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wish I could play...this game runs terribly unless you have a NASA computer, and it doesn't even run that smoothly on the Xbox Series X either...too low of a framerate
@@No-rl9wn I can't imagine how that could be true, because the X is objectively better than the S in terms of processing power and image quality. I'm guessing your idea of playable is different to mine..like...for me, a stable 60 FPS is REQUIRED, and there needs to be good responsiveness. But, I'm pretty sure the Xbox version is only running at something like 45 FPS and sometimes dips to 30 FPS... I'd be tolerant if it was a stable 45 FPS, but it's not and it makes the controls feel floaty like there's input lag. It's just not fun at that point, moving your character feels like walking through syrup
@@ChristoffRevan I think the biggest performance killer is not enough VRAM. I have an RX6700XT with 12gigs and it runs not great not terrible on medium. Though big hubs kill my frames because of CPU limitations I guess.
So uh, fun fact about the bus stops at around the 18 minute mark, each bus stop DOES have a unique painting on it. Between 1960s and 1980s bus stops all across Ukraine by art school students. The ones in Stalker 2 are replicas of the ones in the Pripyat/chernobyl area.
@@FlunkedPunk Yes. Flew to Krakow, Poland and then took a Flixbus to Lviv. From there, I travelled across Ukraine by train. Used the local buses in the cities from time to time, and some of the stops look like what you see in the game.
Im sorry but this game is far from ready watching fps drop , water reflection super buggy everything is glitchy shouldn’t have released YES I KNOW ABOUT war once they get liberated by the rus then maybe they might release a good game
Thank you Drewski!!! I've watched all your Stalker videos and am so glad you're already putting out high quality Stalker 2 videos! PLEASE KEEP THEM COMING!!!!!!
Mmmm nah,he is Duty and in the previous games they hated bandits so i dont think its scripted,just the 3 bandits that spawn near u like always. If he were from Freedom maybe i would buy it cuz they made deals before but being Duty i dont think so
16:13 (for reference). The Polyglot V mod for Cyberpunk, where characters talked with their native languages and V would respond in the same language for a few characters was immersive as hell for me.
This is my first stalker game and I see why people are such fans of this series. Bugs aside the atmosphere and world design is phenomenal, the attention to small details in animations is awesome and the tension building is well done too. My favourite game rn by far
Could have been way better if it had the games original features, that they lied about claiming it would have on launch. The game isn’t at its best right now. Give it 2-5 months and it’ll have everything working and every feature they promised, then it’ll be the true experience.
Yeah probably won't get my GOTY vote, but i'm gladly gonna give them the labor of love award in the future, the game has it's issues which become a lot more apparent at the mid point of the story but denying they haven't given it their all is just arrogant, when the game works the quality surpasses any bethesda,ubisoft,etc open world assembly line slop by miles.
@gazzy9136 That is exactly what I'm doing. I wait a year to play most games, give the developers time to fix the game and make it what they intended it to be, not what the suits forced them to push out early.
It's like every Fallout 4 creator who starts out their video saying, "Today I'm going to do (insert task/quest/plan objective here) and then (insert plan 2 objective here)" When everyone knows that that will not happen, because Fallout.. it just gets tiresome listening to the blathering and we the viewers feel like 'why are you wasting our time talking about things that you're not going to do?' This freeform approach keeps you interested and watching to see what's going happen because it's like Fallout but less predictable.
ive seen a few play throughs of stalker 2 from other content creators, and something about drewski's playthrough draws me in. other people is fine, but to me, drewski brings something above and beyond to make it more interesting and fun to watch.
14:38 I think this is the first game I've seen that actually properly simulates the fingering when playing a guitar. I cannot understate how much I love that.
26:43 Okey but can we just talk about how this man can actually sing quite nice, i was so taken of guard when i heard it whilst playing the vid in the background
Yeah, Drewski can pull off a good sing.. Pestily,, not so much. I generally cringe when Pestily starts singing because it's either poor singing or some lame pop tune.
Man imma be real, all I need right now is more S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 gameplay. I know you don't want to flood your channel with one single game but it is much appreciated. I've been addicted to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe for years and feel very compelled to start my own channel playing tactical shooters. Got a lot of financial burdens threatening my home right now but your videos are a break from my struggles. Thank you so much Drewski
@theInfiniteEgg-z8i Well sure there is, the game itself is massive. I know there are fundamental issues with core gameplay features being broken or missing right now, namely the A-Life system but like he shows in the video there are mods that are helping patch these issues until an official update drops, mods of which he has already installed. But let’s be honest there’s still so much more of the game to see, and it’s not just the game itself that I’m interested in, it’s the charm of Drewski walking around and completing missions while talking with us and surviving the zone. And Drewski gets into many hairy situations and I enjoy watching how he gets out of them. Idk, personal preference but all I wanted to say is that these videos are helping me during a particularly hard time in my life.
@@theInfiniteEgg-z8i With how broken the game is? You're talking as if this is BF 2042 at launch and a year later. From what I've seen, this game doesn't seem to be too bad. For what ever reason, some people have a huge number of bugs and crashes, but others don't seem to have any major problems at all and their gameplay has been smooth. I'd happily watch a multi-part playthrough oi this. Especially since Drewski can actually play games. He's a gamer. Watching someone that's good as games, imo, is far more entertaining . He could still do that if he wanted to. The bugs don't seem to be game breaking.
