As soon as you land on the map ofStalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl, you’ll quickly realize that the map is divided into various sections, and each of these sections has a story to tell. Garbage is one of the sections in the game, and it mainly focuses on locating someone called Nestor.

This starts with your information huntingduring the Answers Come At A Price quest, which takes you to Slag Heap where you can talk to Diode. This is where The Price Goes Up quest starts, and here’s how you can beat it.

How To Enter Diode’s Workshop

The first part of the quest takes you to Diode’s workshop where he asks you to retrieve some items. As you get close to this workshop, you’ll first have todeal with an anomaly that produces a spark explosion on your path. When you get near, you’ll see a small spark spawning in front of you.

This can track your movement and spawn at the location where you’d be in a couple of seconds,which is the same amount of time it takes to explode. You have to bait out the spark and then run in a different direction to avoid it. Do this until you reach the small well beside the main workshop building, which will let you go down.

If you get hit by the explosion,you’ll be flash-banged and concussedwhile losing your HP at the same time.

This will make it a lot moredifficult to avoid subsequent explosionsfrom this anomaly.

Once you’re in the well, break the wooden planks below to go further down whereyou’ll find a scanner along with some anomalies and dead bodies. Wait for the scanner to stop producing electricity and then go near it, which will allow you to turn the scanner and the fire anomalies nearby off.

you’re able to then search the bodies toget a drive and the key card required for the quest. Go to the other end after retrieving these items and you can take a ladder back to the top, where you can use the keycard to exit the workshop.

How To Find Nestor’s Stash

The trickiest part of this quest starts when you talk to Diode again and heasks you to get Nestor’s stash at the top of Slag Heap. You have to follow a specific path for this, and here are the easy steps:

After collecting the loot in Nestor’s bag, you have to head back down through a slightly different path. Go back through the same crane to the junk area. As soon as the crane ends, you’ll see a sign on your right with two people on it. This leads to another sign with a hole in the ground,which will take you out of the first cave you sawon the way up.

you’re able to then follow the same path back for the final part of the quest.

Should You Go To The Dig Site Or Labyrinth

For the last part of this quest, you have to find clues about the scanner scheme by visiting Labyrinth and Dig Site. However, you canonly visit one of these areas since you’ll find the clue in the first oneyou visit. However, the overall rewards you’ll get from the quest will differ slightly based on what you choose.

If you choose Dig Site, you’ll have to find a small shack when you get to the area. There will be acave entrance through this shack that leads you to the main part. Down in the cave, you’ll have to fight a special mutant that can use the surrounding guns to shoot at you, make you drop your gun, and also hurl objects at you.

This mutant can alsogain a shield every few seconds, which is symbolized by the white aura around it.

Once this monster is defeated, you can check the bodies to finish this quest. You won’t find much high-tier loot here. On the other hand, if you visit Labyrinth, you’ll first have to battle a huge wave of rodents, andit’s highly recommended to carry some grenades for these. Once they’re dealt with, you can find a van inside the Labyrinth.

This van will have two artifacts and a few bodies around. As soon as you touch any of these, multiple NPCs will pop out of nowhere and start shooting you.Defeat these NPCs and search their bodies to finish this quest. You can also claim the two artifacts here, making it the better way to finish this quest.