I'll definitely Improve on video render settings I finally figured out better render settings for 1440p lol. Either or way enjoy! Also I'm just a random dude talking about Stalker 2. Happy holidays and New Years!
Despite all the problems, as a fan of Stalker franchise Stalker 2 for gives me a lot of emotions, both positive and negative. It's much better than if there was emptiness from some AAAA game from Ubisoft...
The game is everything I ever wanted other than the lack off implemented Alife, that one key feature is the single most important thing for the soul of stalker, without it it feels more like fallout or farcry at times. I find it kinda crazy they haven't had it sorted from day one, and the fact they haven't done so from the start worries me. I know modders will fix it eventually but that's not the point. Regardless I've still put over 100 hours into it and am having a blast, would just be a waaaaay better experience with Alife.
Yeah me too man, but not on stalker 2 (yet) but on stalker gamma. Stalker gamma is the answer of my dream game since fallout 3 and metro 2033. Every time i played fallout, there's always "what if" moment in my head. What if it uses real weapons ? What if it applies better survival aspect ? (Hunger, sleep etc). Better punishment if you die like dark souls game. Etc. I hope stalker 2 keep improving.
A lot of A-life modders have already put in there descriptions that they can’t do more with spawn functionalities & there mods sometimes breaking to were 20-30 enemies spawn in one tight circle butt fucking one another, which can actually be really funny at times if there all not stuck 😂 but yea they need gsc to either give them more tools or wait to gsc fully implements A-life 2.0 sadly.
@@inuyakii7759 Dunno how true the CPU issues are but personally i'm starting to think the reason we don't have a-life is because consoles, my i5-12600k can handle the game easy, even with the "a-life" mods installed that according to others should destroy it or cause my pc to levitate but nah, never even got close to 100% usage.
@ yeah that definitely could very well be the case. I have the max settings a-life mod on a ryzen 5 3600 & as long as my texture quality is set to medium while everything is is on high with FG, i never run into any issues. cpu temp does get up there for me but that’s on me for sticking with a stock amd fan.
I just want a lively zone again, booted up anomaly and i hear gunshots and firefights going on in the distance constantly which you can actually go explore and join the firefights. Made me realize the stark contrast with Stalker 2 where you only find spawned enemies near points of interest and some areas/quests play fake distant and looping shooting sounds to build tension. At some point in stalker 2 i stopped paying much attention when running between point of interest because nothing ever happens between them (except for a bloodsucker maybe). Really hoping they get A-Life implemented soon.
Stalker 2 isn't meant to be GAMMA 2.0 though, it's a Stalker game. That said i agree that the A-life needs fixing but the game has a rock solid foundation to build upon.
@Riddle99-v7q doesnt have to be gamma 2, modders will take care of that for the people interested. I agree the world is great and sets a great foundation, but the A-life system is just completely absent and cannot be modded in with the tools available now
Anomaly with wind sound and color distortion is time warping anomaly. Items, bullets, player move slowly throug it. Also healing and other stuff takes more time in them.
Its engaging and immersive. And then it breaks. I am currently locked in a never ending non lethal emission. Can't sleep. I am really wondering how much more time I will invest at this point.
Happy to see ya pump out these thoughts videos. I just finished my first ending and I immediately booted up a new save. Cant get enough of the Zone. Hopefully new updates fix most of the annoying bugs soon so we can all have a more epic adventure in the Zone.
If theres one thing i can say about the console patch is, ive finally seen a squad from Duty roaming around, then again ive only played 20ish hours since day 1
If they get proper A-life up and running for this game, then we're just a few mods away from something that I will happily let replace my evergreen installs of Gamma and Call of Pripyat. As a platform, Stalker 2 has a TON going for it. It would be perfect as an open sandbox. The gunplay has sold me so hard.
The AI in this game at its current state is soooo bad. Crazy to say, but I wish the AI in stalker 2 was as good as the AI in Breakpoint or wildlands. I notice the npcs are a lot smarter when it comes to taking cover and just overall awareness. They just stand there in this game and sometimes won’t even be looking in your direction
Man, don't listen to dorks who say you're shilling. You're talking about it from your own perspective. Keep doing that. The haters hate no matter what you do. They're sad, really.
