How to repair weapons in STALKER 2

Nov. 20, 2024

To fix guns in STALKER 2, you need a technician to restore their durability

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Repairing weapons in STALKER 2 with the help of a Technician is crucial to surviving in the Zone as you always need your gear to be in peak condition. These special merchants in settlements will restore the durability of your equipment and stop guns from jamming - for a fee, of course. Although, finding technicians isn’t easy, and weapon durability is tricky to handle inStalker 2when you’re out in the Heart of Chornobyl getting shot at by bandits. We’ll explain these systems below, laying out what you need to know about weapon repairs in STALKER 2 and what to do with broken guns.

How to repair your weapons in Stalker 2 using a technician

To repair weapon durability in STALKER 2, you can get aTechnicianto fix your guns in exchange for coupons. Technicians are a merchant you can find in larger settlements, like the starting town of Zalissya (not long after escaping the first of theSTALKER 2 Anomalies), where acharacter called Lens will fix your weapons(in the building next to Warlock’s bar).

To get any technician to repair yourSTALKER 2 weapons,speak to them to open dialogue, then press X(on the Xbox controller) to open the Technician menu. Once there,select a broken weapon and press X again to fully repair it, bringing its durability back up to 100. The lower a gun’s durability, the less accurate it is and the more likely it is to jam while you fire, so keeping weapons in good shape is very important.

Repairing a gun is only free for the startingSkif’s Pistol (and then that too starts to cost money after the first upgrade),and all other weapons will cost you a surprisingly high amount of money to see them fixed - the cost of repairs increases based on the amount of durability that needs to be restored, so more significant repairs for a weapon will set you back more cash, as with theStalker 2 Drownedgun, which costs over 10,000 coupons to repair!

Since weapons degrade through firing them and through carrying them around in hazardous areas of the zone, there’s not really a way to prevent wear and tear, so it’s always best to ensure you’ve got a sufficient coupons for emergency repairs. And sinceSTALKER 2 fast travelonly works between settlements, if you get caught out in the Zone with broken gear you’ve got a long and perilous walk head of you.

While you can sell damaged weapons with a yellow shield icon,weapons with a red cracked shield icon cannot be sold for couponsin Stalker 2. That means, in the early game,it’s often better to just find new guns in the world to replace broken onesinstead of shelling out exorbitant amounts of money to fix the unremarkable weapons you’ve found so far. If your weapon has any attachments on it, make sure you remove those first and, as ourSTALKER 2 tipssay, make sure you unload any ammo too.

Your other option is to obviously justpay the fee to get it repairedif it’s a weapon you really like. However, you could insteaddrop it or put it in a stash, then put a map marker on that spot. That way, you won’t be carrying a deadweight gun and you can easily grab it later once you’ve got the required coupons to get it repaired.

It’s not long after reaching Zalissya where you’ll have the choice tokill or help Squint in STALKER 2, the consequences of which we’ve explain there.

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