installing the game while watching the video! Do I like bugs? You can guess because I played and liked Fallout New Vegas on the PS3 when it was still available.
Almost 2 decades and STALKER is still STALKER. I can only be grateful for that, compared to all other franchises I used to love collapsing since my childhood.
As someone considering SoC a cult classic and one of the best games I've played, "It's still S.T.A.L.K.E.R." is the only thing I need to hear from trusted reviewers to buy the game... For good or bad.
Ive only played Anomaly, so I have a question for people who’ve played the other Stalker’s, does this game look watered down and less hardcore than the previous games? To me it looks more similar to metro and definitely less of a dark-realistic horror game, but maybe its just the UI and crosshair throwing me off. Looks amazing nonetheless Ill definitely be buying it
im BEYOND tired of hearing this, iv played all 3 of the old games and only had very minor bugs slightly annoying at the most but this is like if bethesda and obsidian teamed up to make the jankiest thing ever with a stupidly high system requirement because for some reason EVERYTHING has to be open world even if it makes 0 sense for the game and engine
@@imalittletoxicjustalittle>ive played all 3 games >complains about stalker 2 being open world, even though the previous games were open world Tourist.
@@DaveSmith-cp5kj essentially they tried but the engine was sooo unstable that one fix caused 10 more bugs and so on... that was the old engine used for the original trilogy. UE5 is more easier to fix, they had a day one fix patch with many to follow.
@Baskerville__ His own words? Lol did you not watch the video. He said when he got the build and started the review. The day 0 patch came out yesterday XD
@MrMysteriousDm I want to believe you, but so far nobody but you is saying that the Day 0 patch fixed a lot of the problems. The video review only mentions that there is such patch, not how much it fixed.
@HristoUzunov Lot of these videos have been pre recorded and the two guys that have been pretty vocal has said at least on Xbox it fixed a few key issues like npcs not being able to be interacted with in some quests and other things
These are reasons I dont really care about game launches anymore. Most games take a year after launch before they are ready to go. Cyberpunk being the prime example
Whats ur specs im on 3060 im scared to play as requirements r high been told to play on medium but idk will it still run fine? Still haven't bought it so on the fence about that. 😢😢@@itslife1399
@@itslife1399 yup some people got lucky. my buddy played through it at release and said he encountered not a single bug meanwhile i took over 200 screenshots of bugs and quit playing before jackie even died
Biggest problems I’m seeing are with the human enemies. They have no accuracy reduction when firing. The have Kris Kyle’s 21/20 vision so they always see you even in weather, darkness, or behind corners. Shooting through cover no matter the thickness, Takes an entire magazine from an AKM to the chest to drop one man. Spam grenades that are always thrown perfectly at you. Cover does nothing for you so long as even a pixel of you is out from behind cover you eat and entire squads combined automatic laser beam AKs Human enemies don’t wander or patrol they spawn in out of nowhere and often time after entering an area. Detection is too quick, making stealth non existent Controls (on controller and yes my controller it tuned) are loose and wonky. Like I’m drunk, that goes with movement and Aim. Things are overpriced, lack of ability to repair your own guns or maintain them. AND FOR THE LOVE IF GOD ALMIGHTY! STOP SAYING THIS ITEM IS WORTH 12,000 AND WHEN I GO TO SELL IT, ITS 3,000! AND WHEN I TRY TI BUY IT BACK ITS WORTH 16,000!
Modders about about to make this game even better. I can only imagine what were gonna see in the coming months. Got my preorder and game releases here in an hour or two. We about to make Putin say "nah son, yall can have it" lol
@@ZachAsaD so far the game will only be on pc and Xbox unsure about mods. And as for ps5 I think that release might come later but unsure if mods on that also, Sony has been pretty strict
Well on the bright side, we have a game that doesn't run completely perfect, but compared from the time Cyberpunk released, and almost no-one had access to frame-generation, DLSS, dynamic resolution scaling, and ray tracing.
What's the point of this sentence? That the graphics, dlss (crutch), and ray-tracing makes up for the shortcomings? Good graphics are only ever the cherry on top of a good game.
@@Kenny-yu6gcnowadays its the graphics that are used to sell and promote a game to the NPC's if u can make it look good in screenshots and little clips, the low vibration crowd is gonna be drooling all over it
I don't think you actually named the title of the book in the video, it's "Roadside Picnic" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. There's also a movie based on that book by Andrei Tarkovsky from 1979 called "Stalker". Also obligatory: the Metro series.
