Ehhh these days, id like to wait til release and fully reviewed. All the hype doesnt mean itll be good. So many hyped then came out mediocre games in the recent years
@flush_entity yeahhh I defiantly know what you mean. I got high hopes for gsc tho, they aren't all cash grabby like ubi and activision or else they would have released this a year ago with the bugs and pulled another cp2077 fiasco. See ya in the zone.
@@mos1291 i kinda do agree with this developer, theyve put in the work and did showcase but theres a side of me who’s been cheated too many times thats still keeping it arms length
I think the only player base that will be disappointed is the ones who started with Anomaly or Gamma. The OG player base (y’all know who you are, SOC multiplayer deathmatches) will love this for continuation of the lore, I know I will!
Its stalker, it wouldn’t be a stalker game without being a broken mess on release, SOC and Clear Sky were so damn buggy. Besides theres no bugs in stalker, just anomalies
@@TheWarriors1515half the dev team is still in Ukraine. Theres a documentary about their struggles over the last few years. Have you ever created anything while rockets and bullets are being shot outside your window and electricity is cut 80% of the time?
@@TheWarriors1515 Volodymyr Yehzov, a lead developer on the game literally joined the military and was killed in the war. The FUCK you mean they have no excuse?
@@TheWarriors1515One of the devs died while fighting in the war. Also a good bit of the team is still in Ukraine. Do some research before spewing shit from your armchair.
Arma 3 map Altis is a 270 square kilometers in size. Stalker 64 square kilometers is something pretty decent since we are going to be on foot most of the time
Tbh even the original Stalker in modded GAMMA has zones I still haven't been back to in hours, so I don't think the map size is anything to worry about
Multiplayer is still going ahead and was talked about at the last press event. The multiplayer bonuses are also still included in the ultimate edition.
Bro, I'm just so effing hyped for this, I've been waiting for years for this, and now that I have a rig and purchased the Ultimate Physical Edition, I'm craving for this to come out
Hell I even got a 7900XTX, new mouse, mousemat and hall effect keyboard for this shit (and for Kingdom Come 2 in Feb). Honestly I anticipate a rough launch and pushback because I bet it's been dumbed down quite a bit for consoles but I'll still enjoy it and the modding scene is going to be bananas.
@@xStarblazer damn, honestly, I wished more people enjoyed Kingdom Come, such a good game, even though I haven't finished it, it was very remarkable, but hey, as most of my money went on the game edition, what I have just work for now jajaja 🫡😂👍
from what i know (could be wrong info) there will be somewhat of a desert and snowy area in the dlc areas. dlc areas will 100% be there, but not 100% sure bout the desert and snow areas...
@@Kastrenzo74 went trough the leaked map, and ingame map. didnt rly see any snow. but there where some dlc areas. and i remember someone from gsc saying itll be dlc content
@ChaosKingD0mmm well the devs said they weren't planning a coop because part of the idea is that you are supposed to feel alone and helpless in the zone...yet you can have ai companions in game so what's the difference? Why not just give the players what they really want? It will still be a challenge but would be so much more fun.
Having other Stalkers gunning you down in a open world would be sick, like a bounty hunter system (Dark Souls for example). Dark Souls has some "factions" you can join where you'd hop into another world if they were joined to an opposing faction. I could see it now, walking and maneuvering across a anomaly field only to hear rifle fire wizzing pass you.
I really want Rockstar style multiplayer, not the way missions work, but how they just drop a bunch of players in the same instance of the grand open world and everyone can just do whatever they want.
@@woKenVFX Of course it isnt, but they stated in an interview that some of the team play GAMMA and that they have taken ideas and brought them in to STALKER 2, so im joking around that the "north area" will probably be where all the geared stalkers are, thats all.
@ALiberalVeteran Bruh no way. Media will give it 11/10 just because everyone loves Ukraine these days. Media will not even play it and will describe it as a wholesome farming simulator 😄
Not to be tone-deaf of the real world war, but STALKER would be a prime candidate for "dark souls/sniper elite" style invasions. Being a rogue STALKER hunting another STALKER
STALKER 2 is absolutely my most hyped game of the year, been looking forward to this for what feels like forever. I think on the day this releases I absolutely have food poising and can’t make it to work 😂
I worry we get the UE5 curse and that means 60fps and above only with top tier and only with frame game and FSR on. I hope not but so far every other "AAA" UE5 game has this issue.
Daggerfall had a much larger map : 209,331 square kilometers filled with 15,000 towns and a population of 750,000. Multiplayer, heck yeh COOP... There are many extremely talented people that know every single detail about the UE5 and can easily put in COOP... Since we are allowed to MOD the game, so why not ??