So far we're on 3 patches. A lot of bugs fixed. + some performance optimization. *Next is A-Life (and more optimization)* In fact, according to devs, most of the reason for the A-life being turned down to 150m radius is especially due to lack of optimization of all the NPC logic. In the next month or two they should have it fixed hopefully! :)
"In fact, according to devs, most of the reason for the A-life being turned down to 150m radius" This sentence doesn't make sense. A-life can't function on 150m radious. It needs to affect all locations otherwise it's just spawner, not a-life.
@@shtein4476 I might not have explained it the best (English isn't my first language) What they said was the NPCs get spawned by A-Life, the A-Life code and everything is in the game - but NPC logic out of 150m radius is disabled. To you it would seem like it's not present, but it is. *If it was "just a spawner", they'd have to write A-Life code from scratch - which would take years, not months* As soon as optimization is done, all they have to do is turn it on - not make A-Life from scratch (big difference in time)
@@foxtrotunit1269yes, modders have confirmed it is in the game contrary to what people have been claiming, it is simply disabled in what it can do due to numerous conflicts and bugs. Also the fact that allowing it to work in a proper radius destroys the already suspect CPU optimisation. Remember this has to work on consoles that are equipped with the equivalent of a Ryzen 3700X and around 13gb of shared video/system memory. I suspect this is the actual reason A-life is turned right down at the moment, and eventually we may end up with two different versions as I can't see them getting an extremely complex system like this working on a present gen console. 🤔
@@foxtrotunit1269 My worry is that the code isn't in the game, and they just pushed the game out due to lack of money. I hope it is in there, and it will just take some months of patching, but it has gotten difficult to trust devs.
The game released full price 1.0, the idea that they didn't add in a MASSIVE game feature because it would cause instability is a fucking joke... but hey GOTY contender for sure.
Its small, but I loved the little atmospheric interludes you put in of just scenery and environment, it was a rly nice way of breaking up the scenes/encounters
The atmosphere is unmatched. The way you've put these pauses with nature made me feel, as if I was enjoying a moment of silence while camping or fishing. Thanks, Drewski. I feel like my time well spent.
@@JF-vz1jui haven’t been this hooked and pleased with a game in YEARS. like every game of course it’ll have bugs and issues. especially for them ie the 2014 invasion/ current war. saw a smooth brain from the cesspool of reddit complaining about the game saying its garbage. but the same chronic complainers that is 98% of the virgin gamer community that bombard devs to hurry up and give us the game, when they do to please their supporters then it’s they suck. that’s why rockstar completely ignores all of them because they know how spoiled they are and how little their input matters pre release ( and honestly life itself but mainly for game) and are perfecting their product before they give it to the world. People just need to be appreciate and give people that are creating and spending their time at a job to give the world a potential masterpiece. not please the 35 year old brian’s who haven’t left their parents house and have yet to kiss a woman. those dudes will be hard on reddit but be terrified to ask for extra bbq at mcdonald’s
Apart from a couple glitches and some other bugs Ive been having a blast, it feels good coming back to the zone once again. It feels like the perfect blend between og stalker and modern mechanics/mods. Absolute 8/10 for me
So I must be having a skill issue cause I can never find the weird water (the glowing lights anomaly) and unless I missed a quick little hot fix ITS STILL BUGGED AS SHIT other than that little tiny pet peeve (cause I would love to be a grubby little loot goblin with 140 carry weight) the game is magnificent
@@Bsolazy It took me a bit and Ive heard about the bugs, but from the little hill overlooking the lights I kinda walked straight and went a bit to the right then dropped from a little mound and it was right there, I don’t know if it changes for others but it took me like 3 minutes to find it
Hey Drewski, that anomaly that you ran into at 0:40 is a stasis anomaly. I don't recall it being in the other Stalker games aside from Stalcraft X but it behaves as you'd expect. They're super hard to see most of the times but it does look cool when you shoot into them because it'll actually slow down the bullets so you can see them.
I think the main thing that keeps me so interested in your stalker (and a lot of other games) videos is the fact that you do your best to keep yourself immersed and enjoy the game world. Its something ive grown very accustomed to myself these days and its always nice feeling the same sort of passion through videos like these
Dude, keep the stalker coming. Absolutely my favorite thing to watch you play. Wouldn't even mind if u played a little gamma while there working on fixing a-life
This is my first Stalker game. I must say the mod support and help from the great community has taken a great game and made it even better. Im about 80 hrs in and im not stopping anytime soon.
Lovin the stalker content, I’ve never played any of the stalker series but watching your videos on it is making me want to buy it. Keep up the great work brotha 58:21 Its a assassins creed Easter egg, leap of faith
I don't hate GAMMA, but I prefer the more grounded aesthetics of custom modded Anomaly or the Vanilla games instead the tacticoolness of GAMMA, in my opinion super duper kitted out weapons / gear, and Stalker does not match at all.
I love this format of video, man. Seems like a traveler's documentary. The cut shots or transition scenes or whatever you want to call them are great. Keep it up!
certain items can only be upgraded by certain technicians, armor is one of those. I think the technician on wild island can upgrade armor (at least thats where I think that I upgraded my seva suit)
Thanks for your content. I recently discovered you and the way you commentate and play the games takes me back. Please try to make more episodes like this. I really don't care how long it is. Thank you.
