A Heavy Burden is a side mission in Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl. This side mission is required to enter the Noontide Base in Wild Island if you didn’t show the Unusual PDA to the Ward in the Back to Slag Heap mission. Read on to find out where you can accept the mission, where you can find the cargo, and how to get inside the Noontide Base.

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Starting the Mission¶

This mission must be completed to gain access to the Noontide Base should you not have the Ward Badge for showing your Unusual PDA to them in the Back to the Slag Heap main mission. If this is the case for you, you’ll need to head back to Sawmill, located to the northwest of the Noontide Base. This is the area where you had a conversation with Scar when you first entered the Wild Island zone. When you get there, speak to Mute. If he’s not there, he may be in a random conflict with some bandits. When you speak to Mute, he’ll ask you to retrieve the Cargo meant for the Noontide Base.

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(1 of 3) Head to Sawmill to start the “A Heavy Burden” mission.

Cargo Location¶

Agree to his request and head southeast toward the Noontide Base. The objective isn’t too far away from the base, it’s to the northwest of the base, past the stream and warehouse. When you approach the objective marker, you’ll get attacked by some bandits. We’re not sure if any of these incidents were a random event or part of the mission, so we’ll list them here anyway. When we got there, we were attacked by four or five wild hogs.

Then we got shot at by the bandits, which followed up with another friendly faction (think Noontide) fighting said bandits. If none of these happened in your game, all you need to know is that you need to kill the bandits, loot Karim Cyclops corpse for Karim Cyclops PDA, which will update the objective, and then search the floor among the corpses for the cargo.

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(1 of 5) Head southwest from Sawmill to find the last known location of the cargo.

Take the Cargo to Wild Island¶

After collecting the cargo, head over to the Noontide Base, and speak to Stone to show him the cargo. This will give you access to the Noontide Base, which is the main reason for doing this side mission, but it isn’t complete just yet. Go through the tunnel, and then head southeast to Prof. Lodochka’s lab, where you can hand over the cargo to complete the mission.

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(1 of 2) All you need to do now is hand over the cargo to Prof. Lodochka in the southeast.

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All you need to do now is hand over the cargo to Prof. Lodochka in the southeast. (left), Handing over the cargo will complete the mission. (right)

You’ll be rewarded with a staggering 1000 coupons. Don’t spend it all at once! That’s it for this side mission, although the reward is paltry, the main reason for this mission is to gain access to the Noontide base.