STALKER 2 - The Ultimate Review

[@marsMayflower]

Died to a pack of dogs 1 minute in to the first level after prologue- the true Stalker experience. Love it.

[@FrontSideBus]

I remember playing the original and dreading missions that took me across the map because by the time I'd even get there I'd burned through most of my ammo and medpacks 😂

[@OldSchoolArchiver]

I keep dying because I keep underestimating drops 🤣

[@nta8032]

ahh yeah, i remember play stalker SoC, died to a pack of random dogs

[@TheCollages]

@@marsMayflower Listen to Der Club of Gore while playing!!!! I've been doing this since the first game.

[@Bigdoghirohito]

Ran into a flesh absolutely folding me

[@RaifalM3n]

Dude, i thought i was attacked because sounds made when you walk over tools and stuff are very loud. Its a gem of a game even with some problems. The atmosphere is crazy. And UnrealEngine looks fantastic..

[@devonwarnock2625]

If you look in the settings there's multiple audio options that aren't optimized for a headset by default for some reason. Change that and then set the dynamic range to what sounds good for you. Hope this helps.

[@johncunningham1889]

Video title: THE ULTIMATE REVIEW. The video: describes other reviews.

[@wavy.m3]

literally, he also seems to know nothing about the game at all. this is just straight yapping.

[@StarDust_R89]

I was thinking the same thing 😂😂😂

[@Elkatook666]

- 'juicehead AI' can you summarise all of these reviews of " x " game and make a script for a video ... said video script ...

[@TheShezarrine]

@@edfell66 People who get review copies often have them at least 2 weeks in advance, so a lot of people have had the game awhile. Embargo was just a couple hours before launch, meaning they couldn't even talk about it till today.

[@kirkmashino4106]

mentions "no fast travel" possible you know except for the fast travel between towns.. lol

[@JimmyFingas]

Sometimes reviewers who arent fans of games will lead ppl astray. Blind leading the blind. Fans play stalker for the gameplay n atmosphere not the story and we survived the x ray engine we know about bugs

[@masterikej1]

Right, sounds like a massive upgrade from previous games, bug wise.

[@axelmarchelie4138]

im pretty sure the story is good. MAn, that reviewer actualy enjoy fallout 4 story .....

[@JohnJohn-pm9wq]

Man the story is amazing. I think some people expect cinematic story telling and aren’t used to stalker type story telling.

[@karathkasun]

@@masterikej1 Go play Clear Sky, Stalker 2 is far more polished at launch. CS was nearly unplayable even after its final patch. XD

[@JackWse]

Yeah but because it was X-ray, and because it was a proper PC game.. we could fix a lot of that.. The in-game files had some of the best notation that I've ever seen out of a game script.. like it took me 5 minutes to knock off the most annoying things after I started up the game, and just opened the door to so much more. That's not how unreal works, and at best it looks like we're going to have to do configuration edits just to do the settings because they couldn't even add a developers console, and that's just a box that they have to check.. they didn't even bother checking the box? That's a bad sign. True we never got proper mod support, but the game was so happy to be configured that a lot of things could just be solved or adjusted etc.. The systems on systems were there to play with.. you kind of needed to play with them like they wanted to be played with. And they said they have like the ideas of mod support and all that and that's all cool.. especially for an unreal game, and the only other example I can think of where someone actually properly followed through with that in recent years was off world with squad.. a game made from a mod, by modders, in iteration for a decade about now.. Guess the insurgency guys as well, same story mind you lol.. The only reason we got stalker mods, aside from the extremely awesome and accessible scripting systems in the original game.. is like the only reason we actually got real mods, aside from things that were already there that were brought out.. like real mods is because they rebuilt the engine from the ground up.. And if it's something like black Mesa where they just have a map editor that was already there and they don't actually put the effort into letting you do proper system adjustments, let alone code to fix some of these problems.. it's a bad sign and unreal is just not an engine that has a track record for developers using it that end up doing that.. and when you looked at the menu and you saw the exact default options for the graphics that you see in every unreal game pretty much.. with like 15 different settings grouped into a single low medium high that often are completely independent of each other in terms of performance and quality effect that they have? That's not a good sign. The thing about buggy games like stalker, or just interesting games that are usually a little bit buggy because they're doing interesting things.. they used to come with the sweet of things that you could do in the game code as things you could do... Like it wasn't even a point of controversy it was just you know.. advanced tweaking as the old tweak guides used to say, (sad about that guy.. Hope he does better with humans I guess..) Even with cyberpunk, before all the script engines and whatnot, and the official mod support.. because it was such a open thing, and it wasn't trying to intentionally necessarily obfuscate it's systems, we had things like the devs have been working on and never integrated, now to play with.. systems that didn't work for the console crowds etc or whatever.. now we can play with it, or they didn't have time to test etc.. stalker was like one of the prime examples of that back in the day with x-ray. I was genuinely worried, this was going to be a game made for work the modern generation essentially.. and I'm not entirely right about that, and I'm happy about that.. But I'm really not entirely wrong either in some of the worst ways that would have made it totally fine, if it had been.. flipped around.. because then I could fix it or I could change it to become a game for a PC for PC people that actually are trying to immerse themselves in the systems and participate in what used to be a regularly two-way interaction between game developers and game players in pushing things forward. Stalker two has this feeling like it's a product, it's got the giant micro transaction bundle with the cheat code loot stashes and all that stuff.. it's configuration settings are like beyond patronizing the way they are set up in the default unreal it doesn't even have a developers console. But it's also trying to be a stalker game and it's buggy and it's got systems and.. again that was okay back then because if we needed to fix something it was not a big deal like it took me 5 minutes like I said five actual minutes to fix a whole slew of problems that would have probably kept me from playing the game if I hadn't the ability to change them. Back in the day. As far as the modern game reviewers and the modern gamers, well they're modern gamers, you're right they were never going to understand this.. and that's the world we live in.. until we fix it or it gets worse and every game has one time use cheat codes that you can buy like Ubisoft.. or stalker too where you can pay an extra 20 bucks to skip some of the harsh grind.. I'm not holding it to them like I would some other companies because of their situation.. like going about it that way is kind of the worst way to go about it.. like if you recall remember when they were going to have NFTs at one point? Lol.. and if it hadn't been phrased that way I probably would have paid the extra money just to support the The company, but you had to phrase it in a way as a thing that is actively destroying the industry that are loved that it's already dead, and just rotting on the pavement.. and someone asking hey, you know you'll run a lot faster with the deluxe ultimate composting worms.. you'll have to pay a pretty penny.. you know if you want to get the full amount.. I would probably buy a new hardware accelerator to try to like speed up the process as well, cuz it's going to be a junk fest with these worms they kind of work.. But as long as you keep it up eventually there will be nothing left.. And this is coming from One of the better studios, who are trying, even if they don't understand that making games this way, is genuinely a death sentence to The very things that thought that embracing the modern practices would allow them to achieve. But then the flip side of that is, I don't know if there's a future regardless had they not, because it's already dead, like I said rotting on the pavement.. so I guess in this case it's more like My kingdom for a jug of formaldehyde to try and stick around a little bit longer..

