It’s good, runs fine, and it’s stalker with a fresh coat of paint. Anyone who doesn’t like it is a retard
>>695161189It's kino. Easily the goty. The people on here bitching haven't played it or have a toaster pc.
>>695161189Looks bad though, all UE games look like shit
i was watching a streamer play it and everything is the same as in stalker 1 (map, names, UI, sounds, location, etc) except graphics are better and story is a bit different. is 2 seriously a 1:1 stalker 1 with better graphics? just making sure before buying it.
>>695161816It pretty much is
I fucking love stalker, I've probably replayed the original trilogy like 10 times a piece. First time being genuinely excited for a new release since Fallen Jedi Order (would be Tribes 3, but as a T:A veteran I knew any project with erez goren leading would flop hard)First time ever preordering a game. Can't wait to get home to try it out tonight.
>>695162168Good little consumer
>>695162239Gotta enjoy something
It's really buggy
>>695162239>first time being excited for a game in 5 years>first time ever preordering a videogame>CONSOOOOOOOOOOMlol,
>>695162168I feel ya.
>>695161484It looks fine
>it's goodhell yeah it is, feels like good old stalker so far>runs finefuck no, 50fps on 3080ti without DLSS regardless of graphics details>it's a stalker with a fresh coat of paintand that's why I don't even mind performance issues. It's still same good old stalkan, except now it has fancy cutscenes, loving it so far
>>695163285How is it buggy? inb4 i-it just is, okay!?
gman says it's buggy slop
>>695165223a bug just flew over my house!
>>695161816Please tell me there are new maps and not just the old ones. Was really hoping it would take place in a part of the Zone we haven’t seen before.
I picked hardEncountered first monster Literally needed to put all ammo to kill itWepons felt like shitShould I change to normal? Is hard going to be full of bullet sponges?
>>695161189every random encounter is now a random spawn they removed the A Life director controlling NPCs and creatures and giving the world "life".
>it runs fineLOLIt literally runs like a pile of dogshit, controllers broken on PC
>>695165223I've gotten a crash so farBandits have clipped through a doorPhysics props are interacting with each other poorlySwitching weapons and interacting wirh stuff has a high chance of just busting the game entirely (had to quit twice, mouth disappeared from all menus once)>I LIKE all of those thingsGo ahead, still bugs and still annoyingI like the game so far, but I want it to work
>>695161189It runs like ass, but it is genuinely a good game and the best stalker game to date
>>695167268>best stalker game to dateCalm down shill
>>695165478Don't pick anything it's a shit game
>>695165478I usually don't change difficulty settings much but don't feel bad about doing it hereThe mutants take way too much damage to killMy guess is that they were trying to make them something you want to avoid rather than fight which is always how the STALKER games treated them in dialogue and tipsNow it's actually true
>>695167360Sorry ziggy boy, but it is genuinely more fun than CoP
Those bandits after the prologue keep kicking my ass.
>they released on GOGwhat were they thinkingstill might wait a month to pirate, seeing as the first patch was AS LARGE AS THE FUCKING GAME almost
>>695165294gman plays video games?
>>695165465The zone's changed a bunch. Some areas are recreated pretty accurately like the Cordon, Zaton and the Great Swamp. But all but the Cordon are now in different places? Zaton is like north east of the Cordon, The great Swamp is all the way to the east of the Cordon now for some reason
Unrealslop. It's not stalker without A-life.
>>695166479Controller works better than keyboard on pc lol
It’s pretty much what i wanted
enjoying it a lot so far
>>695161189No a-life no buy, simple as.
>>695165478Is the game hardcore? That's the only part I liked about the old Stalker games. Does it have a mode where you can't just savescum all the time?
>>695161189>UI and inventory looks worse than in Shadow of Chernobyl>shitty modern action game cutscenes>horrible voice acting>unnecessary animations that slow down gameplay>graphics and character models from 2015 (still 160GB somehow)>bugs and performance issues>generic combat music during shootoutsNice game lmao. The only "Stalker" thing about this trash pile is that it takes place in the zone.
>>695170380The ai is better now unironically
>>695165294that guy that shilled the ubisoft star wars game?
