Exploring Outside The Map - STALKER 2

In this I compare the cut content locations and unfinished out of bounds areas in stalker 2 that are present in the original stalker games.
What other areas would you like to see come back?
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[@Zlotykur]

BTW about 200-300 meters west from Tornado Arch anomaly is Original Oasis location (in out of bound location)

[@ZoneSlug]

@@Zlotykur Thank you I since was told about this

[@el_barto96]

Interesting, the fact that they bothered to model this likely means it'll come up as DLC content. Perhaps in a short exploration quest? Since Lymansk is also modeled (means they did bother to create unique assets for this place), coupled with the disturbing radio frequency one can tune in to (radio is located opposite the bridge leading into the town), makes it a very strong contender for a future DLC. If random internet strangers are to be trusted, a DLC named "Shadows of Lymansk" has already been leaked anyway.

[@bruhtholemew]

All of these seem like they could return in dlc or updates. You should do a video on the places that seem to be lost forever. Like the Krug Antenna Complex basement, or Yantar Production Complex and Brain Scorcher interiors.

[@ZoneSlug]

Good idea thank you I’ll look into them

[@javierbayon741]

If ifs and buts where peanuts and nuts Stalker 2 would be a decent game, but it's basically just a preAlpha lie

[@rlowethewitch8417]

Damn, even unfinished, some of the areas look really good, almost like a photograph!

[@javierbayon741]

Graphics are what have ruined stalker. Sure, some things look really good, but if everything is popping up as you walk it's just dumb

[@LidlRaccoon]

STALKER level designs are so good. Such beautiful games.

[@GuilhermeLPC]

I really wonder if we'll get Jupiter Underground, which is my favorite area in all of STALKER. The main open area exists already, its completely sealed off and you only get there in the ending. GSC has the potential to expand a lot on the laboratories lore by expanding the tunnels and connecting them in a way, even if they would still be innaccessible from the tunnels.

[@ZoneSlug]

That would be really cool

[@Hazukro]

the underground is partially available in the game, the big room at the end at least and the entrance warehouse at the end of jupiter. i was also hoping for more since this area is also one of my favorites. always marked the point when the game peaks for me.

[@neromastic4512]

I really hope for Stalker 2's future to see more areas to be explored I really hoped to see the Powerplat itself up close or well the Duga But you can only see them from afar with Duga I was even more sad that you could not climb it as its walled off in each surrounding.

[@ZoneSlug]

@@neromastic4512 yeah it would be good to climb the duga and get that sniper!

[@neromastic4512]

@@ZoneSlug The Sniper wasn't my focus for climbing the Duga But rather the Enjoy the Perspective of a Radar that I might never see in person Maybe someday.

[@20985229147]

I like how they are essentially taking old maps and making them "overgrown". It makes logical sense and from game design perspective avoids repetition of visiting same places over and over again.

[@ZoneSlug]

@@20985229147 Yes the trees and nature overtaking the zone slowly is cool, more nature type anomalies and mutated plants would be interesting

[@deltaforce2780]

they are just making it more true to life i imagine like they did with the maps positioning of locations, the zone irl is pretty overgrown as nature reclaims pretty quick

[@Pizzoots]

Your videos are amazing, man. It’s so interesting seeing all of these areas look 50% done and some even more so.i hope all of these areas return in expansion packs

[@ZoneSlug]

Thank you ❤

[@filipstudeny]

I think we will get these location in the DLCs 1st DLC - Limansk and Jupiter with smaller extension to Prypiat (there is a radio with screams on a rooftop, which might be an indication for it) 2nd DLC - Iron Forest and small part of CNPP

[@DrakGames8]

2nd dlc is actually suppose to be cold island, a new snowy region north east of sircaa, it was found in a leaked document from gsc game world about a year back, cold island is also referenced in the main game on a pda from kalyna on the sultansk. Gsc game world has said however, that they will add the cut content to the game due to the success of stalker 2, so we will likely get 3 or 4 dlcs now.

