The STALKER 2 demo at gamescon confirms the game is a masterpiece.
https://www.pcgamer.com/stalker-2-hands-on-gamescome/
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STALKER 2 DEMO
The STALKER 2 demo at gamescon confirms the game is a masterpiece.
https://www.pcgamer.com/stalker-2-hands-on-gamescome/
Video games are saved.
It's boring.
Will Ganker insist this is a tortanic too?
It's not goyslop so nuGanker won't discuss it at all. 🙂
yes. they used crowdfunding money to donate to the ukraine warfront instead of their game
>Ukrainian developer with multiple Ukrainian employees embroiled in the war in Ukraine is sending money to support Ukraine in it's effort of self preservation so the Ukrainian developer and employees can continue existing is le bad
no, it will insist it's a prigozhyn
This is one of those games that is genuinely going to be tortanic tier. Why would you think it would be good? because it has the stalker name? Who is even working on it?
I will not be reading your gay article
Stalker Anomaly exists
Kys
redditors choice of mod slop
you need to go back
why are you replying to yourself
I have schizophrenia
no I don't
that's what they want me to believe
>Black personmaly
Here's your (You)
why do autists get so upset over anomaly
Filtered by it because they're casuals
This is Ganker after all
It's even worse when you realize they bring it up just to cry about it, it's literally one schizo
true, the definitive edition of Stalker. no idea why eastern europeans are seething
Any new gameplay footage?
Just an interview with some stuff running in the background so far.
Delayed until Q1 2024, but then they'll delay it until Q2 2024, and then they'll delay it to Q3 2024, yet then they'll delay it to Q3 2024, but then they'll delay it to Q4 2024, and then...
Literally sounds like metro. It's gonna be these canned first person cinematic epic moments were the player JUST makes it every time. It's gonna be so fricking epic it will be like I'm on the front line in the Ukraine! I can't wait to spend 45 seconds watching my character struggle to open a door!!
yeah i feel you man, a goyslop flop tortanic for sure...
it'll be goykino
>Literally sounds like metro.
I'm okay with that.
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best post in the thread.
i just want a modern anomaly style game where i can have big faction wars
i tried playing anomaly and then gamma recently but the movement in STALKER is so fricking bad
every time you run you'll be fully stopped in your tracks by every slight elevation on the ground
I am not a fan of the British accents in the game. Feels weird to hear bandits and other slavs speak like a royal tailor in West London. They probably thought this would appeal to Western audiences, but it just... feels... unnatural.
Western media assigns a british accent to European settings by default. You have Romans, Germans, the French, etc all speaking in British accents. I think they're trying to tap into that to make Ukraine seem more part of Europe
>the Skyrim-esque compass along the top that marks nearby quest locations and distances
Oh.
Sounds good apart from that.
Ironically, this is less casual that a GPS revealing enemy locations 24/7.
The same shit was basically in the old games
The original STALKER games had that too
I'm not sure what's new here. Stalker games always had a compas showing where you need to go, no? Sometimes there's "your target is in this general area", but still there's always a handy-dandy mark on your map.
Unironically mods will fix it
the leak already confirmed that it would be janky slavkino soul
Isn't it playable? Wonder why we aren't seeing gameplay from attendees
Maybe they're not allow to record. That being said some impressions would still be nice
https://twitter.com/stalker_thegame/status/1694288706218156481/photo/1
yeah i'm sure this guy knows what a good stalker game is
yeah i'm sure this guy knows what a good stalker game is
>just some anon in a stalker thread
Yeah I'd unironically assume so.
yeah i'm sure this guy knows what a good stalker game is
resetera is mad as frick about this game for some reason, I thought I would be the opposite
Link? Can't find it.
New trailer just dropped:
What do (We) think of it?
The shooting and combat looks generic but I like the world design and visuals alot.
soulless
> Made in Ukraine
Lying literally in the first five seconds, good to see that Grigorovich has still got it.
IDK if the gameplay selection sucks, the player shoots like shit or if the actual gameplay is jank, but I'd pirate it just for a seamless Zone: mods will fix the rest.
