Looks like Metro's dad finally came back from getting milk and cigarettes

And the Moment of silence for those STALKER fans who have passed away before they could've seen this including Vladimir Yezhov, the original dev for STALKER, passed away recently fighting in Bakhmut. Dude was a commander for an air recon unit.

Entered underground, fought mutant rats, almost got mugged by gopniks, exited underground, drank vodka to cleanse my organism, got overcharged by a local trader, almost got mugged again. After all that I got back home and played S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2, it was good! Living in NYC is tough

1. Atmosphere and sound - Amazing 100/10
2. Bugs - didn't find anything critical
3. Optimization - it's just bad. Waiting for patches.
4. A-LIFE - there's no A-LIFE. Game just spawns enemies within 50-100 meters. Hope patches will make it work like in previous games, because without it it's not STALKER and the world is empty and lifeless without it.
5. Enemies are just sponges for bullets. Need rebalance. 4 mags to kill a bloodsucker? Really?
Other things to mention that I would like DEVs to change/add:
- Day/night cycle is too short
- No sleeping bags
- It costs a fortune to repair weapons and suits
- No dymanic shadows from the flashlight
- eneimes just spam you with grenades all the time
- would be cool to have more food/drinks options and cook monster parts like in GAMMA or order some meals in the bars
- weapons/suits condition goes down waaaaay to fast (shot 2 mags from AK and got -3%. Whaaaaaat?)
- when you sit at the campfire you cannot eat/drink/open PDA/inventory etc.
- you get hungry every 5-10 minutes. I assume longer day/night cycle would be a great option as well to fix the issue.
- mutants AI is strange. If you're being chased by the mutants and jump of the car for example they just run away. When you get down they appear again. They don't try to jump or at least swarm around the car waiting for their meal.

For now the game is medium rare. Waiting for the DEVs to cook it properly and then it will be the game of the year for sure.

This is a sequel to the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games. NOT the mod packs. Go in with this expectation and you will have a good time.

So far, the game is really good. There are some bugs and issues, but it's been about an hour and they already released a patch. Just give it time, the studio has been through a lot and things aren't great in the Ukraine right now - a lot of people working on this game did not get to see this day, let's try to appreciate it for what it is. In the first 10 minutes, you can clearly see it is a good game and everything the old STALKER was, if not more.

It's a good game.

A moment of silence for our fellow stalkers who passed away before they got here.
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See you in the Zone, Stalker!

We've been eagerly anticipating this game for 15 years, but some fans were tragically denied that experience. May their memories be eternal. All because of one country's actions... We've lost so much, just as I was forced to flee my hometown of Luhansk a decade ago. I wish everyone peace and a great game.

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It doesn't run super well on my machine (3070, 32gb ram, 5600x) but it's far from unplayable as long as I use DLSS and can accept slowdowns in towns.
Performance aside, this is very much a follow-up to SoC and CoP and I couldn't be happier with that. The intro sequence is very guided so I was somewhat scared that they might have turned this series into a more linear experience, but once you get to the actual game things open up as they should and you are free to engage in the usual S.T.A.L.K.E.R. experience, only the graphics are all shiny and new.

Cheeki breeki iv damke stalker!

This game is EVERYTHING I wanted it to be as a fan of the original STALKER games. Atmosphere, Gunplay, Lore, Feel. Its all here. No forced quests, just a wide open zone to traverse at your own pace and leisure. I'm so happy with my purchase of this game.
So far there are only 2 negatives:
First: English voice acting is not great. Play this with the Ukrainian voice actors on, and just read the English Subtitles.
Second: You will have to spend a little bit of time tweaking your settings to get good fps, however once I did that I now get consistent 80-100 fps, even in the main town, with most of my settings turned to high/epic thanks to FSR upscaling/Frame generation, and the game feels very natural with these settings on using my 3070.
THERE WILL BE ALOT OF NEGATIVITY AROUND HOW THIS GAME RUNS THAT WILL RUIN ITS RATING. DO NOT LISTEN TO THOSE REVIEWS, IT TOOK ME LITERALLY 15 MINS TO FIND SETTINGS THAT WORKED FLAWLESSLY FOR ME.

This game is good, aside from one MASSIVE issue. And 1 smaller one. First the smaller one, weapon customization/ modding. In the first game there was a large branching tree of upgrades for each gun that would take awhile to max out. I maxed out my ak74s tiny upgrade tree in the first 2 hours in this game. Also would have liked to see an expansive attachment system, but it's pretty bare bones.

But the real issue is unacceptable. A life 2.0 is a fat ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lie. There is no life to this game. The ai is stupid as ♥♥♥♥ and just spawns on you all the time, I feel like I'm playing farcry 5. They don't use cover or tactics, they just run at you and die. In the original stalkers the Ai would be wondering around living their lives fighting and camping out. You could spot a group of stalkers getting attacked by dogs 500m away, see only 1 survived and bump into that sole survivor 20 mins later chilling at a fire in a village. In this game the ai just randomly spawn and despawn around you. I don't think you could actually snipe in this game because of it.

The biggest joke I saw so far was I went to this small military camp. Killed a group of soldiers out from, went in and killed another group at the barracks. While I was looting the guys in the barracks it spawned another group right outside, they spotted me through the walls and bum rushed in to their deaths. This went on for like 7 respawned squads, I just kept stuffing all their loot in a duffle bag inside cause I couldn't hold it all. And they never stopped, 7 wasnt the end because they stopped spawning. It's because I got tired of farming them and left (under fire). And quite frankly it doesn't even seem like they tried to make the Ai good, or made an A-life 2.0. It looks like it was just a marketing gimmick. So I don't see this as a fixable issue, there's no foundation to improve upon.