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Don't get it. So why you didn't use Ukrainian language. Ukrainians talking in English with eastern European accent is worse than ukrainians talking with Australian accent. BTW gen z do not have eastern european accent.
14:20. What an American comment :) In Ukraine there is no mandatory home insurance and people's savings are often not large. If your apartment is blown up - it's usually only your problem. Skif's desire to recharge the artifact and try to sell it if the price allows him to buy a new house is not a question at all. Especially since he is a lonely man. For example, I lost everything because of the Russians... Just give me the artifact and show me where the entrance to the zone is, I'm tired of being homeless😂
Yeah, Stalker 2 could potentially be the best game ever if they keep fixing it up (and obviously add A-life etc) and I know this because despite thinking it's unfinished and kind of shitty and broken, I also can't stop playing it and it's like... not a good game due to not being finished, but it's also amazing.
So, maybe it's lost on people as to what Skif was doing, but here's what happened: Skif's apartment/home is destroyed by the Alpha artifact due to SIRCAA performing an experiment (you find out about this experiment later) which caused it to appear in his home from anomalous energy. Skif, being in the STALKER world, knows what the Zone is, especially given his military background (explained in Skif's journal and later in the game). Skif gets into contact with Dr. Hermann (the guy at the beginning with the device, as well as a character from previous titles) and they work out a deal: Skif will recharge this rare artifact and sell it to Hermann for a new home. Sadly, the Zone (and other forces) interfered and it resulted in him losing his gear and having to go much further into the Zone. While people tote it as a "mundane" reason for going to the Zone... It's a perfect reason. Most STALKERs go to the Zone for money. You can become extremely rich just off of artifact hunting, and most don't intend to stay longer than necessary but they, eventually, do. I get it's not perfectly explained, but that's basically the idea as to why Skif is in the Zone. Guy just wants a new home and selling the artifact he got was his ticket to getting his home back.
@rehabz5Quitterz At the 6:06 mark, you talk about not being able to move after a boss fight... are you referring to the Faust boss fight?? I had a similar issue when i chose to "let him help you". I was able to fix that bug issue by completely exiting the game.
U said 2 of my favoruite things of SOC: music and skyboxes...and i have to tell you that in the MOD ANOMALY there are songs equally good to the original ones, and also they fit perfect in the game
My gut feeling about the "random stuff not happening" at the start, I think the game slowly increases the "random" event chance with no missions active as you progress through the main story, which they can then use to know where you're at gear wise, maybe ? Only guess on my part, but that's how it felt to me.
Yeah, I have 100 hours now. I never experienced any dark issue probably because I’m using HDR and it seems to really brighten the lights and darken the dark which adds to the atmosphere for sure making flashlights necessary in any area that’s not naturally lit, which is very immersive. I definitely hit that wall, though where the bugs and certain ones just can’t be excused and are starting to get very frustrating. I have enjoyed all 100 hours of the game and yes, some bugs have caused hiccoughs but have not stopped me from wanting to play more or experience more. Sadly, the biggest bug that annoys me is the frame generation bug. Where I have to restart the game between an hour to two hours of gameplay simply because entering my PDA or entering hubs, gradually increases the VRAM until it’s unplayable. Such a simple issue yet frame generation to me is a no-brainer when the CPU is the bottleneck…
I need to say one thing - as I was looking at endgame credits and names of people both alive and dead, most of whom I never knew and some of them are my real life long-time friends I know, it seems for ages, as I started with playing D&D with them, I felt absolutely destroyed. One of game's writers was DM in one campaign I played long time ago. I left that game because it was too dark and hopeless for me, I generally don't like that turn of depressing events, you know. But this had same notes - world and characters indifferent to massive events that happen around. Good people die because they don't belong the world that's too evil for them. With our general look on life, Stalker is mostly - a vertical slice of Ukrainian mentality. How fractured we are, how ready we are to go for anything that gives us drive to go forward, and... as Dvupalov said - if we don't make choices, the choice will be made for us and we may not like it.
