All Stalker 2 endings and how to get each

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Stalker 2 endings - Grif wearing a balaclava

Jump to:Align with ScarAlign with StrelokAlign with Strelok while sparing Dr. KaymanovAlign With Korshunov and the Ward

Exploration and choices are important inStalker 2, and at several points in the main story you’ll have to make key decisions that affect how events and the conclusion of the game play out. Overall, there are four mainStalker 2 endingsin the game depending on who you align yourself with.

In this guide, I’ll break down how you can get each of them and the key decisions that play a role in deciding how Skif’s journey concludes. Keep in mind that Stalker 2 does not have any New Game Plus mode currently, and these decisions are cumulative over the course of the game. So if you want to see each ending, you’ll have to replay the main story or reload a save file from earlier.

Most of these decisions take place in the latter half of the game, but you can signal your intentions early on with a decision or two. Be warned:there are major spoilers below.

Align with Scar

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Stalker 2 endings - Soldiers gathered together

Key choices

After the events at SIRCAA where Noontide and Monolith become one, you’ll work with Lodochka to try to remove the brainwashing that all the members of Noontide have succumbed to. Scar will then task you to set an emitter beneath the Duga that can be used to brainwash The Ward with Faust appearing throughout the battle.

You will then head to Ozersky and learn that Faust was a test subject, given the abilities of the Controllers you find throughout The Zone. You’ll then attack the Duga once again and confront Faust. After Faust has been stopped, you will talk to the representative of C-Consciousness with Scar, based on your choices aligning with his group. Following the conversation, you fight The Ward after they invade.

All outcomes lead to the Foundation, which is the point of no return. If you allied with Scar’s men, then you and Richter will infiltrate the control room and need to kill Korshunov. Richter will die here, and Dalin will try to talk with his dad, a representative of C-Consciousness. Dalin’s father will reply, convincing Dalin that The Shining Zone is real.

Later on you’ll make your way to the generators and have to kill Strelok as you aren’t aligned with him. You’ll then meet up with Scar who becomes the Mediator. Skif steps out into The Zone after The Shining Zone became real, or at least that is what Scar, Skif, and everyone else believes until we are shown that it is, and has always been an illusion.

Align with Strelok

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Key choices

Once Korhsunov is defeated, Dalin will try to talk to his dad, a representative of C-Consciousness. Unfortunately, he won’t reply, and Dalin blows up the device. When meeting Dr. Kaymanov, you also need to kill him straight away. Do not listen to his story when given the option to.

Later on you will head to the Generators and speak to Strelok. You’ll then meet up with Scar, who you need to kill. Finally, Strelok will become the Mediator and gain control over Monolith, instructing them to prevent anyone from entering or leaving The Zone. His goal was to ensure The Zone remains untampered with, and as the Mediator, he can now do that.

Align with Strelok while sparing Dr. Kaymanov

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Stalker 2 endings - A scientist with a syringe

Key choices

You then learn that Kaymanov caused the second explosion of the reactor in 2006 and also gave birth to The Zone through his actions. The Zone also spreads across the world after you give it the choice to do as it likes. It is also revealed that Faust is Dr Kaymanov and neither actually died.

Align With Korshunov and the Ward

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Stalker 2 endings - Two characters talking in a field

Key choices

After the events at SIRCAA, you’ll head to the Chemical Plant with the Ward to discuss next steps. You will then try to take down the Monolith at the Duga, only for Faust to appear and all the Ward soldiers you came with to start attacking you, forcing a retreat.

You’ll then head to Ozersky and learn that Faust was a test subject, given the abilities of the Controllers you find throughout The Zone. With the Ward, you attack the Duga once again and confront Faust.

A little later on, after Faust has been stopped, you talk to the representative of C-Consciousness with Dalin, based on your choices aligning with The Ward. Following the conversation, you’ll have to fight Scar’s group as they invade the location.

Later on you’ll make your way to the generators and have to kill Strelok. You will then meet up with Scar who you’ll also kill. Finally, the Ward gains control of The Zone, dissipating it, and Skif can do as he likes or become a colonel if he wishes. However, the grip the Ward has over him and everyone else is shown through the final scenes where we see a TV screen showing Skif’s perspective.

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