@zackdirusso3391 it will, but I've caveats. You need to use upscaling and frame gen. I'm on a 4090, Ryzen 9 7950x, 64GB RAM. I use dlss quality to 4K and frame gen, get a pretty consistent 120fps. I use a 65" LG C3. There's an oddness to the image when I pan and camera, a smearing almost, not sure how to describe it. It's not related to frame gen as I assumed, because when I turned it off and just used dlss it had the same. I play on controller too and it moves on it's own occasionally(it's not stick drift, I've an excellent controller and it can't be replicated in other games) All and all it's janky but I've enjoyed it so far none the less.
@@Hauerization It’s a lot more unforgiving. It’s like comparing Arma 2/3, EFT to call of duty. It really tests your limitations, your survival instinct, your perception of the world around you. You are tested on whether you're aware enough to make it to the end or not. I throughly enjoyed the first games, I put a good amount of hours in both the metro series and stalker. They both excel at what they represent. Both are post nuclear, but stalker is a world inside of an unpolluted world. It’s just in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Metro is world wide, But takes place in russia. It’s two similar, albeit different fictitious realities.
@@GameingForDumbiesKeep in mind that cpu is one of the top price to performance chips even still, I also have one and same but we are not the majority even if it’s on an older pc platform
It's one of those games where changing settings doesn't do anything. All low settings in the starting town with the traders has 30-35 fps at epic setting and low settings! Out in the open world it stabilizes but settlements are abhorrent
Just played through the introductory chapter, had no issues at all. ( installed about 2 hours ago, so 7 pm GMT and it seemed to have an update as part of install ). Inventory the same but more user friendly than original games, everyone speaking English is a strange choice, would of been nice to keep the accents, but there is the option to change language to Ukrainian with titles. Enemies seem a bit brutal there's an encounter where you can get stunlocked early doors, but prob on par with originals. Bottom line is it's more Stalker, but haven't been super wowed next gen as of yet, but the atmosphere is dripping everywhere and seems a great world to absorb and lose yourself in. So it does it's job well there.
11:19 The first two game doesn't even have a sleep mechanic only the third Call of Pripyat have one in Shadow of Chernobyl and Clear Sky you can only sleep with mods, I seriously started to doubt things...
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!
Watching the video while installing the game! Do I care for bugs? I've played and enjoyed Fallout New Vegas on PS3 while the game was still active so, you can take your guess.
@@RebelRouser91 doubt it, in the future maybe, but PiP requires double the amount of resources as the separate render has to be made for the zoomed version
STALKER for some reason was one of the only games that despite the bugs breaking certain sections. I still loved almost every moment of it. Hopefully Stalker 2 is good enough that the bugs dont ruin the fun
"Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word; That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me. And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them. (John 17:20-26) ''The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. (Romans 13:12)
My experience with STALKER has been limited to the first game's title screen. Got it years after release and it still had a 100% crash rate within seconds of starting. I have read _Roadside Picnic,_ though. Damn good. Thankfully books don't crash.
I had some of those issues on my pc but after I updated my drivers for my GPU and CPU they went away. Most people don't do their updates and blame most games that come out as buggy. Thank go that the only company that doesn't ever have bugs is Bethesda because they come out with "features" not "bugs" on all theirs games.
This game is one that is better to wait a month or 2 to buy or clean up your play list back log on gamepass. Amazing foundation, about 3-4 patches away from being at a level of stability to keep you consistently hooked into the level of immersion its aiming for. The sad thing is, if they wouldve waited until the new year, it would be a very strong GOTY candidate.
Easy to differentiate the people who HAVE played a STALKER game before and those that haven't, STALKER doesn't appeal to a super wide audience because it is very unforgiving and tends to be buggy. Think of it like a Bethesda RPG but with the difficulty cranked up by 500% from the hardest difficulty. Everything I have heard even in the negative reviews I have been watching makes it clear that this game is exactly what I was waiting for and I am sure that is the case for other long time fans as well.
11-ish hours in and Bloodsuckers are currently the bane of my existence. I hate them so much. They're everywhere, and there's thousands of the bastards.
Honestly, I’m just kind of aggravated that we have lean mechanics but not prone. The ai are really smart which is cool, but often times they can see me thru cover and find me anyway
After the prolouge i helped some dude out but my screen keeps getting locked on the house and everytime i look elsewhere it forces me back, i cant even progress past this point and its almost like my mouse just stops working in the house entirely, idk whats goin on man
I'm sure not getting to sleep enough to be able to play only in the day is on purpose. It's more immersive and realistic if you have to be out at night too. Maybe they could have included a time of day control like some games have so you can play how you want but I don't know. I'm kind of a fan of more curated experiences where you have to deal with things as they are. It's part of the fun and challenge.
tbf I can control when I go to sleep so I can be out during the day. That is a survival mechanism, choosing the safety of light over the low visibility of night.
