STALKER 2 is HERE! And it is...

[@amrikwheeler5018]

Can’t wait for the modding scene to get ahold of it

[@Regolant1]

Grok already managed to mod the hp of the bloodsucker and poltergeist, it won't take long

[@nut33626]

@@Regolant1 I was just checking my discord while he dropped his mod. I was like “Holy shxt this man…”😂

[@Regolant1]

@@nut33626 Man probably have more playtime compiling shaders than actually playing at this point

[@jakubjurcsik9143]

Stalker 2 Gamma inc soon:D

[@Agent-Alec]

And add mods for low tier rigs (PC,s)

[@wadewade3790]

So far the only real problems I’ve had is with Enemies being Super Spongy (and the bugged spawn system) and No Binoculars or Nightvision.

[@julesgro8526]

Do we know if there are nods later in the game?

[@thekamikaze789]

​@@julesgro8526there is no hotkey for them... mostlikely they are not in the game.

[@KidConiferous]

Binocs and Nods would be incredible

[@MrHimer12]

For people who played Far Cry 2 enemy spawn shouldn't be a problem :D Cleared outpost, nvm guess who's baaaack. Never thought I'd see this again in another game. So far I'm in for ze bugs.

[@DutchThriceman]

I too have been loving the game, but there being no actual patrolling npc's or mutants that live and exist in the zone a.k.a. A-Life is a huge downside as far as I am concerned, about half the encounters I've had with friends/foes it was painfully obvious they literally just spawned in behind me or infront of me etc.

[@NostalgicHam]

Devs addressed this. Internal bugs causing A-Life 2.0 to not work as intended. TLDR: Stay tuned for updates.

[@satemeeefsdsussussus3093]

the GSC gameworld claims that a-life is currently bugged and they are trying to fix it with further patches. But i can feel your pain because i also was waiting for this game just to see how a-life 2.0 works

[@tylerberg4832]

@@NostalgicHam”bugs”

[@Kenny-yu6gc]

A good example is the psi-dog spawn to the east of the first town in a swamp with a tower. After a certain point of that protracted battle of attrition that you will certainly lose, the game decides to send you some stalkers to support you. The psi-dog spawns up-to 10 clones, and I hate it more than poltergeists and bloodsuckers. I just gave up and ran straight past the thing, as it was not worth the effort or dozens of bullets.

[@pesapesto3471]

seems like they lied about alife 2.0, it isn't actually alife they just pretend they've 'changed it to be modern' when really its just a bubble around the player character that lazily spawns in different enemies, instead of actually having an alive zone

[@Mrwizard-ck7oe]

Should have known that the brain isn't a critical organ in bandits

[@anthonyweston5588]

Modders are going to make this one of the best fps experiences of the last decade.

[@LethalKicks]

yes 100% the potential is insaneee

[@nymez6968]

@@LethalKicksand it has developers that care and support modding!

[@Virgil-280]

My experience so far with damage is that shotguns don't do enough of it, especially up close, and even more so with mutants. Was getting on fine with veteran difficult and I dropped it once doing "piece of cake" and running into the bloodsucker in the cave

[@shut]

Later on you'll have different shotgun options. I promise they actually do stuff

[@saltwatertaffybag]

Hahaha. I literally tried to kill that thing for 2 hours. I was convinced it was a bug. I finally dropped the difficulty and managed to do it in 2 tries. Bloodsuckers should be strong, dangerous, frightening enemies... but they also should not be able to eat 2 grenades, 2 ak mags, and 20 shotgun blasts. I swear to God it has more HP than psedugiants

[@julesgro8526]

@@saltwatertaffybag I just killed one of the fuckers with like 20 shells of buckshot and the "help" of spawning bandits. The thing ate enough lead to rival the terminator.

[@liniribimblibli]

I’ve into 9 bloodsuckers casually walking through the lesser zone, lost all my ammo and meds 😢

[@DaimeneX]

@@saltwatertaffybag You're not the only one.. Veteran applies a 0.75 modifier to damage players deal to npc's. Plus all mutants have passive armour, which actually means you have to use Armor Piercing rounds instead of Hollow Points. It's honestly ludicrous xD

[@Mtom9388]

I don't like how Fleshes can take so many blasts from Shotguns. Shotguns should be a go to tool for mutant hunting

[@julesgro8526]

Try taking down a Bloodsucker. I fully agree

[@thekamikaze789]

​@@julesgro8526bloodsucker are bs on veteran if you hear them, find an object to jump on or run 50 meters. than they are despawned...

