How to get through the swamps in Stalker 2

This guide will help you overcome all the difficulties on the way to the base, avoid traps and complete side quests. Keep in mind: the text contains key moments of the walkthrough, so if you want to avoid spoilers, be careful.

In Search of a Guide

The Clear Sky base becomes an important point in the Ad Astra Per Aspera (To the Stars Through Thorns) story quest, which is activated a few hours after the start of the game. To reach it, you will have to cross several dangerous regions, including swamps teeming with mutants and saturated with deadly anomalies.

To open access to the base, you must first complete two key quests:

The Trapper and the Nimble

The Trapper will ask you to eliminate a group of mutants, among whom will be a rare and dangerous fast deer. Nimble hid in a cave, and you will have to decide his fate: spare or kill. This does not affect the plot.

After completing these quests, the path to the south will become available. However, remember that the swamps are saturated with radiation. Stock up on a protective suit with a high level of radiation resistance and anti-rads.

Disabling the psi-beacons

The next step is to neutralize the four psi-beacons marked on the map. However, each of them is guarded, and getting to them will not be easy:

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• Abandoned building in the swamps. Here you will have to fight a zombie and a Controller, who attacks with psi-energy from a distance. Eliminate him as quickly as possible to minimize the damage received.
• Old church. The beacon is hidden inside, and access to it is blocked by floorboards. Destroy them to open the way to a hidden niche with boxes, using them to climb to the upper levels.

For a successful passage, a suit with high resistance to psi-impact is recommended.

Swamps and emission

After disabling all the psi-beacons, you need to get to Warren's hut on the opposite side of the lake. The path leads through swampy areas, where blowouts often occur - catastrophic events with red skies, lightning, and a rapid decrease in health.

For survival:

• Monitor your stamina to be ready to run.
• Get rid of excess cargo so as not to slow down.
• Avoid deep bodies of water, which significantly reduce movement speed.

Arrival at the Clear Sky base

After passing through Warren's hut, you will reach the Clear Sky base. There is an underground shelter here where you can wait out the blowout. After this, a new quest, "Extreme Simplicity", will begin, associated with leaving the region.

Before leaving the swamps, explore the caches with useful resources:

• The Journalist's cache in the ruins. Near the base, in the destroyed building, a container is hidden. Walk along the narrow ledge, but beware of the anomaly, which can push you away. Inside you will find the Wanderer suit, which increases the carrying capacity by 8 kg and has high protection.
• Stash on the border of Zaton. Another valuable stash is located closer to the border between the Zaton and Swamp regions.