What You Need to Know Before S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 - Story, Lore, Gadgets

[@DrybearGamers]

Are you someone coming into S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 as your first game in the series? 00:00 Introduction 00:27 The Beginning 02:35 Emissions 03:46 Anomalies 05:05 Enter STALKERs 06:22 World Crisis 07:22 Stalker 1 08:23 Major Factions 13:43 The Zone's Center 16:42 Mind Control 17:45 Feuds & Wars 18:55 STALKER 2 20:49 Tools & Gadgets

[@octopushands6923]

You have to be retarded to not mention road side picnic

[@Krenisphia]

The player actually has a 950,000 Ton weight limit. Around 80kg or so for your gear and inventory, and the rest for your metal bolts.

[@DrybearGamers]

😂

[@jbeachboy100]

@@DrybearGamers how do you throw bolts to find anomaly in game?

[@PhilFlynn-w5j]

@@jbeachboy100 pull your weapon wheel out it's the bottom option

[@brandonblackfyre5783]

​@@jbeachboy100*You have probably figured this out by now.... But you can press 6 or 7 IIRC to pull the bolt out & I believe that you have an unlimited amount of bolts, unlike the OG Stalker Games and also the modded Stalker Games like Stalker Anomaly & GAMMA Mod.* *Keep in mind tho... You do NOT get bolts till 10-20 mins into the game.*

[@Frank-os6gq]

10-20 mins? Took me over an hour to get throught the prologue hahah​@brandonblackfyre5783

[@Itama22]

There are only 2 kinds of people in the zone: The cheeki, and the breeki

[@SwizzleShizzle]

and the freeki 😈

[@jawnTem]

I'd suggest starting from the first one and moving up. These are awesome little known games. I still have my Disks, one with the trilogy, and preordered alread. I probably have 2,000+/- hours in them and never completed any of them due to having so much fun adventuring and exploring. I spend a lot of time gaming. I have over 30K Hrs in DDDA.

[@8bitflea]

Tomorrow feels like forever lol Been waiting for a new stalker for so long. I still have the cdroms from the original.

[@Supernautiloid]

I read this too fast and thought you said “I still have the condoms from the original” 😳

[@8bitflea]

@ 😂 CD-Roms lol

[@lammensjack]

At least he is prepared ​@@Supernautiloid

[@BGLocet]

Never played a stalker game before so tomorrow will be my 1st , appreciate the lore catchup

[@thosewhoworshipdeviIsmight]

same

[@FatalFist]

This'll be like Call of Pripyat on Steroids if early footage is anything to go off of. Looking forward to it.

[@dylanmcnaughton422]

I’m excited me aswell

[@davidponder1654]

Id say if you can bear it pick up the og trilogy if it goes on sale. Its held up surprisingly well for a 2007-2009 eurojank survival shooter

[@derpman2280]

Same here bro I’ve been watching this game for the last 2 months I’m a big fallout/skyrim fan so I’m very excited to give this game a try

[@BeenuZz]

My summary of stalker : duty : cool bar in the middle of the zone bandits : cool guys but live in boring wasteland freedom : hipies with good music and herbs monolith : good looting and infinite respawning stalkers : the nice dudes you encounter on the roads, but useless ecologists : too clever for us, but good missions, and green suit! army : border loot Sidorovitch : the boss, you hate and love him

[@jjtninja]

Mercenaries: "Here for the money. Kindly don't get in our way....and don't take notice that some of us speak American."

[@LtZetarn]

@BeenuZz >duty : cool bar in the middle of the zone "Oh...poor souls, i had a bad news for you....." - sincere, Freedom -

[@Tasty.Jams44]

Never played Stalker but I am weirdly super excited about this like it’s a huge starfield type release.

[@gingyplays9843]

Same here. I've played metro and loved that and I guess this is like metro but with alot more

[@valisbyte8461]

Don't compare it to Starfield pls

[@UpstartApollo9]

I like how there are a lot of videos surrounding S.T.A.L.E.R now, makes me so happy.

[@dleerob]

Thank you for this video. Never played Stalker before and didn't know anything about it. But seeing how excited gamers who have played it are about Stalker 2 coming out, I decided to look into it. This video has made me very excited to play Stalker 2.

[@DrybearGamers]

Enjoy! :D

[@sillkthashocker]

I love how they didn't change the inventory menu much

[@djdribbles8515]

Thank you! Found this just in time. Best telling of the lore I found so far. Now I know the story.

[@DrybearGamers]

You're welcome! I'm glad you found it helpful.