Don’t think this is the game for you then. Stalker is mainly about atmosphere, taking in your surroundings 24/7 with the extreme immersion of the world around you and occasionally, you will come across enemies. It isn’t an action packed kind of game where the tiktok generation needs some mental stimulation every 2 seconds before getting bored
I'm assuming you are worried that the game won't be densely packed with content. The game will have many locations and things to see and do, however Stalker is a game series that is very big on pacing; there will be moments where it's action packed and then moments where it's very slow and ominous. This is a good thing because it makes the action sequences very tense and you appreciate them more. The most important thing is A-Life 2.0. Since the game is massive and players using vehicles isn't a thing in the Stalker series, it's up to the A-Life 2.0 system to sprinkle in dynamic events to spice our journey through the zone.
The game uses an Unreal Engine 5.1 GSC version, because the developers need to reverse engineer the engine itself to shovel some new ideas and get the full potential of the engine.
Probably going to be the best or 2nd best game running on UE performance wise. AFAIK the "render threads" is the reason a lot of UE projects are just running terribly.
Unreal is NOT stable. UE5 performs incredibly bad frametime wise and traversal stutter wise lmao. Hopefully this will be different though, since they made their "own" version of UE5 for this game
Their excuse for not having Coop is the same one they used with the first game. They were wrong then and they a wrong now. If you want to keep tension just play by yourself and give players a choice.
Honestly I think they should have co-op just make it so you can't see their name tag or anything like that to make it more risky if you aren't careful. (Only because I want to play with one of my brother's together in s.t.a.l.k.e.r)
I don't see why they would think that coop would take anything away from the game. What's the difference between that and having a group of ai companions go out on the road with you? other than the fact that taking a friend would be a million times more fun.
No co-op? YEESH. Like, I'll still play it, but the main selling point for me was the promise of multiplayer... This is very frustrating to hear, because now I have to tell my friends that there won't be any co-op after we all got excited for multiplayer.
They did say modding support will be a big focus for them, so I'm fairly sure co-op mods won't take long to start appearing. Specially cuz UE5 is a WAY more capable engine than what they used for the previous games. In the meantime we'll have the amazing base game to enjoy
That seems crazy to me. It would be a fun experience sure and I'd like to see it in mods but having it as the main selling point feels like saying you wouldnt' buy the new Elder Scrolls or Red Dead Redemption if it didn't have co-op in it. Okay sure they're slightly different games but idk, multiplayer/co-op is like bottom 5% of the list. For me, I guess everyone is different
@@xStarblazer I'm not sure where you guys are seeing that being a main selling point. I don't think I ever heard or saw them say it would be Coop. Its just not included in their vision of the game. They always said multiplayer but not coop... That being said, Stalker games modding has been very prestigious so I don't doubt someone will create a seamless coop mod like Elden Ring despite the two different game engines....
@@Rated_xv I agree with you, the guy said that for him the main selling point of the game was the promise of coop/multiplayer but I just didn't understand that POV because it's just not that type of game in my head. For me it would be the same as refusing to play Cyberpunk or RDR if it didn't have a coop made in it. Sure it would be fun, but it's like bottom % of things that I hope they actually implement or work on
I am so ready for this! My PC is more than up to the task (RTX 4080 Super and Ryzen 7 7800X3D), I also pre-ordered the Ultimate Edition on Steam and a physical Limited Edition for my personal collection on the shelf. Been waiting for the game since 2011-2012, super happy to finally see this game coming out in just two weeks! Will be playing for dozens of hours on end. :)
I've been waiting for this game for a long time and I hope it lives up to expectations. There will be a snowy area of the map whether it's in a DLC or not. The whole Northeast side of the map
i think the reason for no coop is pretty dumb, mostly because it would just be fun, if you wanted to keep the intense atmosphere or whatever don't play coop
I haven't played the original ones, it would be good if they came to consoles so I could play them and not be dropped into part 2's story without any clue as to what is going on.
The map that we're playing on does not have snow on it other than the snow anomaly that I mentioned. I very much understand that it snows in a large part of Europe, that is not at all what I said 💀
What do you mean that there is no confirmation of multiplayer. You literally get multiplayer skins if you pre-order or buy the deluxe or ultimate edition. Also it's confirmed in the steam page in the description that there will be multiplayer
please excuse me asking but i dont really know much about engines and how modding works on them but the devs said there will be full mod-support from the start. Cant people develope mods for it for us to install?
@@easymode666devs prlt will some tools for mod making as roblox has creator for example available for everyone , its just my speculations tho , but op comment is right mostly
@@easymode666 It really depends on how accessible the tools that they give to the modders tbh. Old Stalker games didn't really have official mod support but rather the source got leak so much that modders were able to understand the game's structure and mod the game within its limitation, it was also very simple to mod since the files were easy to drag and drop to the game folder without any hassle, and developers didn't stop the fans from using leaked sources and not putting preventive measures to easily add files.
