STALKER 2 News Update! Developers Respond, Release Issues, A Life System Problems, Mods and More!

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[@Antidepressiva1980]

@LastKnownMeal Welcome back brethren. Keep them videos coming ! You are the goat. Roger and out.

[@LastKnownMeal]

@@Antidepressiva1980 Thanks for watching!

[@joshuajaimes121]

Although the game has a lot of bugs, I’m still having a blast on my series x!

[@acay5722]

Played for 15 hours, the only 2 bugs i ever encountered were an injured stalker floating above his bed and the crosshair disappearing after reloading, but coming back when you aim. A lot of bugs? Which game are you playing?

[@Eclipsed_Phoenix]

Same here on PC. The 4070ti holds up well with most settings on Epic. Def frame drops in some areas but no biggie. I did run into 1 frustrating bug, the one artifact in a cave near the first town you go to, wasn't spawning no matter what I did. Kept reloading and kept dying in the fire. After watching videos I was literally standing right on top of it several times but no dice. Eventually gave up and moved on. Oh well. I'll come back later on.

[@Khtras]

​@@acay5722 On series X, I see a lot of graphical issues, and the fixed deadzone is a big issue. It kills the combat for me

[@Dr_Maximus84]

True 10 hours in only had Ai bugs that’s it

[@smokingirishman7820]

​@acay5722 So i'm pretty sure that my character is a meth addicted, adhd fiend If I walk slightly left or slightly right, my character will continue walking without my input Many times as i'm looking any direction, my character will continue looking that direction indefinitely, and I guess this would be good if I was like an auto turret, because I could just spin around with the ease of a turret But fundamentally, when your character starts walking without you whoa, that's a broken game, that's not a bug that's just a piece of s*** game that doesn't even address that forty percent of xbox players are having this issue.....

[@RastaGamesful]

It's great that the game sold 1 million copies in 2 days, this is definitely a success for such a game. And once again it shows that people are interested in this game and it has its main and large audience that was ready to return to the Zone after so much time since the release of Call of Pripyat.

[@russia4biden221]

Its not a success that it was released unfinished and badly optimized

[@crm484]

After 9-10 hours, I dont really have any major bugs. Enemies dont spawn in front of me, but they spawn fast in same area when I leave. I am only worried about the CPU optimization and then I hope everyone gets satisfied with the AI. It sounds like it was very good in the older game. Hope that it can be as good in this. I am having fun , and its great to be a newbie and learning how to survive in the zone.

[@caerbenogg]

It's so buggy but I can't stop playing! :D I imagine how good it will be when they fix the main problems with A.I. and performance!

[@Adam-mo2qw]

40fps mode on series s please! I will purchase the mode!

[@justinfaulcon9498]

My only real complaint is the mantle system could be much better you should be able to climb most things that are waist high but it just seems weird

[@flexdon5188]

@@justinfaulcon9498 yeah lol, feels like after the prologue there aren't really many spots it's actually useful

[@justinfaulcon9498]

@ and my man climbed the truck and jumped the perimeter no problem so come on where is that enthusiasm after the fact?

[@jimothyblyan309]

Got the game last night and absolutely love it!! My only issue i have is Deadzone/stickDrift, i tweaked my settings and made it lesso but overall a great game. An update that fixes that issue would be great. Enjoying it atm. 10/10 recommending to all the homies

[@christhom670]

That is my biggest issue also. Not a fan of enemies spotting you from hundreds of yards away either.

[@dogtags2010]

Anyone else had the starter town constantly having the anomaly storm every time you start to approach it. Ive been to town 15 plus times and im yet to see it not have a storm.

[@mcastro550]

Are you talking about an Emission? If you are doing the main quest to go to the next area when approaching the town it’s a scripted event to teach you what it is and to hide inside until it’s over.

[@dogtags2010]

@mcastro550 yeah mate but I've been getting it constantly x

[@Szilagyicsabaistvan]

​@@dogtags2010the whole town died on my play through. Emission for days. Had to revert to an older save.

[@dogtags2010]

Im also not convinced that the armour on different suitsis making any difference at all. I can have one on with no physical protection and take tge same amount of damage from a viper shot as when im wearing a high physical armour suit.

