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I get what you mean completely broski, my point about "definitive experience" is more geared towards the performance of the game and not necessarily the jank because that just brings character lol Stalker 2 with a properly implemented A-life 2.0 and better perfomance IS the definitive experience

@@gimmedecash Well true that. But from what I gathered, their choice was to either release the game then and then, or not to release it like ever. All things considered they did amazingly well. All my Ukrainian buddies absolutely love the hell out of it. It's exactly the way we remember it but better they say. So I'm going to call this one a W regardless

Absolutely you can because that wasn't the first game in the genre!

Thats awesome! Ill be completely honest, I still get the odd itch to play this game again man I cant lie, something about the whole experience makes me want to just jump in and explore, hunt and cook all the meat (is that a pause?)

@@steeledortch7738 it's all jokes in the end broski, I've played JRPGs for a long time so foreign characters with off-putting accents is normal for me lol

@@OptimizingNetwork that has to be the single coolest little detail in this game broski! I love that reference

@@majorgruber5925 let the devs cook broski! I'm sure they'll come good in the end and make this the stalker game of dreams!

@@gimmedecash Personally, I think the devs when they're finally "done" will have done a better job than CDPR did with CP77 in the end. This will be one of the best games of the decade.

When an unstoppable broski meets an immovable broski lol, I have met my match

I'd rather have loadable gateways to other map regions with a much bigger a-life influence that feels quite a bit more lived in rather than the massive map that's too big to have a natural influence in. Just sayin, the game is fairly fun all in all but that's something I miss about the old games.

@@elizabethtischler686 were the map regions big in the og trilogy then? Trying to picture it in my head on how many loading screens there would actually be

@@gimmedecash yes they are, I'm not so sure I recommend playing the original trilogy now due to the disappointment you will feel regarding the map of stalker 2. The Old maps and why as well as where they are placed actually makes sense vs the hodgepodge mess that they call the new stalker 2 map and it's regions i.e. the brain scorcher and how it's placed near the perimeter of the zone in the new map that if activated wouldn't allow for new stalkers to enter at all there wouldn't be any free human being in the Zone. Just one example, it's quite strange and disjointed in the fact that the CNPP or the cooling stacks are open and free for anyone to explore considering it was the HEART of the zone and the most difficult/dangerous almost impossible and reserved for the biggest roosters in the Zone.

@@henrymalone422 what you mean send help broski I wanna join you haha

@@paladinezrah4874 it's so weird how all of a sudden the bugs start and they're so random haha, seems like everyone has a different experience there

@@retrobombstudios1258 omg if the NPCs had families bro I wouldn't even play the game because I would feel bad doing anything

@@FinUgShiet good to know! It seems that performance overall is way better on consoles, but you've been lucky stalker

Yeah consoles are hard locked to 30 fos so it don't take much to get it to run the game well even the console running 60 fps isn't that bad. You either run high graphics settings at 30 fps or lower graphics settings at 60 but with pc they have to tune and optimize for many different pc specs rtx 2060 up to 4090 and cpus from 10700s and 3700xs up to 14th gen intel and 7950x 2d chips so there is alot more into optimizing for pc consoles are fixed hardware with one goal make sure it runs thats it.

@DavidFrazier-h5x it's good that the human eye cannot see more than around 24 frames per second :) so I dont mind the 30fps hard look :)

@@FinUgShiet okay that's funny too tbh

@gimmedecash they just keep on shakin' 😂

@@cibucikel true! But it works better with mods

broski 😂 you got me there ngl

Damn you're a true stalker! so after 300 hours, what do you think are some sorely needed additions?

The stalking is strong with me I guess haha

They can see through grass and such, but they can't see through trees or walls. There is also a sound meter (the blue fuzzy bar under the compass), and things like rain actually do make it harder to hear you. Bolts can distract enemies, and moving using the "walk" key always makes you quieter, even when crouched. If your gun has subsonic rounds, it's also made even quieter to NPCs. There's definitely some balance and work still needed, but it's not TOTALLY busted, there are viable sneak strategies in the game.

@CKT1138 We playing the same game?

@@sparhawk1228 absolutely

Very well said! I think to actually recommend this game it needs to first be out of this so called "early-access" state that its in right now tbh. Makes sense about the release of the game lol but I hope the state of the game doesnt burn bridges with some of the player base..

"I got about 30ish hours in" + "I got decently far into the story, probably 3/4 the way through" => "much walking/sprinting through a boring landscape from mission to mission, the next mission was 3KM away" This game is supposed to be played in exploration mode and performing all side quests at each base, so that each base is indicated green and you fast travel between the bases for free. There's no point on the map, which is 3km away from the closest base. And the game guides you, which base supposed to be your home base at each stage of the game.

