S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl

[ADL]

STALKER physical editions announced


It's cool that the steelbook edition will be free though.

 

[Mikeal]

Fuuuuuuck it means map in style of CoP not SoC.

 

[Parsimonious cook]

60 euro bucks? You got to be shitting me LMAO...

 

[Curratum]

Fun fact - you can buy the exact same faction patches that ship with the Limited and Deluxe editions on Aliexpress for about 1-2 EUR.

 

[DeepOcean]

The only positive takeaway I got from the store page is the map size - they're listing 64 sq km, which is the size of the Hunter Call of the Wild reserves and those maps are HUGE to traverse on foot, like, REALLY HUGE, probably bigger than the Call of Chernobyl All-3-Games-Maps-Mashup together.

From my experience, 3x the size not means 3x the content, more like 3x the size of one game with the same content of one game and while that sounds cool, walking for miles on empty maps gets old pretty quickly. Unless they plan to use procedural generation to fill those areas with something to do, maybe placing rare anomalies that you need to hunt on really dangerous areas with high probability of spawning more dangerous mutants would be cool but I dont have my hopes up for that.

 

[Immortal]

The only positive takeaway I got from the store page is the map size - they're listing 64 sq km, which is the size of the Hunter Call of the Wild reserves and those maps are HUGE to traverse on foot, like, REALLY HUGE, probably bigger than the Call of Chernobyl All-3-Games-Maps-Mashup together.

From my experience, 3x the size not means 3x the content, more like 3x the size of one game with the same content of one game and while that sounds cool, walking for miles on empty maps gets old pretty quickly. Unless they plan to use procedural generation to fill those areas with something to do, maybe placing rare anomalies that you need to hunt on really dangerous areas with high probability of spawning more dangerous mutants would be cool but I dont have my hopes up for that.

I can just imagine those 20 minute walks between Minimap "explore this icons" with procedurally generated terrain stamps and speed tree clumps with randomly spawning enemies.. Mnnn that Stalker sensation I've grown to love.

Hello, Stalker Creed: Chernobyl

 

[JDR13]

Fuck the naysayers, I'm excited.

I'm with you on this. That looks pretty crunchy to me.

 

[Pika-Cthulhu]

Press X to cheeki breeki? Or is that only when the prompt is on screen

 

[DeepOcean]

People wanna believe but a) 3x the map size, b) released on consoles, only gonna buy this thing until I'm sure it isnt Stalker Creed.

 

[Curratum]

The amount of retards posting with the implication that they somehow expected an expensive, UE4 game releasing in 2022 to be a PC exclusive and will now not buy it because it is also on consoles is staggering.

 

[DeepOcean]

The amount of retards posting with the implication that they somehow expected an expensive, UE4 game releasing in 2022 to be a PC exclusive and will now not buy it because it is also on consoles is staggering.

Well, but releasing on the consoles isnt the only issue, the issue is exactly what you said, this is a multimillion project and we arent on 2004. Releasing on the consoles on 2021 means the pressure for accessibility to appease the console mainstream crowd on this must be huge and we might get a Metro Exodus with a huge but empty open world and lots of little question marks on a map to chase with fast travel. Basically, Stalker Creed, so, until they release more information, being skeptical is being smart about this.

 

[Gargaune]

Fuck it, I'm tentatively interested, but I'd rather have a GOG release. Need to see some proper open world gameplay, too, this had better not be STALKER: Heart of Metro 2033. It's no rush, maybe I'll finally play CoP by spring next year, but either way, this is the first potentially worthwhile thing I've heard come out of this E3 crap so far.

P.S. If they tack on some decorative skill trees, can we move this thread into General RPG? I'd certainly rather read about this than Horizon Zero Interest or Asswipe's Creed etc.

 

[Barabus]

see you in the zone brothers

 

[deuxhero]

64-km²? That's three times Vvardenfell, so expect empty/proc-gen space aplenty.

30+ firearms? I wonder if that's counting unique variants. Just under 40 different guns were usable in the first three games combined.

150 GB of space? WTF?!

 

[The Vanished One]

Please be good... Please, Jesus, make it good... I will be a good boy.

 

[prengle]

sergey is a greedy coke-snorting cunt who wants more lamborghini money? wtf who could have possibly predicted this

also lol it's not releasing in april

 

[HoboForEternity]

Trailer looks good. I am all in. Fuck the haters.

 

[Jenkem]

allegedly comes out in a year but:
can't tell you what version of unreal engine they are going to use
don't have any gameplay to show (the trailer was pre-rendered and scripted)
can't tell you the system requirements yet
please preorder though
that'll be 60 dollars plus tip
oh? you want the full game?
that will be 110 dollars plus tip

 

[Latelistener]

As far as I can tell it could be SoC all over again. It promised so much, but delivered so little. The only reason why it's got a cult following is because the setting was good. And it only came out because THQ became involved and downsized the project.

CoP was able to partially deliver those promises, but it was a bit too late at that point. I mean, the original game didn't even have emissions.

You'll have to be insane to pre-order this for $60 after one scripted gameplay that didn't really show anything specific.

 

[Curratum]

The amount of retards posting with the implication that they somehow expected an expensive, UE4 game releasing in 2022 to be a PC exclusive and will now not buy it because it is also on consoles is staggering.

Well, but releasing on the consoles isnt the only issue, the issue is exactly what you said, this is a multimillion project and we arent on 2004. Releasing on the consoles on 2021 means the pressure for accessibility to appease the console mainstream crowd on this must be huge and we might get a Metro Exodus with a huge but empty open world and lots of little question marks on a map to chase with fast travel. Basically, Stalker Creed, so, until they release more information, being skeptical is being smart about this.

I'm not saying "don't be skeptical" or "preorder it now", I'm just saying it's illogical to be angry about a game being consolised when it's current year and it's selling on consoles.

 

[cretin]

Trailer looks good.

Too good.

I'm waiting for the rug pull.

 

[Tacgnol]

Trailer looks good.

Too good.

I'm waiting for the rug pull.

I'd avoid making any assumptions till we get some concrete info on game mechanics.

 

[Curratum]

Trailer looks good.

Too good.

I'm waiting for the rug pull.

I don't even think the trailer looks too good. The system requirements are pretty chunky so I expect that sort of hardware to be able to produce those visuals, without any dumbing down on the visual side.

Of course, we still need to see more of the mechanics, interactions and interface, but I don't really expect much of a visual downgrade.

Saddens me that they seem to have hired proper, professional voice actors and the stalkers' voice lines are delivered a bit too smoothly and with a bit too much of a rehearsed movie actor voice, instead of the rough down-and-out genuine voices of the original games, but what can you do...

 

[Jenkem]

I'm not saying "don't be skeptical" or "preorder it now", I'm just saying it's illogical to be angry about a game being consolised when it's current year and it's selling on consoles.

I, too, have high hopes for Invisible War.

 

[Drakortha]

 

[Konjad]

Video was okay from a film perspective, but shown kinda debug-mode-on cringe gameplay (enemy standung 2 meters from you can't hit you but looks like professional soldier), but it clearly is so early it's definitely not coming out within 2 years. Overall, I'd rate it nothing/10, says literally null about the game (except it's gonna have nice graphics I guess).