[@137Dubstep]

Wouldn't physical attacks refer to the damage various critters inflict. I know theres an anomaly artifact that specifically reduces bullet damage specifically. Curious if certain higher tear armor differentiates the two.

[@Marlboro-lights1]

A massive issue is that people seem to not understand what stalker is. It’s not Skyrim with guns. It’s not far cry. It’s a brutal death simulator.

[@RazasEnvoy]

Let them figure it out by themselves over time

[@StaccatoFry]

Nope. It has issues. Don't be that guy

[@8bitflea]

It’s the new guys. They are not used to stalker games.

[@givemeanameman1]

Stealth isn't working... I get spotted through concrete walls.

[@bucketheadrox]

That don't mean my screen needs to shrink into the top right!

[@flexdon5188]

My personal nit-pick is the death screen, fixed first person death POV, which then cuts to a game over screen! That is not Stalker 👎 When it should be a real time third person POV, ragdoll n all, just like the OG, what's the point if not to show what your killers get up to after they kill you, bandits looting you, mutants dragging you off to feast, not to mention anomalies, dying to a springboard is underwhelming as F and doesn't even showcase what happens, Skiff's biology appears to be built different and just falls over when he gets pulled into it... They need not change it, but I think classic options should be available in the settings, that applies to most things I think.

[@TheRealRusDaddy]

My favorite bug ive seen was a hoard of rats spawn in front of the first town and literally everyone came running over and unloaded everything they had and the rats were glitching out in place and their quickly despawning and respawning made the corpses rubberband around for a couple seconds and i thought it was something bigger attacking

[@panhoracy8254]

I had constant stutters that made me almost stop playing until they fixed it. But I found on steam community set of launch options, that made the problem disappear. Like, it's quite amazing, the difference is staggering, like night and day, 95% of stutters are gone. Now I'm basically having them like anyone else (before I had one every time I moved the camera too rapidly)

[@Choteron3]

Game looks really promising but i will wait for more quality of life updates. I will grab it in one year probably.

[@andrewfontaine4833]

probably the better option for newer fans

[@RThauby]

if it's on gamepass, sure. i got it on steam and refunded it. it's just so frustratingly rough and buggy.

[@Chinuch330]

​@@andrewfontaine4833 tf does this have to do with newer fans, it's a completely polished game for older fans?

[@v.m.6549]

​@@Chinuch330older fans have been playing the older games with +50 mods, none of the 3 prequels were perfect on their vanilla version, so Stalker 2 not being perfect on launch is not really a big deal for them, i guess.

[@Chinuch330]

@@v.m.6549 so just because the older games were "not perfect" on launch they get a clean slate for every other release? in what world does that make sense? you're presenting it like an achievement.

[@Terrince_Tate]

A-Life being broken is a no-go for me. The lighting and showdows need work as there are no showdows at all in the game. While I'm glad the game is finally out, it is mared with issues that pretty much ruin the Stalker experience. Hopefully, GSC can focus up and fix the AI along with A-Life fixed soon.

[@Tonius126]

Probably in a year for everything to be fixed. I'll wait till then.

[@TheVancanslam]

Bruh are you saying there's literally no shadows in the game? Have you even played it? There is plenty of shadows and they look dope, that's just wrong to go after the game for the dang shadows lol, are you playing using any sort of upscaler perhaps ?

[@Terrince_Tate]

@TheVancanslam Human shadows, mussle flashes when firing your weapon and more. While the game looks good, it's missing features that the original games had. I play on a 4090. The biggest issue I want to see resolved is stickdrift and A-Life working as intended.

[@TheVancanslam]

@@Terrince_Tate do you not see how that is a far cry from "there are no shadows at all in the game"? Game needs lots of work though but it's still good and fun to play for now.

[@Terrince_Tate]

@TheVancanslam There are tons of issues but still fun for sure. Hopefully, we see fixes sooner rather than later.

[@cubanallstars81]

The most annoying thing I find is that my invert vertical choice keeps reverting back after every play.

