More than a year after the launch of Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, the first official story expansion has been revealed as Cost of Hope, "a new chapter of a well-known conflict" between Duty and Freedom, two of the Exclusion Zone's most powerful factions.
Duty and Freedom hold directly opposing views—Duty believes the Zone must be contained and ultimately destroyed, while Freedom seeks to uncover its secrets and share them with the world—but, at least as I recall them from the first games, they're mostly decent guys on both sides and thus far they've managed to co-exist more or less peacefully (barring a bit of mutual murder in Clear Sky).