True! do you think they'll increase the amount of npcs showing up or keep it kind of similar? I do personally enjoy some quiet moments in the game too

@@gimmedecash I'd imagine it'll increase in particular areas like the garbage, zaton, and maybe pripyat but just because of the size of the map I think it might be hard to get the NPCs to go everywhere

shiiiiiny!

Appreciate it broski!

@@PerfectGameQuest it's getting ridiculous at this point man!

@@Sukuri_VT well said! So do you think a-life 2.0 is an upgrade to the original or does it still have a long way to go to surpass the original system? If you compare them without mods ofc

@gimmedecash Thanks to the Unreal Engine 5 it actually Limits of what they can do with to fix the A-life system, so much so that during 1.0 of Stalker 2 they have to turn it off just to make the performance of the game to even be better than it was with A-life turn on From the information I got it the performance of the game is really bad from the NPC that are Running around the map live in the backgroumd in Stalker 2 all thanks to A-life being on using mods that was the 1.0 version of stalker 2 As for the older version of the Stalker games using A-life is still buggy because the NPC will get stuck behind of a wall for example but its a minor bug but the game have a system called Load zones when you go to a different part of the maps Because the 3 ofther Stalker games isn't a open world like how it is in Stalker 2 plus they used a Different engine for the Stalker games which is very old at this point, i don't have much information about this point but it is what I got from my experience In Clear sky however you can see a different of how it brakes the AI as you get soft locked in a quest you're doing, I haven't Played Clear sky yet so I can't tell from what I haven't Experienced yet with Clear Sky's A-life Summary: They sacrifice A-Life by turning it off in Stalker 2 for Performance to help it run better for people.

@@Sukuri_VT Thanks for the info broski! I wonder with time and fixes (and possibly mods) how A-Life will look like in the coming months because its suc ha unique concept! It's a shame it was released in that state because it will turn people away unfortunately and by the time everything works as intended it will only have a more niche following like in the original trilogy

The names in Stalker carry some meaning. Strelok means "shooter", similar how Link in Zelda is named so, because he's the "link" between the game and the person that plays the game. Faust also carries meaning, "he who seeks forbidden knowledge". Finally, you ask, what the name Skif means? It means "resourceful" or "capable", "quick thinking on their feet", agile(?). Someone that you don't just kill. As for the the game performance? You mistakenly compare stalker to... I don't know. Path of exile? Sure. Yes. They actually work. Compare stalker, to stalker. Grab Call of Pripyat with no mods and see what we had. Some might argue Shadow of Chernobyl for story bla bla bla, but for technical comparison, COP is their "best". It's buggy as hell, and if you look up how these games ran on hardware at the time? Dear god. I mean, a-life making the game straight up freeze for a couple of seconds in areas while loading a-life, disregard that, the game wouldn't even run at 60 FPS on a 8800 GTX Ultra at 720p back then. It was ROUGH. And if your pc was more than 4 years old, it flat out couldn't run the game on release. The minimum specs were RIDICULOUS for shadow of Chernobyl. So... Yeah, stalker 2 doesn't run great, but it runs much better than the old stalker did, and it scales between much more hardware. Yeah, it runs pretty bad on a 1060, but it RUNS. On an 8 year old card! We would've begged for that sort of optimization back then... And then you wonder, is this just some sort of, I don't know, Stockholm syndrome? No no no. Now that you've tried the original stalker games without mods, and seen what we had, and known how hard IT was to run (I wouldn't be surprised if you still got stutters on modern hardware approaching any sort of area with lots of AIs), then, try to mod it. Just throw GAMMA on it. That'll blow your socks off. You'll suddenly understand the hype. The original trilogy have been modded so extensively that people genuinely argue, in good faith, that the OG games are better (because mods), but that's not fair. You can't compare two decades of thousands of modders pouring years of time into mods into what a studio can create from scratch in 5 years. The modders didn't even have to make a game in the first place! That's the point. In 10 or 20 years, stalker 2 could still be the foundation of stalker experiences, and such a modern engine, with so many possibilities, that scales so well, is a blessing from none other than mother monolith herself. You just cannot see her grand vision yet! But have faith... All hail the monolith!