Im so grateful for the devs of this work, its buggy but which STALKER wasnt. Give it a couple months for devs to work out the bugs and start working on their DLC's. As of performance, im just happy I get more FPS now than when CallOfPripyat came out.
Series s is an interesting experience so far. Frame is to be expected but imma have to get used to these controls, having a hard time dialing the aiming and moving and what not
Im never gonna turn off things that help me in a game, just doesnt make sense and it's anti gamer. Having the option to not have something doesnt negate the criticism
Only issue I’m having on console is that there’s a stick drift on controller and it’s not about brand new pristine controller vs used controller, they must have set the dead zone to 0.
waited years for this game only to not be able to play it because of all the performance issues, hopefully it gets fixed soon im dying to play it but js cant with the state its in right now
There was no beds in the first game. Strelok doesnt sleep. I suspect there will be a mod very soon to adjust Day/Night and Weather...Great pre Review none the less Cap.
I had my game crash a few times. One of the crashes was a hard lock up in the tech trader menu had to restart computer because was seeing some strange behavior. They will get it ironed out eventually.
Game still needs some work, especially on consoles, aiming feels floaty, no settings to counter stick drift, textures act weird etc… If they put the work into it the game could be solid for sure.
STALKER History repeats itself, the original SOC was in eternal development hell, followed by the Clear Sky CTD fest (Crash to desktop) and finished by the awesome Call of Pripyat. I encountered every emotion playing those three and after all those years I expect nothing less but a lot more of all of the above. STALKER is in every sense a different, frustrating and often hostile world. If that is too much and you believe it is too broken just wait for the DEVS and mod community to fix it. For me? Can't wait to go in and accept what it is.
So it needs a patch or two to fix apparent issues (sound bugs, enemies seeing through walls, etc) to work. At least they aren’t charging us with mappacks and skins.
this is my first stalker game so im really exited to explore the world but god damn the performance issues is nuts i get frame drops that makes it physically impossible to play
Overall, this looks and feels like STALKER, so I’m pretty happy with this launch. Bugs and issues that can all be fixed are fine, had it been a bad game, well that would have been quite something else.
I can’t wait for modding….please for the love of god allow me to harvest mushrooms and harvest mutant parts! Permanent companions, faster enemy ai respawn timer, full loot drops, better compass, add a skill tree, no friendly fire,…..coop, coop,coop, for the love of god add coop
STALKER has always been Eurojank, bugs are almost a feature. This is essentially what I was hoping for as a long time fan. I will definitely buy this game.
Much like other released games it’ll have its bugs and problems right now my biggest problem is the dead zone on controller I thought people were just complaining but it’s legitimately a problem compared to other games
this game has been in development for over 15 years with them teasing release then pushing it back every year... there is absolutely ZERO excuse for any sort of incomplete or buggy content at this point.
@@guts2186That's still 6 whole years. Considering the Ukraine war we may deduce first 8 months of the war when they developed the game under harsh conditions but they did eventually move out of Ukraine. So overall they still had somewhat 5 and a half years to make this game and yet they released it broken.
Every UE5 game runs like trash but this is up there with the worst. It's on UE 5.0 not 5.4 which fixes a lot of CPU issues. DLSS is making no FPS difference so something is wrong. Turning on FRS Frame Gen 3 suddenly boosts to over 100 FPS, which is weird on a Nvidia card, but the game FEELS so sluggish at all times like there's massive input lag, and the stuttering is bad
If you're on PC and see this comment; If you have problems with FPS, set all graphics to medium, disable all VSYNC, DLSS as you like, cap frame 60, ENABLE FSR 3. I went from choppy, janky frames to 100fps pretty steadily. It could work, it might not. It's worth a try.
10:18 visual feast?!?! Calling the game a 'visual feast' feels a bit reductive when you consider the deeper context of STALKER and its roots in Roadside Picnic. The series thrives on the interplay between the stark, desolate beauty of its world and a dark, ironic humor-a reflection of the modern slavic-paneuroasian mentality that finds levity in the face of hardship. When you consider the current conflict in the region and the real-life losses among the developers, the game’s visuals aren’t just eye candy; they’re part of a narrative that mirrors both the beauty and peril of the world its creators know so intimately. Perhaps 'a roadside picnic for the eyes' captures this better-evoking moments of uneasy respite amid chaos.
Ah a lot of these things are small none game breaking things. I can live with small bugs and little hiccups that might mean reloading a save or restarting the game. If these are all that's is to worry about, IMO there isn't much of anything to worry about. This shit will get patched out, fixed, or modded into submission soon enough. Im just glad after 15 years of waiting its here and its not a complete let down of a launch. Go GSC
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installing the game while watching the video! Do I like bugs? You can guess because I played and liked Fallout New Vegas on the PS3 when it was still available.
