters, we give the radio to Zakhar, and the Hunters guide the GG to the place where the lost one might be, we save the lost one - it turns out to be Leila’s sister Karina, she takes her to the place where the kidnappers caught her and her guide, we find the corpse of the guide and his PDA, according to data from the PDA, Karina takes us to the transition to the Swamps. This trail to the Swamps, starting from Radar, is temporary.

• Search for "Superconductor"

  The doctor gives us a flash drive for the Pathfinder and also a guide dog, which will show us the path from the Swamps to MG and further to AS.
  The trail that begins in the Swamps and reaches the AS through the MG at the tip of a guide dog is constant. Take care of your dog during the journey from the Doctor to the trailhead. Next, we take the flash drive to the Pathfinder in the Bar and he tells you where to find the “Superconductor” - it will open the return path from the AS to the Swamps through the MG. “Superconductor” must be looked for in the dark from one to two in the morning on the speakers at the edges of the location. The art glows and is clearly visible, located in a place where no one walks or picks it up. Before starting the search, I recommend saving; if you don’t have time to find it, just reboot and run through other places. The trail starts from AS in MG, there we carefully look at the map and look for the transition to the Swamps. The path is permanent.

In the finale at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant we will meet with the legend of the Zone, stalker Semetsky, with Solomon, with the Pathfinder. The Pathfinder will be at the transition to the Control Bunker, but there will be no transition - the Pathfinder says that now you can get into the Bunker through the Sarcophagus, we go to the Sarcophagus and from there we get to the Bunker. The transition in the Sarcophagus to the Bunker will be in the same place where in the Original we get into the Bunker - a coded door. Next is the finale. The choice of ending is up to you.

Recipes for art modifications

In Secret Paths you can change the properties of some artifacts. To do this, you need to find a transmutation recipe, have the necessary art and find the corresponding anomaly described in the recipe. Artifacts have different properties - positive ones are displayed in green, negative ones - in red. When hanging art on a belt, it is advisable to strive to ensure that the total sum of the various properties of all hung art is in a positive direction, especially for art that induces radiation and removes it.
There are several chains for converting artifacts - from simple to absolute.
Absolutes, as a rule, have mostly only positive properties, maybe one negative one that can be compensated for by other arts.
Recipes are found in different ways - some in secrets, others as rewards during tasks. To get the absolute you need to have complete
a chain of recipes, so try not to miss finding them and do not neglect completing tasks.
The first recipe that can be obtained is from Sakharov on the first visit to Yantar for the cyclic quests to find/bring, bring a snork’s foot and the recipe for “Tears of Electra” will be displayed in the PDA in the “Help” - “Recipes” section - a very useful modification for getting started. If you missed it, don’t worry, you can get it later on your next visit to Sakharov. This recipe begins the chain of art modifications up to Tears of the Chimera.

List of modification recipes (1)

• Recipes for art conversions to "Tears of the Chimera"

  Artifact "Drop"- has the following protective properties: -10 radiation and -18 endurance - removes a little radiation but increases fatigue.

  Recipe for "Tears of Electra":
  We throw a “Drop” into the “Electra” anomaly - we get “Tears of Electra” with the properties of -10 radiation and +18 endurance - it also removes radiation and increases endurance.

  Recipe for "Tears of Fire":
  We throw “Tears of Electra” into the “Frying” anomaly and get “Tears of Fire” with the properties of -20 radiation.

  Recipe for "Tears of the Chimera":
  We throw “Tears of Fire” into the “Jellied” anomaly and get “Tears of the Chimera” with protective properties of -30 radiation, +40 protection from telepathy and +5 bullet resistance, and also worsens health -150 and increases bleeding +153.

  Recipes for “Tears of Fire” and “Tears of Chimera” are also given by Sakharov after completing the task of eliminating Associate Professor Dorodin, as well as the transition from Agroprom to Yantar and back.

• "Kolobok" transformation chain

  Artifact "Kolobok"- has the following protective properties: +5 gap, +5 explosion, +5 bullet resistance, among other things, it is quite strongly phonic +15 radiation.

  Recipe for "Steel Kolobok":
  We throw the "Kolobok" into the "Springboard" anomaly - we get a "Steel Kolobok" with the following protective properties: +5 gap, +5 bullet resistance and induces +7 radiation. Recipe from a saved "infidel".

  Recipe for "Titanium Kolobok":
  We throw the "Steel Kolobok" into the "Carousel" anomaly - we get a "Titanium Kolobok" with the following protective properties: +20 burn, +7 rupture, +20 chemical burn, +7 bullet resistance, radioactive +15. We get the recipe from Sviblov after we bring him the documents and the system unit from the X-10.

  Recipe for "Diamond Kolobok":
  We throw the "Titanium Kolobok" into the "Jellied" anomaly - we get a "Diamond Kolobok" with the following protective properties: +20 burn, +8 rupture, +15 chemical burn, +8 bullet resistance, radioactive +10. The recipe is in the backpack in the Sarcophagus.

  Recipe for "Giant's Little Brother":
  We throw the “Diamond Kolobok” into the “Frying” anomaly - we get the “Little Brother Giant” with the following protective properties -15 radiation, +20 burn, +12 rupture, +5 explosion, +10 bullet resistance. The side effect is an increased need for food +20000. The recipe will be available after completing the quest for Noodles, either he will give it, or the one who ordered it.

• "Porcupine" recipe chain

  Artifact "Sea Urchin"- has the following protective properties: -25 radiation, +5 burn, +5 explosion, +3 bullet resistance, and also increases bleeding +200.

  Recipe for "Porcupine":
  We throw the "Sea Urchin" into the "Frying" anomaly - we get the "Porcupine" - it removes radiation perfectly -65, reduces endurance -18. Recipe from one of Charon's guards.

  Recipe for "Electric Porcupine":
  We throw the "Porcupine" into the "Electra" anomaly, we get the "Electric Porcupine" - radiation output -63, increases endurance +91, shock protection +5, reduces protection from electricity -10. The recipe is given by the Informant for a folder from the base to the AC along with the transition to the Bar.

  Recipe for "Snotty Porcupine":
  We throw the "Electric Porcupine" into the "Jellied" anomaly, we get a "Snotty Porcupine" with the following properties - radiation output -55, endurance +82, reduces bleeding well -444, reduces protection from electricity -7. The recipe is in a well-hidden backpack in X-10.

  Recipe for "Stone Porcupine":
  We throw "Snotty Porcupine" into the "Springboard" anomaly, we get "Stone Porcupine" with the following properties - radiation output -50, endurance +77, bleeding reduction -389, protection from electricity +20, protection from explosion +7. The recipe is given by the Fan for two “Golden Chunks”.

• Chain of recipes for the artifact "Soul"

  "Soul"- has very good indicators of increasing health +1000, reducing bleeding -267 and endurance +36, but the presence of negative properties greatly limit the use of this artifact - gap -20, explosion -20 and reduction in bullet resistance -20.
  All further modifications are made in the “Frying” anomaly except the last one.
  The resulting modifications have the following characteristics:

  "Drop of Soul"- health +600, radiation -10, stamina reduction -16.

  "Fiery soul"- health +800, radiation -20, bleeding reduction -17, explosion +5, endurance reduction -16.

  "Crystal Soul"- health +1000, radiation -30, bleeding reduction -33, explosion +10, endurance reduction -9.

  And the last art modification of this chain:
  "Crystal Soul of Bengal"- brewed in the Electra anomaly - has truly wonderful properties:
  Health +1500, radiation output - 30, bleeding reduction - 167, endurance +15, protection from electricity +20, explosion +10.

• Recipe chain for the "Film" artifact

  "Film" has the following properties: - increased bleeding +157, protection against burns +15, against chemical burns +15, good protection against ruptures +50.

  Recipe for "Skin":
  We throw the "Film" into the "Springboard" anomaly - we get a "Skin" with the following properties - chemical burn +30, bullet resistance +7, slightly radioactive +3. We receive the recipe after we take Solomon's parcel to the Bartender.

  Recipe for "Scales":
  We throw the "Skin" into the "Carousel" anomaly - we get "Scales" with the following properties - health +150, chemical burn +35, bullet resistance +7, increases bleeding +111 and radioactive +5. We receive the recipe from Sokhaty for his help in freeing our friends from a bandit prison.

  Recipe for obtaining "Shell":
  We throw "Scales" into the "Jellied" anomaly - we get "Shell" with the following properties - health +50, reduction of bleeding -144, protection against chemical burns +40, bullet resistance +10, slightly radioactive +2. We get the recipe from Petrenko for a modified grenade launcher.

  Recipe for obtaining "Controller's Scalp":
  We throw the "Shell" into the "Frying" anomaly and get the "Controller's Scalp" with the following properties - health +100, protection from telepathy +50, protection from chemical burns +30, bullet resistance +10, increases the need for food +2200. The recipe is given by Kruglov after we take the case with the documents to Voronin and come to him for a pistol with sleeping pills for the crazy professor.

List of modification recipes (2)

There is one interesting recipe that is not included in the chain of art modifications - a recipe for "Symbion". This artifact is obtained by cooking four pieces of art at once in the “Jellied” anomaly - “Jellyfish”, “Drops”, “Blood of the Stone” and “Thorns”. We throw the arts one by one into the “Jellied” - if all four arts are thrown out and the anomaly accepts them, there will be a white flash. This artifact has the following data - decreased endurance -18, increased bleeding +56, decreased resistance to tearing -15, positive protection from telepathy +50 and protection from radiation +10. It seems that the parameters are not so hot - but! This recipe can be found in the X-18 in a backpack on the first visit to the Dark Valley, when there are few art modifications and recipes, the art for cooking it is not rare and is often found, two such art on the belt and controllers are not afraid, plus +10 protection from radiation - this parameter does not affect the speed of radiation output, but is added to the protection of the suit, and helps well when completing Caesar’s mission on Yantar.

The following chain of recipes for modifying the “Mother’s Beads” art is very interesting from the point of view of bullet resistance protection.

• Recipes for Bus transformations

  "Mom's Beads"- reduces hunger +100000, increases stamina +55, reduces bleeding -333, but also weakens shock protection -20.

  Recipe for "Granny's Beads":
  We throw “Mom’s Beads” into the “Electra” anomaly, we get “Grandmother’s Beads” with the following parameters - endurance +227, bullet resistance +5, reduces protection from electricity - 15, radioactive +5. We get the recipe from the Forester when we help him fight off the cats after leaving Pripyat through the Swamps.

  Recipe for "Great Grandmother's Beads":
  We throw “Grandmother’s Beads” into the “Jellied” anomaly, we get “Great-Grandma’s Beads” with the following parameters - health +150, bleeding reduction -422, bullet resistance +3, radioactive +7. The recipe is given by the Paramedic after saving the Ghost in Pripyat from mercenaries.
  
