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

[ADL]

Meanwhile, nvidia is promoting it as a DLSS 3.0 title.

 

[Fargus]

Russian journalists got some inside info on the development of STALKER 2.

tl;dr

- the game won't be released in 2023, won't be released in 2024, likely won't be released even in 2025;
- there is no playable build of the game, the project is in the state of "constant rebuilding";
- after the war broke out a large amount of employees either left the company, or were fired (because they were russians);
- all of those guys who left actually kept their design ideas on how to make the game in their heads;
- the development process is very chaotic and unfocused because project lead is Grigorovich;
- this galaxy brain genius doesn't write a proper design doc and doesn't maintain any records of what departed employees were working on;
- because of that the newcomers who were hired as a replacement had to start from scratch, they had no idea how to work with existing stuff;
- the employee turnover is very high - new devs arrive, realize what kind of clusterfuck they just got themselves into, and bail.

They are from Belarus. Decent channel, i watch them from time to time for the vidya news. Vitaly's streams are fucking embarassment though, he usually ends up sucking and blaming the game for it in a span of an hour. And the second guy often goes schizo when they make reviews and sounds like he's on estrogen and might randomly stab someone on the street with aids ridden needle after being misgendered. But there is certain "Gameover&Bonus" charm to their videos. Fellow 30+ russkies will probably understand what i mean. Also they prefer to just speak their mind instead of going scripted.

0 surprise about Faker 2: Fake of Grigorovich. That game exist mostly on paper. I'll just keep playing Anomaly, not like i was waiting for stalker 2 mind you.

Also why is it still Heart of Chernobyl and not "Chornobyl: Stand with Ukraine" in the thread name? :D

 

[Tacgnol]

Meanwhile, nvidia is promoting it as a DLSS 3.0 title.

Sergei is on a roll. Scammed M$ and now he's scammed Nvidia.

 

[Wunderbar]

0 surprise about Faker 2: Fake of Grigorovich. That game exist mostly on paper.

apparently not even on paper.

 

[Fargus]

0 surprise about Faker 2: Fake of Grigorovich. That game exist mostly on paper.

apparently not even on paper.

Stalker 2: Grigorovich's Retirement Fund.

 

[ADL]

 

[Wunderbar]

Is it a proper release date, or an early access?

 

[Cassar]

Bullshit. Nothing's gonna be released in 2023. The rumour is very very likely true. They dont have anything to show for. Im 99.999% sure they won't release nothing in 2023.

 

[HereticGuy]

- there is no playable build of the game, the project is in the state of "constant rebuilding";

I have existential crisis; every morning I wake up like "fuck, I'm still alive!". There are little things that keep me somewhat joyful; like a fucking new STALKER game in development. Now your post seals the deal; this shit is %100 vapourware.
My last hope is Itsuno's Dragon's Dogma 2. I hope it will arrive in a meaningful time period and won't have "body type / identity" kind of tyranny shit.
It sucks to live in that generation.

 

[ADL]

This ain't my first GSC rodeo but I find it very difficult to believe that the project is in the state that the 'leak' claims it is. There's too many major players involved (Microsoft, nvidia, Epic Games) for everything to be entirely make believe.

People are saying the source is unreliable too.

 

[toughasnails]

Given that these claims originated with Russian sources and given, you know, what has been going on, I wouldn't be too trusting if I was you.

 

[ADL]

 

[agentorange]

- there is no playable build of the game, the project is in the state of "constant rebuilding";

I have existential crisis; every morning I wake up like "fuck, I'm still alive!". There are little things that keep me somewhat joyful; like a fucking new STALKER game in development. Now your post seals the deal; this shit is %100 vapourware.
My last hope is Itsuno's Dragon's Dogma 2. I hope it will arrive in a meaningful time period and won't have "body type / identity" kind of tyranny shit.
It sucks to live in that generation.

you may as well kill yourself now because you're out of your mind if you think this new STALKER will be anything like the previous three. no major studios now are going to release a game that basically just drops the player into a hostile environment and tells them to get on with it.
enjoy things like extensive forced tutorials, "STALKER VISION" for seeing artifacts and anomalies, a bunch of redundant level up and perk systems and other skinner boxing tactics (You killed 15 Blood Suckers! Congratulations STALKER, you have earned the BLOOD HUNTER Perk and now do +10% damage against Blood Suckers when fighting them at night!) because otherwise people will think the game "lacks content," very likely women in the zone, etc etc. thats without even other basic stuff like the game will look like typical modern shit with no atmosphere and will feel like shit because its made for consoles

 

[HereticGuy]

you may as well kill yourself now because you're out of your mind if you think this new STALKER will be anything like the previous three. no major studios now are going to release a game that basically just drops the player into a hostile environment and tells them to get on with it.