Almost 2 decades and STALKER is still STALKER. I can only be grateful for that, compared to all other franchises I used to love collapsing since my childhood.
*cough* Dragon Age *cough*
@@Wolfhamm3r312battlefield son
As someone considering SoC a cult classic and one of the best games I've played, "It's still S.T.A.L.K.E.R." is the only thing I need to hear from trusted reviewers to buy the game... For good or bad.
Ive only played Anomaly, so I have a question for people who’ve played the other Stalker’s, does this game look watered down and less hardcore than the previous games? To me it looks more similar to metro and definitely less of a dark-realistic horror game, but maybe its just the UI and crosshair throwing me off. Looks amazing nonetheless Ill definitely be buying it
I played the new one and it sucks, it needs a BR mode and maybe a battle pass to add some variety…
Remember: in the Zone there are no bugs - only anomalies.
The bugs are part of the atmosphere
im BEYOND tired of hearing this, iv played all 3 of the old games and only had very minor bugs slightly annoying at the most but this is like if bethesda and obsidian teamed up to make the jankiest thing ever with a stupidly high system requirement because for some reason EVERYTHING has to be open world even if it makes 0 sense for the game and engine
@@imalittletoxicjustalittle>ive played all 3 games
>complains about stalker 2 being open world, even though the previous games were open world
Tourist.
@@imalittletoxicjustalittleare you russian by any chance
@@imalittletoxicjustalittle True. I played Stalker back in 2007 and it was not this buggy. Idiots parroting same shit "its anomaly" are annoying.
a stalker game with a broken release? we're so back baby 😎
How long did it take modders / Devs to fix the first one? Looking forward to playing it then maybe coop 😊
@@vsupps1 That's the neat part, they never did. lol
@@DaveSmith-cp5kj lmao
@@DaveSmith-cp5kj essentially they tried but the engine was sooo unstable that one fix caused 10 more bugs and so on... that was the old engine used for the original trilogy. UE5 is more easier to fix, they had a day one fix patch with many to follow.
Most games are broken at release now days, better to wait so the beta testers help fix the game and buy it when it's fix lol.
Note: Day 0 patch has fixed alot of issues that are in this video on xbox. Just keep that in mind that its not as bad as the video shows.
Source?
@Baskerville__ His own words? Lol did you not watch the video. He said when he got the build and started the review. The day 0 patch came out yesterday XD
Day 0 patches haven't fixed most issues for almost a decade now.
@MrMysteriousDm I want to believe you, but so far nobody but you is saying that the Day 0 patch fixed a lot of the problems. The video review only mentions that there is such patch, not how much it fixed.
@HristoUzunov Lot of these videos have been pre recorded and the two guys that have been pretty vocal has said at least on Xbox it fixed a few key issues like npcs not being able to be interacted with in some quests and other things
Rest In Peace Volodymyr Anatoliyovych Yezhov. You maybe gone but you will be forever immortalised in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
These are reasons I dont really care about game launches anymore. Most games take a year after launch before they are ready to go. Cyberpunk being the prime example
Compared to CiberBug Stalker 2 is CoD 4 at launch
To be fair. I had PC and it was fine for me at launch. maybe 1 or 2 bugs, but that's it in my personal experience
Whats ur specs im on 3060 im scared to play as requirements r high been told to play on medium but idk will it still run fine? Still haven't bought it so on the fence about that. 😢😢@@itslife1399
Damn, its almost like the STALKER series is older than the majority of newer series or something & people are willing to accept that.
@@itslife1399 yup some people got lucky. my buddy played through it at release and said he encountered not a single bug meanwhile i took over 200 screenshots of bugs and quit playing before jackie even died
0:54 the shotgun has no pump handle
anomaly
@@Trooson😄
@@Trooson when the game sucks are you going to say "well it sucking is a anomaly so its good"?
@@imalittletoxicjustalittleit's a joke, calm down
What an incredible attention to detail😂
Biggest problems I’m seeing are with the human enemies.
They have no accuracy reduction when firing.
The have Kris Kyle’s 21/20 vision so they always see you even in weather, darkness, or behind corners.
Shooting through cover no matter the thickness,
Takes an entire magazine from an AKM to the chest to drop one man.
Spam grenades that are always thrown perfectly at you.
Cover does nothing for you so long as even a pixel of you is out from behind cover you eat and entire squads combined automatic laser beam AKs
Human enemies don’t wander or patrol they spawn in out of nowhere and often time after entering an area.
Detection is too quick, making stealth non existent
Controls (on controller and yes my controller it tuned) are loose and wonky. Like I’m drunk, that goes with movement and Aim.
Things are overpriced, lack of ability to repair your own guns or maintain them.
AND FOR THE LOVE IF GOD ALMIGHTY!
