>review embargo ends on the day of releaseIt’s not going to be good is it
not a chance
>>694960097Damn. I just wanted a good game
it's going to be more broken than cyberpunk
>>694960263That’s a tough feat
>>694959961It will be good, embargo is to shut up click bating jornos and grifters
>>694959961Eurojank is a term for a reason. Even all the acclaimed Witcher games released janky as fuck. lol CyberpunkAlso, I guarantee you there are gonna be people who've been playing mods for 10 years complaining about the base gameplay.I'm still buying the game. Even if I don't play it for 1-2 years, I'm still buying it.
>when you allocate entire team to making fake gameplay for several years and the game does not exist yet and has a deadline of 20 november 2024
CHORNOBOL
>>694960263Hopefully it’s fun broken
>>694959961Preordering it tonight, I don’t care about the reviews
>>694959961>>review embargo ends on the day of releaseThat's a death flag right there. >>694960263That's the good scenario, where it's broken as fuck and they eventually fix it.
>stolker chornoblyat comes out >its shit>pirate far cry 5>get the same stalker experience that GSC envisioned but betterthanks ubisoft!
>>694960263>Zyiggor is a retardThere are no bugs in STOLKYIR, only anomalies. The series was always broken.
>>694959961
>>694959961OwO
>>694960717>160gb>no gameplayretard.
Why do you guys want every game to suck, are you stupid?
>>694960936>>pirate far cry 5Or Metro Exodus, or Chernobylite, or GAMMA/Anomaly, or modded Fallout 4... the list goes on.
>>694959961CHORNOBOL
F.L.O.P.S.T.E.R: Heart of Goyslop
>>694961020PERSONALRESPONSIBILITY
>>694959961Doesn't matter you can get it off good ol' games for the low low price of $0
>>694961020Holy fuck that looks so generic
>160GBHow?
>>694960263that's half the charm of this franchise desu
>>694961020>unreal
>>694961047you clearly never played those demos from next fest that have 10 min gameplay and are 30 gb downloads.
>>694961065I don’t it just keeps happening
>>694961198That's modern gaming+Unrealslop for you.
>>694961307No it doesn’t. You’re just cynical and don’t actually like video games.
>>694961020console players are LOVE this shit.
>>694961396Esl
>>694961362Been playing Gamma personally. Still will be in 2 more weeks probably
wasnt stalker one of those>gameplay is dogshit but atmosphere makes up for ittype of games?
>>694961196that's how stolker always looked
>>694961198lazy unreal packaging
>>694961469yeaha lot of people (children) who post here now only played Anomaly or Gamma so they have no idea what vanilla stalker was actually like
>>694959961Hey, at least its releasing, for some time i was sure that it would be delayed for another year
Doesn't matter how good or bad it is, /v/ will hate it anyway. It's pretty much not even worth clicking the threads, it will just be negativity
I get why embargos exist, but if an embargo is not lifted at least a week before release, there is something horribly wrong with your game.
>download and unpack 160gb stalker 2>it's just one giant nft scam that hijacks your PC and turns into a permanent bitcoin miner
>>694961065>wantWe do not want STALKER 2 to be bad, but it IS going to be bad, regardless of what we have to say about it. It's just the reality of the modern gaming industry.
>>694961547It was shit, that’s what it was like
Mods will fix it (Like the first ones)
>>694961198>Nanite>you can drop in a 2GB uncompressed tree asset and that ((technology)) will take care of everything for you except for the file size
>>694961594Ok, Synthetic Man
>>694961469yeah, and the bugs really added to itthe brutality of gun fights on the max difficulty was also amazingmy favorite part is not knowing if something is a bug or an anomaly working as intended
>>694961020If anything this looks just like vanilla SoCineffective hipfire and the best way to take a bloodsucker 1v1 is a knife power attack.
>>694961603yeah but thank God the atmosphere was kino
>>694960936>chornoblyatnoice
>>694961798>Suddenly gameplay doesn’t matter if the pixels are pretty enough
>>694961020That's a straight upgrade over any base stalker gameplay what's the problem?
>>694961664no mod can fix the garbage that is unreal
>>694961884Looks like another generic Unreal shooter, down to the animations
>>694961362>STOP HAVING STANDARDS CHUDDIE!!!!
>>694961846nigger I don't know if anyone has ever said stalker was prettythe atmosphere was good and immersive
>UE5>Console>CHORNOBYL>Casualized>Politicized>150gb>Unoptimized
>>694961973>generic Unreal shooterName some examples
>>694961469Yeah but its not the bugs that make the atmosphere, the game has a nice atmosphere in spite of the bugs. theres a big difference here
>>694961973Yeah miles better than the gameplay you'd get if you booted up Call of Pripyat right now
>>694961975You don’t have standards. You don’t actually play games.
>>694961994>CHORNOBYLShouldn't these faggots be busy dying in a trench?
>>694962083>Call of Pripyatmore like Call of PeePee GyattHAHAHAHHAHAHAH
>>694960686Same as me, desu
>>694962040https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htE7f1V7VfU
>>694959961Its going to be a so so meh kind of okay
Trump is dropping Ukraine and I'm dropping this game! Not a penny for your unfinished scam! Go make peace with Russia and listen when they teach you how to make good games.
The gameplay the original games had may have been kinda shit without mods to make it more engaging, but at least the original had charm. STALKER 2 looks so painfully boring and uninteresting that even heavily trying to mod it wouldn't save it.