I invested more than 30 hours into this game but I have decided to put it down for a while. The performance and bugs have just been getting worse and worse for me in my playthrough. I'm sorry that I had my first experience with it tainted by these issues because when it works, it's one of the best experiences I've had playing a game in years. But it so often doesn't work that it's not been worth continuing, at least for me. It's a diamond in the rough, but boy does it get rough. I honestly can't remember a single game running this badly for me in recent times and being this plagued with severe bugs. I hope to come back to it a few years from now and start it from scratch and to be pleasantly surprised by how far it's come. That's what I did with Cyberpunk, revisiting the game when Phantom Liberty came out was the best decision I could have made.
while there are a couple missing items, it is still Stalker. unlike so many modern games that insult player's intelligence. for those who just want instant gratification and hand holding, this is not a game for you, period. Stalker don't need to appeal to that sort of crowd.
And now imagine that you went to sleep on that bed and a bloodsucker killed you in your sleep) Anyone could have killed you, so purely if you judge by safety, then you can sleep and not die only in safe places, that's ok)
I have completely fallen in love with the game, but unfortunately I can no longer play it. If I load an older save game, it works for a while, but then the same problem occurs - crash while loading savegame and still no solution out there :(
Currently playing GAMMA at the moment, had to stop playing STALKER 2 for now until they solve the A-life or until the modders step-up to add QOL and other stuff like GAMMA/EFP have.
Don't be bothered by a specificaly bad comments about the game. Most of those comments are paid russian bot companies and you can actualy check it by taping on an account avatar and see the last three comments of this accoun. In most of the cases they specificaly spaming negative comments on stalker 2 videos. A saw at least a dosen of bots only on your videos so again don't be bothered, just play those games thay you enjou playing.
Play the game for yourself - if you ask 10 people what the definitive experience of STALKER is, you'll get 20 different answers. None of them are automatically right, but they aren't automatically wrong either, but they may not be the way you want to experience the world.
Reached 125 hour milestone on my game and only just started the final sequence of events in the story. Its a great game. Nothing more I can say. This game has faults but nowhere near what the clout chasers in most comments say about it.
Well, massive GAMMA fan here. Masssive performance issues. No A life, meaning no enemy to spot from afar, nor mutants to avoid, you know route planning ?!! Spongy mutants, crazy gun degradation (without the possibility to repair our own stuff), crazy repair costs. Cannot see in the dark : getting shot at without the possibility of returning fire. Cannot easily identify who is ennemy, friend. If you stop somewhere enemy begins to spawn... You cannot clear an area ! WTF ! Also the spawning right behind you is annoying. Guns are bad, Dnipro and Kharod looks like toys. There aren't enough good late game AK's, AR's etc... Guns pack no punch, Stalkers can endure way too much FMJ (yes I know ammo type and headshots) Etc... I uninstalled it right before going to pripyat because the Yaniv guide kept disappearing.
The game is far from perfect but even with all the bugs I'm having good time playing it. It's the best Stalker so far and if all the issues gets patched then it's gonna get better. The game is a better version of Stalker COP and I played that game for a lot of years and was gonna play it again but this game came out and now I can retire COP and play this instead. Anyone who is a stalker fan knows what he's getting into (bugs and all) and the appeal of the game is basically exploration and survival.
I believe that a lot of people have been spoiled with mods and they can't bring themselves to play a base game in the comment section. I still enjoy the game and I can play it before and after the updates release. I am going to feel the improvements as they come. People are going to complain no matter what. I bet once a life gets implemented or a new update comes out a whole new save game is going to have to be made. People will def bitch about that. If it's not perfect they will complain. We got people who play fortnite, league of legends and Paladins who are going to play this game and complain. Which I believe most of these people are. There is also the problem with Russians going into stalker videos to comment poorly about the game. Just enjoy the game. Report any bugs you find. The game devs give a fuck about your feedback.
