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

[Drakortha]

NOOOOOO I HATE THOSE SHITTY GAMES. I only liked the exploration/sandbox of stalker. The setting is not interesting if you are on rails doing some retarded story

They needed to get Ukraines message out to the world.

 

[TheDarkUrge]

NOOOOOO I HATE THOSE SHITTY GAMES. I only liked the exploration/sandbox of stalker. The setting is not interesting if you are on rails doing some retarded story

They need to get Ukraines message out to the world.

I already hate russia enough I would prefer the sandbox immersive roleplay instead

 

[luj1]

Less features, better graphics.

Turning it into Metro...

You guys nailed it

 

[NecroLord]

What's the news on this? Any good? Any new features over previous games?

Yeah.
Turning it into Metro...

NOOOOOO I HATE THOSE SHITTY GAMES. I only liked the exploration/sandbox of stalker. The setting is not interesting if you are on rails doing some retarded story

STALKER also had a story, but it did not clog the game with cinematics and retarded quick time events.
It was a horror atmospheric shooter with sandbox elements.

 

[luj1]

I always thought STALKER was kinda similar to Morrowind, Idk

 

[Baron Dupek]

lotsa recycling there

 

[Alienman]

Just being environmentally friendly.

 

[Drakortha]

Some of the assets look worse in the new game.

For example on this building, the old asset had a layer of torn off plaster overlaying the brickwork. It gave it a more rundown appearance.

What's with this fuel tank looking nothing like the old one? The new one looks like it was sourced from a public asset library. It's smaller and has none of the rust details on it.

Here it is again. What the fuck? It looks like shit.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 is definitely shaping up to be a great Unreal 5 game.

 

[Harthwain]

lotsa recycling there

Aren't we supposed to visit the same Zone? Makes sense for the locations to be very similar.

 

[Drakortha]

Also the grass they are layering over everything at Cordon makes no sense, seeing as though the village and the dirt road is still receiving foot traffic. It's giving off Fallout 4 greenery mod vibes. Someone at the studio must have thought that putting grass over everything at a familiar area somehow increases it's graphic fidelity, even if it makes no sense.

 

[Lawful Pacific]

Fuck the cheap brown piss filter. Grey filters in OgStalker, Fear, and HL2 are better than this pseudo-realism shit.
Every game with piss filter is undoubtedly heavily cinematic console game.

 

[Drakortha]

I always thought STALKER was kinda similar to Morrowind, Idk

It's an interesting comparison, actually. Like Morrowind, S.T.A.L.K.E.R was very text heavy when it came to interactions with NPCs. Perhaps S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2, with it's fully voiced NPC's and compass directions, will be to the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R what Oblivion was to Morrowind. And who knows? A-Life 2.0 may bring many more advancements, such as some kind of mutant scaling dependent on what equipment you have or how far you've progressed in the story.

 

[luj1]

Perhaps S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2, with it's fully voiced NPC's and compass directions, will be to the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R what Oblivion was to Morrowind.

For sure.

It's back to modding STALKER for me, this new one is decline.

 

[Gerrard]

Also the grass they are layering over everything at Cordon makes no sense, seeing as though the village and the dirt road is still receiving foot traffic. It's giving off Fallout 4 greenery mod vibes. Someone at the studio must have thought that putting grass over everything at a familiar area somehow increases it's graphic fidelity, even if it makes no sense.

If anything doesn't make sense it is the lack of massive overgrowth everywhere. I have seen more overgrown lawns in my neighborhood.
Just take one look at photos from the real zone in spring/summer.

This goes for the original games as well.

 

[Drakortha]

If anything doesn't make sense it is the lack of massive overgrowth everywhere. I have seen more overgrown lawns in my neighborhood.
Just take one look at photos from the real zone in spring/summer.

This goes for the original games as well.

There should be overgrowth, yes. But in nuSTALKER it's in the wrong place. The overgrowth should be focused along the side of the road and on buildings, and areas less traveled.

The grass in the middle of the road looks even more retarded when you notice the surrounding buildings are untouched.

 

[Dark Souls II]

Who cares about the foliage? The real problem is that none of the gameplay shown so far has displayed even a second of actual Stalker combat.

As in, carefully approach some type of a compound from distance while avoiding anomalies and hiding behind trees and such, circling the perimeter while trying not to get spotted, scouting it with binoculars, deciding on the way to go, probably eliminating the look-outs with a scoped rifle before coming closer to eventually carefully eliminate the remaining enemies one by one after securing a carefully pre-planned cover, one that will allow you to use grenades tactically because if you try to run and gun you will die very quickly.

