Stalker 2 devs are overhauling loot stashes to make the game’s open world more exciting 

GSC Game World’s Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl has come a long way in the six months since release, but there’s still work to be done. 

Following the reveal of the game’s massive Q3 and Q4 roadmap, which will enhance mod tools, add new quests and night vision tools and continue to improve A-Life, the team confirmed that the open world will feel very different by the end of these improvements. 

Stalker 2 stashes are being overhauled 

One exciting part of the game’s massive roadmap is a complete overhaul of stashes, loot pools hidden throughout the open world. 

As they stand, current stashes range from exciting finds to downright terrible, and many players have complained that they simply aren’t interesting enough to hunt down. However, GSC Game World is aiming to make them far more engaging. 

Speaking to players on Discord, GSC confirmed that stashes will indeed be made more fun to find and more rewarding sometime during the remainder of 2025. 

“We want to make stashes more ‘exciting’ to find,” the team explained. “We have different ideas, and will be happy to share a bit more details later down the road. In general, opening the stash you find should be [a] more interesting game event for the player.”

As for when these updates will be released, the Q3 and Q4 roadmap for Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is not in release order. GSC explained that the list was in “no particular order” which means that any one of the bullet points on the list could be released at any given time. 

Alongside the new content, GSC Game World is also working on a PS5 and PS5 Pro port of the open-world survival game. There’s no concrete release date for this port.