Hopes? Expectations? Predictions?
After seeing through some of the leaks, I'm feeling slightly hopeful towards this game. The atmosphere shines through and it really looks like a continuation of ShoC.
STALKER 2
Hopes? Expectations? Predictions?
After seeing through some of the leaks, I'm feeling slightly hopeful towards this game. The atmosphere shines through and it really looks like a continuation of ShoC.
Few more screenshots from past threads. Big thanks to the anon that originally posted them.
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Vanya Meatcube
the whole thing will just be western propaganda about how russia is bad. its ruined
what do you think the original games were about?
moron
>what do you think the original games were about?
ShoC and Clear Sky were mostly about killing ukrainian soldiers which is a big no-no fur current day ukraine.
morons who only played the translated versions
Frick off moron.
The only "politics" that were in there are freedom vs duty ideology and everyone were against the military.
frick off leave homosexual
>complaining about /misc/
>calls the anon a "homosexual"
the irony is astounding. okay leftist mega transhomosexual.
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the original had no politics
Чё ты нecёшь cын бляди
you literally kill ukrainian army in two games
>never played but I know it’s about Russia
Kill self now
>will just be western propaganda about how russia is bad
not true. The leak mentions nothing about this. Only direct nod to russia being bad is a sticker on a PDA that mentions the russian warship.
Things have yet to change and I hope they content doesn't get too political.
Russia IS bad so I'm happy with it.
>1 in 1000 children under 5 in russia has aids
bunch of prostitutes
I mean it also appears high in part due to the fact that Russia does magnitude more HIV tests than literally any other country on earth. More tests = more confirmed HIV infections
>Ukraine trending alongside russia, until it started aligning with the West and changed course
like pottery
Holy frick this is grim
>0.1%
fricking pidor delete this
It's actually slightly higher. Has to do with the economic collapse in the 90's and then the plundering of the economy under the de-facto presidency of Boris Berezovsky. If you want to know why it's going up when Ukraine's went down it's entirely due to rapid population decline in Ukraine, they would otherwise be the same. Read Godfather of the Kremlin for an idea of how bad it was and then maybe it will clear things up on why they killed him and his friends in with rare poisons and radioactive elements.
Pidor cope.
I know the war made you people moronic but I just fricking said it was actually higher than what was stated in the chart.
Of course it's higher, moron. I'm saying it's cope for you to blame it on population decline.
Ukraine doesn't have as many drug addict pedophiles as Russia, hence a lower AIDS rate.
It's also mostly concentrated in the Russian-speaking parts currently occupied by Russia
So they basically rid Ukraine of AIDS
butthurt Ivans mad they'll have to pirate the game and fill their computer with bitcoin miners
youre not supposed to deep throat the boot, only lick it butt hurt boris
I wonder if the 200gb leaked alpha is worth digging around in. Have any anons ITT already played it?
I hope it gets released on Mac
I can feel in my bones its launch will be a mess just like the og stalker except with Unreal
>I can feel in my bones its launch will be a mess
with UE5 it really is inevitable. There is not a single UE5 game that has good performance on current hardware.
with how many games release as a technical mess, Stalker seems like a shoe-in for another to the list. the delays/development issues only strengthen that.
Obviously I hope I'm wrong, but I'm not going to hold my breath
I mean the stalker curse on top of the UE one
>the stalker curse
meaning? Stalker games were always a bit janky but they can be enjoyed in spite of said janky.ness.
The original game runs like shit with the hardware of the time of release, the engine isn't good at all, and now they're using UE, which is a performance mess, instead of a new in-house engine. Dunno what would be better/worse tbh, they can't code for shit
>huge gun models
>huge anomalies
>horse blinders fov
>codified gunplay
I'm passing on this one.
>>huge gun models
nope
>>huge anomalies
you can avoid them
blinders fov
it's not narrow
gunplay
please elaborate
>I'm passing on this one.
not even a pirate?
>huge gun models
>nope
Are you blind you moronic Black person?
none
>chornobyl
>unreal engine
>consoles
>nfts
>preorder skins
never stood a chance
Well Xbox is publishing so con soles are unavoidable. I just wonder how awful performance will be on the weaker Xbox.
NFTs are cancelled, but this is the 1st time I hear about preorder skins. Care to elaborate?