STOP SAYING THIS ITEM IS WORTH 12,000 AND WHEN I GO TO SELL IT, ITS 3,000!
AND WHEN I TRY TI BUY IT BACK ITS WORTH 16,000!
Modders about about to make this game even better. I can only imagine what were gonna see in the coming months. Got my preorder and game releases here in an hour or two. We about to make Putin say "nah son, yall can have it" lol
Will the mods be on console too?
Of so only on Xbox...
@@ZachAsaD so far the game will only be on pc and Xbox unsure about mods. And as for ps5 I think that release might come later but unsure if mods on that also, Sony has been pretty strict
good luck modding unreal engine game lol
Anomaly 2.0
I remember playing the original with the LURK mod, now THAT was a dark night. Can't wait for the modders to go nuts on this game too
Lurk was cool
Nah there won't be much. it's unreal engine, very closed source once the game has been compiled
Not the same engine, won't happen.
@@somebodyelse2192
Devs say they will create a SDK that will allow mods the scale of Anomaly, random pooper on youtube "not going to happen"
Well on the bright side, we have a game that doesn't run completely perfect, but compared from the time Cyberpunk released, and almost no-one had access to frame-generation, DLSS, dynamic resolution scaling, and ray tracing.
you forgot the end of your sentence.
What's the point of this sentence? That the graphics, dlss (crutch), and ray-tracing makes up for the shortcomings? Good graphics are only ever the cherry on top of a good game.
@@Kenny-yu6gcnowadays its the graphics that are used to sell and promote a game to the NPC's
if u can make it look good in screenshots and little clips, the low vibration crowd is gonna be drooling all over it
Yeah basically it's as buggy and runs as bad as Cyberpunk on newer hardware, it's just not on last gen consoles
Shit came out 4 years ago remember
This is so sad…the bar get lower and lower each day for gamers enjoy your slop
I don't think you actually named the title of the book in the video, it's "Roadside Picnic" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. There's also a movie based on that book by Andrei Tarkovsky from 1979 called "Stalker". Also obligatory: the Metro series.
Shush, boy, we don’t say those names around here…
Just to mention, GSC either lied and A-Life isn’t in the game or enemy spawns are borked. Either way it’s really not immersive right now.
We 4070 gamers shittin bricks and sweatin bullets rn
hoping my 4080 holds up
I’m rockin 2080
@@ZzBiohazzardzZsame brother same had my 2080 since its release 😢
@zackdirusso3391 it will, but I've caveats. You need to use upscaling and frame gen. I'm on a 4090, Ryzen 9 7950x, 64GB RAM. I use dlss quality to 4K and frame gen, get a pretty consistent 120fps. I use a 65" LG C3.
There's an oddness to the image when I pan and camera, a smearing almost, not sure how to describe it. It's not related to frame gen as I assumed, because when I turned it off and just used dlss it had the same. I play on controller too and it moves on it's own occasionally(it's not stick drift, I've an excellent controller and it can't be replicated in other games)
All and all it's janky but I've enjoyed it so far none the less.
3070
I think they only need to fix 3 things at least at this moment,
stick drift issues, optimization and rendering
After beating metro exodus on ultra settings and it blowing my mind away I’m so ready for this
From someone who played a lot of Metro but never Stalker, how would you say it compares?
Yeah same. This really reminds me of Metro Exodus. But the map is even bigger
@@Hauerization It’s a lot more unforgiving. It’s like comparing Arma 2/3, EFT to call of duty. It really tests your limitations, your survival instinct, your perception of the world around you. You are tested on whether you're aware enough to make it to the end or not. I throughly enjoyed the first games, I put a good amount of hours in both the metro series and stalker. They both excel at what they represent. Both are post nuclear, but stalker is a world inside of an unpolluted world. It’s just in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Metro is world wide, But takes place in russia. It’s two similar, albeit different fictitious realities.
@@tobykornreich2719 Thanks for clearing that up, appreciated.
metro exodus sucks
0:57 anomalous Mossberg, just as the monolith intended it
psi pump action
Shadow of Chernobyl had similar release, great game but with many bugs.
And that game came out almost 20 years ago with a much smaller budget.
Just played two hours on pc game pass. 3080ti and 9900k, game struggles to get 40+ fps on all low @ 1440p. Holy crap!
CPU issue, I have 3080ti and 5800x3d and it’s 90fps+ ultra 1440p
im getting better performance on full ultra at 1440 with a 3070, what were they cooking 😭 (game's great though)
4060ti ryzn7 5700g all low @1440p ~80fps FG ON and still struggles a lot
@@GameingForDumbiesKeep in mind that cpu is one of the top price to performance chips even still, I also have one and same but we are not the majority even if it’s on an older pc platform
It's one of those games where changing settings doesn't do anything. All low settings in the starting town with the traders has 30-35 fps at epic setting and low settings!
