@@hunterxgirlthe mods are going to go absolutely insane for this game. Anomaly 2, GAMMA 2 etc, hopefully the bigger mods like that can make it to Xbox.
@@youtubeenjoyer1743 aren’t you the same person that begged them to release it early due to the delays and NOW you’re bitching it’s buggy?! I hate the gaming community
The devs setup a website to report bugs, and they respond directly to questions on discord. In a week most of the bugs will be gone. I stayed up all night playing, it was a real nostalgia trip.
@@KingTraut Nah, it'll be gone in days, day one patch came out and it fixed several of the bugs I've been seeing, got a nice 20 FPS boost too. They're actively improving the game really quickly, more than I expected. Wouldn't be surprised if by week one or maybe two for most of the problems to be fixed
@@JeffreyBernabeIn Ukraine everybody tries their best to solve problems as fast as we can. We live like that. If the company doesn't resolve a big problem in a few days - there is two options: this is a much bigger problem than expected, or nobody reported on that.
You can turn it off in settings or even turn off individual parts. Personally, I wish you could activate it with a button so you can pop it up when needed and then turn it off when not needed
Never thought I’d see the day that something as niche as STALKER would become mainstream. Better yet, it’s everything us stalker fans have been hoping for in a sequel and then some. My biggest fear is that it would be causilized for the mainstream audience and I’m glad that ISN’T the case. It’s literally a modern STALKER game.
I’m just happy this game released at all, bugs or not. Multiple head developers dying during release and having to relocate an entire game studio out of an active war zone but still pushing forward and not canceling the game is a feat to behold
@Stunkos Definitely. I don't know exactly what he created, other than the cabin at the beginning, but he was one of 4 people, so he did probably about 1/4 of the things over the last 5 years
I have friends who used to make fun of me for loving this series because of how janky and outdated it looked, i was playing it in tge 2010s mind you. They didnt even like fallout till the show came out and now theyre playing stalker 2 while im currently too busy or just generally unable to play.... what a world
I agree and I did, they're more like acquaintances if anything, but I still have them on steam and social media so it was more a statement of how funny it is to see the shift in popularity for both series rather than me complaining about having had bad friends lol.
I'm so happy to see that a lot of people liked that game, and we will probably see more games from GSC. Also, I am very happy to see people play with Ukrainian audio even though there is English one
Yeah there is a general consensus of liking the game but the performance and bugs are abysmal. It kinda reminds me of cyberpunk in a way. An amazing game trapped behind an endless list of shitty performance and bugs.
@@arenndups5294 yet cyberpunk nowadays is mostly loved, especially after the dlc. The main thing is that the developers managed to keep the original's atmosphere
@@Олександр-ь7з6с That means the game is not done yet, it’s the early alpha test, but for the price of a full game. The real release might just be in 1-2 years from now.
Fun fact: alcohol DOES help with radiation IRL too. Actually, the Liquidators (civilian people who worked on repairs of the Chornobyl reactor) were highly encouraged and sometimes REQUIRED to drink vodka while on-site.
The devs are also working on fixes and content updates down the line. The reason it released like this was because Xbox is an asshole and pushed for an earlier release for game pass.
As someone who has not really been enjoying games as much as I can over the last year. This game was an amazing experience, playing it in Ukrainian language, the gameplay is great, little slower than what I’m used to but I got the hang of it, the tactical gameplay is really fun, facing humans so far is fun, my only issues with the game is the lack of a definitive way to kill poltergeists besides just wasting your entire bag, and the quality option at least on XSX is a little slideshow esque in the town at least I’ve had no bugs or problems that others are experiencing, only thing of note is when changing graphic modes you can see everything disappear and reappear in front of you, game has ran perfectly, no crashes, no bugs, only annoying poltergeists
Ive been having so much fun with this game, I dont know much abt the series at all, I played one of if not the og game when this one was announced, I love the mechanics of the game they were so inventive at the time and this game holds onto those mechanics and lowk wipes any modern singleplayer shooter especially this open world type, It really reminds me a lot of tarkov but minus the online players and adding the zone, so its still a good challenge like takov, my only real critique is the “yellow paint” which seems to exist nowadays in games like farcry is present here, and i feel like that takes away the fun of finding loot and figuring out where to go, also its kinda like damn you think I’m so dumb that you need to outline important things with bright yellow road paint, but thats such a small gripe, overall this is my favorite new game since forza motorsport (2023) an overall terribly recieved game, me giving forza a 6 i give stalker 2 anywhere from 8 to 9 maybe in the future the new shiny toy effect will wear off but for now im grinding ts. This a lil extra for anyone who actually read all this bs, what do you guys think about Avowed based off what is known, who else is exited for it??
