The best Stalker 2 mods to refine your experience in the Exclusion Zone

Stalker 2 is a fantastic and immersive experience that should keep you engaged for hours on end.

But, like the vast majority of games, more can be added, and this is possible with the help of the modding community.

Below, we’ll be taking a look at some of the best Stalker 2 mods available right now so you can take advantage of these tweaks and take the game to another level.

Best Stalker 2 mods

Even though it’s early days in the Stalker 2 lifecycle, there are a bunch of mods available that can really enhance your playthrough.

We’ve taken a look at what’s available and have hand-picked the best of the bunch that you can play around with.

All of the following mods are our top picks and are available via the popular mod hosting site NexusMods.

Optimized Tweaks S.2

The Optimized Tweaks S.2 mod for Stalker 2 enhances game performance by reducing stuttering and improving overall stability.

It achieves this by optimizing shader compilation and asset streaming, leading to smoother gameplay without compromising visual quality.

Additionally, the mod addresses mouse sensitivity issues, ensuring consistent horizontal and vertical movements, which is crucial for precise aiming.

Since the game had a bit of a rough start in this department it’s great you can get it a little more optimized with a simple mod.

There are a few different mods of this ilk available but we believe this one is the top selection.

Grok’s Modular Mutants Health

The Grok’s Modular Mutants Health mod for Stalker 2 offers you the ability to customize the health levels of in-game mutants.

It provides preset options to reduce mutant health by 20%, 40%, 60%, or 80%, allowing for a tailored gameplay experience, depending on how much you want to scale the ‘difficulty’ by.

This flexibility enables you to essentially adjust how ‘hard’ the enemies are, making encounters with mutants more manageable or challenging as desired.

While you might be completely fine with the vanilla difficulty levels, this mod allows for more customizability and something that is worth exploring.

No (or reduced) weight for ammo nades meds and food

The No (or reduced) weight for ammo nades meds and food mod for Stalker 2 offers you the ability to adjust the in-game weight of ammunition, grenades, medical supplies, and food items.

This mod gives you three options: setting these items to weigh nothing, reducing their weight to 10% of the original, or reducing it to 50% of the original.

By implementing this mod, you can carry more supplies without becoming encumbered, enhancing mobility and allowing for extended exploration and combat readiness.

This enables the chance to do much more exploring without the worry of taking on too many items which, while it does break immersion slightly, might keep you way more engaged in the gameplay.

Longer Sprinting

The Longer Sprinting mod for Stalker 2 reduces the stamina cost associated with sprinting, allowing you to run for extended periods before tiring.

Because of this, you’ll have much more enhanced mobility, making it easier to navigate the game’s environment and evade threats.

Again, similar to the no weight mod we’ve just talked about, this may remove some realism but it may make your time in the Exclusion Zone a little less stressful.

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