@@elliotwatson3964no that’s true, it’s not the biggest, but there’s also not going to be any kind of vehicles which usually the largest maps in games have. So that’s 60km squared all on foot..
@@lukazade100 While I'm sure that's gonna be the case, I wouldn't be surprised if they have some kind of fast travel system but instead of teleporting, it's an actual vehicle giving you a ride from X to Y. Sorta like that APC in Tarkov.
I forget who I was watching, but they said they were doing side quests during the preview and they had a quest from someone but he looted his friends body and the quest cancelled and he wouldn’t talk to the player anymore
I dont think so, maybe like a quest to turn off psi beacons which if you fail will put psi radiation in that region until you successfully finish the quest
i need some help im getting the physical copy for the steelbook but its just the base game. does anybody know if i can digitally in the store upgrade to the ultimate even tho i have an actual copy?
It is named by a common mugwort plant, "chornobyl". "Chorn" comes from the word chornyi, means black and "byl" comes from bylinka, archaic name of a plant stem.
@@drog4073, that's why A-Life exists, to give you an interesting simulation between stalkers and mutants as you travel throughout the Zone. I'm interested in what new features will A-Life 2.0 have.
Stalker 2 is not AAA. It’s AA, as it comes from a small indie studio that has only made one game in the past decade, and was previously defunct. AAA games are games made by or distributed by large well known major publishers and studios. EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, activision blizzard (before the buyout), Square Enix, Rockstar, Capcom, etc are AAA studios and publishers. Don’t get me wrong, STALKER 2 looks very impressive, and equal too or better than most large titles that have released in the past few years, but that doesn’t make it AAA. It’s made by an indie studio unaffiliated with and large or small publishers. STALKER 2 is entirely developed and produced by GSC game world, and therefore not AAA. Again, that’s not a dig at STALKER 2, or GSC.
I agree with everything you said, but from what I understand it's being published by Microsoft /Xbox Game Studios? That's the part that I'd consider it being AAA, but yeah GSC Game World themselves, I'd agree are a AA studio!
@ is it? I know they have a timed exclusive with Microsoft, but as far as google can tell me, it’s still being published by GSC Game World. If Microsoft has taken over it’s publishing/distribution, then it is indeed AAA.
Nope, turns out you're spot on! I assumed they were publishing due to the exclusivity/Game Pass deal as well as the 35 minute Xbox Direct Showcase, but they must just be partnering with them rather than publishing! You sir are correct, it's officially a AA game! 🫡
Pre Ordered this and I can't wait, but I was very disappointed to find out that's it a UE5 game. UE5 games LOOK amazing, but they run, and play like trash! silent hill 2 RM being the latest example of stutter struggle, and massive FPS drops for no reason in random and visually unimpressive areas. other examples I have personally played showing these issues are Black Myth: Wukong, Immortals of Aveum [not a great game to begin with] and Remnant II.
ue5 is not stabil at all. most of unreal engine 5 titles are not optimised and laggy as hell. biggest map ?? not at all no mans sky and star citizen are alot bigger
Biggest map? Sounds horrible, games with big maps are often very empty, id rather have 20sqkm of content than 60sqkm where half of it is empty. Pre order bonuses include weapon skins for multiplayer so it's probably still planned.
@CYbeRuKRaINiaN that doesn't really change my point, don't get me wrong I am very excited to play the game and I'm sure it'll be great, I'm just saying that a big map isn't necessary good for the game.
To be fair, a lot of the footage I used is years old at this point just because there's only so much gameplay to show off. Most of the new stuff looks really solid but yeah, it's still a good idea for us to be careful!
I dont think you understand this is not a stalker sequel, it is a rather reimagining of the first game with a different dev team, a dev team full of idiots and whiners. Most of the developement team that made the original are long gone, actually the vast majority of them went to 4A games and made the fantastic metro trilogy.
Its gunna fall short and flat on its face. Stalker has been receiving mods longer than this game has been in production making the bar extremely high for this game. The human AI looks incredibly easy, which means they will turn up the anomalies and mutants to be the primary annoyance. Though I doubt they will be much more than that, an annoyance. The demographic in gaming has changed so much since then and now, none of these kids want a difficult game anymore. They would rather press TAB and drink Nuka Colas then step out of cover guns blazing, which this game will surely allow you to do via the anomaly slots on the backpacks/armor. In all the uploads of the three hour preview issued to content creators NOT ONE OF THEM MANAGED TO DIE? So they are all experts of the zone apparently or the game is EASY.
For me personally, this is the most anticipated game of the year - without a doubt.
I'm the only one in the group that played the og games. I love that the guys have no idea what they're getting into 😆
buy this game please to support under war ukrainians !!!