>>694961884>straight upgrade over any base stalker gameplayPutting the bar that low isn't gonna make that slop look good. The original trilogy was developed by Slavs drunk on vodka in a post-Soviet shithole, STALKER 2's team has the backing of Microsoft. You'd expect they'd make something at least slightly more impressive than GAMMA.
>>694962193Name some generic unreal 5 games
>>694962301thisit’s just generic unreal slop
It looks worse than Metro 1-2. And way worse than Exodus.
ziggers mad
>>694962479Exodus is the worst Metro game so clearly you're retarded
/v/ when STALKER :)/v/ when STALKER with good graphics >:(
As long as it's atmosphere is better than Metro Exodus. Fuck that game really disappointed me for some reason.
>>694961469Yes. The gunplay is fine but at least SoC is pretty repetitive and easy once you get decent artefacts, equipment, and weapons. This whole "Dark Souls of FPS" meme comes from people who only played Anomaly/GAMMA.
>>694962552They have a nigger and probably women in Stalker 2. What atmosphere?
>>694962520What are they supposed to be mad about? The game will have Russian text and they were gonna pirate it anyway.
>>694962301Yes because better textures on slavshit fields and commie blocs drains all the charm out of it
>>694962539it's just /vpol/ being butthurt
What I’m gathering here is that /v/ is obligated to hate every new game, regardless if it’s actually bad. And that you can’t actually come up with criticisms of Stalker 2 so far, so you just keep saying unreal and slop as if those words actually mean anything.
>>694961469Only thing dogshit about the gameplay is the NPCs having 360 degrees full vision and knows where you are every time. Doesn't help too that there's a save bug, that makes npcs know your location when you reload a save.
>>694962539SoC has great graphics, especially for when it was supposed to release (2003).
>>694962640I wasn’t aware that women didn’t exist in Ukraine
>>694962772look at this fucking boardit's literally nothing but thirdies calling things slop and woke. I wish they were bots because that would be less sad than a subhuman wasting time here unable to create any form of discussion
>>694962772Are you really expecting people to have any hope when one release after the other turns out to be shit?
>>694962903The only bad game that’s released recently is Veilguard
>>694962520The game will probably be uploaded to Playground.ru before it even unlocks on Steam
>>694962640retard reverse psychological kike at it again
This is why /tv/ is better than /v/
>>694963008Literally no one was excited for Veilguard. I'm talking about games that people were anticipating with hope, like Dragon's Dogma 2.
>>694961439>accidentally one whole word>huurrrr duurrr eslreddit tranny
>>694963173There's not a single board that isn't better than /v/
This cuck board will say it's shit regardless for pol brownie points
>>694963445>ESL>Brings up trannies out of nowhereYou are brown.
>>694963832ziggers on /v/ are a minority. They only show up in threads like these.
>>694963846sir, i'm literally aryan.
>>694962539This board is getting astroturfed by putinbots
>>694959961Whoops
>>694963832>>694963976Stop samefagging, /k/AFOid troon. You're pathetic.
>>694959961Blame russians.
>>694963696>>694963846shouldn't you trannies be posting pro ukraine propaganda on twitter? especially now that they really need to justify all the gibs.
>>694963832>>694963976>Everyone who isn't blindly optimistic for a game I'm excited for is a Zigger!Yeah, just like how all the people who were sceptical of Dragon's Dogma 2 were Discord trannies. We all know how great that game turned out to be, right?
you think we'll be able to join duty or freedom in this one?
Snoyjeets are losing their minds. A year of flops for them and a year of winning for Xbox yet again. No wonder there's so much seethe onlineI will be enjoying this game for free day one on my Chad box series X
>>694964250I don't give a shit about Ukraine or Russia, I just like to make fun of ESLs.>tranniesDunno about the other anon but I was born as a man and I'm perfectly fine with it.
>>694964394Keep your console war garbage out of STALKER threads please.
>>694964289>>694964250
It took 3 letters and one post to generate this amount of seethe
>>694964541There's literally no other reason for people to be hating on this game. You really expect me to believe that all of these people are on pc? Laugh my ass off yeah right bro if that were the case none of you would be seething anywhere this hard.Snoyjeets gonna cope
>>694964836This game is going to be on ps5. Microsoft only has a 3 month exclusivity agreement
>>694964836what a fucking losersorry you're too poor to buy all the toys you want but I guess it's nice that you finally found something in your shit life to be proud of: a brand
game looks alright to me desu but then again so did starfield so what the fuck do i know
>>694964897Source?>>694964971Keep on coping. It's okay if you made a mistake and bought the wrong system but quit falsely hating on a game for your mistake. Get an Xbox or upgrade your pc, kiddo. Stop the cope.
>>694959961>it will be bad because it wont play like anomaly
>>694965165My PC shits on a consoleI have Gamepass, I have a switch, I have a PS5sorry you can't afford it all so you have to insist everything you didn't choose is bad
So its basically gonna be a console war shitfest and also an actual war shitfest>you dont like ti? >you must be a snoy and / or russian
Every stalker 2 copy sold is a russian soldier exploding TZD
>yeah I have everything...i-i just choose to seethe and cope when I'm perfectly capable of playing it for free on multiple devicesHmm...something isn't adding up. Wanna try again?