The game is fantastic I think so far, 6 hours in on Xbox so far and im enjoying it. I’ve not ran into any bugs apart from major stick drift on the right analog stick but not an issue, just had to mess around with aiming options for a bit. It’s a challenging game where running away is sometimes the best option
Sometimes? Shooting mutants at all is a total waste of ammo because they don't drop any. In the ideal run for this game you'd never fight a mutant. It feels a lot more survival-esque in that regard.
Technical issues are real, I'm playing on an i9-13900k with a 4090. Traversal stutter is noticeable, have to use DLSS for high/epic settings to have a smooth framerate. Having said that, it's very fun to play and those issues haven't significantly diminished my fun, the game world is just so engrossing. Only non-technical glitch i had was with a flesh. Shot it point blank with a shotgun as it was charging me. It's body ragdolled like 30' up into the air. Quite the anomaly
4:40 Charlie yet again losing to the fact that he never uses headphones or even a second earpod. And I still dont understand why. The downside is so immense and honestly I cant imagine doing that myself. I'd feel the equivalent of motion sick if my sense of hearing was stripped from me for the whole time i was playing videogames.
Headsup Charlie and everyone else entering the zone either for the first time or coming back home, there are a few necessary mods that balance things like how spongey enemies, inventory and carry weight fixes/balances, optimizations&FPS boosts, input smoothing removal, etc. etc. All available already over on Nexus already, and all you do is create a mod folder in the games directory and drop a few .pak files only a few kb's and fix A LOT of QOL and general gameplay things. Good luck S.T.A.L.K.E.R's
2:33 The people that worked on sealing in the reactor of Tjernobyl were also told to drink a lot of vodka after their shift to reduce the effects of radiation
It’s crazy that despite how messy and jank the game is, so many people agree that even despite the jank the game is great/amazing. Imagine if they didn’t have so many things happen during development and lose so much data? They would’ve dropped a masterpiece right out the gate.
just goes to show how much passion outweighs tech performance. Kingdom Come Deliverance had that same experience. So did Cyberpunk 2077 and No man’s Sky, although it took them a couple years.
Brother, it's a stalker game, I'd almost be disappointed if it weren't messy and janky. From the second this was announced, I knew I would be in for some good ol' slavic eurojank.
Honestly, it doesn’t even seem all that janky to me so far. I’m not super far into it, but the bugs I’ve come across have been very minor. My understanding is that a lot of the bugs that the reviewers saw had been fixed before the game even released. I do have some slight stuttering issues in NPC heavy areas though. A little annoying, but not game breaking. Currently on a 5700X and 7800 XT. Waiting on a better motherboard to arrive from eBay so I can throw in a 5700X3D.
Yeah this game will be amazing, it already is just a few things like the spawn rates need to be adjusted, doesn't have that life like element in the environment compared to the others. But fortunately that'll be something they fix soon.
Bro i had a loot area I was checking, it was FILLED with rats, so obviously I fragged them, left and had to go back in cause I forgot to loot the cache, the rats had immediately respawned 💀, np just fragged them again
Bro Skif's pistol is the Goat, pops heads like water balloons and 2/3 shots to the torso. I'm a little bit after the Noon intro, and I've not had a single reason to use any other pistol.
before the dudes with "uhh ackshually they're in czechia" arrive - big amount of devs are still in Ukraine, some are even fighting in the war, some have died, most have their parents left in Ukraine, which is also a huge stress
@@barmunich1845Complete bullsht. 99% of company was outside of Ukraine even before war, there were just several guys who got grabbed to war. It's basically offshore Czech company that used event for PR.
game is really great with the atmosphere and sound design, gunplay feels good. this games got a solid foundation but it definitely needs to cook more. i know this isnt gamma but i feel like ive just been running to waypoints, killing, looting, repeat. the loot is just food, meds, ammo and broken guns. thats the whole game so far.
I always had a feeling that modded Stalker would skewer the hell out of a vanilla Stalker 2 release for people getting into it. I’m loving the game so far, issues and all.
