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STALKER 2 Heart of Chornobyl

How to Get the Heart of Chornobyl Artifact

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This is a guide on how to get the Heart of Chornobyl Artifact in STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl. Learn how to get the Heart of Chornobyl Artifact and their effects here!

Warning: major story related spoilers lie ahead.

How to Get Heart of Chornobyl Artifact

Obtain from Strelok in Ward, Spark, or Kaymanov Endings

Heart of Chornobyl Overview

The Heart of Chornobyl is a one of a kind artifact that can only be obtained by killing Strelok during the Ward, Spark, or Kaymanov ending routes. However, only the Kaymanov ending will actually use the artifact for its ending sequence.

Do note that the Heart of Chornobyl cannot be used in a regular playthrough since it has no effect and it cannot be equipped like a regular artifact.

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Heart of Chornobyl Stats Overview

Artifact Effects
Heart of Chornobyl Heart of Chornobyl Unique Effect: Used in Kaimanov ending.
An incredibly rare, almost mythical artifact that functions as a psi-radiation amplifier. The degree of amplification depends on the characteristics and individual capabilities of the source. Its properties are still not fully understood, with the comprehensive range of parameters yet unknown. Presumed to encapsulate the original structure of the Zone's matter.

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3 Anonymous Anonymous 11 months

After ~3 sec delay, it fully regenerates your HP in ~12 sec if you did not take ANY damage to HP (bullets / mutant attacks / anomaly / bleeding / radiation). The HP restoration effect using in game terminology would be "Strong" (or the same as eating 2 canned foods)

2 Anonymous Anonymous 12 months

Heart of chornobyl CAN be equiped, it gives outside of combat a full health regeneration after a while

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