[@lesfigx]

There are also the CoP Oasis facilities beyond the tornado anomaly in Yaniv

[@ZoneSlug]

@@lesfigx Thanks I’ll take a look

[@Gunnar192]

Very cool, looking forward to potentially exploring these areas! Thank you for the video.

[@ZoneSlug]

@@Gunnar192 Thank you!

[@zlostnypopolnik]

Good presentation and atmosphere. Very good videos, you have one more subscriber.

[@ZoneSlug]

I appreciate it a lot :)

[@peopeloid7567]

Guys pls stop, dead city doesn't exist in original trilogy. Its cut content from earliest builds, available only in community modifications. In stalker2 we, have Chernobyl-2, its pretty decent analogue of the "dead city", at least in my opinion.

[@OXY187]

The majority of the players are Anomaly players, not the original trilogy.

[@jacwd3]

@@OXY187 I am more of the original trilogy. Never played Anomaly nor interested and I have replayed the games many times.

[@CYbeRuKRaINiaN]

​​​@@OXY187 Majority? I don't think so. Played only originals, without any mods (not planning to play anything other than them and S2)

[@someshambler5536]

I played the Originals and played anomaly + Gamma :)

[@F1stzz]

And on top of that Chernobyl-2 is a real existing town in contrary to a completely made-up Dead City 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@SMGJohn]

STALKER 2 is essentially GSC Game Worlds original vision. A complete zone without loading screens. STALKER Oblivion Lost was also massive in scope but the X-Ray engine just was not capable of loading the entire map at the same time.

[@bomber9912]

Well, Unreal isnt able to load the entire map either and A-Life doesnt work outside of your radius and it will most likely never work because the engine is too demanding while the product isnt properly optimized. The original Clear Sky had a better implementation than Stalker 2 does, especially when it comes to Offline A-Life. It had distant gun shots indicating fights, map markers for individual Stalker groups that were processed in real time and globally, there even were pda notifications. NPCs were actively fighting for strategic positions and defend them, whereas in Stalker 2 they go into idle mode and despawn after some time. Later modding then optimized and fully used X-Ray engine to its entire potential and this is i believe as close as we will ever get to GSCs original vision.

[@SMGJohn]

@@bomber9912 Unreal loads whats necessary, there no loading screens for you when you traverse the various regions, thats a fact. While Unreal is probably the worst game engine ever made for how poorly put together it is with Unreal 4 being superior in many aspects but that in itself being a poor engine. The developers alongside Microsoft put together a coherent product, and while broken, unstable, its at least being worked on unlike majority of AAA games being released today, STALKER 2 is an AA game apparently since its budget did not qualify it for AAA. A-Life seems neutered on purpose for performance reasons, people already unlocked it with mods and, it aint running too great frame wise. So I think Microsoft when they helped GSC optimise it before launch, decided to just neutered A-Life so the game would at least run.

[@F1stzz]

@@bomber9912 ...and it took a bit more than 6 months of patches for A-Life in CS to work properly in a world 3 times lesser sized. The release state of CS was a dumpster fire of unimaginable proportions, but all of a sudden it's the best thing that happened to the franchise now 😂

[@sesad5035]

Newer forks of the X-Ray engine can. It's possible to make it into a big open world map, but I'd would take a shit load of time

[@Cragmortis]

So much to explore and it isn't even the games final form.

[@ZoneSlug]

The map is great and will only get better

[@ivaylonikolov7138]

Good content! Also if you google Stalker 2 full map you can see that there are quite alot of places missing which may be added later.

[@FogLover-e3n]

I think you better use a CNPP fom SoC because there is done CNPP with all textures. In Clear sky we have only one side of CNPP

[@ZoneSlug]

@@FogLover-e3n it’s much harder to get footage in SoC because of limitations like cannot remove hud etc so that’s why I chose CS for now

[@Dinoponeros]

Last time I was near the iron forest and heard gunshots from there, I saw npc fighting in the iron forest just near the wall, they can spawn in it ! Interesting

[@ZoneSlug]

@@Dinoponeros if you watch my a life video you will see why

[@drakodrizzt7795]

I'm not gonna see this one because I don't want to spoil myself unknown locations or how do they look now, compared to previous games. But either way posting a comment to lend you my support man. I really like your content🎉

[@ZoneSlug]

Thank you very much I notice how supportive you are it means a lot!

