Stalker 2 gets its first DLC—Cost of Hope—at an indeterminate point later this year, but before the DLC comes the pre-DLC: a free update that bolts on a new scary lab for you to explore, in anticipation of the presumably many scary labs you will encounter in Cost of Hope.
The update is called Sealed Truth and it's out now. It opens up the lower levels of Lab X-18 and tasks you with not dying in them for money. "Deep beneath the Zone, places like X-Labs remain sealed behind massive doors or buried under the consequences of failed 'research,'" the blurb explains. "Rumours are now spreading among stalkers that Diod, a technician from Slag Heap, has somehow gained access to the lower levels of X-18.
