Stalker 2 just got a free pre-DLC to gird you for its first actual DLC

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Subscribe to our newsletter 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.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.

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"Rumours are now spreading among stalkers that Diod, a technician from Slag Heap, has somehow gained access to the lower levels of X-18."No one knows what is really happening down there.

This is your chance to find out." Probably nothing.

Definitely not a 24/7 Controller soirée.Article continues below Poor Skif (that's Stalker 2's main character, if you forgot) isn't just popping down to X-18 on a jolly ## Editor's Note The gaming community will surely have mixed reactions to this news. Source: [PC Gamer](https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/stalker-2-just-got-a-free-pre-dlc-to-gird-you-for-its-first-actual-dlc/)