I have 104 hours in the game. Since the latest patch my story is broken, most of my side missions also won't complete. I have all end game gear, I even found a way into pripiat. Not the best experience if I'm being honest.
Birthday hours of the game thought everything was great until I got further in the game and realize this is broken as hell but for some reason I couldn't stop playing it lot of things still need to be fixed in my opinion like for its instance any gun with a railing system on the top of it can take any kind of mounted optic with a rail on it to attach it to the top of your gun so why I can only put certain scopes on certain guns is beyond me that's my biggest pet peeve of the game really other than the a life that I really don't know anything about cuz I'm new to stalker
Okay, so... 117h played on account, 100h is mine (my brother also plays on my account), im from Ukraine and i want to compare my experience to your 1. Voice acting in game, i had no problems with that because, you know, Ukrainian acting is kinda nice imo, maybe too clean sometimes, but overall good 2. Immersion, overall, I've been immersed most of the time, and when my immersion dies it's mostly because of my interet and the fact that Nvidia Now is lagging sometimes 3. Bugs, that f-ing bug with that animations, omg, most annoying one tbh, other bug are more or less okay, only some are annoying, usually if some quest is bugged as sh, but sometimes that just entertained me or even added some immersion, like when i just completed the quest with saving the village from the monolith attack, but thought "and that's it? They will just abandon their targets? They are Monolith, cmon" and after like 5 minutes i hear "monolith killed as all" and I'm like, "oh, that's kinda cool, i like it" and that bug with /give SVD, i remember i got 6 of them at once and tbh, not that big of the deal, but i think it's somehow connected to certain locations because in some areas I'm getting same weapons over and over again 4. Exploring, i absolutely love exploration in that game, even after 100h im still constantly finding new locations and stashes everywhere i go, i even have like 5 big locations i never truly tried to explore I'll end here because i only got one ending and i don't want to spoil any other endings for myself, but so far i absolutely love how you have entirely different missions if you are sliding with different factions and i love how dialogue can just turn your words and actions against you in the way you may haven't expected, most of the games i played i my life did not offered my anything like that
I'll add here that i love ambience, even tho in Call of Pripyat in Pripyat ambience is been better and peak, i absolutely love those anomalous broadcast parts of ambient in CoP
I dont agree on the voice acting. The original STALKER games had terrible voice acting. I am from Eastern Europe and when I hear fake accents it is terrible.
"....for whatever reason, it felt like nothing really attacked you when you were out roaming the zone." Should someone tell him about A Life being turned off ? Lol
I could be wrong, but I thought A-Life had to do with the way NPCs interacted with the world, as in they get spawned in and it tracks them around the world. But A-life being turned off doesn’t mean there are no enemies on the map
@@Rehabz4Quitterz, Not only that, but faction behavior and random events that result from player actions. The system is off. The game is not finished, there are still a few years or so of work to be done☹️
Hard disagree on "made to be played on MKB" I have never seen a game butcher the attempt of trying to make PC controls this hard, just the fact that you're forced to use Hold binds, leaning has to first be bound to Q&E because by default its automated and QE is taken by consumables, forced hold bind to unload rifles on the ground, the list goes on and on.
If they released as a beta or early access nobody would have room to complain about paying for a half finished product. Then they had the audacity to ask for GOTY votes... Game is gonna take a year minimum for them to finish it and complete Alife. 100$ scam
Say Skif is a Ukrainian, why would other Ukrainians speak English to him with a heavy Eastern European accent? For me, that was breaking my emersion in the first trilogy. It's like listening to an anime dub where characters speak English with a japanese accent.. why?:D
100 hours in totally unfinished and unpolished game, even without one of the main mechanics in form of a-life lol. Here is your Darwin award, well done 🗿
Go play gamma, it's still a decent game considering how much shit they went thru to make it. Don't gotta try and take away from someone else's experience
Graphics is only good thing about this game. British accent in the game is also trash why not to just take old cheeki breeki stalker from old games. My rating on this game is 5 out of 10 at max. Specially compared with old games and modpaks we have . It's a big 👟 to fill and they couldn't do it.
