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

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Posted on: November 22, 2024

Pater2k

Games: 37 Reviews: 2

Fun, unpolished gem

I really enjoy the game (6.5hrs in), the atmosphere, the side and main quests. What I do not like is the open world ... or A-Life 2.0. The game just spawns enemies behind you and the wildlife/mutants in the early game are real bulletsponges. Once you dealt with them, have healed again, and reloaded all your weapons - some bandits spawn few meters away in the undergrowth just to open fire at you immediately not giving a damn whether you are behind trees, bushes or kneeling in some gras. Just WHY? And the walkways are quite long ... seeing the whole map, I hope they add a function to wandering, friendly stalkers to fast travel with them to already discovered locations or hubs. Otherwise this will be a running simulator. I had some sound bugs (suddenly stopping atmosphere tracks, radio sound switching to close by sound) and the shadows create sometimes funky visuals. But so far nothing gamebreaking. If the developers fix the issues I can see me changing it to 5/5. At the moment I would say if you are not a hardcore fan, wait a bit.

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Posted on: November 30, 2024

apfelnymous

Games: 209 Reviews: 20

Has a long way to go

Technical stuff: 5600x, 32gb ram, rtx 3060 12gb vram I play this game at 1440p, all settings epic except shadows and distance, no frame gen. fps at towns: 30 in the wilderness: 40+ Game looks amazing. ---------------------------------------------- Content: Alot has been said already about missing features that might break your immersion and I won't repeat that again. So here are a few of my personal impressions about what breaks my immersion: - Sitting at a campfire lets you not do anything, you can't open your bag, look at the map, nothing, you just sit - There is no tobacco in the game, you can't smoke but other npcs can - You can't sit on any chairs - There is no workbench to look at your guns and modify your weapons, you just do it in the menu - In the 11 hours I played I haven't met any female npcs, the zone strikes me as a wiener party, yeah that is breaking my immersion, you know why ? Because the world isn't a wiener party, nowhere.

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Posted on: November 22, 2024

Adobeman

Games: 63 Reviews: 3

It's rough and borderline unplayable

Performance is gross, everything on low with FSR on the lowest (effectively rendering at 854x480 btw...) runs between 30-50fps with a 1070ti/5800X3D combo, not a great system but no slouch by any means what's the point of low settings in games anymore? UE5 is going to kill this hobby unless we all spend 5000 dollars on a PC every 3 years at this rate. Even my mate on a 4090 is complaining about performance, that's when you know something is wrong. Had a few crashes so far and having to compile shaders every single time I open the game is just unacceptable. if you're okay with this you're the problem as well, complacency in regards to game optimization is negligence and someone should be fired for releasing the game in such a state. "le epic jank game" is such a bad take for putting up with yet another Unreal Engine 5 slopfest and people saying it need to get real.

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Posted on: December 7, 2024

Charlie_Danzig

Games: 304 Reviews: 1

Lot of technical issues to be solved

I've been playing since release, and game had problems. Was playable with some stuttering after 0,5h of playing. After restart was good for another 30 minutes. Since last update (Patch 1.0.3) I've had issues with DX12, but when I managed to start the game it is unplayable even on lower settings. Few FPS even in game menu.

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Posted on: November 21, 2024

Herr_Karn

Verified owner

Games: 33 Reviews: 5

they lied

a-life 2.0 was a lie. there isnt even a-life 0.1. but just let the community fix this mess with mods, right?

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

Discover the legendary S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe and experience:

EPIC NONLINEAR STORY IN SEAMLESS OPEN WORLD

VARIETY OF ENEMIES AND HUNDREDS OF WEAPON COMBINATIONS

LEGENDARY MUTANTS WITH DIFFERENT BEHAVIOUR MODELS

ARTIFACTS OF INCREDIBLE VALUE AND UNFORGIVING ANOMALIES

GOOD HUNTING, STALKER!

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