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Thank you, for this honest review. Those videos from the hyped community, are rare these days. Have you played "Ghost of Tsushima"? Everyone said "Why it didn´t became the goty? It´s better than "Last of Us 2" It´s the Assassins Creed of my dreams!" No, it´s not! For certain reasons. You probably understand me, even if you like "Ghost of Tsushima" very much. And this only one example.

excellent content

Go play gamma S2 is never going to live up to your expectations

I bought the original stalker in 2007 and the gameplay was more flawed and buggy than this. The shooting and gunplay is superb in S2. Hopefully the devs continue to iron out the issues. My only real disappointment is the bloodsuckers being quite easy, less scary and far more common than I remember them being.

Stealth is possible. You just can never let them face your direction. You can even use bolts to detract them.

I 100% agree with everything you said. I highly doubt any of this will be addressed by the developers and think it will be down to the moders to say the day....as usual.

"An Astartes Space Marine" ah yes, ATM machine.

I love the immersion of this gameplay review. More customization and mechanics need to be implemented to keep players engaged in replay ability. Maybe a few maps that are open to play a few more varied gameplay. I would also like to see some execution kills that aren’t the same. But varied to more than one. Even if they just added some for each character class. Thanks for the hard work and time to share your thoughts.

can you add the mods do you need vortex for example

Hi, in my opinion when a need to express anything about a game arises, it helps to encourage players to contact the games makers as well and the more effective the lobbying, the bethe chance of getting ideas across to the people who can physically change the game, or use a mod that will have the same result. Having written this, your commentary is very pertinent because for example the cans of drink to get across the sleepy field near the beginning, or each tiny prods with a knife at a new tin don't add sufficient food to last very long. Have subscribed to your worthy site. Regards JB

If you did enjoy this I'd really appreciate letting me know with a like, as this took a hell of a long time to make and want to know if it was worth it and whether I should continue to make content like this. Let me know what you think and consider subscribing to stick around for more like it. Thanks! P.S. Sorry for any confusion, reuploaded with revised intro because there were some issues with it.

Basically you're complaining that S2 is not Gamma. Stalker trilogy was (is) very similar to the newest stalker in regards of survival mechanics - they're there to give an abstraction of survival without turning it into a wasteland survival simulator. In the first Stalker games I was selling every food item except bread. Good income source. Did the same in Stalker 2, felt like good old stalker.

Agree , another wasted potential

You're right, unfortunately. The constant getting back on your feet and then deciding whether to reload, stop a bleeding OR restore health before the next physical attack makes mutant fights a bit tedious. In that regard, Fallout 4 had me more on edge. Good news is that GSC are very willing to listen. Maybe they will take some suggestions to heart.

"Inventory space is precious" = me running around with 4 flytraps equipped so I can carry ALL THE LOOT. When I reach the trader, I glow like an LED lightbulb, maximising all the Nuclear Radiation Detector in the area while smelling like an alcohol factory.

It's not a post apocalyptic survival sim. The outside world exists, and is fine. And the original games were not hardcore sim games either. I think the perception of these games has been twisted by the years of mods that released after the original trilogy came out.

Yes! Pls fix the stealth game, GSC! And i dont want to have to eat every 3 or 4 minutes as well.

Stalker 2 is half-baked in almost every aspect. -Beautiful graphics, BUT its not optimized. -Good gunplay animation and sound, BUT the enemies you shoot at are not really fun to fight (dumb ai, aimbot, spawn near you, jittery movement animation, bullet sponge, ....) -Hunger and thirst mechanic, BUT you are guaranteed to never not have food/drink on you. (you always have TOO MUCH medkits, bandage and other shit in your inventory) -Huge map, BUT its 90% empty of content. (Inbetween missions you will be sprinting for 2-3 kilometers directly to your next quest marker with absolutely NOTHING happening). Big Respect to the devs for making this game during an actual invasion, BUT this ain't it.