It would be an insult to players to ask money for dlc after this release,only 2maybe 3 zones seemed fleshed out. I didnt pay money for an empty map to buy dlc for.
Ok tell me boys if you are veteran, what's changed in the game apart from the graphics upgrade? To be honest my 3080 can't handle it well.😅😅 Gameplaywise with mechanics and quest?
Granted its better, but this game is in a CP2077 situation. Its clearly missing alot of stuff in the game so your not getting the full experience. Thats the issue I have with the game.
I'll definitely Improve on video render settings I finally figured out better render settings for 1440p lol. Either or way enjoy! Also I'm just a random dude talking about Stalker 2. Happy holidays and New Years!
❤ the content
Are you using reshade? the colors looks so good
i guess better settings is AV1 codec and highest bitrate possible :D
The Patch 1.1 is here!
More than 1800 fixes and improvements, including the first iteration of A-Life fixes!
Happy holidays and New Years!
Despite all the problems, as a fan of Stalker franchise Stalker 2 for gives me a lot of emotions, both positive and negative. It's much better than if there was emptiness from some AAAA game from Ubisoft...
The ai life improvnent that dropped today are HUGE
It’s my GotY. Even with the problems, no other game delivers the atmosphere, the dread. With mods this might be a perfect game
huge patch dropped this morning, it should be sooo much better now
oh yeah sausage fetch quest is best game
The game is everything I ever wanted other than the lack off implemented Alife, that one key feature is the single most important thing for the soul of stalker, without it it feels more like fallout or farcry at times.
I find it kinda crazy they haven't had it sorted from day one, and the fact they haven't done so from the start worries me.
I know modders will fix it eventually but that's not the point.
Regardless I've still put over 100 hours into it and am having a blast, would just be a waaaaay better experience with Alife.
Yeah me too man, but not on stalker 2 (yet) but on stalker gamma.
Stalker gamma is the answer of my dream game since fallout 3 and metro 2033. Every time i played fallout, there's always "what if" moment in my head.
What if it uses real weapons ? What if it applies better survival aspect ? (Hunger, sleep etc). Better punishment if you die like dark souls game. Etc.
I hope stalker 2 keep improving.
A lot of A-life modders have already put in there descriptions that they can’t do more with spawn functionalities & there mods sometimes breaking to were 20-30 enemies spawn in one tight circle butt fucking one another, which can actually be really funny at times if there all not stuck 😂 but yea they need gsc to either give them more tools or wait to gsc fully implements A-life 2.0 sadly.
@@inuyakii7759 Dunno how true the CPU issues are but personally i'm starting to think the reason we don't have a-life is because consoles, my i5-12600k can handle the game easy, even with the "a-life" mods installed that according to others should destroy it or cause my pc to levitate but nah, never even got close to 100% usage.
Stalker is cool but after 2 zones the side quests seem to dry up, not sure if i did it wrong or they just focussed on main quest after the 2 zones.
@ yeah that definitely could very well be the case. I have the max settings a-life mod on a ryzen 5 3600 & as long as my texture quality is set to medium while everything is is on high with FG, i never run into any issues. cpu temp does get up there for me but that’s on me for sticking with a stock amd fan.
I just want a lively zone again, booted up anomaly and i hear gunshots and firefights going on in the distance constantly which you can actually go explore and join the firefights. Made me realize the stark contrast with Stalker 2 where you only find spawned enemies near points of interest and some areas/quests play fake distant and looping shooting sounds to build tension. At some point in stalker 2 i stopped paying much attention when running between point of interest because nothing ever happens between them (except for a bloodsucker maybe). Really hoping they get A-Life implemented soon.
Roadside Panic mod...
@@crazyforblues1967 its so different though
Today new patch released, fixes A-life a bit
Stalker 2 isn't meant to be GAMMA 2.0 though, it's a Stalker game. That said i agree that the A-life needs fixing but the game has a rock solid foundation to build upon.