I think it is mostly better than old stalker games in almosr evey category, and yeah, couldn't stand the vo, do went 🇺🇦 language. Full mods like Anomoly and gamma are not proper Stalker games, this is. Not to say they aren't great, I've played lots of Anomoly, I just much prefer this. Once a life is improved, and interesting mods come out, this will get even better.
@kivati stop that not real stalker games lol. Anomaly is actually way more stalker game than actual stalker games. It has everythin. Story, hard survival, food and drink and sleep actually means something. So hardly disagree. Stalker 2 is bad game compared
I fail to understand the voice complaints. if you wanted to hear Ukrainian accents then go play the game in Ukrainian. How many Ukrainian natives speakers do you think there are who speak both languages and aren't.. idk fighting the war to protect their home country or some shit? Like hello? You want 1-2 guys to voice the entire game and have that real OG oblivion feel?
An Epic 100 Hour Journey has come to an end. Tons of ups and downs but I'm excited to see what comes next.
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Don't get it. So why you didn't use Ukrainian language. Ukrainians talking in English with eastern European accent is worse than ukrainians talking with Australian accent. BTW gen z do not have eastern european accent.
14:20. What an American comment :) In Ukraine there is no mandatory home insurance and people's savings are often not large. If your apartment is blown up - it's usually only your problem. Skif's desire to recharge the artifact and try to sell it if the price allows him to buy a new house is not a question at all. Especially since he is a lonely man. For example, I lost everything because of the Russians... Just give me the artifact and show me where the entrance to the zone is, I'm tired of being homeless😂
Spot on conclusion. Eyes open to the flaws and everything else, but good lord does it pull me into its world like so very few games have.
The deeper you get into the story the more broken the game becomes.
I felt nostalgia when i saw sidorovic in his bunker and i had not played neither seen the previous games
Hahaha you knew it was a big moment just by how they presented it
30:50 I guess in a way it's like the ending to inception, was it all just a dream? As long as the dudes happy who cares lol
Great video as always man.
Yeah, Stalker 2 could potentially be the best game ever if they keep fixing it up (and obviously add A-life etc) and I know this because despite thinking it's unfinished and kind of shitty and broken, I also can't stop playing it and it's like... not a good game due to not being finished, but it's also amazing.
i agree i had close to 600 word to say about the game in its state. however. the zone calls.
So, maybe it's lost on people as to what Skif was doing, but here's what happened:
Skif's apartment/home is destroyed by the Alpha artifact due to SIRCAA performing an experiment (you find out about this experiment later) which caused it to appear in his home from anomalous energy. Skif, being in the STALKER world, knows what the Zone is, especially given his military background (explained in Skif's journal and later in the game). Skif gets into contact with Dr. Hermann (the guy at the beginning with the device, as well as a character from previous titles) and they work out a deal: Skif will recharge this rare artifact and sell it to Hermann for a new home. Sadly, the Zone (and other forces) interfered and it resulted in him losing his gear and having to go much further into the Zone.
While people tote it as a "mundane" reason for going to the Zone... It's a perfect reason. Most STALKERs go to the Zone for money. You can become extremely rich just off of artifact hunting, and most don't intend to stay longer than necessary but they, eventually, do. I get it's not perfectly explained, but that's basically the idea as to why Skif is in the Zone. Guy just wants a new home and selling the artifact he got was his ticket to getting his home back.
bro i have 110 hours and haven not even finished the game i have been exploring tho
Hahah well you got me beat. I feel like at 100 hours I saw pretty much everything there was to see
dude, this game is huge. there’s places not even marked on the map to explore 🙌🏽
@rehabz5Quitterz At the 6:06 mark, you talk about not being able to move after a boss fight... are you referring to the Faust boss fight?? I had a similar issue when i chose to "let him help you". I was able to fix that bug issue by completely exiting the game.