From what I heard, Stalker 2 has some pre-order/special edition DLC bullshit, including outfit/weapon skins, a side mission, and even campfire songs.
I hope it's everything I ever dreamed it would be
I expect they will completely and justifiably fail to capture the same lightning in a bottle
I am also hopeful after the leaks, the trailers had me worried
>I am also hopeful after the leaks
Same. The atmosphere really shines through in the alpha gameplay. Quest design is pretty barebones and story is intriguing SCAR makes an appearance, Nimble as well, moontide (Ex-Monolith) want the wish granter restored. New Ecologist factions have a military presence ISPF. Really interesting stuff, I'm curious to see where they go with it.
Gunplay seems lame but that's par for the course.
>the delays/development issues only strengthen that.
delays are due to moronic management. the game is there but it requires a LOT of polish.
>delays are due to moronic management. the game is there but it requires a LOT of polish.
It's moreso that I'm expecting the game to run like shit, not that it won't be fun.
>It's moreso that I'm expecting the game to run like shit I
Unfortunately true. UE5 is a performance killer
Atmosphere looks okay-ish, maybe too clear skied for my taste. Exploration/climbing looks afwul due to Unreal Engine. Guns, as you said, all feel AND sound the same. Blindfolded, I genuinely can't tell mac10 from ak variants to vintorez to mp5 to svd apart. All sound the same. I think it's due to Unreal Engine having some too CPU intensive sound engineering problem. Also, QTEs... lots of them. Looks like a mix of CoD and Far Cry 2 in terms of QTEs.
I was excited after the first and second trailers, but the game leaks turned me off.
>Atmosphere looks okay-ish, maybe too clear skied for my taste.
I disagree. The leaks really underplay the look of the game. I saw a vid with an emission in S2 and it looks absolutely gorgeous, so the graphics and artstyle are not my concern.
>Exploration/climbing looks afwul due to Unreal Engine
fair point but the OG stalker movement was not much better.
>guns sound bad
agreed, they're all pretty generic-sounding. I was surprised to see so little weapons in the alpha.There's only two AK's and handful of ARs, a few SMGs as well. Pretty boring selection if you ask me. I'm not expecting them to put 10 different AK or AR-15 variants in the game but having more than a handful of guns per caliber would be nice to see.
>Also, QTEs... lots of them.
where have you see this? I haven't encountered any when watching leaked gameplay footage.
In OG Stalker, you could climb on crates/pipes and reach places with hidden stashes. Literally the start of the game out of the bunker has a hidden stash when you jump on some houses and crawl through a hole. In Stalker 2, this doesn't seem possible (or at least way harder) because you see your legs when you look down. Plus, UE engine is known for invisible walls and unreachable platforms.
For the guns, from what I remember there were indeed a few AK variants like 4 or 5. But what's the point when they all feel and sound the same?
And for the QTEs, I guess you didn't watch much then, because the game is full of them, starting from the very first encounter after the intro. Plus, all the dogs and mutants trigger them.
>QTEs against basic enemies
Is it 2008 again?
>In OG Stalker, you could climb on crates/pipes and reach places with hidden stashes.
I really forgot about them. Judging by the leaked design documents for the levels in Stalker 2, there's supposed to be lots of hidden and hard/tricky-to-reach stashes for the player to find. IF they even managed to implement said loot.
But yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath on parkour being in any way viable, or said stashes containing progression-breaking loot.
>from what I remember there were indeed a few AK variants like 4 or 5
AK74, Ak74u in 5.45
MALYUK (pic related) - not an AK but chambered 7.62
and a ukrainian-made TAVOR in 5.45
the 5.56 weapons are a G36 and HK416. Really wish there were more NATO weapons.
>QTEs
Poor choice IMHO
>UE engine is known for invisible walls and unreachable platforms.
Literally nothing about this has to do with specifically unreal, every game has invisible walls regardless of engine, it's up to the developers to actually create their movement mechanics and design their levels, not the engine.
jelly screen is one of the worst things to happen to FPS games
Hoping they fully restore the cut alpha build locations, the Institute better have some big underground to explore
>cut alpha build locations
STALKER 2 alpha or ShoC leaked alpha build(s)
>the Institute better have some big underground to explore
tell me more pls
The ShoC Alpha, Oblivion Lost, the underground is mentioned in the leaked documents: near end of the game, you reach the sphere structures location like in OP's pic, they were cut from the final game, they are called generators, they are producing blowout and are heart of the zone, underneath them you enter the underground of chernobyl anomaly zone science research institute, which was one of first developed locations for OG stalker, you encounter both Strelok and Scar there, then you would have to make a choice related to the ending, certain choices affect the ending
As interesting as that sounds, I doubt they will use abandoned ideas from Oblivion Lost to further expand the lore. Besides, Skif is an original character unrelated to the original trilogy. But as far as I know, some aspects of the cancelled Stalker 2 (2011) have been further developed in the current Stalker 2.