[@DaimeneX]

That's because mutants have passive armor, meaning you need to use armor piercing rounds apparently. Also if you're playing on Veteran, the game applies 0.75 modifier to damage you deal out.

[@GUNNYCANUCK]

Damage drop off is crazy, within 5 feet they work well but any further out it's useless.

[@fenfrostpaws2000]

Slugs work a bit better than buckshot

[@GJB22]

Once A-Life 2.0 is implemented. It's going to take at least 6 minimum years to see GAMMA 2 start to form.

[@GUNNYCANUCK]

Skif's PM with suppressor and large mag is the GOAT.

[@fenfrostpaws2000]

The PM is great. Cheap to repair, the ammo is abundant, and it drops most human enemies with a single headshot

[@Fiendir]

The AP rounds can one-shot even military enemies, makes me feel like a west-europe version Sam Fisher

[@SpainSpace]

Hey Moxy, Grok just released balances for damage and such. We're gonna see so many modding improvements in the coming days

[@gabe0rion205]

2:05 i recognize that gateway! Its from the old shadow of chernobyl promo art

[@That_Stage2STI]

This game is honestly amazing i love fallout and tarkov and this game just brought them together. Aslo can't wait for the modded scene to get here

[@omegadroidzero]

A life is broken, a major selling point.

[@Killa-rd6hj]

Yeah I refuse to play it until that’s fixed,.. a life is a core part of the zone

[@STALKER2BRO]

I am also extremely glad that we waited and can play, and the most important thing is that we can test the smallest details. I now like to make videos in the style of (what if) and have already recorded several videos on how different throwing a bolt into an anomaly is from a grenade.

[@MontanaBayer]

It feels a little like if far cry and fallout came together collectively to make a game stalker 2 is so much fun could definitely use a co-op mode though and a couple small bug fixes that will come in time love this game so much

[@Spook_Boi]

4:50 i will proudly admit i spent about 10-15 minutes straight kicking bottles and random objects around

[@warden.5599]

Grok made an estimate Stalker 2 gamma 2077😭

[@therealnmsis]

You can actually get hit by lightning which managed to happen to me in my 7 hours of playthrough so far :)

[@bmac9539]

One of the loading tips says if a red cloud comes over RUN for shelter fast has anyone came upon that yet.

[@LethalKicks]

yes i came across it. but don't want to spoil.

[@captainamvv7135]

Brother I will be eagerly waiting for your mod coverage for this game as well Your channel helped me get into Gamma and Stalker mods and I have had probably one of my best gaming experiences thanks to you

[@thelbp]

Voices in ukranian are great, no lip sync problem. Also, this game is completely hammering my cpu, my GPU is not being used over 80% even when outdoors, in the city it's at 56% This is a very CPU heavy game at the moment Coming from gamma i must say i'm disappointed in the shotgun performance. i expected my ak to have it's bullets absorbed, but the shotgun at super close range does nothing. I had so much fun with clutch shots with shotgun saving my ass in gamma (or my poor aim leaving me to die) but that was MY fault, not them just having too much life

[@thelbp]

@tree-pw2ot Digital foundry found even the 7800x3d limited a 4090, in the city the 3600 barely manages 35 fps

[@thelbp]

@tree-pw2ot i'm on a 10400f, hurricane milton caused my 7800x3d to be lost in shipping, still waiting on refund. i have a 7600 on the way in the meantime

[@ACCJhonDoe]

0:57 i believe its all optimization problems, my PC can run Warhammer Space Marine 2 on high settings at 60+ FPS but with S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 i have to play the game on its lowest settings and even then i still get really bad frame loss

[@kalkstein2694]

yes it's always optimalization, the question now is how long will it take them to fix it...