[@bung0o]

Stalker 2 feels more like metro than it does stalker tbh. Also what’s good with every indoor area being PITCH black

[@Ahtnagarp]

A-life is basically the Stalker game itself. It makes the game exactly like the Sims 3, but in The Zone

[@RSProduxx]

including woohoo? :)

[@linklovezelda]

​@@RSProduxx Woohoo with a bloodsucker 🤤

[@jiji12boji2]

I'm on Linux and other than a launch options is running well for now

[@lambrettaking472]

To be fair I'm not experiencing any issues other than a couple of bugs which are not gamechanging to me not getting any drift either and the performance to me at any rate is great playing on a 4K tv, even my missus says the graphics look stunning iIm playing the physical version on Xbox series X only about 7hrs in but so far it's brilliant and I'm really enjoying it.

[@DocHoliday-sm2hh]

I'm 28 hours in and almost all of that is just exploring the starting area and Garbage. It's a lot of fun as is, but when A-life is fixed it'll be a much better experience I think. I kind of want to stop for now, but it's hard not to play this.

[@LastKnownMeal]

Definitely, sometimes ALife will give some natural situations but then it breaks, it's spawn city. Worst example I encountered was actually in Garbage in Train Station with at least 6 npcs just standing in the ground with only head being above concrete lol

[@2DGorillaz22]

remember Skyrim came out buggy as hell but its still really popular and very active game its still #1 on nexus too

[@chadsellars2677]

I am playing on series x and it's not a Buggy mess, I am having a rate good time on it. Been waiting for this. Amazing game

[@russia4biden221]

Yeah you xbox kids are used to 15 fps

[@JoeB_BSc]

Hi LastKnownMeal, in other Stalker games and mods stutter in my experience and opinion can be caused by sync issues between graphics card and monitor. For example I was able to get an Acer Predator with G-Sync monitor and an Asus ROG graphics card in sync, ( I looked today and found Acer's XB3 monitor which in my opinion also has G-Sync. I bought the former combination about 7 or 8 years ago and experienced no stutter nor tearing on a Stalker mod called Stalkersoup. With this it was found waiting about 14 seconds by areas with a concentration of NPCs loading in, tended to work better. I have no affiliation with Asus nor Acer. I hope this helps. Thanks for a super helpful video. Regards JB

[@capo_zj3912]

On my PC sometimes I have huge lag spikes (maybe once every 2 hours). Just saving and reloading normally resets that. Ik the ai issues but it hasn’t been game breaking for me, just an easier experience. 8/10 for now until they fix the bugs/ ai. Otherwise love the game

[@russia4biden221]

topping at 40 fps with a 3080 should not be a thing with a game that looks as bad as this one

[@Maddhands]

Everyone complaining like crazy and I’m over here having a blast. Loving the game

[@violviorel4833]

i know the game is AMAZINGG

[@eagleone5456]

I am too but the problems with ALife are glaring. Also controller support is really lacking on Xbox. Otherwise it's beautiful and immersive

[@donatedpizza]

I'm enjoying it too, about 11 hours in, but the performance is really bad at times.

[@russia4biden221]

You are a shill who will buy any slop thrown in front of you because you are just an npc

[@ashymaru127]

im loving this game my biggest issue thus far is the lack of optimization when it comes to loading on an ssd. im not sure why but it seems that my game will start to load ill have good frames and everything is fine i move more than 100 feet from my last save point and i drop to 2-7 fps without fail and it becomes kind of a picaso painting across my screen and oddly enough i think its got to do with the games rendering too i will turn my resolution down to the lowest wait a few seconds then back to 1080p... mind you ive sat at the lowest resolution for an hour and it never got better until i returned to 1080p

[@teganbassingthwaighte2836]

My save is softlocked at sawmill mission cutscene wont play and teleports me into a locked building with no escape

[@NLDarkCloud]

Don’t you have a older save? Because I have a lot of them!

[@Benaforce]

It needs alot of polish, its quite fun but there is some really poor stuff in it such as how the NPC's interact with the player outside of scripted sequences. They often stare into the nether when you are standing point blank range to them...which ruins immersion. I can see this game really excelling in a year or so when modders have their way.

[@nuclear_panda86]

I hope they fix the fact that melee only lands about 1/3 of the time

[@BroDLoki]

by me the ai see me and then its a call of duty fight fight after the fight i cant even loot the place till the npc respawn and i need to fight again

[@Kinos141]

I want to know if there's a controller fix for Steam Deck.

