How to upgrade the PTM gun in Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl

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You will find dozens of powerful weapons in your adventures in Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobylbut one will always be by your side: PTM in the form of Skif's Pistol. This trusty sidearm, as a quest item, is locked and will never leave your inventory.



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If you want to survive the zone, grab the Seva-D armor as soon as you can.

There are many more PTM guns to be found in the zone, and you can upgrade them with special accessories and mods to increase their effectiveness. PTM or Skif's Pistol can easily carry you through the entire game, and an upgraded makes for a formidable secondary that is unlikely to ever run out of ammo.


How to upgrade PTM

The PTM upgrade screen in Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl.

You can upgrade PTM and any weapon currently in your inventory with a tech vendorwhich you find at most bases in the zone. The first one you will come across is Lens in Zalissyawhere you can spend a few hundred coupons on each of its three potential upgrades.

Upgrade

Track

Bonus

Milled parts replaced with stamped parts

Body

50% weapon weight reduction

Tin coating on the inner surface of the barrel

Barrel

20% extra bullet speed

Extra pipe rifling

Barrel

30% extra armor-piercing power


With these three upgrades, PTM is not only takes up less of yoursequip cargobut you also mean you have to lead your shots less and be able to get more consistent headshots on enemies with head armor.

The second upgrade becomes especially important when more enemies have such armors in the late game.

However, two additional accessories for the PTM are not available in a tech shop: Pistol Suppressor and High-Capacity PTM Magazine.

As you'd expect, the silencer makes your shots quieter and helps with stealth if that's your thing. The High-Capacity PTM Magazine increases the number of rounds the PTM can hold to 12up from 8. Getting these items requires a little extra work, but none of them are hard to find.

Where to find the gun silencer

Stash with Pistol Suppressor in Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl.


There are several places in Stalker 2 where you can get a Pistol Suppressor for use with the PTM (and several other weapons). The easiest is to go to the storage room in the Boiler Housewhich you can easily reach right after leaving the tutorial.

To equip the silencer, drag it to the Skif's Pistol icon or another PTM while you have the weapon equipped. To equip it, open the weapon options (which you would use to unload a weapon, for example) and select the silencer. It will exit the weapon and return to your main inventory.

You can too
find a dampener in the slag heap in the trash region
but you get a PTM with a suppressor equipped for free during the side quest The Road to Salvation.

How to get The High-Capacity PTM Magazine

High-Capacity PTM Magazine on a table in Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl.


We could only find two of these High-Capacity PTM magazines in the game, and both are in the Lesser Zone.

The first is in the deepest part of the Sphere where you meet Solder during The Behind Seven Seals queston a table in Solder's room.

Make sure to get it during the mission, since we can't find a way to get back into the Sphere basement
once you escape.

The other and easier magazine to get is in the small building on the western edge of the Northern Checkpoint. You can go there before or after completing Behind Seven Seals and grab the magazine from the table near the radio equipment.

Stash at the Northern Checkpoint building with the Pistol Suppressor in Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl.


Pay attention to the guards which are likely to be there for most of the game. Since they are in the Lesser Zone, don't expect much resistance to late game gear.

You can always buy the Pistol Suppressor if you don't want to go hunting for it, even if the merchants who sell it are outside the Lesser Zone. Specifically, they are:

The Sidorovich trading post in Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl.

  • Sidorovich at Rookie Village in Cordon, just east of the Lesser Zone.
  • WO Komisarov at the cement factory in the northeast corner of the map.
  • Ragman in Rostokthe large city on the map west of Garbage.
  • Viktoria Dorozhnyuk at STC Malachite farthest west on the map.

Of the suppliers that sell pistol suppressors, Sidorovich is by far the best if you want an early gameas he is very close to the Lesser Zone, and the Rookie Village where he lives provides easier access to the eastern parts of the map as well as a secure base of operations to operate from.


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