[@YourMasYourDa]

Little trick that worked for me is in the main menue change the resolution just below 1080p (windowed), put all graphic settings on high, turn on dlss quality, turn off frame gen and load the game up. Reset the game and compile shaders, load into the game and wait a few minutes outside of city or town and then switch the window borderless. Dunno why buy my fps went from 10 to over 60. Also make sure you downloaded the new nvidea driver for stalker

[@keandreee]

@@YourMasYourDathe graphic driver is needed I was stuttering so much now no stutters

[@ACCJhonDoe]

@@kalkstein2694 considering Ukraine is still an active warzone, too long

[@ACCJhonDoe]

@@YourMasYourDa i saw stalker 2 was featured on the GEFORCE channel so i checked the day before launch and installed it then, i just turned the game to fullscreen exclusive and lowered the resolution, other than that im not confident in running this game on anything above low

[@Three60Mafia]

biggest dissapointment so far is broken AI system. The game loves to spawn enemies constantly on top of you. No more scouting ahead and see stalker groups walking around or patrolling. They only spawn right now with range. They will also keep respawning in very short delays. I was looting an area after killing 4 soldiers, and then 4 more spawned out of completely thin air. It is clearly bugged. Also bloodsuckers are incredibly OP right now, and they take way too much bullets to kill. Full 2 AK mags if you are lucky. They are basically a guaranteed death sentence right now. If they fix the AI and enemy balancing, the game will be in really good shape.

[@julesgro8526]

Yes, enemies spawning right on top of me is weird for a stalker game. Also yes, the Suckers take full artillery barrages

[@shanesonksen1515]

Yep, this is the most egregious problem right now. I can't continue playing until this at the very least is fixed.

[@rifleshooterchannel208]

15 years in the works and broken from day 1. Shame on GSC

[@eldonhill4840]

@@rifleshooterchannel208 "15" is a lot of rounding up from 6

[@rifleshooterchannel208]

@ The last Stalker game came out in 2009. 2009 was *not* 6 years ago.

[@mangcogogo]

"it all feels smooth and fluid" as he fumbled alls the controls lmao

[@Rhslamnsh]

It is a very taxing game but I run a 4070 with a Ryzen 7 5800 on high 1080p dlss frame gen I run steady at 90+fps. Love the game they took everything that made gamma awesome and improved almost every aspect

[@helgasq]

I think they wanted to use accents to show that completely different people come to the zone.

[@SquidElvis]

2:44 "I heard a noise" ok buddy 😂

[@Celtic-beans]

My biggest issue is that I’m 10 hours in and have yet to hear a single “ANNU CHEEKI BREEKI”

[@mikeyswift2010]

What was so satisfying about the headshot? I think my most satisfying headshot sounds would be either Tarkov when someone has a shitty helmet on and it just crumbles, or Bioshock Infinite where every headshot you land lets off a big orchestral hit!

[@LukaRadosavljevic03]

I've been loving stalker 2, I have only played about 4 hours and my only problem is the performance

[@Askorti]

I was loving the game until one mission I had to go to a location where I had to fight the military. They. Just. Kept. Spawning. There was no "clearing out" the location. They will never stop coming. After I killed 30+ and things seemingly gone quiet several times, they spawned again and again. After some time had to just leg it, because despite killing so many enemies, I was literally not getting anywhere. That one instance completely ruined the experience for me.

[@kaktusbaron]

A headshot multiplier/dmg adjustability would be nice, since I would love to play the game as high risk/reward. Like one buckshot into a Bloodsuckers face should drop it. Also optics should be able to attach to most guns, as long as they have the proper attachment points (picatinny rail etc.). To that I'd like to have a rpg-lite system, the more you use a weapon the better/calmer or accurate you become. Maybe if it's possible a private secret stash would be nice, make it max 3-5 stashes total, but with that you would be able to collect loot, store it to come back and sell it. And of course optimization is on GSCs main focus. But aside from that, the game is proper fun.