I have 36 sausages in my inventory.

stalker 2 is a waste of time rn. maybe its good in one or two years with a sh*tton of mods. just play gamma.

agree

your criticisms come from the fact that you are expecting S2 to play like a survival modded stalker game. S2 is pretty much a 1:1 sequel to the original unmodded games with all its mechanics being the same. Wait for some Gamma type mods on S2 then.

THE GAme was made easy otherwise no one would buy it

You literally summed up all the points I wanted to make

I hate how much games are being politicized now. Though it's interesting that, despite how political pundits blame corporatism for mediocre modern games, almost all of this year's best were big-budget AAA productions. Even though so many popular indies exist now, they were thoroughly overshadowed this year. So much for corporations ruining gaming, which is a claim made only by people who will go on and on about certain examples of failed AAA games, because those match with their pre-existing political strawman arguments (e.g. Concord), while ignoring all the wildly popular AAA titles this year.

Im dying to play the latest update of Wukong..

Amazing video aside, your sense of humour made me chuckle more times than I expected. Subbed.

There's a lot of great games that hit this year, although I haven't had the chance to play them all. Maybe this list would be different if I had, maybe it wouldn't. These are just my favourites of the games I have actually played. Let me know what yours were!

Wanna try some Zone Sportsmanship Challenges? 4:12 That would also give the player more of an incentive to consider eating mutant meat like you can in Anomaly. 5:47 Did they finally make the backup CQC sight (trashy as it is) on top of the G36's scope functional, or are they still doing things the same way they've been doing them since 2007? Never mind that functional combination sights have existed in mods since at least as far back as 2010, and generally speaking, we zoners want that kind of tactical flexibility. 6:08 You should play Anomaly (with or w/o GAMMA). It's got that sort of thing. 7:44 That compass reminds me of the one from Borderlands 1 (except it's at the top). 9:20 Have you played Stalcraft? 12:49 Can you aim grenade launchers? By that, I mean actually aim them like they're 'sposed ta be aimed? Like, with the GP-25, it should have a functional quadrant sight. With the M-203, even if it lacks a flip-up leaf sight, you should at least be able to aim using the front sight or muzzle of the host rifle. Can you at least use the Groza's flip-up ladder sight?

The best feeling on survival I had on this game was while on the lesser zone, I kept doing mission after mission, exploring place after place without repairing or upgrading my equipment, it was a constant struggle, I used every resource I found in my way to keep going, I was constantly killing enemies and using their equipment until it broke again and I had to replace it with the stuff of another body, fights had to be strategic so I mostly used the PTM with a silencer so I could strike human enemies before they saw me. The literal best example of this was on the last main mission on the lesser zone when you go to find solder, I went with the spark route and sneaked into a bunker and killed solder, when I came out I was in the sphere, I died 50 times there trying to find my way out while enemies constantly respawned. I tried to sneak through the roof, no luck there was no path. I tried to go back the same way but no luck, I don’t know if the door was intended to be locked or if it was a bug but I was stuck there, I took alternative paths but the place was swarming with enemies, it was like that until I said “fuck it, we ball” and went guns blazing, killing as many as I could before I got detected, I had ran out of ammo so I used my knife, my weapons broke so I constantly swapped them with the ones the enemies dropped, I even used the bolts to make sound to attract enemies so I could sneak on them with my knife. Eventually I ran out of food and healing too but luckily I found a place with like 5 sausages, 3 cans of food and 2 medkits, that was all the healing I had available, when I got detected I was constantly dishing out headshots to use as little ammo as I could. Weapons with 0% condition, no ammo, no healing and armour broken but I got out, the only thing I had to my name was a sausage, I ran back to zalissya while constantly saving as to not lose what I strived so much for lmao. I’ve never struggled with coupons though, it’s just that I refused to use them while on the lesser zone so I got out as a rich man, I’ve never had the same experience ever since because enemies are so easy when you are not screaming at the screen because your weapon got stuck or broke again while in the middle of a fight and most mutants are so easy to run through so they feel useless.

yeah it aint perfect, none of the first releases ar, mods will fix that... the true heros of the zone

Clenched Sphincter is a must. 🤣

Currently running a 3060 and 16gb of RAM. Will the performance mods make it playable for me?