Drewski's descent into madness the longer the video goes on is great. He starts off like "k guys this'll be cool" to "you oo oo i wanna wear your skin"
30:00 i think those anomalies are how you find the weird water artifact Edit- he found it a minute later lol Anyway they really did Duty and freedom dirty, Wards are some no name security group and they come into the zone and tell Duty and Freedom, the two biggest and most powerful factions, to kick rocks and they listen? it worked?? absolute BS.
The dnipro is the beat assault rifle in stalker 2, can be upgraded to shoot 7.62 instead of 545 for more damage and if fully upgraded will not lose any accuracy when upgrading the caliber
Hey Drewski, I need to thank you for introducing me to this franchise. I started watching your old Gamma/Anomaly videos just because I like your content, but I actually fell in love with the concept of these games as well. Decided to buy Stalker 2 yesterday and I've not felt so immersed in a game since RDR2. I've been watching lore videos and reading the wiki pages. What an awesome game!
finally! i was checking your channel and home page every day waiting for another video on stalker 2 also the CEO already said the A-Life spawn distance was turned way down because A-Life causes huge performance losses so while they try to get the game in a better state they will work on A-Life as well
Imagine this with up to 4 player CoOp. Even the old stalker games have mods that allow you to team up. New stalker hopefully will add this feature down the line. (and yes, i know the devs said they won't but if mods show it's possible and literally do the work for them - they won't turn down an option to make more money by making the game more marketable)
Modders can only change config files and do light retextures iirc. Devs need to release actual dev tools in order for this to happen. Coop is viable from what I can tell, at least more viable than anomaly multiplayer
GSC has already said numerous times that STALKER 2 will never be getting a Co-op mode because that's not how they want the players to play the game. They designed it to be a solo experience that adds more tension and fear for the individual by being alone.
@@TheStacato Seems more like an excuse they made at the time. Explain to me why they'd turn down more sales? (nobody's immersion is getting worse, since coop is optional)
We gotta stop calling it A-Life... its a slap in the face to everyone that knows what its supposed to do, and there is no WAY theyre gonna add in anything close to whats expected anytime soon, we got lied too because they needed money.
They literally said its not working as intended and files related to A-life are located in the gamefiles so they ain't lying give it time its not gonna be a fast fix
As someone too broke to upgrade my PC to run this game or even purchase the game, I want to thank you for this content. High-quality non-spoiler gameplay with your commentary is very much appreciated. Please make more of these videos ❤
Glad you've been enjoying the game, Drewski. I tried playing at release and couldn't get it to run smoothly on my 2060S/i596k, as well as mouse sensitivity being locked to high. Thank you for the videos
im super super glad youre uploading vids on this game, its gonna be a long long time until i can play it myself unless it either gets put on playstation or i come into a large sum of money by some stroke of luck
the start of that ad for delta force made me think drewski recorded outside because of the awesome visuals and now i want a full stalker video that has been recorded outside or with lots of open windows for the fullest immersion xD
Its so nice being able to see this game actually look get and have some long form stalker to watch. My 1080 is screaming for release when i play but its so worth it
14:45 Oh man, I always enjoyed watching your walkthroughs and really surprised when you brought up this thought that had been haunting me for years. I can't even believe that someone finally thinks the same way as me. Glad you brought this to light, maybe the devs will finally understand this, since your words definitely have some weight for them. I mixed different languages in old Stalker like 4 or 5 years ago, just downloaded different voiceovers, French for scientists, German for mercenaries, Russian for soldiers, English for freedom, Ukranian for Monolith, Surjhik for bandits and replaced the necessary files for different factions and yes, it worked as expected. In Stalker 2, this could look nice with an approximate balance like this - Ukrainian for 2/4 NPCs, Russian and Belarusian for 1/3 and 1/3 for all other foreigners. This idea with different languages for different factions and random characters seems so natural and obvious that it is unclear how they did not do it with the support of Microsoft. It is clear that it costs money, but could cost just same monye insted of paying for a full-fledged separate English voiceover for the entire game by hiring only one or two actors from different countries here and there, who would speak with an accent where necessary, to implement such a crazy potential for immersion and realism, as was the case with Naishuller, who voiced the character in English. Perhaps fans from different countries in the future will be able to use AI to generate voice acting, join forces in this work and the world will see a practically ideal Stalker, the way it could have been if not for many restrictions on development. I think the PDA could serve as a translator, and interactive glasses like those called Google AR could display subtitles, so you wouldn't have the feeling of something artificial from the subtitles on the screen. And they could also fog up if someone added a mod like in Anomaly and Fallout, which adds an interactive HUD for gas masks, with the sound of breathing, steam and drops on the glass, dirt and glare, like it was 14 years ago in the game Metro. Isn't it strange that for 5 years of advertising the project and demonstrating various arts, you always saw a person in a gas mask, but in the game you don't feel that you are wearing a gas mask, no breathing, no changing capsules, no display of damage to cracked glass, absolutely nothing. Anyway, thanks for the demo, I myself will definitely not try to play this for the next 3 years, until at least something is fixed and modders do everything else, as usual, and the necessary hardware does not cost as much as an apartment in the outback of my country.
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I'm your biggest fan. Stalker videos are my favorite.
was just craving for some drewski stalker content...
