How to increase your carry weight limit in Stalker 2There are a few different ways to increase your carrying capacity in Stalker 2
There are a few different ways to increase your carrying capacity in Stalker 2
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World
How to increase carry weight limit in Stalker 2
There are five ways to increase your carry weight limit in Stalker 2:
In addition to these tips, you should regularly sift through your inventory and drop what you don’t need, as well as offloading surplus gear in trades or into your private stash to minimise weight. But if you’re still hitting up against your carry weight limit, then the above five tips will help you to avoid getting overencumbered throughout your Stalker 2 playthrough.
Let’s go through each of these strategies in more detail.
There are several types of Artifacts that increase your max carry weight if you equip them. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World
Equip Artifacts that boost carry weight limit
You can have up to five slots in your suit for holding Artifacts you find around anomalies in the Zone, and a couple of them grant bonuses to your carry weight limit. These Artifacts are:Sprint, Flytrap, Stone Blood, and Goldfish. They can all be found randomly near gravitational anomalies. Sprint and Flytrap have greater weight bonuses, but they also emit more radiation, so make sure you balance them with radio protection Artifacts like Slug and Mica.
Some armour upgrades allow you to directly boost your max carry weight. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World
Upgrade your armor for increased carry capacity
Get into the habit of upgrading your favourite gear to make it as lightweight as possible. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World
Upgrade your gear to decrease its weight
The flipside of upgrading your armor for increased carry weight isupgrading all your other gear to lower their weight. Most weapons and armor will have an upgrade option somewhere to decrease their total weight, making it much easier to lug them around. These upgrades are also generally cheaper than the cost to upgrade your armor for the overall carry weight bonus, so they’re a much more accessible option early on.
The Wanderer Suit in the southern swamp Journalist’s Stash gives you a great carry weight bonus. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World
Equip Stalker Suits with max weight bonuses
Certain Stalker Suits have specific bonuses that increase your carry weight limit - and in my opinion, this bonus makes them among the most valuable suits in the game. Here are a few specific suits that increase your carry weight limit:
The Hercules pill gives you a powerful temporary weight limit increase. |Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World
Use Hercules consumables for a temporary weight bonus
The final option is to use the Hercules consumable drug to temporarily increase your carry weight limit. Don’t turn your nose up at this option just because it’s temporary. Take one of these drugs, and you add 20kg to your max carry weight for 10 minutes. That’s a very decent boost to your carrying capacity, and it’s enough to make travelling much easier when you’re on the tail-end of a loot-filled excursion.
You can find the occasional Hercules drug lying around just about anywhere, particularly looking inside medical crates and facilities. You can also trade with medics in major settlements to see if they have any spare Hercules lying around.
Hopefully this guide has given you a few options when it comes to managing your inventory and increasing your max carry weight limit in Stalker 2. For more primers like this one, check out our guides onhow to fast travel,how to get more ammo,how to repair equipment, andhow to use Bolts.