[@S1l3ntReaper]

Love the game so far hopefully mods come to console aswell

[@pgamestv906]

Can we please make a big issue on the controller issue😂 that's a serious issue

[@madddogg8044]

I am literally not playing the game yet because of the controller issue. It sits downloaded but unplayed for now. If it takes to long going to have to put a review out.

[@plaguepandemic5651]

I've been bitching about it nonstop on Reddit hoping others will join in and GSC will take note

[@TheVancanslam]

What is the controller issue ?

[@anubisperry7234]

Lmao been playing with controller yet no issue....

[@BeWaterAndGodBless]

My pro controller I literally cannot play it bro it’s so bad when I use a regular controller tho it’s a lot better

[@TraviswWayne]

This is a very fun game. It gets you on the edge of your set

[@timecraft.online]

When is the patch coming ?

[@LastKnownMeal]

Maybe two weeks for some smaller stuff, we shall see but tough to know at the moment without more info

[@rgabi91]

U5 is famous for that bloody stutter. Dunno what can they do about it.

[@isaacw8055]

I just am struggling with the controller feeling really bad. I was having fun playing but yeah if that can get idk tightened up or something. I know some of it is bugs that will be corrected soon

[@guspaz]

I'm interested in checking it out, and I like the idea of supporting a Ukrainian company, but I'll wait to buy it until it's actually finished. The game was clearly not ready for release.

[@Musbei]

Download the mod on nexus mods that increases performance. Night and day. I can now run the game on max settings while streaming and I have 0 stutters and get over 80 frames consistently. Did not expect that from a mod but it's amazing.

[@Narniak69]

LOL, so within 48 hours unpaid modders can significantly fix the broken mess that it took many years for an entire development team to produce! Yup, sounds about right for the video game industry in Clown World 2024!

[@getjacked1]

@@Narniak69exactly, how disappointing

[@brupleal]

​@@Narniak69 yep, what they did in 48 hrs is way more important and significant than the last 48 hrs of your life as well, and the awesome mod community that exists and we all love only exists because of those "broken mess"es. Cyberpunk 2077 was a broken piece of shit, was a total scam, a failure beyond any concept, and look at them now (I still think it's garbage, but people are swallowing it...). Stalker 2 is good, and the fixes will make it even better.

[@Chinuch330]

​@@bruplealdelusional.

[@somerandomdan]

Which mod? There are a few

[@ThatDudeCalled]

I just want to be able to turn in a full 360 and not have it drop to lile 25fps...

[@dworgan29]

The invisible bullet sponge at the start is very annoying. Wtf is with that

[@Narniak69]

LOL, get used to that garbage because it's one of the main enemies! Basically they are there to eat up your ammo and healing resources. Kind of like random packs of 15-20 zombie dogs that magically spawn out of thin air, then run around like Usain Bolt on crack while they input read your aiming and attempts at healing. This all means the developers are not talented enough or just too lazy to program proper enemy AI.

[@Tax-ro2wg]

@@Narniak69literal skill issue , get good lol

[@Narniak69]

@@Tax-ro2wg Yo cool story bro!

[@shahared1]

@@Narniak69 Tell me you haven't played Stalker before without telling me you haven't played Stalker before.

[@RickDarko]

Yeah. Ememies spawn aroud you no n a ramdon way. Sometimes it helps. Enemies fight each other. I found a cool sniper rifle but is very damage , cots 16 000 coupons to fix. Too rich for me right now. 😢

[@forknife326]

I don't get the issues with the day night cycle. I play for a couple hours so i can actually go through a couple days which pretty good

[@dogtags2010]

The literal first 20 secs, youre shooting into a 6ft shed, the inside is as dark as a 3000ft deep pit. Its ridiculous, the lighting is a joke, you literally cant see past the 5ft torch in the game with lights and windows everywhere. Its pissing me off also how daylight seems to last 10 mins ingame time and nighttime 2 hours. Ai is terrible, mobs respawned 3 times after i cleared an area becauses i walkedinto a house and out again.

[@itzdom2553]

yeah having lighting in your ear for 2 hours sucks

[@Bgil0514]

Cry more get good

[@waseemelliott3643]

About the dark I'm on console so turn up your gama setting to 75 to 85 it might help... Love stalker 2

[@franciscopimentel5065]

Give these developers a break. Their head lead designer got killed in the Ukraine War during the games development. You don't have to like it but they have a valid reason why the game is in the state that it is in. They will fix it just let them and show a little compassion for what they had to go through just to make this game. At least the shit isn't woke

[@dogtags2010]

@@franciscopimentel5065 dude I don't care about the war. Don't release the game if its got all these issues. I'm.enjoying the game but it's a mess.