  Recipe for "Grandma Burer's Beads":
  We throw “Great-Grandmother’s Beads” into the “Carousel” anomaly, we get “Grandmother’s Beads of Burer” with the following parameters - health +200, radiation removal -10, bleeding reduction -500, explosion protection +10, bullet resistance +15, reduces endurance -18. The recipe is given by Varyag after completing the “circles of hell” in the dungeons of Agroprom.

• Recipes for transformations "Dummy"

  Recipe for "Fire Pacifier":
  A “Dummy” with explosion protection parameter +20 is thrown into the “Electra” anomaly, resulting in a “Fire Dummy” with parameters stamina +33, burn protection +30, weakened protection against electricity -10.

  Recipe for "Bright Pacifier":
  The “Fiery Dummy” in the “Electra” anomaly is transformed into a “Bright Dummy” with the parameters stamina +66, burn protection +30, weakened protection from electricity -15.

  Recipe for "Moon Pacifier":
  Then the “Bright Dummy” in the “Electra” anomaly is transformed into the “Moon Dummy” with the parameters stamina +99, burn protection +30, weakening protection from electricity -20.

  Recipe for "Pudding":
  “Moon Dummy” is transformed into anomalies “Jellied” into “Pudding” with the following properties - endurance +18, burn +40, protection from electricity +40, protection from chemical burns +15.

Search for Semetsky's hiding place

In the Secret Paths there are several cross-cutting ones that do not affect the completion of tasks, but are very interesting in terms of the results of the findings. I will describe the search for the cache of the Zone legend of the stalker Semetsky. It starts with taking the task of dealing with one stalker from the Prince in Bar, first you need to approach the stalker Sokhaty in Bar and take from him the task of helping to free your friends from the bandit prison, without this the Prince will be silent and we won’t see any hiding place. We find the stalker we are looking for in the Landfill, his name is Zheka, we talk to him and he gives us the first fragment of a map indicating Semetsky’s hiding place as payment for his debt to the Prince. From the moment the task is accepted, the found fragments will be displayed in the PDA in the “Journal” section; before the task is taken from Zheka, the found fragments are displayed in the inventory.

• This is where fragments of the map with Semetsky’s hiding place are found. They are described as we go through my walkthrough, your order may differ:

  1st fragment- we receive from Zheka with the task itself;
  2nd fragment- we will find when searching the corpse of a zombified professor in the X-18 laboratory in search of an anomalous “Thunderstorm” for the Tankman, to talk with the Tankman we need to pick up the diary of the stalker Krol in the sewers of the Dead City when we are looking for an exit to Pripyat on a tip from Grieg ( in the Update, this fragment will be with the leader of the Marauders, Razuvaev - they will appear at the Peacekeepers location when we go to get mines for Vano);
  8th fragment will be with one of the bandits in the northern complex in the Dark Valley when we go to rescue the Courier on Borov’s assignment to search for PDA;
  4th fragment Major Yarofeev will be at the military checkpoint on the Cordon, we search him after the conversation and the murder, leaving him alive is more expensive for himself, he begins to shoot at the GG;
  3rd fragment we will find another zombie professor while clearing the base for peacekeepers;
  6th fragment there will be a bandit named Shiloh, you will meet this character during a robbery in the Wild Territory, do not avoid the robbery if you want to get a fragment, without the robbery there will be no fragment;
  7th fragment will come across from one of the mercenaries when we repel Fang from an ambush set up by mercenaries at the Army Warehouses - we also search ALL the corpses;
  5th fragment we will find from one of the Monoliths that we will meet in X-18 on the instructions of Fang.

Finding parts of the minigun circuit and amulets

There are a couple more cross-cutting and interesting quests in Secret Paths 2; I will describe them in one post, since they intersect.
When you first (can be later - it’s just better not to waste time) entering the Bar, the mechanic Potapov will be standing in the bar itself, we approach him and receive from him a task to search for parts of the minigun circuit, the gun is very effective and can greatly help with crowds of evil spirits. From the story we learn that there are only seven parts and they were kept by different stalkers of the missing in different locations. Therefore, you need to look for the corpses of missing stalkers or backpacks. I advise you to make a screenshot of the dialogue to avoid misunderstandings and unnecessary questions. I will describe them in the order in which I find them. The numbering is arbitrary and has no connection to parts of the circuit.

Minigun circuit parts:

1. in the Landfill, in the southeastern part of the location behind the swamp and forest, there is a nook, there are full of blind dogs and pseudo-dogs, zombies are walking around;
   in X-18, we will examine all the corners on the lower level (in the Update, a corpse with part of the circuit will spawn randomly in several places);
2. in the dungeons of Agroprom, it is not difficult to find (in the Update, a corpse with part of the scheme will spawn randomly in several places);
3. at a military checkpoint, located at the checkpoint itself in a backpack in a relatively visible place (in Update, the backpack can be in different, but not very hard-to-reach places - we look carefully);
4. on the Radar, we examine the territory of the scorched forest behind a mesh fence, the corpse lies on the boulders closer to the steep stone walls, the boulders are accessible for a regular jump (in the Update, the corpse can randomly appear anywhere in the territory of the scorched forest on the Radar);
5. at the exit from the X-16, it is easy to find;
6. in Pripyat in the hotel we find the corpse of a stalker, we look into all the rooms, look out the windows, he will also have an amulet, I’ll write about it below (in the Update the digger’s corpse can also be located in different places of the hotel).

The search for amulets begins with Sviblov’s task - to deal with the traitor. After completion, we approach and search the corpse of Fedi the Robber, we find nothing, but in the inventory there will be one amulet, it seems like it was removed from the neck. Then, in a conversation with Sviblov, we ask about him, he sends for clarification to the Wanderer, he will appear right away. We talk with him, take a screenshot of the conversation - for those who are especially forgetful, he tells what kind of amulets they are, where some can be found, the rest are located according to the plot and cannot be passed by. There are six of them in total.

Search for amulets:

• Chimeron- we remove Fedi the Robber from his neck, the search for amulets begins with him, he slightly protects from electricity +10 and explosion +10, is radioactive -10;
• The Dragon- we find on the AC in the village of bloodsuckers in a terrible place of “ritual” death of stalkers, has protective properties against burns +10 and chemical burns +10, radioactive -10 ( in the Update, this amulet can randomly appear anywhere in the village on the AC );
• Garganon- we’ll find Semetsky in his hiding place, slightly protects against telepathy +15, radioactive -10;
• Avalon- will be found in the corpse of a digger in Pripyat in a hotel along with a minigun circuit, has protective properties against explosion +10 and bullet resistance +10, radioactive -10 ( in the Update, the digger’s corpse can be located in different places of the hotel and near it - we’ll explore all the nooks and crannies );
• Catalan- one of the well-known characters who needs to be killed will have a radioactive value of -10;
• Sarcon- found in X-16, lies on the upper level of the installation, but the burers can throw it somewhere, reduces protection from electricity -15 and slightly removes radiation +10 ( in the Update, the amulet can be in different places on the upper level and not only in X-16 itself but also after exiting X-16).

• Amulet and its amazing properties

  Stamina +182
  Burn +20
  Impact +40
  Electroshock +20
  Gap +20
  Radiation +20
  Telepathy +30
  Chemical burn +20
  Explosion +20
  Bullet resistance +20

List of quest items

The list of items required for some quests, I will not describe all the items, only those that can be found in advance and brought immediately to the character who may require them, and which can be lost/sold before they are needed, those items that are asked to be carried/brought I hope you yourself will realize not to sell and not to hide in unreliable pockets:

• two "Night Stars" or 10 tails of a blind dog- the Paramedic will need it for medicines for Charon, one is immediately in the box on the lower level of the Sarcophagus, the second (and more if you’re lucky) can be found at Chernobyl NPP-1 and at the stadium in Pripyat; you can shoot dog tails at Chernobyl NPP-1 - immediately after leaving the Sarcophagus, I advise you not to approach Dyak but run around the location and collect art, also not far from Dyak along the road we will meet several dogs and jerboas - be careful, there is a radioactive zone nearby, six more tails can be removed from dogs that will spawn at the crossing to Pripyat if you received a tip from Dyak about a container with medicines for Solomon at Chernobyl NPP-1, if you found this container on your own - these dogs will not be there;
• five cans of canned food- to Charon’s guard for a recipe, we buy one at a time from Solomon, from the Paramedic three in one go, from Mahon for the “Golden Fish” you can get four cans, they may turn up in corpses during a search;
• another guard of Charon asks five PDA- gives a grenade launcher for the domestic "Koster" barrels, and Solomon's guard asks for five bottles of vodka, gives him a TT pistol, these items are not particularly important, but finding five PDAs or five bottles of vodka is difficult at this stage of the game, so do not take tasks if they are in your inventory there are no items you are looking for, if you find them, come up and take the task and turn it in right away, if you don’t find it, it wasn’t really necessary;
• two "Crystals" or two "Films" To the bartender for transferring Solomon's parcel to the mainland, one will be given to Caesar on Yantar after completing his task, another may be caught during the assault on the base on the AS, or near a dilapidated tunnel with psi and radiation zones, or from one of the military, it is advisable to search all the corpses . I start the search while still in the Monolith - in the Sarcophagus and in the Control Bunker there are a couple of boxes in which various artifacts can randomly fall out, from one I always knock out the “Crystal”, there is also a box in Pripyat behind a fence next to the future transition to the Swamps - this box I split the first race into snorkels because... the box usually does not survive until a later moment, the “Film” can be obtained through a cyclic quest from Sakharov - but it takes a long time and we will only get one “Film” at a time, another “Film” lies in the destroyed tunnel with the “Electras” on the DT;
• two "Golden Chunks" To the fan for the recipe, one will be in the Bar in a building with a door propped up by boxes, we climb from the roof through a hole, the second one will be found in the Landfill when we look for part of the minigun circuit, they are found on DT and on Yantar, we just get there later in the game;
• 5 bottles of vodka, 5 cans of canned food, 5 sausage sticks, 5 first aid kits- a parcel from the Informant to a group of diggers - needs to be handed over safely to Sviblov, when we approach the diggers they are all lying wounded, we don’t get carried away with treatment - we can overuse the first aid kits from the parcel, first we give the parcel, then if there are first aid kits left we can treat the wounded, they themselves they will heal each other;
• assault "Abakan"- the Prince asks for weed for the guard of the Svoboda gunsmith, he gets caught several times, the first time he is given out by General Voronin for helping to fight off a bandit attack on the first visit to the TD, a couple more times he can be randomly given out for clearing out mutants near X-18 and for nychka bandits, another one lies in the inspection hole of the garage at the DT, if, after all, there is not one left by the time the Prince asks for it, you can exchange it with Petrenko for two “Sea Urchins”, “Sea Urchins” can be randomly exchanged with Kruglov for " Heart of the Controller";
• monpatsier jar- one, the Monk will need on the AS for the quest for Borov’s PDA, search the corpses, caches may fall out, also on the corpses of military personnel you come across jars of Monpasier, Yarofeev has one;
• scientific suit of mercenaries and Storm for Lefty, the suit and Thunderstorm must be in good condition and in a single copy in the inventory, the extra ones can be thrown into the safe in the barracks where Lefty is standing, the scientific suit of mercenaries is first encountered in Pripyat, can be repaired by Mahon and taken with you, it can also fall out (if you’re lucky) of the mercenaries, when the Lefty is released, the suit and weapons should be repaired from merchants and not used, the slightest wear and Lefty won’t accept them, the mercenary scientist is also on sale at Borov;
• "Fiery soul"- Lefty will ask you to bring him for the gravity suit upgrade;
• "Mica", "Crystal", "Goldfish", "Soul", "Ruby Spring", "Flash"- Lefty will ask you to bring these six artifacts for the repair of the universal detector found in X-18 on the instructions of Fang;
• two "Fireballs"- Kruglova for marking a bag of grass, can be found at the DT in the tunnel with “Zharki”;
• "Crystal Soul of Bengal"- To the informant for identifying the location of Semetsky’s cache using an incomplete set of map fragments;
• two "Tears of the Chimera"- Informant for crossing Radar-TD;
• five "Cobblestones" or five "Bengal Crystal Souls"- to upgrade a nanosuit from Semetsky’s cache, before the upgrade you need to have one set of art, another needs to be laid out, then we put on the suit and the suit assimilates the corresponding artifacts, there are two “Cobblestones” in the cache;
• 3 burer hands, 3 cat tails, 3 poltergeist eyes and a "Ruby Battery"- The doctor in the finale will ask you to bring them, for them he will give passage from the Swamps to Pripyat.