[@h0undiwnl]

great work as always

[@ZoneSlug]

Appreciate it thank you

[@arsenii_yavorskyi]

that radio transmission was so Event Horizon! in fact, wasn't there a scene in one of the old trailers with something that looks like the Core from the movie?

[@raptor_225]

yeah, It's in the game and you can see it directly if you play the game for Ward

[@ZoneSlug]

I’ve never seen that I’ll have to watch it :)

[@ross_boss]

My only guess is that they ran out of time or money and left out these areas. I believe 100% there will be a DLC letting us explore these areas

[@kryptex5920]

I really enjoy your content

[@ZoneSlug]

Thanks a lot :)

[@mouthbreathingnormie1825]

Hey Slug, do you do requests? Since there is no character-viewer but there are all these cool armor sets, could you do a showcase of some of the most popular/interesting/cool-looking armor’s? You give the best tours of the Zone! 👊🏻

[@ZoneSlug]

@@mouthbreathingnormie1825 I’ll definitely look into what I can do :) thank you!

[@mouthbreathingnormie1825]

@ I would be much obliged!

[@stephennugent9958]

I remember before or after I tuned the radio frequency I saw an NPC on the other side at night (with their head torch on) turn away as if they were watching me but obviously that's just A-Life messing with me.

[@ZoneSlug]

Got you looking over your shoulder 😂

[@WaterboardedDriftwood]

what if it wasnt boy

[@BillyTubememe]

That is not the Bitumen anomaly. That is the crack seen on the Call of Prypiat PDA map.

[@ZoneSlug]

stalker-map.online/map/cop North of the plant is exactly where i filmed it, you can see

[@southernbrain691]

I hope that crack becomes explorable

[@BaylieMaylie]

I hope they either add an Endgame+ or something like Gamma where you are just a random person in the world of Stalker. I would love to actually explore locations without being story blocked

[@OXY187]

Gamma 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@mr1357989]

by gamma you mean anomaly, gamma is just anomaly with some preset mods already paired with the download

[@ZoneSlug]

@@BaylieMaylie It would be good to have more of a feeling that you’re just another stalker and you make your own story, I assume modders would eventually provide this, I’d like to start with different factions and stuff

[@megagamememe]

​@@mr1357989by anomaly you mean call of chernobyl, anomaly is just call of chernobyl with some preset mods already paired with the download

[@F1stzz]

As if Skif ain't quite literally a random person that entered the Zone, lol. None of S2 endings are truly suitable for an "Endgame+" scenario apart from Strelok one maybe, but then again - what's the point in having the "Endgame+" mode if you gotta stick to a certain playthrough for it to become available?

[@177Willy]

The old games were more immersive more atmospheric and more finished

[@ZoneSlug]

@@177Willy I do love the feel of the original games

[@F1stzz]

Can only give you a big ahh LMAO at "more finished" part 😁

[@peteblabla9684]

funny thing is, i have stashes in the ccnp and generators lol. marked on the map.

[@OptimizingNetwork]

They definitely mention CNPP plenty of times to be included into a DLC I also emailed GSC awhile ago and suggested return of Clear Sky as a DLC, a real Clear Sky, not that they are not thinking about it already.

[@ZoneSlug]

Yeah clear sky was one of my favourite factions id like to see them again

[@evgeniy.r]

Класс, по больше такого ❤

[@ZoneSlug]

Thank you bro ❤️

[@yourtags4876]

where is this?

[@ZoneSlug]

These are outside of the playable map for now, limansk is west of red forest, Jupiter north west of map and cnpp is northeast

[@marceloalejandro8228]

I remember triggering an event/mission at the jupiter cement factory in a leaked build, something about a bloodsucker and a dead stalker The elevator shaft was modelled with working collisions and some odd connections

[@NazarovSimovich]

Yes! I was playing a build from 2022 and seem MANY of the semi completed stuff from then being cut out. (CNPP unfinished interrior, Jupiter, and also Oasis, and generators!)