[@Kisame253]

9/10 Absolute Blast.

[@whisky37]

I have a 4070 super and I'm averaging 40 frames per second playing the game in 1080p which I consider to be unacceptable. I'm just going to wait I guess hopefully this gets fixed.

[@MrBartolbe42]

Is anyone else having an issue when fighting human enemys, getting stun locked by grenades? Because almost every single time I fight humans every five seconds on the dot, here comes another grenade.

[@thadc5937]

For the love of God how to i slide down a ladder on controller

[@hugostiglitz5604]

L3*

[@zachwilliams734]

Fixing the a life doesn’t matter if you can’t even see what you’re doing because the stuttering and frame drops are so bad

[@SvestPest]

As much as i loved all of the previous 3 games, A-Life not exist at all into S2, it's a no-go for me too. Fix should be top priority for devs, since most of the people loved that feature at previous games. Seen lot of videos 2 days now, with enemies literally spawn out of thin air around players, and was even worse than 2077 issue.

[@FailingUpwardz]

That's just not true. Played 13 hours, and (for me at least) the Alife system seems to be working as intended. No randomly spawning enemies ever.

[@vpremy3396]

There's a guy on the Stalker Reddit who tested A-life for 10 hours just to confirm it doesn't work/exist in the game. Plenty of others players with the same conclusion. Either you don't actually know what A-life truly is or you sir have a blessed copy of the game.

[@davidmujica4363]

@@FailingUpwardz stop lying

[@FailingUpwardz]

@davidmujica4363 Have you actually played it? Or are you just blindly believing everything you hear from KZbinrs? People need to play the thing themselves and then you have a right to have an opinion on it.

[@_Sevren_]

@@FailingUpwardzI’m playing it and there’s no way A-life is in this game

[@Impact36027]

Few months of patches and game will be perfekt

[@Tambyyyyyy]

I have a reload bug anyone know how to fix

[@DMTEntity88]

Yeah uninstall the game and wait for patches

[@bobbarnson1870]

Im digging the game but the spawns are brutal i had the boars bandits dogs bandits all one after another, and im hating sponginess of mutants. Bloodsucker took 12 shotty point blank.

[@garrysanderson5793]

When metacritic agrees with actual gamers on a ~75% score...... thats a FUCKING good game

[@brupleal]

Those guys deserve all our love and care. Being able to launch such a good and fun game with a war ongoing at your homeland, with loved ones in the frontlines and having to go through all that and still deliver, is overwhelming. 16 hours so far since launch, having a blast, saw some minor bugs only and had some framedrops, nothing nad enough to crash the game or stop the gameplay.

[@Chinuch330]

They didn't deliver though as they promised and yet they charged full price for it.

[@andrewfontaine4833]

New stalker fans need to realize the game is gritty hard and bare bones treat your travels like routes you learn what areas are good for artifacts which places to avoid mutants because i went right into cement factory and ended up fighting 2 blood suckers god that was fucked

[@OTAKUJHE]

it wasn't optimized very well on pc. stuttering and trees popping up from the distance and so on. a lot of wrinkles that need to iron out. going to wait for the fix. it reminds me of fallout 4 & fallout 76 and starfield disaster. LOL!!!

[@My_eyesburn]

Im loving the game. I want A-life fixed and performance updates, but neither is so bad that its taking away from the fun im having. Im also stoked for mods

[@MyDogBlu]

3 days in and still buggy. Stick drift due to no dead zone. Game shouldve waited 2 more months

[@Adam-mo2qw]

40fps mode on series s please

[@DMTEntity88]

Get a better system brokie

[@stephenfisher-c2c]

Please let us no when the game is better with updates please thanks

[@matyasselmek3673]

I just simply can't run the game properly, my PC has Ryzen 7 5700X3D, 32GB DDR4 3733MHz CL16 RAM, RX 7900 XT and Aorus X570 Pro and the game strugles to get past 60FPS at 1080p high settings due to heavy CPU bottleneck, my GPU sits at about 45-55% utlization and my CPU sits at 25-35% utlization, it gets especially hard when you enter area with more NPCs, the A-Life 2.0 system is definitely fucked and taxing on CPU, it is unacceptable for it to run this bad on high end hardware at freaking 1080p. I can't imagine how badly people with worse rigs can run it. must be powerpoint slideshow. And when you take into account that it looks worse then Metro Exodus it is truly mind boggling.