Out in the open world it stabilizes but settlements are abhorrent
I played Cyberpunk 2077 at launch and loved it. I will absolutely play this now and in the future
This game is infinitely better than cyberpunk. You'll have a great time!
@@jmoon9123lmao, theres not even a story here
I hope you did another Cyberpunk playthrough after the 2.0 patch and the DLC. Infinity better than at launch
Just played through the introductory chapter, had no issues at all. ( installed about 2 hours ago, so 7 pm GMT and it seemed to have an update as part of install ). Inventory the same but more user friendly than original games, everyone speaking English is a strange choice, would of been nice to keep the accents, but there is the option to change language to Ukrainian with titles. Enemies seem a bit brutal there's an encounter where you can get stunlocked early doors, but prob on par with originals.
Bottom line is it's more Stalker, but haven't been super wowed next gen as of yet, but the atmosphere is dripping everywhere and seems a great world to absorb and lose yourself in. So it does it's job well there.
11:19 The first two game doesn't even have a sleep mechanic only the third Call of Pripyat have one in Shadow of Chernobyl and Clear Sky you can only sleep with mods, I seriously started to doubt things...
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!
A Stalker without jank is like a hairless dog without phantom copies of itself. Just boring.
Watching the video while installing the game! Do I care for bugs? I've played and enjoyed Fallout New Vegas on PS3 while the game was still active so, you can take your guess.
"The build I was playing on was very buggy."
Bruv, that's not a bug, that's a feature. What is Stalker without its bugs? An empty shell, that's what.
Gotta make the newcomers feel the release of the OG game.
literal copium
Weird that other games get shit on and forsaken for bugs when others don't
Same thing I've heard about the Elder Scrolls games, especially Skyrim.
@@wavy.m3 you’ve never played Stalker
The modding support will change everything
Anomaly 2 with RUS NPC speech like it should be
@@rarestpepe8835 and why would you not want ukrainian voices
Maybe they can’t speak it? Stalker is very popular in Russia
@@taunopaavo321 becouse they sound like village version of russian? becouse all iconic NPC quotes from previous games are russian ?
Just like it changed Starfield. And Cyberpunk.
No more picture in picture scopes 😢
modders will be adding that very shortly
PIP scopes essentially render the game world twice. The minimum specs are already high imagine what would happen if PIP was in.
@@RebelRouser91 doubt it, in the future maybe, but PiP requires double the amount of resources as the separate render has to be made for the zoomed version
VRAM in scope should be its official name fr
Honestly, right now, systems prob couldn't handle pip in this game. Barely getting 60fps on 2k$ rigs.
I love that the nights are dark and long. Don't change that please.
exactly what I thought. I love the approach that the world does not care that you exist in it. That is essential to a stalker game imho.
Oooh the nigth is.... Dark... Like in real wild zones jaja
Sounds exactly like the stalker we all know and love.
STALKER for some reason was one of the only games that despite the bugs breaking certain sections. I still loved almost every moment of it. Hopefully Stalker 2 is good enough that the bugs dont ruin the fun
10:48 "I was unable to control how long I slept, sometimes I would wake up and it still would be dark out" story of my life...
"Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which shall believe on me through their word;
That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me.
Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world.
O righteous Father, the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me.
And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them.
(John 17:20-26)
''The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. (Romans 13:12)
The OG Stalker actually didn't have beds :d
Commenting from my toilet.
Chad
This comment is still more of a contribution than any “first” comment will ever be. Your commitment to excellence shall not go unnoticed, sir. o7
Your phone has poop on it. Don't rub your eye after.
There’s beds you can sleep in at every major base. That’s how you get day time whenever you want.
My experience with STALKER has been limited to the first game's title screen. Got it years after release and it still had a 100% crash rate within seconds of starting.
I have read _Roadside Picnic,_ though. Damn good. Thankfully books don't crash.
It’s unplayable on PC unless you have a 4090. This game isn’t finished
II have a 4070 super oc, at 4k and everything on epic, I get 98 fps
time to upgrade the GTX 1080 mate.
@@Dmatrio post footage on youtube then, and go to a settlement as well
I had some of those issues on my pc but after I updated my drivers for my GPU and CPU they went away. Most people don't do their updates and blame most games that come out as buggy. Thank go that the only company that doesn't ever have bugs is Bethesda because they come out with "features" not "bugs" on all theirs games.
Cope
I have a 4060ti and I guess I’m fortunate because the game runs fine. 120fps on high graphics settings.
gonna try this game again tomorrow, I couldn’t even get past the first enemies. Some type of difficulty curve in this game is fierce.