Its not open to mobile until 2025 :(
yeah, except the CNPP itself. cant be having that.
@OperatorDrewski i thought you were gonna give us a link or a list to the mods your using for stalker 2
I speak for everyone when I say:
Please keep doing "walking around the zone, surviving, and talking" videos
wish I could play...this game runs terribly unless you have a NASA computer, and it doesn't even run that smoothly on the Xbox Series X either...too low of a framerate
Runs fine on my series s. The frames obviously aren’t the best but I haven’t ran into any other problems, can’t wait till the release this on PS5.
@@No-rl9wn I can't imagine how that could be true, because the X is objectively better than the S in terms of processing power and image quality. I'm guessing your idea of playable is different to mine..like...for me, a stable 60 FPS is REQUIRED, and there needs to be good responsiveness. But, I'm pretty sure the Xbox version is only running at something like 45 FPS and sometimes dips to 30 FPS... I'd be tolerant if it was a stable 45 FPS, but it's not and it makes the controls feel floaty like there's input lag. It's just not fun at that point, moving your character feels like walking through syrup
@@ChristoffRevan I have a 5+ year old GTX 3070 Laptop GPU and whatever Intel i7 came standard back then, and I get steady 70-90 FPS in the open
@@ChristoffRevan I think the biggest performance killer is not enough VRAM. I have an RX6700XT with 12gigs and it runs not great not terrible on medium. Though big hubs kill my frames because of CPU limitations I guess.
So uh, fun fact about the bus stops at around the 18 minute mark, each bus stop DOES have a unique painting on it. Between 1960s and 1980s bus stops all across Ukraine by art school students. The ones in Stalker 2 are replicas of the ones in the Pripyat/chernobyl area.
Can confirm. I was in Ukraine this summer, and those bus stops are still there.
Impressive
That's awesome, i didn't know that
@@Hitithardify how'd you get in? I assume you flew to Poland or something and took a train?
@@FlunkedPunk Yes. Flew to Krakow, Poland and then took a Flixbus to Lviv. From there, I travelled across Ukraine by train. Used the local buses in the cities from time to time, and some of the stops look like what you see in the game.
The "Sorry, pooch." is from the MW19 campaign when you shoot the dog as Gaz while moving up to the main house when raiding The Wolf's home compound.
Nice
W
I was gonna say MW19 as a joke because I thought it was from COD 4, but naw u right. lol
COD 4 has that “Pooch doesn’t look to friendly”
Came here to say that. Sadly, the better line was "Dogs? I hate dogs." - prompting the epic reply...
@@Andrew_PriceOHHHH I KNOW THAT ONE, it's one of the campaign mission on CoD MW3 i believe...
Drew did NOT need to hit those notes so well singing Hallelujah. Bravo Drew. Brah. Vo.
You sir are a fish
I read that in his voice
"Arthur Arthur I have a plan"
But does he like fish sticks?
It’s a toy boat!
@@NecramoniumVideo No, frozen steaks
57:22 if you jump off at this part it plays the bird screech from Assassins Creed! Such a amazing Easter Egg!
i was wondering if that's what that was, haha
What idiot would ever jump off?
@@iamperplexed4695 You'll survive the fall
@@iamperplexed4695Everyone that isn't boring
@ it’s literally an Easter egg search it up…
Drewski musing while wandering the wasteland is peak youtube.
Im sorry but this game is far from ready watching fps drop , water reflection super buggy everything is glitchy shouldn’t have released
YES I KNOW ABOUT war once they get liberated by the rus then maybe they might release a good game
32:42 “yeah your drunk but you can sprint all the way home”
You know weird tasting water has that effect in real life too 😂
You're *
Who's gonna carry the boats?
Thank you Drewski!!! I've watched all your Stalker videos and am so glad you're already putting out high quality Stalker 2 videos! PLEASE KEEP THEM COMING!!!!!!
Singing hallelujah while the dogs are yelping from getting shot sent me
Wasn't expecting him to have such a good singing voice lmao
Love that when that was happening can't stop giggling, but unexpected with the great singing!
- dead guys PDA at 1:02:00 said he had “three buddies who were assholes”
Close PDA … three bandits attack ya
Put two and two together
Put three and three together.
Put the correct timestamp next before getting cocky lmao
Unfortunately 3 bandits are always attacking you.
@ was distracted by your mother giving me the sloppy
Mmmm nah,he is Duty and in the previous games they hated bandits so i dont think its scripted,just the 3 bandits that spawn near u like always. If he were from Freedom maybe i would buy it cuz they made deals before but being Duty i dont think so
@10:40 You can "hide" from mutants in glass anomalies- they are smart enough to know it hurts. (at least worked on a chimera)
Works as cover in a gunfight too
Dogs boars and snorks kill themselves in them trying to get to you
*NPC’s fighting off a horde of wild dogs*
Drewski: Anyway, here’s Hallelujah. 🎸
16:13 (for reference). The Polyglot V mod for Cyberpunk, where characters talked with their native languages and V would respond in the same language for a few characters was immersive as hell for me.
This is my first stalker game and I see why people are such fans of this series. Bugs aside the atmosphere and world design is phenomenal, the attention to small details in animations is awesome and the tension building is well done too. My favourite game rn by far
Welcome to the zone stalker
GOTY to me
Could have been way better if it had the games original features, that they lied about claiming it would have on launch. The game isn’t at its best right now.