@Riddle99-v7q doesnt have to be gamma 2, modders will take care of that for the people interested. I agree the world is great and sets a great foundation, but the A-life system is just completely absent and cannot be modded in with the tools available now
Anomaly with wind sound and color distortion is time warping anomaly. Items, bullets, player move slowly throug it. Also healing and other stuff takes more time in them.
Its engaging and immersive. And then it breaks. I am currently locked in a never ending non lethal emission. Can't sleep. I am really wondering how much more time I will invest at this point.
That headshot sound in the pitch black was satisfying😂😂
Happy to see ya pump out these thoughts videos. I just finished my first ending and I immediately booted up a new save. Cant get enough of the Zone. Hopefully new updates fix most of the annoying bugs soon so we can all have a more epic adventure in the Zone.
3:00 Did you know you can descend ladders faster using sprint button? Rarely see anyone doing it
If theres one thing i can say about the console patch is, ive finally seen a squad from Duty roaming around, then again ive only played 20ish hours since day 1
7:07 where do you get the PDA skin?
I’ll appreciate it when increased weapon FOV is in the game
If they get proper A-life up and running for this game, then we're just a few mods away from something that I will happily let replace my evergreen installs of Gamma and Call of Pripyat. As a platform, Stalker 2 has a TON going for it. It would be perfect as an open sandbox. The gunplay has sold me so hard.
New update with A-life improvments are in! Didnt test it yet, but it looks like there are alot of improvments !
The AI in this game at its current state is soooo bad. Crazy to say, but I wish the AI in stalker 2 was as good as the AI in Breakpoint or wildlands. I notice the npcs are a lot smarter when it comes to taking cover and just overall awareness. They just stand there in this game and sometimes won’t even be looking in your direction
Was the military base not duty? Or am I thinking of a save I had on anomaly?
Man, don't listen to dorks who say you're shilling. You're talking about it from your own perspective. Keep doing that. The haters hate no matter what you do. They're sad, really.
I invested more than 30 hours into this game but I have decided to put it down for a while. The performance and bugs have just been getting worse and worse for me in my playthrough. I'm sorry that I had my first experience with it tainted by these issues because when it works, it's one of the best experiences I've had playing a game in years. But it so often doesn't work that it's not been worth continuing, at least for me. It's a diamond in the rough, but boy does it get rough.
I honestly can't remember a single game running this badly for me in recent times and being this plagued with severe bugs. I hope to come back to it a few years from now and start it from scratch and to be pleasantly surprised by how far it's come. That's what I did with Cyberpunk, revisiting the game when Phantom Liberty came out was the best decision I could have made.
while there are a couple missing items, it is still Stalker.
unlike so many modern games that insult player's intelligence.
for those who just want instant gratification and hand holding, this is not a game for you, period. Stalker don't need to appeal to that sort of crowd.
is it some mode that make you able to run in exo?
And now imagine that you went to sleep on that bed and a bloodsucker killed you in your sleep) Anyone could have killed you, so purely if you judge by safety, then you can sleep and not die only in safe places, that's ok)
The bugs and enemy pop ins that are 12 feet away from you are very very annoying
Is there a mod to remove the headshot sound ?
Every zone feels exactly the same it's all a bit meh!
I have completely fallen in love with the game, but unfortunately I can no longer play it. If I load an older save game, it works for a while, but then the same problem occurs - crash while loading savegame and still no solution out there :(
Are you using any mods?
Great video, man!
I think it's better to wait for A life to get fixed, especially for someone who's new to the franchise. Even if you're not new to this series
There's no such thing as Alife in this game they just spawn at spawn points
they just released 1.1 patch with a fully wokring A-life
@@surenkarapetyan9937 nah
When is it on PS5?
new 110 gb patch came out today! They fixed some aspects to A Life, hopefully they didnt break the game some more tho lol
Currently playing GAMMA at the moment, had to stop playing STALKER 2 for now until they solve the A-life or until the modders step-up to add QOL and other stuff like GAMMA/EFP have.