[@wobblytvv]

It’s a good thing stalker fans really don’t care about the story and more about the grind, can’t wait for mods

[@Game4ALaugh]

What genre of game. Horror simulation with RPG elements?

[@wobblytvv]

@Game4ALaugh it’s more of a horror survival shooter, simulation, no rpg elements at all

[@LifeEnjoyer463]

You are clearly not a stalker fan

[@IIFM54]

@@LifeEnjoyer463?? What stalker fan cares about the story

[@FeRu.Raprodukcja]

Nope....Anomaly and GAMMA fans care about grind and OCD Hording...STALKER fans care more about atmosphere, quests and story.

[@Frank-os6gq]

The intro was amazing, i loved it lol i dont know what they are talking about. Its immersive, scary, tense, brutal, amazing.

[@Sinfulcr3ations]

It doesn’t actually sound like this person even actually played it (the way he words things a lot)…but you know the new generation they’ll all cry about everything if anything slightly deviates from their expectations

[@davidbueso3840]

That's the important part. That's what I say. I don't listen to reviewers for I am my own reviewer. I will try the game and see if i like it. For the most part, is always the opposite what the reviewers experience and I enjoy it.

[@draco2xx]

stalker is only for certain type of people

[@EvanHBogle]

​@@Sinfulcr3ationspeople are allowed to have opinions and are allowed to disagree with each other. Crying about someone else not liking something is ironically the most gen z thing ever.

[@arftejano2284]

I was completely blind the entire prologue because lighting is broken on Xbox lmao, still managed to bumble my way through it and am loving it so far, even if I have to use a flashlight indoors and during the day and stealth is impossible 😂

[@theiconimage7200]

6 hours in and I’m loving it. I’m playing on veteran difficulty with some HUD elements turned off

[@Game4ALaugh]

I saw the map from cod 4. 😊reenactment incoming from some YTr

[@mikew2911]

Cope harder

[@chrisa2058]

@theiconimage7200 Can you tell us how old you are? I really want to lose myself in this game, but I'm not sure if it will work. Im 42 now, maybe its my age why its hard to find a game to lose myself in it. ^^

[@ThrobRoss]

@@chrisa2058I’m 41 and fully immersed in it. Best game I’ve played in over a decade I’d say. Maybe more.

[@theiconimage7200]

@ we’re not too far off :) it’s definitely a game you can get lost in

[@amx9122]

Reviewers keep comparing this to fallout which is a mistake in itself. This game is closer to metro than fallout. Also is no one using guides??? There is fast travel in the game you just have to pay, they said it themselves on discord that the guides are be back.