@@mos1291 They will be really surprised, to say the least jajaja but it's part ot the experience, a game experience
@@valendeosha Yep, same hear, I haven't been this excited about a release in a long long time
@@art_means_artificialnah gamepass
game will be CRAZY 💀💀💀💀💀
Ehhh these days, id like to wait til release and fully reviewed. All the hype doesnt mean itll be good. So many hyped then came out mediocre games in the recent years
@flush_entity yeahhh I defiantly know what you mean. I got high hopes for gsc tho, they aren't all cash grabby like ubi and activision or else they would have released this a year ago with the bugs and pulled another cp2077 fiasco. See ya in the zone.
@@flush_entity sounds too good to be true, but i beliebe this time it's gonna be good
@@mos1291 i kinda do agree with this developer, theyve put in the work and did showcase but theres a side of me who’s been cheated too many times thats still keeping it arms length
I think the only player base that will be disappointed is the ones who started with Anomaly or Gamma. The OG player base (y’all know who you are, SOC multiplayer deathmatches) will love this for continuation of the lore, I know I will!
Barring a botched launch, this will probably my personal GOTY and a good contender for the actual GOTY award
i'm sure they will receive recognition at the game awards
Its stalker, it wouldn’t be a stalker game without being a broken mess on release, SOC and Clear Sky were so damn buggy. Besides theres no bugs in stalker, just anomalies
lets be real they are the only publish who has a real justification if the launch has issues
buy this game please to support under war ukrainians !!!
Not really they left right when the war started and game been delayed like 4 times they have no excuse for releasing a buggy game
@@TheWarriors1515half the dev team is still in Ukraine. Theres a documentary about their struggles over the last few years. Have you ever created anything while rockets and bullets are being shot outside your window and electricity is cut 80% of the time?
@@TheWarriors1515 Volodymyr Yehzov, a lead developer on the game literally joined the military and was killed in the war. The FUCK you mean they have no excuse?
@@TheWarriors1515One of the devs died while fighting in the war. Also a good bit of the team is still in Ukraine. Do some research before spewing shit from your armchair.
Arma 3 map Altis is a 270 square kilometers in size. Stalker 64 square kilometers is something pretty decent since we are going to be on foot most of the time
Tbh even the original Stalker in modded GAMMA has zones I still haven't been back to in hours, so I don't think the map size is anything to worry about
Multiplayer is still going ahead and was talked about at the last press event. The multiplayer bonuses are also still included in the ultimate edition.
64 vs 64 ?
Bro, I'm just so effing hyped for this, I've been waiting for years for this, and now that I have a rig and purchased the Ultimate Physical Edition, I'm craving for this to come out
Also upgrading my rig only waiting fore January 5090 than EUVR😊 go try it whit the 4070 TI Super.
Hell I even got a 7900XTX, new mouse, mousemat and hall effect keyboard for this shit (and for Kingdom Come 2 in Feb). Honestly I anticipate a rough launch and pushback because I bet it's been dumbed down quite a bit for consoles but I'll still enjoy it and the modding scene is going to be bananas.
@@xStarblazer damn, honestly, I wished more people enjoyed Kingdom Come, such a good game, even though I haven't finished it, it was very remarkable, but hey, as most of my money went on the game edition, what I have just work for now jajaja 🫡😂👍
@@FixForeGamers Nice bro, anything that runs with well is good but really use all of the potential or most, that's the real deal 👌🔥
@@Dante-RB my 4090 Skyrim VR 1000 mods I will take it to a good use. Not playing 2K whit my 5090
Just 380 more years. Almost there guys. Godamn I just want to take a walk in the zone and taste that atmosphere. Can't wait.
15 more days bro cant wait
honestly feel like atmosphere is one of the least focused component of games and to me it means the most. Can't wait to be back in the zone
There are some preorder bonuses that give multiplayer outfits and stuff from what I’ve seen listed for the different editions.
idc i just bought the ultimate, or whatever it's called max edition
@@jetstreamsam4953 same! Hella excited to get it!
@@jetstreamsam4953 Same I bought it strictly for the future DLCs and the story expansions... Cosmetics are just icing on the cake...
@@jetstreamsam4953 same bro! Excited to get the collectibles 🤓
from what i know (could be wrong info) there will be somewhat of a desert and snowy area in the dlc areas. dlc areas will 100% be there, but not 100% sure bout the desert and snow areas...
snowy area is likely already in base game. as indicated by the map that was released.
@@Kastrenzo74 It's not snow, it's asbestos.
@@nikodemwronowski5185worst than mutants
@@Kastrenzo74 went trough the leaked map, and ingame map. didnt rly see any snow. but there where some dlc areas. and i remember someone from gsc saying itll be dlc content
@@nikodemwronowski5185asbestos? I inhale that daily on urban exploring, it’s good for the soul
modders please make a coop mod I'm begging you.
