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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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl © 2024 GSC Game World Global Ltd.
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Posted on: December 3, 2024
MarkColt
Verified ownerGames: 84 Reviews: 15
Unplayable buggy mess
Buggy, stuttering, barely playable mess with pretty bad UI and even worse controls. What a disappointment..
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Posted on: January 5, 2025
Amarant14
Verified ownerGames: 14 Reviews: 1
bad game optimization
i gave this game a try but optimization is very bad i have low fps, I always have game crash when i have shaders optimalization. Game is unplayable
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Posted on: December 20, 2024
DB-47
Verified ownerGames: 22 Reviews: 1
Immersive, but swamped by bugs
Generally I am satisfied with the game itself, I praise great graphics detail, in general attention to detail and that GSC did not give up releasing the game. After 80+ hours played I loved to play the game, I got immersed and spent two nights non stop playing the game. However I still feel the game was too rushed and lacked closed alpha / beta testing which would likely reveal severe technical issues. I really loved previous STALKER iterations and I was kind of used to some level of those games being kind of buggy, however STALKER 2 brought this to next level: 1) Insane level of bugs and issues. Even with 1.1.2 patch the game still feels like public alpha version. On PC where I have in depth tested stability by tens of hours stability tests (OCCT, Y-Cruncher and various synthetic and practical graphics tests) I experienced 2 blue screens linked to severe memory leaks (game was corrupting pagefile), random crashes and other non fatal memory leaks (game hogged whopping 40+ GB RAM) 2) Bugged campaign, as many ones I had issue with Zalissia rescue mission, but also some missions felt like logical puzzle game. I spent a lot of time figuring out where to go, what I am supposed to do. For instance Ahroprom mission, I could not figure out without YouTube where I should get an access card. I am OK with this on stashes, optional missions, but main missions should be quite easy to navigate through 3) Poor performance. I have 7900 XTX / 9800X3D / 64 GB 6000 MT/s CL30 RAM, but still getting barely 60+ FPS on native QHD is insane. Running this converts my PC into burner anomaly :) Unreal Engine 5 kills hard the performance including repetetive shader compilation. 4) At release no A-Life and even after patch 1.1 it is still not what it used to be on previous STALKERs. Zone still feels quite abandoned. Since 1.1 patch it is more livefull, but NPCs unload from rendering too soon compared to previous STALKERs
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Posted on: December 29, 2024
zolarius
Verified ownerGames: 433 Reviews: 1
It needs TLC
I want to give this game a good review; sadly I cannot. Technical: The biggest issue is the optimization. I am running this game on a RTX 3090 with a R7 5800X3D and 64G RAM. At 1080P Medium settings, I am lucky if I can hit 60 FPS. Frame rates constantly dip to 30FPS with 1% lows of 8FPS....at 1080P Medium! I would love to run this game at 4K, but then it only gets 30ishFPS highs. While you may think the card and/or the processor are under max load....you would be wrong. At these settings, my GPU doesn't cross 70% utilization and the CPU doesn't hit 50%. Gameplay: This is a lot like the other S.T.A.L.K.E.R installments, though a little easier in my opinion. For fans of the franchise, it will scratch the itch. Storyline is good and different paths are available dependent on the choices you make. The voice acting does leave a little to be desired. The world is "empty" in that there are not events, NPCs, enemies, and hidden secrets around every corner. This is the exclusion zone and only the crazies and desperate come here. There are a lot of POIs, but they are empty locations with the same loot of food, drinks, and ammo; once you've cleared one, you know what to mostly expect from the others. The other POIs are stalker stashes, with mostly the same loot, sometimes a broken weapon, and there are a huge amount of these. The best locations aren't typically seen on the map, the anomaly clusters with an artifact, or 2, hidden in them. Gunplay is good, though some of the attachments and upgrades need to be addressed; EX the laser light upgrade for the Buk is not centered on the crosshairs, therefore is useless for visual targeting. Conclusion: This is a good game for the average player, a better game for fans. The optimization is holding it back, as well as many bugs. Hopefully this will be fixed in time and I can edit this review to reflect that.
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Posted on: February 15, 2025
jasonkilanski
Verified ownerGames: 52 Reviews: 6
Currently unplayable for me
After an almost 120gb update the other day, and then another almost 8gb update right after, the game is currently unplayable for me. Since the updates were so large, I decided it would be best to start a new fresh game. Immediately in the first cinematic, it was stuttering using the graphics settings that were working before. When I finally got to a place where I could access the menu, I lowered all of the graphics settings to "low" or "off". Even then, I'm getting stuttering and lag. The game used to work fine before the mid-February updates. I'm using a Nvidia 3060 Ti, so it's not the latest and best, but it should be more than capable of handling this game set at the lowest settings. Despite the poor optimization, I don't regret buying the game. I just hope they finally fix it to where I can play it again.
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