[@JimBobm]

I did see that somewhere else

[@PhifeZulu]

First one I think is uncle Ynayov or something like that. I don’t bother I’ll walk everywhere lol

[@bigbri4090]

The Metro games are so much better than this. Stalker is dollar store Metro 😂

[@ThePindar]

Imagine using guides in a game that released not 1 day ago, that's just stupid, you're spoiling the experience

[@greymundo9168]

​@@ThePindarThe NPCs you pay for fast travel are called guides

[@apeblackberry3641]

12:34 let's be honest, I completely dismiss anyone's opinion who playing games as a profession yet somehow cannot even notice an empty magazine for 2 minutes straight...

[@Th3Fly1ngCow]

Sounds like classic stalker exactly what I wanted

[@marsMayflower]

Yup- i was afraid they would water it down like Metro. Nope, it's brutal.

[@RugsterClaps]

@@marsMayflower I really wanted to like metro but it was very watered down like you said. too CODish and I cringed at most of the dialog and writing. glad stalker is back

[@pedromiguel9494]

When a non stalker player reviews a stalker game without knowing the loop of the game.

[@PetrPolach]

Actual loop in game is super boring...

[@pedromiguel9494]

@PetrPolach yhea it is.the game is not finished for sure.

[@prauwnsauce]

It’s fun, definitely not as bad as I thought it was gonna be. It needs a little more time in the oven but it isn’t no Cyberpunk or Jedi Survivor

[@benturner3458]

No it's much better than jedi survivor mate. I mean really they are not good games to compare. But stalker will give you the best and most heart pounding gunplay you can get in a single player video game. hands down. And the atmosphere is incomparable to anything else that's available. It's masterful ambience

[@zantrex4]

Quit playing for now... The AI is in a tragic state There is no Night Vision or Binoculars Enemies visibly spawn in front of you all the time Economy is trash Will wait for the DEVs/mods to fix this mess before taking another look at it.

[@thealienbros5431]

Bethesda syndrome hitting hard with the "we expected tons of bugs, cant wait for modders". Its expected now that games launch completely unoptimized with bugs, then fixed months sometimes years later, and braindead gamers continue to eat it up and give excuses.

[@jamesford2192]

people like that are the reason this keeps happening. I’ve seen them non stop today with this game it’s actually comical

[@1738-l1j]

Blame reddit ypu cant say anything negative about thw game in r/stalker

[@SerekPieczarkowy]

They had 13 years...

[@linop2]

To be fair... This is also a staple of the Stalker games. They all launched buggy, with the first 2 still having some fairly bad ones. I suppose it's called "Eurojank" for a reason.

[@partymcfly5549]

I think you should shut up

[@UpstartApollo9]

As a stalker player mutants feel to spongy. So I am starting a new run on Staller it feels alright, can’t wait for a difficulty mod.

[@2019SubaruWRX]

Bar for bar 😂 what's up with these bots?

[@ShirleyTimple]

But the realism 😅

[@cozmomurray3240]

Skill issue.

[@theoriginalrabbithole]

Cheeki Breeki! As a veteren of all three STALKER game releases, I can tell you that ALL THREE previous STALKER games have been buggier than a rotten tree stump at release! 😄 Which is why I ALWAYS wait for them to go on sale, as they're completely patched by then and I can have a good first playthrough at a reduced price. 😉

[@soupSpoon-k5h]

The true Stalker expirience The fans yearn for the jank

[@TheMTJOE]

COP was p solid at launch

[@powerbeard5653]

@@TheMTJOE it only took them two other whole games on the same engine and using the same assets before they finally got it right

[@theoriginalrabbithole]

@@TheMTJOE That's a lie! 🤣

[@bobbydonnelly6571]

I chucked a frag at some people they walked forward then back 😂 got myself some free loot cause of the buggy ai sometimes 😂​@@soupSpoon-k5h

[@Rigby606]

So far I've spent about two hours listening to the radio and getting drunk, listening to background explosions. The True Stalker Experience.

[@2ndrangersww2]

Idk who's talking about the mutants just running at you. Yes some do, but packs of dogs will flank you and attack from behind and the sides. The bloodsuckers turn invisible and end up right in your face before you can even react. This is my first experience in the Stalker series, but coming from playing the Metro franchise for a decade, I'm loving every second of it

[@LodewijkVrije]

if its like what people are saying, that there currently is no A-Life system in the game, then it was not worth the wait, because then it can not be considered a proper stalker game. currently downloading so we'll see. but the A-life system is what made the other games so unique compared to other games. for those that don't know the A-Life system in the stalker games was a persistent AI system. even if you could not see a NPC on the other side of the map, that NPC was still being simulated in the background, it was not being rendered. but it was being simulated. there are very few scripted events in the original stalker games when you are in the open world. NPC squads of all factions are moving around the open world, they have the same needs as player characters in terms of food and water, they can trade with each other. so to fulfill their needs, they would go looking for food, or ways to make money, they would even attempt to hunt artifacts (they would die most times, but its besides the point) packs of mutant dogs would roam around hunting for food. this caused encounters to be very dynamic. as you could run into NPC's who were in the middle of a patrol, or scavving a location, or running from a pack of mutants. you could walk into a location, find a group of friendly scavs, and think this is a good place to stay during the night, and then you'd wake up in the middle of a gunfight because another group of hostile NPC's on a patrol, are now fighting the friendly scavs you were hanging out with. and it would not be just a scripted encounter that got spawned in when the player moved into a trigger box, they were fully dynamic encounters. there are allot of videos that show, and allot of people saying this system is completely absent in STALKER 2. and that lots of evens seem to be just scripted events that spawn in when the player comes within a certain distance. this is really sad.