Give it 2-5 months and it’ll have everything working and every feature they promised, then it’ll be the true experience.
Yeah probably won't get my GOTY vote, but i'm gladly gonna give them the labor of love award in the future, the game has it's issues which become a lot more apparent at the mid point of the story but denying they haven't given it their all is just arrogant, when the game works the quality surpasses any bethesda,ubisoft,etc open world assembly line slop by miles.
@gazzy9136 That is exactly what I'm doing. I wait a year to play most games, give the developers time to fix the game and make it what they intended it to be, not what the suits forced them to push out early.
out of state: what a burger
texan: waterburger
ayup
homie your non-planned out videos are my favorite because they feel more genuine
It's like every Fallout 4 creator who starts out their video saying, "Today I'm going to do (insert task/quest/plan objective here) and then (insert plan 2 objective here)" When everyone knows that that will not happen, because Fallout.. it just gets tiresome listening to the blathering and we the viewers feel like 'why are you wasting our time talking about things that you're not going to do?' This freeform approach keeps you interested and watching to see what's going happen because it's like Fallout but less predictable.
"Yeah you're drunk but you can sprint all the way home" Yeah.. been there..
ive seen a few play throughs of stalker 2 from other content creators, and something about drewski's playthrough draws me in. other people is fine, but to me, drewski brings something above and beyond to make it more interesting and fun to watch.
58:00 Can't Help Falling in love
I was humming the cords he was playing and my brain had the song but i couldnt place the title. right as i said those lyrics i read your comment haha.
14:38 I think this is the first game I've seen that actually properly simulates the fingering when playing a guitar. I cannot understate how much I love that.
The fingering? What in the world do you do with guitars?
@@jonnywilson9117 They do say a guitar is like a woman.
@@jonnywilson9117 Grow up.
Cyberpunk had some accurate guitar playing but it was limited to a few songs
26:43 Okey but can we just talk about how this man can actually sing quite nice, i was so taken of guard when i heard it whilst playing the vid in the background
Thought it was a cover of someone so he didn't get copyright. But it was HIS voice 😅. The lad can sing
Yeah, Drewski can pull off a good sing.. Pestily,, not so much. I generally cringe when Pestily starts singing because it's either poor singing or some lame pop tune.
i like the fire tornado.
Pee into it, i dare you.
@OperatorDrewski I thought pissing into the wind wasn't a good idea, drewski
@@OperatorDrewskiThrow your wife in it! 😂
@@OperatorDrewski20 rubel and I'd do it
@@OperatorDrewskiYou should visit the other one ;))
Man imma be real, all I need right now is more S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 gameplay. I know you don't want to flood your channel with one single game but it is much appreciated. I've been addicted to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe for years and feel very compelled to start my own channel playing tactical shooters. Got a lot of financial burdens threatening my home right now but your videos are a break from my struggles. Thank you so much Drewski
With how broken the game is there isn’t much more he can do lmao
@theInfiniteEgg-z8i Well sure there is, the game itself is massive. I know there are fundamental issues with core gameplay features being broken or missing right now, namely the A-Life system but like he shows in the video there are mods that are helping patch these issues until an official update drops, mods of which he has already installed. But let’s be honest there’s still so much more of the game to see, and it’s not just the game itself that I’m interested in, it’s the charm of Drewski walking around and completing missions while talking with us and surviving the zone. And Drewski gets into many hairy situations and I enjoy watching how he gets out of them. Idk, personal preference but all I wanted to say is that these videos are helping me during a particularly hard time in my life.
@@theInfiniteEgg-z8i With how broken the game is? You're talking as if this is BF 2042 at launch and a year later. From what I've seen, this game doesn't seem to be too bad. For what ever reason, some people have a huge number of bugs and crashes, but others don't seem to have any major problems at all and their gameplay has been smooth. I'd happily watch a multi-part playthrough oi this. Especially since Drewski can actually play games. He's a gamer. Watching someone that's good as games, imo, is far more entertaining . He could still do that if he wanted to. The bugs don't seem to be game breaking.
Good luck man. It sucks when problems and life worries get in the way and make it difficult to explore our passions.
@@jonnywilson9117 That's cause you started playing games 5 years ago and have no clue what is missing from this game.
So far we're on 3 patches.
A lot of bugs fixed. + some performance optimization.
*Next is A-Life (and more optimization)*
In fact, according to devs, most of the reason for the A-life being turned down to 150m radius
is especially due to lack of optimization of all the NPC logic.
In the next month or two they should have it fixed hopefully! :)
"In fact, according to devs, most of the reason for the A-life being turned down to 150m radius" This sentence doesn't make sense. A-life can't function on 150m radious. It needs to affect all locations otherwise it's just spawner, not a-life.
@@shtein4476 I might not have explained it the best (English isn't my first language)
What they said was the NPCs get spawned by A-Life, the A-Life code and everything is in the game - but NPC logic out of 150m radius is disabled.
To you it would seem like it's not present, but it is. *If it was "just a spawner", they'd have to write A-Life code from scratch - which would take years, not months*
As soon as optimization is done, all they have to do is turn it on - not make A-Life from scratch (big difference in time)
@@foxtrotunit1269yes, modders have confirmed it is in the game contrary to what people have been claiming, it is simply disabled in what it can do due to numerous conflicts and bugs. Also the fact that allowing it to work in a proper radius destroys the already suspect CPU optimisation.