@@capsadememory serves me right, it does. what's new and noticeable was, sidequest were interesting this time improved narrative, same worldbuilding often with 2 choices.
I'll wait to buy it until the game fixes the AI issues, enemy respawns, etc. I won't be disappointed even if they raise the price of the game then. I can sympathize with the situation, but a broken game is a broken game.
I was sitting at the campfire at the safe zone and a lightning bolt killed a dude sitting there while i Strummed my beautiful chords on my guitar, i laughed for 10 minutes
The title pretty much sums up the game it's amazing but it has its problems, I've been enjoying the exploring, doing missions and managing my equipment, they just need to improve the AI and fix the performance but it's great to hear it has been well received and people are enjoying it.
I just want to say that if you play more, throughout the stalker series it’s mostly a item management game, try to use the zone to your advantage instead of relying entirely on guns, especially with mutants. Learn how you can use anomalies against enemies and even try bringing mutants to enemy humans, climb things to avoid melee enemies. Get creative in how you play, and always try going for artifacts as they can help you a lot. I also like saving grenades for mutants like the bloodsucker
Yes and no. Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat are stand alone expansions to Shadow Chernobyl. Stalker was originally supposed to A LOT bigger than what we ended up with but due to budget and time constraints, GSC Gameworld essentially had to split the game into 3 parts. The “Call of Chernobyl” mod more or less fuses all three games into one which was the original intent.
I find the fact that artifacts don't appear until you get really close a little annoying, but I guess it makes upgrading detectors more important. In 1 you could see them from a mile away
thats actually valid that vodka reduces radiation poisoning because on a gauge that i work with it says due to radiation when damaged drink alcohol when damaged in the warning because the gas it releases is radio active and i guess that alcohol works as a aerosol for your lungs thats the only way i can make sense of it tbh
CHARLIE SUMMONED HIS UKRAINIAN BROS! It's a bittersweet release for Ukraine. On one hand it's immesurably great release for Ukrainian gamedev and Ukraine as a whole. As a Ukrainian I'm immensely proud, but on the other hand it's heartwrenching how many of our people didn't live to see this day. Слава Україні! Героям Слава! Хай квітне український геймдев! 💙💛💙💛💙💛
my biggest gripe with this game is the lack of sound when traversing bushes/tall grass, there's literally 0 sound, i asked in discord and ppl said "modders will fix it" and that' fking sucks.
Games on steam these days get downvoted for the simplest things like having a psn requirment, or an anti cheat people dont like. This game literally releases un-optimized as hell, stuttering on even the best of pc's, bugs everywhere, and "alife 2.0" is literally a shallow joke compared to what was advertised and yet it its still getting positivley reviewed.... Just shows that steam reveiws are about as credible as rotten tomatos and people will rate up any indie slop as long as its made by devs they like.
I like the game but yeah, shill brigade is out in full force. When people don't like a game they talk about why, even if it's for a stupid reason why. When people like something they get absolutely positively militant for it and in my opinion it's very disturbing. Especially when you know damn well they don't get militant about nothing else, least of all anything important. I'm just sad that this is gonna be another case of "modders will fix it". Same with the OG games that released over 15 years ago, you'd think shit would change. "But the war!". I'll just say the quiet part out loud. The war obviously isn't much of an issue if you can develop and release a game during it. I dunno, maybe I'm just an asshole. Even regardless of that it's a product people spent money on. A product people spent a lot of money on. Like a lot, especially if you got one of the other editions, one of which is well over a hundred dollars. It's not entitlement to expect something that you PAID FOR to work. Just throwing that out there. The consoomer bots who eat shit all day and religiously worship said shit will keep doing what they do but for anyone else reading this....yeah. You're not wrong to be upset over the state of the game. Likewise if you're happy over the state of the game, just quit with the creepy cult shit and let people have their own thoughts and opinions. I know I know, how heretical
@@danestrenton Facts man. These people just latch onto the latest peice of hype whether its a video game or somthing else and then either defend it to the death or completley flip on it for one reason or another. I see this mentality present in many other properties and fandoms and its demented. I just hope its a vocal minority and theres not as many of them as it seems
yeah i thought about that too, when he asked "thats a meatball, do you know nothing about stalker brother?" and then discovering vodkas ability from the very first game
Hey Charlie! Just tried out one of your Cheeky soap bars and they’re amazing. My skin feels very soft, you could even say… Moist. You achieved perfection like the box says lol
Charlie, try turning off full screen optimization in the exe properties. That fixed the stuttering issues for me. If that doesn’t work run the exe as admin.