I second this, going through the zone with a buddy would be hilarious.
@ChaosKingD0mmm well the devs said they weren't planning a coop because part of the idea is that you are supposed to feel alone and helpless in the zone...yet you can have ai companions in game so what's the difference? Why not just give the players what they really want? It will still be a challenge but would be so much more fun.
Having other Stalkers gunning you down in a open world would be sick, like a bounty hunter system (Dark Souls for example).
Dark Souls has some "factions" you can join where you'd hop into another world if they were joined to an opposing faction.
I could see it now, walking and maneuvering across a anomaly field only to hear rifle fire wizzing pass you.
jesus christ please don't force us to go through the invasions discourse again. Invaders being compared to "rapists" etc etc just lol no.
I really want Rockstar style multiplayer, not the way missions work, but how they just drop a bunch of players in the same instance of the grand open world and everyone can just do whatever they want.
I just want visible damage on ALL enemies. FPS without it feel like you're shooting a fancy paintball gun.
Legendary game coming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"You can go anywhere" Yeah, but go too far north too early and you will find a barrier.. Fire power and gear haha
Too far North too early and ya gunna get got, lol
it's not stalker gamma bro you can prob kill anyone if u get a svd
@@woKenVFXI guess he was talking about brain scorcher
@@readytopay6969 No I was meaning enemies may be better equipped etc..
@@woKenVFX Of course it isnt, but they stated in an interview that some of the team play GAMMA and that they have taken ideas and brought them in to STALKER 2, so im joking around that the "north area" will probably be where all the geared stalkers are, thats all.
IGN will give it a 7 for its lack of diversity in a game set in Ukraine.
@ALiberalVeteran Bruh no way. Media will give it 11/10 just because everyone loves Ukraine these days. Media will not even play it and will describe it as a wholesome farming simulator 😄
@@cocosusprimewell if you play the game with 40kg of vodka in hand then it might as well become a wholesome farming simulator
How care about IGN woke Propaganda
They will give it 7/10 best game ever made
this comment is saying more about you than it is about IGN
UE5 will allow absurd levels of moding, which will make the whole previous moding game miniscule.
can't wait for big boobie size naked waifus mod for bloodsuckers
It's their own modded version of UE 5 (but an older version). It will be interesting to see if they upgrade the engine in the future.
Exactly. People don't understand how wild this is going to be. There are infinite amount of things that can happen with this on top of the UEVR mod.
@@Mikkel_kaI believe they already promised extensive modability on launch.
@@soquel_8313 not on launch but after some time
ok, i just have to point out the fackt that ONLY the actual sight is zoomed in when aiming. I LOVE this detail!
Waiting 12 Years for this game will be worth it my favourite game series getting an another game
Sidorovich, you old fart, we are coming in again 😂
My god finally someone talks about multiplayer, I wish it’d be DayZ anomaly style multiplayer. Like StalcraftX
Not to be tone-deaf of the real world war, but STALKER would be a prime candidate for "dark souls/sniper elite" style invasions. Being a rogue STALKER hunting another STALKER
That would actually be amazing! 🔥
STALKER 2 is absolutely my most hyped game of the year, been looking forward to this for what feels like forever. I think on the day this releases I absolutely have food poising and can’t make it to work 😂
I worry we get the UE5 curse and that means 60fps and above only with top tier and only with frame game and FSR on. I hope not but so far every other "AAA" UE5 game has this issue.
Daggerfall had a much larger map :
209,331 square kilometers filled with 15,000 towns and a population of 750,000.
Multiplayer, heck yeh COOP... There are many extremely talented people that know every single detail about the UE5 and can easily put in COOP...
Since we are allowed to MOD the game, so why not ??
A massive map makes me nervous. I really hope this isn’t a massive walking simulator
How did you make that a searchable thing?
In Stalker you will walk a lot, A LOT, in fact the journeys are more interesting than the destination itself, believe me
Stalker 1 had a lot of walking, but it's somehow really fun. The commute was so fun, almost moreso than the gun fight you were walking to
Don’t think this is the game for you then. Stalker is mainly about atmosphere, taking in your surroundings 24/7 with the extreme immersion of the world around you and occasionally, you will come across enemies. It isn’t an action packed kind of game where the tiktok generation needs some mental stimulation every 2 seconds before getting bored
I'm assuming you are worried that the game won't be densely packed with content. The game will have many locations and things to see and do, however Stalker is a game series that is very big on pacing; there will be moments where it's action packed and then moments where it's very slow and ominous. This is a good thing because it makes the action sequences very tense and you appreciate them more. The most important thing is A-Life 2.0. Since the game is massive and players using vehicles isn't a thing in the Stalker series, it's up to the A-Life 2.0 system to sprinkle in dynamic events to spice our journey through the zone.
