Before the three updates, the reviewers received builds. The upgraded version will be experienced by the rest of us. I anticipate that the Stalker series will see another strong addition.
13:30 those dogs are not a bug, it's called a psy dog basically they affect your character mind making you think there are more dogs but those are phantoms or fakes they don't do damage unless they do in stalker 2 just the original do damage and is always trying to bite you, such a cool concept.
Here comes the experts guy lol. Look at them on their pedestal. Respect their pedestal. He literally said at the beginning he never play them before. So chill out. Snobby little weirdo fan bases lol
@@thedude8128 Maybe make sure you understand someone's intent before calling them an "r word". Clearly a joke (not an original one, but a classic among Stalkers)
Been playing Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl for a few hours, and it’s incredible. The story hooks you, the Zone is haunting, and the gunfights are intense. No bugs so far-just pure immersion. Huge respect to Ukrainian studio GSC Game World for delivering this masterpiece despite the challenges of Russia's invasion. A must-play!
Man I remembering playing stalker for the first time and Holy shit. Kept dying to those guys at the border crossing under the train track. After so many saves I finally killed them all haha
@@myferretollie9235What win? The game’s performance is pathetic and the graphics are a massive downgrade when compared to the trailers. I hope they get to feel that they released an unfinished game. But that somehow seems to be a trend nowadays.
Lol getting jumped by a pack of dogs just to have another pack of dogs hop on the opportunity is par for the course. Usually, its those two events, plus some enemy gunfire, and a bloodsucker on your ass. Stalker goes hard in the "fuck you"
With a capital F. Figured it would be toned down for this game, started on normal and nope. I get shafted after picking up the anomaly for the sensor. Good times🤣 So far enjoying the game.
The book that inspired Stalker is really good and is a shorter read (around 200 pages). I think Matty would enjoy it as Tim Cain (the creator of Fallout) said it was a piece of inspiration while creating Fallout.
I'm Playing on series x now, graphically I'm impressed, the best ue5 game I've played on console thus far in terms of image quality in performance mode.
@@daubytheelf2105 I am but what can I do about it? It's been 1000 days since the start of 1nv4510n, sooner or later you get used to air raids and planes/drones/missiles flying over
The reviewers got builds before the three updates. The rest of us will be experiencing the updated version. I expect another solid addition to the Stalker series
This game needed to be better than Metro Exodus instead, the stealth is useless, hunger is useless, anomalies are useless, injury system is useless. There's just no immersion. It feels like, a 2007 game in 2024.
2007 was an amazing game for video games though! BioShock 2007 Portal 2007 Assassin's Creed 2007 Halo 3 2007 Super Mario Galaxy 2007 Team Fortress 2 2007 Uncharted: Drake's Fortune 2007 God of War II 2007 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2007
100% various night vision attachments on the form of different scopes, helmets and helmets attachments. Better yet, there's actually tiers of quality for night vision. 1st gen-3rd gen, increasing the level of clarity each tier Also, there is fast travel. You find a guide in the main areas and pay them to take you to wherever you've previously been, for a modest fee. Lastly, you can offset the radiation an artifact gives you by equipping an artifact that gives you rad resistance (such as a bubble)
4:00 screw the bug, look at the draw distance, the distant forests, so many trees with a volumetric fog at the ground... u can see the big antenna array kilometres away. The details in the short range are fantastic in the shot as well.. just pause at 4:02 and realize what u see... The atmosphere of that shot is crazy. I will wait roughly 6 months and jump on it hard core.
Kinda interesting about the darkness bit. The more realistic approach would be AI that is just as hindered as you. Spamming fire when they see a flashlight, etc rather than having an advantage and dropping you with ease Something Insurgency Sandstorm does is lower the accuracy ratio of bots on night maps depending on detectable light in the area. Pretty neat. The devs here seem to be going the more hard disadvantage route. I can respect that.
In the original games, there is a visibility meter and a sound meter. I assume is the same here, in darkness enemies can't see you, but they can hear you. Matty is a Bethesds enjoyer, I doubt he has the ability to disern these subtle details. Otherwise he would not really love Bethesda the way he does. He also failed to understand why shacks can't protect you from emissions compared to buildings. Or that there is a difference between walking and running. The fact that he spent a lot of time crouch walking tells me he never noticed that walking also works as a stealth mechanic, because stealth is based on sound and vision, not if you're crouching or not, again, just a Bethesda thing.
@@armandoriosfragoso6726nah sounds barely has an impact in this one sadly, kicking cans or jumping doesn’t really catch attention if you’re behind someone for example but a lot of enemy’s have hawk eyes if they’re facing your direction.
@@russianFB7442 Yeah, it's one of the greatest films ever, but it's very different from the book which is very different from the games. It's on RUclips for free.
The AI spammed grenades in Clear Sky too. It was mainly the bandit enemies that did it. I hope it isn't as bad as that and grenades have never had warning like in CoD for example.
I legitimately didn't finish Clear Sky due to the final stretch. The enemies coming out of portals already shooting me before I could see them, and then ducking into cover and three seconds later I'd have five grenades at my feet.
i really want to know how a fan of the original games feel about it. I just played Shadow of Chornobyl on Xbox after buying the trilogy and I think its legitimately one of my favorite games of all time, let alone the best open world game ive played. i will never forget the frustrating yet rewarding and incredibly atmospheric experience, and i wish i could just so i could do it all over again. I'm begging old fans of the series say its a must.
The game Stalker became a small problem for me, which caused gaming impotence. After I beat Stalker a few times, I wanted to play something different. But every time I deleted the game and returned to the Zone again. Compared to Stalker, other games looked unrealistic and made no sense. I called it "Stalker Syndrome".
If you wanna play a fun game where you slowly explore huge areas and gets to find critical resources and play style changing gear/weapons then you should try out Blood West. Technically came out in December last year but it’s absolutely my game of the year. So damn good. Graphics are intentionally retro as fuck. Trust me when I say that it’ll scratch your scavenging for loot itch.