[@WVRLORD]

Yea other than lackluster stealth, this is one of my main issues. There’s a lot of times that mutants or NPCs just randomly spawn in an area near you once you move a bit away populating an area absolutely nobody was nearby or emptying a previously populated place with seemingly no trace. You can tell they tryed to have that experience simulated with alot of wandering packs of creatures and stalkers, but there is a lack of depth and immersion especially with the AI at times.

[@twins8204]

GSC employees have said before and after release that A-Life 2.0 exists in STALKER 2. Now, they don't actually describe what A-Life 2.0's objective is and how it works, so I'm not sure if the offline AI is just bugged in some way or if that was left out of this game. It is very possible that the offline simulation of NPCs doesn't exist, or it could be that it's bugged and needs to be patched. Hopefully the latter, because I agree that it was the best part of the other STALKER games.

[@TheA53ford]

​@@twins8204Basically from what another employee described it's at odds with the Combat AI system. So it's buggy basically but is being worked on constantly to be fixed ASAP

[@averagemug]

The devs are working hard to fix the A-Life system, once it is they'll reintroduce it to the game. It still feels like STALKER regardless and to be fair, A-Life didn't even exist in the original.

[@LodewijkVrije]

@@averagemug A-Life was in all 3 older games. though there were certainly different levels of implementation between the 3 games, all of them had an A-Life system. only someone wo does not understand how the system is supposed to function would claim otherwise, and only someone who has never played the stalker games could say the game feels like a stalker game, when the A-life system is a critical part of what made the stalker games so different from any other games. which it currently does not.

[@Sikdomeshot]

I think this game will be fantastic with 12-18 months of patches and mods.

[@FrontSideBus]

Biggest gripe for me is the lack of proper accents for the voice acting...

[@th3thatguy631]

Agreed, I switched it to Ukrainian VA and it's quite good

[@SuperNoobz22]

The Ukranian voice acting is very good. Would recommend switching and using subtitles cuz I also found the english VAs to be lackluster.

[@benjthorpe]

Games should name their easiest setting “reviewer difficulty”

[@STALKER2BRO]

This ultimate review of STALKER 2 perfectly captures the essence of the game! The attention to detail in the world-building, atmosphere, and gameplay mechanics is just phenomenal. It’s great to see how the devs stayed true to the series while introducing fresh elements. I also create videos about STALKER 2 and was completely blown away by what happens when you throw a grenade into an anomaly - it’s an unforgettable moment in the Zone

[@ALiberalVeteran]

I didnt realize it was AAA and modern when you want health mechanics, stealth, hunger and anomalies to actually matter.

[@terrymilligan5668]

@ALiberalVeteran you summarized better than I did in another comment. Basically, all we wanted was a Zone feel on par with A-Life 1.0. What we got was A-Life 2.0 in name only.

[@wavy.m3]

The Ultimate Review of Reading Reviews

[@taylorp3685]

Stalker franchise was so beloved because of it atmosphere and music. The vast immersion from just stopping and watching the wind blow the grass in front of you as life goes on around you was what made stalker games what they are. It was never the stories written by the developers the enjoyment you would get from just walking through the zone and avoiding death. Feeling that vulnerability while managing your inventory. It was just the graphics and the immersion that ever really made stalker what it is. Taking fast travel out of the game is arguably the best thing the developers did to keep that immersion. And they shouldn’t apologize for that. Mods can do whatever they want to make this game the way they want it, but the developers made this game exactly what it is, stalker2 and the graphics and sound quality of this game is among the top best in my opinion. There are graphical issues at this time, but I really don’t have any complaints for this game and its gameplay elements and how it’s crafted. For me, this is exactly what I wanted nothing more and nothing less. Once the bugs are fixed, and the performance is improved, it will be even better. I am playing on high-end hardware for a laptop and I haven’t had any immersion breaking bugs or crashes yet with approximately 18 to 20 hours in the game already. So I can’t speak for everyone in their experiences, but mine has been honestly phenomenal for a game of this scale. I kind of expected worse performance, but even the biggest developers have made Games far worse performing day one. One particular bug that I can get is on my AMD processor, the game will randomly start using a different CCD and spread the load improperly on my 16 core Ryzen 9. This would create the game to get really bad stutters and hitching but only after a very long play. Period it happens. A quick restart of the game and it’s back to normal. It tends to do this if I load to save after a long play through.

[@maunzquisitorfd9987]

I think no one has ever played the first Stalker games in there life lol 😂.

[@caiooca5793]

But there are a couple that played Gamma, like me, 😂

[@maxschwediauer9808]

what? why not?