[@jawnTem]

One of the best Stalker views, viewed so far. Awesome! I have all of the previous games, but strangely, I never completed any of them. I spent more time just exploring and having fun, so I never got to the end to understand why.

[@roguegargoyle914]

Decent recap of what came before, thanks for the reminders.

[@jynova]

I’ve waited so many years for this release I can’t believe it’s here. Most recently had been playing StalkerZ mod for DayZ which was pretty cool. See you all in the zone!

[@TheMostOrdinaryMan]

The original games were based off a book called Roadside Picnic, in which aliens visit earth and turn it into a dumpster with artifacts and anomalies. Stalkers are basically illegal hunters that venture into the zones to find these artifacts. The games were basically the same plot (except the aliens are now the government) with obviously a lot more added content, but they kept the bolt throwing option to find invisible zones that could kill you in seconds, one of many small details. Great book and great series of games. Glad they made it through the war to produce the new game for fans. RIP to the developer Vladimir "Fresh" Yezhov, he died during the Battle of Bakhmut in 2022 defending Ukraine.

[@jjtninja]

Great book. Love it. If you play some of the standalone mods, they put more references to the book in it, like the DeathLamp artifact.

[@FeekyChucker]

One of the devs didn't make it, unfortunately.

[@TheMostOrdinaryMan]

@@FeekyChucker Yeah Vladimir "Fresh" Yezhov, he died during the Battle of Bakhmut. The studio actually closed down at one point and the entire team was fighting on the frontlines. Probably one of the only studios to be actively fighting a war and developing a video game at the same time.

[@davidgarcia8782]

'Wanted to live in a free area' God I wish we had one of these in Australia. Good vid! I learned something today👍

[@mazethemercenary]

Agreed. I had no idea Albo was a lefty authoritarian. What a wanker.

[@UltimoBushido]

Thank you, I need this because I was scared on why stuff was happening. I saw electricity strike randomly, a mutant that’s invisible killing people while at night time. I was scared in the tutorial and almost uninstalled the game.

[@akaromaris]

Great video. I'm ready to be a STALKER now

[@DrybearGamers]

Good luck!

[@kojo2882]

Great video! Thanks for the recap, it's been a long time since i played the old games haha

[@DrybearGamers]

Enjoy!

[@leonardopierri4791]

Duty is basically the S.C.P Foundation of stalker

[@reapersasmr5483]

With the small issues i can over look as i am having a great time with it .. its fun watching a mini battle play out.. all that free loot

[@cptncutleg]

Reminder that the fallout from Chernobyl blew over a lot of the world resulting in radiation poison and livestock miscarriages across the world

[@grozacompany1989]

Dude, it is based on the book. Science fiction novel "Roadside picnik"

[@octopushands6923]

Yea this guy's a retard

[@ertai222]

You can't say shit like that ​@@octopushands6923

[@cptncutleg]

Very, very loosely. It's based on the Stalker film which is based on the book.

[@Cerberus0076]

According to Steam Charts,nr 1 Prepaid pre-ordered,i hope the Servers can handle the download Storm 😅 As a veteran,I can't wait to get my hands on this. Great content, keep it up mate 👍thx, and see ya in the zone

[@MEOW-Clique-Jay]

Short version: my download went much faster than usual, so hope that's a sign that the servers are good. Director's Cut: I started my download on Xbox, yesterday from my phone evening. Often I can't get on Day One gameplay if GamePass doesn't have cloud set up if I don't start a download ahead of time. I was pleasantly surprised to see it was ready when I went to check how much longer it would take. I hope that same sort of thing is the case for anyone else looking to play.

[@BogartFK]

Never played a stalker before, I can’t wait. Thanks!

[@darcinek]

Just a reminder Ur gonna get your cheeks clapped

[@Sinn0100]

So... I guess I am in the smaller Stalker fan camp. I have been a Stalker fan since the first game released. I picked up my copy of Stalker 2 for the Series X, and I love it. Addendum- I am Duty. While I love and cherish freedom. I am only in it to keep my people free. This means all zones must be contained before they bleed into my nation.

[@Substanz96]

This is exactly what I needed. It's been WAY too long since I played the original STALKER games

[@milosaintclaire]

I first heard of Chernobyl from my grandparents when I was young. Fascinated with it since in a scientific way. I've read and seen a lot of stuff on it. I highly recommend watching the HBO miniseries Chernobyl.

[@jawnTem]

I was a young man when it happened. What a tragedy to experience & live through. The news was horrible.