>>694965449any excuse to not talk about video games with these niggers
>>694965516I don't understand what you meanno shit I'm going to play it Wednesday. I think it looks pretty cool. that doesn't have shit to do with your faggy brand loyalty
>>694965165https://www.ign.com/articles/stalker-2-will-be-exclusive-to-xbox-for-three-months
>>694965489This is fake news, he only allowed Atacm missles within Kursk region
>>694963008Concord?
>>694965794>3 years agoNo longer the case. They have said recently they have no intention of bringing this to PlayStation ever. Indiana Jones is the only one going to PlayStation after 4 months and snoys aren't going to buy it because all of that money is going to go right back to Xbox so they'd rather just suffer with no games then give Xbox money. They cracked with call of duty but I think they can pass up on Indiana Jones
>>694966078>No longer the case. They have said recently they have no intention of bringing this to PlayStation ever.Source?
>>694966078GSC isn't owned by MS so unless they decided to scrap the old contract and write up a new longer exclusivity deal, I think it's safe to say 4-6 months exclusivity
>>694960263Cyberpunk worked fine on my system my pc day one. Don't know what people are talking about.Must have been poor people and their garbage Best Buy P C's
A эти нeдoвoльныe pyccкиe c нaми в oднoм тpeдe?
>>694966078Nah it’s definitely going to playstation retard. Microsoft doesn’t own GSC like they do the developers of games like Indiana jones and Shartfield.
>>694961020s-surely realism/hard mode will be good, right bwos?
>>694966164>>694966260Keep on coping, snoys
>>694965489>meanwhile in reality
PLEASE DON'T SUCKI CAN'T TAKE ANOTHER SHITSHOW OF A GAME THAT I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR A LONG TIME See DD2 Fuck you Itsuno you faggotAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAA
>>694966485>makes a claim>can’t provide source >K-Keep coping snoy I don’t even have a playstation kek
>>694966164>>694966260>>694966371>4 days agoXbox might not own them but that might not be necessary. Fuck snoys
>>694966635well if the Google AI said so it must have insider knowledge about the contracts
>>694966635>google AI Not officially announced but it’s coming. Unless you can show that Microsoft purchased GSC or extended its exclusivity deal for forever then you have no argument.
>>694961020This enemy looks like a unity store asset.
GAMMA is so good
>>694966710Holy cope, don't you think you'd feel a lot better with cutting the bullshit and just admitting youre a crybaby shitter that simply can't play the game so he's seething 24/7 about it
>>694961020The bloodsucker looks pretty damn good
>>694961065Third worlders can't afford new games, ideally all new games will be bad and flop so they don't feel like they missed out on anything.
>>694961020Zoomer bloodsuckers have too much anxiety to kill loners. Sad!
Unironically if you're not a snoy or playing on a toaster why would you hate on this game? Make it make sense.>inb4 pozzed UE5 asset flip that will run at 3fpsI want the truth. Not these lies you tell yourself.
>>694966925Not him but im playing it either way on gamepass. there’s no doubt that it will be on playstation in 2025. Microsoft does only has 3 months on the deal. This was shown in court documents and there hasn’t been any updates that says otherwise.
Show me one Stalker 2 screenshot that looks as good as pic related. Just looks like unreal slop. Worst part of Stalker 2 for me though is the cheap looking UI
>>694961020So what is the with this webm, exactly? Looks like good ol' regular Stalker to me. Did the doomers in this thread even play at least one of the games from the original trilogy?
>>694960263theres no way they fuck it up as bad as cyberpunk
>>694967447>Did the doomers in this thread even play at least one of the games from the original trilogy?You knew the answer to this question but you asked anyways.
>>694967447*what is the problem
>>694967436I'll believe it when I see it. Until then, it's exclusive.
>UE5>Console>Unoptimized>lied about computer specs requirement>review embargoI want it to be good guys but I think it won't
>>694967445Sorry boomer faggot kike it's not 2008 anymore. Gonna cry?
>>694967445STALKER 2 GUI looks like a console GUI, XBAOS HUGE letters for some fucking reason. monitor is in your face, you are losing screen real state with the GUI.
>>694963008>Dustborn>Concord>Veilguard>Homeworld 3 >UE5 movieslop like Hellblade 2 >indie slop for trannies>another COD sequel no one will remember next year >a billion and one Helldivers 2 nerfs that drove the community to quit >STALKER 2: SLAVI UKRAINI EDITION BY NAFO in 2 days Only 3 memorable games this year was the Elden Ring DLC, Pacific Drive, and Silent Hill 2 remake. I haven't played Rebirth yet though.
>>694967728>new cawadooty turned out to be garbage unoptimized slop>new monster hunter turned out to be garbage unoptimized slop>new stalker turned out to be garbage unoptimized slopI don't want to be a doomer but man, gaming is looking pretty dead. Is there any hope on the horizon?
>>694967445That's not even vanilla SoC you retarded faggot.
>>694959961E D E E K O M N Y E H
>>694967930UE5 is killing the game industry. I miss when everyone had their own game engine.
>>694967971Its my own screenshot, it is vanilla lol
>>694967881Yeah there were definitely changes made. Older trailers have the gun a lot further out from the player and visuals look a lot more sharper but now the gun is flat out in your face and visuals were downgraded. Still looks fun but I'm actually more excited for Indiana Jones
>>694967971It absolutely is vanilla. Those slavs in 2007 really knew what they were doing.
