Mister Wolf
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I enjoyed my time with it. I didn't enjoy the boss battles that much, so I did lower the difficulty from veteran for those. I'm happy with The Ward ending. It's the choice I would make in real life given the circumstance.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl ⚠️|☢︎T|⚠️ Don't Be a Menace to Bloodsucker While Trying to Catch an Olive in The Zone
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I enjoyed my time with it. I didn't enjoy the boss battles that much, so I did lower the difficulty from veteran for those. I'm happy with The Ward ending. It's the choice I would make in real life given the circumstance.
Between mid and end 2025 I guess, but not any news about this yet
Windle Poons
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
I really need to get back into this. Stopped for Indiana Jones.
phant0m
Member
Same. Was having a great time too
pudel
Member
What do you need fixed with the enemy AI?
pudel
Member
There was a fix on 19.12....not sure when you stopped.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Major Patch 1.1 is here! - Steam News
Over 1,800 fixes and adjustments, including the first iteration of A-Life fixes.
IbizaPocholo
NeoGAFs Kent Brockman
Windle Poons
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Got back into this after completing Indiana Jones.
Fuck me there is a lot of walking and running I forgot just how much.
Fuck me there is a lot of walking and running I forgot just how much.
Sentenza
Member
I bought this one a week ago and after a couple of hours I decided to refund it and use the money on FF7 Rebirth and Kingdom Come Deliverance 2.
Aside for the fact that the "downgrade" from the early trailers is almost comical (and it's weird people didn't make more of a stink about it),
maybe I'll be back the day the y ACTUALLY patch in the features they promised before launch, rather than a vague "Some day, eventually").
Aside for the fact that the "downgrade" from the early trailers is almost comical (and it's weird people didn't make more of a stink about it),
maybe I'll be back the day the y ACTUALLY patch in the features they promised before launch, rather than a vague "Some day, eventually").
Windle Poons
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
I don't believe anything I see in trailers so wouldn't have made a stink personally.
John Marston
GAF's very own treasure goblin
I'll reinstall this summer
hououinkyouma00
Member
People should never believe trailers, and no dev is exempt from this.
The game still looks amazing. It definitely has it's issues, but it's still one of my favorite games of the year despite literally having to use UE dev tools to progress through the entire last 1/3 of the game.
JayK47
Member
I don't have time anymore to play every game 2 to 4 times after DLC and patches are released. If I play a game at all, I want the finished product. I hate knowing that after I have finished a game, more content comes out that I may miss out on because I played "too soon". Cyberpunk was one of the worst offenders in this regard. Even when they say they are done, they still add more shit, 4 years after release. Practically a live service game. I absolutely plan to play STALKER 2, just not yet.I'll reinstall this summer
YeulEmeralda
Linux User
It's a single player game. There's no need to rush just wait until the game is in a good state.
Buggy Loop
Member
Was the AI patch to the taste of old Stalker veterans in the end?
hououinkyouma00
Member
I'm curious about this as well. I'm a long time Stalker fan, and I would like to do another play through (that I hopefully don't have to use UE tools to actually play) but I don't want to play through what I did before as it wasn't really up to par.
Windle Poons
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
For those that have finished the game, I am at a mission named
How close am I to the end of the game?
Dangerous Liaisons
How close am I to the end of the game?
pudel
Member
Bought the game at release, but started to play it only during christmas when they put out a few patches already. So cannot say how it was directly after release. But AI-wise its playable I would say. There were other things which annoyed me more....which I had to mod out in order to stay somewhat sane.
SimTourist
Member
Not that far, just a few more treks across the map.
Windle Poons
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Thanks. Whilst getting shot to shit by 5 or 6 member death squads who seem to be able to use shot guns like sniper rifles and never heal or run out of ammo.