[@valisbyte8461]

Minor nitpick, it wasn't radiation that made the reactor 4 concrete top to blow off. It was the insane amount of steam pressure contained in the reactor itself from the fission going critical releasing high amounts of energy, which made more steam. The process of nuclear power is kinda like the steam engine: heat from the fire produces steam from water, which in turn moves the pistons to create energy. In a reactor, we have the same principle, instead of the fire, we have the nuclear material undergoing fission, which releases the energy needed to heat the water.

[@apexfenix9623]

It's currently 11:58 and GOD I wish it was a midnight release

[@michaelkhachaturian7440]

I wonder if there will be night vision like in COP, that would be great for stealth

[@mrrager1409]

you already know stalker, and if not with full mod support...it wont take long.

[@FatalFist]

Hard to imagine not. I recall even some of the suits you get had vision alterations too in the first game.

[@Moderation_Dodger]

Fun fact; the Chernobyl exclusion zone will be uninhabitable for at least 20,000 years.

[@SilverFoxUK87]

If you don’t have the patience to read books there is the stalker film on pirate bay.

[@EldritchRoots]

It's literally free on youtube

[@theiconimage7200]

Finally a stalker 2 video that’s not regurgitating the same info with the same footage

[@nighthawkrad]

Stalker has never been an acronym, at most it is an English language backronym. Stalker means сталкер, which is just the Russian transliteration of the English word and was the name of the Tarkovsky movie, probably because it sounded cool. But maybe in the game universe they made it that way to appeal more to the mass public, kind of like the SPECIAL system in Fallout. Backronyms always sound cool.

[@Koushin9915]

So it’s got more F.E.A.R vibe in it I guess? The SF, the paranormal, etc PS: I know the Stalker 1 released before Fear, I’m just referring to the game I played

[@darcinek]

Yeah even the acronym that doesn't really mean anything

[@ReforgeGaming]

definitely helpful tips, i hear the Stalker 2 gameplay is somewhat challenging

[@ejgames8484]

Coming from a decent handful of gamma playthroughs. Absolutely loved gamma for it was my introduction to the stalker series. I haven’t played through the og series but in time i feel Ill get around to it. Looking forward to get my hands on this game im so hyped!

[@darcinek]

Gamma is absolutely the worst place to start You should play any of the og games with a gunslinger mod

[@ejgames8484]

@ i honestly loved it

[@ejgames8484]

@ ill get around to the ogs eventually

[@darcinek]

@@ejgames8484 i bet you loved it but it's not about if you liked it or not it just gives you a false impression of stalker Gamma is really different than the og games it's more like a knock off tarkov with a badly written stalker story

[@darcinek]

@@ejgames8484 you really should play the original games

[@To_Rue]

This is a great video! I really needed this before the game releases. I feel like I'm another body being briefed before I get sent to the zone

[@drkrowxbox510]

Played the first 3, cant wait for the new one!!!!

[@DrybearGamers]

One more sleep!

[@drkrowxbox510]

@DrybearGamers hell yea, but unfortunately I can't play on release as my daughter is home from school the hour before 😭😭

[@Jadzim27]

Im so glad to say that STALKER 2 won't have any bugs at all, its all anomalies

[@Dadwar_Real]

get your gear checked stalkers, its time to roll

[@abettermind]

Great refresher, I appreciate it. As soon as my shit internet finishes downloading, its time to boogaloo baby!

[@deanisplemoni]

Thank you for taking the time to make this!!

[@RyanWalker-z4n]

Thanks for the video! I’ve never played Stalker before and can’t wait to play the new one now 😎

[@apexfenix9623]

It's currently 3AM AND I HATE that I can't call off work to play this a whole day

[@gingyplays9843]

I'm about to come down with a severe case of butt whole clymidia 😂

[@adamfrazer5150]

Sidebar : has anyone watched the German series 'Dark' ?

[@moanjesus3270]

Honestly I’m knew and this made me so excited about play stalker 2 good lookin out gang

[@ForbidenNinja]

Fantastic recap!

[@DrybearGamers]

Glad you liked it!

[@mrbuIIets]

Awesome. 1st stalker game and I feel caught up. Thanks dude.

[@DrybearGamers]

Enjoy the game!

[@DanteKurosaki]

How Dangerous? Highly.

