STALKER 2: How To Reduce Artifact Radiation

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Radiation Damage is one thing you will be forced to face in , and while you will be told how to fix that, you can suddenly find yourself constantly accumulating Radiation Poisoning no matter where you are and how much you heal yourself even in safe zones. This can be confusing and look like a bug, but there is actually a way to fix it.

With thelaunch of being a little buggy, you might think that this constant radiation is one of those bugs and something that the next patch or update will fix. However, this is not the case and the game will not outwardly explain why this is happening. Figuring out how to fix this will save you from consuming all of your Radiation Protection and save your game from feeling too difficult.

As it turns out, artifacts in are the main cause of your radiation damage issue. While you are told that the artifacts are quite helpful, and the menu screen is vague about whether you will get more radiation damage or less using a particular artifact, some of them can be quite dangerous to wear around. This is because some of them have both positive and negative outcomes, and you should pay attention to which those are.

STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl is an ambitious and engrossing open-world immersive sim, putting you in the Zone, an unnerving and unfathomable place.

The source of the problem is within the menu description. On it, a relic might say Radiation and then a level such as Medium. When this is the case, you will be receiving a Medium amount of Radiation damage, rather than avoiding it. This might seem obvious, but I myself was struggling to understand why I was receiving so much damage simply because I equipped the artifact without thinking too much about it and it looked like it was protecting me rather than damaging me.

This is one thing the game does not explicitly say. While the Tutorials menu does state that Artifacts can cause you harm, how they actually do it is unknown each individual artifact. You will want to pay very close