I am very excited
>fires a bullet
>barrel smokes harder than a steam locomotive
?????
i can't unsee, WTF
i cant tell if this will actually be good, or ubisoft stalker cry
Is the protag's accent from New Jersey? I swear I've heard this guy before.
sounds like the dying light 1 voice actor
actually it sounds like the atomic heart VA
Not even close
That's the voice of Sonic
Also a moronic decision to pander to Americans, the original voice actor of that was supposed to be Australian.
A much better voice actor too
>That's the voice of Sonic
Sonic is a stalker now, eh?
No, same voice actor for Sonic was the MC in Dying Light.
Completely unrelated to this, this is not him, doesn't even sound like him.
he sounds like V from cyberpunk
Yeah I think that's who he reminds me of.
What's with the anglo accents? At least they should make the voices sound vaguely slavic lol.
Makes me less likely to want to play in english. Strelok and Degtyrev at least had accents, and Scar had no voice acting.
too much camera shake and dropping frames in the trailer
Voiced FPS protoganists were a mistake. There also seems to be way too many cutscenes to me, but hopefully, those are just left to the beginning and ends of the game in a tolerable amount. I'm catiously excited but it looks like its catering too much to a console audience (i.e. dumb normie homosexuals). I just pray to god that's all kept to a minimum and the protag doesn't make quips after every other enemy he kills.
Also
. wtf i thought you were exaggerating.
>but hopefully, those are just left to the beginning and ends of the game in a tolerable amount.
lol, you'll get them in quests
Can't wait for the gameplay to stop so you can have "epic cinematic moment" always my favorite!
I doubt they'd bother outside of the main quest but still yeah. just will have to wait and see
>Voiced FPS protoganists were a mistake.
Depends on the game. If it's a fully fleshed out character like let's say Lara Croft then it works. If it's an RPG game or if your character is kind of a blank slate then yeah voice is a mistake.
It was bad when they did it in CoP and it's even worse here because he won't shut the frick.
I suppose you're right about fleshed out characters but stalker does not seem like a game that should have that imo and neither should most fps except maybe stuff like duke nuke em. Stalker in particular is a game I think would best be served where your character is silent and the atmosphere of the game can speak for itself without being interrupted by cheesy, pointless dialogue.
And, of course, if the game is previously built with a protag voice in mind it will seem awkward if the game is created around it, in the same way shows with a laugh track seem weird without the laugh track. Fallout, like
, mentions is a terrible example though because that is one of the prime exampes where a silent protoganist would be entirely superior, especially since it's a character you create and now the dialogue options are much more limited because you have to have someone voice everyone of those lines which also sucks for mods.
And it's also not like you can't create a narrative experience without a voice. Plenty of games have managed it with no problem. For me, it's numbered detailed dialogue options is the way to go.
All that being said lara croft is not fps and im not really a fan of metro.
>Voiced FPS protoganists were a mistake
WRONG
Play the Metro games, mute Artyom is so awkward. Then in the Exodus DLC where you play the American, the player is voiced and everything is so much better.
It's awkward because Metro is a shit franchise.
It was completely fine in Fallout and STALKER before morons though it was a good idea to hurt immersion over narrative.
Storygays need to kill themselves or pick up a book.
Fallout is also shit, Ivan.
Fallout is great you're just a pleb
>Ivan
You wish I was a ruskie subhuman, the USA will eat itself from the inside like we're seeing, no need for this dumbass war.
Fallout is a RPG with custom characters and mulitple choice dialog, ofc its better to not voice your protagonist.
Also Fallout is shit.
STALKER also has multiple dialog and world choices.
It's better if your character is a blank slate, this has always been the case.
Metro is just linear STALKER, and a great one at that. Fallout after 2 is just a shitty franchise with no comparison to STALKER in terms of atmosphere, let alone gameplay.
>Metro is just linear STALKER
Not even close
>And good
Frick no, it's AAA trash with slavjank
Pile of fecal matter
Which is why they don't to delay games for said console.
Especially exclusives, it's all about the bottom line.
>Voiced FPS protoganists were a mistake.