>>694968050Indiana Jones looks like a fun cinematic romp I'd get a year later when its less than 10 bucks. The thing is I know I can just boot up the Indiana Jones movie trilogy and rewatch those and have way more fun than playing the game. Now Alien Isolation on the otherhand, phenomenal movie game
STALKER 2 is going to be shit
>>694967995Why is it killing the game industry?
>>694968306>>694965276
>>694968042>>694968250Vanilla SoC did not even support 2k
>>694967971I sincerely hope this is bait
>>694959961>game was in dev hell for so long that the whole war happened before they released>studio owner publicly complained that noone was willing to develop for $300/monthIt will be buggy af, but i don't know if its gonna be bad, its all depends on atmosphere. Forced ukrainization of a game could be a dealbreaker for me personally though.
>>694967447>Looks like good ol' regular Stalker to meI played vanilla SoC last month and you couldn't just slowly rotate in a circle and knife a bloodsucker to death lmao. Did YOU play the game?
>>694968267I was expecting it to be a typical movie game but it's actually an immersive sim. That instantly made me much more interested in the game. It looks fun
>>694967995Two of those games listed are on their own engine though. It's just that game developers have gotten shittier and incompetent lately
>>694968676>immersive simoh shit really? I might have to keep my eye on it then
>>694968497you can't buy the game anyway faggot ruskie, nobody cares about your feedback
>>694967447All good except>bloodsucker must stop to attack in a generic slap animation
>>694962809theres basically no lighting work or shadows going on here.
>>694968840Yup. Watch the latest gameplay trailer, it sold me. Don't give a fuck about Indiana Jones but a new AAA immersive sim? Abso fucking lutely
>>694969150>Machine Games>Making a good game>thinking trailer bullshots mean fuckall You're retarded.
>>694961020Higher quality bloodsucker fight.https://youtu.be/f5QU59xSoFs
CЛЫШУ ЗOB EБATЬ AЗOB. I don’t think the game will be that good desu; I’ll download something from the original trilogy instead and mod it
>yfw game is a broken mess and get's roasted in steam reviews
>>694961469>>694961547>>694961749>>694962564fuck I guess I'm in the minority but I always liked the gameplayI liked the progression being mostly gear and skill based, and I loved exploring.
>>694959961thank god for gamepass
>>694967447losing track of a sucker should mean instant death, not playing on realism/stalker difficulty is taboo, he should have been dead but here he is trying to fuckin knife the thing
>>694968919>AIB falseflagging for that sweet sweet outrage in niche online communities.Ladies and gentlemen, i present to you results of famed and feared russian counterintelligence work.
What I'm worried about is difficulty.Wasn't the whole thing in old STALKER games that you had to play on the hardest difficulty or else the game was basically completely different? Aka, on highest difficulty you have to be careful but if you shoot someone a few times they *will* go down.I'm wondering how this game will handle that.
>>694969397I doubt anyone actually played them, anomaly mod drew massive people to stalker, enough to bringing down Modb servers at the time because there was too much network traffic after some YouTube streamer made it popular, I can see alot of zoomers being disappointed, since OG stalker is nothing like anomaly.
>>694970285from what I've read, STALKER 2 seems to be taking an extremely mod friendly approach so I'm guessing there'll be a load of people "waiting for mods"
>>694969637>get attacked by bloodsucker>sneeze irl>gotta close my eyes otherwise they might pop out of my head>die in game>the true stalker™ experience
>>694969951na, thats a myth
>>694970519weren't enemies massive bullet sponges on medium difficulty? Am I memory holing myself?
>>694969951In SoC playing on master mode didn’t make any enemies less of a bullet sponge. It was a myth perpetuated because the first round out of a burst had a damage multiplier which was a one shot headshot on most enemies.
>>694960263I played CP77 on release and it was fine. Lackluster, but fine.
>>694960263>>694970678Even if we're talking about just the console release UE runs fine on it. The only way this runs like shit is if the game is basically a scam and only got about a year's worth of dev time.
>>694970427
>>694970519>>694970569I played both games on master with disabled crosshair becuase retards on /v/ told me togod I was stupid back then
>>694970678Same, noticed no difference when continuing from my old save in the DLC, everything was the same
>>694968431it didn't support 16:10 either but you can use regedit like every other game. what's your point?
>>694969951No, starter weapons are dog shit that's all, there's no leveling or character attributes in stalker, you improve by getting better gear and weapons, closest it gets are passive boosts from artifacts, better gear can have more slots and things like that. The originals are still quality great atmosphere, install the community patches, you're missing out.
>>694970678It was "fine" if you had a high end PC and were lucky enough to not run into any sequence killing bugs.I was lucky with bugs but the choppy as fuck performance was so annoying. For a game where atmosphere was so key it was shitty to have it chug and glitchalso all the improvements to combat and builds and police and just actual good content additionslaunch was a 5/10 or 6/10. Phantom Liberty I'd say pushed it up to an 8 or 9
>>694970569>>694970841It wasn't a damage multiplier, it was just because everyone got completely mindbroken by the fact the PMM is abject dogshit and was about as accurate as trying to hit a target half a football field away with just your piss.
>>694960610>click bating jornos and griftersWhat's the difference?
