Back in August 2024, the developers of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl said that after the release, the game would receive two large story add-ons with new stories and locations. Players correlated this information with missing locations on the current Zone map.
A large discussion thread appeared on Reddit, in which fans shared their thoughts on the missing areas. As you can see in the image below, there are quite a few of them — for example, most of Pripyat, one of the areas of «Jupiter» and the city of Limansk are missing from the game.
Gamers suggested that the areas marked in red could be reserved for future story DLCs. One of the unconfirmed leaks even revealed the names of the add-ons that will add new locations: The Liman Secret, Cold Island, and Sand Plateau.
Earlier, the artist of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 demonstrated early concept art of a pseudo-deer mutant.