STALKER 2: Answers Come at a Price

Answers Come at a Price is the first main quest you will receive in the Garbage region. During it you will meet Star and members of a group called Spark. On this page, we discuss in detail how to find the Detention Center and how to enter unnoticed into a factory occupied by the Ward.

• How to get to the Detention Center?
• Factory
• Meeting with a stranger
• Return to Star

How to get to the Detention Center?

You will receive the mission Answers Come at a Price right after completing the previous one, when crossing the border between the Lesser Zone and the Garbage regions. Your first task will be to reach the ruins of the Detention Center. After crossing the bridge, turn onto the road leading east.

In the Detention Center yard you will be attacked by a pack of dogs. Once you've defeated them, go into the left wing of the building and up the stairs to the first floor.

Talk to the man in the green jumpsuit. He will introduce himself as Star and tell you a little about his organization - Spark. He will also ask you for help. Some of his people were surrounded by the Ward in a nearby factory. Your task will be to find them and bring them back.

He will also suggest that you should do it quietly. To make it easier for you, he will give you his pistol with a silencer.

Factory

The factory with Stars' imprisoned people is located a bit north of the Detention Center. We recommend entering the facility from the north, through the hole in the fence. After entering the facility, go immediately to the hangar.

The entrance to the basement is located in the southern part of the building, next to a hole in the brick wall.

The code-locked door is guarded by two people. Try to get rid of them as quietly as possible. You can see the code to the door right next to it, in the log (2605).

Go through the room with the truck to the staircase, then go all the way down.

On the lowest floor you will encounter the disappearing mutant again.

Be careful. There is an electrical anomaly on this floor that moves along a fixed path through most of the rooms.

On the machine's console in one of the rooms you will find a tape with Nestor's recorded conversation - the local chieftain with whom you must contact.

A moment later, you will be contacted by radio by a mysterious man who will invite you to a meeting on one of the upper floors.

Before you go to the meeting, find the room with the bodies of Star's people. In the corner behind the bars, behind the fiery anomaly, you will find the machinery plans. Take them with you.

Meeting with a stranger

Go back to the stairwell and go all the way up. Open the door using the code you got from the stranger - 2603.

At the end of the corridor there is a cut-scene with the stranger activating a mysterious weapon.

Continue your journey through the corridors and pipes that will lead you beyond the factory area. On the way, the stranger will also say goodbye to you and say that you will meet again.

Return to Star

You can return to the Detention Center and pass on all the necessary information to Star. Once the conversation is over, the mission will end.

More about the walkthrough:

1. List of all missions.