Remember this has to work on consoles that are equipped with the equivalent of a Ryzen 3700X and around 13gb of shared video/system memory.
I suspect this is the actual reason A-life is turned right down at the moment, and eventually we may end up with two different versions as I can't see them getting an extremely complex system like this working on a present gen console. 🤔
@@foxtrotunit1269 My worry is that the code isn't in the game, and they just pushed the game out due to lack of money. I hope it is in there, and it will just take some months of patching, but it has gotten difficult to trust devs.
The game released full price 1.0, the idea that they didn't add in a MASSIVE game feature because it would cause instability is a fucking joke... but hey GOTY contender for sure.
you singing "Hallelulja" in that dogpit of a Fight braught me to tears. Thank you
Its small, but I loved the little atmospheric interludes you put in of just scenery and environment, it was a rly nice way of breaking up the scenes/encounters
The atmosphere is unmatched. The way you've put these pauses with nature made me feel, as if I was enjoying a moment of silence while camping or fishing.
Thanks, Drewski. I feel like my time well spent.
Im glad this video included even MORE sitting by the fire playing the guitar. This time with *EVEN MORE* dog attacks.
This was was so nice to watch! No constant screen shaking makes the experience as a viewer so much more immersive.
For me Stalker 2 saved 2024 for sure, it's amazing!
I agree it’s actually exciting
It's got problems, but also a ton of potential. Both with updates from GSC and all sorts of cool mods down the line.
@@JF-vz1jui haven’t been this hooked and pleased with a game in YEARS. like every game of course it’ll have bugs and issues. especially for them ie the 2014 invasion/ current war. saw a smooth brain from the cesspool of reddit complaining about the game saying its garbage. but the same chronic complainers that is 98% of the virgin gamer community that bombard devs to hurry up and give us the game, when they do to please their supporters then it’s they suck. that’s why rockstar completely ignores all of them because they know how spoiled they are and how little their input matters pre release ( and honestly life itself but mainly for game) and are perfecting their product before they give it to the world. People just need to be appreciate and give people that are creating and spending their time at a job to give the world a potential masterpiece. not please the 35 year old brian’s who haven’t left their parents house and have yet to kiss a woman. those dudes will be hard on reddit but be terrified to ask for extra bbq at mcdonald’s
Dude I’m so stoked. Once the devs fix A-life 2 and the game gets grok’d it’s literally the game we’ve all been dreaming about for a decade.
@@UnknownEffectVidsWell said and well roasted. Next time I'll grill some meat I'll invite you. You are the expert.
Drewski I don't know how you can't understand or see how many people love all your videoes to do with stalker, please post more!!!
Apart from a couple glitches and some other bugs Ive been having a blast, it feels good coming back to the zone once again. It feels like the perfect blend between og stalker and modern mechanics/mods. Absolute 8/10 for me
Whats are your specs
So I must be having a skill issue cause I can never find the weird water (the glowing lights anomaly) and unless I missed a quick little hot fix ITS STILL BUGGED AS SHIT other than that little tiny pet peeve (cause I would love to be a grubby little loot goblin with 140 carry weight) the game is magnificent
@@Bsolazy are you looking for it at night cause that’s the only time it will spawn I think.
@@Bsolazy It took me a bit and Ive heard about the bugs, but from the little hill overlooking the lights I kinda walked straight and went a bit to the right then dropped from a little mound and it was right there, I don’t know if it changes for others but it took me like 3 minutes to find it
"Zone, why are you giving me your heaviest rifles?" - "You are my strongest Stalker"
Hey Drewski, that anomaly that you ran into at 0:40 is a stasis anomaly. I don't recall it being in the other Stalker games aside from Stalcraft X but it behaves as you'd expect. They're super hard to see most of the times but it does look cool when you shoot into them because it'll actually slow down the bullets so you can see them.
Idk why are you surprised, Drewski + some kind of STALKER gameplay is just a must watch vid.
02:00 my father worked on exactly the same bulldozer and took me for a ride in it. Greetings from a Ukrainian viewer :)
Slava Ukraini!
Героям слава!
I think the main thing that keeps me so interested in your stalker (and a lot of other games) videos is the fact that you do your best to keep yourself immersed and enjoy the game world. Its something ive grown very accustomed to myself these days and its always nice feeling the same sort of passion through videos like these
Dude, keep the stalker coming. Absolutely my favorite thing to watch you play. Wouldn't even mind if u played a little gamma while there working on fixing a-life
This is my first Stalker game. I must say the mod support and help from the great community has taken a great game and made it even better. Im about 80 hrs in and im not stopping anytime soon.
12:50 soap one of the modern warfare call of duty games and 57:47 GREAT rings of fire.
Lovin the stalker content, I’ve never played any of the stalker series but watching your videos on it is making me want to buy it. Keep up the great work brotha
58:21 Its a assassins creed Easter egg, leap of faith
Stalker 2 with a GAMMA level mod pack would be pure crack.
