The Fabrique Nationale F2000 (named FT-200M ingame) is a modern weapon system developed by Belgian arms manufacturer Fabrique Nationale as an OICW (Objective Combat Individual Weapon). The rifle is fully-automatic and an ambidextrous bullpup rifle with an integrated scope and an underbarrel EGLM grenade launcher, the grenade launcher also contained a targeting module for more accurate bombardments, although this feature was never used as the EGLM used iron sights instead for aiming the grenade launcher. The weapon uses 5.56x45mm ammunition. Around the time of Call of Pripyat it is supposedly the weapon of choice of recently arrived UN Observers, and the decimation of first Clear Sky and then Monolith has led to the weapon being an incredibly rare, and incredibly valuable weapon inside the Zone itself.
Capable of dealing almost 360 damage per second, even before upgrades, the FN F2000 is a powerful NATO assault rifle.
The FN F2000 can only be acquired once within the Chernobyl NPP itself, from numerous Monolith soldiers, and is hands down the superior rifle compared to anything the player brought in with them. It has a permanent 1.6x scope attachment as well as a fixed EGLM grenade launcher attachment. In the arena however, there is one expert stalker armed with an F2000 where one will have to kill him using nothing but four F1 grenades and a knife. How he obtained it is not a mystery - the arena supplies the fighters.
The first pictures of the FN F2000 at the development stages in 2002.
Clear Sky
An FN F2000 is given to the player as a reward by Docent Suslov after lowering the bridge to Limansk, and is automatically added to the player's inventory when he arrives in Chernobyl. The gun can be taken back to Novikov to be upgraded all the way to Tier 3, after which it is only second to the VSS Vintorez in damage, and the sniper rifle family in accuracy. However, it is inferior to the Heckler & Koch G36 in terms of accuracy and rate of fire before and after upgrades, while damage is the same. Like Shadow of Chernobyl, it comes with a 1.6x scope and underslung EGLM grenade launcher, though the player may modify the scope into a long-range 4x variant, as well as fix a silencer to the weapon. This is the only weapon in Clear Sky where the modification of the scope is not necessary for a specific upgrade tree, for example unlike the G36 and the SA80 requires you to retard the scope to x1.6 magnification to continue upgrading it for assault purposes: this is not the case of the F2000 as you can upgrade it for x4 magnification and have it built for assault purposes at the same time or you could choose to leave it at the default x2 magnification.
Call of Pripyat
The F2000 can be acquired from Nimble by asking for an assault rifle order, or by siding with Freedom in the Yanov faction war - the latter also requires accumulating 100,000 RU at once to earn the A Wealthy ClientAchievement. Along with the Storm (a 5.45x39 OTs-14 Groza) it is one of the costliest guns in the game to purchase, but it is definitely the best available for the price - compared with its competitor the G36, the F2000 fires quicker and does more damage, although for some reason it is less accurate, but still accurate enough for most purposes. It lacks significant punch compared to other high-end rifles even when fully upgraded, making it perhaps not the best sniper analogue, though it compensates for this by boasting one of the highest fire rate (and minimal recoil) even before upgrades, making it a very useful close-quarters rifle. When fully upgraded for close-quarters, it's RPM peaks at just over 900 rounds per minute, more then enough to stun heavily armored enemies and cut them down before they can counter. The integral grenade launcher is useful for clearing out rooms or dealing with swarms of zombies, but ammunition is rare to find. As a drawback, the F2000 can not take a silencer(which very much seem to be a bug, because silencer presence is fully scripted, but just turned off), and the deceptively loud report from each shot will most certainly earn some attention.
The scope is heavily modifiable, with 4x-zoom, high-contrast, and target-identification upgrades available, making it the only assault rifle capable of distinguishing friend/foe when scoped in.
Near the end of the game, it becomes the weapon of choice of Mercenary Experts in the Pripyat area, and can be found in the hands of Loner Experts as well, both being easily identifiable by their Exoskeleton armor.
Behind the Scenes
The beta F2000, as seen in Build 1114
The F2000 is one of the first weapons that appeared in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R series. It's textures can be found in Build 1098 and it can be used in Build 1114. However, it had a different model, which is based on a prototype version of the F2000. The model in the released S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games is the final version of the F2000, but the prototype's texture and model is still in the game, showing that it was changed at the last minute.
