Sleep mechanics?

[Doomlordof]

Hello dear Stalkers, I was wondering if there is a sleep mechanism in the game. I know from the red flower filed that it was a mechanic but after this area my stalker never got tired again and I never slept after this mission since there was no reason for it. Is my game bugged or is it simply not added to the game yet?

[TommySnare]

Getting 'tired' was never a thing in STALKER, if I remember correctly..
The only purpose for sleep is to either:

- Skip time
- Change time of day
- Free full heal.

[TwinChops]

There is one, but i only ever seen the Moon symbol once or twice in my 90 hours of play time (80 with just one character).

[I Love Weed]

Cat mutant makes you wanna sleep

[Stridswombat]

There is a sleep mechanic yes, but you can go ridiculously long time without needing it. Like days on end. It's mostly a moot mechanic.

The poppy field is different to it.

[Ammikaameri]

I've only once had the icon show up that indicates that you need to sleep in Stalker 2.
So it seems it is either not working or not entirely implemented.
But sleeping is also needed for the stealth detection artifact. The longer you go without sleeping the easier the enemies detect you.

[Awesome_Name]

Originally posted by TwinChops:

There is one, but i only ever seen the Moon symbol once or twice in my 90 hours of play time (80 with just one character).

this is only triggered after an arena fight. I swear, this game lacks so much content its sad. And some people call this GOTY...

[Dumar]

Originally posted by Ammikaameri:

I've only once had the icon show up that indicates that you need to sleep in Stalker 2.
So it seems it is either not working or not entirely implemented.
But sleeping is also needed for the stealth detection artifact. The longer you go without sleeping the easier the enemies detect you.

Details on this stealth detection artifact? Could you elaborate please.

Spoiler-tags, just in case others don't want to know - I most certainly do!

[shadowsc133]

How does the sleep mechanic work? I went to bed around 4 PM, intending to sleep through the night, but I woke up at 8 PM. Then, I fell asleep again and woke up at 10 PM. It's more like a brief nap than true sleep.

[Montolio]

You dont really need to sleep, but ppl say hidden mechanics is that after some time without sleep your aim is off center, witch you can feel if you foght with scope weapons…

[Pulowski]

reminding me of the sleep effect in elden ring, basically a underworked status effect ironically

[Ammikaameri]

Originally posted by Dumar:

Originally posted by Ammikaameri:

I've only once had the icon show up that indicates that you need to sleep in Stalker 2.
So it seems it is either not working or not entirely implemented.
But sleeping is also needed for the stealth detection artifact. The longer you go without sleeping the easier the enemies detect you.

Details on this stealth detection artifact? Could you elaborate please.

Spoiler-tags, just in case others don't want to know - I most certainly do!

You get it from the poppy field and it is called the weird flower. It improves your stealth after sleeping and the effect slowly diminishes when you don't sleep.

[soul like that be capable of]

need ability to set camp to sleep to pass time imo even with a chance to get attack by bandits or mutants . but sometimes u just want to pass time . for example there is a place where only stuff happened at night. so u want to pass time near it to get arfticat

[Dumar]

Originally posted by Ammikaameri:

Originally posted by Dumar:

Details on this stealth detection artifact? Could you elaborate please.

Spoiler-tags, just in case others don't want to know - I most certainly do!

You get it from the poppy field and it is called the weird flower. It improves your stealth after sleeping and the effect slowly diminishes when you don't sleep.

O wait...


Is does the artifact spawn from the funky anomaly map symbol in the poppy field?
I've seen this funky anomaly map symbol else where, (like this Orb of Water that sucks you in and kills you.)

[Stridswombat]

Originally posted by Dumar:

O wait...


Is does the artifact spawn from the funky anomaly map symbol in the poppy field?
I've seen this funky anomaly map symbol else where, (like this Orb of Water that sucks you in and kills you.)

No. It's just set to always spawn in that fixed location. They're different from regular artifacts which spawn randomly.

[Ammikaameri]

Originally posted by Dumar:

Originally posted by Ammikaameri:

You get it from the poppy field and it is called the weird flower. It improves your stealth after sleeping and the effect slowly diminishes when you don't sleep.

O wait...


Is does the artifact spawn from the funky anomaly map symbol in the poppy field?
I've seen this funky anomaly map symbol else where, (like this Orb of Water that sucks you in and kills you.)

All the places you mentioned have special artifacts in them with unique effects. But the symbol is not necessarily where, just in the general area of said anomaly.