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

[HeatEXTEND]

Remind me, are we talking about the Metro people?

They couldn't even do a straight forward popamole shooter right, what makes them think they can actually get a Stalker done properly?

Just checked, not the metro guys. Don't scare people like that

 

[typical user]

I'm gonna eat kielbasa and drink my Zywiec on my first playthrough. I am also going to listen to carefully selected hardbass tracks on my custom playlist while on my way to buy the game and during the installation process.

Otherwise it won't be pure experience.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

I wish them the best of luck.

 

[Zarniwoop]

Remind me, are we talking about the Metro people?

They couldn't even do a straight forward popamole shooter right, what makes them think they can actually get a Stalker done properly?

Just checked, not the metro guys. Don't scare people like that

It's GSC Game World, original cheeki breeki developers of the first game. OPA!

 

[luj1]

This is such a blatant fraud it hurts

Gosh I hope not... What do you mean mate?

 

[ADL]

It being GSC Game World means fuck-all for better or worse (hopefully better this time considering EVERYONE left). Each game has had such wildly different development teams it's amazing they turned out so good.

 

[Infinitron]

https://www.pcgamer.com/stalker-2-is-a-new-project-that-isnt-based-on-the-cancelled-game/

Stalker 2 is a new project that isn't based on the cancelled game
Some details have slipped out of the Exclusion Zone.

It's been almost a decade since Stalker 2 was first announced, which was followed a couple of years later by the game being shelved and the studio temporarily shutting down. But there's a new Stalker 2 in development, with GSC Game World once again behind it. Quietly announced last year, we haven't heard much about it since, but a couple of details have come out of an interview with YouTuber Antishnaps.

Stalker 2 ceased development in early 2012, and GSC Game World hasn't picked up where it left off. We don't know much about what the studio had planned, but this version of Stalker 2 will be something different.

"Stalker 2 is a new project in which we use all the best ideas that our company has," said the developer.

The team working on the sequel is the largest the studio has put together, apparently, and it's funding Stalker 2 itself. There aren't any plans for a Kickstarter at the moment, either. There was no mention of platforms, aside from VR support not being planned.

As for the game itself, GSC Game World isn't giving much away. It will have a "unique atmosphere" and the studio is drawing from the original Stalker trilogy, naturally. I don't think it really needed to be said, but there are no plans for a battle royale mode. Not much was revealed beyond that, unfortunately, so Stalker 2 still remains a mystery.

More information might be hidden in a cipher, however. Another secret code was spotted in the Stalker 2 announcement earlier in the year, and while GSC Game World isn't giving away any clues, it confirmed that you'll find the next part somewhere on the website.

Cheers, Nibel.

 

[Crispy]

Get back here, stalker.

 

[Lyric Suite]

Looks like they are serious.

 

[luj1]

1) questions are very general (reveal nothing) or shockingly dumb. Will stalker have co-op? How many people work on the soundtrack? Wtf?
2) answers reek of decline, badly... very big team/"high quality AAA"/original creators left.... you can tell the focus will be on assets/technology/visuals over gameplay depth

 

[Curratum]

Don't be fucking stupid. Original Stalker games have the gameplay "depth" of a puddle. It's just that the shooting and atmospherics feel great.

 

[cretin]

Don't be fucking stupid. Original Stalker games have the gameplay "depth" of a puddle. It's just that the shooting and atmospherics feel great.

if you consider the gameplay of STALKER to be a puddle then I'd love to see what you consider a deep FPS. The systems in STALKER actually have a good amount of depth, they are just implemented in a very subtle manner to the point where a lot of players arent even aware of the many different things going on.

Additionally, of all the things that feel great in the STALKER series, the shooting is not one of them. I wouldnt regard it as a positive for the series at all, it has/had merely serviceable tac-shooter mechanics.

 

[Curratum]

Don't be fucking stupid. Original Stalker games have the gameplay "depth" of a puddle. It's just that the shooting and atmospherics feel great.

if you consider the gameplay of STALKER to be a puddle then I'd love to see what you consider a deep FPS. The systems in STALKER actually have a good amount of depth, they are just implemented in a very subtle manner to the point where a lot of players arent even aware of the many different things going on.

Additionally, of all the things that feel great in the STALKER series, the shooting is not one of them. I wouldnt regard it as a positive for the series at all, it has/had merely serviceable shooter mechanics.

