Many modern open-world shooters allow the players to team up with their friends in co-op to bring havoc to the enemies together, or at least to take NPCs for certain missions. The team said at GSC Game World that there will be no squadmates in the upcoming FPS, and players won’t be able to get an animal companion, either. Stalker 2: Heart of Chernobyl devs revealed a bunch of new details about the project, highlighting your loneliness in the Exclusion Zone.