Poor Matty, haha I can only imagine what you were thinking while encountering the "excentricities" of The Zone. Dunno of course, but that pack of dogs that seemed to keep expanding sounds like you ran into Psy-dogs or Psy-Psuedodogs. There is a lot of enemy variety in STALKER. Edit: pray you never run into Fractures. Honestly more scary than Bloodsuckers IMO.
Can't wait to get off work and no life this all night. My uncle got me into gaming as a kid and played these all the time. He never got a chance to play this so my first walk-through is for him. Trying to play like he did. No hand holding and hardest difficulty options.
This is exactly how this game is supposed to be. It’s far better than its predecessors and that’s all that matters. A lot of developers can’t even achieve that these days. GSC deserves a lot of grace with this game, even with its bugs and glitches. Let them fix it. It’s still a good game regardless.
Many Stalker fans like to compare the games with Fallout, and state it's better Fallout than Fallout. They're just being ridiculous. The lore, and Fallout surrounding and/thus the atmosphere are very different. I have liked, read, watched post post apocalyptic stories since my childhood. I mainly found these in comics, books and occasionally TV, and I guess I am being a weirdo here, but I like different settings for different entertainment mediums. E.g. Stalker, I could watch a TV show, or a movie, but it's not a setting I enjoy in a video game. With Fallout it's almost the opposite, I like the games, and the TV show is just meh. Although that's probably b/c of the adaptation. If they had actually made a serious TV show instead of colorful 76 style comedy, I might have liked it. Anyhow, Stalker is not Fallout and I personally don't see/feel a post apocalypse in the exclusion zone. They should have made the zone the only 'good' place on Earth lol. That would be post apocalyptic.
I don't see how getting shot in the dark is realistic unless all the enemies are using night vision. Night/rain/storm should be perfect for stealth, not the other way around.
3:10 this whole sequence just made me burst out in laughter. The facetanking 3 guys in point blank range, the gta time slow weapon wheel. What has this game become 😂😂😂
NVIDIA always releases "day 0" drivers for specific games, a lot of people miss them & have awful experiences running the game without those drivers. In this case, Matty had the day 1 drivers installed for stalker 2, they came out November 12, 2024. (version 566.14, also work for microsoft flight sim 2024)
As a big fan of Stalker and Metro series I must say that I am not touching this game until it gets in to discount and get several patches that improves literaly everything.
People say they have completed this game but thats impossible. Devs say theres 100 plus hours of content to do everything. possibly the story can be complete, but by no means the entire game experience
Finally some STALKER 2 coverage!! I can take the technical issues, they get fixed. I am excited to get roped into the atmosphere and world building they did here, it looks beautiful.
Playing pretty damn good on series X playing since released in my zone bug free so far. It did take me a while to get into what the game was putting down but I never played the previous titles.
This definitely seems like a game we’ll be playing for years like a Skyrim as mods come out and the fixes come on alongside the 2 DLC they have planned. I'm glad it reminds me of the old trilogy. I expect better from their future projects technically, I wont give anyone more than 2 chances in $70 game releases.
Damn so you havent played the originals? Youre missing out. Honestly theyre still an absolute blast man. i understand if you dont have time to go back but its worth checking out
While the originals are good games for the niche community you cant really believe the vast majority of people would enjoy its almost simlike unforgiving natrue?
@@Mythicalgoonyeah but why review a game you don’t understand and probably won’t like? This review could’ve been a “not for me”. When he complained about being shot in the dark like they were locked onto him? They were, he had his flashlight. Even the AI shuts their flashlight in firefights
I swear to god if people praise the up close camera on these NPC interactions, while still trashing Starfield for having the same thing, I'm going to lose it.
Havnt playe Stalker but, Starfield is annoying because the NPCs just walk off when it does it lol as well as the NPC are creepy looking. Also Bethesda is much larger company with more money so, realistically Starfield should have really good looking NPCs,Dialog and, etc. In my opinion it falls short in a lot of those aspect.
@ I don’t knock games for a little jank but I couldn’t disagree more on the look of the NPC’s. I think they look great and the facial animations are genuinely impressive with a lot of micro expressions and very good modeling. People act like they look like Oblivion NPC’s which is insane to me.
Been playing since it came out a few hours ago It's my first stalker game but I like it went with the stalker difficulty instead of easy and it's kinda kicking my ass at times but it's cool and immersive One of my favorite moments so far is I overheard these bandits during a main quest talk about there leader before I killed them and then like a little later I was doing a side quest I picked up from the store in the first town and as I was on my way to my next destination I saw a building and decided I'd check it out since it's on the way And outside the building on the ground I found a dead npc that was the same name of the guy the bandits said was there leader
Classic stalker was 20 bucks. 20 dollar games can be janky. Games eith multiple editions selling for 100 is not good. But you waste your money ill grab it on sale in a month for 40 bucks for the ultimate edition. Winning.
@natel7382 wow rude much? What's wrong with having multiple edition's? Also who said I'm buying it at full price? Also there is nothing wrong with a game having a bit of Jank.
@@Hunter-zf7rt nah he's right, the review embargo was kept until two hours before the game launched (Absolutely massive red flag). The embargo has lifted and RUclipsrs/reviewers are reporting sub 60 frames with a 4090 and DLSS on, and the game is riddled with lighting glitches, pop in, UI bugs etc. And people in these comments are still saying "yeah, that's stalker for you", etc. He's right, og stalker was 20, this is unacceptable from GSC pricing it at $60 while is still unfinished. They're being scummy, remember the game is $30 for ukranians, only $10 more. Don't forget GSC also participated with "NFTs" back when that was all over the place
This game needs another year for optimization passes and opportunities for the developers to improve core mechanics to the gameplay loop. Based on a number of other reviews I've read today -- initial impressions are largely the same. Performance is a major issue, bugs are ranging from audio cutting out completely, to environmental textures vanishing, NPCs clipping through other assets, and classic T-posing everywhere, just to name a few. It isn't 2007 anymore.