Nu-Stalker, aka Soyker: Soydow of Soynobyl? Pew pew pew, run and gun, just strafe around while spraying a rifle full auto. Typical goyslop soyplay thas nothing to do with the original Stalker games.

 

[Gerrard]

I have no idea what games you played but it sure as fuck wasn't Stalker.

 

[Dark Souls II]

I have no idea what games you played but it sure as fuck wasn't Stalker.

Vanilla Stalkers on master difficulty + some vanilla+ type mods that don't change much except making the game more realistic. Also, literally every notable Stalker mod made in the last 15+ years focuses on the type of gameplay that I described.

Also, even vanilla Stalker with zero mods has bullet physics + bullet drop instead of hitscan, and the only point of that is amplifying the gameplay loop that I described, so I'm wondering which Stalker games did YOU play. Vanilla games on low difficulty? You never played any notable mods in the past 15 years, faggot? Try doing run and gun in Misery, Anomaly or any other worthwhile mod, tell me how it goes.

 

[Drakortha]

I have no idea what games you played but it sure as fuck wasn't Stalker.

Vanilla Stalkers on master difficulty + some vanilla+ type mods that don't change much except making the game more realistic. Also, literally every notable Stalker mod made in the last 15+ years focuses on the type of gameplay that I described.

Also, even vanilla Stalker with zero mods has bullet physics + bullet drop instead of hitscan, and the only point of that is amplifying the gameplay loop that I described, so I'm wondering which Stalker games did YOU play. Vanilla games on low difficulty? You never played any notable mods in the past 15 years, faggot? Try doing run and gun in Misery, Anomaly or any other worthwhile mod, tell me how it goes.

I remember wounded NPC's laying on the ground begging for help. You could choose to finish them off or otherwise a nearby friendly ally would oblige. You also had things like NPC's avoiding anomalies, moving and looting corpses, and healing their allies. Granted, some of this was only possible with mods. But these are features that should be baseline in a long awaited sequel.

Who wants to bet that in S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 NPC's only have 2 states; Alive, or a dead ragdoll on the ground.

 

[Gerrard]

Try doing run and gun in Misery, Anomaly

Try finding a tall place and jumping off.

 

[actor]

I have no idea what games you played but it sure as fuck wasn't Stalker.

Vanilla Stalkers on master difficulty + some vanilla+ type mods that don't change much except making the game more realistic. Also, literally every notable Stalker mod made in the last 15+ years focuses on the type of gameplay that I described.

Also, even vanilla Stalker with zero mods has bullet physics + bullet drop instead of hitscan, and the only point of that is amplifying the gameplay loop that I described, so I'm wondering which Stalker games did YOU play. Vanilla games on low difficulty? You never played any notable mods in the past 15 years, faggot? Try doing run and gun in Misery, Anomaly or any other worthwhile mod, tell me how it goes.

What other mods have u played that aren't overtuned bullshit

 

[BadassNonbinaryPrincess]

What's the news on this? Any good? Any new features over previous games?

Yeah.
Turning it into Metro...

NOOOOOO I HATE THOSE SHITTY GAMES. I only liked the exploration/sandbox of stalker. The setting is not interesting if you are on rails doing some retarded story

Damn, same. Stalker was great, Metro was dumb.

 

[randir14]

An article about the game's performance, they say it's so well optimized that the Xbox version maintains 60 fps even though the game is using UE5 features like Lumen and Nanite. GSC is also thinking of adding extra ray tracing features on PC.

https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Stal...mescom-2024-Hands-on-Trailer-Release-1454333/

 

[ArchAngel]

An article about the game's performance, they say it's so well optimized that the Xbox version maintains 60 fps even though the game is using UE5 features like Lumen and Nanite. GSC is also thinking of adding extra ray tracing features on PC.

https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Stal...mescom-2024-Hands-on-Trailer-Release-1454333/

I guess these people are better at their job than "30 FPS at least" Obsidian :D

 

[Gerrard]

An article about the game's performance, they say it's so well optimized that the Xbox version maintains 60 fps* even though the game is using UE5 features like Lumen and Nanite. GSC is also thinking of adding extra ray tracing features on PC.

https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Stal...mescom-2024-Hands-on-Trailer-Release-1454333/

*at dynamic downscaling to 540p