Knowing how to repair weapons in STALKER 2 is an essential part of the game. If your gear isn’t in peak condition, then you’re just giving yourself less of a chance of survival. With the help of a Technician, you’ll be able to restore the durability of your equipment and stop your guns from jamming at the precise moment you really need them. A job like this doesn’t come free though and these special merchants will ask for a fee. But, you’ve got to find one first. They’re not very easy to find and navigating weapon durability is a tricky task in STALKER 2 when you're getting ambushed in the Heart of Chornobyl by bandits. Understanding how to repair weapons and what to do with broken guns in STALKER 2 is important intel. Luckily, we’ve explained it all below.
How to repair your weapons in Stalker 2 using a technician
To repair weapon durability in STALKER 2, you can get a Technician to fix your guns in exchange for coupons. Technicians are a merchant you can find in larger settlements, like the starting town of Zalissya (not long after escaping the first of the STALKER 2 Anomalies), where a character called Lens will fix your weapons (in the building next to Warlock's bar).
To get any technician to repair your STALKER 2 weapons, speak to them to open dialogue, then press X (on the Xbox controller) to open the Technician menu. Once there, select a broken weapon and press X again to fully repair it, bringing its durability back up to 100. The lower a gun's durability, the less accurate it is and the more likely it is to jam while you fire, so keeping weapons in good shape is very important.
Repairing a gun is only free for the starting Skif's Pistol (and then that too starts to cost money after the first upgrade), and all other weapons will cost you a surprisingly high amount of money to see them fixed - the cost of repairs increases based on the amount of durability that needs to be restored, so more significant repairs for a weapon will set you back more cash, as with the Stalker 2 Drowned gun, which costs over 10,000 coupons to repair!
Since weapons degrade through firing them and through carrying them around in hazardous areas of the zone, there's not really a way to prevent wear and tear, so it's always best to ensure you've got a sufficient coupons for emergency repairs. And since STALKER 2 fast travel only works between settlements, if you get caught out in the Zone with broken gear you've got a long and perilous walk head of you.
What to do with broken guns in Stalker 2
While you can sell damaged weapons with a yellow shield icon, weapons with a red cracked shield icon cannot be sold for coupons in Stalker 2. That means, in the early game, it's often better to just find new guns in the world to replace broken ones instead of shelling out exorbitant amounts of money to fix the unremarkable weapons you've found so far. If your weapon has any attachments on it, make sure you remove those first and, as our STALKER 2 tips say, make sure you unload any ammo too.
Your other option is to obviously just pay the fee to get it repaired if it's a weapon you really like. However, you could instead drop it or put it in a stash, then put a map marker on that spot. That way, you won't be carrying a deadweight gun and you can easily grab it later once you've got the required coupons to get it repaired.
It's not long after reaching Zalissya where you'll have the choice to kill or help Squint in STALKER 2, the consequences of which we've explain there.
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