[@grzybekpszepana5936]

When shooting those 3 head shots u should take into consideration that the bullet looking for the brain of those npcs and that might take some time :D

[@ichigo9055]

I'm actually shocked personally that performance is considered a big issue, I only have a 2080 and an I7 cpu and with settings to medium and dlss to performance the game looks great still and the only time I run below 60 fps is when I'm in town

[@Tonius126]

I hope they add a sleeping bag or make the beds sleeable, i hate playing at night. Also add fast travel. Sprinting and drinking energy drink is not better than a loading screen. Also make the bloodsucker less tanky but make them hit harder but also rarer. I would advice people to wait 8 months if you don't have game pass.

[@Cruddyhorse]

I really wish I could enjoy it but I'm having an audio issue where my gunshots are quiet as a mouse for some weird reason, it's listed on the bugs they're aware of but it's not making it easy to wait for a fix. Also stealth being utterly broken is frustrating.

[@million_unalived_CEOs]

if it runs poorly even with their recommended hardware and settings (it's mostly playable after turning most settings down, but sometimes still _very_ rough for me), then I'd argue that, basically by definition, it's poorly optimized. I think a lot of it is fixable, but until that's sorted out, they really need some better options for dropping that graphical fidelity. I don't care how nice it looks if it won't hold stable frames. and yeah, weapon damage and health pools are absolutely all over the place right now. stalkers have mostly felt ok to me. one or two oddly-spongy enemies, but idk if that had to do with their armor being tougher than average. mutants on the other hand are just awful. flesh shrugging off several close-range shotgun shells. bloodsuckers soaking up multiple magazines, even dogs seem to be wearing kevlar. and let's not even start on the rat swarms. neat concept, one of the worst implementations I could imagine. made all the worse for the random enemies sometimes spawning on top of you. I think all of this is fixable, and the core mechanics of the game seem very promising. but this is more or less a beta product at the moment.

[@panda1345]

I play on Medium high, locked to 30FPS because 30 is just fine. Its not Ideal, but I grew up on OoT. 30 is just fine.

[@hardcorelibertarian]

Something that really bothers me though is the time passing too fast. Like you do a sidequest, and a whole day passes in the game in like 30 minutes. Hope they fix this too.

[@masonbain7098]

3060 ti here as well, im kinda disappointed how the settings for my PC are still struggling with the game, especially with the sudden fps drop from cutscenes when speaking to an npc or entering a town.

[@OgOssman]

Go right and down from starting zone and youll find rookie village

[@rafaelakio6087]

YEEES the pistol seems to be better than some other guns and i only discovery after buying the shotgun hahahahah About the technical issues, hope they can fix soon, the game is very good

[@fgm1197]

patience. SoC needed 6 patches...

[@rifleshooterchannel208]

Shame on GSC for using the better part of 2 decades and still being unable to deliver a working product. Lazy and incompetent devs for sure.

[@jai4859]

​@@rifleshooterchannel208 Blame the management not the devs.

[@JF-vz1ju]

@@rifleshooterchannel208 But it does work.

[@rifleshooterchannel208]

@@jai4859 The devs make and program it. It’s their fault 😂

[@rifleshooterchannel208]

@@JF-vz1ju Nope

[@eugyolo]

I have a 3060 12gb and play 1080p on medium, 60 fps most of the time (No stutters in 8h of gameplay) Are you playing in 2k or 4k by any chance? Otherwise i don't know how we get the same performance

[@Oroberus]

Finally someone that's not all up in arms because 'WoRsTe ReLeAsE Ev4R111!!!11!' ... I'm so sick of mainstream outlets bashing the game while not having any experience with former titles and what Stalker is actually about ... I can also say, playing on a 4070ti, max settings run indeed smoothly with no stutters or plummits around 80FPS I'm stoked knowing that this will be the foundation for the Anomaly-Devs to build on

[@hmmjedi]

Must admit I have about 5 maybe 6 hours now on high setting though my issue is at one point I was running around with nearly 40 medkits and 60 bandages... which I found on the way along with enough food to feed the zone... I think that all of them should be downgrade and food should only fix hunger... also mutants as you stated way too tanky humans you can take in 2-3 shots and then a flesh you are mag dumping on them and les said about the bloodsuckers ability to soak damage the better... but apart from that I am really digging this game and I have been playing Stalker since 2007... though I wont be surrendering my Gamma build just yet...

