Stalker 2 Is Looking Really Ambitious...

[@THEPROVOKER]

To people worried about the game in terms of the first one's development cycle - Thing they did with what they had in 2000's and the work they actually put is a much greater feat than most of triple A game studios selling million of slop currently ever have or will manage to do. People complained about the release delay on Stalker 2 but its kinda silly to judge the studio that comes from a war torn country fighting for survival where they lost so many people along the road like any other game dev, and just remember how western studios used the remote work during 'rona as excuse to release bad games - Those people aren't that.

[@bluetherobot]

Just curious about this one.

[@NZ-cv5cj]

We will see.

[@arel77]

@@THEPROVOKER this is true 👀

[@markshamp3699]

I liked the part where one of the directors talk about how he sees the zone as an ocean that is at first fun and beautiful but slowly becoming darker and more crushing the deeper you swim, until eventually you reach a point where you realize you can no longer hope to make it back to the surface. You make the only choice you can, and you continue further down, praying to find a miracle.

[@bluetherobot]

That was the part that gave me goosebumps.

[@Tavernadolobo]

The sound effects on the gameplay were amazing, very atmospheric. Hope it is a real representation of the final game

[@bluetherobot]

Hope so as well!

[@KEPSAGAMER]

Game already looks great... but hey, big key factor here... MOD SUPPORT FROM DAY ONE.... IN ONE OF THE MOST AMBITIOUS MODDING COMMUNUTIES THERE IS! THIS IS BIG!

[@Hyde335]

It's going to be insane

[@olehkoropenko620]

Not sure it will be from day one

[@reethardos1798]

Modding support will be on same level as UE5 toolset availability and engines modding support, its no longer some standalone slavcoding game engine keeping things together with the help of blue tape

[@y0h0p38]

@@reethardos1798 tbf the xray engine had a lot of basic modding tools and such built in it easy to access. I’m an idiot who can’t code for my life and can actually do some basic modding with scripts in anomaly

[@bluetherobot]

Very excited for that as well.

[@halavich9672]

10:55 - khm, "GSC" are the initials of name of the founder in the transliteration "Grygorovych Sergiy Constantinovich

[@bluetherobot]

OH WOW!

[@arel77]

cant wait for this game . long as it doesnt feel like gamma or anomaly and feels like the old stalker im happy

[@UnkemptDan]

I'm a massive fan of anomaly and GAMMA, but imo the community should be the ones to turn stalker 2 into anomaly 2, not the devs. Hopefully the game still has the original trilogy vibes and feel.

[@chost-059]

the Tavor X95 in stalker 2 isnt a Tavor, its a licenced copy manufactured in ukraine under a different name and made in 5.45 in small amounts. forgotten weapons has a good vid on this

[@bluetherobot]

@@chost-059 will have to watch that video. Thanks.

[@edwardo8404]

WE NEED AN A-LIFE showcase for both human and mutants

[@williamrice71]

I haven't seen one streamer even mention it ..basically the streamers and game journalist are casuals...they don't even know what it is or how Important it is to the series...

[@edwardo8404]

@@williamrice71 yep most just gloss over it, by saying atmosphere done right, but the a life system is what gave that atmosphere ,well A LIFE to the world, life a breath of fresh air for people who like to wander around in the game

[@bluetherobot]

I would love to see more of that. They barely mentioned the AI reacting to the player, that's about it.

[@edwardo8404]

@@bluetherobot yes, even the the controller fight in the trailer is iffy at best, while i get the zombies are pretty straight forward, the controller itself is pretty one dimensional, even the og games makes the screen with white, red or yellow confusing stuff with some ambient sound when getting close to it, heck some stalker mods put almost impossible to kill controller at close range because they will put your gun on to your head by your own hand, or the psi emission from the controler will kill the player.

[@michaelthompson5252]

Agreed. I was very happy to finally see the zombified Stalkers.

[@albundy7459]

Can’t wait to get randomly jump scared and fall out of my seat.

[@KEPSAGAMER]

Satlker is fr the only game that gets me scared because it's just purely random lol. Shit just happens in the zone that result in TRUE jumpscares lol

[@bluetherobot]

definitely same here.

[@liamlvp3886]

I want to see the Red Forest, don't know if they put this map in the game

[@PeninsulaCity2024]

It seems they put every location form the OG games back and then some. But yeah, an improved and expanded Red Forest would be nice to see.

[@olehkoropenko620]

@@PeninsulaCity2024 Yes, I think Red Forest will be there for sure. They told 20 'locations' will be in game. I think it should include most of locations from base games and some new one. Old locations may be grouped into one(Like Rostok and parts of Prypyat both of which were split into several locations), so the number of new locations is actually pretty big.

[@reethardos1798]

Red forest confirmed, one of its key location, archanomaly "Symbioth" were both on screenshots and trailer

[@bluetherobot]

I'm sure we will.

