What Is An Anomaly And How To Counter Each One In Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl

This is the first anomaly you’ll find while going through the sewers area at the start of the game. On your first encounter, this orb will simply follow a set path and you can easily avoid it.

However, when you find it after the prologue, it will instead start following you as soon as you come in its point of view from any direction. The only way to avoid it is by entering special rooms it can’t enter or avoiding its line of sight.

You’ll commonly find small random fires on the ground that will turn into a proper fire if you get close and slowly drain your health. As you progress, you can also find small lava pits that start throwing lava directly towards anything that comes close.

To dodge the firepits, simply throw a bolt at them and run through while jumping on top of it as soon as it stops. As for the lava pits, you have to avoid their range since there’s no other way.

This is another common anomaly that first occurs after your first scanner placement. You can easily see the electricity on the ground when they’re nearby.

These can also be countered easily by simply throwing a bolt to trigger them and then running through.

This is one of the anomalies that are difficult to see with your eyes, especially when you’re sprinting. They can be identified with a cluster of leaves going in a circular pattern with an occasional shine in the middle.

If you get too close, this anomaly will suck your character in for a few seconds before dealing damage. You can avoid it with a bolt as well.

You’ll start finding this anomaly once you reach the Garbage area, and it essentially starts a spark at the location where your character would be in a couple of seconds if it kept walking on the same trajectory.

If you’re in its AoE, you’ll get flashbanged, concussed, and take damage. It can be difficult to avoid this if you start getting hit, so the best way is to bait its placement on one side and then run in the opposite direction.

This is another anomaly that you’ll find in the Garbage area, and it’s also one of the few that don’t get a siren when you’re nearby. If you walk or run through these, they deal damage and give you bleeding status.

While they’re hard to notice, you can easily crouch past them if you notice them beforehand.

You’ll start seeing this anomaly in the Swamp area and it’ll essentially be a giant bubble suspended midair. If you get too close, this bubble will start slowly moving towards you.

If it gets close or if you throw a bolt at it, it bursts into multiple small bubbles and you’ll take poison damage if you go inside these bubbles.

Another one of the most common anomalies, acid is the easiest-to-spot environmental issue in the game. You can easily see it from far away because of its bright green color for both the pools and the fumes.

While there’s no way to remove them, you can simply walk from the side without taking any damage.

While going through The Zone, you’ll sometimes notice a big distortion in the middle of the air. This signifies the gravity orb anomaly that sucks you in the middle and deals heavy damage if you get close.

You can easily avoid it by throwing a bolt through it first and then walking past before it respawns.

This is a non-lethal anomaly that you can identify with a bunch of flying debris in the air. If you get close to it, it’ll simply thrust you up in the air. It might help you reach special places in some areas.