When I see criticism of Stalker 2 having bugs, not being finished etc. I am reminded of the release of the first game, Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl. That game took 1-2 years of patching to fix most bugs and balance/performance issues.
12:20 theres is a fast travel system. There will be guides in some locations like the Bar and such that you can pay to have him "escort you" (fast travel) to another set location.
The grenade thing reminds me of Either CoD2 or World At War where if you played on the hardest difficulty then the Germans would suddenly have an unlimited supply of grenades to throw at you as if the Reich had a _'going out of business'_ 4 for 1 fire sale on them. I mean it was absolutely hilarious but god forbid that you should take cover somewhere....Forget sending in the dogs to get you out. They'll send in the grenades.
Can we stop making excuses for them being Ukrainian studio? This is getting ridiculous, they could delay it, they refused. They delayed reviews embargo 2 hours before release, to milk their fans as much as possible. Thats is scummmy af.
Dude get real children? You think kids just hop on order some meals after a day at the elementary school? More like you are talking about young adults whom know how to find the information if they want it. Just stop with the whole kid thing it just makes you lose all credibility and look like a giant wanker
Besides the technical issues, which i expected tbh, i am really glad the game is at least a good game. Maybe not perfect, but i also enjoyed prior stalker titles without ever listening to any dialogue
@mykolabondarchuk7998 I will give them all the time they need They went through literal war while developing this. I will play it tonight regardless of its technical issues
Ahh, I can remember all the way back to when the subtitle of STALKER was "Oblivion Lost." They were showing off these impressive tech demos of their big ambitious open-world game. Final game ended up cutting a lot of the features they wanted, and a whole ton of jank. I remember feeling let down, because one of the things they were supposed to have was a seamless world (Looking back, it may not have been a realistic expectation at the time). That's tech demos for you. I've been looking forward to AND subsequently forgetting about STALKER 2 for quite some time. There was even a handful of "spiritual successor" projects I followed for awhile. Looking forward to revisiting The Zone.
Concerned about the comments here tbh So the review embargo was kept until two hours before the game launches (Absolutely massive red flag, you're putting your head in sand if you think otherwise) The embargo has lifted, and RUclipsrs/reviewers are reporting sub 60 frames with a 4090 and DLSS on, and the game is riddled with lighting glitches, pop in, UI bugs etc. And people in the comments are just like 'Yeah bro, lets goo!" I feel like I don't even need to say it, but if EA, Ubisoft, Activision etc released a game in this state, keeping the review embargo literally as long as possible, people would be (rightfully) outraged. But I guess as soon as its a niche title, all standards go out the window and we're happy to accept broken products again? I don't get it.
Media didn't have access to a massive patch that may fix a lot of stuff, its yet to be seen. Aside from that, ubi and ea dont really get a pass cause not only is their stuff buggy but also garbage.
Even in your replies you are having people defending it.... Un fucking believable. People also like to forget that this game has had massive red flags since years ago, these devs were one of the first ones to jump into the NFT meat riding wagon for example, show you what their true intentions were, even if they backed down. Also people expecting a day one patch to fix all of this are either blatantly ignorant, weren't around when cyberpunk came out, or are outright negligent, no other expoanation
The conditions this game was made in made it hard for the devs to get anything done (Russia-Ukraine) And the fact that despite its issues there is still something great here. And with ubisoft and EA, they can make a polished AAA game but refuse to do so.
They did this in the other games. You would pay them to go from Rostok for example to cordon for a fee. It doesn't have teleport from anywhere the guides are usually in a settlement/faction base.
The recently released Stalker Trilogy on Xbox is the worst unplayable button presses don't register streaming game I have. Hope Stalker 2 has far less jank.
@@hardliketissues7463 "eurojank" is the best way to put it. I remember playing some deep sliver games back in the day, absolute jank but i had so much fun still.
lol is it me or does the actual gamplay that Matty has greatly differ from the gameplay that was released by the studio? I know graphics are not everything but I cant help feel like I am looking at a game that looks nowhere near what they were showing us. Eitherway, looking foward to giving this one a try!
Honestly once the game gets patched I think people's opinions will improve. To the people complaining about it feeling outdated though is that even a bad thing if more modern games were like 2007 ones the game industry would be in a much better place.
As a dedicated Stalker player on pc, with over 5,000 hours of gameplay with above average difficulty, including Stalker 1, 2, 3(w/ Misery Mod), Call of Chernobyl (w/ Call of Misery), and Stalker Anomaly, I have some advice to those who are not....stalkers. This game is tough, unforgiving for mistakes, is immersive, brutal, and not for the Gen Z children. Unnecessary fights are to be AVOIDED. Get on high ground for visibility and avoid certain mutants. Be careful how you treat other stalkers/factions. Also, my computer is eight years old. I've budgeted money for a new system with new graphics card and plan to begin a campaign getting it on sale AFTER lots of bug fixes, pc mods, etc. It sucks you in. It's a beautiful dangerous world. Sort of like dating these days western women (OK I had to throw that one in.) It will be interesting if their are any women in the Zone in S2. Women do not belong in the Zone...because they are precious and the Zone does not care for your woke silliness.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the big controller problem in the game right now. On xbox, theres 0 dead zone, making walking and turning a shitshow. It's almost unplayable. On PC people are saying it doesn't recognize any kind of controller. Owning only an Xbox I feel left out. I love S.T.A.L.K.E.R. so much, the game is looking really good, but struggling to actually play is a bitter experience
Matty the first Stalker came out before Fallout 3 and it was literally like this in the sense it threw you in the heat of the battle right from the start with groups of enemies attacking you right from the start. The animations were also similar. I dont think it is copying Fallout even though there are things similar.
I shit you not, I wait about a year after a games release before I even think about buying it. Developers nowadays are incapable of releasing a finished product on time. However, this game looks like it needs another 2 years worth of updates.