Artifact "Heart of the Controller"

The results of Kruglov’s quest to find the “Heart of the Controller” are interesting. The first artifact must be found in the Agroprom swamp; we hang the detector that Kruglov gives on our belt. We save before entering the psi zone, enter the psi zone - the message “An artifact was found!” pops up. - we look for it, maybe either on the surface of the lake or in the trailer itself, if we haven’t found it, we reboot, the main thing is that the save is made before entering the psi zone and before the message about its discovery, the artifact may spawn somewhere in the wrong place, It's easy to search at night - the artifact glows. We take the found artifact to Kruglov and refuse the reward, take the detector instead of the reward - now you can look for the “Hearts of the Controllers” in other psi-zones. When you find it, a monster will appear, most often a controller; there are bloodsucker and burer. You can also search for other art by first saving before entering the psi zone. Once found, the psi zone degenerates and the next time you enter the location it will no longer be there. For the “Heart of the Controller” Kruglov can give you an elite anomaly detector - he will now always have this dialogue, be careful - do not type more of these tasks if you have already received the detector. Also, the “Heart of the Controller” will be needed by the Lector at the DT, for which he will give a tip on where to look for the “Snake Eyes”, the artifact with which we will find the “Klondike Artifacts”, should be in the inventory when we go to the TD in search of the Klondike.

Psi zones on locations:

• Amber- entrance to the plant;
• Wild Territory:
  north location on railway tracks;
  the middle of the location, next to the previous one - the psi zone is extended and begins near the house where you need to find the “Liquidator”;
• Bar- to the left of the road to the transition to AC;
• Army Warehouses:
  in the north, near the rocks between the farm where the Informant lives and the abandoned mercenary base;
  in the south behind the farm where the Skull group lives in the original;
  at the base itself in a destroyed railway tunnel, it usually pops up behind barbed wire, you can approach it by going around the border from the north near the crossing to Radar, or from the side of the crossing to AS, I pulled it up with a grav gun;
• Radar:
  on the road after the turn with a military ambush before the turn to Pripyat;
  in a dead end where the Prince will stand;
• Dump:
  in the hollow between the transitions to Bar and TD, there are boars with flesh hanging out;
  south of the radioactive pile that is opposite the entrance to the depot from the main road;
• Agroprom:
  in the northeast in the hollow between the transitions to the Landfill and Yantar;
  in the south - south of the main gate to the western complex;
• Dark Valley:
  in the northeast behind the gas station building where we find the Prince’s Winchester;
  in the southeast where the “day bloodsucker” from the Original hangs out;
• Cordon:
  north of the Bartender's bunker in a barbed anomaly;
  in the railway tunnel in the east where there is strong radiation.

Trade and repair

In the Secret Paths there are several merchants to whom you can sell unnecessary swag and buy supplies. They will buy from you cheaply and sell at a high price - many people do not like this situation, but Stalker is not an economic simulator, and money is not the main currency in the Zone. But you can exchange the necessary supplies and weapons from merchants for mutant art and spare parts. I will describe from whom what can be exchanged and for what. If I missed anything or saw an inaccuracy, please write to me in a personal message.

• Mahon- "Monolith" merchant, will become unavailable after brainwashing by the Paramedic:

  "Stone Flower" - 3 packs 5.45 regular, 1 first aid kit, 1 antirad;
  "Blood of Stone" - 2 first aid kits;
  "Gravy" - 3 packs of 5.56 regular, 2 first aid kits, 4 sausages;
  "Night Star" - 5 packs of 9x39 SP-6, 2 scientific first aid kits, 2 anti-radiation devices;
  "Golden Fish" - 5 packs of 5.45 BP, 2 army first aid kits, 4 canned food;
  "A Chunk of Meat" - 3 packs of 5.45 regular, 2 first aid kits, 4 sausages;
  "Soul" - 5 packs of 5.56 AP, 3 scientific first aid kits;
  "Crystal" - 5 packs of 9x39 PAB-9, 2 army first aid kits.

• Paramedic- the Doctor’s assistant, stands at the stadium in Pripyat, in the end he moves to a house with a grocery store behind the Ferris wheel, changes mutant parts in bulk of 10 pieces:

  eyes of flesh - 4 scientific first aid kits;
  boar hooves - 4 army first aid kits;
  blind dog tails - 4 packs of shot;
  pseudo-dog tails - 4 F-1 grenades;
  bloodsucker tentacles - 4 packs 9x39 SP-6;
  Burer's hands - 4 packs 5.56 AR;
  Zombie hands - 5 packs of shot;
  snork feet - 4 first aid kits;
  jerboa heads - 5 packs 9x18 "P";
  controllers' hands - 5 antirads;
  paws of pseudo-giants - 7 packs 5.56 regular;
  chimera claws - 5 packs 5.45 BP.

• Miser- Freedom merchant:
  
  Ammunition:
  2 "Drops" - 3 packs 5.56 AR;
  2 "Blood of Stone" - 3 packs 5.56 regular;
  2 "Bengal lights" - 3 F-1 grenades;
  3 "Slime" - 2 army first aid kits.

  Weapon:
  "Cobblestone" - SIG SG552 Commando;
  "Tears of Fire" - SIG SG551;
  "Symbion" - M16A1;
  "Ruby Spring - Colt M4A1;
  "Golden Hunk" - FA MAS Prototype 3;
  "Drop of Soul" - SIG 550 sniper.

• Hog- Bratkov merchant in Bar:

  Ammunition:
  5 cans of canned food - 3 packs for AK-47;
  4 bottles of vodka - 3 packs for AK-47 BP;
  5 loaves of bread -3 packs 5.45 regular;
  4 bottles of vodka - 3 packs 5.45 BP;
  5 sticks of sausage - 3 packs 5.56;
  4 bottles of vodka - 3 packs 5.56 AR;
  "Stone Flower" - 3 packs 7.62x54R 7H1;
  "Slug" - 3 packs of 9x39 PAB-9.

  Weapon:
  2 "Mica" - AK-47;
  2 "Slices of Meat" - Saiga.

  In addition to exchanging for art and food from Borov, you can get something from cyclic tasks:

  Mutant parts:
  eye of flesh - 300 rubles and 3 cans of canned food;
  boar hoof - 500 rubles.

  Artifacts:
  "A Chunk of Meat" - 2100 rubles and 2 scientific first aid kits;
  "Flash" - 7500 rubles;
  "Crystal Thorn" - 1500 rubles and 2 scientific first aid kits;
  "Night Star" - armored suit "Beryl"-5M and 3 F-1 grenades;
  "Golden Fish" - LR300 assault rifle, "SUSAT" sight - L9A1, M-203 under-barrel grenade launcher, PBS silencer.

• Petrenko- "Debt" merchant:

  Ammunition:
  "Medusa" - 3 packs 5.45 BP;
  "Halp of Meat" - 3 packs 7.62x54R 7H1;
  "Flash" - 3 packs 7.62x54R 7H14;
  "Gravy" - 3 packs 9x39 SP-5;
  2 "Bengal lights" - 3 packs 9x39 SP-6;
  "Slug" - 3 army first aid kits.

  Weapon:
  2 "Gravi" - Abakan AN-94 sniper;
  2 "Sea Urchins" - Abakan AN-94 assault;
  2 “Ruby Springs” - silent sniper rifle “Exhaust”;
  2 “Ruby Batteries” - VSS “Vintorez” silent sniper rifle;
  2 "Stone Flowers" - RPG-7V grenade launcher.

• Bartender- merchant at Cordon:

  Ammunition:
  6 chimera claws - 3 packs 5.45 regular;
  6 boar hooves - 3 packs of shot;
  6 eyes of flesh - 2 first aid kits.

  Weapon:
  40 blind dog tails - MP-7a3;
  30 pseudodog tails - SPAS-12 shotgun;
  25 bloodsucker tentacles - submachine gun "Bison" chambered for 9x18 cartridge.

  Through cyclic tasks you can get the following from the Bartender:

  Mutant parts:
  pseudo-dog tail - 200 rubles and 3 packs of shot;
  bloodsucker tentacle - 300 rubles and 3 packs of shot.

  Artifacts:
  "Medusa" - 1500 rubles and a bottle of vodka;
  "Stone Flower" - 3000 rubles and a bottle of vodka;
  “A Chunk of Meat” - 2000 rubles and 3 army first aid kits;
  "Night Star" - tourist overalls.

• Zakhar

  8 tails of a blind dog or
  6 boar hooves or
  6 chimera claws or
  2 “Twist” changes to 5 packs of fractions;
  6 bloodsucker tentacles or
  "Slice of Meat" or
  2 "Jellyfish" exchanges for 5 packs of 5.45 regular ones;
  8 pseudodog tails or
  "Slug" or
  "Stone Flower" or
  "Gravy" exchanges for 3 first aid kits.

• Mazay- hunter, lives with other hunters in the Forest, exchanges goods for mutant parts:

  10 heads of jerboas - 3 packs 5.56 regular;
  10 zombie hands - 3 packs 5.56 BP;
  5 paws of a pseudo-giant - 3 packs 7.62x54R 7H14;
  5 controller hands - 5 army first aid kits and 5 anti-radiation devices.

