S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Is the Best FPS I've Ever Played

[@itsforyoutubeprettymuch9146]

Agreed. This game is what I’ve been waiting for. For about 8 years

[@JackDerr]

I agreed with you. It does not need to be adjusted. Im fighting for my life to get back to base overweight Intense

[@itsforyoutubeprettymuch9146]

169 deaths. And I’m just passed the battle of Duga

[@LordChromeGaming]

@@itsforyoutubeprettymuch9146 I’m at my 69th death and I’m in the Swamps

[@maksym_pavuk]

and about 20 of those deaths are scripted invisible snipers near duga

[@LordChromeGaming]

@@maksym_pavuk now I’m nervous to get to that place.

[@maksym_pavuk]

@@LordChromeGaming it's just stupid way to tell you "don't go there YET. find another way around". There are also same snipers along railway north of Yaniv. Similar spot at chemical plant station - this time visible but invincible Ward npc with a PKM who kills you in a second. He can't leave the station though. If you encounter them don't try to kill them, just go around, you will visit this place later

[@MaineMotman]

Dude, your doin good. Stalker shadow of chernobyl- i died so many times- especially yantar and red forest. Stalker 2 heart of chernobyl, i've been yeeting myself into anomalies and situations left and right testing and learning things to my advantage. I love going into the shards of glass with mutants chasing, cause if you crouch walk in your fine. That big bulba anomaly in Zalissya- i must've died 10-20 times just to that, half out of curiosity and the other to fun. Never feel ashamed at the amount of deaths, unless your trying to do like an iron man run.

[@akadacat]

Mate. Welcome to The Zone. I've been waiting for this game for fifteen years. I'm savouring this one, wallowing in it. And it was worth waiting for in the opinion of this broken old scavenger. I like to play a FPS behaving as I would if I was actually going to wear a 5.45 if I don't keep my shit together and minimal. I like a game where your carcass and the weather have to be considered as more than just scenery -In The Zone -You Have To. Your comparison to Tarkov is valid, but I'd say it's a Tarkov that more honestly challenges you -rather than a challenge with added: 'You want to do what? Fuck You...' that Tarkov is far too often. Enjoy Shadow Of when you've finished.

[@Red_Lion2000]

Fifteen years and all we got was a dumbed down console game missing core features from the originals. Thanks GSC

[@nameinvalid69]

unfortunately the gaming industry at large as trained gamers today that "everything you kill / do should have loot reward" & "everything are just easy punching bag for the player". That's not what Stalker is. THIS IS NOT A LOOTER SHOOTER, THIS IS NOT A HERO SHOOTER. I honestly really fed up with people coming into this game and expect the game to work like looter/hero shooter. So please, if you unable to shift your mindset, this is not a game for you. Stalker is about the experience and immersion, it's not about being a hero.

[@LordChromeGaming]

@@nameinvalid69 That’s unfortunately true, anything with a challenge or doesn’t reward you like you busted open a piñata is looked down on. These kinds of games are honestly the best for me.

[@NickHunter]

In fairness, in the very first Stalker game, Shadow of Chernobyl, you could loot body parts from mutants and either cash them in on side quests or sell them to the scientists for a decent profit so it's not an outrageous ask, it was a good system and gave you a reason to engage the mutants rather than just leg it to save ammo. Also sort out your tone, nothing this guy said implied he wants it to be a looter shooter or a hero shooter, seems like you're projecting a bit

[@lambrettaking472]

I'm on Xbox and having a blast 50+hrs in this game is awesome

[@user-pm2bh9ol8w]

Genuinely one of the best game in years, the most fun ive had since bg3. AND it will only get better with updates

[@zackz1260]

boy the fan boy is strong in this one, the game is good but highly broken. i stopped playing until they add a few more patches and updates.

[@LordChromeGaming]

@@zackz1260 Fanboy? This is my first Stalker game lmao. I’m in PC so I’ve never had any issues.

[@DannyMulv-rt9oc]

Just subbed, this game is boss

[@demoniclaw5162]

metro all 3 of them are amazing

[@Zovereign]

aren't they linear?

[@LordChromeGaming]

@@Zovereign The first two are but Exodus is not.