[@TheShinyHaxorus3D]

is there a discord around already for Stalker 2 modding? As in mod-making?

[@GhostManPRO]

I really wish you made your statement about how it will be patched in the future with an acknowledgement that while that's a good thing. It's still not an acceptable standard to have a game release in a state that will be fixed at a later date. It should be released with these problems already fixed if they are gonna charge for a full and functional product. So tired of seeing this sentiment echoed. We need to have higher standards as gamers. Stalker 2 is great, but it doesn't get a pass just because "TheYlL fIX iT aLl laTEr"

[@Nate_the_Nobody]

Comparing this to Ready or Not, both games being UE5, S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is optimized rather well

[@fredanderson7728]

I'm not surprised that this game needs more polish and work done, but at least Stalker 2 has the potential to be great, so I will definitely wait for a sale and enjoy GAMMA until then. If there is one weird thing that's also a disappointment for the sequel, it's the lack of vehicles for both players and NPCs. I would have enjoyed being able to drive around Chernobyl in a shitbox car even with areas where I couldn't drive, such as the swamps and perhaps the perimeter of the power plant. It would have also been nice for the military factions to have guarded, NPC only military hardware at their bases and a select few chokepoints that would present more opportunities for great gameplay either for you or against you depending on the situation.

[@ColtonDavis-s7o]

Yes, agreed, a lack of vehicles was a bit disappointing and feels like a really obvious feature given the size and scale of the game.

[@lazycapybara-j1s]

I just want a option to remove visual fidelity and photorealistic, i dont give a shit, Metro Exodus have better graphics

[@mikeity2009]

Metro exodus isn't open world though.

[@carnegyballsackchungusprod4789]

metro exodus also works properly

[@The_SSSlopper]

How does one remove photorealistic?

[@xhg7a]

The hud looks like dying light. Massive press f to interact buttons everywhere

[@million_unalived_CEOs]

yeah, a lot of odd choices with the controls. I can't figure out what they were thinking with the quick access items. having them on f1-4 in the original games worked great. tap-versus-hold is annoying in combat, and putting them on q and e was clearly the work of a deeply disturbed mind.

[@ofrenic]

You can adjust the hud. I don't have that compass up top or mission log on my screen.

[@woKenVFX]

​@@ofrenicturning off elements doesn't really mean adjusting

[@ofrenic]

@@woKenVFX ok then. You can change the hud. Happy?

[@ColtonDavis-s7o]

​@@ofrenic I think we should try and avoid hostility, we all share the same love for this franchise and want for GSC to succeed and continue to polish and improve the game.

[@ahairyhooligan]

Out of curiosity, what are the settings you are playing at? You said "mostly medium", so are some set to low and others high?

[@Timeremortem]