• Sviblov- “Clear Sky”, gives a couple of cyclic quests, is on the Radar:

  Mutant parts:
  jerboa head - 100 rubles and 1 pack of 7.62x51 NATO BP;
  cat's tail - 100 rubles and 1 pack of 7.62x51 NATO BP;
  poltergeist eye - 100 rubles and 1 pack of 7.62x51 NATO;
  chimera claw - 1 pack 7.62x51 NATO;
  controller's hand - 200 rubles and 2 packs of 7.62x51 NATO BP;
  pseudo-giant hand - 100 rubles and 2 packs of 7.62x51 NATO BP.

  Artifacts:
  “Slime” - 1000 rubles, 1 scientific first aid kit, 1 F-1 grenade;
  "Slug" - 500 rubles, 2 scientific first aid kits, 1 F-1 grenade;
  "Crystal" - 1000 rubles, 2 scientific first aid kits and a scientific overalls ChN;
  "Battery" - Knights SR-25 rifle.

• Sakharov- scientist in the bunker on Yantar:

  Ammunition:
  3 "Drops" - 2 packs of 7.62x51 NATO regular;
  2 "Fire Balls" - 2 packs of 7.62x51 NATO BP;
  "Film" - 2 packs 12.7x99 for the WA2000 rifle;
  10 cat tails - 3 scientific first aid kits;
  10 hands of burer - 2 antirad.

  Weapon:
  "Soul" - rifle "GALATZ";
  "Crystal" - Knights SR-25 rifle;
  "Moonlight" - rifle NK-417;
  10 eyes of the poltergeist - WA2000 rifle.
  For cyclic tasks you can get the following from Sakharov:

  Mutant parts:
  snorkel foot - 300 rubles and 1 scientific first aid kit;
  eye of flesh - 300 rubles and 1 scientific first aid kit;
  boar hoof - 300 rubles and 3 scientific first aid kits;
  pseudo-dog tail - 300 rubles and 1 scientific first aid kit;
  bloodsucker tentacle - 500 rubles and 1 scientific first aid kit.

  Artifacts:
  "Gravy" - 2500 rubles and 1 scientific first aid kit;
  "Medusa" - 3000 rubles and 1 scientific first aid kit;
  "Fireball" - "Film";
  "Moonlight" - 4000 rubles and 3 scientific first aid kits;
  "Sea Urchin" - 8,000 rubles and "SEVA" overalls.

A few more traders

There are several other merchants in the Secret Paths who only buy and sell certain goods for money:

• Mozart- the Drifters merchant, located on the first floor of the Drifters headquarters building in MG in the room with the piano;
• Miser- Drifter merchant, located at the Drifter checkpoint in the Swamps;
• Marvin- keeper of the Monolith and teacher of the GG, buys expensive good and unique trunks, some costumes;
• Doctor- located in the Swamps;
• Graph- located in the Bar in the nook in front of the Arena;
• Sidorovich
• Baker- is located at the peacekeepers location;
• Lecturer- the chief of the railway workers, buys parts of monsters, artifacts, sells artifacts at very high prices;
• Antique dealer- sells rare but working weapons, ammunition, also exchanges 1 drum for a Colt Python for 3 bottles of vodka, which Noodles gives for refusing to kill him, will appear after conversations first with Noodles, then with Borov, is located in the Bar where Petrenko stands in the Original.

Some merchants and characters can repair equipment. Here is a list of traders and repairers:

• Mahon- cheap repairs, accumulates a large amount of money that can be used by selling him guns and other swag;
• Paramedic- expensive repairs, money is also accumulating, you can sell swag for this amount before leaving Pripyat;
• Screw- expensive repairs, money accumulates, refills the flamethrower - you need to have the flamethrower itself (discharged), a cylinder with colloidal gas, a canister of gasoline, two bottles of vodka and 10,000 rubles;
• Hog- repairs are somewhat cheaper than Screw;
• Petrenko- does not do repairs but sells relatively cheap repair kits;
• Bartender
• Sidorovich- repairs and sales of repair kits are more expensive than Petrenko’s;
• Sakharov- repair;
• Lefty- repair of the universal detector and fine-tuning of the gravity suit.
• Brown- Colonel of the peacekeepers, after clearing the base of evil spirits, gives as a reward a unique repair kit for quickly repairing weapons; each repair requires the “Medusa” artifact in the inventory. Repairs trunks with any degree of damage.

FAQ

• I can’t get into a cave (other hard-to-reach places) - use the full squat keys Ctrl+Shift , if you reassigned the keys, I advise you to reset the default settings and reassign without touching these keys.
• Health is decreasing, there are not enough first aid kits - high level of captured radiation, to see the level press the key TAB - a counter window appears in the lower right corner with the numbers of accumulated radiation, the scale shows whether the GG is in the radioactive zone or has left it, the dosimeter should be on the belt, above 600 the health level quickly begins to decrease until death. We use radiation artifacts correctly and hang them on our belts; with high levels of captured radiation, you can replay from earlier saves and try not to fall into areas of increased radiation. Using one anti-rad reduces the level by 20-30 units, slightly reduces the health level and requires jamming.
• Double vision, but health and radiation levels are normal - GG hasn’t slept for a long time, it’s not advisable to lay out your sleeping bag, it doesn’t disappear during robberies just like the dosimeter, it’s available for sale at many merchants.
• Where is the decoder in the Sarcophagus on the assignment to shoot the burers - the decoder can also lie in any place, but no further than two rooms located above each other on the lower level of the Sarcophagus.
• I can't find a box of canned goods on Solomon's instructions - a box with canned goods in Update can be located in any of the two grocery stores in any place, look carefully, look into all the nooks and crannies.
• Where to find the folder for the Informant - the folder for the Informant at the Svoboda base in Update can be located in various places, the places found so far are located along the railway tracks, we look into all secluded places, carriages, under beams and destroyed buildings.
• Where is the bag of grass for the Prince on the AC - also in various places, Kruglov can put a mark on the bag with the exact location for two “Fire Balls”.
• I can't find three helmets for St. John's wort - look into all the concrete rings, including broken ones, if you still haven’t found them, then most likely they were picked up by Phantoms that are lying in ambush there, search the corpses immediately - then they will disappear.
• How to get into the courtyard of the plant on Yantar on Caesar's instructions - Caesar gives you a suit with good protection from radiation, we put it on and hang on the belt artefacts that remove radiation, it is better to remove those inducing radiation, be sure to remove ruby ​​artefacts - they are not just radioactive - but also accelerate the accumulation of radiation. Particularly useful art here will be the “Symbions” - they add protection to the suit from radiation. We go beyond the swamp and the helicopter, approach the border of the slope and the wall of the plant - here there will be a radiation barrier that must be overcome without stopping, save in case of a replay with a high level of captured radiation, then we go along the outer part of the location and go around the plant building from the north side, we go into the courtyard - poltergeists are flying there, we look for what Caesar is looking for and return back the same way; back we also need to overcome the radiation barrier.
• I can't get close to the Magician - carefully read the dialogue with the Ghost, the teleport outside the boundaries of the game part of the location is located in the garages, the return teleport is located near the garages from the outside.
• The weapon doesn't fire - a fuse has been introduced in the Update - switch with the “0” and “9” keys.

Guide (from the TT2 team) for completing the plot of the modification "Secret Paths 2"

(prepared by: Alexander44)

Attention: Changes for the Update are highlighted in green!
Some tips for passing

Hang up the dosimeter from the very beginning and do not remove it to avoid problems with grenades. The dosimeter should always hang - even during a robbery when everything can be put away until the robbery itself - leave the dosimeter on your belt, and the sleeping bag always remains in the inventory during the GG. Problems with grenades usually arise after robberies. There should be one dosimeter in your inventory and hang on your belt. The amount of captured radiation can be viewed by pressing the TAB key (default). If, nevertheless, grenades are no longer picked up, we begin to “shamanize”, first we look to see if there is a second (third, etc.) dosimeter lying around in the inventory - we should sell it and move to another location, throw away the grenades one by one and at once the ground and pick it up, remove/lay out/hang the dosimeter on the belt, put ALL the swag down to the underpants together with the dosimeter in the bag, take one dosimeter, hang it on the belt, take one grenade - it should be taken, then we take all the swag NOT AT ONCE, but individually.

Make saves in key places before moving to another location, before taking and handing in or after handing in tasks, especially if you are not sure that you have chosen the right road, or you do not know whether there will be a way out from the location you are going to move to. This will help you replay if something goes wrong. Carefully read the dialogues with the characters, many clues are contained in the dialogues - you can take screenshots of the dialogues by pressing the F12 key.

With the release of the Update, many items are not only hidden, but may also end up in different places for different players and during different playthroughs, look more carefully.

Quest characters must be protected, well, everyone who plays Stalker should know this rule; for those who like to shoot, there are other wonderful games. If you still kill the quest giver, it’s better to replay it, and not ask what to do, then you’ll end up in an impenetrable bottleneck, and you’ll have to replay it a lot more.

Transitions between locations are also Secret Paths, some will have to be searched for, some are given for completing tasks, some are temporary, some are permanent, some are opened by finding special artifacts - “guides”. There will be a separate post on transitions.

Search the corpses of killed enemies for the presence of quest items - amulets, parts of maps. Corpses disappear after a reboot, and even more so after re-entering a location.

According to the passage itself - you will be robbed several times during the game, if this situation does not suit you, put away your property before the robbery, then you will take it. The robbers take those things from the inventory that can be put in the pockets, the rest remain with the GG and do not disappear during the robbery. The dosimeter cannot be taken away and must remain on the belt; problems with taking grenades arise precisely after robberies. Also, some Persians, who in the game need to hand over property for a while, then when returning, do not give back all the things - it is also better to dive before “undressing”.
Now, after a robbery, the money taken by the robbers can be returned back - search the corpses of the offenders, in the robbers' inventory you will see bundles of money - this is your money, and bundles of money can also fall out of some corpses (not all).

On the first trip to Pripyat you will be robbed to the bone, so you can put away anything especially valuable either before going to the MG at Lesnik, or stock up on Mozart and make a hiding place in the MG. Your money will also be lost. Before the transition itself, we carefully examine the sewer - we pick up Krol's diary from the floor, we will need it later.

Don’t prescribe everything to merchants yourself - they may go for a walk and then you won’t find them. Also, when registering a large number of items, these items are “ejected” from the merchants’ inventory, which leads to the game freezing and even to a dead freeze. It is better to register if you know what you are doing and only quest items in case of their loss. If you don’t know, don’t bother, it’s better to ask in the topic - maybe you can do without this item, there will be an incentive to go through the mod a second time. If you really want to register something for trade, register it in a single copy; to get several items of the same type, it is better to make a save/load next to the merchant - the item will appear on sale again. Before registering, make copies of the files that you will edit so that you can return them back if the edit is unsuccessful; you should also return the original files after you have received the required items and there is no longer a need for them. In case of unsuccessful edits and rollbacks of edited files to their original state, load saves made before making the edits, otherwise glitches cannot be avoided.