No
Yes
Another russian crap. Extremely bad fr
>Q1 2024
Here we go again. It's time to return Grigorovich to the place of PR manager. Lying to the players and the publisher for another five years.
these look good ngl
>ngl
I'm glad you're not going to lie. Reassuring. homosexual.
the exoskeleton gigadoge is my favorite
good stuff
all zoomers are soulless homosexuals who want to be downloaded into their xbox. May they perish.
They have time for that? Aren't they fighting for their country or did they run to Germany to live in bliss like the rest did?
Did they just import the SoC models and call it a day?
looks different though
The two things I remember about the STALKER games
>good atmosphere
>terrible gunplay
As long as the 1st thing is preserved and the 2nd is fixed, I'll be satisfied.
>terrible gunplay
Only morons who never figured out that they should stop and aim their shots say this.
game has rng for shooting accuracy
>just aim better
Bullet spread? Yes, that's a thing. You can mitigate it by aiming slowly and crouching.
its people who play too much milsim/online shooters, the game has great fps gameplay for single-player standards, but it has game-y things that aren't in multiplayer games (because larger maps, ai cannot mitigate the size of maps in the way that players can by using scopes and firing at long range, etc.)
guns have maximum range for example, that is something that really isn't in milsims, you can hit from miles away and do full dmg in milsims. Your starting pistol in SoC has literally the range of a shotgun or so, and anything further your bullet disappears (no I'm not talking about the mustard difficulty myth or whatever, I'm talking about something u can literally test ingame with the early weps if u want)
oh yeah also if you want to mitigate this, for pistols, use the martha (only in soc, the basically unused pistol that you can get off of a dutyer corpse) because it lets you hit from the max possible distance and it does good dmg, they forgot to enter a lower range for that gun in the ini file or some shit so it lets you hit from miles away
and of course what i mean is that, in other games, of course there is a maximum range for each gun but it doesnt literally make your bullet go away in many games, except stuff like arcade-y shooters, tldr there are some arcade elements to the game you need to be aware of if going into stalker expecting some realistic milsim or some shit, its more like an airsoft war
Starting pistols can still kill people from decent range.
>Lines it up in the top left corner of the center sight
Man knows his aiming.
why won't these webms load
The framerate on the newest trailer is abysmal.
Shit footage choice, I've been told the demo ran very well.
>Day 1 Gamepass
Its gonna be bad. All Day 1 gamepass games have been bad. No exceptions.
It's a Microsoft exclusive launch. Microsoft probably paid for it to make gamepass more popular.
Which means they're directly funding and making creative decisions on this game.
Which means STALKER is fricking dead and it's corpse is about to be raped by Xtard consoleBlack folk pretending to be old fans, just like the early 2010s.
okay buddy
>t.redditor
>Which means they're directly funding and making creative decisions on this game.
This is one of the most moronic things I've read around here
>Which means they're directly funding and making creative decisions on this game.
MS also owns Zenimax so do you think they're calling the shots on cuckfield and the homosexual scrolls VI too? At least for now, MS has not been known for interference of that sort since they bought so many publishers and studios in the recent years.
>since they bought so many publishers and studios in the recent years.
Yeah, no wonder modern videogames are crap and have woke shit all over them
>MS also owns Zenimax so do you think they're calling the shots on cuckfield and the homosexual scrolls VI too? At least for now, MS has not been known for interference of that sort
Look at this naive fricking moron, you're the same kind of moron that praised Activision and Blizzards merger.
Why are you so mad? Name 1 "woke" game of theirs made by an acquired studio (you can't)
They are also buying Activision since it's so shit so you should be happy.
Fable
Also Microsoft killed every studio under them, so I'll enjoy seeing that happen.
That game isn't even out yet, so what are you actually mad about?
Redfall
cope more XBlack person baboon
A brand new IP that failed, which no one ever heard of, is the best you can do.
You are a fricking moron activision troony.
>Name 1 "woke" game of theirs made by an acquired studio (you can't)
I listed 2 already and you keep trying to move the goalposts, be sure to use those tears to lube up and fap to the Xbox logo you pathetic sack of shit.
>troony
I don't play Xbox games no
Yes, your 2 inapplicable examples are proof you have no actual examples. You lose again, console third worlder.