Have you tested with the day 1 patch? Did it actually fix anything?
hi, do you recommend starting from earlier versions of the game first? As in should i get the steam bundle and play those first?
Most people dont realize, once its modded... it will be one of the best games this year.
This game is one that is better to wait a month or 2 to buy or clean up your play list back log on gamepass. Amazing foundation, about 3-4 patches away from being at a level of stability to keep you consistently hooked into the level of immersion its aiming for. The sad thing is, if they wouldve waited until the new year, it would be a very strong GOTY candidate.
Crazy how all review channels have a complete different view on the game. Some hate it, some love it.
Easy to differentiate the people who HAVE played a STALKER game before and those that haven't, STALKER doesn't appeal to a super wide audience because it is very unforgiving and tends to be buggy. Think of it like a Bethesda RPG but with the difficulty cranked up by 500% from the hardest difficulty. Everything I have heard even in the negative reviews I have been watching makes it clear that this game is exactly what I was waiting for and I am sure that is the case for other long time fans as well.
11-ish hours in and Bloodsuckers are currently the bane of my existence. I hate them so much. They're everywhere, and there's thousands of the bastards.
Played about an hour before I had to go into work. Already in love with it, can’t wait to play more tonight when I get home.
Honestly, I’m just kind of aggravated that we have lean mechanics but not prone. The ai are really smart which is cool, but often times they can see me thru cover and find me anyway
After the prolouge i helped some dude out but my screen keeps getting locked on the house and everytime i look elsewhere it forces me back, i cant even progress past this point and its almost like my mouse just stops working in the house entirely, idk whats goin on man
Love the review. Really spoken like a true stalker veteran.
I'm sure not getting to sleep enough to be able to play only in the day is on purpose. It's more immersive and realistic if you have to be out at night too. Maybe they could have included a time of day control like some games have so you can play how you want but I don't know. I'm kind of a fan of more curated experiences where you have to deal with things as they are. It's part of the fun and challenge.
tbf I can control when I go to sleep so I can be out during the day. That is a survival mechanism, choosing the safety of light over the low visibility of night.
Im so grateful for the devs of this work, its buggy but which STALKER wasnt. Give it a couple months for devs to work out the bugs and start working on their DLC's. As of performance, im just happy I get more FPS now than when CallOfPripyat came out.
Series s is an interesting experience so far. Frame is to be expected but imma have to get used to these controls, having a hard time dialing the aiming and moving and what not
I think I’ll wait a little on this one, but there really does look like there’s something special here for sure!
Im never gonna turn off things that help me in a game, just doesnt make sense and it's anti gamer. Having the option to not have something doesnt negate the criticism
Only issue I’m having on console is that there’s a stick drift on controller and it’s not about brand new pristine controller vs used controller, they must have set the dead zone to 0.
waited years for this game only to not be able to play it because of all the performance issues, hopefully it gets fixed soon im dying to play it but js cant with the state its in right now
There was no beds in the first game. Strelok doesnt sleep. I suspect there will be a mod very soon to adjust Day/Night and Weather...Great pre Review none the less Cap.
People are already complaining about encumbrance. They would riot without a compass. I say let them weed themselves out.
Funny enough, I've been playing 6 hours so far on High, and 0 crashes or noticable bugs, except one dog phasing through the wall in a building.
Excited for mod tools to make this even better.
I had my game crash a few times. One of the crashes was a hard lock up in the tech trader menu had to restart computer because was seeing some strange behavior. They will get it ironed out eventually.
Game still needs some work, especially on consoles, aiming feels floaty, no settings to counter stick drift, textures act weird etc…
If they put the work into it the game could be solid for sure.
STALKER
History repeats itself, the original SOC was in eternal development hell, followed by the Clear Sky CTD fest (Crash to desktop) and finished by the awesome Call of Pripyat.
I encountered every emotion playing those three and after all those years I expect nothing less but a lot more of all of the above.
STALKER is in every sense a different, frustrating and often hostile world.
If that is too much and you believe it is too broken just wait for the DEVS and mod community to fix it.
For me? Can't wait to go in and accept what it is.
Lesser systems. So GPU wise, what would you recommend for Stalker 2?
Nvidia 1060 or amd equivalent will be fine. You need at least 4 gigs of vram too.
a 4090
Its giving radioactive apocalypse Skyrim
The only “anomoly” I hate is this huge fps tank that has affected a save so I had to load a previous save to fix it
The fact I opened gamepass and saw this game on there. It’s gonna be great for me.