Keep an eye on the level of captured radiation - more details about the levels are written in the mod description. Hang artefacts on your belt in accordance with their properties and make sure that radioactive artefacts are compensated by artefacts that remove radiation, it is also advisable to compensate for the harmful properties of some artefacts with the beneficial properties of others, cook artefacts - modifications, as a rule, have more pronounced positive properties, and negative ones are reduced.

FAQ:

-I can’t get into a cave (other hard-to-reach places)- use the full squat Ctrl+Shift keys, if you reassigned the keys - I advise you to reset the default settings and reassign without touching these keys.
- Health is decreasing, there are not enough first aid kits- a large level of captured radiation, to see the level press the TAB key - a counter window appears in the lower right corner with the numbers of accumulated radiation, the scale shows whether the GG is in the radioactive zone or has left it, the dosimeter should be on the belt, over 600 it quickly starts decrease in health level up to death. We use radiation artifacts correctly and hang them on our belts; with high levels of captured radiation, you can replay from earlier saves and try not to fall into areas of increased radiation. Using one anti-rad reduces the level by 20-30 units, slightly reduces the health level and requires jamming.
- Double vision, but health and radiation levels are normal- GG hasn’t slept for a long time, it’s not advisable to lay out your sleeping bag, it doesn’t disappear during robberies just like the dosimeter, it’s available for sale from many sellers.
- I can’t find a box of canned goods on Solomon’s instructions- a box with canned goods in Update can be located in any of the two grocery stores in any place, look carefully, look into all the nooks and crannies.
- Where to find the folder for the Informant- the folder for the Informant at the Svoboda base and Update can be located in various places, the places found so far are located along the railway tracks, we look into all secluded places, carriages, under beams and destroyed buildings.
- Where is the bag of grass for the Prince on the AC- also in various places, Kruglov can put a mark on the bag with the exact location for two “Fire Balls”.
- I can’t find three helmets for St. John’s wort- look into all the concrete rings, including broken ones, if you still haven’t found them, then most likely they were picked up by Phantoms that are lying in ambush there, search the corpses immediately - then they will disappear.
- How to get into the courtyard of the plant on Yantar on Caesar’s instructions- Caesar gives you a suit with good protection from radiation, we put it on and hang on the belt artefacts that remove radiation, it is better to remove those inducing radiation, be sure to remove ruby ​​artefacts - they are not just radioactive - but also accelerate the accumulation of radiation. Particularly useful art here will be the “Symbions” - they add protection to the suit from radiation. We go beyond the swamp and the helicopter, approach the border of the slope and the wall of the plant - here there will be a radiation barrier that must be overcome without stopping, save in case of a replay with a high level of captured radiation, then we go along the outer part of the location and go around the plant building from the north side, we go into the courtyard - poltergeists are flying there, we look for what Caesar is looking for and return back the same way; back we also need to overcome the radiation barrier.
- I can’t approach the Magician- carefully read the dialogue with the Ghost, the teleport outside the boundaries of the game part of the location is located in the garages, the return teleport is located near the garages from the outside.

Small hints on the characters

I will describe the most common problems that may arise with some characters, but I will not describe them all.
Do not rush to immediately complete tasks to kill some Persians - they may turn out to be key or can give something in their lives. Murder is not an end in itself for the Stalker at all.

When we go on a search mission Vasilyeva it is advisable to kill the controller before meeting with Vasiliev. Vasiliev he might get stuck in the cave - we go down into the cave and push him in the butt, he should come out, if you run out in front of him, he might stay there. You can save before descending into the cave and talking with him - the next save is after he leaves the cave, it is better not to save in the cave. We help on Yantar Vasiliev fight off the zombies, when the task works, go up to him and talk, accompany him to the camp and talk to Denom, and only after talking with Denom let's go to the bunker Sakharov.

Many can't find Griga in MG, although they see the mark and hear his voice of greeting. Walk around the rooms and you will find him - he is on the second floor in a dead-end room.

Don't refuse to help Dyaku in the shooting of military personnel at Chernobyl NPP-1, he will then give a tip to a case with medicines for Solomon. He also has to shoot a spy. If he died at the hands of the military, replay the game. If he can’t shoot the spy, it means he dropped his gun, sell him a loaded gun, or throw it next to him, he’ll pick it up and do his dirty deed, otherwise you’ll have to dirty your hands by killing a neutral stalker.

When rescued Ghost from mercenaries on assignment Paramedic we must protect him from injury (and, of course, from death), because during treatment Shooter members of the Monolith, Ghost will also become a Monolith and turn out to be an enemy after brainwashing Paramedic. Ghost whom he sends to kill Charon, a quest character, so we’re not in a hurry to finish him off, but respond to the message Paramedic approach him.

Another quest character - Fang, also needs protection when leading to show the transition from Pripyat to the Swamps. After Fang will show up at the AS, where he will have to be saved from the mercenaries once again. On AC Fang will appear when we visit Pripyat on the PDA quest Borov, after completing all tasks Count and also find documents in the X-16 - laptop.

Some characters change their locations, and if you need to find someone in one place, and you take too long to find him, he may end up in another place, and he may no longer have the necessary dialogues.

Paramedic migrates from the stadium to the house with the grocery store, so we don’t delay in searching for PDA for Borov and a trip to Pripyat, Paramedic in the grocery store will not give you a murder task Magician.

When you first enter the Bar, find the stalker Sokhaty and talk to him, then to Prince and again with Sokhatym- several branches of the plot begin with a conversation with him - work on Prince, search for cache Semetsky and then search for PDA Borov. We immediately take from Prince task to deal with the stalker Zheka- the search for the cache will begin with it Semetsky. To start searching for PDA Borov necessary after handing in the hard drive Prince approach Borov and ask him about work - not to be confused with cyclic quests. Don't forget to talk to Borovoy- he will talk about what he has Count, the local security chief for the gang, has work for GG. First task Count You can do it right away at the same location - it won’t take much time.

Many people die before completing the task, a stalker nicknamed Noodles. I advise you when we go towards the Landfill from Bar for the first time, last of all, go to the last bandit in Bar and take an order from him for Noodles, save after this and run to the Landfill if you receive a message about death Noodles- you can replay. This character likes to die in anomalies, get caught by wild boars and get shot by bandits, killing him is not necessary - just talk to him. Further, he is not needed - most likely he will die on his own. Will give a tip on Antique dealer, you will have to ask about him Borov.

After talking with Noodles are looking for Zheku- it's in the depot, you can find it Tank driver at the Landfill behind an abandoned equipment parking lot - he will talk if you picked up a stalker's diary in the MG sewer Krola, or approach it after the first descent - there will be fewer monsters on the second visit to X-18. Tankman gives a tip to the place where the bioradar dropped.

Lefty, whom he asks to find and persuade to join Freedom Lukash, asks you to bring him a weapon and a suit - they must be in full working order and be in the inventory in a single copy. After you have brought him everything he requires and given it to him, do not immediately follow him, try to be outside the a-life zone with him, so he will get to the AS without problems, but it is better to be in other locations altogether, he needs some time to move on AC. In the line of sight, even if you do not see him, he may die. If you go straight to the Landfill after giving him the equipment, you can see him wandering around the Landfill, here he can be killed by the mercenaries that we meet when we carry rifles from Besa Petrenko, and the pigs may meet, and the bandits at the checkpoint are also unlikely to let him through. Also in a-life he can end up in an anomaly. Me after talking with Left-handed I'm going down to Varyag in the dungeon while I'm running in circles Lefty already calmly gets to the AC.

Tip to Yarofeeva at the checkpoint gives Varangian but he will talk only after the circles of hell. Myself Yarofeev will appear after talking with Bartender when we come to him from Varangian.

Petrenko will appear in the TD after successfully defending “Debt” from the attack of bandits on the first visit to the TD. I need to talk to Voronin, then with Sobolev and again with Voronin.

After being persuaded Lefty and he went to the AS to the "Svobodovtsy" in Bar will appear Pathfinder, I recommend that before your first trip to the DT, go on assignment Pathfinder to a meeting with Incognita, after this meeting Pathfinder There will be a task for DT - you can complete it along the way.

Miser With Screw They immediately take their positions after we take on the task of storming the Barrier.
The Svoboda guard appears at the armory a little later. Miser in one of the quests he asks to bring bread and says that he needs to talk to Sidorovich at the peacekeepers' location - he knows where Baker find, you need to have time to talk to Sidorovich while he is at this location, then he moves to the Cordon to “his” well-known place, there he tips on Baker will not give. After we bring the flour to the Baker and take the task for a box with tools in the Baker’s utility room, his assistant, Vano, will appear, he will also have one task for the GG - to bring a box with mines, I advise you to make a save because there will be a “warm” meeting with the Marauders, the leader of the Marauders, Razuvaev, will then have a fragment of the map with Semetsky’s hiding place, you can complete the Marauders’ task in different ways - further passage through the plot may depend on your progress.

Sviblov with a group of diggers is located on the Radar and the first approach to it must be done according to instructions Informant to help diggers. Informant gives a parcel to give to him, it contains food, first aid kits, vodka - in general, everything that Informant the dal must be brought intact and given back Sviblov, make sure not to overuse first aid kits and not to use up the parcel, the task will hang. Some people go to Radar from Yantar for the first time and find Sviblova dead - in theory Sviblov seems to need help, so you need to approach him by taking a task from Informant, it is not necessary to come with the AC, but the parcel should be delivered. Also complete all tasks Sviblova on the first approach to him - on the super-bloodsucker, on the traitor and go down to X-10 for documents and a system manager. First take the system unit on the upper level, it is often thrown by the bureaucrats, it is located in the room in front of the room with a gap through which you can see the exit from the X-10. After you find everything in the X-10, try to clear all the enemies so that there will be fewer problems in subsequent visits.

When will you receive from Count a tip that Sviblov may give a transition to the MG, then get ready to go straight into it. Grab a walkie-talkie for Zahara, give it back along the way. Transfer from Sviblova in MG it is temporary and then disappears. If you receive a tip from Count but are not ready to go to MG yet Sviblov there are still things to do, just don’t start a conversation with him about the transition. On this trip to the MG, don’t forget to find a character on the outskirts of the MG who will clarify the situation with Mohammed.

Mahomet will find you on its own - you just need to finish the dialogue with Sidorovich at the Cordon when he moves into his rightful place. Semetsky will appear in the Sarcophagus after talking with Mohammed.

If you take on some task and complete it, we don’t delay in submitting it. After the storming of the Bar by "Duty", some characters from the Bar fade - so try to complete and turn in all the tasks to the quest runners in the Bar before the assault. After the assault on Bar Dolgov you will not find Borov, Count And Pathfinder. If there are any tasks for them, complete them before taking the Bar, the last moment - before taking the Bar card from Borov.

