>2 years later>already forgottenWhat happened? Old /v/ used to glaze the STALKER series
>>733454721It was just okay and ran like shit at launch
STALKER has never been good. It's just one of those games for PCfags that can't afford good hardware, otherwise they'd be playing good games like Red Dead Redemption 2.
>>733454721biggest slog i've ever played in my life
>>733454721Apparently they have significantly overhauled the game. Problem is just that bundling all the updates into one single expansion with a proper announcement of a "NOW THE GAME IS ACTUALLY GOOD!"-edition would have done wonders for public perception. Now, nobody cares anymore. Also the promised expansions are nowhere to be seen.
not really. it was already better than vanilla stalker games at launch at has only been getting better.
>>733454721It wasn’t released on PlayStation
>>733455078Have they even fixed the numerous problems yet? Last thing I want is another enemy spawning out of thin air right in front of me on aggro
>>733454721Genuinely unfinished at release with atrocious technical problems
>>733455214yeah they fixed that like a year ago.
>>733454721>spelling error in the titlethat'll do it
>>733454721>chornobylwtf is this some Chinese knockoff
>>733455231And still is! You still can't visit the CNPP, the promised multiplayer component is still missing and the SDK turned out to be dogshit for modders! Weee! It's really such a shame how gay and corpo S2 turned out. There were 1000 people on the development team. The music and general atmosphere is sick, the heavy use of high resolution photoreal photographic and photogrametric assets is sick, the mutant designs are great, everything is great, just the GAMe is SHIT and lumen sucks ASS and the A.I is ASS and it's unfinished and will never be finished!
>>733454721The old stalker was bad and aged even worse. Stalker 2 is just a reminder thereof + slop
Actually it's Styalker you fucking nazi chuds
>>7334547215 year special needs operation makes it impossible to have any real discussion about the game
>>733454721>2 yearsRetard
Bro we just had a dozen+ threads last time the update dropped. It was okay.
>>733454721STALKER 2 is one of those "from the devs who brought you X" games.
>>733455430Turns out when the dev team isnt in Ukraine the game just gets worse. I guess the Czechs dont knoe how to code.
>>733455430Cnpp is the literal dlc they’re making right now and the ai is much better than it used to be, I already beat the game 2 times but I’m just gonna wait for the cnpp dlc, they’re also overhauling the engine to the newest ue5 to make the area enemies spawn much bigger, idk I thought it was an 8/10 game besides the jank
>>733454721Main fanbase too busy shooting each other.
>>733455403>>733455398Devs changed it to de-russify the titleChernobyl -> ChornobylRussian -> Ukrainian
>>733455214They've fixed quite a few but I'm sure there's still some laying around. One of the most annoying ones was pic related where artifacts would spawn literally under the ground. The patch notes claim to have fixed this since but I haven't tested it to be sure. It was already kind of rare.
>>733455430>You still can't visit the CNPPGenuinely are you shitting me? I avoided pretty much all info about this game because I want to play it when its actually done
>>733455706nah actually it was kind of common during 1.7 for whatever reason, but since 1.8.1 it's been sort of fixed.
>>733455430>You still can't visit the CNPPfucking hell, I knew it was bad but not that bad
>>733455593Tell that to Warhorse. They can apparently take the Bethesda formula and make it 100x better, more in-depth, and more refined despite having only made one game prior.
>>733455713to be honest it's like a 100 hours long game. by the type you reach Chernobyl, you already want it to be done. I think they should actually add more variety to the rest of the game before fleshing out that zone. Like Pripyat is 10x better than the Pripyat of CoP but by that point you've already seen everything the game has to offer and you just want that shit to wrap up.
Too many games already scratched the itch while not being particularly better Tarkov, metro, hell even modded fallout
FUCK RUSSIA
Play the REAL Stalker2
>>733456426>DUDE INVENTORY BLOAT get the fuck out of here
>>733454721It's less than 1.5 year.But no one should be playing it until they release all the DLCs
After about a half hour of trying to clear out a base I realized that enemies just kept respawning and it ruined all immersion so I dropped it. This was about 2-3 months ago.
