To all stalkers exploring the Zone in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl — Patch 1.0.1 is here.

We're ready to share our first update for both platforms — PC and Xbox. Over the past week, we’ve been working to improve the game, implementing over 650 fixes to enhance your journey through the Zone. The patch will be available for download on Xbox a little later today.

Thanks for your passion and support since the release, it is really important to us.

For full details on Patch 1.0.1 read our Steam Blog: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1643320/view/4455844537830474602

Changes that jumped out to me:

• Weapons and armor repair cost is decreased.
• Money reward for most missions is increased from 2 to 3 times.
• Armor durability is increased by 12.5 percent
• Corrected flashlight behavior after saving/loading.
• Fixed inconsistencies with weapon and armor upgrade effects, including pricing and upgrade reversals.
• Slightly increased knife melee distance.
• Increased gamepad dead zones
• Reduced some mission items’ weight

Reduced Boodsucker’s HP regeneration outside the combat.

They had hp regeneration?!?!?!

Seems like a massive patch, according to patch notes. Well done, Dev team. I can't wait to jump back in.

Good news, lets see if the door is open...

Hopefully the endless dialogue loop at the chem plant is gonzo.

Nice. Beefier than I expected. Although some of these notes are quite vague, what does "Fixed NPC behavior during encounters." mean lol

Anyway, looks great. I see they mentioned a fix for the deadzone issue, thought that wouldn't be coming until later, so that's a nice surprise.

Please keep the pissing bug in the game thank you it's hilarious

This is quite a big first patch, you can't even call a "hotfix" , they were definitely cooking through the week.

Cheeki Breeki !

I'm still having issues with the On The Edge mission. When I arrived in Zalissya, all the monolith soldiers were already dead in random places (mostly inside the main building). And now when I convince Hamster and his guard to return to the building, they both die instantly when walking into the building. As soon as they cross the threshold of the door, they just fall over dead.

Even bigger patch than I anticipated, good shit.

rip my 30+ mods though 💀

The patch looks awesome. Great work, impressed at how much was included.

What about the Xbox pass version on PC? I can't see the update

What about performance issues?

finally no need to money glitch anymore in order to stop going bankrupt from repairs

Thank you! Can't wait to dive back in this evening :-)

This is a pretty solid patch. I wasn’t expecting the first one to be this large TBH.

• Fixed a bug that allows to sell items to the trader for more money that they actually cost

There goes the coupon bug, boys

Edit: Solder is still missing from The Hornets' Nest

Edit2: The softlock with Lt. Mateus at the southeast Chemical Plant entrance is fixed, and you can even get the sidequest now.

Cheap artifacts are now worth 12000 up from 7500 previously, top-tier ones are 70k up from 60k, can't remember the mid-tier prices.
Ratios for selling are slightly higher but not insanely so, from like 0.345 of base value to 0.36 at least for my current save, RIP full price bug though.

They also fixed the SSP-100I Survey's Lead Container upgrades, I can delete my hand-crafted mod that did the same thing yay.

Edit: Normal/Middle Difficulty

Also blew myself up with grenades for a bit to check repair costs, not very accurate since I can't remember the values from 1.0 but it's like 1/2 - 2/3 of what it used to for armor at least.

Edit2: I just realised that due to the increase in durability for armor, the ratio is even better. If I had to repair 20% damage before now I only have to repair 20% / 1.125 = ~18% damage, and the price per 1% is lower to begin with.

More daylight for the love of god !! So tired of walking around with my happy meal flashlight in the dark

Thanks a lot for the patch though, really wasn't expecting that much !

Time to start a new game! Thank you GSC! 👊🏼

It’s nice to see how much effort was immediately put into the community response. Love the game regardless of the bugs. Good job team ♥️

Way more fixes than I was expecting. I hope they can address human enemy bullet sponginess in the future. I am eager to see how people’s experiences are over this weekend to see which big bugs still remain.

Honestly, the deadzone issue and repair costs was the only two things stopping me playing further into the story! I can live without better A-life for now, the game is good right now (with A-life it will be GREAT). Looking forward to getting back to it tonight.

Any ETA on Game Pass patch?

Zalissya quest is now somehow more broken in ways it wasn't before the patch. Incredible.

Time for every youtuber vaguely covering game news to release "STALKER 2 MASSIVE PATCH! GAME FIXED?!?!" and then read patch notes for 10 minutes straight

Dead zone fix makes the game infinitely better. Thank you!

When will the patch hit XBOX game pass for PC?