[@nealc.6927]

I've played them all, individually, and I have Stalker Gamma - a fan-made compilation of all three with loads of embedded Mods - permanently on my HDD. It is, low-key, the best FPS ever made.

[@maxschwediauer9808]

@@nealc.6927 gen z is not used to old school shooters. i am amazed they are able to beat from soft games

[@MartinOReilly-mb4um]

It wasn't that long ago? Was it?

[@LazyassedLamenter]

Started game up, get past prolog, go on adventure to find loot. Find psycat instead and proceed to die over and over cause I cant find the real fucker in tall grass. The real stalker experience. Also the only problem I have is that certain bushes you cant shoot through but the npcs can

[@NickyByloo]

With OperatorDrewski being a Stalker veteran, his review is excellent, so I am looking forward to playing Stalker 2.

[@benjamintrejo9307]

Fast travel in STALKER is WILD 😂

[@Brumizona]

5 hours in and no issues so far aside 1 minor animation bug, if youre a stalker vet youll love it if you have a decent PC

[@blinkq_530]

this is a lie

[@Zero_Zone.]

Thanks for summarizing all the other reviews. I think I'll wait a couple of months before I play this game, as this is my first STALKER game and want to have a good impression of it when I finally do play it.

[@IainStewart-d7k]

Is it possible to turn off the crosshairs and the indicator of where the incoming fire is coming from?

[@drcrowlee]

I feel like people are being too nice to this game just because of the circumstances of its creation

[@xavierpeterson7139]

It that’s a problem because? You do understand when your country is being taken over you lost family and friends because of it,not to mention being cyberattacked by Russian hackers threatening to release data on your game. There’s literally a shred of respect for devs. We fans are understanding. If they didn’t have that huge circumstance then yes obviously but it’s really something you can empathize with. It’s being human at the end of the day.

[@maximthemagnificent]

All my gamer friends are quite a bit younger than I and not one has played the original Stalker games. Hope some of them give this one a try.

[@telzen8774]

I doubt any veteran stalker players complained about the weight limit. Also there is a fast travel system. Really shows how great these reviewers are.

[@Teeeeeeeeeeeeem]

Critics when Bethesda makes them wait thru loading screens instead of making an arduous and boring 5 minute walk: 😡 Critics when GSC makes them walk through a beautiful and realized open world for 5 minutes instead of skipping it with fast travel: 😡

[@cyanus7347]

Literally

[@TheSuperNinjaEX]

Well I liked modded stalker but too many mods made me not wanna play often. I have 3080 and ryzen 9 7900x should I play?

[@biznisman7049]

Stalker 2 has a FAST TRAVEL, you just have to find the guy and pay him every time you use it.

[@arftejano2284]

Enjoying the game on Xbox, no real issues beyond lighting being apparently broken. There’s no ambient moonlight and interiors are so dark I need a flashlight to see even with sun coming from outside and lamps and lights on lol

[@SamuTheFrog]

I play on Veteran & it is exactly what I wanted out of a stalker experience. 7 hours in and already died over 100 times & find myself constantly scavenging trash just to get by, very fun.

[@FUBARGunpla]

LOL I am a long time stalker, it was everything I wanted. The jank are merely anomalies waiting to reveal themselves. And the design is just like the original ones. Just like space marine two, it's a game design that is older in its stylings. And it's not fall out, it's not an rpg, it's not an apocalypse, this isn't a game you can just out level difficulty. As for story etc... First time in the zone? 😅😂😂😂😂

[@zhe_g1421]

I remember borrowing Stalker from my brother back in 2011... As a Russian, I just hope what's happening irl right now hasn't affected the game too much.

[@z0h33y]

There's nothing anti-russian in the game, only a message from GSC at the end of the credits, followed by a long list of all the devs and loved ones who were killed. The character Loki from Call of Pripyat, modeled after one of the devs, is no longer in Stalker 2. His office in Yaniv Station is blocked off. But using noclip to go thru the door, you can find a empty room with a corpse sitting at a desk. The dev died in Bakhmut defending his homeland.

[@zeroinfinitify]

A funny thing is how people have been complaining for years about fast travel in games, and when a game doesn’t have fast travel, they complain about that too.

[@shalucard107]

I have never heard people complain about fast travel, like which games were people complaining about.

[@jukeplays7572]

New World people at launch complained about the expense of fast travel. Ashes of Creation planned from the start to not have it, and people are already complaining about it. "The game doesn't respect my time..." is what I've seen pop up a few times. Also this game does have fast travel

[@makingacomment]

Dude above your comment was just complaining about it. Saying he isn’t buying the game because of it.

[@SuperNoobz22]

Funniest thing is I just read a comment above this one saying that there actually IS fast travel in the game, you just have to pay a certain NPC to do it. Ppl really gotta do more research lol.