>>695170827those are some really weak critiques.
>>695161189glad to see this bug has followed them to a new engin
>>695171059Yeah, all of this is just STALKER in a nutshell.
>>695170827If all that were 100% true, it wouldn’t make it a bad game
>>695171062from everything i've seen it seems like they just ported all their logic to unreal
This feels like Dragon's Dogma 2 discourse againEveryone will be posting how they were disappointed in a few months
>>695161189Is the games performance really shit or is it just zoom-noggers complaining they can't max out literally everything like they did over 8th gen?
>>695165478Weapon values have always been fucking odd.I remember that the only time i tried to play on Master in one of the older titles, the entire monolith base I was overlooking at from a high point got rushed and wiped by a single bloodsucker.Saved, then reloaded the pre-attack save but changed the difficulty to the easiest one.They clapped that motherfucker without losses only to get zerg rushed by some random ecologists half-an-hour later. Mind you, those idiots use Pistols of the lowest grade possible, and they won.
HAVINGABLAST
>>695171352There's a steam review that said it goes from 60 fps to 40 and I'm over here with my potato that can't even run it wondering if that little idiot has ever seen 30fps.
>>695171059Thats some really big coping.>>695171208All of that is true and those are only some of the issues. Just like with Saarfield, even mods will never fix this shit, it will never feel like an actual Stalker game.
>>695161189Sound is amazing.
>>695161189>>695161297100%
>>695170863lmao
>>695161189the lack of enemy AI, lack of A-life or anything similar, and being nearly invincible in every gameplay video ive watched makes this nothing remotely close to stalker. thats ignoring all the other small shit and details are what makes games actually good.
>>695161297How fucked is my GTX 1070? I'd test it out myself but >149GB archive file size
>>695171780Old stalker ai had them just running into walls during a blowout
>>695171352IIRC my brother has a 4070ti and some newer Ryzen 5 with 32GB RAM.Says it's unoptimized but liked the little he's played so far. Obviously this is just my word plus second hand info seeing as I've not played it myself yet.Thankfully, family share through Steam, so I'll be able to play his copy.Hope it'll run fine enough.
Has anyone in this thread tried the game on something in the ballpark of the minimum specs?It's on xbox series s isn't it? Can't be that demanding
buy an ad
>>695161189is the virus eula thing for real or an edit?i'm still not installing anything that could have malware in it
>>695171062Watching your bros sleep is gay, Stalker.
https://gog-games.to/game/stalker_2_heart_of_chornobylgrab it for free guys
>>695172331Sounds like a steam deck can run it on low, 20-30fps. That’s about in line with more demanding newer releases
>>695165294skibidi toilet man?
I'm around 35-40fps on my 1080gtx, but desu game feels mid - nothing cool or exciting, I don't see the hype
>>695172492are you retarded?
>>695172492>>695173812https://www.gsc-game.com/eula/it's real
>>695157065
>>695174128guarantee this is cover-your-ass 'you can't sue us if your AV picks up some bullshit' type deal.steam would never allow that in their own contracts with developers.
>>695161189>runs like shit on a 7800x3D>160 gigswtf are they doing?
>>695161189I survived day one Cyberpunk, this couldn't be that bad right?
>>695161189It's fallout/farcry with post-soviet unwashed hobo skins.
>>695172792Oh christ, what am I in for? Should I just move all the money out of my bank account before hand?
This game has shitass ai enemies, stupid storywriting, zero exploration fun. No motivation to play though the game at all.
>>695171352It’s third worlders and poorfags complaining as usual, game runs fine on good hardware beyond minor visual bugs that happen no matter the power level
>>695174398This is actually mostly complete unlike that
>>695174550theres another uploader that isnt capped on speed, gonna be done in an hour. i'll update how it went
>>695175525>This is actually mostly completeit's notit's basically a SoC/CoP reskin/lazy remakeit's a scam basically? original Stalkers were good for the 2000s, they were barebones but with the mods and atmosphere and iconic status, imagination went a long way for the roleplaying and that was good enoughit is as barebones. in 2024? that's not good
>>695171960A Life was not good at all, did you never play base clear sky? Everything goos you’re remembering is from mods
>>695161189it’s way to crashy, i’ll wait for a couple patches
>>695175645The originals were barebones too, so mods will eventually boost this up too
>>695175678Clear Sky was the weakest of the three anyway.
