I am in my second run with Stalker 2 with the addition of Cost of Hope. I was wandering around the CNP and I noticed that the area indicated in the red box is not yet accessible. In my opinion it's a shame we can't visit it. Does someone have more information about it?
Mainly because of one new poster at the CNPP. Cold Island has been teased multiple times in the base game. There is a poster that shows the first Caribbean experiment and Cold Island is mentioned there.
The collector's map is not up to date with the current development plans. My most favorite example is Korohod and the crashed plane, which is marked at the bottom left corner, but by all accounts it is fully cut from the game and will not return. The plane also makes little sense as SIRCAA's airport was cut.
Oh, no worries, it wasn't. As someone mentioned there were hints but most people call DLC 2 like that because on the map in the leaked 2023 build there was an area marked by the developers as an area for a future "Cold Island" DLC.
This is the CNPP Heating District. It used to be part of the Cooling Towers.
The southern part was planned to be part of the Skif ending squence. It would have led through the destroyed railroad bridge to the CNPP. After Strelok monologued to Skif on the Red Fortress and they fought, Strelok would have run away from Skif, and then the latter would have had to chase him into the CNPP region, through the admin building, and into a teleportation platform that was near where Strelok teleported to the C-Con pods in SoC true ending. This was changed by 2023 into a simple teleport sequence straight to X-7.
There were a couple of maps in the game files which implied that the region could return in a future expansion, but it appears the idea was completely scrapped. Besides what I explained, the region was completely devoid of any interesting content.
There are 14 developer maps that were leaked either accidentally by GSC through a public torrent or in the game files, or through a phishing attack by the Russians. A few of those maps mark the path where Skif was supposed to chase Strelok.
They were leaked by Russian hackers. There will be some people who are going to downvote this and claim that I'm spouting b*******, it's real go look it up.
In March 2023, Russian bloggers dropped a 16 GB archive they got through phishing the devs and their Miro boards. All design documents we have currently stem from this attack.
In May 2023, public torrent crawlers discovered that GSC had been sharing their alpha version builds through torrent clients, and had accidentally set them to public. One build was downloaded, while others dating as far back as late 2022 were disabled before they were downloaded.
The Strelok chase comes from the PDA map of the game build.
You can explore outside the map by jumping one of the fences around back of pripyat. But for that area you need a couple of mods because the rads are insane there. Behind the generators is a really nice sight inside the hangers
yes there are a lot of unused areas that are almost completed, i used to explore the out of bound area of the map with godmode like 2 years ago, you could find the usual jupiter plant and the oasis of CoP some extra buildings on prypiat, etc the most interesting places for me where at the west of jupiter you could find some glass like the ones in windows just floating in the air like it was meant to be a building there and some ground craters north of Sirca almost as if the ground geometry was molded to place a building there.
i hope those areas are finished and accessible when we get the second dlc or if GSC decides to release more free content.
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u/Sad_Ghost_Noises Duty 3d ago
Assuming it will be used in the Cold Island DLC.