Spring Update. "Hornet" Equipment Set. Anomalous Spring.

Stalkers!

We present you a list of changes included in today's update:

Equipment Sets

– Added a new equipment set – ​​“Hornet”.

The set consists of a gas mask, body armor, jacket, pants, gloves and boots.

Bonuses of the “Hornet” set:

• Adjusted2 equipped itemsIncreased health regeneration by 2.4 points.
• Adjusted4 equipped itemsIncreased stamina by 45 points.
• Added6 equipped itemsThe active skill becomes available for use.

Active skill "Sting": A "Sting" device is placed in the selected location, which periodically deals electrical damage in a small radius around itself for a certain period of time.

“Sting” duration: 5 minutes.

Active skill cooldown: 1 minute.

Using an active skill consumes the charge of the “Sting”, which can be replenished at Mitka the Hunter (Tunguska, square C2-3).

– Added 11 new items related to crafting the Hornet gear set. These items can be obtained in several ways:

• Completing daily quests. The quests themselves are completed in the Tunguska, Karavan, New Land, Northern I. locations.

• Crafting at stations requires the appropriate recipes and components. Recipes can be purchased from Mitka the Hunter, while components are obtained in the open world.

• Expeditions and open-world events – completing these activities will reward you with the necessary parts.

– Changed the characteristics of the “Vityaz” set.

“Vityaz” body armor:

• Increased sturdiness: 210 >>> 215.

• Increased incoming damage reduction: 5% >>> 7%.

Active skill “Electro-impulse”:

• Reduced cooldown: 7 minutes >>> 5 minutes

– Significantly increased the chances of receiving Polar Bear hearts.

– Significantly reduced the number of Interface Modules required for the “Vityaz” set.

– Weekly quests for parts of both sets now have a 23 hour cooldown.

– Assembling each set now takes much less time.

Anomalous Spring

The "Anomalous Spring" event is now live! Take part in spring activities and earn valuable rewards!

– The event will last from 31.03.26 to 28.04.26.

– A new location and a new storyline questline have been added, revealing details of the spring anomalous activity. Mysterious passages have opened near major settlements, leading to previously unexplored areas of the Zone. Doctor Kolesnikov is offering a commensurate reward for all volunteers' efforts – they will be asked to help not only study local mutants and anomalies, but also immerse themselves in extremely unusual spaces, the nature of which boggles the imagination of even the most seasoned stalkers.

– To begin the quest chain and reach the Unknown Zone, you must speak with the NPC “Agent [Event]”, who is located in the following settlements:

• Gourmet’s Kitchen, Liubech’s Outlands;

• Radio Tower, Vesuvius;

• “Konukovo” Airport, Airport;

• “Radius” Village, Tunguska;

• Severny-1 Village, New Land, Northern I.;

• Ataman’s Outpost, Black Forest.

– During the event, you will be able to find the item “Anomalous Snowdrop”:

• Guaranteed to work when butchering or searching most mutants and animals;

• With a certain chance when butchering or searching certain animals and mutants;

• Guaranteed for cutting special piglets;

• As a reward for completing the quest chain associated with the event.

– The amount of Abnormal Snowdrops obtained from all sources has been increased.

– Added a new temporary artifact “Loop”.

Use: Remembers the owner's location. When used again, it returns the owner to the point the artifact "remembered."

Important conditions:

• After a character moves or dies, the saved location is reset.

• Movement is available within several locations (for example, you can remember a location in Liubech’s Outlands and move there from Black Forest).

• The artifact does not work in all places of the Zone (expeditions, PvP maps, PvP zones, capture