>>695175782Yes but the ai wasn’t very good in the base original games either is what i’m saying
the dude that hates every game is loving it
>>695161189shill
>>695175963This isn’t an ubisoft game pidor
>>695168312HAAAAAAAX
>>695161343that's my thread on the left. you mad?
>>695161189I would hope a game with ps3 visuals would run ok in 2024
>>695161189saaarrr game runs fine stop with the poorfagging bloody bitch basterd
>>695173812Are you?
>>695161189gonna have to see the moistmeter on this one
I can't take criticism of the game here seriously because 9 times out of 10 it's just zigger seethe
>>695178582Looks like you're going back into trenches Mykola
when is it getting a russian voiceover? The English dudes sound like retarded Irishmen and onions boys that can't voice act.
>>695161189looks and runs like shit you retard
>>695161189>waits almost 20 years for a sequel to his eurojank>eurojank sequel is hot shit >post cope thread on /v/ >if you don't like this game... you're dumb...because... huh.. you just are, okay?
>>695180039>Looks like you're going back into trenches Mykola
>>695175749because UE5 games always have great mod support
>>695180409
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrackWatch/comments/1gvt4mc/stalker2heartofchornobylrune/cracked already lul anyone know any good direct links that will sat my 500mbit connection?
one of the worst most poorly optimized games of 2024.
>>695162239>sees happy comment>compulsive need to say a grating thingsorry you feel you're a loser
>>695161189I'm a miserable faggot who finds everything wrong with video games and will bitch and whinge in the thread to bring myself and others down. Videogame bad.
>>695181241See here>>503008927
>>695181595sorry, try >>>/vg/503008927
>>695181497i have a 8k pc and the game still runs like dogshit. forget winning game of the year. this game is horrible. The original trilogy is miles ahead of it. goty goes to elden rings dlc.
2hrs to go
>>695182558you have to be 18 years or older to post on this website
>>695161189the input lag makes this unplayable on kbm
hurry and get your zelensky-karlik mod it was released 5 minutes ago
>>695161816Try it on gaypiss first for free. Lotta trial codes floatin around. It is buggy as shit though. Audio cuts out all the time and quest blocking bugs happen frequently. I'd wait a few months for at least audio to be fixed.
>>695172292Old stalker didnt have NPCs that had routines and not spawn in 50m from you
>>695171656why did you put a figure inside your bog?
>runs fineAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. The vast majority playing are coping with frame gen either FSR or DLSS or else they can't even get a solid 60fpsAlso I suspect a large majority of the reviews are shills or fake reviews.This game runs like garbage. With just FSR native AA and high settings you need like a 4080 just to get 1440p60fps.
>>695187215that's nice technobabble. because that's all you have since you haven't even played the game to be able to comment on the actual gameplay itself
>>695161189Saw people on /v/ having TORtanic aneurysms, got home from work and played it for a couple hours and it literally feels like playing one of the original entries for the first time with a fresh coat of paint. Bit more of an emphasis on epic cinematic cutscenes this time which I could do without but otherwise the atmosphere, pacing, structure of the game is carried over exactly. Kino IMO. I always liked the way Call of Pripyat basically just plopped you in the middle of the map to just go fuck around and once you get through the 10 minute tutorial of this one it has the same vibe.
>>695187363it's children and /pol/faggots having an aneurysm over a game they aren't even going to play anyway
>meanwhile, the massive mod discord channels for stalker, that have been running for years and full of thousands of people absolutely fucking hate the game>i-its children and /polfaggots/
>>695187802who gives a shit? stalker never needed mods and the kind of people who think it did probably don't like STALKER as a base game to begin with
The new UI is soulless :(
https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/316324540/#316324540Do you think they would be happy with the game as it is?
>>695165109Post a screenshot, you won't
>w-who gives a shit>after saying its just some /pol/tards and some kids when its a core of stalker enjoyers
I just want to say thanks to the anon from another thread who pointed out the guitar on the radial menuwaiting out emissions with the boys has never been so comfy
>>695161189story is incomprehensible and the enemies are bullet sponges. very pretty game though, nice animations. modders will fix it.