[@coctimusprime1872]

160gb????? Rip GTAV & RDR2 are bigger and better and like half a game smaller in GB size WTF guys

[@jakekonovalenko5005]

ive had 0 bugs playingon gamepass..

[@waseemelliott3643]

People forget how fallout 4 was buggy as hell but we still love it we should give stalker 2 a chance ❤

[@Ezdine_G8261]

The difference is fallout 4 kinda objectively isn't a super good game

[@meshman4236]

This isn't a charity. They charge money for it when it's not ready. Why on earth should you give it a pass? That's absolute nonsense

[@russia4biden221]

People trashed fallout 4 for being so broken on release, stop protecting garbage devs for releasing broken products

[@russia4biden221]

@@Ezdine_G8261 Neither is stalker 2, the originals are objectively better

[@Losttothezone]

STLL....DANG GOOD TIME

[@nahfammmm354]

I always wanted to play Stalker but i heard about it too late so i just waited for Stalker 2 since the first games are so dated. Everyone told me how hardcore and deep it was and hardcore, sure, but deep? Im disappointed in the depth. Its extremely basic, barebones, and shallow. I love the setting and the tone but the "game" has no survival features. Its just kind of hollow. Why is it more money to fix a gun than to sell one? Why cant i break down weapons for parts or craft something in a survival shooter? Y'all (the stalker community) really hyped me up for this game and i see the potential. I love what this game is trying to be. But it's really anemic. Ill keep playing with mods snd home the devs ad more dpeth and meat to the games systems. But im not as impressed as y'all told me i would be.

[@Addycomedy2420]

Lots of issues

[@bo0mbo0mbll12]

This game would be great if the ai wasn't do qwerky , the shooting wasn't ify . I swear I shoot things and the game dosnt register that character should be dead then it cat he's up

[@Pearly31034]

I stop playing stalker 2 when heard 2.0 is "broken" imma just wait until they fix

[@noosemebaby754]

Xbox players need to be able to turn motion blur off. It's sickening to look at the game.

[@Narniak69]

My motion blur setting literally does nothing on XBOX. The setting will not save on anything else but "low", yet there is always maximum motion blur at all times.

[@noosemebaby754]

@Narniak69 the S doesn't even get that option lol

[@Narniak69]

@@noosemebaby754 On series X half of my settings won't save. Every time I log back in I have to go back into options and check everything to see what has randomly reverted back to default.

[@Aaron-h7j]

Ten minutes is all I could manage as the game is a blurry flickering mess

[@landminelicker]

Anyone else completely soft locked out a main quest? I won’t say much in case of spoilers but the doors are locked and I can’t interact with anything.

[@Americawtff]

Going to be playing Gamma until I hear more abou fixes, patches, mods .. etc. I cant give up my base building just yet, and my a-life improved 😅 Like yes stalker two looks INSANE but were getting c conc grass for gamma that pulls in the crazy red poppies, theres a lot to look at in stalker two where as , gamma has more to do functionally

[@VampireNoblesse]

they really need to fix the control drift asap!.. fix that 1st, it can be fixed asap, before they tackle bigger performance issues..

[@funkydozer]

The first STALKER was released with massive bugs and performance issues. It was still the most atmospheric game I’ve ever played.

[@8YourWorstNightmare.]

There are a lot of bugs in the game, the character moves very slowly, gets stuck in walls, flies, etc.🥺🥺

[@coltonblood2776]

Ive been having good luck. Craziest thing i saw was richter clip in after i loaded the game up. I came from the ol days. I waited hours in the rain for skyrim. A good game is a good game. U guys forget how far tech and gaming has come. This is shit is crazy. Im enjoying it an im sure it will only get better

[@meshman4236]

Gonna wait till its patched. The game on controller is awful. No deadzone makes slight movements annoying to do af. If you move slowly aswell, the aim jitters. Its genuinely unfinished. I also shot a guy in the head multiple times with a pistol and he stood there. No blood splatter anything. Random enemy spawning in on top of this is a letdown. Im playing on vet but im not gonna play till its actually finished and not a cheap throw out with no actual care given for its playerbase experience

[@mikelsworld74]

Why did Stalker 2 have delays in coming out? All they have is a buggy mess. Just like Cyberpunk, consumers are nothing more than game testers.