They just did! Released a massive patch with A-life fully funtional at the CoP level and a promise to improve it even more
Don't be bothered by a specificaly bad comments about the game. Most of those comments are paid russian bot companies and you can actualy check it by taping on an account avatar and see the last three comments of this accoun. In most of the cases they specificaly spaming negative comments on stalker 2 videos. A saw at least a dosen of bots only on your videos so again don't be bothered, just play those games thay you enjou playing.
You’re right. And sadly they’re effective…
Slopper 2
Play the game for yourself - if you ask 10 people what the definitive experience of STALKER is, you'll get 20 different answers. None of them are automatically right, but they aren't automatically wrong either, but they may not be the way you want to experience the world.
what's up with your hud, it is missing background textures and looks like crap
deleted background from hud mod
Reached 125 hour milestone on my game and only just started the final sequence of events in the story.
Its a great game. Nothing more I can say.
This game has faults but nowhere near what the clout chasers in most comments say about it.
Better than fallout 4
game is fire
Well, massive GAMMA fan here.
Masssive performance issues.
No A life, meaning no enemy to spot from afar, nor mutants to avoid, you know route planning ?!!
Spongy mutants, crazy gun degradation (without the possibility to repair our own stuff), crazy repair costs.
Cannot see in the dark : getting shot at without the possibility of returning fire.
Cannot easily identify who is ennemy, friend.
If you stop somewhere enemy begins to spawn... You cannot clear an area ! WTF !
Also the spawning right behind you is annoying.
Guns are bad, Dnipro and Kharod looks like toys. There aren't enough good late game AK's, AR's etc...
Guns pack no punch, Stalkers can endure way too much FMJ (yes I know ammo type and headshots)
Etc...
I uninstalled it right before going to pripyat because the Yaniv guide kept disappearing.
Sounds like a blast, GAMMA that is...XD
The game is far from perfect but even with all the bugs I'm having good time playing it. It's the best Stalker so far and if all the issues gets patched then it's gonna get better. The game is a better version of Stalker COP and I played that game for a lot of years and was gonna play it again but this game came out and now I can retire COP and play this instead. Anyone who is a stalker fan knows what he's getting into (bugs and all) and the appeal of the game is basically exploration and survival.
I believe that a lot of people have been spoiled with mods and they can't bring themselves to play a base game in the comment section. I still enjoy the game and I can play it before and after the updates release. I am going to feel the improvements as they come.
People are going to complain no matter what. I bet once a life gets implemented or a new update comes out a whole new save game is going to have to be made. People will def bitch about that.
If it's not perfect they will complain. We got people who play fortnite, league of legends and Paladins who are going to play this game and complain. Which I believe most of these people are.
There is also the problem with Russians going into stalker videos to comment poorly about the game. Just enjoy the game. Report any bugs you find.
The game devs give a fuck about your feedback.
its a broken mess, you cant fix boring fetch quests which is the core gameplay loop only for bullshit loot
Come back in a year when it's got more fixes and possibly DLC, don't ruin your first time with this mediocre attempt at the zone as it is.
It would be an insult to players to ask money for dlc after this release,only 2maybe 3 zones seemed fleshed out. I didnt pay money for an empty map to buy dlc for.
Can do it again in 1y, with different fav weapons and different path through the zone
Ok tell me boys if you are veteran, what's changed in the game apart from the graphics upgrade?
To be honest my 3080 can't handle it well.😅😅
Gameplaywise with mechanics and quest?
I dunno what you’re talking about, yes it’s a mess but I’m having shit loads of fun with it
It's a GREAT game. You either "get it" or you don't.
Stalker 2 looks better, plays better. A life is overrated. I enjoy this more than any other stalker I've played, and I've played a lot
I can really appreciate the game especially with a new patch 1.1 ❤ !
Granted its better, but this game is in a CP2077 situation. Its clearly missing alot of stuff in the game so your not getting the full experience. Thats the issue I have with the game.
I'm enjoying most of it. I don't enjoy the performance though.
Game is a 9/10 best game to the year for me. Better then any fallout except maybe fallout 4