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.

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Answers Come at a Price Walkthrough

Routes
Exited via Northern Checkpoint (Spark Route)	Exited via Pontoon Bridge Checkpoint (Ward Route)

The objectives of Answers Come at a Price may vary for each player and will depend on whether you exited via the Northern Checkpoint or the Pontoon Bridge Checkpoint during the Behind Seven Seals mission.

Northern Checkpoint (Spark Route)

List of Objectives
1	Get to the Detention Center
2	Talk to Star
3	Go Down to the Laboratory
4	Go to the Basement
5	Find Information About Nestor
6	Get to the Top Floor
7	Go to the Sewers
8	Meet Up With the Stranger

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.

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.

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.

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.

Go to the Sewers

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.

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

Meet Up with Stranger

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. Upon exiting, you'll trigger the next main mission, The Price Goes Up.

The Price Goes Up Walkthrough

Pontoon Bridge Checkpoint (Ward Route)

List of Objectives
1	Go to the Military Base
2	Speak to Colonel Korshunov
3	Join the Assault (Option 1)
4	Interrogate the Captive Bandit (Option 2)
5	Search Chornozem's Body

Go to the Military Base

Follow your waypoint to the military base. Go to the main entrance of the base where a Lieutenant will halt you. Tell him that Colonel Korshunov is expecting you. He will then tell you that the Colonel is not at the Military Base, but rather an Outpost northeast of the base, so that's where you'll be heading off to next.

Speak to Colonel Korshunov at the Outpost

Map View
In-Game View

From the Military Base, go to the Outpost located northeast. Go past another Lieutenant that will stop you for a bit for questioning and then talk to Colonel Korshunov, who can be seen standing on top of a shack.

Exhaust all dialogues until you get to the part where you can choose to join the assault or interrogate the captive bandit.

Options
Join the Assault	Interrogate the Captive Bandit

Join the Assault (Option 1)

1	Go to the Depot where a group of soldiers are preparing for an ambush. Once there, talk to the Captain in charge to begin the assault.
2	Help the Wardens eliminate the bandits inside the Depot. Chornozem should die during the shootout.

Interrogate the Captive Bandit (Option 2)

1	Interrogate the captive bandit named Vetos to find a quicker way to get to the Depot. During the dialogue, strike a deal with him by selecting What are you getting at? option. He will ask you to retrieve Hosha's vodka in exchange for a shortcut located at a cave near the Depot. Do not choose the [Hit] option as he will lead you to a trap.
2	With the information on the cave shortcut, sneak into the Depot and then talk to Chornozem. Tell him to go to the balcony and a sniper will take him out.
3	After Chornozem dies, you'll have to eliminate all of the remaining bandits before proceeding to the next step.

Search Chornozem's Body

Search Chornozem's Body and grab the PDA to end the mission. Similar to if you took the Spark Route, picking up the PDA Triggers the next main mission, The Price Goes Up.

The Price Goes Up Walkthrough

Answers Come at a Price Rewards

Mission Rewards

Rewards
After the Assault on Chornozem's Hideout: ・3000 Coupons (Stalker Difficulty)

Answers Come at a Price Overview

Location and Mission Info

Answers Come at a Price Mission Info
Starting Location	Garbage
Quest Giver	Starts immediately after finishing Behind Seven Seals.

STALKER 2 Related Guides

List of All Main Missions

All Main Missions

	List of All Main Missions
1	There and Back Again
2	Behind Seven Seals 2-1. A Tough Awakening 2-2. A Needle in a Haystack 2-3. A Race Against Death
3	Answers Come at a Price
4	The Price Goes Up
5	Deal with the Devil 5-1. King of the Hill (Optional)
6	Back to Slag Heap
7	Hot on the Trail
8	Chasing Ghosts
9	Dead Frequency 9-1. Like a Moth to the Flame
10	In Search of a Guide
11	Ad astra per aspera
12	Extreme Simplicity
13	In Search of a Miracle 13-1. A Long Overdue Visit 13-2. The Forge of Progress 13-3. Wishful Thinking
14	Spark Faction: To the Last Drop of Blood Ward Faction: Law and Order
15	Just Like the Good Old Days
16	The Hornet's Nest
17	An Invisible Threat
18	Dawn of a New Day
19	The Assault on the Duga
20	A Minor Incident
21	In Search of Past Glory
22	Spark Faction: Happiness for Everyone Ward Faction: Once More Unto the Breach
23	Visions of Truth
24	Dark Times
25	An Act of Mercy
26	Legends of the Zone
27	Subtle Matter
28	Dangerous Liaisons
29	Escape from the Cage
30	The Boundary
31	The Road to the Foundation
32	Down Below
33	The Last Wish / Eye of the Storm / Through the valley of the shadow of death
34	Let No One Leave Unsatisfied / The Last Step / The Eternal Shining