[@monicledmarauders9359]

I mean I feel like the fact that they are developing the game whilst there country is being invaded is a good enough excuse

[@mikelsworld74]

@@monicledmarauders9359 That's no excuse. Don't put out garbage. Either wait or have it developed somewhere else. They ought to lower the price of the game, if we are testers.

[@MrBartolbe42]

Probably, because a certain percentage of the development team had to go join the military to keep the Russians from invading their country.

[@meshman4236]

​@@monicledmarauders9359 They moved into a different country like 2 years before releasing this

[@monicledmarauders9359]

@@meshman4236 yea I know, but a portion of the development team went to fight for there country, some of them have died in the process, not to mention the mental toll knowing that your friends and family could be killed probably doesn’t help

[@Peter-jj4bn]

Play gamma until Fix s2

[@oddball1999]

doesn't look that amazing, it looks good, but not amazing so why is the optimization sooo bad

[@coctimusprime1872]

Decided to stick with GAMMA until he releases more mods for STALKER 2 which probably will happen before devs fix anything

[@andresbogado7133]

There is not A-life in this game thanks to UE5, may as well play Far Cry or Fallout lol.

[@ScaredyZ4Walls]

This shoudlve stayed PC exclusively, the console crybabys wanting gamepads fixed is laughable

[@escape808]

What about people that play on PC with a controller?

[@XiLock_Alotx]

I simply cannot enjoy myself with this current state of Stalker. Controller issues, performance issues, lack of A-Life, and the bugs(which I can ignore) amongst a slew of other issues. Why is it CP2077 cannot launch in this state but Stalker 2 gets a pass? As is the norm, I will return to this title in 6-8 months after it gets in its intended state. This is just simply another AAA beta test. And this is all not to say there isn’t a wonderful game and foundation. The atmosphere and immersion is 2nd to none. But all that falls apart when the issues arise(which is FAR too often)

[@Kenobeno]

Comparing this launch to cyberpunks launch just doesn’t work in any way, shape or form. You obviously don’t know what you are talking about, forgetting the horrible release of CP, or you just wanna glaze CDPR. Which is it?

[@benjaminfinzen6781]

It's unplayable. I tried but zero stealth since NPCs can spot you no matter what. And the spawning is hame breaking.

[@werewolfhunter1347]

CDPR wasn't trying to develop a game in a ACTIVE WARZONE, which alot of people are forgetting or, don't care cuz they're assholes. This game is impressive considering what GSC is going through and they're trying to fix this game the best they can CDPR had no excuse for the dumpster fire they released, GSC has a forgivable excuse

[@Marlboro-lights1]

Go into your settings and change the settings from the image in coding to Srgb

[@Marlboro-lights1]

@@benjaminfinzen6781go back to call of duty

[@grofbeton]

i rather play a game with bugs , then that triple AAA dei diarrhea from the last years

[@christopherm6994]

All this complaining about A Life. What exactly do these people want? Random events like fallout? I've seen events with animals and AI and sometimes I'll get help with other stalkers or groups which is great.

[@Narniak69]

The enemy AI and spawning are broken. That is NOT acceptable.

[@christopherm6994]

@Narniak69 how so?

[@Narniak69]

@@christopherm6994 Have you played the game? The enemy AI scripting and spawning is busted. Read the comment from acay5722 below, they describe it perfectly. I responded with and example from my gameplay.

[@StodgyAyatollah]

A-life made Stalker and the zone what it is. I just want a true Stalker game not another Unreal engine shooter.

[@meshman4236]

​@@christopherm6994had enemies spawn right behind me about 2 feet away and kill me in veteran. Not acceptable

[@Notwokeever]

i dont care if they are in the middle of a war zone, releasing a game in this state is criminal

[@Narniak69]

Kind of fitting, seeing as Ukraine is filled with frauds and criminals stealing taxpayer money with the help of corrupt pigs from other countries like the United States.