Charlie using his pistol while having access to a AKM with a scope and every soldier dropping ammo for the AKM is both hilarious and mildly infuriating 😭
Damn I've never been this early to a Charlie video. Might as well take advantage of this and ask how's everyone doing, anything interesting happen today?
@@Thegreatestprophetz Aye slide some over @ElixirOfEuphoria I can't believe they're making Alfredo @darthhatall6961 We eat those, enjoy the start of your break on a high note bro
i'm not trying to be political but you're right, ukranian is like more rural russian, if i was watching a sad movie with ua voiceover i would've died trying not to laugh, i really liked the voice acting in the first stalker games tho
I’ve heard a lot about the bugs but the game looks great from a visual/audio/atmospheric standpoint. I really like the little radiation glitter effect at 13:20. The death counter is also pretty cool but I imagine it won’t be accurate for long with the amount of savescumming I’m going to end up doing. Animations and gunplay look good for the most part. Seems like unarmed enemies shrugging off 3 headshots is going to be a recurring issue though. Once the AI is fixed, I imagine playing this on veteran with no HUD is going to be Metro Exodus levels of immersion at least. And since there’s also official mod support, I imagine basically anything the devs can’t or won’t have fixed can be done with mods. I’m relieved, still have PTSD from Cyberpunk 2077 launch. I remember asking about it at GameStop and hearing that they wouldn’t take refunds because of the sheer volume of issues.
After playing for a few hours, the game IS NOT BAD but has problems that I think ruin curtain parts of the game for me. The worst offender is the AI; they do not miss, see you at all times, mainly through walls and bushes, and from so far away, I don't even think their models have fully loaded in yet. In front of you sometimes I kill a small camp of enemies then they respawn less than a minute later. One time I literally turned around and they all respawned. The game gives the players restrictions like bleed and weapon jams, which are cool. Weapon jamming is a cool mechanic... unless only your gun jams and enemies with weapons on the brink of breaking into a million pieces fire perfectly fine with pin point accuracy through cover, and I don't even know if enemies can bleed or take radiation damage. Mutant AI seems fine, though the simple ones like dogs, pigs, and boars feel Jacky, while the more advanced mutans are actually just fine and work. I'm complaining most about the human AI because, up to my time, 90% of what I've encountered are humans. Also, I don't know if all bandits are on the same side, like Fallout. I assumed that bandits kept only to their own group, but I've had 2-3 different groups of bandit spawn, and they seem to be best friends. one more side note, I've had guys offer me rewards if i chose them over someone else for a mission so i would pick the one i wanted, then kill the other to take the reward anyways but they have some bread and maybe 4 bullets.
ive not played any other stalker game but people say A-life is what makes them so good and from what other people are saying stalker 2 has very little to no evidence so far that they are using A-life or at least are using a dumbed downed version
Dude, the AI is why I'm loving this game so much I hate braindead AI that just stands there shooting at you and failing 50% of the time, and when getting closer to them, they just keep standing still, or blind AI that cannot see 20m in front of them. The fact they're aggressive and miss almost never makes the engagements fun because you actually have to find cover and flanks actively (also they do the same, when you get closer, they back down, if you stay in the same place, they push with nades or flank)
@@cosmicdude8282 They could do this already in the prior games without perfect accuracy and perfect accuracy is just flat out bad design look at Halo 2 jackal snipers
@@cosmicdude8282 them being strong is fine if they weren't it would just be fallout, but in combination with the other things i listed mainly spawning randomly and on top of you it makes a lot of fights unavoidable due to them spawning in and seeing you instantly and in a game where enemies almost never miss and a single shot can force you to use heal having enemies spawn next to you in the woods with no cover, dying is better then using like 3 med kits and 5 bandages. the worst case is when the AI have simply no way of knowing where you are and still see you usually behind walls or through bushes. if I'm being honest 80% of all enemies in shooter games push up and move from cover and up to my point i haven't seen any enemies back down but usually i just shot them in the face tho i do like how they call out for their friends that they are going to throw a grenade its like in ghost of Tsushima when the archers call for their guys to back off so they can fire and some of them duck i just got back on the game and 2 groups of enemies spawned Infront of me and killed me straight out of the loading screen in the middle of the woods
Its so freaky seeing the headlamp doesnt cast shadows Crazy how Stalker a 17year old game looks better in the lightning department even though it might not be super realistic. The constantly moving and dark shadows is what made the old series great in my opinion artistic use of an engine will allways beat just pure technology.