Absolutely 100% agree with you on the food and sleep thing. I absolutely love this game, bro exploring prypiat’s abandoned hotels and hospitals were some of my most immersive gaming experiences ever. Imagine though I had to go in there because I had to find food or med kits because I would die of hunger, like so what DayZ does. It would make “zone runs” so much more exciting and interesting but also necessary

You have described exactly how I feel about the game too.

I feel like the food and sleep issue is tied to the time scale. Many have issues with the short day length in this game, and from what I've seen GSC has no intention of changing it. That being said, this is not a survival game at all, and never been outside mods.

i loved Stalker 2, played it for 140 hours. Then started Stalker Gamma and its the real deal: truly inmersive and truly fine-tuned hardcore survival experience, definitely a better game with the 508 mods running on top of a 2007 game. I'm sure Stalker 2 can get there if modders figure up how to fix everything with the unreal engine... maybe we can run it at 60+ fps with computers from 2035

can't have campfires cause it would spawn mosnters and enemies all the time to your camp when youre trying to eat :DDD

It's a game for casuals

Stalker 2 is bad.

I disagree with the points in the "food problem", this mechanic works this way in the other 3 games. They know the average player does not want to bother with those, however they leave all the base mechanics in place for modders. Sincerely? that's the best option, there is no way they can make it as hardcore as you want without turning off the average player/streamer. The modders did an excelent job in gamma, they will do an excelent job in stalker 2. But just adding to my point i have friends (and stalker streamer i follow) that won't touch gamma because of these mechanics, but happily play mods like gunslinger.

Stalker isn't a survival game. Like, at all

Idk if rng us weird or what, but I'm on med difficulty, and I'm definitely not swimming in medkits/food ever...i find just enough to keep me going but I also spend most of my time out in the wild scavving and fighting constantly and get fucked up a lot so idk lol only issues i really have is it seems to be nighttime like 80% of my playtime, enemies just seem to spawn right on me out of fuckin nowhere when noone is around, and they have fuckin eagle eye vision at all times and can see me somehow from 800yds with my light off and crouched😂

I dont have a mod that scribbles out my death count ;)

80 hours in, one of my biggest annoyances is being shot through cover and the aimbot level of shooting from AI. Multiple times I will get shot multiple times draining my health, retreat behind a cement wall or sturdy cover, and then still take multiple hits as I’m trying to heal or treat a bleed. The game is amazing but needs some tweaks to make it better.

I'm a bit confused by all these takes seeming to conflate the true "stalker experience" with Anomaly, GAMMA, and EFP. The original games were not at all like those mods and stalker 2 is just like the originals.

I saw someone working on a concept for a mod that would allow you to switch your artifact detectors (excluding the Veles detector) to an anomaly detector that would detect anomalies like artifacts are. The mod would remove the base kit anomaly detector that you have and integrate a switch in to all of the artifact detectors to switch between artifacts and anomalies. You can't have both activated at the same time, so it adds a trade-off, and it deactivates while running so that way traveling is more dangerous. I personally think that this is a more interesting approach to making anomalies more dangerous while still adding a fun alternative mechanic instead of outright removing one.

When I first heard you mention about the abundance of food and the eating mechanic I thought “ not another whiner “ but as the video went on and you explained about it being scarce and eating twice a day it fully made sense. I’d have / would love this in the game. It would make players check every building you come across to see if there’s one bit of bread or a sausage even finding just one would be a sense of accomplishment ( I don’t go into every building ). Plus the Stealth is so broken it’s absurd as it limits how you take on a mission and complete it. The one problem with this game like any other is ( and this ain’t aimed at you just in general ) you can’t please everyone. Great video and just subscribed.