I can’t wait for Stalker 2 Call of Chernobyl/Anomaly type stuff to release, that’ll be absolute fire (fck GAMMA, respectfully)
Nah
incoming swarm of "erhmm, gamma bad"
@@zer0synd1cate GAMMA is awesome, I just can’t take the amount of pegging this modpack puts me through. Skill issue on my part lol
I don't hate GAMMA, but I prefer the more grounded aesthetics of custom modded Anomaly or the Vanilla games instead the tacticoolness of GAMMA, in my opinion super duper kitted out weapons / gear, and Stalker does not match at all.
Man, your videos are just a piece of art. Recently finished story in Stalker 2 and just enjoying your chill videos, keep going!)
58:40 very disappointed you didn't say "aim for the bushes" before jumping off.
Great video though, love it
I love this format of video, man. Seems like a traveler's documentary. The cut shots or transition scenes or whatever you want to call them are great. Keep it up!
Cant believe this is the newest S.T.A.L.K.E.R Game since like 2009, time flies.
“Please be old enough those of you watching this” has never felt more relatable 😂
I havent encountered that fire tornado yet, that thing looks fucking wild
thats up near pripyat
@@BearanormalPodcast ok cool good to know, thanks for the info 🤘🏻
It’s in the cooling towers region. You can see it on the map as a fiery swirl in one of the towers.
@@ashe1.070well I know where I'm going when I get off work lol, thank you 🤘🏻
@@SlamdalfTheGrey 👍
The song at 57:50 - 58:00 is "Can't help falling in love" by Elvis Presley. Twenty One Pilots does an amazing cover in my opinion.
33:40 The message will tell you not enough money before the technician cant upgrade the item so its possible they also couldn't as well.
certain items can only be upgraded by certain technicians, armor is one of those. I think the technician on wild island can upgrade armor (at least thats where I think that I upgraded my seva suit)
Thanks for your content. I recently discovered you and the way you commentate and play the games takes me back. Please try to make more episodes like this. I really don't care how long it is. Thank you.
The edits are on point, appreciated it!
Drewski's descent into madness the longer the video goes on is great. He starts off like "k guys this'll be cool" to "you oo oo i wanna wear your skin"
30:00 i think those anomalies are how you find the weird water artifact
Edit- he found it a minute later lol
Anyway they really did Duty and freedom dirty, Wards are some no name security group and they come into the zone and tell Duty and Freedom, the two biggest and most powerful factions, to kick rocks and they listen? it worked?? absolute BS.
This is correct had to look it up
I guess they skilled a lot into charisma
I really love your way of editing that videos ^^ !
the calm moment, just watching the zone between action and fight.
The dnipro is the beat assault rifle in stalker 2, can be upgraded to shoot 7.62 instead of 545 for more damage and if fully upgraded will not lose any accuracy when upgrading the caliber
Is it the 7.62 the SVD uses, or the 7.62 the RPM uses? The game doesn’t specify which.
@andrewgallagher7690 762.39 the ammo the rpm uses
@@andrewgallagher7690 the game does specify which. if you hover over the ammo box itll highlight what guns it goes to.
@ yeah but you have to get the upgrade first to be able to see what ammo it uses. Is it the 7.62x39 or the 7.62x56?
@ got it, thanks!
I just love your random rambling about the game and whatnot, keep it up please.
Love you, drewski! ❤
57:42 Can‘t help falling in love with you
1:02:48 jungle book :D
And I love that you reference my all time favourite Anime, Cowboy Bebop.
Hey Drewski, I need to thank you for introducing me to this franchise. I started watching your old Gamma/Anomaly videos just because I like your content, but I actually fell in love with the concept of these games as well. Decided to buy Stalker 2 yesterday and I've not felt so immersed in a game since RDR2. I've been watching lore videos and reading the wiki pages. What an awesome game!
FYI, for what ever reason, killing zombies sometimes spawns their weapon into your weapon slots
finally! i was checking your channel and home page every day waiting for another video on stalker 2 also the CEO already said the A-Life spawn distance was turned way down because A-Life causes huge performance losses so while they try to get the game in a better state they will work on A-Life as well
My favorite part was when skif said "cheeky breeky" then stalked all over the place
everyone first till they refresh
You have a unique view on things, i like it
Word
I love how you went all Jeff Buckley with the guitar when Loners fought the dogs. Brought a tear to my eye. Nice voice, too.
Imagine this with up to 4 player CoOp.
Even the old stalker games have mods that allow you to team up.
New stalker hopefully will add this feature down the line.
(and yes, i know the devs said they won't but if mods show it's possible and literally do the work for them - they won't turn down an option to make more money
by making the game more marketable)
Modders can only change config files and do light retextures iirc.
Devs need to release actual dev tools in order for this to happen.
Coop is viable from what I can tell, at least more viable than anomaly multiplayer
GSC has already said numerous times that STALKER 2 will never be getting a Co-op mode because that's not how they want the players to play the game. They designed it to be a solo experience that adds more tension and fear for the individual by being alone.
@@TheStacato Seems more like an excuse they made at the time.
Explain to me why they'd turn down more sales? (nobody's immersion is getting worse, since coop is optional)
@foxtrotunit1269 I actually agree with GSC and wouldn't want to play this game franchise in co-op mode.
There is a coop mod for stalker shadow of chernobyl so why not stalker 2
46:25 Fun fact for those who don't know: Apparently the guns spawning in your inventory is from the game glitching while spawning enemies!