[@mrwidestrides4802]

Zone rule #56 If it glows don’t eat it

[@leoSaunders]

stalker was never an acronym. it was a retcon by the community

[@talonthorn]

Infamous, not famous, and Fukushima was much bigger. They turned off the radiation sensors, but even those that existed would have been overwhelmed by the release. FWIIW

[@brandonblackfyre5783]

*If you want to have some fun & have a laugh, keep rewinding the video at the VERY start of it... You can make a crazy beat with his first word* 😂😂

[@Mmmmb651]

Thank you so much for this video.

[@DrybearGamers]

Thanks for watching!

[@AAK625]

Thank you for this.

[@EvanMann7]

30 mins in and already been owned by a bloodsucker.😂

[@CENmassTER86]

Damn this Lore is thick. I had no idea

[@SCarter02767]

First one i played. Uninstalled. First mission where i had to stand in radioactive pool to get something to appear, radiation kills you in 8 sec, thing took 4/5 seconds. This shouldn't be mission 1. I should've been able to get my feet under me.

[@darcinek]

Well git gud You prolly went into an anomaly Just listen to what the man said to you and not just run anywhere you want to

[@lowkeypotatos4416]

the stutters and glitches in the nvidia vid that was posted today is such a bad sign. giving off major cyberpunk2077 release vibes

[@darcinek]

The acronym you refer to is just in the title The game was named this way for legal reasons Actually stalkers are just called stalkers no acronym

[@dontaylor4464]

I purchased the three older stalker games, but their gameplay was too outdated for me to enjoy. I eagerly anticipate the arrival of this new game tomorrow.

[@darcinek]

Install the gunslinger mod

[@RodneySmith-d7m]

you could be a great story teller! i enjoyed the video sir!

[@taylorgriffin6269]

I don't think that Monolith are "enhanced" in any way afaik they are just regular stalkers who are being mind controlled but not certain

[@FatalFist]

Just mindless drones rallied to the Cult of The Monolith (the Wishgranter artifact). I am curious as to see what the status is now of the world given that this is supposed to be modern day 2024. We may see Streylok given that Strider is supposed to make a return as well.

[@KomradeCPU]

you see, by design the c-councious filters the stalkers that become part of monolith simply because it takes a good one to get closer to the center of the zone, let alone the ones that got to the wish granter just to be brainwashed in the end.

[@NecroViolator]

They should of given people who own the elder games with some bonus stuff !..

[@mrcivilization112]

They just delayed the game until next year!!!! wtf!!!!!

[@ombra711]

Don't plan to get it, but this was a solid listen nonetheless

[@thomaswilson8210]

No reviews its coming out today giving me some red flags .im excited but trying not to let the hype dissipoint me .fingers crossed

[@shmeagol]

I played last night. The atmosphere and setting is great. Inventory and weapon switching is uhh..damn, pretty bad.

[@aship865]

So are there limited save points? Do you lose everything if you die?

[@redorange7912]

Thank you!

[@CameInStrong]

Stalker is getting a 0/10 from me until they fix these stupid issues. Stick drift on controllers is absolutely ridiculous. A mere mortal taking 10 shots to the chest and still surviving. Graphical errors up the ass. Settings not saving even though you saved it. Game is dark as shit for no reason. All these years and this is what they can come up with? Disgraceful.

[@darcinek]

It's really painful to watch for a long time fan that they didn't change their ways from 2007

[@kingkordy]

Just got my copy. On way home to play😊😊

[@Mad_Peasant_King]

I was excited for this game until I went into the settings to see no deadzone options at all... makes it unplayable if you have any kind of stick drift on a controller

[@kkgor]

Дякую за пояснення LORу внгломовній публіці :)

[@BaidenFunny]

What if I played it already without watching a video?

[@Taylor.L.]

12hrs

[@WorldGoods]

Get ready for jank

[@gamingfromjohnwayne]

So it's worth buying lol?

[@nrg4285]

Good content

[@GoogleMeAgain]

The game is difficult never played before went in at deep end dying consistently. Im useless at it 😂

[@darcinek]

Expect much more of that Just remember to learn from your mistakes Take on threats that you can deal with And in no time you will be in pripyat

[@interlinkedMedia]

That's a really long way of saying watch the film.

[@45atanner]

Can't even play on my pc says no memory error

[@GunmanNeek]

Is this actually gameplay or…?