>>694971117Journos get paid to trick you into thinking products are better than they aregrifters get paid by getting you angry enough to watch them cry about things being woke
>>694960610>>694971195Name a game that had review embargos until the day of release and ended up being good.
>>694971402I don't really pay attention to that so I'm afraid I can't answerpretty sure GTA 5 was, I think some of the Arkham games? They were both fine. I don't really watch reviews until after it's out, anyway.
>>694971402EБAЛ ХOХЛOB B OЧКO. UE5 is a huge downgrade so I choose to believe in Greggo’s magic. OG stalker was janky as fuck too after all and you can’t measure soulfulness by a bunch of trailers/screencaps. But SEASON PASS tho, holy shit…
>>694971195Poeple literally lying to you to enrich themselves and move up the corporate ladder aren't grifters because I have a political axe to grind on 4chan.Your shitty opinions are now discarded.
Is it true you can get BTFO by Putin if you play this in Russia?
>>694971570>EБAЛ ХOХЛOB B OЧКO.I don't speak alcoholic.
>>694971664HИЖHЯЯ ПOДCBETКA BКЛ. ХOХЛEHКУ OTOPBAЛO ГOЛOBУ. Not yet but my Russian Steam buddies shitpost about it all the time
>>694971664Yeah, all your land gets sold to blackrock and all your citizens explode. It is iron man mode.
>>694959961Depends. I feel like they are more doing it so that any organic buzz around it coming from reviews comes on the day that people can also just impulsively sign up for gamepass for it. If you reach the audience a few days before they might just forget about it. I don't think microsoft actually cares about the review scores they recieve for their tentpole gamepass releases
>>694970798UE migration, war and relocation, office fire, Grigorovych (there's like three of them) being a himself, anything is possible.>>694970932I started a new game to play the DLC. Thry revamped a bunch of systems, but overall nothing too serious.I also made a mistake of modding it and taking a break, so now game had an update, which broke my mods and after updating the mods my save won't load. ESG at its finest. >>694970979I had a ryzen 3700x and rtx2080 at that time and it ran well. Graphics and gameplay weren't bad, a solid 6 maybe even 7. There were no gamebreaking bugs or major issues, nothing reloading an earlier wouldn't fix.As I mentioned I started a new game and it's the same game. I don't see changes that could improve the score.p
>>694971723PAЗЪEБAЛO OХMATДET B КИEBE, 35 ХOХЛЯT CДOХЛO. The point stands, Stalker never had that technical brilliance nor was it a polished product; it’s a game of wait-and-see. I’m not really familiar with modding capabilities of UE5 if the shit goes down and Slavs will have to unite to mod it to a state of decency
I will play this game when it gets as much content and polish as the anomaly + gamma mods for call of pripyat
Stalker was never good. It’s fitting that stalker 2 is going to be the only good game they’ve made and /v/ hates it.
>>694971938>UE migration, war and relocation, office fire, Grigorovych (there's like three of them) being a himself, anything is possible.True, but we'll have to wait and see. Worst case scenario it runs like DD2 at launch.>>694971961>Stalker never had that technical brilliance nor was it a polished productYeah, but the old games didn't have fucking Microsoft throwing money at them. They were lower budget passion projects which is why I'm less willing to be charitable this time with Stalker 2.
>>694971961didn't most of the original stalker devs fuck off to make metro 2033? stalker 2 only has few oldies attaches to it
>>694972349Not MOST but yeah former GSG staff left since before getting bought by Microsoft it was basically a dead company.
>>694970560Yes, that is basically how it worked. Kind of like Lethal mode in Ghost of Tsushima
>>694971586no, I meant the difference is generally that journos are hired hacks paid to tell you thing is goodgrifters are not employed, but make money telling you its badboth are retards
>>694972196ПЛEHHOMУ ХOХЛУ ИЗ 3ШБ OTCTPEЛИЛИ PУКИ И ПOBECИЛИ. BИДEЛИ POЛИК? ПOЗABЧEPA БЫЛO. Same desu. On one hand I’m rather pessimistic given all the UE5 fluff, Nvidia performance chicanery and fucking season pass of all things. On the other, giving a neet buck to the game whose ancestor provided me with hours of vodka-flavoured fun is kinda comfy and fitting
>>694959961review embargos/ndas at all mean its bad and they dont want people finding out
What's a decent upgrade to Call of Pripyat these days? I've played with Shoker & Arsenal Overhaul but it was quite some time ago. Even finished a Misery playthrough, it was eh.>>694972196>why I'm less willing to be charitable this time with Stalker 2.NTA but I feel like the game will be compared to Anomaly or CoC and their iterations, and other overhaul mods like Autumn Aurora 2 or Misery and what not. I don't think people will be very forgiving (which is good)
>>694959961So how were the console ports of the original trilogy? What is the "best" difficulty?
>>694959961STRELOK, STUPID RETARD, YOU GO TO CHERNOBYL, YOU MUST GO TO CHORNOBYL!STRELOK, GO TO CHORNOBYL, ASK THE GENIE FOR ATACMS ROCKETS AND LOTS OF MONEY, WE NEED IT TO DEFEAT THE RUSSIANS, STRELOK, SLAVA UKRAINIE
>30k word essay in 3 weeks>stalker releases in 48 hoursLooks like I'll fail.