U said 2 of my favoruite things of SOC: music and skyboxes...and i have to tell you that in the MOD ANOMALY there are songs equally good to the original ones, and also they fit perfect in the game
My gut feeling about the "random stuff not happening" at the start, I think the game slowly increases the "random" event chance with no missions active as you progress through the main story, which they can then use to know where you're at gear wise, maybe ?
Only guess on my part, but that's how it felt to me.
Yeah, I have 100 hours now. I never experienced any dark issue probably because I’m using HDR and it seems to really brighten the lights and darken the dark which adds to the atmosphere for sure making flashlights necessary in any area that’s not naturally lit, which is very immersive.
I definitely hit that wall, though where the bugs and certain ones just can’t be excused and are starting to get very frustrating. I have enjoyed all 100 hours of the game and yes, some bugs have caused hiccoughs but have not stopped me from wanting to play more or experience more. Sadly, the biggest bug that annoys me is the frame generation bug. Where I have to restart the game between an hour to two hours of gameplay simply because entering my PDA or entering hubs, gradually increases the VRAM until it’s unplayable. Such a simple issue yet frame generation to me is a no-brainer when the CPU is the bottleneck…
I need to say one thing - as I was looking at endgame credits and names of people both alive and dead, most of whom I never knew and some of them are my real life long-time friends I know, it seems for ages, as I started with playing D&D with them, I felt absolutely destroyed.
One of game's writers was DM in one campaign I played long time ago. I left that game because it was too dark and hopeless for me, I generally don't like that turn of depressing events, you know. But this had same notes - world and characters indifferent to massive events that happen around. Good people die because they don't belong the world that's too evil for them.
With our general look on life, Stalker is mostly - a vertical slice of Ukrainian mentality. How fractured we are, how ready we are to go for anything that gives us drive to go forward, and... as Dvupalov said - if we don't make choices, the choice will be made for us and we may not like it.
I have 104 hours in the game. Since the latest patch my story is broken, most of my side missions also won't complete. I have all end game gear, I even found a way into pripiat. Not the best experience if I'm being honest.
Dying after using 2 medkita n Bandages......Such is Life in the Zone😢😢
"Call of Duty ass cutscenes" well said
Can’t wait to see what modded do with it
The guns appearing is a psi-influence thing
I'm 100 hours and still have loads left to do.
I think it's sacrilegious to play stalker right now. This game needs an extra year in the oven to get the full experience.
Yeah it definitely would’ve benefited from another year. Even an extra couple weeks of patches helped a lot. But I still enjoyed it for what it was
Birthday hours of the game thought everything was great until I got further in the game and realize this is broken as hell but for some reason I couldn't stop playing it lot of things still need to be fixed in my opinion like for its instance any gun with a railing system on the top of it can take any kind of mounted optic with a rail on it to attach it to the top of your gun so why I can only put certain scopes on certain guns is beyond me that's my biggest pet peeve of the game really other than the a life that I really don't know anything about cuz I'm new to stalker
Okay, so... 117h played on account, 100h is mine (my brother also plays on my account), im from Ukraine and i want to compare my experience to your
1. Voice acting in game, i had no problems with that because, you know, Ukrainian acting is kinda nice imo, maybe too clean sometimes, but overall good
2. Immersion, overall, I've been immersed most of the time, and when my immersion dies it's mostly because of my interet and the fact that Nvidia Now is lagging sometimes
3. Bugs, that f-ing bug with that animations, omg, most annoying one tbh, other bug are more or less okay, only some are annoying, usually if some quest is bugged as sh, but sometimes that just entertained me or even added some immersion, like when i just completed the quest with saving the village from the monolith attack, but thought "and that's it? They will just abandon their targets? They are Monolith, cmon" and after like 5 minutes i hear "monolith killed as all" and I'm like, "oh, that's kinda cool, i like it" and that bug with /give SVD, i remember i got 6 of them at once and tbh, not that big of the deal, but i think it's somehow connected to certain locations because in some areas I'm getting same weapons over and over again
4. Exploring, i absolutely love exploration in that game, even after 100h im still constantly finding new locations and stashes everywhere i go, i even have like 5 big locations i never truly tried to explore
I'll end here because i only got one ending and i don't want to spoil any other endings for myself, but so far i absolutely love how you have entirely different missions if you are sliding with different factions and i love how dialogue can just turn your words and actions against you in the way you may haven't expected, most of the games i played i my life did not offered my anything like that
I'll add here that i love ambience, even tho in Call of Pripyat in Pripyat ambience is been better and peak, i absolutely love those anomalous broadcast parts of ambient in CoP
I dont agree on the voice acting. The original STALKER games had terrible voice acting. I am from Eastern Europe and when I hear fake accents it is terrible.