Even your bait is pathetic
>the impotent cry of the defeated monkey
keep me posted
bump
Russia won
It's made by ukrainians you dumbass europoor
Exactly, game looks terrible
Better than atomic shart 🙂
Probably, but that's not exactly a high bar, Bioshock sucked, a clone won't be much better.
>the game is a masterpiece
who could be behind this post
Its wienerholes, not hohols
That trailer where they had all the characters speaking at the campfire. Were those russian? And that's the language they removed outright?
>delayed again for no reason
It's gonna be shit.
>for no reason
The leaked build showed that the game was nowhere near "done". It had entire chunks of the map as a blockout. Without insane crunching I'd say it would take AT LEAST a year to finish.
>delay = bad
You understand that if Baldur's gate was delayed for 3 months they'd finish upper part of a city?
wow just like soc
>for no reason
Anon, I
MLP
The only reason this game will be shilled so hard is muh YouCrane
And because stalker is, you know, a genuine Ganker classic.
No, STALKER community has been filled with redditors ever since /vg/ trannies attached themselves to it back in 2010.
>mindbroken /misc/tard
No, it was shilled hard even before that because it was the only FPS game set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland with a well made dreary atmosphere and didn't cripple itself with dumb decisions like constant dialogue or overly cheerful scenes. This made people ignore it's a pretty miserable game in terms of mechanics and polish.
Bruh.
Nice selfie zoomer! fr fr
>am i ugly /soc/?
Bit sad innit?
Imagine you can finally play Stalker 2 and these guys walk by and turn on motion blur.
Am I supposed to recognize 3 random dudes?
Is that digital foundry guys? Damn John is jacked
>the game has it awll. Astounding pewr object motion bwurr. Wobust DLSS impwementation. Smooth fwame wates on consotle. Weal time way twacing being used for the lighting engine. Stawker weally is a tweat for the eyes and also a beatifuwl pc welease.
lamo
>demo
Isn't the entire thing leaked already
No, an early dev build leaked, which is like 1% of the game.
>Ж-12
So it's going to be a different English accent for each faction?
What are your picks?
>Loner
New Jersey, apparently
>Trader
Welsh
>Bandit
wienerney
>Military
Texan
>Duty
Cajun
>Freedom
Californian
>Mercenary
Manchester
>Clear Sky
Liverpool or West Country
>Ecologist
King's English
>Monolith
Australian or (Eastern) Canadian
new jersey won
I hope it has side mission design as good as cop.
>american va
why
shame about the delay but at this point delays point to a more level headed dev and publisher instead of moronic greedy publishers like sega et al
This is probably thanks to Microsoft, like they forced Bethesda to delay Starfield and polish it.
Nothing to do with Microsoft, Microshart wants this pushed out as fast as possible to have more content for Gamepass and another exclusive, plus they're funding the marketing costs.
>Nothing to do with Microsoft
I know you want to believe that, but it's wrong as proven with shartfield.
Why would a publisher want to delay?
You make no fricking sense, these companies release broken shitty unfinished games all of the time.
>Why would a publisher want to delay?
So they don't have their name on yet another rushed shitfest that requires a "public dev apology" and will be pinned on the wall of shame?
They don't give a frick about that, they want money and they want it fast.
They want to sell consoles, that's all microsoft cares about right now.
>villain is named Poutine
hard pass
>Skyrim quest compass
it's over
You never played a stalker game
just like any other stalker game?
STALKER had a minimap you gaslighting troony.
A good looking minimap at that instead of this minimalistic crap.
I will buy nothing from le ukraine
thankfully it was made in czech republic
i wonder if they will port the original to Xbox ahead of release
granted the engine of the original is held together with duct tape, gum and good vibes, but maybe someone like nightdive could get the job done
Delusional, KEX engine can't touch XRAY, that thing is a mess.
A beautiful mess, but a mess nonetheless.
KEX was made for simpler games
Yeah I'm not giving israelitekraine any money
no one cares Ivan, your country is range banned from steam anyways
I care cuc/k/
>everyone I disagree with is Russian/Ukrainian/Jew
man, I love topics involving Ukraine
>nuGanker is overrun with ass blasted third worlders and jerks off space skyrim all day while complaining about stalker of all things
This place needs to be purged.
