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Eternal Spring or Life is For the Living?
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Eternal Spring or Life is For the Living is a major story choice during the Subtle Matter main mission in STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl. Read on to find out if you should choose Eternal Spring or Life is For the Living, and learn how each choice affects the ending of the game.
| Warning: major story related spoilers lie ahead. |
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Eternal Spring or Life is For the Living Choice Results
Influences the Ending You Get for STALKER 2
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| Choice | Effect |
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| Eternal Spring | Allows you to progress towards the Spark or Ward Endings. Locks you out of the Strelok and Kaymanov Endings. |
| Life is for the living | Allows you to progress towards the Strelok, Kaymanov, or Ward Endings. Locks you out of the Spark Ending. |
During the main mission, Subtle Matter, Scar asks you in Orbita Station to pick one of the two choices. By choosing Eternal Spring, you are limited to only getting the Spark or Ward Endings depending on your next major choice during the main mission, Dangerous Liaisons.
Choosing Life is for the living allows you to choose between either the Strelok, Kaymanov, or Ward Endings. However, do note that the next choice in Dangerous Liaisons also has the potential to lock you out of the Ward Ending.
Should You Choose Eternal Spring or Life is For the Living?
Eternal Spring for Spark or Ward Endings
The choice of Eternal Spring is the only trigger that will allow you to get the Spark Faction ending. If you pass this up now, you will be locked out of the Spark Ending unless you reload to a save before this particular choice.
Note: The choice in Dangerous Liaisons named Escape will have a Spark Faction logo. However, if you did not choose Eternal Spring during Subtle Matter, choosing Escape then will only lock you in for either the Strelok or Kaymanov endings.
Life is For the Living for Strelok, Kaymanov, or Ward Endings
The choice of Life is for the living is only one of 3 choices you have to make if you want to get either the Strelok or Kaymanov endings for STALKER 2. If you do not choose this, your only options afterward will be the Spark or Ward Endings.
Ward Endings are Unaffected by This Choice
Regardless of your choice here, as long as you choose Escape during Dangerous Liaisons, you'll still be able to lock in the Ward Ending for your playthrough.
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