It trash, has 0 soul of original ЖДAЛКEP
>>733455078Call of Pripyat was perfectly stable, even on actual 1.6.0 launch version, since western release was already patched to 1.6.02
>>733456350bitch you sissy shut the fuck up bitch
>>733456674completely unrelated. vanilla Pripyat was completely void of content before mods.
>>733456767Now that's just a plain ol' lie.
>>733456767The best side quests in the entire series that weren't just fetch quests
Project Silverfish is just better in every way
>>733456867you have to be talking out of completely bad faith to say vanilla CoP Pripyat is better than the Pripyat of Stalker 2.
>>733455981Isnt that the boring rpg that was suppose to be the mega history game but decided to be set in the least interesting period?
>>733454721It's forgotten by (you) and your gtx1660
>>733456551Thanks for putting me off the game, I won't buy it now
>>733455696But it's the same fucking name, it's just spelled a little different. I would get it if they changed the entire name to something completely different.
>>733455713The location exists in the game files, you can noclip there, and it has relatively high level of detail. So they worked on it, never finished, and released the game without CNPP.They recently teased CNPP to be added in 2026. But the devs are extremely unreliable with the dates and deadlines, so who knows when we will get it.
>>733456921Dude was too busy adding pronouns and tranny shit to even learn how to tick on smooth shading for his models. Pass.
>>733456992>muh historical setting so it has to be boring>Main plot with twists and turns>Plenty of duels>Major battles and siegesNot to mention fun quests like:>impress a tavern keeper through wine snobbery skill checks so that you can "volunteer" (sneak around) at a winery to steal their secrets and help a competitor>navigate a pitch-black cave while an insane knight stalks you after stealing all your gear in horror-like experience>help a blind monk organize bones in a crypt only to discover from the gravedigger that the monk who seemed so real just minutes ago has been dead for a century>Herbalist woman's daughter goes missing, leading you on an investigation, turns out she had a secret lover, there was a misunderstanding and a murder and she's being held hostage and you have to negotiate her release>serial killer investigation quest>help drunk Pole who nobody can understand get out of being mob-hanged because a baker thought he was sleeping with his wife after he found him passed out drunk on his lawnEvery 2nd quest is well written wtf are you talking about, stop believing random shit you read online
>>733454721>UE5 sloppa with grahpical glitches and artifacts out the ass even on a rtx 5090>no new mutants (not even all the cool cut stuff that has been re-added into the original games via mods)>absolute TRASH AI that makes the original look like 20 years from the future instead the past>no vehicles despite having massive empty mapIt gets mogged to death by mods running on a 2003 engine which is quite sad.
I finally played the stalker games last year and they were eurojank kino and I finally "get it", but stalker 2 just looks like it's trying to copy western games instead of building off of the unique things the originally trilogy did"bread"
>>733457990No the gameplay looked boring you idiot. I dont care how it looks if the gameplay looks ass. The setting is boring because its medieval czechia, like bro set it during the hussite wars.
>>733454721unreal engine 5 happened
>2 year old game>forgotten>when /v/ has a strict FOTM only policy
>>733454721>>733458693You motherfuckers can't even count.
>>733458809>tfw 2024 was 6 years agotime flies
Does the game still have that thing where it has to load shaders EVERY single time you boot up the game? What the fuck was that? Literally what the fuck was that all about?
>>733458809being forgotten in an even shorter time isn't a flex lmao
I beat it once, it was alright. Didn't feel the need to keep playing to collect those super special artifacts or see the other endings. I beat it once and that was enough. I thought a dlc or two might have been announced by now, though.