Joke aside, yeah I know you are right; it will be suitable for 2020's generation

 

[DJOGamer PT]

no major studios now are going to release a game that basically just drops the player into a hostile environment and tells them to get on with it.

You are aware of the fact that Elden Ring is this year's most successful AAA game and that souls-like are currently a fashionable thing, right?

 

[toughasnails]

^Plus the trend of other AAA games like Doom Eternal advertising their difficulty...

The industry seems to have well overgrown the late 00s, early 10s trend of making everything as accessible as possible, just as the publishers' hard on for everything "cinematic" from that period seems to have cooled off.

 

[Wunderbar]

The game got leaked.

Spoiler

Spoiler

actually it's a cancelled browser mmorpg STALKER Online

 

[Ryzer]

Looks like a Jagged Alliance Stalker... I like that idea. Too bad it got cancelled.

 

[Tacgnol]

Looks like a Jagged Alliance Stalker... I like that idea. Too bad it got cancelled.

STALKER would really make a brilliant setting for either a fallout style rpg or a more tactical focused jagged alliance experience.

 

[Baron Dupek]

I guess JA modding scene was dying out when STALKER got a spin somewhere in the timeline?
Otherwise we could get something... or at least people would finish some mod for Men of War 1/2/3/whatever got best editor?

 

[NecroLord]

Looks like a Jagged Alliance Stalker... I like that idea. Too bad it got cancelled.

STALKER would really make a brilliant setting for either a fallout style rpg or a more tactical focused jagged alliance experience.

Or even a P&P RPG.
Factions,Ability Scores,Monsters etc.

 

[Tacgnol]

Looks like a Jagged Alliance Stalker... I like that idea. Too bad it got cancelled.

STALKER would really make a brilliant setting for either a fallout style rpg or a more tactical focused jagged alliance experience.

Or even a P&P RPG.
Factions,Ability Scores,Monsters etc.

I think a few people have attempted it:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/100243/STALKER--The-SciFi-Roleplaying-Game

No idea how good the quality is though.

There is also a fan made stalker board game based on the franchise which is supposedly really fun.

 

[NecroLord]

Looks like a Jagged Alliance Stalker... I like that idea. Too bad it got cancelled.

STALKER would really make a brilliant setting for either a fallout style rpg or a more tactical focused jagged alliance experience.

Or even a P&P RPG.
Factions,Ability Scores,Monsters etc.

I think a few people have attempted it:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/100243/STALKER--The-SciFi-Roleplaying-Game

No idea how good the quality is though.

There is also a fan made stalker board game based on the franchise which is supposedly really fun.

Nice. Thanks for the link.
Yeah a S.T.A.L.K.E.R P&P RPG can have real potential. You could fight monsters like the Chimera or Controller,lots of weapons,lots of skills(weapon maintenance,intimidation,bartering,wilderness survival) and character backgrounds(ex con,ex police officer,ex military and special forces etc).

 

[toughasnails]

Looks like a Jagged Alliance Stalker... I like that idea. Too bad it got cancelled.

STALKER would really make a brilliant setting for either a fallout style rpg or a more tactical focused jagged alliance experience.

Stalker seems a almost a perfect fit for some sort of tactical game, whether something more sandboxy where for example you control a faction, maybe fighting for territories with turn-based tactical battles, or something smaller scale, more story-driven like JA where you're leading a squad of stalkers. Plus such games seem to be popular enough with Eastern European players.

It would really be an easy choice for a lower budget spin off... if the series was managed by someone at least moderately capable that is.

 

[Ol' Willy]

- there is no playable build of the game, the project is in the state of "constant rebuilding";

I have existential crisis; every morning I wake up like "fuck, I'm still alive!". There are little things that keep me somewhat joyful; like a fucking new STALKER game in development. Now your post seals the deal; this shit is %100 vapourware.
My last hope is Itsuno's Dragon's Dogma 2. I hope it will arrive in a meaningful time period and won't have "body type / identity" kind of tyranny shit.
It sucks to live in that generation.

you may as well kill yourself now because you're out of your mind if you think this new STALKER will be anything like the previous three. no major studios now are going to release a game that basically just drops the player into a hostile environment and tells them to get on with it.
enjoy things like extensive forced tutorials, "STALKER VISION" for seeing artifacts and anomalies, a bunch of redundant level up and perk systems and other skinner boxing tactics (You killed 15 Blood Suckers! Congratulations STALKER, you have earned the BLOOD HUNTER Perk and now do +10% damage against Blood Suckers when fighting them at night!) because otherwise people will think the game "lacks content," very likely women in the zone, etc etc. thats without even other basic stuff like the game will look like typical modern shit with no atmosphere and will feel like shit because its made for consoles

Even vanilla Stalker SoC was toned down a lot compared to what they have planned. That time, due to lack of resources, this time...