>muh third worlders
Stalker is literally third worlder's franchise. No amount of annoying youtube essays and reddit cheeki breeki memes will change that
Stalker is ukrainian, not russian. Russians cannot make good games, everything they touch turns to shit, including this site.
>ukrainian
Ukrainians. Not americans.
And your winning about le third worlders won't change that
The voice actor for the MC is from my state, cry about it. It's not for Russian dogs.
Only in your voicedub
It doesn't make game "american"
There's starslop for you
Where is the Russian dub
I don't care.
Stalker is not american game, starfield is.
Where is the Russian dub, Ivan?
>chornobyl
i will pirate your game
>caring about the voicedub
Literally why
The english dub in stalker was always garbage, its just that it was funnier garbage, but still garbage
Anyone with a brain just changes it to the Russian/Ukrainian one
The gameplay looks sound but why the frick do we have to have obnoxious "IM AMERICAN" voice acting that takes me out entirely. I like the games because its perfect to get immersed in, I cant get immersed if my character is always talking
>GET OUT OF HERE STALKER
>ah truly kino immersive voice acting
If npcs are talking its fine, I dont want MY guy talking.
CoP has main character voice lines, you tard. Find new material.
Agreed. It felt out of place
>
>Game journalist likes a stalker game
boys, it's not a stalker game
moron it's became popular of course they like it
The journalists like it because they can feel the tide, they've realized over time that there is a large online demographic nostalgic for the older games from the series and that there'll be big hype for the next one. So even before it comes out, they'll already sing its praises. Same thing happened with Elden Ring when journos figured out the avalanche of fanboys was too strong so they gave the game 10/10s everywhere when it was way too early for even early reviewers to play through even half the game. The journalists just feel the ground shifting beneath their feet and adapt as well as they can.
This exact thing is happening with Armored Core and Ganker is proof of it. A shitload of people (like 90% at least) pretending they're fans of a franchise just to participate in the hype and feel accepted. They'll never play the old games, and they will watch an hour of gameplay from their favorite streamer then never engage with the series again. Every modern fan base is like this now; all hype is social for the purposes of viral marketing.
Okay maybe the trailer was shit, but the dog's reaction to his pistol jamming was pretty funny.
>Bullshots the 'game'
>Pre-order campfire songs
>Tries to put NFT's in the 'game'
>Gets called out
>Goes radio silent
>We'll release it on April 28th 2022!
>Silence
>Guys our tech demo is now using UNREAL 5™
>Support the war goys give us donations!
>Hype dies down
>Here’s another ‘gameplay’ trailer!
>Uses literal Youtube tutorial Starter Content Assets for blood splatter and effects
>2023 unknown timeline release
>Radio silence again
>Pushed to 2024
>Look guys another Unreal Engine™ demo trailer!
4A Games was founded by former developers from GSC Game World: Andrew Prokhorov, Oles Shyshkovtsov, and Alexander Maximchuk; they, together with Sergei Karmalsky, formed the core team of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl, which was in development at GSC in the early and mid-2000s.[3][4] Prokhorov had disliked that Sergiy Grygorovych, the chief executive officer (CEO) of GSC, prioritized money over his employees, withholding royalties for games the company had produced.[4] The situation came to a high point when the two fell out over wages in 2006, leading Prokhorov and two of the company's lead programmers—Shyshkovtsov and Maximchuk—to leave the company and found a new studio, 4A Games, with the intention to treat its employees better than Grygorovych did.[4]
Anyone who falls for Grygorovych’s scam deserves to be buttfricked. The ‘game’ has been supposedly in dev for 4 years yet this is what they have to show for it.
>chornobyl
I can understand messing up a single word in the game, which is read once or twice per playtrough, but messing up the title just shows how little care the developers put into the game.
moron
Reminder that there are no women in the zone, men only.
imagine all the gay sex
Such is life in the zone.
Clearly they shadow-cancelled the original Stalker 2 and made a glorified Stalker 1 mod.
The new gameplay is clearly downgraded than the teaser. I am still in, though, because it won't have the anal fan mod inventories that ruin the game.
>The new gameplay is clearly downgraded than the teaser
How do you figure? The other teasers didn't look special.