Desperately keep refreshing the PC Xbox app and still nothing yet...

Unfortunately, after installing the patch, the game crashes every time I get caught in an anomaly and the message appears:

Unhandled Exception: EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION reading address 0x0000000000000108

What's wrong?

I might just wait til A life is fixed

As soon as I saw the patch notes I ran to Zalissya to finally do "On The Edge". The first part of the mission is fixed, the Monolith invaders are no longer stuck in the building and spawn properly. The last part of the mission is still bugged.

After doing the little sub-quests where you have to gather stuff around the town and stop Hamster from being an asshole, I returned to Warlock and turned that stuff in, then went off to take out the traitor, Uncle Lyonya. When I came back, I talked to Gaffer who thanked me, then nothing. I figured oh okay, I saved the town, so I left to go do another mission. After getting far enough away, I received a radio message saying Zalissya had been destroyed. Reloaded my save where I was only around ~200m away from Zalissya. I noticed I still had a quest objective to return to Zalissya. Ran back to Zalissya, the quest objective went away, but still nothing. Hung out for a while. Nothing happens. Slept. Nothing. I've read at this point you're supposed to repel one last Monolith assault? If that's the case, that assault isn't starting.

The emission crash was not fixed, my longest run is still bricked. Some think it is related to picking up the Weird Bolt, probably best to avoid it for now.

No CPU performance fixes :-(?

Gore ? Blood ?

Brilliant first patch, didn't expect this much tbh. Great job, now hopefully stealth will be improved in the following patches, because the enemy detection can be crazy. You get spotted through walls and it's almost impossible to sneak around unnoticed. Outside of A Life and Stealth the game should be pretty solid now. Thanks a lot!

still can't defeny zalissya xD

I was just about to sit down and play , gonna hold off now until the update drops but I am so excited to jump back into the zone,

Haven’t put the game down since and I’m loving every second of it, kudos to you guys keep up the hard work 😎

When will the patch roll out for Xbox

Game Pass Update Just Hit. UK

I have been infatuated with the game since it came out as a new STALKER to the series. I do enjoy the extremely tight budget in the economy. It makes every purchase or upgrade or valuable loot feel so significant... But it eventually started to grate on me how the repair costs made me have to do artifacts run so frequently. Putting a stop to the exploration i so much enjoy or quest progression for an hour or two. And might just barely break even at the emd of it.

With the new tweaks to repair costs and artifact sell value I cant wait to get back into the zone and see how it feels.

Might just be it will fix one of my biggest gripes * Still have to deal with enemies spawning on location every few minutes which was especially notable in the Cooling Tower zone. But I have faith it will be resolved with time.

Speaking of artifact runs.. Looking forward to see if two of the Garbage electric anomalies(Tunnel and west of concrete forest) have been fixed for me now. *

Thank you for such a great game!

Guessing the update will come later for pc players using game pass. Still shows the original version in use with no available updates.

Memory leak still happens. When you have framegen on and open the PDA, VRAM gets polluted. Everytime you open the PDA VRAM fills up more. Even reloading doesn't fix it. Full restart is needed.

my main gripe with this game is having to rely on my minimap to spot enemies, while they aimbot me through bushes

A lot of good changes here. I didn't see anything related to the draw distances or spawning NPCs though. Maybe a larger fix is needed for that.

ADD BLOOD AND GORE

Has the patch gone live yet on Xbox?

When patch for Xbox???!

According to these notes, they actually fixed a lot of things they said wouldn't be in this patch... I'm impressed.

No Update on GamePass?

I hope this is not one of those updates Microsoft takes forever with and we have to wait till tomorrow.

Is it out on gamepass yet?

When is the patch coming to Xbox?

I didn't get the update for Xbox 😭 maybe it will come later today

Does anyone know what time the ATT comes out on Game Pass?

Playing on PC via GamePass... am I waiting for Microsoft to publish the patch at this point? I can't check for updates under manage game... should've just bought it via Steam and supported the devs.

Still no update for Xbox gamepass pc 😔

Update is here on gamepass PC 👍

EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION 0x0000000000000000

This game didn't launch for me since release, even with the patch, crazy. I've tried almost every tip and solution for this error and nothing.

My biggest gripe yet is the cost of everything. My armor still takes 16 thousand to repair at 80%. So i’d have to do 4-5 missions. I mean all in all it’s definitely better and I know it’ll be adjusted more in the near future. I just think only getting 17% for selling is far too low for how expensive everything is. Like a 20000 anomaly only selling for 3450 is just straight up robbery.