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SirKicksalot
Member
Before the patch the world was so empty it was unnerving. Nothing happened in between spawn points. Now it has working patrols and better spawns. There's room for improvement, especially for the offline A-Life, but it's good enough now... Certainly less annoying than Clear Sky lol
They should fix the soundscape - the sound of combat and monsters in the distance made the original Zone feel alive. It was just random noise but in conjuction with the offline A-Life it sold the illusion of a living world.
Gonzito
Gold Member
M1chl
Currently Gif and Meme Champion
I still prefer broken but ambitious games, rather than polished slop, but yeah correct. Its getting fixed pretty fast tho, given how long something like Cyberpunk took and I still loved basically the version which came out
Wolves hunt in packs
Banned
Keep at it, need to replay it someday.
MrTroubleMaker
Member
Denton
Member
Yep. I am glad I decided to shelve it. I will play once all updates and DLCs are out. STALKER must be savoured.
I am glad Warhorse at least didn't fuck up like GSC.
clarky
Gold Member
Same I have the game, but it can wait, also bawls deep in KCD2.
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Windle Poons
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
Just got to the point of no return and the HUD has glitched out on my game and I can’t get it back.
SatansReverence
Hipster Princess
Jumped back in for a couple hours after the patch while doing the second play through, still finding new locations throughout the world and stumbling across cool little details.
Ended up having to hide in a cave infested with Snorks while evading an emission, such atmosphere, much scared. Up to the swamp now.
Ended up having to hide in a cave infested with Snorks while evading an emission, such atmosphere, much scared. Up to the swamp now.
FoxMcChief
Gold Member
Bought?
Windle Poons
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
RentedBought?
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
IbizaPocholo
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JayK47
Member
Seems to be a common issue with all games these days. No attention to details. Looks pretty for screenshots, but is missing so many details compared to games 10 to 20 years ago. Yet hardly anybody seems to care. They just want to play the latest game and make excuses for all of the lack of physics, destructible environments, and NPC interactions. "Who cares? I am enjoying it!!!" "It looks amazing at 4k!!!" "But but 60 FPS!!!"
KCD2 is full of these type of details. In fact I am not sure I've seen a game with more details than that, notably regarding NPC behavior
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Half (if not more) stuff in this video adds absolutely nothing to the game imho and I've played every single S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game. Like, yeah, NPCs don't pick up weapons from the ground and so what? What does it actually add to the game beyond some visual stuff? Who cares if weapons don't degrade when you fire at them? Seriously? What idiot will even do that in the game where there's lots of mods to, if not remove weapon degradation from the game, then at least significantly downgrade it cuz repairs cost USA's defense spending per year (obviously, I'm exaggerating, but to prove my point)? And what about collecting bodies in one place and then blowing them up with a grenade, just to check if they'll fly from the blast or not? Or who's in their right state of mind will throw bodies into the fire just to see if they'll burn or not? What kind of insane, morally and mentally unstable pos will do that? Who cares if after firing a rocket up, it doesn't fall down a few dozen meters from where you are? Who's ever going to see what mutants are doing with the dead bodies during normal playthrough at least once when you leave the area?
It doesn't mean that they shouldn't fix A-Life 2.0 and make it work but c'mon! I don't want to see half (if not more) of this BS in the game, which'll add absolutely nothing of substance, narrative and gameplay improvements to it whatsoever and won't make the game better.
It doesn't mean that they shouldn't fix A-Life 2.0 and make it work but c'mon! I don't want to see half (if not more) of this BS in the game, which'll add absolutely nothing of substance, narrative and gameplay improvements to it whatsoever and won't make the game better.
SirKicksalot
Member
Clear Sky was missing things from SoC (such as coherence or good missions lmao) and CoP was missing things from Clear Sky.
Personally I am still butt-blasted by the lack of dynamic smoke after Clear Sky.
Personally I am still butt-blasted by the lack of dynamic smoke after Clear Sky.
JayK47
Member
I didn't say all games today. I haven't played KCD2, but I get the impression they did pay attention to the little details. I look forward to playing it one of these days. It is sad to see STALKER 2 is a downgrade in so many ways. I will grab it on sale some day.