play with ukrianian language mate.
100 hour meta in play
"....for whatever reason, it felt like nothing really attacked you when you were out roaming the zone." Should someone tell him about A Life being turned off ? Lol
I could be wrong, but I thought A-Life had to do with the way NPCs interacted with the world, as in they get spawned in and it tracks them around the world. But A-life being turned off doesn’t mean there are no enemies on the map
@@Rehabz4Quitterz, Not only that, but faction behavior and random events that result from player actions. The system is off. The game is not finished, there are still a few years or so of work to be done☹️
Hard disagree on "made to be played on MKB" I have never seen a game butcher the attempt of trying to make PC controls this hard, just the fact that you're forced to use Hold binds, leaning has to first be bound to Q&E because by default its automated and QE is taken by consumables, forced hold bind to unload rifles on the ground, the list goes on and on.
Imagine if they finished the game lol
If they released as a beta or early access nobody would have room to complain about paying for a half finished product. Then they had the audacity to ask for GOTY votes... Game is gonna take a year minimum for them to finish it and complete Alife. 100$ scam
Say Skif is a Ukrainian, why would other Ukrainians speak English to him with a heavy Eastern European accent? For me, that was breaking my emersion in the first trilogy. It's like listening to an anime dub where characters speak English with a japanese accent.. why?:D
Uhh, because the audio is set to english. Thats why.
@basedworldbillionaire- precisely. If Skif speaks English, why would NPCs speak broken English to him :D
100 hours in totally unfinished and unpolished game, even without one of the main mechanics in form of a-life lol. Here is your Darwin award, well done 🗿
Go play gamma, it's still a decent game considering how much shit they went thru to make it. Don't gotta try and take away from someone else's experience
ur toxic
saying this as a Ukrainian: the fake Slavic accent in the English dub was disgusting, I'm glad they got rid of it.
Lol. Sounds better for you but worse for native english speakers bad accents that dont even make sense being there
Graphics is only good thing about this game. British accent in the game is also trash why not to just take old cheeki breeki stalker from old games. My rating on this game is 5 out of 10 at max. Specially compared with old games and modpaks we have . It's a big 👟 to fill and they couldn't do it.
I think it is mostly better than old stalker games in almosr evey category, and yeah, couldn't stand the vo, do went 🇺🇦 language.
Full mods like Anomoly and gamma are not proper Stalker games, this is. Not to say they aren't great, I've played lots of Anomoly, I just much prefer this. Once a life is improved, and interesting mods come out, this will get even better.
@kivati stop that not real stalker games lol. Anomaly is actually way more stalker game than actual stalker games. It has everythin. Story, hard survival, food and drink and sleep actually means something. So hardly disagree. Stalker 2 is bad game compared
I fail to understand the voice complaints. if you wanted to hear Ukrainian accents then go play the game in Ukrainian. How many Ukrainian natives speakers do you think there are who speak both languages and aren't.. idk fighting the war to protect their home country or some shit? Like hello? You want 1-2 guys to voice the entire game and have that real OG oblivion feel?
Is it time to finally try out the stand alone Stalker mods?
1 like = 1 prayer for a video on Anomaly/Gamma