Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl Walkthrough (Part 5) – SIRCAA Main Missions Guide

In this walkthrough for Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, we’ll guide you through the primary missions at the SIRCAA facility. There’s a risk of encountering a significant softlock in this area, so remember to save your game before entering this region to avoid any issues. The main missions are A Long Overdue Visit, The Forge of Progress, Wishful Thinking, and To the Last Drop of Blood, as we choose to side with Noontide rather than the Ward.

00:01 – Intro

A Long Overdue Visit

00:02 – It’s wise to SAVE YOUR PROGRESS BEFORE ENTERING SIRCCA. The Wishful Thinking main mission might occasionally freeze up, requiring you to restart the entire SIRCCA area to get it back on track. To minimize any further loss of progress, it’s best to save your game before venturing into SIRCCA.

01:24 – Conversing with Dr. Dalin (This being our second attempt at this mission post the softlock, we’ll move swiftly)

03:30 – The way to get into Dr. Dalin’s secret safe

The Forge of Progress

08:40 – Speak with Dr. Kryvenko to get his custom handgun

14:12 – Talk with Assistant Tamm to complete the rescue the scientist optional objective

16:30 – Grab the Stone Heart artifact in the challenge room

19:30 – Don’t miss the extra guns and Ecologist Suit after completing the challenge rooms

Wishful Thinking

24:52 – In this mission, there’s a possibility of encountering a softlock situation. However, saving the game here isn’t guaranteed to protect you if you face it immediately. That’s why having a backup save from earlier is crucial.

26:15 – To prevent the softlock, it’s important to explore all the dialogue choices provided by Colonel Korshunov.

To avoid the softlock, you should ensure that you go through all of Colonel Korshunov’s dialogue options.

26:45 – A different strategy for bypassing the softlock could be touching or selecting all the surrounding holograms first, prior to engaging with the central one.

30:40 – At this point, a situation might arise where the game becomes stuck (softlock). If you’re unable to interact with Dalin and make him open the door, you can attempt to reload your game, but be prepared that you might have to repeat the entire SIRCAA section in order to potentially bypass this softlock. This means starting over from before you entered the facility.

35:15 – Cutscene (better option is to let Hermann go)

37:10 – Tell Agatha about the attackers (she knows anyway, no reason to lie)

41:10 – We’ll be siding with Noontide over the Ward

44:10 – Cutscene (meeting back up with Strider, things go very bad)

To the Last Drop of Blood

50:50 – Grabbing the Flash Drive

52:55 – How to get down into the Underground Tunnels, don’t try to fight

1:06:00 – How to turn off the electricity in the flooded room

1:08:00 – Grab the Convoy Suit

1:12:13 – Scene (Reuniting with Richter, concluding To the Last Drop of Blood, and wrapping up our adventure at SIRCAA)

12:13 – Scene (Resuming our journey with Richter after To the Last Drop of Blood, culminating at SIRCAA)

Or even more casually,

1:12:13 – Scene (Meeting up again with Richter, wrapping up our adventure in To the Last Drop of Blood, and reaching SIRCAA)

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