[@Saved_Sinner0085]

I honestly doubt the Metro series would be anywhere near what it was if the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games didn't come out first and inspire so much of it.

[@colonel__klink7548]

@@Saved_Sinner0085 They form from similar roots. STALKER is an inversion of the tale "Roadside Picnic", the men called stalkers collecting artifacts that are just a thin allegory for western ideas. Roadside picnic is really a pro Leninist piece, but post Soviet Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl (set in the Soviet Union's last "gift" to Ukraine) inverts this all. Similarly metro explores a post Soviet space only the tragedy is that it... returned to the Soviet ways rather than moving on. This caused the war that ended the world. // Stalker 1 spoilers // Stalker 1 has similar messaging with the gang of 7 essentially being a stand in for Leninism's promise of purging the sins of humanity (Leninism arguing that those sins would vanish as soon as the material benefit of sinning would vanish.) The monolith being those brainwashed into being cannon fodder for the old ways, the Soviets or the Russian Federation ect. In this sense Strelok was a hero for destroying the pods. It's with these in mind that Stalker 2 became fascinating to me. I played the game through just no with the ethos that the zone represents Ukraine and "what if the world just set it free?" Lol not gonna tell you how that worked out... you should experience it...

[@NickHunter]

@@Saved_Sinner0085 ah yeah the team at 4A are very clear about that inspiration, although both series are based on books anyway

[@colonel__klink7548]

The *ONLY* complaint i have of the game that might be considered a "difficulty complaint" is that the ending i played (no spoilers) felt padded with extra enemies in sections that just... well it just didn't need to be there. It's like the game kept hinting "this is the finish line!" and then would pull a psyche out. "oh you thought you were done? Here's a bunch of dudes to take up some more time." The troopers special abilities at the end would have been far cooler if I wasn't already frustrated with this.

[@LordChromeGaming]

@@colonel__klink7548 Oh I can see how that can be frustrating. Sounds a lot like how Persona 5 threw in a last final boss and he had like 3-4 different stages I had to fight through.

[@schnodderbürstchen]

agreed. the endgame beyond the point of no return felt a little more like a demo to a classic military shooter game than a stalker game. It got a little annoying to shoot at the same hyperarmored squad of enemies over and over again. And half the boss fights, if you can even call them that are essentially gimmik-fights.

[@colonel__klink7548]

@@schnodderbürstchen it's bad because i think a lot of it would feel right earlier. There were DEEP "dungeon" dives in the original. I remember spending 40-50 minutes underground. It may be faulty memory but the sheer horror of the brainscorcher and the ENDLESS hoard really was like that. It was... it was good because you were prepped for it in a way... A lot of those gunfights at the end past the point of no return felt like that, but the thing is the way they set the boss fights the pacing felt exhausting because you felt like this was it every time. This was the big step and resolution and instead there's another 50 minute dive ahead before the next boss fight eeeesssssspecially if you made all the same choices I did in the first playthrough. (side note, i miss the pip that happens whenever a stalker pda gets close. It made growing zombie hoards even scarier because you could just hear it growing.)

[@Smiley1967]

player stalker gamma and tell me how much you cried :D

[@JoshWallace-i3l]

I cant get past faust, his body despawns and i cant progress.

[@DustyShayan]

you need to shoot the 3 lantern

[@JoshWallace-i3l]

@DustyShayan i can beat him and all that. His body is not there and i cant progress the story.

[@JoshWallace-i3l]

@DustyShayan after the fight you need to search his body and bring something to a scientist. Its bugged out and due to that now impossible to move forward

[@DustyShayan]

@@JoshWallace-i3l load again and after killing him loot it as fast as you can then your game will be like there is nothing to do and it feels like its over then start looting other bodies and after a few minute scar will call your pda

[@DustyShayan]

@@JoshWallace-i3l i get it just load your game from when you started the fight with faust

[@Towlie420]

I got full stack of ammo and i sell that off and easily make 400k stash everything and sell broken stuff to ragman

[@LordChromeGaming]

I literally found out about him today 😭

[@exgebe4407]

U played not many Fps games or?