[@marceloalejandro8228]

@@NazarovSimovich May 2022? What build is it? Is it v0.3.0 b49ee388?

[@NazarovSimovich]

@@marceloalejandro8228 I dont remember the specific build, i think it was 0.28 or something like that

[@marceloalejandro8228]

@@NazarovSimovich If you find any info on the version you played please let me know

[@NazarovSimovich]

@@marceloalejandro8228 The areas werent fully completed, but there was the turbine hall in CNPP, and a bunch of seemingly throen together areas outside and under the map, game was not playable at the time and many of the dtuff that was in there uncompleted at the time i cant find in 1.0

[@GamerBravo7]

For some reason I like old textures more. For example old CNPP was rusty, brown, it was in epicenter of blowouts and anomaly activities from noosphere. Stalker 2 seems too clean. I know that in irl Chernobyl is pretty clear place, but in game it should be localized post apocalypse . Or may be I was just inprinted with original trilogy for most of my life. Does new players like the look of stalker 2 more than original?

[@ZoneSlug]

@@GamerBravo7 I like the old atmosphere too

[@eiss420]

Yeah i also like the the textures from old STALKERs more

[@frankhorrigan835]

Im kinda dissapointed that a lot of locations are not in the base game

[@ZoneSlug]

I feel that they originally intended them to be in

[@ghost-rv9vy]

@@ZoneSlug There is an article in EuroGamer with the developers where they say they literally got tired of working on the game for so long so just released it unfinished. What a bunch of hacks.

[@polomarco7053]

​@@ghost-rv9vycould you share the name of the articles please?just to be sure if i found the right one.

[@SMGJohn]

@@ghost-rv9vy Show it

[@F1stzz]

@@ghost-rv9vy that is not at all what was stated in the mentioned article, but I guess trolling is a choice 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@LaughingMan44]

I don't get why they made such a big open world instead of a more condensed but interesting experience. It's not fun running across the map to get to places for quests, exploration does not feel fulfilling as it's usually just the same boring fights with mutants or npcs. Lack of A-Life really made traversing the zone feel frustrating more than it is immersive.

[@CrabsJohnson]

It's easier to market "huge seamless open world with no loading screens!!!" to mass audiences. Plus people crucified Fallout 4 and Starfield for still having loading screens.

[@ghost-rv9vy]

Really serves to highlight how unfinished and half-baked the 'final product' we were sold is. It should have been released early access but instead they lied and claim it's v1.0 when this is evident for all of us to see the truth, game was no-where near finished.

[@SMGJohn]

How much do they pay you on telegram? 350 or 450 ruble?

[@jaxsonmcphee1807]

My brother is Christ give them some slack, they managed to release a triple AAA game that wasn’t completely unplayable. Nor was the map half baked, they have plans for dlcs. AND NOT TO MENTION THEY MADE IT WHILE THERE COUNTRY WAS GETTING BOMBED BY RUSSIA. So take a look at the rest of the triple AAA game studios rn and take this game with a grain of salt. edit: forgot to mention they have been working on fixing bugs since launch. So that also a plus

[@ghost-rv9vy]

@@jaxsonmcphee1807 Already refunded. Screw them.

[@WaterboardedDriftwood]

THe CNPP genuinely looks so beautiful, In my opinion they should have ditched the generators area and focused on the CNPP, but that might just be me not liking change and such (which would explain why i hate how they shunned duty compared to in the original games)

[@ZoneSlug]

@@WaterboardedDriftwood I’m hoping they have dlc plans for clear sky and duty

[@WaterboardedDriftwood]

@@ZoneSlug that would be awesome

[@F1stzz]

The Center of the Zone has always been the Generators, it's where the whole Anomalous Area was created in the first place - what "changes" are you blabbering about?

[@Gizz101]

​@@F1stzztourist

[@grogroge]

get out of here