/v/ is full of gacha loving third worlders so they can't afford hardware to play it
it requires a computer with parts made after the year 2012 to run, so naturally the threads were nothing but browns and ruskies seething for months, killing all discussion, its a great game, certainly not the worst stalker game, but not quite the best
Le Curse D'Slavjanque
>>733454721Been playing this andI feel like there's too much loot which doesn't really make sense as you'd expect most places to have been looted after so many years. I've clocked 200+ hours and I only ever bought a detector, nothing else. Loot is also boring for the most part. The game is mechanically plain as well, compared to something like anomaly. Why can't you have a sleeping bag? Why can't you fast travel by talking to a group of random loners like in CoP or CS? Why can't you clean/fix your shit? It's somehow inferior in terms of features than previous installments. I don't get it.
>>733455430>Weee! It's really such a shame how gay and corpo S2 turned out.Didn't ue5 already give it out to you?
>>733458446What's the difference between first person swordplay and an FPS?Quests are, btw, part of gameplay, moron.
>>733454721The fact you can't give squad commands in the original stalker even with mods completely kills it
>>733459879By squad commands I mean commands to individual squad members to move to certain locations etc
>>733454931You need to learn to bait better, it’s pathetic no one replied to this until my mouth reply right here.
>>733459605The swordplay looked gay so i didnt play it. Its cool your little game got kickstarted but it looked lame.
>>733454721THD
>>733454721I'm replaying the Metro games instead.
>>733454721What is there to talk about? I replayed it 2 times and now I am waiting for DLC.
>>733454721played it for like 30 hours but the late game is just running around the map back and forth. I kinda want to finish it now but eeeeeh
>>733454721Did you forget that the asshole that owns the company underpaid the original devs so they left and he decided to abandon the xray engine for unreal slop?
>>733463025>1920x1430>x1430>1430
>>733454721Turns out the core playerbase can't afford computers good enough to run it after sanctions
Blowout soon fellow stalker.
>>733464990Oh really, when?
>>733454721I bought it last christmas and have been playing almost every day since then, haven't even used mods yet. anyway, the next big update is expected to be released in the next 2 to 3 months. no idea if it will be one big update or several small updates, all I know we're getting an engine update, binoculars, and the first story DLC
>>733459224I met him once way back, even before he was the wholesomest chungus of reddit, he was definitely on the spectrum but he was nice. We talked about some tech stuff for like 10 minutes. I'd be his friend, he wouldn't even have to play me :(
Ive had a reverse honeymoon phase with this.First 10 hours i had immense buyers remorse.But then I just started having fun and every time i play it i play at least 5 hours.Its got a LOT of exploration to it, with so many secrets.Mutants suck ass to fight though but once you get your firepower up it starts to become a fun power trip.Killing squads of exo wearing elites solo, or gunning down two pseudogiants guarding a stash just feels fun.Really looking forward to what GSC has in store with 1.9.
>burer guarding a journalist stash in duga in a warehouse>insta kills me with telekinetic guns if i rush in.>found a unique bolt action red dot rifle in the nearby area>lure it to the open with bolts>aim>one shot kill the burer
Loved the few hours I played but I regret buying it.Feels like Cyberpunk, the game has an amazing foundation but it's very undercooked, once they release the DLC to let us explore the CNPP, update the engine to improve performance and to allow hardware ray tracing so that we can disable that god awful software lumen I honestly think the game will be one of the best of this generation.The AI is already a lot better and I do believe they'll keep on improving it, the game will become one of the greats, too bad they released it in such an unfinished state.
it still needs another year of updates
I had so much expectations about how much better the emissions could look and animals/npcs/creatures could react in a new stalker game but instead we got a tiny little red cloud and some light wind and that's it, that's just one of many problems of the game
>>733455040They will prob try and do that with this upcoming CNPP expansion - the gap has since release is currently about half the one that CP77 and Phantom Liberty had
>>733468347I just sniped the fucker from the room above the stairs
>>7334547212 was saddled with Unreal Engine 5.