Stalker has always had Jank. It honestly to many is part of the experience. '' There are no bugs. Only anomolies. ' Is phrased for a reason. I ran epic at 60-70fps without issue until i got to the first main settlement Then i could not get it above 12-15fps. But switching it to medium so i got back to 50-60fps. And it's insane how good the game still looks on medium. I was worried they ran the same damage system as the OG titles. So i started the game on the highest difficulty. As in the OG game. Weapon dmg both for AI and player as directly tied to the difficulty. So picking Rookie mean you would have bandits tank 3-4 entire makarov mags to the face. And you doing the same. However even on the highest difficulty i feel dmg is wierd. Sometimes I shoot enemies and they die instantly. And other times they don't. .And headshots do contribute but doesn't mean it's guarante. And of course anyone in an exo-suit with a good helmet i expect not to die in 1 shot. but i'm wondering if the game is random generating Hp pools for enemy's aswell. As both the OG games and Stalker 2 had there own version of boss and unique stalkers that had massive HP pools. It could be to simulate a boss fight or simply an NPC you needed to keep alive. So they made them tanky so it's less pain. If not that it could be a matter of issue with the bullet trajectory. That it doesn't go where it's actually showing? far fetched? I do however say that using the right bullet type for the right enemy changes allot how quickly you kill them.. Rocking Tissue damage on mutants and AP rounds on most human enemies. I'm honestly in it and the game is a solid 8/10 maybe even a 9/10 if i allow my Stalker nostalgia googles to stay on. I played 15h now in 2 days. And I can't put it down. So much we having issues at home about it. ^^ ( It will work out. ) That doesn't mean the game is without flaw in my own views tho. And a few things sadly stick out quite allot for me. - The first would be that it's obvious the game has had microsoft on it's neck. As the Weapon wheel.. The quick command buttons.. the lack of keybinding and many other things showcases that stalker 2 has had a massive focuse to be a console game. Which was to be expected. Now this doesn't apply in all regards. but still some. I can't stress the amount of food and vodka i drunk middle of firefighs for accidently hitting E or Q. And having C and Z as lean buttons? what? I do notice you auto lean next to a corner tho. So that's nice. (most of the time.) - Other issue i have is the lack of interest with the random groups walking about. you sure do get plenty of random encounters and events. You get them from radio messages. PDA's.. Notes.. Or simply for traveling around and stumble upon something. This is nice. However all thos static walking around patrol groups.. serve close to no function other then to fight.. In the old game you could litterly walk with a group.. use them to travel as they where at many times heading somewhere.. They where out looking for artifacts.. Killing mutants.. fighting for territory.. Sure it was limited in the OG version and did not really grow until anomoly and the modpacks took it underwings. but i feel why? They walk around.. they are either friendly or enemies.. And thats it.. You can talk to them? but they don't say much of interest.. Just gossip that leads to nothing so far? You can't quick trade away items you don't want to carry with them? they got no extra small tasks for you.. Or even hold on to any info you can buy from them? All this is lost. - I also feel the economy is strange.. Stalker always been a rough gem and people suppose to struggle early then get rich and get the cool shit. And it's a singleplayer game so there's already many ways to get and glitch and cheat to get infinity money. but for someone like me that don't enjoy that. That like to think the devs planned the experience around the economy and the struggles. But when you do like a 3-4 step-by-step mission that had you kill 4-6 bandits.. 10 mutants and go through an anonmoly field.. and you get back.. and they send you 500 coupons? (New Ruble) And then you go to the vendor.. And 30 ak rounds cost 800.. And you need 4000 to repair the 40% durabillity you lost on your AK.. I get it's suppose to be gut wrenching and later quest do pay more. And stalker always trhrived to reward smart play. your not obligated to fight and shoot at everything. running.. sneaking is an option. But allot of the time i feel the game is forcing encounters.. then not rewarding you for it. Had i not looted every single corpse for ammo.. I probably not had any ammo on me. Of course past the 10h I feel.. Ammo.. meds and supplies is of no issue as i got like 100x of each in my stash. Which makes the experience wierd? as it goes from gutwrenching and impossible.. To pointless in the matter of 5-6hours of gameplay. And this is on the hardest difficulty where I expect resources to be more scarce. none of this is putting me off enough for now. but some pointers i picked up that i feel is a strange deviation from what i expected. Nice video by the way.

[@mr.bright5712]

and it is without A-Life

[@sander152]

Also using framegen i went from 60 to 120fps!

[@revivrevalchn3503]

Help, my laptop GPU is now melted down like number4's reactor core. TwT

[@lampard696]

I have a gaming laptop. RTX 2060, i510300h 32GB of RAM and I'm getting the same frame rate as you on medium settings, then random drops to

[@pitcheung5354]

First opinion, i can't get meat from the boar and dogs... 3700 + 4070 run 2K 60(ish) in high setting , 45 in epic (both no DLSS)

[@lazycapybara-j1s]

Shoudl be options to remove folliage etc... low poligons, like gamma have, not everyone care about graphic fidellity

[@OgOssman]

I LOVE IT. Its everything I always wanted it to be. As in a purist stalker game. Hmm i run a mid system 4060, i5 12 gen cpu and i get 150fps. With all the bells and whistles. I did Spend like an hour changing setting in my graphics card. But its possible.

[@satisfaction75isking43]

I have a very similar build, would you mind sharing your changes because I’m running at 50fps on medium settings ?

[@AlmissaGaming]

Can u share settings?

[@ll.7927]

Ya didn’t even ask at what resolution he playing at.