[@cantremember6794]

I hope the switching weapons is i can just tap y to switch to my secondary weapon instead of the wheel

[@olehkoropenko620]

I`m sure there will be such option on PC at least

[@bluetherobot]

Could be an option.

[@TheStrengthScholar]

There are two things I'm worried about for this game, AI and performance. If those two things work well modders can do everything else. Outside of that a brutally crushing difficulty mode would be nice too. I want to feel like I'm at the mercy of the zone until I earn mastery over it.

[@martinmmt9079]

I think the slowdown is a mistake because it reduces difficulty, but the most important thing is the AI ​​and the atmosphere, hopefully it lives up to expectations 🙏🏻

[@KEPSAGAMER]

Won't matter... modders will fix everything that goes wrong, making stalker 2 (not just goty) game of the DECADE!

[@bluetherobot]

Could be an option to turn on or off.

[@martinmmt9079]

@@bluetherobot I hope so

[@draco2xx]

my most anticipated game of the year😮🔥

[@KEPSAGAMER]

Only good game of the past like 10 years tbh

[@bluetherobot]

Very much so.

[@joelarson1733]

I have high expectations, and I hope it has a hardcore difficulty. I also want to play with no HUD so I can soak in those beautiful environments. Also, a lot of people are kind of snobby about mentioning Anomaly mods in the same breath as the legit GSG game, but in my humble opinion Anomaly did a lot for the game. I enjoyed the original, but I really appreciate realistic shooter experiences.

[@KEPSAGAMER]

Anomaly is what stalker should be... true open world zone experience. Obviously the story is cool, but i'm here to do as i please and be the warlord of the zone! That being said stalker 2 has mod support from day 1 meaning the community will fix any and every issue as well as enhance the base game, which is already looking exceptional

[@F1stzz]

​@@KEPSAGAMER "the warlord of the Zone" - tell me you don't understand shіt about STALKER without telling me you don't understand shіt about STALKER 😂

[@Therealsalerno]

@@F1stzz you dont know shit about it clearly

[@xephronzz9585]

@@F1stzz Hey, to play the STALKER games you are free to do as you please. Such is life in the zone.

[@F1stzz]

@@xephronzz9585 except STALKER literally isn't an RPG & there are literally no mechanics presented in the game for somebody to become a warlord, lol. Which means, surprise-surprise, that's objectively not what STALKER is about.

[@draxthedarkreaper]

I highly doubt clear sky will be in the game as an active faction, they aren't in the other two titles which both take place after clear sky. We could possibly meet remnants of the faction though. I have a theory based on everything we've seen of the game, that the player character is a former monolith member, possibly one of the clear sky members who raided CNPP.

[@M-GROG]

Doubt it as many articles say that he comes to the zone at the start of the story but if you’re right that would be crazy cool

[@draxthedarkreaper]

@@M-GROG Yeah I've seen that as well, so it could easily be false. But it is kind of odd that there are Monolith flashbacks in many of the trailers, from the first person of course.

[@M-GROG]

@@draxthedarkreaper true true we will see either way is cool

[@olehkoropenko620]

@@M-GROG Well, Marked One or Strelok also though that he is a green newby until one moment) So all is possible in the Zone

[@bluetherobot]

It would be cool to see more mentions of Clear Sky.

[@valendeosha]

I'm ashamed to admit, but every year before the New Year I replay Stalker, maybe I'm old-fashioned, but for me it's a tradition since childhood

[@juanavarro2008]

Nobody talks about the multiplayer...

[@bluetherobot]

@@juanavarro2008 I mentioned it. Not too much info has come out about it.

[@gobravo123]

You never played a stalker game before, right?

[@glazpeekedjfk9039]

He prolly only played anomaly or gamma. This in generell makes me wonder how ppl going to like the game since a ton of people never played the og games. The players that only played anomaly and gamma will have very different expatations to the ones who played the games made by gsc

[@RogerCaplan]

Have a look at his videos. He's played the games before, as well as a lot of story mods plus anomoly with EFP and GAMMA.

[@bluetherobot]

Ive played plenty of other stalker games, mods, story mods, standalone ones, a little bit of vanilla, but played every main game at least with a mod. One of my favorites was Call of Pripyat with the Gunslinger mod.

[@kanucklesandwich]

⁠@@glazpeekedjfk9039literally one click on his channel and you’re proven wrong

[@therealamon]

@@bluetherobot best cop mod

[@AlexZaglushaka]

Now counting days until release 😊

[@bluetherobot]

Again... lol

[@Gaizaz]

nice SKS! Μy bestfriend has one his grandpa took from an NVA soldier he zooted in Vietnam lol

[@KEPSAGAMER]

Based

[@bluetherobot]

Thanks. This one was from 1957, made in Russia, but used by the Chinese.

[@xshangheighx]

I'm just hoping it's good. I'm not too happy about hearing they are doing a myltiplayer experience like deathmatch and stuff. Makes me feel like they're going to put too many eggs in the wrong basket.....my vision for MP in stalker would be an iinvasion mechanic like dark souls. That would be fucking cool in a game like stalker.