I use controller on PC and the controls are garbage, like unplayable, and the options to adjust are severely limited. I don't get why every developer out there doesn't just copy a game like Destiny for controls. I've seen a game before that was like this where as you're moving, more specifically running you have to really keep the stick straight up or you're unintentionally strafing left and right. RE8 had better controls as a shooter.
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You're a schill
@@thedude8128 A _grifter_
f your code
@@thedude8128 if you coud get 5k for shilling overpriced garbage you would do it to!
Before the three updates, the reviewers received builds. The upgraded version will be experienced by the rest of us. I anticipate that the Stalker series will see another strong addition.
They fixed the performance issues?
@@alzearafat no
Yeah, and builds were bad. And when embargo is lifted two hours before release, it sucks
Can confirm, performance is still very bad. 7800x3D 4080 Super. Luckily I got it free on gamepass. Still gonna play it but ugh
@@vabbi_1same 😂 TRYING to make it through the first 4 hours
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13:30 those dogs are not a bug, it's called a psy dog basically they affect your character mind making you think there are more dogs but those are phantoms or fakes they don't do damage unless they do in stalker 2 just the original do damage and is always trying to bite you, such a cool concept.
The West hasn't been fully culturized, Ivan.
A perfect example of why I wont take ANYONE who has never played an original Stalker game's review on Stalker 2 seriously at all.
Yeah, that’s hilarious.
Reminds me of the guy who said the game was bad because he kept dying to an anomaly lol
Here comes the experts guy lol. Look at them on their pedestal. Respect their pedestal.
He literally said at the beginning he never play them before. So chill out. Snobby little weirdo fan bases lol
Adulting is choosing to come to work even though the zone is waiting for you
I’m really regretting not calling out rn
@amx9122 same bro!
Nah guys, we get PTO for a reason 😂
PTO? Sorry I don't know what that means. I'm going to have to request time without pay just to go to my own funeral.
@@amx9122fucking facts 😂
lol "i was getting killed in the dark" has a headlight on, well yea.
Those are not bugs. They are anomalies like the softlock anomaly
😂
It's features!
You guys are r word.
@@thedude8128it's a joke regard
@@thedude8128 Maybe make sure you understand someone's intent before calling them an "r word". Clearly a joke (not an original one, but a classic among Stalkers)
Been playing Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl for a few hours, and it’s incredible. The story hooks you, the Zone is haunting, and the gunfights are intense. No bugs so far-just pure immersion. Huge respect to Ukrainian studio GSC Game World for delivering this masterpiece despite the challenges of Russia's invasion. A must-play!
OK Ukraine shill.
30 deaths for 15 hours? That's a good NUMBER, for rookie S.T.A.L.K.E.R 👍
Man I remembering playing stalker for the first time and Holy shit. Kept dying to those guys at the border crossing under the train track. After so many saves I finally killed them all haha
@keesingh2031 Clear Sky, yes, I did the same😁
I’m a stalker vet and I’m playing on veteran difficulty. Getting my ass handed to me. You’re already doing better than me 😂
@@keesingh2031you could have also just paid them to leave you alone.
0:01 I've heard enough it's a buy for me.
BAHAHAHA I love how you're one second in. I'm So happy that GSC pulled it off. They truly deserved this win. AND I can't wait to play.
I will try it on gamepass
It's time to return to the zone,grab the vodka and let's go
Lmfao
@@myferretollie9235What win? The game’s performance is pathetic and the graphics are a massive downgrade when compared to the trailers. I hope they get to feel that they released an unfinished game. But that somehow seems to be a trend nowadays.
Lol getting jumped by a pack of dogs just to have another pack of dogs hop on the opportunity is par for the course. Usually, its those two events, plus some enemy gunfire, and a bloodsucker on your ass. Stalker goes hard in the "fuck you"
My experience my entire first 10 hours of the first stalker
With a capital F. Figured it would be toned down for this game, started on normal and nope. I get shafted after picking up the anomaly for the sensor. Good times🤣 So far enjoying the game.
• Puts the Series X game box in the thumbnail.
• Reviews the PC version.
RUclipsrs are known liers and clickbaiters
Straight 🤡
Lmfao. Poor Xbox content creators. They try.
The xbox version will be no different than the PC version. He's still reviewing the same game.
arent they the same game? or is it different version I genuinely don't know
30 death? I remember my first 2 minutes of Elden ring
That damn tree sentinel
You lasted 2 minutes?!! lol.
I think you should find a new hobby 💀 maybe crocheting?
I would say that using your weapon light in total darkness and getting one shotted is pretty damn realistic.
It is, he has never played a stalker game
Matty please do not microwave plastic I’m begging you it’s for your own good
Great video though
Yeah when I had factor I would put the food on a plate first
And from experience, don’t bother with the chicken dishes, factor uses horrible quality chicken just get the beef/pork or meatless dishes
I use the toaster oven for everything now
turn off the headlight in the dark, they won't see you, they won't shoot you
The book that inspired Stalker is really good and is a shorter read (around 200 pages). I think Matty would enjoy it as Tim Cain (the creator of Fallout) said it was a piece of inspiration while creating Fallout.
I just watched the Stalker movie from the 70’s, it was also very good but probably something I’d only watch once because it was extremely slow paced.
Fallout sucks
I mean, adding the title of the book also helps those less experienced people, but I agree
@@gamehours5751 Name of the book is Roadside Picnic, that’s my bad
I'm Playing on series x now, graphically I'm impressed, the best ue5 game I've played on console thus far in terms of image quality in performance mode.
Nice. I was hoping it wouldn't look too bad in performance mode unlike silent hill 2 which looked awful in performance mode
@@HugoStiglitz88 sucks to be console player then😮
@@gokucanfly4593 Pound sand.