Transitions in Secret Paths 2

In Secret Paths 2, many transitions between locations (they are also secret paths) should be discovered as the game progresses. Some must be obtained for certain tasks, some are found through tips, some open special arts - “Guides”, they should be found and taken to the Pathfinder - the stalker in the Bar, a specialist in Secret Paths. Some transitions become permanent, others will disappear after a certain time.
There are immediately only transitions in well-known locations south of Bar - from the Landfill and back - to Cordon, to Agroprom, to the Dark Valley and to Bar.
Transitions of the initial stage of the game before the first entry into Pripyat

At the beginning of the game, before the first entry into Pripyat, all transitions are temporary and are given for one time - go to another location, and the transition from the new location must be obtained/earned. After receiving the transition, the message “New path!” pops up; in the PDA you can see on the map where it is located. The main difficulty is the transition from Amber to the Forest; you need to find it yourself. Sakharov gives a fairly clear tip on where to look for him - in the eastern part of the location in the lowland there is a bus, in it in the Original PM we come to after the ejection when we go to take measurements with Kruglov. You need to walk around the northern part of the bus - where the cabin is, a passage will open at a certain point. Another transition can cause difficulties - from the MG to the Forest on the instructions of the Forester to bring a box of provisions, after talking with Leila, she says that we need to approach the Guide who brought the GG to the monastery, do not forget about this and approach him - he will take the GG to to an already familiar place and the transition from the MG to the Forest will again open for one passage. The transition to Pripyat is given by Grieg, we carefully read the dialogue with him and save immediately after it, the transition is one-time and if you managed to dive into the sewer, there will be no way back - you can climb out through the hatch, but we will not go back down into the sewer. In the sewer, don’t forget to look at your feet - we pick up the diary of the stalker Krol, you’ll need it later, it doesn’t disappear from your inventory.

The transition to Chernobyl NPP-2 (this is the northern part of the Chernobyl NPP, the southern part will be called Chernobyl NPP-1) is issued along with Charon’s task to destroy the “infidels”. The transition is located in the upper part of the Sarcophagus (the interior of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant) in the room where the Monolith stone itself is located. We climb up the reactor, see a stone and a teleport, dive into the teleport and find ourselves on the wall, then along the inclined beam of the destroyed structure we pass through the gap in the wall and go left all the way, then turn left again and find ourselves at the transition.
The return passage to the Sarcophagus will be located in the central part of Chernobyl NPP-2 near Solomon.
Charon's next task is to clear the Monolith's Control Bunker, you need to get into it from Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant-2 where in the Original PM we exit the Bunker at the end - in the western side of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant-2, the transition is marked on the map. At the end of the game this transition will disappear.
Afterwards, Charon will send to Pripyat for medicine to the Paramedic. The transition to Pripyat is located at Chernobyl NPP-1, to get to Chernobyl NPP-1 we go down into the basements where the bureaucrats were shot on the first task. At the end of the corridor in the shaft with a broken spiral staircase there will be a transition; in this place in the Original we find ourselves in the Sarcophagus from Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant-1. From Chernobyl NPP-1 it is not difficult to find the transition to Pripyat. Anyone who has completed the Original TC can easily find all these transitions. These transitions will be permanent until the end of the game, except for the transition to the Control Bunker.

The Informant will pass off the transition to the Bar as a special folder, which must be brought from the AS Base, where "Freedom" is being set up.
We also receive a transition to Radar from the Informant along with a task to help the diggers led by Sviblov. Here the following point should be taken into account - the first approach to Sviblov must be precisely on the instructions of the Informant, and the parcel must be delivered safe and sound. You can not immediately take the task to help the diggers, but combine a trip to Radar with other tasks in this location, the main thing is not to get carried away with going through other branches of the plot, and not find yourself in a situation where you need to go to Sviblov on another task and on another transition without taking missions for help from the Informant, you can find Sviblov already dead or lose him later for “incomprehensible” reasons.

To open the transition from Bar to DT, you need to complete the following tasks:
- complete the first two tasks of the Count - one at the Bar location, does not require any transitions, the second - to help the Prince on the Radar, will require the AS-Radar transition, we receive from the Informant, it is convenient to combine with the help of Sviblov’s diggers;
- go to the peacekeepers at the “Pre-Room” location or the Peacekeeping Corps (MK) and then talk to the Bartender, he will say that the GG was looking for the Count and he has another task.
After completing these tasks, the Count will send to Amber to Caesar to bring him three flash drives, we find the flash drives on the territory of the Bar behind the fence, when we find them, the message “New path!” will immediately pop up. and the transition will be available.
You can also talk and take tasks for DT from the Pathfinder - it will be in the Bar, it is advisable to go to a meeting with Incognito at Agroprom before this - the meeting is possible if you use the temporary transition from Agroprom to the dungeon, it is located on the street in a destroyed descent into the dungeon, the transition will then disappear.
At the DT, you can complete tasks from the Pathfinder and go to the Railwaymen, they will also give you several tasks to be completed at the same location.
To go to Yantar, you need to find another Secret Path - after the tunnel with "Zharki" we explore the area to the right of the road, near one of the bushes we will find a Secret Path - now we will have constant transitions Bar-DT-Yantar.

On DT - we get it as soon as we find the transition from DT to Yantar;
To the Radar and back - after placing tags on mutants;
To Agroprom and back - after a showdown with Associate Professor Dorodin in the TD.
Transitions from Yantar are constant.

It begins, oddly enough, with the stalker Sokhaty, who asks for help in freeing his friends from a gangster prison. Without a conversation with Sokhaty, the Prince will be silent, there will be no conversation about the hard drive, about the debtor Zheka, who will give the first fragment and the task to collect all the fragments of the map with Semetsky’s hiding place. After we bring the hard drive to the Prince, we approach Borov and take on the task of searching for the missing Courier and the PDA with him. After failing to find the PDA, the message “Talk to Borov” pops up in the TD, we talk - and he says that the Svoboda members have scouted out the road to Pripyat, we talk to Lukash and undertake to bring a certain radioactive container from the Radar, in exchange for it Lukash will give the Radar-Pripyat passage. The transition is permanent. Searching for a container can also be combined with the help of diggers and the Prince.

To help find the bags on the AS, the baker gives a tip on where you can find the MK-Bar transition, we look around the swamp in the south of MK behind the factory with zombies, we examine the boulders near the swamp.
The informant will give out the Radar-TD transition for a couple of “Tears of the Chimera” artifacts. On the Radar it starts at a dead end where the Prince is standing.

From Cordon to Agroprom - located on Cordon near the western end of the railway tracks:
From Agroprom to Cordon - located in the south of the location near the barbed wire gate, there are many anomalies and wild boars nearby;
From DT to AC - located behind the fence at the north-western end of the railway tracks, there are many anomalies, dogs and pseudo-dogs nearby;
From AS to Radar - located in a hollow near a fallen helicopter, Svoboda members can pick it up from the Barrier. There is one important note about this passage - do not use it until the regular passage to Yantar through the DT has been opened, there will be no way back. I also don’t recommend using it without special protection from radiation - we prepare arts, look for a good suit, when descending on Yantar we pass the radiation barrier and you can grab a lot - even death (in the Update, this “guide” opens a path from the AS to the TD - thus, it will not be possible to get to Yantar bypassing the standard path through the DT).

After completing all the Count’s tasks, he gives a tip that the Chistonebovites seem to have a transfer to the MG, and that they have lost a person, you need to volunteer to help find this person and get a transfer to the MG for this. We approach Sviblov on the Radar (I hope we helped him by this point, brought the parcel and completed his tasks), he tells how to get to the MG, first you need to find a teleport that will throw the MG over the thorn, then we go to the transition itself. We take a walkie-talkie with us for Zakhar - we’ll give it to him along the way. You should not delay your trip to the MG - the transition will disappear. In the MG we speak with Leila - it temporarily opens a path to the Forest, and also do not forget about the meeting with Mohammed or a person who can give a tip to him. He will be waiting in one of the houses on the outskirts of the city. Then we go to the Forest, the Forester sends us to the Hunters, we give the radio to Zakhar, and the Hunters guide the GG to the place where the lost one might be, we save the lost one - it turns out to be Leila’s sister Karina, she takes her to the place where the kidnappers caught her and her guide, we find the corpse of the guide and his PDA, according to data from the PDA, Karina takes us to the transition to the Swamps. This trail to the Swamps, starting from Radar, is temporary.

The doctor gives us a flash drive for the Pathfinder and also a guide dog, which will show us the path from the Swamps to MG and further to AS.
The trail that begins in the Swamps and reaches the AS through the MG at the tip of a guide dog is constant. Take care of your dog during the journey from the Doctor to the trailhead. Next, we take the flash drive to the Pathfinder in the Bar and he tells you where to find the “Superconductor” - it will open the return path from the AS to the Swamps through the MG. “Superconductor” must be looked for in the dark from one to two in the morning on the speakers at the edges of the location. The art glows and is clearly visible, located in a place where no one walks or picks it up. Before starting the search, I recommend saving; if you don’t have time to find it, just reboot and run through other places. The trail starts from AS in MG, there we carefully look at the map and look for the transition to the Swamps. The path is permanent.

In the finale at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant we will meet with the legend of the Zone, stalker Semetsky, with Solomon, with the Pathfinder. The Pathfinder will be at the transition to the Control Bunker, but there will be no transition - the Pathfinder says that now you can get into the Bunker through the Sarcophagus, we go to the Sarcophagus and from there we get to the Bunker. The transition in the Sarcophagus to the Bunker will be in the same place where in the Original we get into the Bunker - a coded door. Next is the finale. The choice of ending is up to you.

