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Every game that features RPG elements has inventory management, or the mechanics that let you carry only limited weight. In the case of Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, if you carry more than it is allowed, you'll become too slow, and your stamina will suffer for it.
Of course, to solve this problem, you'll need to either carry only a limited amount of items or try to increase your inventory to gain some extra space if you want to go on missions fully prepared.
If encumbrance poses a real problem for you like it does for us, we have a guide that will teach you how to properly manage the inventory and how to make it larger.
How to increase the inventory
The first thing you need to know is that the inventory is connected to your suite, not your backpack, even though you can clearly see that every time you want to check the items in your inventory, Skif will literally take off his backpack. The backpack is just the animation, so don't let it fool you that you must find a way to upgrade it somehow.
With that being said, let's begin with the inventory management first. All the suits in the game will allow you to carry 80 kilograms, and the weight will be divided into three zones: the green zone, in which bonds you should stay to be able to move easily; the yellow zone, where the movements become slower the more weight you carry; and the red zone when you cannot move any more.
Since every item has its weight, the best way to stay inside the green zone is to sell everything you don't need to the vendors; this way you can earn many coupons or put everything inside your stash. Every base has the stash, and its content is shared, meaning everything you put in the stash in one base, you'll find in the stash in all other bases.
Good advice is to keep the ammunition for the weapons you'll be using after leaving the base; do not carry the ammo for Kalasnikov, for example, if the weapon you're using is MP5. In this way, you'll leave enough space to pick up the loot from your exploration.
After properly managing your inventory, you can upgrade it as well, but do not expect some great differences. As we said earlier, the inventory is upgraded through suit upgrades, so to upgrade it, you'll have to visit a technician. Every base has a technician, but you must know that not every technician is capable of upgrading the suits.
For example, the technician inside Zalissya cannot do that, and once you try, the game will give you the warning about that. Also, not every suit has the inventory upgrade ability. We found out that OZK Explorer's Suit can be upgraded; there are many more perhaps, but this can be found pretty easily early in the game.
To upgrade the inventory, choose the second upgrade tier (the white dot located on the collar). Choose previous upgrades that are connected to the last one, and once you upgrade the last, your inventory will be increased for 10 per cent, which means you'll be able to carry eight more kilograms.
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