Want to add some artifacts to your collection in Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl? Next, you'll need a scanner, and you'll need to use it liberally. You'll get one of them within minutes of starting the game, but you'll have to go hunting for others. However, the hunt is well worth it, as even the first update is a massive step, with each subsequent improvement going even further.

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Don't expect to get the artifact scanner upgrade for a good few hours, as there are certain requirements you'll need to meet to access it. You will find information about all this and more here.
Where to find the Echo scanner
The Echo Detector is the first scanner you find during the initial tutorial mission, There and Back. When you go through the scientists' annex, you'll come across the corpse of a dead scientist with a Viper-5 next to him. Looting the corpse grants the Echo Scanner.
As the first scanner you unlock, the functionality of the echo detector is simple. The closer you are to an artifact, the more often the light on his face will flash. Be handy and the light will be solid. You don't get any direction or distance markers, just the light.
Where to find the Hilka detector
There are several places to find the Hilka detector. It is available either in a reserve you will encounter as part of Budmo! missionas a purchase at a few merchants in the area or at the abandoned Lviv tanker in the far east of the Zatov region.
Budmo! the stash is east of the Slag Heap and you'll want to go there first; if you finish the quest by helping the drunkard's friend at the warehouse in the east, its contents will disappear.
In addition, the Lviv tank is fully accessible only through the A Mysterious Case questbecause the door in the boat will open only after you have accepted the mission from Sultan at Sultansk base. You'll find the Hilka Detector there in the scientists' bunker at the east end of the boat.
The merchants you can buy the Hilka detector from with 4,000 the coupons are:
- Bartender in Rostok
- Pythagoras at UTC Malachite
- Hawaiian at Yaniv station
These vendors are the resident pub owners at each locationso they will sell food, sometimes artifacts, and buy anything you need to download.
The Hilka detector is a massive upgrade from the Echo, as gives you an accurate distance measurement up to 100 meters when it detects an artifactand the reading drops off at such a rate that you will always have an approximate direction of where to go.

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Where to find the bear detector
There are two ways to get hold of Bear Detector. The first, and much more difficult, is to reach the end of the side quest Uninvited Guests, which you can start by talking to the Mytryk Genius in the northern part of the Concrete Forest in the Cement Factory region.
You will have to navigate underground in the mission until you face two Burer enemies, then loot Mytryk's warehouse which is nestled under a pair of large spools of wooden cable.
You can also buy the Bear Detector from the Hawaiian at Yaniv Station for 6,000 coupons.
As for the detector itself, it is an improvement on the Hilka in two important ways. First of all, it gives a relatively precise direction to go to reach the detected artifactand the closer you get, the more the seed ring fills in, so you always have a good idea of where to look.
Where to find the Veles detector
Like the echo detector, The Veles Detector is a quest reward, specifically the Quest for Past Glory questwhich you will complete closer to the end of the game. Getting there is at least a 15 hour journey, much longer if you do a lot of side content.
You will actually get Veles after completing the step where you take the Suppressor plan to Dvupalov and he and his assistant are arguing.
Using Veles is as simple as possible. Its display shows the location, distance and direction of the artifact that you are looking for on top of the usual audio cues.

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