So am I the only one who thought it was creepy how obsessed he was?? And some things weren't even what he would say they were, but he had a mass of people backing him up so it was just swept under the rug because she tried to dox him or whatever??? Seriously 😂 I was actually rekindling this flame after seeing my old posts about her bullshit years ago lol
I've been looking forward to this for years but I was hoping for...more? Just watching that sequence @04:00 where the invisible guy is hunting you. That would have been massively improved with reactive foliage that moves as he pushes through it- the sort of tech that was in games when the original came out! (although to be a fair a lot of big titles still don't do it) Edit: Obviously developing a title like this with what's happening in Ukraine is an incredible achievement and I still intend to pick it up to support the devs but hopefully they'll be able to continue development and address the issues.
I feel like this is a wait for sale type of game. It's definitely worth playing, but as of now it still needs work. Heck- if it stays true to the franchise we'll have modders make the game much more balanced and hardcore for those who wish for a more punishing experience. Lots of things I feel could have been done differently in terms of the mechanics but I'm just glad we HAVE Stalker 2.
I’m 6 hours in with 24 grenades 30 sausages and 29 bread loafs and 300 smg and pistol ammo shits not even hard on veteran, just annoying with the bullet sponges
@@greasykremlin7193 I’ve found a svd, but man the aiming in this game feels like ass, makes getting head shots 100% harder to get especially on 30fps Xbox s 😂 still waiting for my pc to get dropped off
The absolute biggest issue right now is the fact that the A LIFE system does not work, which in turn heavily diminishes the Stalker experience. Thankfully, modders are are already releasing tweaks to the game's most blatant issues: -Comically tanky mutants -Broken economy -Short day/night cycle and others.
@rafox66 Buying, selling and repairing items is extremely unbalanced. Repairing equipment is sometimes more expensive than just buying the same thing. Items in perfect condition still sell only for like 10% of the actual value. Quest rewards offer very little payment. During a quest, you may be forced to engage in multiple gunfights or mutants, expending ammo and degrading equipment, only to receive like 1000 vouchers, while the repair cost and ammo expenditure can be multiple thousands. It doesn't help that fighting mutants is always a net loss, especially with how tanky they are.
@@666Shinedown Which difficulty are you playing on? I'm not really experiencing those complaints myself except for maybe repair costs, playing on medium/stalker. I think the difficulty mostly just increases costs/decreases rewards and increases enemy health. So maybe try a lower difficulty if you're on hard right now. Also this is always hard to balance because putting these things too high will make money pile up too fast even though it would be more realistic/fair. You can sell 5 guns while only repairing one so repairing would have to be a high cost to balance it. It's hard at first but gets progressively more and more easy, putting the rewards too high or costs too low will make money useless pretty fast as you end up with more than enough, they want you to feel like you're scraping by. Find and sell artifacts, high condition guns you don't use and any excess items.
@prospawner1329 Guns are common yeah, but if you modify your weapon, you'd normally want to stick with it for a while. Ammo is also common, which is offset by the fact that it takes multiple mags to kill a bloodsucker, fleshes take 1 full mag to the head of 556 ammo. The balance is all over the place at the moment, but thankfully there are already mods to combat this.
a funny and at the same time sad fact, during the liquidation of the Chernobyl accident, people were actually given vodka, saying that it saved them from radiation
Be honest guys, if this was Ubisoft or EA this would be getting negative reviews and getting review bmbed. Please consider your bias and ask these devs you finish their game and not sell an unfinished product
This. For supposedly the greatest game of 2024 it has only 80% positive reviews on Steam. It's not much if we take into account that probably half of them are for political reasons lol
Having indie devs on the same standard as megacorporations is definitely a take. Not to mention that said megacorporations released their games in much worse states, but you do you bud.