[@makingacomment]

@ Wow. People really just jumping to any conclusion or not being fully knowledgeable before making misinformed comments yikes lol

[@amitansurkar1769]

Be honest, how are the story, immersion, side quests, fun aspects of the game? I couldn't care less about the technical issues, since most of these reviews are based off of the pre release build and the day 1 patch should fix most, either ways i dont mind bugs, and performance issues, how fun is the game? Ill be playing it this weekend, so wanna know, cause most of these reviews only seem to copy paste each other

[@dragonborn4405]

personal opinion here 1) the story people complain about isnt a valid complaint to me, i feel the story isnt god tier but its decent at the very least 2) game runs smooth, good animations and good conversation system 3) gunplay as short to mid ranges is fun, but for longer ranges it gets a little finicky, at least on an xbox controller, probably not an issue for MnK, i advise reconfiguring some settings to how you like them overall, i can see myself sinking a good many hours into stalker 2

[@amitansurkar1769]

@dragonborn4405 seems like you like it a lot, that's good, what would you rate it out of 10?

[@XmarcX92]

Just buy the first game and download the Anomaly custom mod. Way better experience

[@Puddspanker]

Just buy it and play it. I played for like 8 hours straight yesterday. It's a blast.

[@amitansurkar1769]

@@Puddspanker already bought it, and will play it hopefully this weekend, my net is too slow, plus i live with a battle royale roommate 😭

[@McNastyFlows]

Im enjoying the game so far. I have about 6 hours. Im playing on the mid difficulty, I think the encumbrance in this game is great. Its not realistic for a person to have a backpack with 7 pistols 2 shotguns, 3 rifles, and an abundance of ammo for each on top of your equipped items. Theres a reason nearly every stalker stash you find on the map has a description relating to "I have too much stuff ill come back for some of it later." Theres a stash box in the first village you find. Only take what you need before you go out. Store the rest. Don't bring all your ammo with you, you will find more. It adds realism that so many games have been seriously lacking.

[@HotcuppaJoe88]

@JuiceHead According to IGN the game does infact have fast travel, but it requires reaching a certain point in the campaign in order to unlock it

[@RHaenJarr]

0:53 my brother in accidentally pressing E instead of F

[@karathkasun]

The intel CPU thing isn't a game bug, its your CPU failing. Big controversy regarding 13th and 14th gen CPU's literally overvolting themselves to death, and the shader compilation failure is an early sign of it happening.

[@Grungymayo20]

Im so happy they stuck to their roots unlike most companies dumbing their games down too much. Theyve come so far since their old games i hope the trilogy comes to game pass or atleast buy to own list

[@fare-5174]

Funny how my potato PC did not see any of the performance issues mentioned - first world country problems with top end gear I guess. The stealth is present and workable, although you get a silencer pretty soon into the game so killing someone with a knife becomes obsolete real fast. One thing to note however is that there's a lot of clutter in buildings (like empty beer bottles etc) which produce a bunch of noise and alert enemies (yes, even through walls. That's how noise works folks). So most stealth kills are made in the forests where you can sneak up on enemies (because everyone knows forest running is always 100% silent). Enemies spawning just around the corner is a great annoyance, hope A-life goes online in a patch soon.

[@mmysck4353]

Wait.. Did you just compile reviews for this.. "Review"? Is this a better way to review games now?

[@AustinGMRS]

0:30 fun fact: elden ring intro is the same thing but even worse because al they do is show the game mechanics as the objective is just go figure yourself out and keep dying constantly while STALKER 2 shows the objective and showed what happened if you f around in a place without awareness

[@TheDeathstyk]

I'm playing on the middle difficulty, on the Xbox series x. I've noticed a few AI issues (the fire side chats not working, or some scripted combats between npcs not doing anything if I ran for cover lol) Mutant AI didn't just charge directly at me, I've had packs of dogs swarm, take turns, or come at me from all sides so if I killed one infront of me there was another behind me. It's interesting so far, and I'm enjoying it.

[@keeptexasfree7361]

I’ve been playing fallout 4 since the downgrade from Bethesda. I’m ready for stalker 2.

[@lukalekov1530]

bugs,half baked game A life doesn't exist i don't understand how people love it.Iam in my mid 30s and i waited this game for a long time.I refunded my deluxe version an hour ago

[@akira357]

Because this is also a shill channel paid for by SLAVA UKRAAAANEEEE Microsoft money. I know not a lot of people don't know this, but 90% of videos on KZbin are paid shills. Look up the dead internet theory.

[@SteveAkaDarktimes]

What makes this Review the Ultimate? Have you compared every Stalker 2 Review? was there a bare-knuckle boxing tournament between Game Review youtubers? or is this the Last Stalker 2 review that will ever be made? oh. you literally did a Meta-analysis of Stalker 2 reviews. Less fun than the other options, but carry on then.

[@Gamer1990100]

Still better than a half of launches

[@EnterTheSoundscape]

Not true but ok

[@2019SubaruWRX]

​@@EnterTheSoundscape extremely true, upgrade your PC

[@EnterTheSoundscape]

@@2019SubaruWRX My PC is just fine, the game isn't finished.