We gotta stop calling it A-Life... its a slap in the face to everyone that knows what its supposed to do, and there is no WAY theyre gonna add in anything close to whats expected anytime soon, we got lied too because they needed money.
They literally said its not working as intended and files related to A-life are located in the gamefiles so they ain't lying give it time its not gonna be a fast fix
Stalker content from Drewski is peak Drewski. Super chill and enjoyable, love it.
I love your stalker videos! Please keep em coming. It takes me some time to finish you video but I love that youtube remembers where I left off.
Really liked the transition with the ingame scenarios, love these types of videos, fr
Thanks for the content!
Dudes just casually singing Hallelujah while shits going down. Love this man's randomness, so entertaining to watch...
19M minutes. Well done Drew, your commentary is always enjoyable. I'll be ready for the next video.
Nightvision 2nd gen in S.T.A.L.K.E.R Call of Pripyat works well.
These vids are such a good vibe! Well made, fun, informative, cinematic. Keep up the great work!
Keep putting these out my man! Wanna see your reaction to the rest of the main story and your gameplay with that beast pc is very pretty.
Love the Exclusion Zone Tourist Guide!
ok I didn't expect the singing or for your voice to be that amazing???
always love seeing stalker content here, always come running to your uploads
As someone too broke to upgrade my PC to run this game or even purchase the game, I want to thank you for this content. High-quality non-spoiler gameplay with your commentary is very much appreciated. Please make more of these videos ❤
Glad you've been enjoying the game, Drewski. I tried playing at release and couldn't get it to run smoothly on my 2060S/i596k, as well as mouse sensitivity being locked to high. Thank you for the videos
I love how you became a bard there for a while, playing an inspiring song while your buddies were in combat. :P
I think the Elvis song you were playing is Always on my mind. Great Video as always cheers Drewski.
WE LIKE THE VIDEOS BECAUSE EVERYONE PLAYS THROUGH THE SAME 4 hours of content and your on of the only entertaining players
41:52 you really let your intrusive thoughts win huh🤣🤣🤣
28:26 animation of the scanner being used to push down trees is sick
I'm really enjoying your videos! Thanks for the great content and the wonderful time!
im super super glad youre uploading vids on this game, its gonna be a long long time until i can play it myself unless it either gets put on playstation or i come into a large sum of money by some stroke of luck
Your channel allowed me to discover STALKER as a series.
Thank you so much.
58:00 You got me singing the first starting part of the lyrics " Wise men says.." 😅
the start of that ad for delta force made me think drewski recorded outside because of the awesome visuals and now i want a full stalker video that has been recorded outside or with lots of open windows for the fullest immersion xD
It’s actually so cool to see you trying to say Skodovsk the right way when I am from Poland and it’s just common
Its so nice being able to see this game actually look get and have some long form stalker to watch. My 1080 is screaming for release when i play but its so worth it
14:45 Oh man, I always enjoyed watching your walkthroughs and really surprised when you brought up this thought that had been haunting me for years. I can't even believe that someone finally thinks the same way as me. Glad you brought this to light, maybe the devs will finally understand this, since your words definitely have some weight for them. I mixed different languages in old Stalker like 4 or 5 years ago, just downloaded different voiceovers, French for scientists, German for mercenaries, Russian for soldiers, English for freedom, Ukranian for Monolith, Surjhik for bandits and replaced the necessary files for different factions and yes, it worked as expected. In Stalker 2, this could look nice with an approximate balance like this - Ukrainian for 2/4 NPCs, Russian and Belarusian for 1/3 and 1/3 for all other foreigners. This idea with different languages for different factions and random characters seems so natural and obvious that it is unclear how they did not do it with the support of Microsoft. It is clear that it costs money, but could cost just same monye insted of paying for a full-fledged separate English voiceover for the entire game by hiring only one or two actors from different countries here and there, who would speak with an accent where necessary, to implement such a crazy potential for immersion and realism, as was the case with Naishuller, who voiced the character in English. Perhaps fans from different countries in the future will be able to use AI to generate voice acting, join forces in this work and the world will see a practically ideal Stalker, the way it could have been if not for many restrictions on development. I think the PDA could serve as a translator, and interactive glasses like those called Google AR could display subtitles, so you wouldn't have the feeling of something artificial from the subtitles on the screen. And they could also fog up if someone added a mod like in Anomaly and Fallout, which adds an interactive HUD for gas masks, with the sound of breathing, steam and drops on the glass, dirt and glare, like it was 14 years ago in the game Metro. Isn't it strange that for 5 years of advertising the project and demonstrating various arts, you always saw a person in a gas mask, but in the game you don't feel that you are wearing a gas mask, no breathing, no changing capsules, no display of damage to cracked glass, absolutely nothing. Anyway, thanks for the demo, I myself will definitely not try to play this for the next 3 years, until at least something is fixed and modders do everything else, as usual, and the necessary hardware does not cost as much as an apartment in the outback of my country.
I keep waiting for you to upload these stalker videos, because my old PC cannot run this game. But it's so much fun watching you play this and Gamma.
When you said "they wanna be like you" at 1:02:30, I started whistling jungle book lol
Sick video... dude the lighting and reflection in this game is insane
I enjoy these type of videos. It feels like we are exploring the wasteland together, it's just a vibe.
Right at the end I noticed- There are actual gosh darn raindrops hitting the gun. Like wow, the DETAIL.