[@whoknowsandwhocares1]

The original stalker also had multi-player death match

[@UKEYsPOWER]

I tnink, its just the arena in the bar.

[@bluetherobot]

Im actually looking forward to the PvP. Since I wasnt around for the original servers.

[@astalkerfreedom567]

You do realize that OG stalker games PvP are also like that right? Besides it's just a fun extra mode It's not like it's the main focus of the game

[@salieri_sg9413]

They call the tavor Fora-221 which is the STALKER name for Fort small arms factory So the gun would be Fort-221 IRL

[@bluetherobot]

Thanks for the info. Another name for it, is the Tavor X95R.

[@salieri_sg9413]

@@bluetherobot correct, however the UA contract guns are marked fort 221

[@iqbalbara8538]

I hate the slowing down. Breaks the immersion ...

[@Vohilem]

6:10 Anomaly - Thorn

[@bluetherobot]

Thank you!

[@MrMastrmonstr]

im also waiting for the ULT Phy ed

[@bluetherobot]

MAN! I just wait the Anomalous Lamp.

[@rekunta]

In-engine cutscenes comprise what STALKER is. Reason I love STALKER is because it doesn’t revolve around the player, but the Zone. The Zone is the star of the game, the player’s presence is simply incidental to it. That’s why, wherever you go, whatever you do, you’re never safe. At a trader or talking to an NPC? A pack of mutants or bandits, driven by A-Life, can come in and kill you. These in-game cut scenes concern me, because in order for them to play out, the Zone is going to need to be ‘paused’ by the developers so they can play out their story and narrative. This will destroy what makes the Zone so immersive: that it never stops for the player, that it doesn’t care about the player. The player, in effect, is as important as a pack of mutant dogs. ….but no longer. Not in today’s day and age of game design. Now the player needs to be the center of the universe, and catered to. A philosophical shift in game design from the originals to today is going to make this STALKER recognizable only on a very superficial, surface level. I’m expecting this to be an OK game, but nowhere near the originals because at its core, its design revolves around a shifting of priorities to appeal to mass market desires….. the player’s now the focus, not the Zone.

[@hokiva]

song name ?🔥

[@bluetherobot]

Past Life Limbo by Dylan Sitts

[@hokiva]

@@bluetherobot u are great!

[@IamGamer41]

it's obvious Skiff was a monolith soldier. They say monolith members have lost their memories and are just wondering around. Skiff will be one of them, just forgotten and the big choice will be does he rejoin monolith or the other factions.

[@bluetherobot]

Oh that would be a great moment to choose.

[@malkevych]

amazing game, just pls give it to me NOOOOWW!! Just want to play it

[@MrHotguy034]

dont get your hopes up it most likely will be delayed again

[@bluetherobot]

Don't we all.

[@Zakxaev68]

No shit? GAMMA 2 will top it, you bet, you bet.

[@Kontingency_Krusader]

Wanna Collab? Looks like we have some similar interests.

[@bluetherobot]

HMU in my discord dm's.

[@eusouoodio]

The tavor os israli

[@bluetherobot]

@@eusouoodio but the Tavor X95r was used by Ukrainian Special Forces

[@andrii.romaniuk]

@@bluetherobot it's Fort-221, a Ukrainian-made gun, they bought a Tavor license and made it for 5.45 ammo. It is named Fora-221 in the game because of the copyrights, just like other guns.

[@GeneralRaam-0]

@@eusouoodio Israeli? So it’s stolen then lmao

[@unfortuitousash]

I know it's just there as a prop, but please don't lean guns against walls like that, it's very irresponsible gun ownership. Put it up off the ground, sir.

[@bluetherobot]

@@unfortuitousash it's unloaded. In my office... thank you for your comment.

[@unfortuitousash]

@@bluetherobot doesn't matter where it is, you can store it safely

[@bluetherobot]

Cool man.

[@unfortuitousash]

@@bluetherobot you are exactly the type of person that shouldnt own a gun. you show defiance and arrogance in the face of the most basic gun safety rules. you are an irresponsible owner.

[@Therealsalerno]

everyone is hyping this game up and in my opinion i think the game is gonna be a huge downgrade from the ones we already have. anomaly is as good as its gonna get for the stalker series. the ui is extremally tacky and the crosshair needs to go and its missing its grim and dark look. ppl's hopes are way to high for this game and it shows. i think people have learned absolutely nothing in the past 5 years about AAA titles. there's no passion in these games anymore and it would take a true creator/fan to make a game like this its happened to many franchise's. putting pressure on the company is almost necessary nowadays because they know almost nothing about their own fan base anymore. stalker is a hardcore game based in a hard to survive place. what they are showing us looks like a modded out fallout 4 experience which is seriously disappointing

[@bluetherobot]

I guess we will wait and see.

[@korbi4527]

@@Therealsalerno 😂😂😂

[@saava.m4a474]

I think that GSC won't disappoint us ☢☢

[@bluetherobot]

Let's hope not.