[@ВячеславФролов-д7я]

That 150 fps is probably from the frame generation, which triples the fps without improving the (feeling of slow-ish reaction when you are low on the fps, idk the English word for that)

[@rifleshooterchannel208]

It’s a lower mid-tier Fallout 4 clone.

[@brasileiroloko5375]

Bought this game last year, im on vacation and still didnt get to play it 😢, too bad i only got a rtx 3060 too

[@darcinek]

How does it feel playing something other than gamma?

[@wyattwelton8599]

One thing that kills a game like this is that you do not have a means of travel except by foot. I mean in this day and age I do not want to walk every way. Games like Red Dead Rebirth, Metro Exodus, etc., all have means of transportation, which makes them so immersive and enjoyable. Engines can handle it now and it's come to be an expectation of mine to have them in open-world games. (I understand why older games didn't could handle it but now its just strange and jarring not to) This is all my opinion and I get it a lot of games can just ignore that.

[@The_SSSlopper]

I’m not sure how vehicles would fit into the economy of the zone, but I feel like bikes could work maybe as an alternative mode of transport

[@phillipdunham8606]

i havent used them but theres npcs called guides in the game, they will take you to any main camp, so far from zone 2 its 1500 to go back to zone 1.

[@wyattwelton8599]

@@The_SSSlopper Like i would even accept that, just something man

[@alexk0740]

If you Want to play go médium settings 4k dlss 66% now you have 60+ fps whit not droping and still look good or you Can buy a mega PC nasa for 10k+ is not your fault that the game feels bad performance.

[@keandreee]

My 3070 gets 100 fps on high I’m a 1080p peasant but I don’t mind for now I think for how it looks how big it is and how just completely seamless the entire game is I can see obviously I wish it was better but my game is smooth like butter no complaints other than tanky ass mutants

[@dreydydog]

I feel like they completely killed the a-life ai now its just set enemy spawns which kinda kills the feeling of wandering aroud the zone and now it feels like every other AAA games random encounters. also bloodsuckers are broken

[@duck_iri]

he'll yeah

[@giokbilashvili32]

I found gunplay really hard and not sure what to call it but the mouse movement and aiming is too smooth which is kinda annoying and hard + pair that with the lower frame rate (+if you are using FG it comes with extra delay) and it makes gameplay not enjoyable and tiering at some point.

[@drool3616]

I like this game, I just wish the English dub was like how it was in the originals, everyone sounding American just feels weird.

[@da3sii]

im not downloading a game that is 130gb in size now im gonna let them cook just like cyberpunk

[@WhereDaud]

Turn DLSS Frame Generation I go from 50-60 fps on max to 160-150fps

[@ВячеславФролов-д7я]

Frame generation is a great tool, but it eats gpu memory. So it isn't a magic solution for every PC, although, a good one for a lot of them

[@ВячеславФролов-д7я]

Honestly, I'm quite disappointed with the alife, but other aspects are at least good, with most of them being great. Overall solid 9 out of 10 until the alife gets fixed. P.s. i can't even imagine what can the stalker modding community build from that in a couple of years

[@Waddlington]

TOO KEEN

[@jamesclarke293]

Has anyone had any experience running this with a LAPTOP 4070? I figure I can at least run it on medium settings.

[@zurfey]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

[@Atilolzz]

I am a bit bummed it got mainstreamed Oh well

[@brettsoutdoorexperience9422]

Weird complaint.

[@conski1]

Brilliant game and what a challenge it is my first stalker game plus when they do a thew more updates for the ai it could be even better there's 1 or 2 things I'd like for instance going full prone position is needed and a dive or slide I'd be happy

[@Smokey-109]

wake up baby, NullMoxy uploaded another video!

[@moha1911]

Game is good , brroken which is okay for now .. wait for updates . wont fix that gamma itch though . gamma 2.0 maybe

[@Uni0nDirect0r]

If a game THAT buggy, unbalanced, poorly optimised and overall half-baked "exeeds your expectation", I have to ask: did you expected it to be complete garbage? I've been a Stalker fan for 17 years, but I don't even try to contain my disappointment with the far-too-long-awaited sequel. The atmosphere is still there, but literally everything else needs to be patched.