Search for Semetsky's hiding place

In the Secret Paths there are several cross-cutting ones that do not affect the completion of tasks, but are very interesting in terms of the results of the findings. I will describe the search for the cache of the Zone legend of the stalker Semetsky. It starts with taking the task of dealing with one stalker from the Prince in Bar, first you need to approach the stalker Sokhaty in Bar and take from him the task of helping to free your friends from the bandit prison, without this the Prince will be silent and we won’t see any hiding place. We find the stalker we are looking for in the Landfill, his name is Zheka, we talk to him and he gives us the first fragment of a map indicating Semetsky’s hiding place as payment for his debt to the Prince. From the moment the task is accepted, the found fragments will be displayed in the PDA in the “Journal” section; before the task is taken from Zheka, the found fragments are displayed in the inventory.
This is where fragments of the map with Semetsky’s hiding place are found. They are described as we go through my walkthrough, your order may differ:
Semetsky's cache

1st fragment- we receive from Zheka with the task itself;
2nd fragment- we will find when searching the corpse of a zombified professor in the X-18 laboratory in search of an anomalous “Thunderstorm” for the Tankman, to talk with the Tankman we need to pick up the diary of the stalker Krol in the sewers of the Dead City when we look for an exit to Pripyat on a tip from Grieg (in the Update this fragment will be with the leader of the Marauders, Razuvaev - they will appear at the Peacekeepers location when we go to get mines for Vano);
8th fragment will be with one of the bandits in the northern complex in the Dark Valley when we go to rescue the Courier on Borov’s assignment to search for PDA;
4th fragment Major Yarofeev will be at the military checkpoint on the Cordon, we search him after the conversation and the murder, leaving him alive is more expensive for himself, he begins to shoot at the GG;
3rd fragment we will find another zombie professor while clearing the base for peacekeepers;
6th fragment there will be a bandit named Shiloh, you will meet this character during a robbery in the Wild Territory, do not avoid the robbery if you want to get a fragment, without the robbery there will be no fragment;
7th fragment will be caught by one of the mercenaries when we repel Fang from an ambush set up by mercenaries at the Army Warehouses;
5th fragment we will find from one of the Monoliths that we will meet in X-18 on the instructions of Fang.

Finding parts of the minigun circuit and finding amulets

There are a couple more cross-cutting and interesting quests in Secret Paths 2; I will describe them in one post, since they intersect.
When you first (can be later - it’s just better not to waste time) entering the Bar, the mechanic Potapov will be standing in the bar itself, we approach him and receive from him a task to search for parts of the minigun circuit, the gun is very effective and can greatly help with crowds of evil spirits. From the story we learn that there are only seven parts and they were kept by different stalkers of the missing in different locations. Therefore, you need to look for the corpses of missing stalkers or backpacks. I advise you to make a screenshot of the dialogue to avoid misunderstandings and unnecessary questions. I will describe them in the order in which I find them. The numbering is arbitrary and has no connection to parts of the circuit.
Minigun circuit parts

1 - in the Landfill, in the south-eastern part of the location behind the swamp and forest, there is a nook, there are full of blind dogs and pseudo-dogs, zombies are walking around;
2 - in X-18, we will examine all the corners on the lower level;
3 - in the dungeons of Agroprom, easy to find;
4 - at a military checkpoint, located at the checkpoint itself in a backpack in a relatively visible place (in the Update, the backpack may be in different, but not very hard-to-reach places - we look carefully);
5 - on the Radar, we examine the territory of the burnt forest behind the mesh fence, the corpse lies on the boulders closer to the steep stone walls, the boulders are accessible for a regular jump (in the Update, a corpse can randomly appear anywhere in the burned forest area on the Radar);
6 - at the exit from X-16, easy to find;
7 - in Pripyat in a hotel we find the corpse of a stalker, we look into all the rooms, look out the windows, he will also have an amulet, I’ll write about it below (in the Update, the digger’s corpse can also be located in different places of the hotel)..

Chimeron- we remove Fedi the Robber from his neck, the search for amulets begins with him, he slightly protects from electricity +10 and explosion +10, is radioactive -10;
The Dragon- we find on the AC in the village of bloodsuckers in a terrible place of “ritual” death of stalkers, has protective properties against burns +10 and chemical burns +10, radioactive -10 (in the Update, this amulet can randomly appear anywhere in the village on the AC);
Garganon- we’ll find Semetsky in his hiding place, slightly protects against telepathy +15, radioactive -10;
Avalon- will be found in the corpse of a digger in Pripyat in a hotel along with a minigun circuit, has protective properties against explosion +10 and bullet resistance +10, radioactive -10;
Catalan- one of the well-known characters who needs to be killed will have a radioactive value of -10;
Sarcon- found in X-16, lies on the upper level of the installation, but the burers can throw it somewhere, reduces protection from electricity -15 and slightly removes radiation +10.

Stamina +182
Burn +20
Impact +40
Electroshock +20
Gap +20
Radiation +20
Telepathy +30
Chemical burn +20
Explosion +20
Bullet resistance +20

Recipes for art modifications in Secret Paths 2

In Secret Paths you can change the properties of some artifacts. To do this, you need to find a transmutation recipe, have the necessary art and find the corresponding anomaly described in the recipe. Artifacts have different properties - positive ones are displayed in green, negative ones - in red. When hanging art on a belt, it is advisable to strive to ensure that the total sum of the various properties of all hung art is in a positive direction, especially for art that induces radiation and removes it.
There are several chains for converting artifacts - from simple to absolute.
Absolutes, as a rule, have mostly only positive properties, maybe one negative one that can be compensated for by other arts.
Recipes are found in different ways - some in secrets, others as rewards during tasks. To get the absolute you need to have complete
a chain of recipes, so try not to miss finding them and do not neglect completing tasks.
The first recipe that can be obtained is from Sakharov on the first visit to Yantar for the cyclic quests to find/bring, bring a snork’s foot and the recipe for “Tears of Electra” will be displayed in the PDA in the “Help” - “Recipes” section - a very useful modification for getting started. If you missed it, don’t worry, you can get it later on your next visit to Sakharov. This recipe begins the chain of art modifications up to Tears of the Chimera.
Recipes for art conversions to "Tears of the Chimera"

Artifact "Drop" - properties -10 radiation and -18 endurance - removes a little radiation but increases fatigue.
Recipe for "Tears of Electra":
We throw a “Drop” into the “Electra” anomaly - we get “Tears of Electra” with the properties of -10 radiation and +18 endurance - it also removes radiation and increases endurance.
Recipe for "Tears of Fire":
We throw “Tears of Electra” into the “Frying” anomaly and get “Tears of Fire” with the properties of -20 radiation.
Recipe for "Tears of the Chimera":
We throw “Tears of Fire” into the “Jellied” anomaly and get “Tears of the Chimera” with protective properties of -30 radiation, +40 protection from telepathy and +5 bullet resistance, and also worsens health -150 and increases bleeding +153.
Recipes for “Tears of Fire” and “Tears of Chimera” are also given by Sakharov after completing the task of eliminating Associate Professor Dorodin, as well as the transition from Agroprom to Yantar and back.

Artifact "Kolobok" - has the following protective properties: +5 burst, +5 explosion, +5 bullet resistance, among other things, it is quite strongly phonic +15 radiation.
Recipe for "Steel Kolobok":
We throw the "Kolobok" into the "Springboard" anomaly - we get a "Steel Kolobok" with the following protective properties: +5 gap, +5 bullet resistance and induces +7 radiation. Recipe from a saved "infidel".
Recipe for "Titanium Kolobok":
We throw the "Steel Kolobok" into the "Carousel" anomaly - we get a "Titanium Kolobok" with the following protective properties: +20 burn, +7 rupture, +20 chemical burn, +7 bullet resistance, radioactive +15. We get the recipe from Sviblov after we bring him the documents and the system unit from the X-10.
Recipe for "Diamond Kolobok":
We throw the "Titanium Kolobok" into the "Jellied" anomaly - we get a "Diamond Kolobok" with the following protective properties: +20 burn, +8 rupture, +15 chemical burn, +8 bullet resistance, radioactive +10. The recipe is in the backpack in the Sarcophagus.
Recipe for "Giant's Little Brother":
We throw the “Diamond Kolobok” into the “Frying” anomaly - we get the “Little Brother of the Giant” with the following protective properties -15 radiation, +20 burn,
+12 gap, +5 explosion, +10 bullet resistance. The side effect is an increased need for food +20000. The recipe will be available after completing the quest for Noodles, either he will give it, or the one who ordered it.

The Sea Urchin artifact has the following protective properties -25 radiation, +5 burn, +5 explosion, +3 bullet resistance, and also increases bleeding by +200.
Recipe for getting "Porcupine":
We throw the "Sea Urchin" into the "Frying" anomaly - we get the "Porcupine" - it removes radiation perfectly -65, reduces endurance -18. Recipe from one of Charon's guards.
Recipe for "Electric Porcupine":
We throw the "Porcupine" into the "Electra" anomaly, we get the "Electric Porcupine" - radiation output -63, increases endurance +91, shock protection +5, reduces protection from electricity -10. The recipe is given by the Informant for a folder from the base to the AC along with the transition to the Bar.
Recipe for "Snotty Porcupine":
We throw the "Electric Porcupine" into the "Jellied" anomaly, we get a "Snotty Porcupine" with the following properties - radiation output -55, endurance +82, reduces bleeding well -444, reduces protection from electricity -7. The recipe is in a well-hidden backpack in X-10.
Recipe for "Stone Porcupine":
We throw "Snotty Porcupine" into the "Springboard" anomaly, we get "Stone Porcupine" with the following properties - radiation output -50, endurance +77, bleeding reduction -389, protection from electricity +20, protection from explosion +7. The recipe is given by the Fan for two "Golden Chunks"

“Soul” - has very good indicators of increasing health +1000, reducing bleeding -267 and endurance +36, but the presence of negative properties greatly limit the use of this artifact - gap -20, explosion -20 and a decrease in bullet resistance -20.
All further modifications are made in the “Frying” anomaly except the last one.
The resulting modifications have the following characteristics:
"Drop of Soul"- health +600, radiation -10, stamina reduction -16.
"Fiery soul"- health +800, radiation -20, bleeding reduction -17, explosion +5, endurance reduction -16.
"Crystal Soul"- health +1000, radiation -30, bleeding reduction -33, explosion +10, endurance reduction -9.
And the last art modification of this chain:
"Crystal Soul of Bengal"- brewed in the Electra anomaly - has truly wonderful properties:
Health +1500, radiation output - 30, bleeding reduction - 167, endurance +15, protection from electricity +20, explosion +10.

“Film” has the following properties - increased bleeding +157, protection against burns +15, against chemical burns +15, good protection against ruptures +50.
Recipe for obtaining "Skin":
We throw the "Film" into the "Springboard" anomaly - we get a "Skin" with the following properties - chemical burn +30, bullet resistance +7, slightly radioactive +3. We receive the recipe after we take Solomon's parcel to the Bartender.
Recipe for obtaining "Scales":
We throw the "Skin" into the "Carousel" anomaly - we get "Scales" with the following properties - health +150, chemical burn +35, bullet resistance +7, increases bleeding +111 and radioactive +5. We receive the recipe from Sokhaty for his help in freeing our friends from a bandit prison.
Recipe for obtaining "Shell":
We throw "Scales" into the "Jellied" anomaly - we get "Shell" with the following properties - health +50, reduction of bleeding -144, protection against chemical burns +40, bullet resistance +10, slightly radioactive +2. We get the recipe from Petrenko for a modified grenade launcher.
Recipe for obtaining "Controller's Scalp":
We throw the "Shell" into the "Frying" anomaly and get the "Controller's Scalp" with the following properties - health +100, protection from telepathy +50, protection from chemical burns +30, bullet resistance +10, increases the need for food +2200. The recipe is given by Kruglov after we take the case with the documents to Voronin and come to him for a pistol with sleeping pills for the crazy professor.