[@2019SubaruWRX]

@EnterTheSoundscape does it work? Sure. Is it up to par for next gen games? Clearly not

[@btbarr16]

Death Standing is one of those games where you just got to stick with it until Chapter 3, I think it was. When it came out on PC and I was reading the steam reviews, there were a lot of negative reviews, but then there were also a lot of "just stick with it until chapter 3." So, I did and sure enough, I was like, "I get it." Not the plot. I'm still not sure I get the plot even though it was entertaining, but I got why people enjoyed the game.

[@Herbit-k4j]

Can you join and fight for factions? Like in Clear Sky? I loved that part, watching the little dots on the map.

[@ScarletSnake]

These reviews reflect how the games industry has deteriorated since 2007... A lot of the negatives they list here are things that made the original trilogy so great, and things that were praised back in the day. These are things that made the series as legendary as it has become. Mainstream gaming scene is the death of creativity in the industry...

[@smthsmth]

Couldnt bother to buy and play the game yourself? Such a ultimate review

[@ScAR3Cr0w1]

I enjoyed what I could play, but had major stick drift issues on XSX. Aim assist wasn't any help either. Couldn't keep playing when I was almost losing gun fights to being unable to to stop swaying.

[@Dennis-ud2nh]

"Exclusion zones are back" you have not played the original trilogy. There were no "exclusion zones" in those games. There was ONE Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. I have no idea what the hell you're talking about in that segment.

[@WormholeJim]

The true strength of this release is the modding community and what they might achieve with the new updated engine and ressources in the years to come. I for one know watching made me feel like playing. Not the new release, all though that too would be a blast. No, it made me feel like playing the Anomaly or GAMMA mods, the utmost cream of the crop after 16-17 years of modding the original game assets.

[@lgnfve]

Guy watched Chernobyl Documentary on Netflix. He grew up in Ukraine in 1980's & was able to count 8 historical inaccuracies on one hand.

[@DMTEntity88]

🤓☝️

[@Nedk82]

I’m surprised no one compared this to metro exodus , it’s basically same premise and if you loved metro you will love stalker it’s way harder but not as polished as metro but still extremely fun. Day one patch fixed a bunch of issues

[@Rockport1911]

Best to wait until the major patches are through. But what iam worried about is the " A-Life" missing and the enemy spawns scripted close to you. A cleared place is occupied moments later. The AI could be better, nobody wants bulletsponges. Alot of stuff needs rebalancing, does nobody playtest anymore?

[@draco2xx]

stalker is only for certain group of gamers, if you know you know🤭

[@pillagius]

First 15 minutes - picked a fight I shouldn't have and a bit later cheated the game by dumping all my loot in a container before you are incapacitated. 3 hours in: getting my bearings together, while still wearing most basic gear, fought another Bloodsucker for a quest and immediately after - killed 3x Bloodsuckers that attacked me at the same time. IS THAT ALL YOU GOT GAME!?

[@bossman7278]

this is gaming for grownups not little kids. we need to have a game that gives you a challenging experience. this is it mate.🤔💗👍👍

[@rymreaper]

If the map becomes so big that it becomes a running simulator then you should add vehicles. They don't have to be too fast , they can be slow small off-road vehicles . And realistically off-road vehicles are slow in off-road

[@DeltaSlush]

At least the worst you can say that its buggy on launch. Could be worse, could get cancelled 11 days in, or peak at less than 500 players.

[@pablorosales1462]

i fucking love this game franchise, i played stalker cop even before than skyrim or fallout, and i got to say that i dont care about the other games of the year or even decade as long as this game gets better, i just want this game to be the greatest of the series, meaning my favorite game, those devs deserve more pacience giving the circumstances, and i believe in them❤

[@Deadforge]

I loved your Metro Awakening review. I'm also loving MA. Stalker 2 looks greatbimo.

[@joecrowhurst7409]

I legit liked the intro. I'm glad I played a few hours before I watch reviews. They seem like they aren't getting how bad games are these days. The bugs haven't been too bad in my experience. I didn't play the 1st one cus the old graphics kill me. This has been a great game for me. Reviews are meaningless. But I still can't stop watching them.

[@darkalleywaystudio3975]

Unfortunately, it’s a no for now. The game crashes every time I get to compilation screen. Truly saddening tbh but kinda figured this would happen even though my PC meets the requirements, drivers installed, and even a clean windows wipe to confirm. Still would not load… Just wish I could play the game like everyone else but looks like that won’t happen.

[@localtesco2461]

Hmm, my game doesnt crash but the performance is HORRIBLE, like i mean it stutters every second with fsr 3 enabled, fps is pretty bad sitting at 25 to 40 but i hope this gets better i think it will

[@jamesford2192]

But but it’s not a bug it’s an anomoly!!! Harrr harrr harrrrr

[@JimBobm]

I've read on the steam forums you have to update your mother board bios, graphics drivers and GPU drivers and have Windows up to date .

[@localtesco2461]

​@@JimBobmyes thats right, tried it now updated everything and scrubbed my pc clean, runs so much better can even bump up the graphics to medium even if it doesn't sound impressive

[@darkalleywaystudio3975]

@@JimBobm Tried it all. Still the same. Thanks though. I’m going to try on a different computer later when it gets patched later. Just disappointing.