I love it, but A-Life is not there and the flashlight is crap

@@hoverbike I love this reply tbh broski, spoken like a true stalker! Like I said in the video, I'll leave comparison to the OGs because I don't have enough experience or info to say anything on that matter, as for performance I only mention it so much because in this console generation and what games cost these days it would be at least fair to have a game that works from start to finish! Stalker 2 is nowhere near the only game to have performance issues but I get so worked up about this games performance because of my love for it underneath everything because this game can be AMAZING at times tbh. With the speed that updates are rolling out I don't expect it to take long before I myself and many others will hop back into the game and fully enjoy the version of the game that the devs intended for us to experience! ...damned monolithians...

@@fjuraa I was reading about how gamma radiation can affect electronics so maybe that the reason the flashlights are trash 🤔 but then again, wtf do I know about radiation and electronics broski 😂

@@gimmedecash I'm afraid that, like stalkers of old, this game runs as well as it will on current hardware. But perhaps, if you think of it like Crysis 1, because it does a lot of the same things to hurt performance, like, you can actually find videos going into detail about things like how the skybox in unreal 5.5 is now taking almost 9 times as long to render (with the same result largely) the skybox, using volumetric clouds and temporal anti-aliasing. There are... Much more performant solutions to this. But they are also "less accurate". A volumetric cloud really is a cloud, as well as we can simulate it. Of course we can amp up the level of detail, but the basic method is the same. Crysis didn't get taken much by communities modding it, however, stalker did. I'm happy that GSC did not decide to make stalker aim to run at 4k60 on a 1080ti. It would've been a much less technically impressive game, and it's heavy use of smoke and mirror techniques to solve problems in presenting wouldve ended up being the typical barriers that prevented many nice mods in the trilogy. It would likely have been on UE4 instead. It would've been a more performant base game that probably looked similar. But by being in unreal 5.5? It'll be possible to upgrade it with more unreal 5 features down the line, and it seems like epic is really doubling down on unreal 5 being the last engine we will need. Fully focused on being competition for 3d rendering applications like blender, even competing with full on movie rendering software. How much more could we ask, in terms of graphical ambitions? This game will look godlike forever! As for the bugs? I mean, they're there, and pretty much on par with any Bethesda title, but still, it's much less severe than, e.g. stalker's menu frying cards cause it was pushing thousands of FPS because it was so basic, and had no framecap internally. Like, none. Most games have SOME ridiculously high numbers to fall back on, like 300-1000. None were present here. That's obviously long been fixed, perhaps too hard, with a 60 FPS cap throughout the entire game, that's hardcoded to binary and thus is really hard to tamper with. Therefore some players will be forced to get not legitimate copies, as steam only serves the one with the 60 FPS cap hardcoded. You swear at the monolithians now, but go play the trilogy, and pay attention to the story, and then come back to stalker 2. The monolithians are hard to feel empathy for, you will find that they are actually very important, and perhaps, the only faction in the zone that understands what is being dealt with, and what must be done. None of your choices will be easy. You will doubt yourself all the way. You won't have any friends to remind you that you're doing the right thing. And yet, you must carry through with it. Even if you fail, it was a worthy try, Skif. Thank you.

the good old fisticuffs are definitely the highlight! For me those moments felt the most "indiana jones", what about you?

@gimmedecash I'd say they feel pretty Indiana Jones, but the villian dying spectacularly and Indy losing the lady at the end were also very Indiana Jones, since those 2 things happen in almost every movie

@@jethrothelion7763 thank you broski 👏 trying to improve with each upload!

@@scot3296 hmm maybe their definition of "modern audience" is different then 🤔

Spent almost 50 hours before finishing the story haha

@@rolithesecond damn 😂 what did you do, collect all collectibles?

@@gimmedecash well most of them. Some item locations are bugged it seems at the moment haha

@@rolithesecond I love it when a game hooks you in and you just spend hours collecting stuff!

@@PerfectGameQuest it's a great Indiana Jones game! If you're a fan of the movies then you'll LOVE this one for sure!

@@gimmedecash what difficulty did you play on?

@@PerfectGameQuest I'm casual so normal for me broski but I hear the thorougher difficulty settings make it much more challenging! You? are you playing on the deck or pc?

@@real_macr0113 nice! I do hear a lot of talk about "PvP is only fun if you meta" so that's why I haven't really gotten into it... But is everyone running meta builds only?

@@gimmedecash Not everyone is spamming meta builds. Up to a certain rank, the game encourages experimentation and executable strategy over raw firepower. But what’s strong in PvP is completely oppressive, and the next best option is… just okay. You can get to A rank with suboptimal builds if ur a good player. Sadly S rank can feel like rock paper scissors with solved meta builds copy pasted from the internet.