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

A horribly buggy mess

I have over 100 hours clocked in this game and I'd love to love it. But the sad reality is that it is currently so broken I cannot in good concience recommend anyone to buy it. I've played since 1.0 and so far the game was at it's best at 1.0.2 even though the A-life was missing and enemies spawned behind you. At least the game was stable and didn't crash as much as it does now with 1.1.3. Currently my game seems to become unplayable because it soft locks every few minutes forcing me to to either restart the computer or log out and back in. Besides the obvious bugs the most annoying thing about this game are its mutant enemies. They are bullet sponges that run and hide immediately when you're out of their physical reach and spring back to you the second you come down to their level. This happens with the lowliest rodents to biggest baddies. Human enemies can shoot you from unrealistic distances with broken shotguns without even seeing you, sometimes through whole tanks or other thick metal barriers. They also love to spam grenades with pinpoint accuracy. Some quests are currently bugged so that all the choice you as a player have is seemingly missing. Kill a character and the quest giver scalds you for siding with them for example. Quest items sometimes are left to your inventory after the quest is completed, I'm currenlty carrying over 3 kg of useless quest items I can't get rid of. Enemies can get stuck in walls and just stand there so you can kill them, I guess it balances out the bullet spongines and their instinct to hide from you. Sometimes this means that grenades fly right through them AND the wall they're stuck to. So you end up wasting grenades for bugs and ammo for bullet spongy enemies. It's really not as fun as it may sound. Graphically the game is nice, but not great. The vegetation still has a lot of popping issues and lumen implementation distorts lighting in distant objects making them flicker either in dark or light areas.

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