How? It doesn't release for another 55 minutes🤔
Hmmm. The graphics don't look that impressive to me. Looks like just a notch above Fallout 4 IMO. I'm shocked this is UE5
I'm from Ukraine and I'm happy I survived to see this game released, preordered it god knows when and even if the game is bugged I don't care
Aren’t you worried about like missiles and shit irl
Support from Finland
@@roskcity thank you 💙💛
finished playing Alan Wake 2 a bit ago, Finnish language is so cool
@@daubytheelf2105 I am but what can I do about it? It's been 1000 days since the start of 1nv4510n, sooner or later you get used to air raids and planes/drones/missiles flying over
@daubytheelf2105 Are you thick? Just because he's Ukrainian, doesn't mean he's STILL IN Ukraine lmao
The reviewers got builds before the three updates. The rest of us will be experiencing the updated version. I expect another solid addition to the Stalker series
It's not
Nah performance is still bad. 7800X3D, the second best CPU right now will drop down to 40 fps in settlement area with 4 friendly NPCs.
@skinscalp222 I have 7800XT and 7800x3d and yeah... horrid performance. Worse then starfield and that says something.
@@skinscalp222yeah for pc yall are cooked, it’s stable over on console when compared to your issues
This game needed to be better than Metro Exodus instead, the stealth is useless, hunger is useless, anomalies are useless, injury system is useless. There's just no immersion. It feels like, a 2007 game in 2024.
2007 was an amazing game for video games though!
BioShock
2007
Portal
2007
Assassin's Creed
2007
Halo 3
2007
Super Mario Galaxy
2007
Team Fortress 2
2007
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
2007
God of War II
2007
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
2007
@@robertlauder303 2007 was the best year
L take
Stealth definitely needs to be better
I was gonna disagree with you, but then I noticed your name. You just like to complain.
100% various night vision attachments on the form of different scopes, helmets and helmets attachments. Better yet, there's actually tiers of quality for night vision. 1st gen-3rd gen, increasing the level of clarity each tier
Also, there is fast travel. You find a guide in the main areas and pay them to take you to wherever you've previously been, for a modest fee.
Lastly, you can offset the radiation an artifact gives you by equipping an artifact that gives you rad resistance (such as a bubble)
Can't wait to play this tonight when I get off of work 🔥🔥🔥
Call off work, be a real one 😂😂❤
Same
Why u watch RUclips at work 🌚
I cant wait the 1:30 hours it takes to download it ( its gone live as of 18 min. Ago go download)
me too, this guy says he played 15 hours but the game just came out 3 hours ago. so his video is bullshit
4:00 screw the bug, look at the draw distance, the distant forests, so many trees with a volumetric fog at the ground... u can see the big antenna array kilometres away. The details in the short range are fantastic in the shot as well.. just pause at 4:02 and realize what u see... The atmosphere of that shot is crazy. I will wait roughly 6 months and jump on it hard core.
I think it'll be patched up well enough to buy/play in a month tbh.
@@DumbDare maybe, they release updates fast so its possible
It should be patched up good in atleast 2months, 6-12months and you’ll have the first mods show up.
Kinda interesting about the darkness bit. The more realistic approach would be AI that is just as hindered as you. Spamming fire when they see a flashlight, etc rather than having an advantage and dropping you with ease Something Insurgency Sandstorm does is lower the accuracy ratio of bots on night maps depending on detectable light in the area. Pretty neat. The devs here seem to be going the more hard disadvantage route. I can respect that.
In the original games, there is a visibility meter and a sound meter.
I assume is the same here, in darkness enemies can't see you, but they can hear you.
Matty is a Bethesds enjoyer, I doubt he has the ability to disern these subtle details. Otherwise he would not really love Bethesda the way he does. He also failed to understand why shacks can't protect you from emissions compared to buildings. Or that there is a difference between walking and running. The fact that he spent a lot of time crouch walking tells me he never noticed that walking also works as a stealth mechanic, because stealth is based on sound and vision, not if you're crouching or not, again, just a Bethesda thing.
i did notice that in the video while he was getting shot in the dark he had his flashlight on the whole time lol
@@martin-pz6dsit literally tells you to turn your light off as a tip in the game 🤣🤣🤣
He has his flashlight on, they fuck you up that way
@@armandoriosfragoso6726nah sounds barely has an impact in this one sadly, kicking cans or jumping doesn’t really catch attention if you’re behind someone for example but a lot of enemy’s have hawk eyes if they’re facing your direction.
The movie and the book (Roadside Picnic) the game is based on are incredible and why I initially played S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Wasn't there a 79 movie called stalker as well ? I remember watching that strange pretty interesting slow paced movie
@@russianFB7442 Yeah, it's one of the greatest films ever, but it's very different from the book which is very different from the games. It's on RUclips for free.
@@russianFB7442 Yup. Andrei Tarkovsky. Legendary film.
@@russianFB7442 yes,the soviet movie encouraged the creation of games and books
The AI spammed grenades in Clear Sky too. It was mainly the bandit enemies that did it. I hope it isn't as bad as that and grenades have never had warning like in CoD for example.
I legitimately didn't finish Clear Sky due to the final stretch. The enemies coming out of portals already shooting me before I could see them, and then ducking into cover and three seconds later I'd have five grenades at my feet.
They wanted you to feel nostalgic, like Bethesda with bugs.
there's a mod to reduce the spam
trust me matty the dogs always come in large packs minus quest area enemies
i really want to know how a fan of the original games feel about it. I just played Shadow of Chornobyl on Xbox after buying the trilogy and I think its legitimately one of my favorite games of all time, let alone the best open world game ive played. i will never forget the frustrating yet rewarding and incredibly atmospheric experience, and i wish i could just so i could do it all over again. I'm begging old fans of the series say its a must.
The game Stalker became a small problem for me, which caused gaming impotence. After I beat Stalker a few times, I wanted to play something different. But every time I deleted the game and returned to the Zone again. Compared to Stalker, other games looked unrealistic and made no sense. I called it "Stalker Syndrome".
Pretty much zero changes or improvements on the first game. Go buy it
Litterall a 3 minute dialog about some microwaveable food, my fav.