“Mom’s Beads” - reduces hunger +100000, increases stamina +55, reduces bleeding -333, but also weakens shock protection -20.
Recipe for "Granny's Beads":
We throw “Mom’s Beads” into the “Electra” anomaly, we get “Grandmother’s Beads” with the following parameters - endurance +227, bullet resistance +5, reduces protection from electricity - 15, radioactive +5. We get the recipe from the Forester when we help him fight off the cats after leaving Pripyat through the Swamps.
Recipe for obtaining "Great-Grandmother's Beads":
We throw “Grandmother’s Beads” into the “Jellied” anomaly, we get “Great-Grandma’s Beads” with the following parameters - health +150, bleeding reduction -422, bullet resistance +3, radioactive +7. The recipe is given by the Paramedic after saving the Ghost in Pripyat from mercenaries.
Recipe for "Granny Burer's Beads":
We throw “Great-Grandmother’s Beads” into the “Carousel” anomaly, we get “Grandmother’s Beads of Burer” with the following parameters - health +200, radiation removal -10, bleeding reduction -500, explosion protection +10, bullet resistance +15, reduces endurance -18. The recipe is given by Varyag after completing the “circles of hell” in the dungeons of Agroprom.

Recipe for "Fire Pacifier":
A “Dummy” with explosion protection parameter +20 is thrown into the “Electra” anomaly, resulting in a “Fire Dummy” with parameters stamina +33, burn protection +30, weakened protection against electricity -10.
Recipe for "Bright Pacifier":
The “Fiery Dummy” in the “Electra” anomaly is transformed into a “Bright Dummy” with the parameters stamina +66, burn protection +30, weakened protection from electricity -15.
Recipe for "Moon Pacifier":
Then the “Bright Dummy” in the “Electra” anomaly is transformed into the “Moon Dummy” with the parameters stamina +99, burn protection +30, weakening protection from electricity -20.
Recipe for "Pudding":
“Moon Dummy” is transformed into anomalies “Jellied” into “Pudding” with the following properties - endurance +18, burn +40, protection from electricity +40, protection from chemical burns +15.

List of quest items
- five cans of canned food- Charon’s guard, Solomon has one each, Paramedic has three in one approach, Mahon has four for “Golden Fish”, they may end up in corpses during a search;
- another guard of Charon asks for five PDAs - gives a grenade launcher for the domestic "Koster" barrels, and Solomon's guard asks for five bottles of vodka, gives a TT pistol, these items are not particularly important, but finding five PDAs or five bottles of vodka is difficult at this stage of the game , so don’t take tasks if you don’t have the items you’re looking for in your inventory, if you find them, go up and take the task and turn it in right away, if you don’t find it, it wasn’t really necessary;
- two “Crystals” or two “Films” To the bartender for transferring Solomon's parcel to the mainland, one will be given to Caesar on Yantar after completing his task, another may be caught during the assault on the base on the AS, or near a dilapidated tunnel with psi and radiation zones, or from one of the military, it is advisable to search all the corpses . I start the search while still in the Monolith - in the Sarcophagus and in the Control Bunker there are a couple of boxes in which various artifacts can randomly fall out, from one I always knock out the “Crystal”, there is also a box in Pripyat behind a fence next to the future transition to the Swamps - this box I split the first race into snorkels because... the box usually does not survive until a later moment, the “Film” can be obtained through a cyclic quest from Sakharov - but this takes a long time and we will only get one “Film” at a time;
- two "Golden Chunks" To the fan for the recipe, one will be in the Bar in a building with a door propped up by boxes, we climb from the roof through a hole, the second one will be found in the Landfill when we look for part of the minigun circuit, they are found on DT and on Yantar, we just get there later in the game;
-5 bottles of vodka, 5 cans of canned food, 5 sausage sticks, 5 first aid kits- a parcel from the Informant to a group of diggers - needs to be handed over safely to Sviblov, when we approach the diggers they are all lying wounded, we don’t get carried away with treatment - we can overuse the first aid kits from the parcel, first we give the parcel, then if there are first aid kits left we can treat the wounded, they themselves they will heal each other;
- assault "Abakan"- the Prince asks for weed for the guard of the Svoboda gunsmith, he gets caught several times, the first time he is given out by General Voronin for helping to fight off a bandit attack on the first visit to the TD, a couple more times he can be randomly given out for clearing out mutants near X-18 and for nychka bandits, another one lies in the inspection hole of the garage at the DT, if, after all, there is not one left by the time the Prince asks for it, you can exchange it with Petrenko for two “Sea Urchins”, “Sea Urchins” can be randomly exchanged with Kruglov for " Heart of the Controller";
- a jar of Monpatier- the Monk will need it on the AS for the quest for Borov’s PDA, search the corpses, caches may fall out, you also come across jars of Monpassier on the corpses of military personnel, Yarofeev has one;
- scientific suit of mercenaries and Storm for Lefty, the suit and Thunderstorm must be in good condition and in a single copy, the scientific suit of mercenaries is first encountered in Pripyat, can be repaired by Mahon and taken with you, it can also fall (if you're lucky) from the mercenaries when liberating Lefty, the suit and weapon should be repaired at merchants and not used, the slightest wear and Lefty will not accept them, the mercenary science is also on sale at Borov;
- "Fiery soul"- Lefty will ask you to bring him for the gravity suit upgrade;
- "Mica", "Crystal", "Goldfish", "Soul", "Ruby Spring", "Flash"- Lefty will ask you to bring these six artifacts for the repair of the universal detector found in X-18 on the instructions of Fang;
- two "Fireballs"- Kruglova for marking a bag of grass, can be found at the DT in the tunnel with “Zharki”;
- "Crystal Soul of Bengal"- To the informant for identifying the location of Semetsky’s cache using an incomplete set of map fragments;
- two "Tears of the Chimera"- Informant for crossing Radar-TD;
- five “Cobblestones” or five “Crystal Souls of Bengal”- to upgrade a nanosuit from Semetsky’s cache, before the upgrade you need to have one set of art, another needs to be laid out, then we put on the suit and the suit assimilates the corresponding artifacts, there are two “Cobblestones” in the cache;
- 3 burer arms, 3 cat tails, 3 poltergeist eyes and a ruby ​​spring- The doctor in the finale will ask you to bring them, for them he will give passage from the Swamps to Pripyat.

Artifact "Controller's Heart"

The results of Kruglov’s quest to find the “Heart of the Controller” are interesting. The first artifact must be found in the Agroprom swamp; we hang the detector that Kruglov gives on our belt. We save before entering the psi zone, enter the psi zone - the message “An artifact was found!” pops up. - we look for it, maybe either on the surface of the lake or in the trailer itself, if we haven’t found it, we reboot, the main thing is that the save is made before entering the psi zone and before the message about its discovery, the artifact may spawn somewhere in the wrong place, It's easy to search at night - the artifact glows. We take the found artifact to Kruglov and refuse the reward, take the detector instead of the reward - now you can look for the “Hearts of the Controllers” in other psi-zones. When you find it, a monster will appear, most often a controller; there are bloodsucker and burer. You can also search for other art by first saving before entering the psi zone. Once found, the psi zone degenerates and the next time you enter the location it will no longer be there. For the “Heart of the Controller” Kruglov can give you an elite anomaly detector - he will now always have this dialogue, be careful - do not type more of these tasks if you have already received the detector. Also, the “Heart of the Controller” will be needed by the Lector at the DT, for which he will give a tip on where to look for the “Snake Eyes”, the artifact with which we will find the “Klondike Artifacts”, should be in the inventory when we go to the TD in search of the Klondike.
Psi zones on locations

Amber- entrance to the plant;
Wild Territory- north of the location on the railway tracks;
the middle of the location, next to the previous one - the psi zone is extended and begins near the house where you need to find the “Liquidator”;
Bar- to the left of the road to the transition to AC;
Army Warehouses- in the north, near the rocks between the farm where the Informant lives and the abandoned mercenary base;
in the south behind the farm where the Skull group lives in the original;
at the base itself in a destroyed railway tunnel, it usually pops up behind barbed wire, you can approach it by going around the border from the north near the crossing to Radar, or from the side of the crossing to AS, I pulled it up with a grav gun;
Radar- on the road after the turn with a military ambush before the turn to Pripyat;
in a dead end where the Prince will stand;
Dump- in the hollow between the transitions to the Bar and to the TD, there are wild boars with flesh hanging out;
south of the radioactive pile that is opposite the entrance to the depot from the main road;
Agroprom- in the northeast in the hollow between the transitions to the Landfill and Yantar;
in the south - south of the main gate to the western complex;
Dark Valley- in the northeast behind the gas station building where we find the Prince’s hard drive;
in the southeast where the “day bloodsucker” from the Original hangs out;
Cordon- north of the Bartender's bunker in an anomaly fenced off by thorns;
in the railway tunnel in the east where there is strong radiation.

The "Monolith" merchant will become inaccessible after brainwashing by the Paramedic: 4 bottles of vodka - 3 packs 5.45 BP;
5 sticks of sausage - 3 packs 5.56;
4 bottles of vodka - 3 packs 5.56 AR;
"Stone Flower" - 3 packs 7.62x54R 7H1;
"Slug" - 3 packs of 9x39 PAB-9.
Weapon:
2 "Mica" - AK-47;
2 "Slices of Meat" - Saiga.
In addition to exchanging for art and food from Borov, you can get something from cyclic tasks:
Mutant parts:
eye of flesh - 300 rubles and 3 cans of canned food;
boar hoof - 500 rubles.
Artifacts:
"A Chunk of Meat" - 2100 rubles and 2 scientific first aid kits;
"Flash" - 7500 rubles;
"Crystal Thorn" - 1500 rubles and 2 scientific first aid kits;
"Night Star" - armored suit "Beryl"-5M and 3 F-1 grenades;
"Golden Fish" - LR300 assault rifle, "SUSAT" sight - L9A1, M-203 under-barrel grenade launcher, PBS silencer.

6 chimera claws - 3 packs 5.45 regular;
6 boar hooves - 3 packs of shot;
6 eyes of flesh - 2 first aid kits.
Weapon:
40 blind dog tails - MP-7a3;
30 pseudodog tails - SPAS-12 shotgun;
25 bloodsucker tentacles - submachine gun "Bison" chambered for 9x18 cartridge.
Through cyclic tasks you can get the following from the Bartender:
Mutant parts:
pseudo-dog tail - 200 rubles and 3 packs of shot;
bloodsucker tentacle - 300 rubles and 3 packs of shot.
Artifacts:
"Medusa" - 1500 rubles and a bottle of vodka;
"Stone Flower" - 3000 rubles and a bottle of vodka;
“A Chunk of Meat” - 2000 rubles and 3 army first aid kits;
"Night Star" - jumpsuit