[@Aezamki]

There's no bugs in stalker, only anomalies

[@ODST101]

16:05 yeah I thought stealth would be like metro, but it seems like a complete afterthought.

[@ObnoxiousCamoToe]

The only thing that's made me take a break from playing was the game crashing on me. I don't think anyone should even try to compare this to Fallout 4, if anything, it's better compared to Metro.

[@davidbueso3840]

I honestly care less about the reviewers because I don't follow people's point of view. I always like to try the game and see it for myself and most of the time, is the opposite experience than what the dam reviewers were saying. I am my own reviewer and its what matters to me.

[@saschaberger3212]

Yeah. Only thing I want to know is if it runs. Is it playable without breaking. The rest I want to you discover myself.

[@davidbueso3840]

@saschaberger3212 it's been running pretty smoothly in my experience so far. I'm sure there's bug, but I'm sure those bugs will patch pretty soon

[@Zombified2012]

The keybinds in this game.. were a freaking nightmare.. took me like 2 hours just get it to a workable setting

[@DRourkey]

In stalker there aren't good or bad reactions. The reason everyone is there is because they broke in to make money. They eliminate the morality question with the setting. Sure some people help others, but ultimately, they didn't come here to help anyone. It only happens if it's in their individual self interest

[@lu_ar1264]

there is fast travel, it works similar to the older games. have to find a guide in one of the settlements.

[@eikotehgrowingmouse]

I played Fallout New Vegas and Skyrim when they both came out on my PS3 and went a whole year before I had a means to update... I'll be fine playing😅

[@PimpCatTV]

It seems like an amazing base, but I won’t be playing it for a year or 2, when huge bug fixes and modpacks come out, like anomaly or other fine details added.

[@dra6o0n]

Enemy respawning infinitely in a few sections is stupid though, especially military bases of sorts.

[@No-rl9wn]

*cries in clear sky*

[@panther2311]

Well, I can't afford to buy the game until January next year so maybe that not a bad thing and hopefully patches will resolve most if not all the current issues by then. I've played the 1st 2 games and really enjoyed them so I will be buying this (along with another larger SSD to install it on,160GB install!)

[@YungBeezer]

Also i fear bloodsuckers in this game more than the previous entries

[@bajabalster]

I don't know how people are complaining about the intro it was fine to me

[@sethwright186]

Great roundup, Juice! Thanks buddy.

[@YungBeezer]

Yeah it’s a good stalker game so far. Obviously casuals are going to be filtered. My biggest gripe is the engine and the performance, as well as enemies popping in out of nowhere.

[@saltychipmunk190]

I appreciate this kind of aggregate review analysis

[@johnny5805]

This obsession with beautiful graphics caused the devs to push Unreal further than it was designed to be pushed. Never mind the fact that it cannot, and never has been able to 'do' open world games. It's gotten to the stage that Unreal devs just bung a ton of graphical and game features into the engine and hope that DLSS will make it playable.

[@joeboland95]

Welp I'm not watching this until I try it myself

[@HaleTheFreeVoice]

So why comment on it 😂😂😂

[@chrisa2058]

@@HaleTheFreeVoice Why not? ;D

[@HaleTheFreeVoice]

@@chrisa2058 thats…fair honestly 😭😭😭😭😭

[@chrisa2058]

@@HaleTheFreeVoice lol ^^

[@bombyo3634]

This review I'd accurate. I'm playing on rookie and so far I'm just wondering doing quest I want to do the quest but it just feels like a shooter you have a story for and that's it so far. Fetch quest really

[@itorca]

I've had a few issues with stalkers spawning in on me other then that not much to say other then when you accomplish getting new gear you feel it

[@ProcyonDei]

So it's basically Shadow of Chernobyl with better graphics? Neat!! That's what we wanted...

[@bobbydonnelly6571]

It's much much bigger bro the maps hugeee

[@ProcyonDei]

@@bobbydonnelly6571 Perfection...

[@dragonborn4405]

yep, the gunplay feels smooth too just long rsnge sniping with controller sensitiviy is the only real issue for me, but im also not verybused to the sens in general

[@bobbydonnelly6571]

@@ProcyonDei its what we wanted but we knew from the ogs this one was still gonna have some funny bugs but all in all the 20hrs ive got already its a huge improvement over the first

[@ProcyonDei]

@@bobbydonnelly6571 Would it be a true Slav experience otherwise?

[@IceM4gic]

Listen, Juice, brother. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is just as buggy as the originals. 100\10, I'm LOVIN it so far.

[@philipp5142]

Given the challenges of developing the game amid a genocidal war with North Korea involvement and extensive destruction of civilian infrastructure with TENS OF THOUTHANDS bombs and rockets, the developer’s first effort is impressive. I would rate it a B+/A(-).

[@iHaveTheDocuments]

Bro just talking about other reviews like he's got an original thought