How to get the best artifact scanner in Stalker 2: Heart Of Chernobyl

You're looking to add some artifacts to your collection Stalker 2: The Heart of Chernobyl? Then you will need a scanner and you will have to use it freely. You'll get one within a few minutes of starting the game, but you'll have to hunt for the others. However, it's worth it, as even the first update is a huge step forward, with each subsequent improvement going even further.

Don't expect to receive updates for the Artifact Scanner for a few hours, as there are some requirements you'll need to meet to access it. You will find information about all this and much more here.

Where to find the Echo scanner

The Echo Detector is the first scanner you find during the initial tutorial mission, There and Back Again. When you go through the scientist's annex, you will come across the body of a dead scientist with a Viper-5 next to it. Looting the body awards the Echo Scanner.

As the first scanner you unlock, Echo Detector's functionality is simple. The closer you get to an artifact, the more frequently the light on his face will flash. Be handy and the light will be solid. You don't get any direction or distance indicators, just the light.

Where to find the Hilka detector

There are several places to find the Hilka detector. It's available in an escort you will meet as part of the Budmo! missionas a purchase from various traders in the Area or from the abandoned Lviv oil tanker in the far east of the Zatov region.

The Budmo! the stash is east of the slag heap and you'll want to go there first; If you complete the mission by helping the drunkard's friend at the eastern hideout, its contents will vanish.

Furthermore, the tanker Lviv is only fully accessible via the A Mysterious Case missionas the boat door will only open after accepting the Sultan's mission to the Sultansk base. You'll find the Hilka Detector in the scientists' bunker at the eastern end of the boat.

The traders you can buy the Hilka detector from for 4,000 the coupons are:

• Bartender in Rostok
• Pythagoras at UTC Malachite
• Hawaiian at Yaniv station

These vendors are the resident owners of the pub at each locationthen they will sell food items, sometimes artifacts, and buy whatever you need to unload.

The Hilka Detector is a huge upgrade to the Echo, like gives you precise distance measurement up to 100 meters when it detects an artifactand the reading decreases at such a rate that you will always have an approximate direction of where you need to go.

Where to find the bear detector

There are two ways to get your hands on the Bear Detector. The first, and much more difficult, is to reach the end of the Uninvited Guests side quest, which you can start by talking to Mytryk Genius on the north side of the Cement Forest in the Cement Factory region.

You will have to navigate underground in the mission until you face two Burer enemies, then loot Mytryk's stash which is nestled under a couple of large wooden cable spools.

You can too purchase the Bear Detector from Hawaiian at Yaniv Station for 6,000 coupons.

As for the detector itself, it's an improvement over the Hilka in two important ways. First, met provides a relatively precise direction in which you need to go to reach the detected artifactand the closer you get, the more the seed ring fills, so you'll always have a good idea of ​​where you need to look.

Where to find the Veles detector

Like the echo detector, the Veles detector is a reward for the quest, especially the Quest for Past Glorywhich you will complete towards the end of the game. It takes at least 15 hours of walking to get there, much more if you do a lot of side content.

You will actually receive the Veles after completing the step where you bring the suppressor blueprint to Dvupalov and he and his assistant argue.

Using Veles is very simple. Its display shows the location, distance and direction of the artifact you are looking for beyond the usual audio signals.