How to Switch Weapons Using Keybinds in STALKER 2: Heart of Chronobyl

STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl immediately shows you that you’ll be playing with a lot of weapons as the game just seems to throw all kinds of weapons at you. You’ll even see some of these weapons broken, but most of the ones you find will be operational with some extra ammunition. You might be overwhelmed by which weapons to use or equip, and you can easily swap among three weapons on your quick binds. Here’s how to switch weapons using those keybinds and how you can set up other new weapons to replace them in STALKER 2: Heart of Chronobyl.

How to Change Weapons in STALKER 2: Heart of Chronobyl

To change weapons, you’ll use the 1, 2, 3, and 4 buttons on your keyboard, kind of similar to most competitive FPS games when switching weapons. The keybind “1” is automatically set to your melee weapon, which is useful since you are going to use it to destroy debris and locks at times, while “2” is for your sidearm. Your main weapons are for slots or keybinds 3 and 4.

Use 1, 2, 3, and 4 keybinds to freely swap through weapons without opening the radial wheel. If you want more swap options, you can also open the radial wheel by pressing the Tab button, and you’ll see all the weapons you can equip from your inventory. You can use the cursor or mouse to select anything from the wheel, and doing so should equip the selected item or weapon. As a quick note, you can also open up other tools like your flashlight or scanner from the radial wheel.

How to Set Keybinds/Fast Switch to Weapons

If you want to assign specific weapons to keybinds, press “I” to open up your inventory. Next to the inventory tab, you’ll see your equipment tab. You’ll see two main weapon slots and a sidearm slot in the tab.

The main weapon slot on the left is assigned to your keybind “3,” and the one on the right is for keybind “4.” You can have at least two weapons as your “main” weapons because you can easily switch to them.

The rest of the items will have to rely on the free equipment slots on the radial wheel. In fact, you are more limited by your inventory space if you think about it. Since weapons eat up a big chunk of your inventory, you won’t have enough space to actually assign them to your radial wheel. On the bright side, you can increase your inventory space in the game.