>>695172226I'll tell you in 2h when my download is done.
>>695188343story is braindeadyou are just looking for the rock that landed in your laundry hamper and some assholes are making that difficult
>>695161189its meant to be janky and full of bugs just like the first stalker, the community will fix it with mods and patches, this game is a true return to form
I didn't like the first Stalker to begin with.
>>695187282I have doe. It's garbage, good riddance.20fps in town on a fucking high end gpu and cpu.
>>695188630>high end gpu and cpu Which are?There is a memory leak issue that needs to be fixed, but this is not indicative of regular performance which isn’t great but is acceptable on modern hardware
I turned FSR Frame Gen on and haven't noticed any input lag and it gives a nice FPS boost. Everyone should be sure to turn mouse smoothing and mouse acceleration off in the config files since they are enabled by default. It's Silent Hill 2 all over again.
>>695188021>Max SaturdayWhat the fuck kind of name is that>His rival: Min Sunday
>>695172792>pirating a game that's getting patches every 12hrare you people fucking retarded
>>695161189>i-it l-looks fine>i-it runs fine i promisebased shill
>>695190206its not 2004 anymore you can patch pirated games
>>695172792>164GB download
>>695190206it seems like you're the retard here as updating pirated games has never been easier
i got the ball
>>695188381Just about playable on low with FSR set to balanced. looks like shit though
ITT: poorfags
Its fucking solid so far 2.5hrs in. So happy to be playing a new stalker game but minor note the hand expressions and voiced character are weirding me outAlso weird writing >pic related
>WE WUZ STALKAZ N SHIT
They got Chud in the game
>>695194490DROPPEDmight pirate it after a few patches but there is no way i'm paying
>>695194801A-life is gone, billions must pirate
does the time_to_aim mechanic still exist or did they finally remove that garbage
>>695194801pathetic character honestly I should have fucked his shit up
So are there any new mutants? I’ve only seen the classic ones.
voice actor/character is gay, right?
>>695194893>time_to_aim mechanicwat is this
He was a good man. He knew what he liked.
It's kind of what I wanted. Flashlight should really cast shadows tho. How did they fuck that up?
>>695195075in the prequels, your bullets turn into bb pellets for 3-5(depending on gun) seconds after the first shot
>Climb windmill>Nigga gets killed by his own trapsHell yeah, STALKER
>chornobyl oink oink oink gib another trillion dollars >to win the war right>right
>>695195345gonna cry?
>>695195345when are you going to nuke them?
How much does the protagonist talks?
>>695195375Ive played slav jank games older than youI don't pretend they are good because the Clinton pedo ring tells me to. They are all shit, just like filthy slavs but most at least try.
I'm not enjoying it at all, feels like amateur Fallout, all the loot is found in such predictable boring places and the gunplay is just bad
>>695195394Ukraine firing missiles into Russia was supposedly the last red line unlike the last 20 red lines so I'm sure it's going to happen any day now
This game rules.
>>695161189>it’s stalker with a fresh coat of paintIt's not. They completely removed the persistent world, the soul of Stalker, and replaced it with generic open world random spawn slop. Any serious Stalker fan should be furious.
I've beaten multiple post-tutorial quests and it's literally just stalker 2 idk what the gameplay complaints are about.
>>695161189>runs fineYeah, nah. Waiting on some autist to give me some hot settings tips.
>>695194939haven't seen any new ones but only 2hrs in - there's a poltergeist and bloodsucker like 20min into the tutorial>>695195291ty>>695195471all dialogue options
>>695195786>Waiting on some autist to give me some hot settings tips.There are none. All snake oil. It's UE5 jank on top of a studio that ran out of time.
>>695195548>2060s>running game in pajeet mode and everything is eye-blindingly blurry>why am i not enjoing this?
By the time my lazy ass finished the original games I might have a PC that can run this one.>>695195706That's some clean gunplay anon.
Post stolkers
Man this game looks disgusting
>>695196000
>>695161189>Anyone who doesn’t like it is a retardThey're just a bunch of ziggers, I hope they're getting paid at least to spew all that nonsense.
