Posted on: January 9, 2025

Reaper9988

Games: 885 Reviews: 5

Call me when the game is out of Beta.

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Posted on: May 31, 2025

Ledunk

Games: 105 Reviews: 4

Middling

Playing Shadow of Chernobyl was great, I get that it had alot of "gaps' in content and poor pacing , poor gunplay, underplayed survival mechanics, and a poorly presented story mostly through a journal. What that game had that I now know as the A-life system, so I'll try to explain like so many others have how that impacting your experience. A-Life made it so that NPC's across the game world were persistant, you meet a stalker in the field picking up some loot off a body and adding it to his inventory, you go trade with him he has that loot, you meet him farther up the road and he got punked by some dogs and you revive him now your best buds and he will defend you if he ever sees you in trouble. The game world was broken up by large open design levels, and if you traveled to them you could very well meet your new friend there doing whatever, you could also make enemies same deal, mutants roamed from area to area dragging bodies around to eat them. This was the critical element in the game that kept it interesting, of course gearing up was fun but without A-life the game would've been dull after you finished the few set piece missions. STALKER 2 A-life went through trouble, I guess it has to due with resources because once again a dev team decided a game must be a seamless open world at the expense of the far more important stuff. So now they have randomized spawns around you poorly simulating the first games spawn method, this also adds to the frustration to player because the ai is spawned right near you at aggro ranges. So the games come with alot of the same problems and missing a critical element, we do have a better presentation with sound, acting, story but it means diddly if it is boring. list of negs -ai is aimbot accurate -ai spawns in 60m area around you -empty world -bad flashlight -bad time compression -ai has no persistance or is meaningless as rep and levels aren't tracked -more to list but I'm tired of editing

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Posted on: November 23, 2024

randomik

Verified owner

Games: 24 Reviews: 2

Do not buy until perf is optimized

Currently unplayable. Sure, it might say 60 FPS, but it feels more like 20. For a first-person game, performance optimization isn’t just important—it’s non-negotiable. Otherwise, aiming feels less like precision and more like pain management!

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Posted on: November 22, 2024

FridaLaDogga

Verified owner

Games: 322 Reviews: 2

It's fine, i guess.

The game feels almost the same as its older iterations. It is actually pretty fun, but it has one major flaw. And no, I'm not talking about optimization or bugs—those issues were present in the older games too. The real problem is that the game lacks the A-Life system. Instead, it has been replaced by a random event generator which, to be honest, is quite bad. Sometimes, it even re-spawns random enemies right in front of me just 30 seconds after I’ve killed them. Apart from that, the game is pretty enjoyable.

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Posted on: November 23, 2024

LehaUA

Games: 232 Reviews: 9

Years go by, but the jank is immortal

Think I've played enough for first impressions. It looks great, it sounds great, it has great atmosphere and at the core it's a solidly built open-world shooter. It's a worthy successor to original trilogy, but there are 3 cardinal sins that NEED to be fixed: 1. Performance, as everyone under the sun stated. I can juice 50fps out of my minimal system requirements rig, but at the expense of visual clarity. Makes it hard to see enemies. They have no such issue tho. 2. Combat balance. The bullet sponge is so much worse than previous games, there were 2 mods rebalancing difficulty within 1 day from release. They are both a must-have to make high difficulty challenging but fair. Bloodsuckers tanking half-a-dozen shotgun buckshots to the face while killing you in 2 hits is bullshit. Humanoid enemies also eat bullets for breakfast, but at least those have high enough headshot multiplier. 3. NPC spawning points. Too many times I reload and randomizer decides to spawn a human patrol or mutants near me. Then they kick my ass, I reload, and they are not there. There's no consistency between saves, and those spawning points are active too close to my position. This design can work as bandaid in absence of A-life, but random spawns have to happen like 300-500 meters away from the player, and everything closer has to be kept consistent between reloads. Hide the overreliance on randomizer for open-world encounters by making it work out of player view, else it breaks immersion. I don't even care about AI inconsistencies or physics engine glitching out. Just these 3 issues need to be fixed ASAP.

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