[@henrymalone422]

I have 8+ hours so far. It has much potential. And if they may be getting nuked soon, why not release it? Now it definitely has problems but I've been enjoying it as much as shadow of Chernobyl vanilla if not more.

[@vpremy3396]

They are not, They are in Prague and swimming in money with the gamepass and 1M + copy sold

[@henrymalone422]

Oh, well fair enough. I'm still enjoying the game tho.​@@vpremy3396

[@Narniak69]

The unplayable state of this game on XBOX at launch is an absolute embarrassment. And no, having a war going on in the country where this game was being developed is NOT an acceptable excuse for them promoting and releasing a clearly unfinished and broken product to their customers. Name any other industry where this practice would be acceptable or even legal.

[@JeredKohsman]

Mine works flawlessly.

[@Narniak69]

@@JeredKohsman Cool story bro!

[@greermcgreer8596]

Haven't had any issues in the first 7 hours. How far in are you?

[@Narniak69]

@@greermcgreer8596 About that far, around 7 hours. Basic settings like motion blur and invert Y-axis are busted, lighting effects are busted, enemy AI and spawning are busted, controller deadzone / sensitivity busted. It was so unplayable last night I had to finally give up.

[@Aaron-h7j]

​@JeredKohsman my digital copy must have a scratch then

[@joewilks9081]

I refunded shortley after realizing the game doesn't run well on my laptop damn.

[@TFUProductions]

No offense but why would you ever think that is a viable option?

[@joewilks9081]

@TFUProductions i can play streets on escape from tarkov 🤷

[@darthvocrum5719]

zzzzzz game

[@MakeSh00t]

Stalker 2024 game almost 2025 looks like crap after 25minutes i uninstalled, i have 4090... 7800x3d its crapiest game ever made. Game looks horrible and game play is very bad for 2025. games in 2012 had better effects and play game style more realistic. Even hl 2 is better.

[@Steve1821]

I refunded the ultimate edition due to performance. With performance mods I can either run the game 1080p with an ok frame rate, dreadful graphics and high input latency due to FG or terrible fps with ok graphics and no input latency. I will test any patches on pc gamepass version before repurchasing the ultimate edition.

[@RSProduxx]

best thing to do. That´s why I mostly play Game Pass games these days. If a game really catches me and I wanna support the devs even more or think I´ll play it frequently over a longer time, I´ll buy it.

[@shaneclone15]

Another busted game

[@gingyplays9843]

100% agree but honestly it's a great game (free for me on xbox) I'm definitely disappointed I'm currently unable to move forward in the game because of bugs but everything else is amazing best xbox release this year

[@gunnarragnarsson9563]

I was expecting a 2024 AAA blockbuster games (because it was promoted like one) but instead got something that looks, feels and plays like a 2018 AA indie game. But since it got I ' for free' on gamepass I won't complain too much. But for full price this would have been a refund for me.

[@zakmag5092]

I’m enjoying the game sm bugs or not

[@KreuzRitter-88]

i play with a 10850k 32gb ddr4 ram 2999mhz and a gtx 1080ti all on High settings with no problems, 50-70fps

[@russia4biden221]

These devs are showing their incompetence with this update not doing anything about input lag or performance fix. Glad i refunded, we shouldn't have to wait months for a game to become finished after release

[@fladagreat]

My 7-year-old PC with a 2060 can run the game at a consistent 60 FPS in high density areas and a consistent 90 FPS roaming around( those are my 99% lows, my average is around 90-140) I've only had minor visual bugs, and I've had zero crashes. The real issue with the game is the way the ai spawns and the ai fight tactics... Just the human ai though. Edit: medium texture and draw distance and low on everything else with dlss on performance (not ultra).

[@Savagesoldier92]

... You never heard about 99 percent lows do you ? 🤣

[@fladagreat]

@@Savagesoldier92 I'll add you on discord and literally show you. It's not hard to presst alt+R.. it literally tells you the 99%

[@MrFladagreat]

​@@Savagesoldier92 I can literally add you on discord/any other application and show you... I'm not afraid... If you press alt+r it literally shows you the 99% lows and they are consistently at 60... It's not hard...