>>695195891>UE5 badya'll fucking retards. UE5 is exactly the same as UE4 but with extra libraries for shit like lumen and nanite.maybe try having a cpu that isnt 10 years old and a current gen gpu that supports that shit. Most devs fuck up porting projects over by not enabling the correct worker threads so anyone who does not have current gen hardware gets fucked over. poor fags
>>695161189>it’s stalker with a fresh coat of paint.I personally think it's wasted potential because of that. They could've taken inspiration from Anomaly, CoC, and other mods (especially the realistic gunplay ones).
>>695161816game changes a lot in next edition >it's fucking over, they killed the series, feels nothing like originalgame changes a little >what the fuck it is, just shuffled a bit here and there and calling it a new game? what a lazy cashgrab
am I retarded or do I have to press "i" or "esc" everytime I want to close the damn loot window?
>>695196029have you tried running it with a gpu thats not 10 years old
Disabling Core 0 nearly doubled my FPS
had to turn down graphics to medium running at 75 fps 1080p on an rtx 3060, might turn back up layer but still getting a bit of stuttering.
>>695195667that flashlight is so fucking bad, not flashlight shadows either
>>695196029have you ever seen eastern europe?
>>695196206yeah im sure you're miserable, go back to skyrim
>>695196125>maybe try having a cpu that isnt 10 years old and a current gen gpu that supports that shit.less than 70 fps with a 4090 on 4K DLSS. ohh, so amazing.
Reminder there's already performance fixes on nexus. I got like an additional 5-10 fps just by installing one.
Did they really go with hitscan weapons or is that just bullshit?
>>695196313How will that fix the textures looking like vomit blended into minecraft?
>>695196362They're not hitscan. You need to lead enemies that are running and can upgrade bullet velocity.
>>695196432>the textures looking like vomitso i'm not the only one who thinks that the textures look like blurry last generation crap.
>>695196362Shot a scoped AK and could see the bullet travelling and making impact with bandit skull.
I'm liking it, havent played stalker before so the anomalies kept killing me for the first hours. One bug forced me to reload save but othervise its been running great.I do despise how much health these monsters have on hard. Have to sink so much lead into them that you could build a car with all that metal.
>>695196575>I do despise how much health these monsters have on hard.so you don't actually like it.
>>695161189>fresh coat of paintit looks like a 2010s game with 2000s gameplay with unnecessarily high fidelity textures
>>695196125good goy, consoom top of the line hardware just to be able to play at 1080p on ultra
>>695196612I do, its my only real complaint that I could probs solve if I turned down the difficulty.
>>695196734i hope we quickly get some mods for monster health (and maybe spawn distance).
The game hinted that there are future consequences for the things you say and do and that people might like you less or more in the future depending on how you handle situations so now I have to be Zone Jesus. I already helped glasses and didn’t take his stash and I gave the icon back to the guy who wanted it originally. This better pay off because I’ve already missed 2 guns for mission rewards
>>695197047>he doesn't always play as a good boy even if the game says there is no consequences
>>695195706>(dies)Lel
>>695196883Grok (gamma dev)'s already made one lol
>>695170331When I see people that hang flags with creases in them because they hung them up straight out of the package without ironing it first the first thing I think is "wow what a faggot virtue signalling fraud with no respect", it's reactionary I have no control over it.
A-life status?
>>695196575>>695196734gamma discord have the mods to fix life and mouse latency
>>695198026Non-existent. They lied. Everything spawns within 150m of the player and nothing is persistent beyond that, nothing roams around the map or is 'simulated offline' like the older games or Anomaly. They lied.
Yeah, yeah. I just wonder how quickly you kids will get tired of pretending you're stalker fans and move on to another product.>>695161297You could have the best computer ever and it will still be a buggy ue5 piece of shit.>B-BUT STALKER WAS BUGGY TOO AND NO ONE MINDED THAT!!!Everyone played with a big bugfix patch, no one with sanity actually endured the broken vanilla. Also original stalker was made by just a bunch of slavs with a dream, this was made by dozens of actual developers funded by microsoft. There is no excuse.