Oh boy, you have no idea what the leaks were about entire dev documentations(written in russian btw) was leaked, all the concept art, all the maps, with institute and generators, overall plot scenario, they are bringing almost everything back from alpha and also expanding on existing lore, new factions, new armor, new type of mutants, all sort of shit leaked, picrel is generators discharging emission into relay tower
Very interesting. I really gotta look through the alpha leaks again. We're talking about the ones from March 2023, right?
Yes, the ones that were leaked from dev torrent, lol
Do the leaks provide any insight on who Skif is? As far as I understand he's a just a guy that got his house destroyed by an anomaly that manifested itself outside of the zone.
Too little info from leaks, he is pretty blank, not much is said in script on character details, although he might be related to institute somehow, we'll see for now
I already know it will be a mess, but I hope it will be a salvageable one.
I just hope the usual US/liberal propaganda will be kept at a minimal level.
What % of sales go to funding the US proxy war with Russia?
The US is basically funding the entire civilian economy to artificially prolong the war as long as possible.
Looks worse than the originals. Thanks UE.
meh it doesn't look cutting edge but the visuals are alright
never trust bullshots
>Stalker 2 has some pre-order/special edition DLC bullshit
Don't know, don't care. I'll pirate anyways
oh my fricking god i hate it when devs do this, the actual game looks like shit.
a few more bullshots for your enjoyment
well shit, i was actually looking forward to seeing this area myself in the game.
Stalker 1
vs
Stalker 2
>we've been waiting 15 years for a new game
>get the same fricking locations with a higher polycount
New areas in the old engine would be better than this shit.
as long as it's moddable so modders can fix it, i don't care. Maybe in 10 years we'll be playing it instead of GAMMA
>unironically playing GAMMA
why would you do that to yourself?
Unreal Engine 4 and 5 are AWFUL for modding.
I've seen what MW5gays can do with minimal support and I know you're wrong
Look at the modding scenes for games like PAYDAY 3 or Ready Or Not, both highly modded games running on unreal engine.
Payday 3 seems to have 13 mods on modnexus... things like "skip intro video", or "van skin", or "toggle hud", or "panties skin", or "launch game faster"...
Lol. Yep, highly modded indeed.
holy shit no one gets mods for payday on nexus dude, go on modworkshop
october... time to replay SoC CS and COP back to back bros
Red Forest, home...
>cs
>home
Gigacringe
I mean, I get it that it's the most jankiest one, but with the right patch it plays and looks better than vanilla CoP
>looks
Yes
>plays
No, just no. Faction war aka main gimmick is shit and doesn't work properly. Late game is just abysmal cod parody with helicopter boss and enemies appearing out of thin air (renegade meatwaves at red forest bridge to limansk)
You can ignore faction wars entirely, just don't kill bandits too much, other groups will ignore you, late game is fine expect the grenade spam, cnpp and strelok chase, other than that it's pretty manageable even on master difficulty, helicopter boss is a joke, just peak from corner and shoot it or even time a grenade at it, it's almost doesn't move around arena anyways, red forest renegades were piss easy, especially with AP rounds, just have a long range rifle ready and loaded to deal with enemy snipers shooting your merc buds, I take position in tower on second floor, overlooking the bridge, last time took me less than 15 minutes to complete task of lowering bridge to Limansk
>You can ignore faction wars entirely
Sure and you will have no income. Besides why should I ignore the main feature of the game?
>late game is fine
Why are you telling me about it? I've finished CS and it plays the worst.
Man lost his lead devs from being a money hungry israelite.
Man by all accounts seems to still be a money who wants to put nfts in the game.
Game is probably gonna be a propaganda piece.
Its gonna suck.