>>694972349Ye… that’s the saddest part. Can’t say I’m a big fan of metro myself but the concept of Slav post apocalyptic mingle turned out being surprisingly catchy for western audiences
>>694972567Likely better to wait until the game is out and you can actually get some gameplay. The fact that they have basically refused to show anything until the last minute just feels really suspicious to me.>>694972575True, even if it was amazing to people that actually played Stalker you're gonna have far more retards that only played Gamma tearing it to shreds.
>>694961020Looks worse and older then anomaly
>>694972842>>694965276
>>694959961I don't have much expectations for a game developed in a warzone.
>>694972742If it wasn’t for mods Stalker 2 would have as much interest as a Risen sequel
>>694969792>someone calls you a faggot for crying about ukranian spelling in a game set in ukraine made by ukranians ITS DA JOOOOOZ DA CIA DA COUNTERINTELLGENCE SPECIAL OPERATIVES THIS IS FUCKING RUSSIAN GENOCIIIIIIIIIIDE AIEEEE SAVE ME STALIN!!!
>>694973138Is UE even that moddable? I mean Microsoft has their grubby fingers all over the game so I legitimately don't see them giving the source code or anything to make mods nearly as developed as the typical stalker mods we have now.
>>694973194>>someone calls you a faggot for crying about ukranian spelling in a game set in ukraine made by ukraniansIt's set in a region of Ukraine that was controlled by Russians before they were retarded and fucked up their nuclear power plant. It's retarded to force some gay spelling change that only retarded Ukrainians thinks matters or looks good.
>>694973373it's good and based because it makes people like you seethe
>>694973430>it's good and basedIt's a waste of time and the only people that give a shit are retarded eastern europeans or equally retarded north american politicians. I don't give a shit about your retarded land spat I'm calling it Chernobyl.
>>694973270For UE5 it’ll be a first
>>694973608>a waste of time!!!!what, the extra microsecond it took to type an o instead of an e? retard
>>694973194PEЖEM ХOХЛAM ГOЛOBЫ И EБEM ИХ ДETEЙ PAКETAMИ. Stop making up strawmen on the fly, I’m legit tired over you folks turning these threads into some quasi/pol/ shitfest. You’re politicizing Stalker yourself and then proceed to complain whoever dares point out any flaws is an FSB Tom Cruise? Nobody even cares about localisation that much, more people have concerns about the engine lol
>>694969327>scripted bloodsucker fightlol
>>694973270devs have CONSTANTLY been shilling about how moddable the game will behoweverremember they were integrating NFTs? I am preparing for paid mods
>>694973194How's the weather in saint petersburg?
>>694969000the lighting and shadows are fully dynamic you retard. you can fully see that EVERYTHING is casting a shadow. the shadows aren't crispy because the sky is overcast.I cannot stress just how stupid and blind you are. you're a colossal faggot.
>>694961047>What are uncompressed WAV filesDoubleretard
>>694973772It's a waste of time because to 99% of the world the change was a completely useless change to act like it's some huge dunk on retarded Russians. >>694973867>devs have CONSTANTLY been shilling about how moddable the game will beYeah, and that's why I'm still having my doubts. Devs have given me absolutely nothing to trust them over so until I see something on par with SGM or something else be made in Stalker 2 I won't care.
>>694974054what’s that
>>694973772ПЛEHHOMУ ХOХЛУ OTPEЗAЛИ ЯЙЦA ЛOЛ))) ПOЙДУ ЗAДOHAЧУ HA ДPOH. As anon said it’s a pretty useless feat because Russians will just pirate the game in return. Here goes your epic own
>>694961020N-NO THE EUROJANK GAME IS.. *gulps*..*shits pants*.. JANKY!?!?
>>694974282That's the Citadel
>>694961020having played dozens of mods for stalker and it's series i can safely say the game looks good enoughvanilla is shit and buggy as all hell but it has good progression and the world feels alive even if it isn'ti've done every major mod from oblivion lost and misery and older, some of those were WORSE than vanilla stalker due to retards adding things that were cut for good reason
>>694974568>eurojankIt's funded by fucking Microsoft. This isn't the same as a pet project worked on by three guys fed on a diet of alcohol and processed meat.
>>694959961>they removed any mention of alife 2.0 from the steam pagethat's weird
>>694974586looks comfy
>>694974861i would be surprised if they even have loner's patrolling and pretending to do shit, still gonna play it, i don't expect anything good to come out of this other than 'yeah, it's kind of like stalker and that's good enough i guess'
>>694975018I hope a botched launch tanks the price of the key like CB77 did and I can grab it for like $20. Kek
>>694975356isn't it on gamepass?
>>694964897and it is going to run at 720p and 30 fps!
>>694960263If it has enough potential, and it's moddable, we'll fix it.I'm at a point in life where I no longer look at a game's inherent quality, but its engine and flexibility.
>>694975417Yes, it is.
Where's the torrent leak?
Where's the leaked torrent?
>>694967445HOLY SOVL.Faggot kids nowadays don't remember how Stalker was pretty much on par with crysis back then, not as impressive graphically but it actually ran somewhat decently on average computers.
>>694975903>>694975953Huh
UNREAL SLOP strikes again
>>694974790Heckin microsoft???? Yeah its still gonna be janky
>>694976759>Yeah its still gonna be jankyThat's because the game is a glorified investment scam and not because it was made by four guys that barely knew how to code.