There are no deep fps games. The purpose of the genre is to be fast, thrilling and fun, not to have Deus Ex mechanics and depth. STALKER is a mixed bag of genres, I wouldn't call it a straightforward FPS. The action is often much slower paced than your average FPS and there are occasional elements of horror and a peppering of survival, even in the base games without bullshit like Misery tacked on.

I know a wee bit about modding STALKER myself, I have made what I like to think is a very serviceable compilation of minimods for CoC and making everything compatible as well as making further tweaks required quite a bit of poking around. I'd say I'm fairly familiar with the mechanics and the engine and I still wouldn't call that "depth", as to me depth usually equals complicated systems that the player has to juggle and actively exploit. The artifact hunting, juggling and the RPG stat aspect of them is the closest STALKER comes to what I'd call "depth".

I'm not implying the game is dull because it's not deep, I wouldn't spend 100 hours poking around files and manually resizing shell casing sprites if I didn't enjoy or find the series likeable. I just wouldn't use the word "deep", as to me it has other implications in a first-person game.

 

[cretin]

Don't be fucking stupid. Original Stalker games have the gameplay "depth" of a puddle. It's just that the shooting and atmospherics feel great.

if you consider the gameplay of STALKER to be a puddle then I'd love to see what you consider a deep FPS. The systems in STALKER actually have a good amount of depth, they are just implemented in a very subtle manner to the point where a lot of players arent even aware of the many different things going on.

Additionally, of all the things that feel great in the STALKER series, the shooting is not one of them. I wouldnt regard it as a positive for the series at all, it has/had merely serviceable shooter mechanics.

There are no deep fps games. The purpose of the genre is to be fast, thrilling and fun, not to have Deus Ex mechanics and depth. STALKER is a mixed bag of genres, I wouldn't call it a straightforward FPS. The action is often much slower paced than your average FPS and there are occasional elements of horror and a peppering of survival, even in the base games without bullshit like Misery tacked on.

I know a wee bit about modding STALKER myself, I have made what I like to think is a very serviceable compilation of minimods for CoC and making everything compatible as well as making further tweaks required quite a bit of poking around. I'd say I'm fairly familiar with the mechanics and the engine and I still wouldn't call that "depth", as to me depth usually equals complicated systems that the player has to juggle and actively exploit. The artifact hunting, juggling and the RPG stat aspect of them is the closest STALKER comes to what I'd call "depth".

I'm not implying the game is dull because it's not deep, I wouldn't spend 100 hours poking around files and manually resizing shell casing sprites if I didn't enjoy or find the series likeable. I just wouldn't use the word "deep", as to me it has other implications in a first-person game.

Fair enough. It just reads as a criticism, which seems out of place considering the genre as you say.

 

[unfairlight]

Don't be fucking stupid. Original Stalker games have the gameplay "depth" of a puddle. It's just that the shooting and atmospherics feel great.

Vanilla Stalker shooting is ass. If you install some mod on it, only then does it get good. Stalker's gameplay has depth in the sense that you are usually allowed to approach situations in your own style, you could stealth in and pick them off one by one with a suppressed pistol, or you could snipe them down from afar with a sniper, and the straight forward assault with grenades and an assault rifle is always there as well. The reason why it was done well in Stalker is because the developers never forced it on you once, you only had the location and rarely if any information about it which meant you had to scout around yourself.

 

[vortex]

 

[unfairlight]

Unless you're AAA, UE is essentially the default these days. It's not a surprise. Just not economical for smaller developers to write their own engines in most cases.

 

[DeepOcean]

Unless you wanna make a 2D game.

 

[Silva]

Unless you wanna make a 2D game.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2

 

[Space Satan]

...and false promises

 

[vortex]

no xray, no buy

But why ?

 

[Wunderbar]

no xray, no buy

But why ?

xray - soulful and moddable jank
ue4 - soulless unmoddable popamole

though it was a common knowledge that STALKER 2 will utilize UE4, there is a higher chance to find a decent xray programmer somewhere among modmakers, than in GSC.

 

[Volrath]

Epic exclusive, so into the thrash it goes.

 

[Invictus]

I still don't get it; they owe half of their games’ popularity to the awesome overhauls and mods like Lost Oblivion, Anomaly, Call of Chernobyl, Misery etc and they decided to go with an engine reknown for it’s inability for modifications and changes?
Why couldn’t they reach a deal with 4A and get the Metro engine? It looks damn fantastic, it’s highly optimized over different settings and looks has state of the edge technology and support
Unreal 4
Epic store exclusive fo sho
Not moddable...

 

[deuxhero]

UE4 isn't modable???