You want to add some artifacts to your collection Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl? Then you'll need a scanner, and you'll need to use it liberally. You'll get one of these within minutes of starting the game, but you'll have to go hunt for more. The hunt is worth it though, as even the first upgrade is a huge step forward, with each subsequent upgrade going even further.

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Don't expect to get any Artifact Scanner upgrades after a good few hours as you have to meet certain requirements to access them. You can find information about all this and much more here.
Where to find Echo Scanner
The Echo Detector is the first scanner you'll find during the opening tutorial mission, There and Back Again. As you go through the scientist's compound, you'll come across a dead scientist's body and a Viper-5 next to it. Looting the body rewards the Echo Scanner.
As the first scanner you unlock, the echo detector function is simple. The closer you are to the artifact, the more often the light will flash in his face. Be close at hand and the light will be solid. You don't get any direction or distance indicator, just a light.
Where to find a Hilka detector
The Hilka detector can be found in several places. It is also available in a stash you'll encounter as part of Budmo! missionsuch as shopping at several merchants across the Zone or at the abandoned Lvov oil tanker in the far east of Zatovsk.
Let's be! the stash is east of the Slag Heap and you'll want to go there first; if you complete the mission by helping the drunkard's friend at the east stash, its contents will disappear.
in addition the tanker Lvov is only fully accessible through the mission A Mysterious Casebecause the door to the boat will only open after you accept the mission from the Sultan at the Sultansk base. You can find the Hilka detector there in the scientist's bunker at the east end of the ship.
Traders you can buy a Hilka detector from for 4000 coupons are:
- Bartender in Rostock
- Pythagoras in UTC Malachite
- Hawaiian to Yaniv station
These vendors are resident pub owners at each locationso they will sell food, sometimes artifacts, and buy everything you need to unload.
Hilka Detector is a massive upgrade from Echo, as provides accurate distance measurement up to 100 meters when it detects an artifactand the reading decreases at such a rate that you will always have an approximate direction where you need to go.

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Where to find a bear detector
There are two ways to get to the bear detector. The first and much harder, is to reach the end of the Uninvited Guests side mission, which you can start by talking to the Mytryk Genius on the north side of the Concrete Forest in the Cement Factory region.
In the mission you will have to move underground until you face two Burer enemies, then loot Mytryk's hideout, which is hidden under a pair of large wooden cable spools.
You can too buy Hawaii bear detector at Yaniv station for 6000 coupons.
As for the detector itself, it is an improvement on Hilka in two important respects. Firstly, it gives a relatively precise direction you need to go to reach the artifact being detectedand the closer you get, the more the nucleus ring fills in, so you always have a good idea where to look.
Where to find the Veles detector
Like the echo detector, The Veles Detector is a mission reward, specifically the In Search of Past Glory missionwhich you complete closer to the end of the game. It takes at least 15 hours to get there, much longer if you do a lot of side content.
You actually get Veles after completing the step of taking the Suppressor plan to Dvupalov and he and his assistant have a fight.
Using Veles is as simple as it gets. Its display shows the location, distance and direction of the artifact that you are looking for over normal audio stimuli.

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