[@LordChromeGaming]

@@exgebe4407 or two gamers have different tastes

[@Baller4Now]

EVER? Damn

[@LordChromeGaming]

@@Baller4Now Maybe, sounds like another video idea for me.

[@Baller4Now]

@LordChromeGaming I was gonna say! FPS games were some of my favorites because of my brothers

[@wubi3427]

S2 combat is not that much deep,wait until you get to play shadow of chernobyl

[@brawndo7176]

Yeahh so far i might like the metro series slightly better as is just feels more interesting and more gripping. For me anyways

[@LordChromeGaming]

I actually redownloaded Metro Exodus since I never beat it. I beat the first two tho.

[@chuck571]

Play Fallout 3, New Vegas or 4.

[@LordChromeGaming]

@@chuck571 Played and beaten them all many times. They don’t provide the challenge Stalker 2 does. I should play them again…

[@OnlineHipHopTV]

It's a great Far Cry game

[@LordChromeGaming]

@@OnlineHipHopTV This game is nothing like Far Cry.

[@OnlineHipHopTV]

@LordChromeGaming it pretty much is tho

[@LordChromeGaming]

@@OnlineHipHopTV Explain.

[@OnlineHipHopTV]

@LordChromeGaming is an open world shooter with pretty poor survival mechanics. Even the hidden stashes are almost the same thing. It might have a more interesting setting, but it doesn't offer much more than that.

[@LordChromeGaming]

@@OnlineHipHopTV So any survival shooter with stashes in it, is just Far Cry to you? Because you just named 90 percent of games in that genre. You don’t have anything else?

[@jesusismyhigh123]

not even the best stalker game let alone fps of all time its a great game no doubt but I think the lack of other good games making this seem better than it actually is.

[@LordChromeGaming]

@@jesusismyhigh123 I’m mostly being dramatic because I really like this game. I keep hearing a good the other Stalker games are and might pick them up off Steam. Honestly, there is probably 2 or 3 games I’d put above this. One of them being Prey 2017.

[@jesusismyhigh123]

@@LordChromeGaming I would recommend getting them on GOG there much more reasonably priced they charge like $20 on steam for a 15 y/o game

[@Red_Lion2000]

If you thought this game was good, you should try the original games. Stalker 2 is just a dumbed down consolized version.

[@yuriy5376]

That's just nostalgia speaking. Stalker 2 is better than any of the original games in every single way. And I'm saying this as someone who played the originals almost right after they were released.

[@yuriy5376]

S2 has problems and might lack stuff to do/look for across its gigantic map, but that will be fixed eventually in patches and DLCs.

[@Red_Lion2000]

@@yuriy5376 No Alife whatsoever, one of the core features that made the zone feel alive in the original games. No night vision or binos, prolly to hide the fact that there is no Alife The map really isnt that big, and having DLC advertized upon release and removing features from the steam page right after the game releases is a scummy move. This will only get worse until people refuse to accept these anti consumer practices.

[@LordChromeGaming]

@@Red_Lion2000 I’ll def give them a shot in the future. I’m being a little lenient with GSC considering the conditions they had to develop this game under.

[@hax0ren]

holy cope. this is an unoptimized pice of crap

[@LordChromeGaming]

@@hax0ren Couldn’t talk about that, I’ve heard rumors on console but my PC runs it fine :)

[@hax0ren]

@@LordChromeGaming thats sooooo much cope. i got a 4070 ti and it still stutter and i have fps drops

[@LordChromeGaming]

@@hax0ren idk what to tell you dude, other than you are using the word “cope” incorrectly. Idk what you run but my 4070 Super runs it fine. Only thing I noticed early before patches was wall texture stutter but that was two weeks ago.

[@hax0ren]

@@LordChromeGaming no its not, it stutters and drops fps all the time, make a video about all the prework with mods and graphic settings you did before you could play this shit, just watch reviews and shit and its 50% cope 50% ppl complaining about this exact thing

[@LordChromeGaming]

@@hax0ren Dude I don’t have the time or energy to mod my games lol I did mod BG3 tho. They have their own in game mod thing for uncapped party size! Everyone’s experience is not going to be the same as yours. I’m sorry you’re having issues tho.