Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobylhas many twists and turns within its extensive main and side missions, leading to devastating revelations and harrowing encounters. The Nightingale’s Hunt side mission is no exception, having you track down Electronic Collars placed on Blind Dogs that can be sold for a decent price to Hamster in Zalissya.

This is one of the first quests you can participate in when reaching Zalissya, allowing you to tackle it relatively early on. It may be worthwhile if you want to earn a decent amount of Credits to upgrade your favorite weapons before diving deeper into the main questline!

How To Start Nightingale’s Hunt In Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl

Immediately aftercompleting the Dogfight side missionin Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl,speak with Nightingaleandask him if he needs help.He will talk aboutfinding more Electronic Collars,allowing you tooffer your helping hand.From here, Nightingale willping two areas on your mapwhere you can find Electronic Collars.

One will be on a pack of Blind Dogs,and theother will be on a Mutant that was obliterated by a powerful Anomaly near Bulba.Whichever you decide to go for, theend result will ultimately be the same.If you go for theoptional pack of Blind Dogs first,thenthe Anomaly one will become inactive.

Finding The Electronic Collar In The Anomaly

As younear the Anomaly in the middle of the waternear Bulba, you will see agiant, transparent orb expanding and compressingat a steady rate. As the Anomalycompresses, it will draw in all nearby objectsinto it, including yourself,dealing substantial damageto you.

Toavoid taking damageby this Anomaly,wait for it to expand and quickly move behind a car or other heavy objectsand crouch,remaining in place until it compresses again.Keep doing this toget closer to the Anomaly,where you willeventually find several Blind Dogs dead around it,alongside anElectronic Collar.

Wait for it to compressonce more, thenquickly grab the Electronic Collarand begin making your way out of the area. You will have touse the cover just as you did before to escape,as trying to sprint out will get you caught in its pull, potentially killing you. You willreceive an ominous call from Nightingaleshortly after.

Finding The Electronic Collars On The Pack Of Blind Dogs

For theElectronic Collar on the Blind Dog,follow the marker to anabandoned villageto find apack of Blind Dogs attacking a group of Bandits.Focus on theBandits first,as theBlind Dogs will be attacking them,allowing you to eliminate them quickly.

After the Bandits are taken care of,turn your focus on the Blind Dogs,keeping an eye out for theone glowing with a blueish hue.The glowing Blind Dog will be theone with the Electronic Collar,meaning it will alsotake more damage,so try andeliminate all the others first,as they will die in one to two bullets.

TheCollared Blind Dog will occasionally run away from you before sprinting back at you,giving youample time to heal if need be,then readjust yourself toshoot at it again on its return.After defeating this Blind Dog,loot its body and retrieve the Electronic Collarto get acall from Nightingale,allowing you to proceed with the mission!

Help Nightingale In Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl

Grabbing one of the Electronic Collarswill haveNightingale radio in with a distress call,saying he wasattacked by a Bloodsuckerwearing one of the Collars, having him believe he was set up.Quickly reach his locationby following the blue marker on your compass.

You willeventually reach an abandoned house deep in the woods,making the tension and atmosphere substantially creepier. As you approach the entrance, you will begin hearing strange noises around you.Push inside and start investigating the sceneto findNightingale’s corpseon the ground.Loot itto grab theElectronic Collar and PDA.

Defeat The Bloodsucker

Interacting with Nightingale’s corpsewill have theBloodsucker rush into the house and attack you,which will be hard to spot asit is invisible.So, instead of trying to square off against it out in the open,run into the room opposite where Nightingale isandposition yourself on top of the table in the corner.

Now,watch the doorwayin front of you closely; themoment you see a shimmerof the Bloodsucker,begin firing at it as it runs toward you.It will attempt toswing at you a few times, maybe succeedinga few times beforerunning back outside.If it hits you,take this time to heal;if not,ensure you’re reloadedand ready for its next entry.

Repeat this process until it’s dead,having it become visible before lifelessly falling to the floor, allowing you tosearch its body.You will find anElectronic Collaron it, confirming Nightingale’s suspicions. With that,head back to Zalissya toconfront Hamster.

You can also throw grenades out the doorway to double up on your damage, but it’s not necessary, as the Bloodsucker will always run back inside and try to land several swipes on you before running away. If you run out of ammunition, you may have to utilize this strategy, or will have to use your knife… which we don’t recommend.

Bring The Electronic Collars To Hamster In Zalissya

Return to Zalissya,head into theinn,andspeak to Hamsterat the counter,confronting him about the Electronic Collars.Showing him the Collars willhave him ask about Nightingale,allowing you tochoose from three separate options,allowing you to lie about what happened. We decided toinform him that he died.

Following that, you caninform him that one of the Collars was on a Bloodsucker,having him up the payout. He will show almost no remorse for what happened to Nightingale, making the situation feel even more depressing than it already is. Proceed tosell the Collars to Hamstertocomplete the Nightingale’s Huntmission and receive850 Coupons.

Despite the reward not being all that great, this quest willallow you to spot Blind Dogs with Electronic Collarson them going forward, enabling you tokill them, loot the Collar, and sell them to Hamster for a decent payout.This will alsolikely lead to a future mission with the Clientthat is requesting the Collars, so keep an eye out for them!