The situation in Ukraine is steadily deteriorating. The developers who have not left the country yet will be called into active service and join the countless Russians and Ukrainians that have died since the onset of the war. Ukraine will cancel all passports and demand repatriation of fighting age men. Game will be cancelled as Kiev (or Kyiv) falls to Polish forces who are simply 'preventing it' from falling into the hands of Russia.
On a yacht off the coast of Malta, a man drinks a can of Pepsi, and laughs.
I don't know, it has a 50/50 of being really good or being kind of a buggy mess. Mods will carry it if it's decent, but if it's bad there won't be anything anyone can do.
I didn't ask about Ukraine but thanks for the reply.
Glad to help.
vatnik cope
I don't feel that after Metro they've shown which direction they want to take the games. But with the trendy atmospheric fully open world game maybe Stalker has a chance of keeping some of its identity.
Anon you realize that Stalker and metro are made by two different companies?
Metro was basically made by ex of members of B-team who left GSC, they were responsible for clear sky, also they used heavily modified version of x-ray engine and called it their own, 4a, since then they successfully made 3 full games while gsc made none
I'm totally expecting this to be Far Cry: Stalker Edition
Nato gave ukraine all their shit and conscripted their entire country?
>Hopes?
it'll come out and i'll be able to play it
>Expectations?
it'll come out but i won't be able to play it
>Predictions?
it's not going to come out and i'll be dead or in gulag
Main gimmick of faction wars is that you participate and make way for war, not gettting caried by AI bots, faction wars supposed to be played after you open path to Limansk, otherwise you risk getting shot at an hostile outpost after loading in new location or having hard time with story mission, you can ignore it as you get lots of money without it, almost all of your income can be obtained outside faction missions, most artifacts and weapons fetch enough to buy ammo and meds, for armor usbs with upgrades provide tons of cash, there is shooting gallery mini game in duty and freedom camps to get rubles from.
You called late game abysmal cod clone, I see no reason to call it that if every encounter can be resolved nice and easy, it's almost sounds like you just don't like the linear mission structure rather than gameplay itself, I mean gunplay is same, damage is almost unchanged, artifact searching mechanics are same as CoP, I see no real issue with CS, it may be worst out of trilogy, but overall it's fine
Shit, meant for
I can't wait to play this series for the first time and say that 2 is much better than the others.
Hopefully the same guy that did the music in the other games does this one as well. Every dev needs to take a page from the Bad Company 2 sound playbook to get outdoor gun sounds correct. Don't care if they are over the top, the outdoor effects in BC2 were really good.
It's an engine issue. You can't make war archive sounds like in BC2 because this crap Unreal Engine doesn't allow it. I already researched this on dev forums because I was curious why all UE games had AWFUL sound design. I never even thought an engine could have effects on sound.
>old franchise
>but dumped into Unreal Engine
It's already trash.
>devs ragequit a language localization out of spite
I'm not affected but that's incredibly petty. You should be wanted it to be distributed in Russia specifically to get money from them either through legitimate sales or direct support.
>You should be wanted it to be distributed in Russia specifically to get money from them
LMAO
DON'T TELL HIM GUYS
Oh no a typo I missed in formatting, whatever shall I do!
i wasn't talking about that, you moron
Yeah yeah, they axed the voices and the subtitles still exist or whatever it is.
Unless you're referring to the hack build that basically isn't playable.
oh my fricking god
piracy
i was talking about piracy
You imply it won't have denuvo thrown into it last minute or whatever specifically to spite "Russian pirates" when every country in that geological area is rampant with them.
I tried STALKER 1 and the combat sucks
>microsoft game pass
guaranteed stinky shit
bro they're probably all dead already. unless the dev team escaped before zelensisraelite closed all the borders to prevent the goyim from living.
Lost to the Zone.
RIP
cant trust that homosexual ceo sergei to do anything right. my expectations are set to low.
Remember supporting Ukraine means supporting globohomo
Console optimization. I don’t give a FRICK if I get called a normalgay. I want them to have the game running smoothly and console and with good mod support. Arma Reforger is a decent example of how to implement mod workshops into console systems, though the game itself is a bug ridden mess
Goyslop incoming
I didnt believe they were developing the game in the middle of an actual warzone until i saw the gameplay
Shit is going to be trash but it will be funny to see people juggle anger and disapointment with the fanboys telling them to not shit on the poor ukranian devs
garbage made by trannies, mogged by chad atomic heart