Just can't wait.. I don't remember how long it was in my wish list on steam. I enjoyed all STALKER games for a long time.
I can't wait for the long-awaited game to be released! I really want it to become the game of the year. The developers deserve it
the game file size is massive, a whopping 150gb
😮🔥
Rdr2 size right there 🔥
@@Dima-dc5mf RDR2 is 119GB.
Still nothing compared to cod
DayZ Chenarus map is 225 sq kilometers and that was 11 years ago.
The game uses an Unreal Engine 5.1 GSC version, because the developers need to reverse engineer the engine itself to shovel some new ideas and get the full potential of the engine.
Probably going to be the best or 2nd best game running on UE performance wise.
AFAIK the "render threads" is the reason a lot of UE projects are just running terribly.
Imagine if the MP component to this game was an extraction shooter 😱 know it’s not gonna happen but damn it would fit perfectly
I hope its a dayz kind of multiplayer with pvp/ve and pve only servers would be so dope. Community servers with mods would be amazing😮
Unreal is NOT stable. UE5 performs incredibly bad frametime wise and traversal stutter wise lmao. Hopefully this will be different though, since they made their "own" version of UE5 for this game
There are gonna be bugs and glitches and performance issues in the start but after a couple of patches the game is gonna shine.
Are they really a triple A team? I would say double A
If your definition of AAA is Ubisoft/Bioware/etc. - than AA is a compliment 😅
it is gonna be phantom liberty tier
Hopefully a mod gives us Co-Op, I’ve wanted nothing more than to explore with friends!
I get the Metro vibe from this game!
honestly i think with that big of a map vehicles would be a great addition tbh
I hope they do as co-op
Their excuse for not having Coop is the same one they used with the first game. They were wrong then and they a wrong now. If you want to keep tension just play by yourself and give players a choice.
Not every game needs multi player. People like different things and I think at this point they know their market.
Imagine having coop in the long dark. The whole game would be ruined. The point is that stalker is sort of not made for a coop. It’s just like that
Back then neigh impossible, right now completely unnecessary. Halo is down the lane.
Co-op would be so nice to have, would be nice to play with my brother
Stalker quests have always been like dark souls
Pre-order bonus confirm multiplayer
Maybe you're confusing it with mods?
quadruple A dude, oh my god.
Looking forward to this game!
Honestly I think they should have co-op just make it so you can't see their name tag or anything like that to make it more risky if you aren't careful.
(Only because I want to play with one of my brother's together in s.t.a.l.k.e.r)
I don't see why they would think that coop would take anything away from the game. What's the difference between that and having a group of ai companions go out on the road with you? other than the fact that taking a friend would be a million times more fun.
No co-op? YEESH. Like, I'll still play it, but the main selling point for me was the promise of multiplayer... This is very frustrating to hear, because now I have to tell my friends that there won't be any co-op after we all got excited for multiplayer.
They did say modding support will be a big focus for them, so I'm fairly sure co-op mods won't take long to start appearing. Specially cuz UE5 is a WAY more capable engine than what they used for the previous games. In the meantime we'll have the amazing base game to enjoy
That seems crazy to me. It would be a fun experience sure and I'd like to see it in mods but having it as the main selling point feels like saying you wouldnt' buy the new Elder Scrolls or Red Dead Redemption if it didn't have co-op in it.
Okay sure they're slightly different games but idk, multiplayer/co-op is like bottom 5% of the list. For me, I guess everyone is different
@@xStarblazer I'm not sure where you guys are seeing that being a main selling point. I don't think I ever heard or saw them say it would be Coop. Its just not included in their vision of the game. They always said multiplayer but not coop...
That being said, Stalker games modding has been very prestigious so I don't doubt someone will create a seamless coop mod like Elden Ring despite the two different game engines....
I don't think they ever promised coop
Multiplayer - Yes, but not coop
Original Stalker games never had coop and the multiplayer was exclusively PVP
@@Rated_xv I agree with you, the guy said that for him the main selling point of the game was the promise of coop/multiplayer but I just didn't understand that POV because it's just not that type of game in my head.
For me it would be the same as refusing to play Cyberpunk or RDR if it didn't have a coop made in it. Sure it would be fun, but it's like bottom % of things that I hope they actually implement or work on
I am so ready for this! My PC is more than up to the task (RTX 4080 Super and Ryzen 7 7800X3D), I also pre-ordered the Ultimate Edition on Steam and a physical Limited Edition for my personal collection on the shelf. Been waiting for the game since 2011-2012, super happy to finally see this game coming out in just two weeks! Will be playing for dozens of hours on end. :)
I hope this game is as good as it seems and looks... i can't trust game developers anymore. It looks incredible
Wow, it's a game to actually look forward to!
I can't wait. Time booked off work to play
1:20+ They are in Prague since two years by now. Also, why do you sound like you laugh, when you mention that there is a war going on for years?
