S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
interactive achievement guide, roadmap & tracker
Intro/roadmap
The most anticipated game of 2024 is here, and its hardcore. A worthy sequel and successor to the original Stalker, albeit with a few bugs and some hefty hardware requirements!
The achievement list is solid, and fairly typical for a story-driven open world single-player adventure - there's a set of story-related unmissable achievements, some grinds, some objectives tied to various side-missions, and a few different endings with mutually-exclusive achievements for each.
But there are a fair few missable achievements tied to side quests, such as 
And then there's multiple endings to the story, with different - mutually-exclusive - achievements for each. The point of no return is during the story mission "Subtle Matter" - make a hard save before entering the pod. The game won't tell you this, so be mindful. Choices made after this point will start to affect which endings are available. Also note there is no free-play after the ending!).
There's also some reports of glitches on some achievements - e.g. 
Good hunting!
Stats
- Has Singleplayer?
- Yes
- Has Multiplayer?
- No
- Difficulty affects achievements?
- No
- Guide contributors
-
73% complete
Sign in now
Welcome to the Zone
Prologue complete, but this is so far from over.
Prologue complete, but this is so far from over.
Probably one of the first achievements you'll get - after completing the intro mission. This can't be missed.
Lockpick
Lure a mutant into an anomaly. Hardly a noble deed, but it gets the job done.
Lure a mutant into an anomaly. Hardly a noble deed, but it gets the job done.
This will often happen by accident, and can happen quite early on (before even reaching Zalissya). Mutants will follow you when aggro'd, just get them to stupidly walk into an anomaly. Note kills this way don't count toward "Zone's deadliest predator".
Goss
Join Stalkers for some campfire gossip.
Join Stalkers for some campfire gossip.
This can be achieved very early on in the Zalissya Bar - some stalkers are outside sitting around a campfire. Just sit down next to them...
On the Go
Bread and sausage — Zone's most popular sandwich recipe.
Bread and sausage — Zone's most popular sandwich recipe.
Very easy at any point; both bread and sausages are common loot all over the place; just eat one, then the other immediately after. Either way round is fine. You can check this off very early in the game as soon as you've picked up one of each.
Proxy
Kill a squad that just finished off another squad and won the fight. Or so they thought…
Kill a squad that just finished off another squad and won the fight. Or so they thought…
This can be achieved without much effort through normal play - you'll come across various squads in the world; let them battle each other and then kill the winning team. See the video though for one particular place in the Warlock Debtors side mission where this can be reliably gotten.