{"id":731524,"date":"2026-08-08T13:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731524\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T13:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T13:38:08","slug":"stalker-2-is-finally-letting-us-explore-the-chornobyl-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/731524\/","title":{"rendered":"Stalker 2 is finally letting us explore the Chornobyl Power Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"

GSC Game World<\/a> has released a new deep dive video to showcase its upcoming Stalker 2<\/a> DLC, Cost of Hope.<\/p>\n

The new video gives us an early look at previously unexplored areas of the Zone that stalkers will be able to access once the expansion launches: Iron Forest and the Chornobyl Power Plant itself.<\/p>\n

You can check out the extended peek in the video below:<\/p>\n

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope \u2014 Iron Forest & Chornobyl NPP Exploration.Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/p>\n

GSC has previously confirmed Cost of Hope expansion contains “dozens of hours of content”<\/a>, so it should be a substantial addition to the already massive Stalker 2, although we’re still not entirely sure how much it’ll cost.<\/p>\n

As well as the two new regions, you can also expect new weapons and gear, new hubs, quests, and uncharted locations.<\/p>\n

In this DLC, you can play as Skif through events that occur alongside Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl. You’ll be given in-game notifications via the PDA to access the DLC as the main storyline progresses. It was announced at an Xbox Partner Showcase in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cost of Hope is the first story expansion for Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl. It arrives on 20th August for PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X\/S.<\/p>\n

Last month, GSC Game World studio founder Sergiy Grygorovych made a bombshell revelation about the development of Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl. Grygorovych said in an interview that Microsoft paid a significant sum to keep the then-upcoming open-world shooter a timed Xbox exclusive<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GSC Game World has released a new deep dive video to showcase its upcoming Stalker 2 DLC, Cost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-731524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}