Nice to hear a fellow Aussie. I'm hyped too.
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I've been waiting for this game for a long time and I hope it lives up to expectations. There will be a snowy area of the map whether it's in a DLC or not. The whole Northeast side of the map
Don't forget modding tools 🤩
I just wanna roll with the mercs like in Gamma
Stalker 2 will not be like Gamma or Anomaly, please do not get any wrong expectations.
Jesus fucking Christ
It's not gonna be like Gamma or Anomaly but being able to join the mercs will be cool
i think the reason for no coop is pretty dumb, mostly because it would just be fun, if you wanted to keep the intense atmosphere or whatever don't play coop
Storage space for this game: 150 GB
I haven't played the original ones, it would be good if they came to consoles so I could play them and not be dropped into part 2's story without any clue as to what is going on.
The trilogy IS on console. Sold together as STALKER, legands of the zone
Also worth mention that this game should released in 2022 but gor delayed almost 2 years.
"NOT GONNA BE SNOW OR SOMETHING" North Ukrania is literaly 6 month snowy per years lol And yes, snow is planned for the game, maybe as a dlc region
Я з україни, вчора випав перший сніг але він швидко розстав. Останнім часом зими в Україні стали не дуже сніжні (глобальне потепління 😔).
@@dimaas2607 I live in Canada, and sort of same situation with last year, snowed early november, but overrall wasn't much for the rest of the year
The map that we're playing on does not have snow on it other than the snow anomaly that I mentioned. I very much understand that it snows in a large part of Europe, that is not at all what I said 💀
Zone has its own permanent-fall climate.But there'll be a location called "Cold Island", and we gonna see this location in a DLC
What do you mean that there is no confirmation of multiplayer. You literally get multiplayer skins if you pre-order or buy the deluxe or ultimate edition. Also it's confirmed in the steam page in the description that there will be multiplayer
Never said there was no confirmation of multiplayer, in fact I quite literally mentioned that there *is* multiplayer
Unreal engine 5, from every example I've seen looks insane. My only column with it is the games that are made with it will effectively be non-modable
please excuse me asking but i dont really know much about engines and how modding works on them but the devs said there will be full mod-support from the start. Cant people develope mods for it for us to install?
@@easymode666devs prlt will some tools for mod making as roblox has creator for example available for everyone , its just my speculations tho , but op comment is right mostly
@@easymode666 It really depends on how accessible the tools that they give to the modders tbh. Old Stalker games didn't really have official mod support but rather the source got leak so much that modders were able to understand the game's structure and mod the game within its limitation, it was also very simple to mod since the files were easy to drag and drop to the game folder without any hassle, and developers didn't stop the fans from using leaked sources and not putting preventive measures to easily add files.
Hope they changed their mind and do add coop… I’m burned out on PVP games. The market is flooded with them and there’s fewer good coop games
not the biggest map but still big
I hope it wont be another The day before
after playing the shit out of stalker gamma, i cant wait to play the modded version of stalker 2. Its gonna be insane lmao
Mods confirmed for console!
Survival mode?! I’d love to have hungry/thirst
I believe it already has hunger/thirst/fatigue as a default I only played Gamma so could be wrong
@@Rated_xv Should be, hunger/thirst/fatigue are in vanilla Stalker OG Trilogy IIRC.
60 sq km is unreal, thats over 4x skyrims map
Not the "biggest" in gaming though
@@elliotwatson3964no that’s true, it’s not the biggest, but there’s also not going to be any kind of vehicles which usually the largest maps in games have. So that’s 60km squared all on foot..
@@lukazade100 While I'm sure that's gonna be the case, I wouldn't be surprised if they have some kind of fast travel system but instead of teleporting, it's an actual vehicle giving you a ride from X to Y. Sorta like that APC in Tarkov.
Can we even go in and explore Reactor 4?
In the original you can
UE 5 STABLE?? Really?
5:50 wait wait wait...was that confirmed ?? Killing some npc will lock some areas to sightseeing in out of missions gameplay ????
I forget who I was watching, but they said they were doing side quests during the preview and they had a quest from someone but he looted his friends body and the quest cancelled and he wouldn’t talk to the player anymore
I dont think so, maybe like a quest to turn off psi beacons which if you fail will put psi radiation in that region until you successfully finish the quest
i need some help im getting the physical copy for the steelbook but its just the base game. does anybody know if i can digitally in the store upgrade to the ultimate even tho i have an actual copy?
You should be able to upgrade as long as it's in your library as the base game
meanwhile dayz maps
curious how does Chornobyl might be translated? Black-being?
It is named by a common mugwort plant, "chornobyl". "Chorn" comes from the word chornyi, means black and "byl" comes from bylinka, archaic name of a plant stem.