If you wanna play a fun game where you slowly explore huge areas and gets to find critical resources and play style changing gear/weapons then you should try out Blood West. Technically came out in December last year but it’s absolutely my game of the year. So damn good. Graphics are intentionally retro as fuck. Trust me when I say that it’ll scratch your scavenging for loot itch.
Poor Matty, haha I can only imagine what you were thinking while encountering the "excentricities" of The Zone. Dunno of course, but that pack of dogs that seemed to keep expanding sounds like you ran into Psy-dogs or Psy-Psuedodogs. There is a lot of enemy variety in STALKER.
Edit: pray you never run into Fractures. Honestly more scary than Bloodsuckers IMO.
Can't wait to get off work and no life this all night. My uncle got me into gaming as a kid and played these all the time. He never got a chance to play this so my first walk-through is for him. Trying to play like he did. No hand holding and hardest difficulty options.
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This is exactly how this game is supposed to be. It’s far better than its predecessors and that’s all that matters. A lot of developers can’t even achieve that these days. GSC deserves a lot of grace with this game, even with its bugs and glitches. Let them fix it. It’s still a good game regardless.
Many Stalker fans like to compare the games with Fallout, and state it's better Fallout than Fallout. They're just being ridiculous. The lore, and Fallout surrounding and/thus the atmosphere are very different. I have liked, read, watched post post apocalyptic stories since my childhood. I mainly found these in comics, books and occasionally TV, and I guess I am being a weirdo here, but I like different settings for different entertainment mediums. E.g. Stalker, I could watch a TV show, or a movie, but it's not a setting I enjoy in a video game. With Fallout it's almost the opposite, I like the games, and the TV show is just meh. Although that's probably b/c of the adaptation. If they had actually made a serious TV show instead of colorful 76 style comedy, I might have liked it. Anyhow, Stalker is not Fallout and I personally don't see/feel a post apocalypse in the exclusion zone. They should have made the zone the only 'good' place on Earth lol. That would be post apocalyptic.
I don't see how getting shot in the dark is realistic unless all the enemies are using night vision. Night/rain/storm should be perfect for stealth, not the other way around.
Has a bright flash light on ..... I wonder why the enemy knows where he is
@levibull6063 storm - sound wise fkin obviously!
He's a walking lighthouse with that flashlight on
@@levibull6063is it really that realistic?
@@leopoldbuttersstotch73Yes that's not a hard mechanic to implement
3:10 this whole sequence just made me burst out in laughter. The facetanking 3 guys in point blank range, the gta time slow weapon wheel.
What has this game become 😂😂😂
He’s playing on easy. On veteran you’re not face tanking, sometimes one round puts me down to 20#
100,000+ people playing and great reviews on steam.
The clear sky grenade spam is back baby!!!
5:02 "and that's with the drivers installed" bro is usually playing with out drivers lol
NVIDIA always releases "day 0" drivers for specific games, a lot of people miss them & have awful experiences running the game without those drivers. In this case, Matty had the day 1 drivers installed for stalker 2, they came out November 12, 2024. (version 566.14, also work for microsoft flight sim 2024)
As a big fan of Stalker and Metro series I must say that I am not touching this game until it gets in to discount and get several patches that improves literaly everything.
If you’re on pc I agree, on series x my experience has been solid, bugs but nothing ridiculous.
Wise choice. 6 hours in and this is worse than Metro series in every way.
@@SpliffyHuskthis is why I hate pc gaming I swear pc always has more issues then console
It’s also on gamepass
@@vabbi_1 it's not similar to the metro series you dolt
People say they have completed this game but thats impossible. Devs say theres 100 plus hours of content to do everything. possibly the story can be complete, but by no means the entire game experience
Looks like a ps2 game tbh
No it does not. It looks good in Series X.
Ponies are stuck in ps2 era still. Rise of Ronin did in real look like ps2 game.
You must be blind
Bro wasnt even born when ps2 came out.
Also PPL forget how ugly Games from then Look today
God i cant wait to play this. Being a skyrim enjoyer i am fully expecting bugs and given the circumstances of the games development that's fair enough
Finally some STALKER 2 coverage!! I can take the technical issues, they get fixed. I am excited to get roped into the atmosphere and world building they did here, it looks beautiful.
As long as you have a high end PC I played an hr on Xbox and it looks poor and a low end pc for a few minutes and more of the same
Playing pretty damn good on series X playing since released in my zone bug free so far. It did take me a while to get into what the game was putting down but I never played the previous titles.
It makes sense this game reminds you of Far Cry 2, because FC2 was heavily influenced by the original games
FC2 came out 1 year after stalker
@DaCashRap you can find interviews of FC2's director talking about it
@@tholomewplague7732 no doubt, send me the link
it has Chernobyl Lite vibes early (loved that AA game!..)
This definitely seems like a game we’ll be playing for years like a Skyrim as mods come out and the fixes come on alongside the 2 DLC they have planned. I'm glad it reminds me of the old trilogy. I expect better from their future projects technically, I wont give anyone more than 2 chances in $70 game releases.
Damn so you havent played the originals? Youre missing out. Honestly theyre still an absolute blast man. i understand if you dont have time to go back but its worth checking out
While the originals are good games for the niche community you cant really believe the vast majority of people would enjoy its almost simlike unforgiving natrue?
Bro is living under a rock he hasnt even watched Indiana Jones
@@Mythicalgoonyeah but why review a game you don’t understand and probably won’t like? This review could’ve been a “not for me”.
When he complained about being shot in the dark like they were locked onto him? They were, he had his flashlight. Even the AI shuts their flashlight in firefights
I swear to god if people praise the up close camera on these NPC interactions, while still trashing Starfield for having the same thing, I'm going to lose it.
Havnt playe Stalker but, Starfield is annoying because the NPCs just walk off when it does it lol as well as the NPC are creepy looking. Also Bethesda is much larger company with more money so, realistically Starfield should have really good looking NPCs,Dialog and, etc. In my opinion it falls short in a lot of those aspect.