I’m having enemies spawn right on top of me, I’m getting 120-200 fps and enemies are just dropped right where I’m walking
i'm so glad i never had any of these issues when i was able to play
So it needs a patch or two to fix apparent issues (sound bugs, enemies seeing through walls, etc) to work. At least they aren’t charging us with mappacks and skins.
this is my first stalker game so im really exited to explore the world but god damn the performance issues is nuts i get frame drops that makes it physically impossible to play
No wonder there's no escaping this world. The environment is far more disgruntled in nature than you could expect.
Overall, this looks and feels like STALKER, so I’m pretty happy with this launch. Bugs and issues that can all be fixed are fine, had it been a bad game, well that would have been quite something else.
I can’t wait for modding….please for the love of god allow me to harvest mushrooms and harvest mutant parts! Permanent companions, faster enemy ai respawn timer, full loot drops, better compass, add a skill tree, no friendly fire,…..coop, coop,coop, for the love of god add coop
I've never played STALKER and I don't really care for the whole "anomalies" vibe,
but I think I'll have fun with it nonetheless.
STALKER has always been Eurojank, bugs are almost a feature.
This is essentially what I was hoping for as a long time fan. I will definitely buy this game.
That’s sad
yeah using that as a defense for Bethesda really helped improve them overtime....
Remember it's also on PC GamePass, but this version may not be as mod friendly.
And nowadays with new games we also get Westernjunk
Much like other released games it’ll have its bugs and problems right now my biggest problem is the dead zone on controller I thought people were just complaining but it’s legitimately a problem compared to other games
The out of memory errors are annoying and so are all the people claiming its a bios or other pc issue. its not its a faulty game release.
I'm surprised Stalker found its way to Mr. Cap but I love to see it
IDGAF how many bugs it's got I WANT TO PLAY! I also know this game will be modded for the next twenty years so.... yea...
if i remember zone was created by failed scientist experiment , not chernobyl .
this game has been in development for over 15 years with them teasing release then pushing it back every year... there is absolutely ZERO excuse for any sort of incomplete or buggy content at this point.
Wrong it was planned to release in 2012 but it was cancelled. In 2018 they started to develop the game.
@@guts2186That's still 6 whole years. Considering the Ukraine war we may deduce first 8 months of the war when they developed the game under harsh conditions but they did eventually move out of Ukraine. So overall they still had somewhat 5 and a half years to make this game and yet they released it broken.
Every UE5 game runs like trash but this is up there with the worst. It's on UE 5.0 not 5.4 which fixes a lot of CPU issues. DLSS is making no FPS difference so something is wrong. Turning on FRS Frame Gen 3 suddenly boosts to over 100 FPS, which is weird on a Nvidia card, but the game FEELS so sluggish at all times like there's massive input lag, and the stuttering is bad
I’m gonna get this but I’m new to the series, is it necessary to play the other games first? If so where do I start?
If you're on PC and see this comment;
If you have problems with FPS,
set all graphics to medium,
disable all VSYNC,
DLSS as you like,
cap frame 60,
ENABLE FSR 3.
I went from choppy, janky frames to 100fps pretty steadily. It could work, it might not. It's worth a try.
I still can't believe a game like this is on console .. and on game pass. 5:30 can't come fast enough 🙌
I wish there was a takedown system, swiping your knife at someone’s back 6 times is pretty lame
Apparently there is, it's just super buggy
Cant Wait to see what mods bring to the table!!!
10:18 visual feast?!?! Calling the game a 'visual feast' feels a bit reductive when you consider the deeper context of STALKER and its roots in Roadside Picnic. The series thrives on the interplay between the stark, desolate beauty of its world and a dark, ironic humor-a reflection of the modern slavic-paneuroasian mentality that finds levity in the face of hardship.
When you consider the current conflict in the region and the real-life losses among the developers, the game’s visuals aren’t just eye candy; they’re part of a narrative that mirrors both the beauty and peril of the world its creators know so intimately. Perhaps 'a roadside picnic for the eyes' captures this better-evoking moments of uneasy respite amid chaos.
is the game suitable for casual or is it difficult like the old stalker ?
Once a stalker, always a stalker 🐺
Modders! Work your magic! 😎
Stalker SoC is in my top 5. Definitely going to be checking this out
The zone looks so pretty in 15 fps
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Ah a lot of these things are small none game breaking things. I can live with small bugs and little hiccups that might mean reloading a save or restarting the game. If these are all that's is to worry about, IMO there isn't much of anything to worry about. This shit will get patched out, fixed, or modded into submission soon enough. Im just glad after 15 years of waiting its here and its not a complete let down of a launch. Go GSC
5:11 so its Fallout 4 in cool? :D
More like temu fallout
@@Lardball4 Nah its better fallout. 4 & 76 are mid af.
@@vinniemitchell2976 ofc fallout 4 was trash especially 76 buggy ahh game , new Vegas solos tho