[@steelej_fx]

games sooo good

[@lukalekov1530]

So A life is not in the game,npcs spawning in front of you 50m radius.Insanly bad bugs crashes poor optimization that i struggle on 4080ti to play in 2k so i would say wait until they fix the game cuz its pure shite now.A Life 2.0 was marketed etc.now its removed from their website and steam so no i got my refund and my friends as well.Its 13 of us who are very passionate about the game and we all got deluxe versions to supp the devs but got half baked game. He didn't mention this in the video cuz reasons we don't know. A lot of laws are broken since their release and the devs are kinda we will look into it.Hold of for now believe me i wanted this game to work but all of my friends refunded me included. Good luck stalkers

[@booboomcnubbin]

Does anyone have any clue if night vision will be in the game

[@ThatsGrimmy]

Merc numba 1

[@krazykuz13cmc]

GAME IS COMPLETELY FUCKING BROKEN ON CONSOLE. COMPLETELY UNPLAYABLE 🗑️

[@bombyo3634]

I told my boss ima stalker 2 for hours untill im obsessed with it and got in trouble......i need a new job.

[@aliensquid]

The sour Sony PlayStation fan base will shun this game even though they can play on pc also. Fanboyism is ruining gaming.

[@yankeehunter3466]

Streamers and content creators ruin everything about new games

[@DrybearGamers]

Because you watched a recap of the original games from 15+ years ago?

[@qazz6209]

If people don't know what Chernobyl is I am guessing they are from America

[@CoDGameplayz]

Whoa there buddy. we know Chernobyl. We’ve played cod 4 I’ll have you know

[@FatalFist]

Pretty sure 2010 opened a lot of eyes due to the Fukishima Power Plant meltdown. Then again I knew what Chernobyl was as far back as middle school in the 1990s

[@milosaintclaire]

American here. I first heard of Chernobyl from my grandparents when I was young. Fascinated with it since in a scientific way. I've read and seen a lot of stuff on it. I highly recommend watching the HBO miniseries Chernobyl.

[@gingyplays9843]

Oh trust me we know of chernobyl. Especially in my area we have our own reactors locally and they taught us all about cherno just in case

[@snooproach8500]

You assuming Americans not knowing anything about Chernobyl just shows how much more uneducated you are than the people you're criticizing🤣

[@escape808]

Looks like another hard pass

[@-jackel-2325]

your not a S.T.A.L.K.E.R

[@darcinek]

@@-jackel-2325 dude you don't need to show us you haven't played the games or at least didn't pay attention

[@jaredweiman2987]

85 videos from the same 10 channels using recycled STALKER 2 footage and press releases is usually a bad sign this close to release. I want this to be good. The community needs this to be good. I have serious doubts with a review embargo that's in effect until an hour before launch, shady system specs (yes I can run it on my rig) that seems to mandate upscaling tech, and the general instability of UE5.

[@Terrince_Tate]

Don't worry about the review embargo. You'll be able to play it and give your own opinion. The game looks phenomenal, in my opinion. I can't wait to finally jump in soon. As for the performance, I think it will be fine.

[@DrybearGamers]

Only the official footage can be used for B-Roll so our hands are tied as creators. At this point we just have to hope it works out :)

[@connorofaolain117]

I'm just super glad that they somehow managed to keep us away from spoilers. Play it and see if you like it - if not, refund it. Reviews have never been a good indication for games, and especially not these days where it most often depends on how much developers pay them or how liked they are...

[@jayare2583]

I think people just need to temper down expectations a bit..did anyone see nividias video put out today? Games stuttering in the damn showcase 😅

[@connorofaolain117]

Could also title it: "How to get spoilered a day prior to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2"

[@DrybearGamers]

All of this is content from the original games from 15+ years ago. No spoilers are here from S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2

[@connorofaolain117]

@@DrybearGamers I mean yeah, no story spoilers I guess. But there's lots of people who've never played Stalker before, and it is a vastly different experience literally not knowing anything compared to already being informed about the basic things imo (which includes mechanics, gadgets, lore etc.).

[@zlg96]

He literally titled it story and lore so I think people would know what they're clicking on. Some people want to be caught up on the story so they know what's going on when they pick up the game.

[@fubarexress6359]

No. No. No. watching this video is in no way going to spoil your experience. to be honest, I think a lot of people would find value in this because stock team is not going to hold your hand in any way shape or form and frankly people are used to. I predict the majority of players will need guides to complete the game. So this is perfectly fine.

[@mr.spartacus6390]

@@connorofaolain117strelok WAS the strelok the whole time, how’s that for a spoiler Also your comment is like putting spoiler warnings on the original metal gear solid. Like if you where gonna hop into it, you already would’ve and you’d be so unbelievably lost without the spoiler it wouldn’t even be fun

[@pawe3489]

DLC and ua no thanks

[@christopherchimp9615]

Huh