[@NS-45]

This games feels like stalker SHOC unfortunately, 8 at max, good thing is that it feels like SHOC But the balance is horrible I'm playing on veteran and man mutants are spongy as hell, try to kill bloodsucker

[@Suchtzocker]

i feel unconfortable playing it, meaning from the hud to the reloading restrictions, compass everything is more or less meh to me idk i gave it a few chances but its not catching AT all i have the same feeling playing some kind of Battlefield Campaign or CoD not comparing it completely but the same feeling playing the first stalker or gamma is so much more intuitive. I think for me the console integration in this series is the culprit to my meh feeling it just feels like its made to include the casual players too much. It could literally be a new FarCry in a different setting tbh if you wouldnt know it. Reading comments my conclusion is that its too casual for me, missing the whole Stalker1 get thrown in the water and start without any guides feeling.

[@lISamuraill]

It feels like im playing farcry instead of stalker tbh. The ai is dog shit and just spam geenades. Mutants are too spongy And the optimization is horrible.

[@redhair2784]

its good

[@imnickmain]

I genuinely can't tell if people are lying or not about gunplay? I honestly think it's probably the worst part of the game by far, it just looks like a worse version of an Ubisoft fps game

[@rainbowhippos9035]

So my GTX 1070 probably wouldnt handle this

[@DutchThriceman]

I'm running a RTX 4070 Super and I've got to settle for medium graphics or otherwise deal with poor performance, ngl I definitely wouldn't try it with anything less then a 3x series card.

[@horstherbert35]

the official minimum requirements says gtx 1060 on low settings, expecting 30 fps at 1080p.

[@rainbowhippos9035]

To be fair Space Marine 2 has even lesser requirements than this game and yet my pc was trying not to croke. Probably should look at getting a new pc...

[@ВячеславФролов-д7я]

​@rainbowhippos9035 this game is definitely harder for the gpu than a space marine

[@eriklarsson3188]

"British, Scottish or Irish accents"??"? Good grief dude. You mean *English, Scottish and Irish accents. I mean, haven't you heard of English people? From a country called England? They speak with _English_ accents, NOT British accents. The clue is in the name.... English.

[@MashPotatoJohns]

I don;t really like the COD SFX whe popping a medkit or taking headshots. It feels like warzone

[@FrostyDeSwoleMan]

It’s not a woke lgbt groomer bullshit game and I’m loving it!

[@Ozlav]

Graphics and animations look amazing, the rest just seems overly simple and a bit casual, will revisit in a few years when mods have taken off.

[@JF-vz1ju]

Eh in terms of complexity it's mostly on par with the originals. The difficulty is a bit higher. I don't see how it's casual other than toggleable accessibility options and hud elements.

[@Ozlav]

@JF-vz1ju True, but I spent the last 5 years playing modded Stalker. There is no way I can go back to a game this simple, and I have hoped Stalker 2 would add at least some complexity over the original.

[@carnegyballsackchungusprod4789]

i have a 3060 and i cant play the game unless im running it at lowest with performance dlss, game looks worse than the forest 1 and runs worse than red dead 2 on ultra

[@iwa_ro]

Hand it over, that thing, your Stalker 2 copy...

[@dr.awesomeisawesome9567]

It sucks that this game sucks. Way to dark, enemies are gods with the power to see through walls, guns are made of paper, economy is worst then it was during the great depression, graphics are good if your playing in 2010, world is broken worse then my parents marriage, english va is what id expect from a fan made game in 1998. Screw the devs, maybe they should do something useful and join the war effort in ukraine instead of wasting all our time

[@Yooudidntask]

Unplayable. Such a great game. But that damn fps

[@Draynor]

Meh. I'll just stick to playing GAMMA

[@Obamazinn]

Please i dont know how to put it in english, but SOMEONE please put GAMMA inside this game, the way it works and everything, Love u Guys

[@ВячеславФролов-д7я]

Wait a year or two, and modders will do it. They have already uploaded some minor mods

[@dutch1up567]

It’s shit

[@peteranserin3708]

This is COD Ukraine style. RIP Stalker franchise.

[@woKenVFX]

this comment makes no sense lmao