@ I don’t knock games for a little jank but I couldn’t disagree more on the look of the NPC’s. I think they look great and the facial animations are genuinely impressive with a lot of micro expressions and very good modeling. People act like they look like Oblivion NPC’s which is insane to me.
First law of gaming: Bethesda bad, obscure low budget indie devs good. I don't make the rules. /s
@@BrokenlanceCrazy aint it. It just comes to show you how weird and hypocritical the gaming community has become.
Sounds like a diamond in the rough, just like the first one. I’m in!
Are you gonna do some atomfall coverage? Really curious about that game too
Been playing since it came out a few hours ago
It's my first stalker game but I like it went with the stalker difficulty instead of easy and it's kinda kicking my ass at times but it's cool and immersive
One of my favorite moments so far is I overheard these bandits during a main quest talk about there leader before I killed them and then like a little later I was doing a side quest I picked up from the store in the first town and as I was on my way to my next destination I saw a building and decided I'd check it out since it's on the way
And outside the building on the ground I found a dead npc that was the same name of the guy the bandits said was there leader
Sounds like classic stalker, it's time to return to the zone stalker's
Classic stalker was 20 bucks. 20 dollar games can be janky. Games eith multiple editions selling for 100 is not good. But you waste your money ill grab it on sale in a month for 40 bucks for the ultimate edition. Winning.
@@natel7382which shouldn’t be long. This game is gonna get ripped apart outside of fans of the series the are desperate for something
@natel7382 wow rude much? What's wrong with having multiple edition's? Also who said I'm buying it at full price? Also there is nothing wrong with a game having a bit of Jank.
@@Hunter-zf7rt nah he's right, the review embargo was kept until two hours before the game launched (Absolutely massive red flag). The embargo has lifted and RUclipsrs/reviewers are reporting sub 60 frames with a 4090 and DLSS on, and the game is riddled with lighting glitches, pop in, UI bugs etc.
And people in these comments are still saying "yeah, that's stalker for you", etc. He's right, og stalker was 20, this is unacceptable from GSC pricing it at $60 while is still unfinished. They're being scummy, remember the game is $30 for ukranians, only $10 more. Don't forget GSC also participated with "NFTs" back when that was all over the place
How can bro played 15h if it only launched 5h ago.
This game needs another year for optimization passes and opportunities for the developers to improve core mechanics to the gameplay loop. Based on a number of other reviews I've read today -- initial impressions are largely the same. Performance is a major issue, bugs are ranging from audio cutting out completely, to environmental textures vanishing, NPCs clipping through other assets, and classic T-posing everywhere, just to name a few. It isn't 2007 anymore.
You’re right, it’s 2024, and only one game launched stable, dragon age veilguard
Iffy gameplay, Terrible story, lack of mission directions and the game is overall pretty broken. This needs some more time in the oven.
When I see criticism of Stalker 2 having bugs, not being finished etc. I am reminded of the release of the first game, Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl. That game took 1-2 years of patching to fix most bugs and balance/performance issues.
Matty I love your Dragon Ball Shirt 😍
This game is to my surprise is more like fallout and I’m not mad at it
12:20 theres is a fast travel system. There will be guides in some locations like the Bar and such that you can pay to have him "escort you" (fast travel) to another set location.
2:37 I think the first person to eat a basic steamed broccoli and go "Ah yeah that's the shit"
Broccoli can be the shit ❤
He's gotta sell some shit doesn't he?
Based on everything I have read and heard this is definitely a game where I'm going to be waiting for several patches before purchasing it.
There have been 3 already since his time with this version
One minute ago is crazy. Hi Matty!
Love the game! Need to dick with the controls a bit, but aside from the crashes that should get fixed here at some point, im glad i bought it
how about we stop saying its okay to buy games that arent done yet?
"Give them the time they need?
How about they don't release an UNFINISHED game and just finish it beforethey ask peopleto give them $$$!!
The grenade thing reminds me of Either CoD2 or World At War where if you played on the hardest difficulty then the Germans would suddenly have an unlimited supply of grenades to throw at you as if the Reich had a _'going out of business'_ 4 for 1 fire sale on them. I mean it was absolutely hilarious but god forbid that you should take cover somewhere....Forget sending in the dogs to get you out. They'll send in the grenades.
Can we stop making excuses for them being Ukrainian studio? This is getting ridiculous, they could delay it, they refused. They delayed reviews embargo 2 hours before release, to milk their fans as much as possible. Thats is scummmy af.
They delayed the original for like 5 years too and it still released buggy
no we dont stop.
I downloaded it ive been waiting for this game for years since it was announced
Remember a game made for everyone is a game made for no-one
Cod says hello
@erey214 😂
mention the ludicrous levels of sodium before selling food to children please.
Dude get real children? You think kids just hop on order some meals after a day at the elementary school? More like you are talking about young adults whom know how to find the information if they want it. Just stop with the whole kid thing it just makes you lose all credibility and look like a giant wanker
Wandering into random massive buildings exploring loot :AUTO PASS
crazy graphical downgrade from the first trailer, not sure why this shit is still tolerated in 2024
I'm starting to discover which youtuber gamer reviewers are on the slightly more casual side...
Besides the technical issues, which i expected tbh, i am really glad the game is at least a good game. Maybe not perfect, but i also enjoyed prior stalker titles without ever listening to any dialogue
Give this game some time
@mykolabondarchuk7998
I will give them all the time they need
They went through literal war while developing this. I will play it tonight regardless of its technical issues
Ahh, I can remember all the way back to when the subtitle of STALKER was "Oblivion Lost." They were showing off these impressive tech demos of their big ambitious open-world game. Final game ended up cutting a lot of the features they wanted, and a whole ton of jank. I remember feeling let down, because one of the things they were supposed to have was a seamless world (Looking back, it may not have been a realistic expectation at the time). That's tech demos for you.
