Stalker 2's first major story expansion is coming this summer with two new regions and 'dozens of hours of gameplay'

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Subscribe to our newsletter More than a year after the launch of Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, the first official story expansion has been revealed as Cost of Hope, “a new chapter of a well-known conflict” between Duty and Freedom, two of the Exclusion Zone’s most powerful factions.Duty and Freedom hold directly opposing views—Duty believes the Zone must be contained and ultimately destroyed, while Freedom seeks to uncover its secrets and share them with the world—but, at least as I recall them from the first games, they’re mostly decent guys on both sides and thus far they’ve managed to co-exist more or less peacefully (barring a bit of mutual murder in Clear Sky). S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope — Announcement Trailer – YouTube Watch On But that may be about to change, as Cost of Hope adds a new storyline with two new regions to explore including the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant, locked away for decades but “now calling Stalkers back in.” New weapons and gear will be added as part of the expansion, as of course will new mutants, anomalies, and “other dangers,” and the choices made by Skif (that’s you) as he navigates these new perils “shape what happens next—and the consequences could affect not just the Zone, but far beyond it.”Article continues below You may like Total Chaos, the survival horror based on one of Doom’s best mods, is getting a New Game+ mode featuring an Alien: Isolation-style persist