This is a big map, but off top of my head, Ghost Recon Wildlands is 576 sq km, so only about 10x bigger.
Only 😳😳😳😳
Mostly empty as well
mostly empty and you get to use the vehicles to traverse
@@drog4073, that's why A-Life exists, to give you an interesting simulation between stalkers and mutants as you travel throughout the Zone. I'm interested in what new features will A-Life 2.0 have.
I agree it's quite empty. GTA5 was 76 sq km and apparently GTA6 will be 125. Quality of content will be what counts.
Will it have Polish dubbing/subtitles?
subs
Any load screens?
And if the game sucks (20% chance) modders will take care of it
just cause got biger map
Stalker 2 is not AAA. It’s AA, as it comes from a small indie studio that has only made one game in the past decade, and was previously defunct. AAA games are games made by or distributed by large well known major publishers and studios. EA, Ubisoft, Microsoft, activision blizzard (before the buyout), Square Enix, Rockstar, Capcom, etc are AAA studios and publishers.
Don’t get me wrong, STALKER 2 looks very impressive, and equal too or better than most large titles that have released in the past few years, but that doesn’t make it AAA. It’s made by an indie studio unaffiliated with and large or small publishers. STALKER 2 is entirely developed and produced by GSC game world, and therefore not AAA.
Again, that’s not a dig at STALKER 2, or GSC.
I agree with everything you said, but from what I understand it's being published by Microsoft /Xbox Game Studios? That's the part that I'd consider it being AAA, but yeah GSC Game World themselves, I'd agree are a AA studio!
@ is it? I know they have a timed exclusive with Microsoft, but as far as google can tell me, it’s still being published by GSC Game World. If Microsoft has taken over it’s publishing/distribution, then it is indeed AAA.
Nope, turns out you're spot on! I assumed they were publishing due to the exclusivity/Game Pass deal as well as the 35 minute Xbox Direct Showcase, but they must just be partnering with them rather than publishing!
You sir are correct, it's officially a AA game! 🫡
Stalker is not AAA
then its double A?🥴
@draco2xx yes exactly
stutter engine 5 again, just great...
Buy new hardware...
You could also mentioned, that game location will be around Chernobyl, which will be full with weird creatures and anomalies....
Pre Ordered this and I can't wait, but I was very disappointed to find out that's it a UE5 game. UE5 games LOOK amazing, but they run, and play like trash! silent hill 2 RM being the latest example of stutter struggle, and massive FPS drops for no reason in random and visually unimpressive areas. other examples I have personally played showing these issues are Black Myth: Wukong, Immortals of Aveum [not a great game to begin with] and Remnant II.
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ue5 is not stabil at all. most of unreal engine 5 titles are not optimised and laggy as hell. biggest map ?? not at all no mans sky and star citizen are alot bigger
if I understand it correctly, this video summarizes very general information and not the details. For God's sake, learn to write real video titles.
Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦
no Co-Op?!?!? WTF... i thought they CONFIRMED THIS
it was never confirmed
Biggest map? Sounds horrible, games with big maps are often very empty, id rather have 20sqkm of content than 60sqkm where half of it is empty.
Pre order bonuses include weapon skins for multiplayer so it's probably still planned.
As the developers said, the map is mostly handcrafted and the procedural generation wasn't used.
@CYbeRuKRaINiaN that doesn't really change my point, don't get me wrong I am very excited to play the game and I'm sure it'll be great, I'm just saying that a big map isn't necessary good for the game.
Careful some parts of these vids on the game look last generation
To be fair, a lot of the footage I used is years old at this point just because there's only so much gameplay to show off. Most of the new stuff looks really solid but yeah, it's still a good idea for us to be careful!
a lot of the footage you're using is old. This game is greatly downgraded.
I dont think you understand this is not a stalker sequel, it is a rather reimagining of the first game with a different dev team, a dev team full of idiots and whiners. Most of the developement team that made the original are long gone, actually the vast majority of them went to 4A games and made the fantastic metro trilogy.
Developers from 4A games left before the release of first Stalker game
The only idiot and whiner here is you lmao
Its gunna fall short and flat on its face. Stalker has been receiving mods longer than this game has been in production making the bar extremely high for this game. The human AI looks incredibly easy, which means they will turn up the anomalies and mutants to be the primary annoyance. Though I doubt they will be much more than that, an annoyance. The demographic in gaming has changed so much since then and now, none of these kids want a difficult game anymore. They would rather press TAB and drink Nuka Colas then step out of cover guns blazing, which this game will surely allow you to do via the anomaly slots on the backpacks/armor. In all the uploads of the three hour preview issued to content creators NOT ONE OF THEM MANAGED TO DIE? So they are all experts of the zone apparently or the game is EASY.
buy this game please to support under war ukrainians !!!