I've been looking forward to AND subsequently forgetting about STALKER 2 for quite some time. There was even a handful of "spiritual successor" projects I followed for awhile. Looking forward to revisiting The Zone.
Concerned about the comments here tbh
So the review embargo was kept until two hours before the game launches (Absolutely massive red flag, you're putting your head in sand if you think otherwise)
The embargo has lifted, and RUclipsrs/reviewers are reporting sub 60 frames with a 4090 and DLSS on, and the game is riddled with lighting glitches, pop in, UI bugs etc.
And people in the comments are just like 'Yeah bro, lets goo!"
I feel like I don't even need to say it, but if EA, Ubisoft, Activision etc released a game in this state, keeping the review embargo literally as long as possible, people would be (rightfully) outraged.
But I guess as soon as its a niche title, all standards go out the window and we're happy to accept broken products again? I don't get it.
Media didn't have access to a massive patch that may fix a lot of stuff, its yet to be seen.
Aside from that, ubi and ea dont really get a pass cause not only is their stuff buggy but also garbage.
@@saifojio2259 that patch didn't fix everything wrong with this game.
Even in your replies you are having people defending it.... Un fucking believable.
People also like to forget that this game has had massive red flags since years ago, these devs were one of the first ones to jump into the NFT meat riding wagon for example, show you what their true intentions were, even if they backed down.
Also people expecting a day one patch to fix all of this are either blatantly ignorant, weren't around when cyberpunk came out, or are outright negligent, no other expoanation
The conditions this game was made in made it hard for the devs to get anything done (Russia-Ukraine)
And the fact that despite its issues there is still something great here.
And with ubisoft and EA, they can make a polished AAA game but refuse to do so.
@@Esteban_907 what conditions? they escaped to poland lmao
They could see you in the dark bc you had your flashlight on
I’ve seen a couple reviews and you are the first to mention the massive patch coming in, god I’m so ready
There is fast travel. That was confirmed. But the devs mentioned something about paying guides for it. They were pretty vague
Ign has a video about it
Like in old games. Gotta find a guide npc and talk to them i guess
They did this in the other games. You would pay them to go from Rostok for example to cordon for a fee. It doesn't have teleport from anywhere the guides are usually in a settlement/faction base.
The recently released Stalker Trilogy on Xbox is the worst unplayable button presses don't register streaming game I have. Hope Stalker 2 has far less jank.
It’s eurojank you’ll love it. But honestly it’s part of the stalker experience. Those games playing like shit is part of the reason people like them.
@@hardliketissues7463 "eurojank" is the best way to put it. I remember playing some deep sliver games back in the day, absolute jank but i had so much fun still.
There is fast travel in the form of Guides, people you can give money to that take you to specific locations.
Please sir, where did you get that shirt?
lol is it me or does the actual gamplay that Matty has greatly differ from the gameplay that was released by the studio? I know graphics are not everything but I cant help feel like I am looking at a game that looks nowhere near what they were showing us. Eitherway, looking foward to giving this one a try!
He’s playing on medium graphics
So in other words another broken game on the xbox platform is kind of a trend now
It isn’t broken on Xbox, pc is having problems as usual. It’s a constant struggle for pc users, a game just fumbles the launch badly
Honestly once the game gets patched I think people's opinions will improve.
To the people complaining about it feeling outdated though is that even a bad thing if more modern games were like 2007 ones the game industry would be in a much better place.
As a dedicated Stalker player on pc, with over 5,000 hours of gameplay with above average difficulty, including Stalker 1, 2, 3(w/ Misery Mod), Call of Chernobyl (w/ Call of Misery), and Stalker Anomaly, I have some advice to those who are not....stalkers. This game is tough, unforgiving for mistakes, is immersive, brutal, and not for the Gen Z children. Unnecessary fights are to be AVOIDED. Get on high ground for visibility and avoid certain mutants. Be careful how you treat other stalkers/factions. Also, my computer is eight years old. I've budgeted money for a new system with new graphics card and plan to begin a campaign getting it on sale AFTER lots of bug fixes, pc mods, etc. It sucks you in. It's a beautiful dangerous world. Sort of like dating these days western women (OK I had to throw that one in.) It will be interesting if their are any women in the Zone in S2. Women do not belong in the Zone...because they are precious and the Zone does not care for your woke silliness.
4:46 "This is a gamepass game after all"
Not right here, partner...not right here
Hell yeah dude
I'm surprised you didn't mention the big controller problem in the game right now. On xbox, theres 0 dead zone, making walking and turning a shitshow. It's almost unplayable. On PC people are saying it doesn't recognize any kind of controller. Owning only an Xbox I feel left out. I love S.T.A.L.K.E.R. so much, the game is looking really good, but struggling to actually play is a bitter experience
Imagine what the modding community will do to this in the next ten or so years
Yea the possibility is endless it's gunna be really cool to see what they add.
this is the real hype. I remember driving a tractor around in modded stalker 1, good times.
Matty the first Stalker came out before Fallout 3 and it was literally like this in the sense it threw you in the heat of the battle right from the start with groups of enemies attacking you right from the start. The animations were also similar. I dont think it is copying Fallout even though there are things similar.
It sounds like it's not bad, but it'll be more enjoyable in a couple months.
Yesh sale sounds nice
There is fast travel but you have to pay money to someone for it.😊
3:00 more armor is less damage ? 🤪
My wife broke our microwave a few years ago, I just got a air fryer thing so she can use metal all she wants lol 😂😢😢
MrMattyShills (but only for Bethesda)
I shit you not, I wait about a year after a games release before I even think about buying it. Developers nowadays are incapable of releasing a finished product on time. However, this game looks like it needs another 2 years worth of updates.
Hell yeah
I use controller on PC and the controls are garbage, like unplayable, and the options to adjust are severely limited. I don't get why every developer out there doesn't just copy a game like Destiny for controls. I've seen a game before that was like this where as you're moving, more specifically running you have to really keep the stick straight up or you're unintentionally strafing left and right. RE8 had better controls as a shooter.