This side quest can make or break your game.

[KA6DELLL]

After 19 hours and 30 mins of Heart of Chornobyl, I can say that I have only had 3 bugs and 1 crash, it is a very solid game. I have had a lot of fun with it but there are several gleaming issues with the game and this one side quest can make or break your game-play experience. *light spoilers ahead*

A particular side quest is actually mandatory.

There is a side quest where you go to a warehouse and get some parts for a Warden NPC at the Icarus base. The reward is psi-suit, which is required in order to make a main quest much easier. Up to this point in the game, the game-play loop has been pretty clear. You do a quest, you get paid either in coupons, a weapon, an artifact or some sort of reward for your accomplishment of said quest. Well, the warehouse quest reward as confirmed by the NPC quest giver is a psi-suit, to help protect you more from the harsh zone environment. So, after travelling by foot to the warehouse, you come face to face with a Burer. If you've played the original game, you will know what this mutant is. Now, apart from it's magical abilities, it can also cause the player to lose their weapon, by yanking it out of your hand. Once you've defeated the Burer, you will then have to take down a Bloodsucker. After that is done, you find the parts the NPC wants in the upper area of the warehouse. Upon returning to the quest giver, you hand over the parts.

Quest complete, right?? Well yes, but unlike the previous 10 or so hours of game-play, showing you that you get rewarded for doing quests, this quest rewards you with 40,000 coupons, THAT YOU HAVE TO PAY IN ORDER TO GET THE F*CKING PSI-SUIT YOU JUST COMPLETED THE QUEST TO OBTAIN. Coupons are needed for nearly everything in the game. Fixing guns is a mandatory thing and it isn't f*cking cost effective. Then you sometimes need to repair your armour, and you can go from 45,000 coupons to 1500 in a matter of seconds. Who in the actual F*CK thought that it was a fun, good idea to make the player have to payout 40,000 coupons in order to receive a quest reward that the NPC clearly says, will be given to the player upon completion of the f*cking quest!

I am actually reconsidering purchasing the game all because the developers decided to break my immersion and point and laugh at me, by making me have to spend another several hours or more, earning 40K coupons for a QUEST REWARD, all because they wanted to be c*nts and not give the reward as per completion of the quest.

This was done to be malicious towards the player, an example of developers doing something they know is not a good design choice, for the shear purpose of pissing the player off, which by definition is the opposite of what games are meant to do!

The main mission that takes place in the swamps, literally tells you to get a psi-suit. The side quest says it is optional. The only thing that is optional is how you want to get the suit. You can find a vendor who sells it, or you can do the quest. You know what's funny?! Both scenarios of getting the psi-suit require YOU to PAY for it, despite it being an actual mission reward!! Why the f*ck do I have to pay for a reward I just went and done a whole ass quest to obtain?!! The design makes zero sense and no, this is not subjective.

[Myztkl©-Kev]

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PS you do NOT need a psi suite, they give you psi pills, but if you are smart enough you dont even need them

Yeah idk what OP is on about, never even heard of what they are talking about needing to pay 40k for a suit. I remember that mission but not that interaction, I think it's made up.

I just popped pills the entire time. I think I used 3-5 pills in total. Could've probably used much less.

its not made up, you do the mission for the guy he says he'll give you a psi-suit and then he charges you 40k for it.

[「 Boss 」]

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Yeah idk what OP is on about, never even heard of what they are talking about needing to pay 40k for a suit. I remember that mission but not that interaction, I think it's made up.

I just popped pills the entire time. I think I used 3-5 pills in total. Could've probably used much less.

its not made up, you do the mission for the guy he says he'll give you a psi-suit and then he charges you 40k for it.

Maybe I didn't do this quest, reading it back. Any idea where the quest giver is? I've been trying to do all side quests.

[Myztkl©-Kev]

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Ursprungligen skrivet av Myztkl©-Kev:

its not made up, you do the mission for the guy he says he'll give you a psi-suit and then he charges you 40k for it.

Maybe I didn't do this quest, reading it back. Any idea where the quest giver is? I've been trying to do all side quests.

the tech at Icarus. im not sure if it's available after the section where they want you to have the psi-suit for though, since he only calls you that the suit is ready once you get to the mission you need it for.

[dbond1]

I don't get it. Make or break how? Like this will be the only suit with psi protection on it? It's an ecologists suit anyway isn't it? Much better you can get and long before you get to this spot. The Seva-I is obtainable very early, as soon as you reach Rostock if you know where to look. If you don't want spoilers I get it, but yeah, just go grab this and use it for the rest of the game.

[Asum]

If you think this is game breaking, wait until the SIRCAA Quest.
Then it get's literal.

[Myztkl©-Kev]

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If you think this is game breaking, wait until the SIRCAA Quest.
Then it get's literal.

I waited until 1.02 before I went to Sircaa and had no problems with it.

[Coolverine]

I bought the suit and it helped me get through the swamps, actually still using it with a few upgrades.

Also now have way more coupons compared to then.

[Maybe John Helldiver]

I did it with a suit with 0 psi protection and just used pills. Its not even remotely required to have a psi suit.

[Hailbringer2]

Lol. You clearly haven't looked around much. You can get a seva suit in rostok by the scientist's helicopter crash above the railroad tracks with the crane operators booth. Don't complain about the wrong crap. The game is broken and in a sad state, yes, but this kind of complaint when you clearly haven't chosen to search around everywhere is very immature and short sighted.

[Nite69]

I did that PSI suit mission, the guy never called me back to pick it up

[Nite69]

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Lol. You clearly haven't looked around much. You can get a seva suit in rostok by the scientist's helicopter crash above the railroad tracks with the crane operators booth. Don't complain about the wrong crap. The game is broken and in a sad state, yes, but this kind of complaint when you clearly haven't chosen to search around everywhere is very immature and short sighted.

OP probably took the stalker path not the warden path, You don't even go to the west section of map until after Sircaa mission so he didnt know that

warden goes west, stalkers go north and then east after completeing everything in lessor zone

[Bacon Overlord®]

***SPOILER ALERT for people that are anal about that***

Two of the best suits in the game are found in journalist caches. FYI. Including a couple that are excellent mid-range ones including one you can find right in the first village.

[SilverX95]

i mean you could just not be dumb and explore and get one at one of the train cars.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3383965105

[Hailbringer2]

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Lol. You clearly haven't looked around much. You can get a seva suit in rostok by the scientist's helicopter crash above the railroad tracks with the crane operators booth. Don't complain about the wrong crap. The game is broken and in a sad state, yes, but this kind of complaint when you clearly haven't chosen to search around everywhere is very immature and short sighted.

OP probably took the stalker path not the warden path, You don't even go to the west section of map until after Sircaa mission so he didnt know that

warden goes west, stalkers go north and then east after completeing everything in lessor zone

Yeah, I didn't go with the ward either. You don't even need Psi protection anyways. And all psi protection doesn't even protect you from the effects of controllers mind ♥♥♥♥, it just dampens the damage you take from hallucinations. Just like the damage reduction for everything else.

[Spray]

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