S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Ultimate Edition
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Ultimate Edition for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl provides all the Deluxe bonuses, including weapon & armor sets and Bonus Side Quest!
Weapons:
Rhino Revolver “Model Competitor” (transferable to multiplayer)
Viper “Monolith” SMG (transferable to mult...
Discover the legendary S.T.A.L.K.E.R. universe and experience:
Unique gameplay built on a blend of FPS, horror, and immersive sim
It is a non-linear story, with a variety of paths that lead to one of the several endings
Benchmark-setting graphics developed using cutting-edge photogrammetry and scanning technologies
Advanced artificial intelligence systems that will keep engaged even the most hard-boiled players
Immersive survival mechanics like hunger, sleeping, bleeding, radiation effects that enrich the gameplay
Dynamic day-night cycle and weather will add even more realism to the gameplay experience
Mod support gives the freedom to the creative stalker to extend and enrich the game universe
Multiplayer mode, will be added after release as a free update
Chornobyl Exclusion Zone has changed dramatically after the second massive explosion in the year 2006. Violent mutants, deadly anomalies, and warring factions have made the Zone a very tough place to survive. Nevertheless, artifacts of unbelievable value attracted many people called S.T.A.L.K.E.R.s, who entered the Zone for their own risk, striving to make a fortune out of it or even to find the Truth concealed in the Heart of Chornobyl.
EPIC NONLINEAR STORY IN SEAMLESS OPEN WORLD
Take over a role of the lone stalker and explore photorealistic seamless open world in a 64-km² radioactive zone with a variety of environments that reveal post-apocalyptic atmosphere from different angles. Make your way through the Zone to define your destiny as you choose your paths within highly branching epic story.
VARIETY OF ENEMIES AND HUNDREDS OF WEAPON COMBINATIONS
Meet members of different factions deciding who of them worth your friendship and who deserve a bullet. Engage intense gunfights with a variety of enemies that follow different tactics trying to outsmart you. Choose your preferable firearms from 30 types of weapons with numerous modifications that allow creating hundreds of distinctive lethal combinations.
LEGENDARY MUTANTS WITH DIFFERENT BEHAVIOUR MODELS
Prepare to encounter horrifying mutated creatures that will try to slaughter you following different behaviour model. Each mutant may appear in different subtypes which makes their behaviour less predictible. Truly extreme danger represent regions with lairs with numerous mutants hunting in large groups.
ARTIFACTS OF INCREDIBLE VALUE AND UNFORGIVING ANOMALIES
The most valuable artifacts and secrets of the Zone are hidden in the most dangerous places. Beware of the hazardous anomalies and unique devastating arch-anomalies as you hunt for highly valuable artifacts scattered around the Zone. Will you dare to unveil the mysteries of the Zone that took lives of many others before you?
Well, as suspected the game is horribly unoptimized and very buggy. Even top of the line pc's struggle to run the game. Then there are a myriad of bugs in just about every part of the game. If you're lucky you will encounter few of them.
The biggest disappointment though comes from the gameplay system they call a-life. For years they hyped it up yet the final product doesn't resemble anything like what we've seen in previous games. Enemies spawn literally on top of you or behind you. There are no roaming bands of monsters or people. The devs claim that the system is broken, but if that is the case they why release the game? You know there is a problem when on the day of release they release a public letter apologizing for the state of a game. Gunplay is also slow - from healing yourself to reloading your weapon they are all slow compared to previous games. The extra animations look nice, but they are so slow that you will find yourself canceling a reload or heal because you tried to do something else and the animation wasn't finished yet. The quick menu system is weird requiring you to hold down a button which is again slow and not quick. The English voice acting is bad and very out of place with everything from American accents to Scottish and Irish accents. The monsters are bullet sponges and drop nothing of value making them something to avoid rather than fight.
That said, if everything worked properly the game would be great, but all we have right now are promises that they will fix the game and make it what it should have been. Unfortunately this is the trend in modern gaming where we get half baked games and promises of fixes later. If they do manage to fix everything then this will be another amazing entry in the Stalker series, but only time will tell. As of right now though the game is only average at best.
+ Atmosphere
+ Map size
+ Setting
+ Great base for modding
- Game is buggy mess / released in a beta state / barely running
- Consolised poop for disneyland kids
- Fking can't assign all 4 quick use slots, WTF
- Can't rebind keys properly
- Gunfights feel poopy / bad mechanics
- Braindead AI, but will see and shoot you from a km away at night through he entire forest of trees and bushes or sometimes through walls
- Compiling shaders for 20 min at each game start, WTF
- Random crashes
- Game mechanics feel weird and sometimes delayed, clunky experience
Overall as stock game is not very good, consolised gutted stalker with subpar mechanics. Hopefully the modding community will get rid of all the stupid shtee and we will get decent game that way.
I wanted to love it and was willing to overlook some flaws and rough edges, but when systems that were in the original games (like A-life, or just AI in general) simply don't work and the game crashes constantly, forcing you to compile shaders for another five minutes each time, I simply can't overlook that.
Terrible performance and stability aside, there's certainly hope for the future thanks to mods, but as a product right now this game is not worth the full price at all. Awaiting my refund from GOG, and going back to modded Anomaly in the meantime.
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