The Weird Water artifact in Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is a special and powerful item unlike any other in the game. You can’t just find it like other artifacts. Getting it demands you to be in a specific place at a certain time, so you need to be prepared and maybe lucky, too. Its unique way of being discovered makes it different from the typical artifacts you find through exploring or interacting with anomalies.

This artifact has two main benefits and one drawback. First, it provides some resistance to radiation, which is strange for an artifact. Most artifacts give radiation, so this would help with hunting other artifacts. It also lets you carry an extra 40 kilograms of weight. The downside is that sometimes your camera will shake a little, like when drunk. This can be frustrating during a gunfight, but it is a very minor downside compared to the bonuses players are given.

Where To Find The Weird Water Legendary Artifact In STALKER 2

How To Get The Weird Water Altered Artifact

In Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, you can get the Weird Water legendary artifact, but it’s not your usual hunt through anomalies. You need to have good timing and a bit of luck. You'll find it in the Wandering Lights anomaly in the northeastern part of the Zaton region, right by the Sultansk camp, which is a good starting point. This is a more dangerous zone, so if you find yourself dying a lot, you may need to get better armor before trying this again.

, the anomaly only shows up at night, right before the morning, so make sure to plan your trip for that time. Aim to get to the edge of the anomaly just before 22:00 (10:00 PM) in the game. This way, you can get ready and save your game just in case something pops up to attack you. At exactly 22:00, several green orbs will appear in the anomaly. These orbs will make it very dark, so you won’t be able to see well. Unlike other artifacts, for the Weird Water you can't use a detector to find the artifact.

Turning up your gamma settings can help you see better while you look. Do not turn up brightness, it doesn't help, it just makes the dark parts whiter.

The location is random for each time you load the game, so it won't be in the same spot every time you load a save. Instead, you have to look at the ground near each orb and wait for the interact option to pop up. The only guarantee is that it is under one of the green orbs. There are monsters in the area, so the best thing to do is to look around as quickly as possible. If you have trouble finding it, just reload your save and try again.

How To Extract The Weird Water Legendary Artifact

How To Pick Up The Weird Water Altered Artifact

You just need to pick the item up in STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl to extract it. It looks like a bottle, and the only difficult thing is finding it. You'll take damage every second you're next to a green orb. So, the best thing to do is to find the Weird Water artifact as quickly as possible. While most artifacts require more than just looking for them, the Weird Water Legendary Artifact is hard enough to find.

Keep looking around the ground under each orb until your view turns into a white dot. This means you can interact with an object.

Take the bottle and run once you get it. It won't make any noises or sounds when you pick it up, but if there's a monster nearby when you grab the artifact, it will be really tough to beat. The screen is so dark when this is happening that it's like walking around with the most minimal brightness besides the glowing orbs themselves.

If you are brave enough, you could grab this artifact early on and use it to hunt other artifacts because there are no minimum requirements for this artifact. However, it's very hard to dodge the monsters in the dark, and they'll easily kill players who aren't ready for the Zaton area.

While artifacts are some of the best items to sell in STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl, that's only because they're radioactive. It's better to sell them than to increase the damage they do to you, but in this case, do not sell this artifact. It's worth 80,000 Coupons, which is tempting. However, having and using it to make artifact hunting easier is better. It's more like a ive boost to have than an artifact that should be sold.