Stalker was never good
>>694976928Drone strike inbound
>>694959961It's gonna be another metro exodus. Serviceable, nothing special, few bugs, different direction.And surely they have to be buttmad enough to add evil ruskies here and there.
>>694974861
>>694959961the focus on multiplayer and shit is making me think he game is going to be fucking terrible
>>694959961>It’s not going to be good is itThe developers are likely concerned about Western bias, like with Wukong.
>guys, the games from 2009 looked like shit, so its okay for this game to look and play like shit too!the amount of cope in these threads is honestly really sad, STALKER fans have been waiting years for this...
>>694974790>It's funded by fucking Microsoft.If anything this makes the game worse.
>>694977297No one is saying this. The original stalker games are great. Even Clear Skies despite being a broken mess. The issue is that the development of this game was terrible.
>>694977135there's multiplayer?
>>694977486That's the point retard. They're getting millions of dollars worth in funding yet the game barely has any footage shown and what we can see it barely looks better than the old games?
https://youtu.be/7d9I76uw5vM
>>694973061They have left ukraine early 2022 and started to work from czechoslovakia. One year before they already delayed the game, announced switching to unreal and could only show a model for breadloaf ingame, if I rember correctly.
>>694977640>nobody is saying thisHow do you try to gas light in the exact thread full of people saying it lmao, stupid russian faggot
>>694977678original games had multiplayer too dummy
>>694977742I can't play a game made by cowards. I can't believe Microsoft an American company, America the land of heroes is sponsoring this garbage.
>>694959961You'll know on the day of release, clearly
>>694977918Post ID nafo scum
>>694977742Didn't they move to Malta?
I wish the people who liked STALKER back in the day were still on /v/. What fucking site did everybody end up on?
>>694978801I played stalker a few months after it released and thought it was shit.
>>694978274My point was that they had some troubles before the war, all devs were evacuated and war couldnt affect them a lot. Not like Kyev was in any danger anyway, besides rare power outages.>>694978701I think they work in Prague.
>>694978801Droning each other and uploading footage to /pol/
>>694977918This post made me buy Atomic Heart
>>694978919Cool, but I didn't want to know where the butthurt faggots who can't shut up about the things they don't like ended up.
>>694978801>you dont like unreal slop??>youre not a stalker fan>/v/ is deadyou'll have your slop in 2 days quit crying.
>>694979258>how DARE you put valid criticism
>>694979456>>694979492I've got literally nothing to indicate that the game will actually be good, and I am very skeptical about it. But 90% of this thread is political nonsense and the rest is people dooming over blurry footage of a bloodsucker fight that plays out very similarly to vanilla STALKER COC. The people who liked STALKER back in the old days aren't here anymore. I'm just asking where the oldfag /v/irgins went to so I can find a site with people my age.
>>694980032Maybe try reddit
>>694980032whining like a woman
>>694980032There's not much to talk about besides blind optimism, skepticism or pessimism on how it's going to turn out.
>>694980108I did. It's just about as bad as /v/ but for different reasons.
>>694980032>bloodsucker fight that plays out very similarly to vanilla STALKER COCWhy do you faggot shills keep omitting the fact that older stalker games weren't being propped up by fucking Microsoft?
>>694959961It will be a good pirate at best.
>>694980032>I've got literally nothing to indicate that the game will actually be goodand yet we have tons that indicate the game will be shit. maybe reddit is more your speed? they seem to share your views more.
>>694980634Just sign up to gamepass. It’s a great service.
>>694980408Can you explain what you mean by that? I don't see the relevance. I liked the original STALKER, and the main difference between bloodsucker fights in COC vs modern STALKER mods is that you die a lot faster. Presumably whoever was playing in the clip wasn't on max difficulty, too. Are you saying bloodsucker fights should be a lot different now that MS is throwing money around?
>>694980779>more politics.Fuck off, retard.
>>694980821>Can you explain what you mean by that?Acting like a game funded and likely given resources by a major corporation like Microsoft being compared to a series of games first released in 2007 makes the new game look anything more than amateurish is retarded. >Are you saying bloodsucker fights should be a lot different now that MS is throwing money around?Yes, actually. Considering the fact that game is nearly 200 fucking gigs.
>>694980939you fail at pretending to be neutral faggot. go to reddit.
>>694967447>Looks like good ol' regular Stalker to me.Brother, it's a 2024 game. I'd love it to have a better movement system, like in new COD for example, and AI that acts like it's in a real firefight and doesn't just walk without any cover towards you while you shoot at them. Maybe it will have a great story and that STALKER atmosphere that we all love but so far it looks barely better then moded Anomaly.
>>694959961I heard they removed A-Life from the store page.
>>694981253Right, so you didn't like the original STALKER to begin with. I guess you want it to be more "visceral" and "cinematic"?>>694981256I'm not neutral, I just think this thread fucking sucks because none of you retards play videogames or like STALKER and you are here purely to talk about politics.
>>694981653there you go again>you dont like something that isnt even released!!!>you dont like stalker!!!!www.reddit.com/r/stalker/
>>694981653>so you didn't like the original STALKER to begin withThe original devs weren't getting high off of their own farts over some retarded war I have no reason to give a fuck over, weren't posting bullshots and trying to start an NFT scam and actually showed off their fucking game instead of doing everything they can to hide it until the last possible moment. The bugs and rough edges of the old games were excused since it had a far more conservative budget, were reasonably priced and didn't demand nearly a fifth of the average consumer storage space you dribbling faggot.
