Answers Come at a Price Walkthrough

Answers Come at a Price is a main mission in STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl. Read on for a complete walkthrough of Answers Come at a Price, as well as the rewards for completing the mission.

Answers Come at a Price Walkthrough

Get to the Detention Center

Get to the Detention Center, which is a building marked on your PDA Map and Compass. Be sure to use your bolts liberally, as there are multiple anomalies on the way there.

Defend Yourself From the Dogs

Once you are near the building, you will have to fight a pack of dogs, so be ready. Try your best to not get cornered and have bandages ready incase you start bleeding from the damage.

Talk to Star

Proceed to the second floor of the Detention Center and make your way through the hallway until you find Star's office at the end of the hallway. Talk to him to progress the mission.

Go Down to the Laboratory

Head to the Laboratory marked on your PDA Map and your Compass northwest of the Detention Center, which is relatively near.

Fight off the Ward Soldiers

Once you get to the Laboratory, you will be attacked by multiple Ward Soldiers. You can clear out the rooms filled with hostiles faster by throwing grenades and finishing off the stragglers with your guns. Be careful as the area is dark, and it can be hard to spot hostiles.

Go to the Basement

After taking out the Ward Soldiers, head down to the building's basement until you reach the Metal Door. Input the Code 2605 on the keypad to open the door.

Find Information About Nestor

After opening the metal door, you will find more stairs leading to lower floors. Go down to the lowest floor of the Laboratory until you reach the room where you are ambushed by a Bloodsucker. There is also an Electrical Field Anomaly, so be careful.

Pick Up and Listen to the Tape Recorder

In the same room where you kill the Bloodsucker, there is a table with a Tape Recorder. Pick it up and listen to the recording to obtain the information about Nestor.

Get to the Top Floor

After listening to the recording, an unknown voice will contact you. He will give you a code and tell you to go to the top floor. Keep heading up the stairs until you see a locked metal gate with a keypad. Enter the code 2603 to open it.

Meet Up with the Stranger

Once you open the metal gate with the code, go through the hallway until you find a room with a lot of rusted pipes. Make your way through until you see a white door. Open it, and a cutscene with the stranger will play.

Go to the Sewers

Go to the room with the industrial electric motor and multiple rusted pipes. There, you will find the entrance to the sewers.

Finish the Stranger's Dialogue and Escape

The mission will come to a close after the stranger finishes talking and tells you that he will be seeing you around. From here, you can take the tunnel to your right to escape the sewers.

Answers Come at a Price Rewards

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