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>>694981980this is a thread about stolkyr 2 hort of cornoybl
>>694981940I don't give a shit if STALKER SOC's budget was $5 or $5 billion; the end result was one of the best games I've ever played. I feel the same way about STALKER 2.That said, there are a ton of massive red flags which you have summarized pretty decently. I'm not butthurt about people dooming. I think it is very reasonable to be pessimistic. I'm butthurt that most of this thread are people who don't actually have any interest in the game at all. You only care about politics and drama.
>>694959961i would have probably bought this if they kept it as "Chernobyl" but then the devs would have probably been arrested and sent to the front. SAD
>>694982418>I don't give a shit if STALKER SOC's budget was $5 or $5 billion; the end result was one of the best games I've ever played.Yes, because the devs actually gave a fuck. With the fact that none of the same people that made those original games are back for this new stalker game coupled with the knowledge that they have tried to scam their fans in the past there's zero reason to be charitable with this new one. Again, budget doesn't make a game better but if you're getting all of this kickback by Microsoft along with how the game is roughly twenty times bigger than the Shadows alone is a huge red flag. At that point, where is all the fucking money going?
>>694961469No, Stalker has great gameplay, however the difficulty hump until you reach the bar is pretty brutal and a lot of players bounce off the game before they get over it.It also has a few mechanics that are unintuitive like super bullets and dispersion debuffs based on stance and ammo type that punish impatient players and may make weapons seem less effective than they are.
>>694982689Your argument was that the gameplay (specifically bloodsucker fights) should look dramatically different from previous games because they have more money. Even if their budget was infinite, I would be happy that the footage looked similar to SOC because I liked SOC. There are a lot of legitimate red flags that I'm not ignoring, and I'm not telling you that what I like to see in a game is objectively correct. I'm just lamenting that it used to be that STALKER was really popular on /v/, but now it isn't and politics is. I wish I knew where everybody went because I can't stand the butthurt nonsense.
>>694959961Don't care, I'm not going to get a cheaper price than this for years. They hiked it up, can't get it for this much anymore.
of course its not going to be good. they've made one game in 20 years and it was a reskin of an older age of empires 2 clone
>>694982534Retarded ragebait posts like these will be the main posts in the release threads, grim
>>694983481good old times when you could buy AAA games for 50 TL
When are they going to start sending out keys? Fucking hell.
>>694983369The biggest red flag for me is the removal of A-Life from their store page. That's like removing Hell from Doom.
>>694959961If the game is broken and is shit then /v/ will laugh at it and move on.But if it's good and is relatively stable then /v/ is going to spend 5 to 10 years having daily mental breakdowns over this game just like with Doom Eternal and RDR2.There's nothing that makes /v/ seethe more than being proven wrong, and this place has been shitting on Stalker 2 since the Ukraine war.I don't even play the game since Stalker is a shit franchise, but I hope it's good just because the resulting meltdown will 100% result in at least one zoomer nu/v/edditor killing himself.
>>694985865>if it's goodlol>I don't even play the gameLMAO your average stalker 2 shill everybody
>>694985821A-Life has always been a marketing gimmick to try to make a big deal out of>look, these NPCs interact with one anotherRDR2 has an extremely advanced system of NPC interaction, way more than Stalker's, and they didn't give it any fancy names.
>>694959961>dat filesizeI'm unironically getting it on Xbox just so I don't taint my PC with that much bloat.
>>694985943I'm not shilling, shilling would be telling you to buy the game or that it's good.I never played it because Stalker is an objectively subpar franchise with a fanbase of stockholm syndrome plebs who insist that having a game with zero polish, Bioware-tier animations, riddled with bugs and with production levels at the level of an alpha version of any other game is just "eurojank" and "soul".Pic related is a great example of what I'm talking about, a stupid, non-sensical bug due to the game being an underdeveloped mess, and yet the Stalker fanbase constantly posts it because it's le soul. The only fanbase that actually tries to make others think that bugs and lack of polish are good.There's simply no reason to play Stalker when Metro exists, it does everything Stalker tries to do but better in every way, specially Exodus.But I still hope that it's good, or at least good enough for Stalkerfags to like it and sell, because if there's something I hate more than people with bad taste in videogames is schizophrenic subhumans, and /v/ is the biggest gathering of them on the entire internet.
What's the best mod if I just want to play vanilla SoC with fixes?
>>694986314Radiophobia 3
>>694986314download it and play.
>>694986298>MetroGet that nu shit outta here.
>>694986602>nu shitWhy is it "nu shit"?Because it doesn't look like it had a total budget of $20? Because they don't need several modpacks just to be playable? Or maybe because they actually animated the guns while you move instead of having them stay completely static on the screen as if it was some alpha build of an actual FPS?
>>694986314zone reclamation project is literally just that
>>694986298lol>There's simply no reason to play Stalker when Metro exists, it does everything Stalker tries to do but better in every way, specially Exodus.they're two completely different gamesimagine being such a loser you fud video games
>on xbox>160gb>playing unmodded stalkerShan't buy Won't even pirate unless there's a repack that cuts it down to minimum 80gbWill only buy if and when good mods exist that work with a repack
>>694986921No, Metro is actually well developed, it actually looks like it had some effort behind.Comparing Stalker with Metro is like comparing Palworld with RDR2.