@@MrIljuha2000 brothers these aren't indi devs. Maybe back then, definitely not now. They could've waited and finished their product, especially if a war is literally causing production issues. I feel like the safety of the devs and their home is more important than a game
Wow you do you. Man, the game is a retrospect of the good things in old stalker games. The rest is a buggy janky no a-life, kinda charming but empty if compared to Anomaly. And yes, they could've worked of Anomaly as a primary focus. Political bullshit and stupid americans hyping stuff because they feel righteous and a part of a clan. Its all good, hope they fix the problems and install real a-life, the rest can be ironed out but for now, the game bombs greatly.
RIP to the Developer who died bro, it’s a miracle that the game is even here
Only one died, but it's still sad
@@Steve_Raglan_aka_William_Afton sorry the fuckinf keyboard
But why are they speaking with american actors?
Because only an idiot would blame citizens for government actions@@UncannyLiving
@@UncannyLiving you can choose between the original ukrainian dub or english dub
I laughed at 36:05.
"You have 13 grenades"
"Yeah saving them for STALKER 3"
oh brother I'm carrying 25 at least at all times
@@alexhughes512 same 😂😂 im about to sell all of them nades except of 5 cuz I just love how the guns behave and no need to throw nades
STALKER 3 is gonna be fallout Ukraine at this point
@@hunterxgirlthe mods are going to go absolutely insane for this game. Anomaly 2, GAMMA 2 etc, hopefully the bigger mods like that can make it to Xbox.
He has become the stocker
>Stalker has bugs ❌
>Stalker has anomalies ✅
Wouldn’t have it any other way
❌ Release the game.
✅ Release the early access version and call it a full release.
@@youtubeenjoyer1743 aren’t you the same person that begged them to release it early due to the delays and NOW you’re bitching it’s buggy?! I hate the gaming community
Bro😂😂😂😂
@@youtubeenjoyer1743"iT haS aNomOlies!!!!" 🤡
The devs setup a website to report bugs, and they respond directly to questions on discord. In a week most of the bugs will be gone. I stayed up all night playing, it was a real nostalgia trip.
Its not that simple
Ya week is probably too fast but few months and I’m sure most big issues ironed out
@@KingTraut Nah, it'll be gone in days, day one patch came out and it fixed several of the bugs I've been seeing, got a nice 20 FPS boost too. They're actively improving the game really quickly, more than I expected. Wouldn't be surprised if by week one or maybe two for most of the problems to be fixed
@@JeffreyBernabeIn Ukraine everybody tries their best to solve problems as fast as we can. We live like that. If the company doesn't resolve a big problem in a few days - there is two options: this is a much bigger problem than expected, or nobody reported on that.
@@dnvlks5287I’ll be sure to hire Ukrainians if I need something solved
We know know charlie's pc is out of this world being able to run S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 and OBS
Don’t they usually use a separate pc to stream from that captures video from the main pc?
Dude can afford anything he wants for a set up. Literally anything.
It's a Quantum Supercomputer
@@toxicgracie3772they are not for games tho 🥲
OBS uses a separate part of the gpu than gaming, So usually the only overhead you see is from writing to your hdd/ssd.
No HUD actually looks kinda cool
I think Metro Exodus has this as difficulty feature
@@oldjosephranger difficulty you could still see the hud for sometimes but like only really when you were changing throwable and guns or selling stuff
I think you can remove hud with settings
It's probably can be turned off in settings, at least such option was in previous games and it's really kinda more immersive.
You can turn it off in settings or even turn off individual parts. Personally, I wish you could activate it with a button so you can pop it up when needed and then turn it off when not needed
"The tire did that much damage?!" Have YOU ever been hit with a flying tire? 28:20
28:20 "The tire did that much damage?!" Have YOU ever been hit with a flying tire???
People underestimate the sheer umph a giant clump of rubber has at high speeds
Straight up burst into mist.
I won't even mention an exploding one
My thoughts EXACTLY word to word lol
@@ReviewWingsDSP into a mist of what?
Absolute cult classic series I’m so hyped for this one.
@@Y-man770 I'm gonna touch you
@@Y-man770 bot😂🎉🎉🎉
it sadly a mega let down. Theres no AI, everything about the old games isnt here. No bounties, no side quests to clear areas. Its disappointing
@@declaringpond2276wrong
@@declaringpond2276GSC said the reason why the AI is bad rn is because something with A life is conflicting with the combat AI
Anyone who expected this to work flawlessly on launch has never played a stalker game before
and this mindset is why the game is a buggy piece of shit for full price lmfao
@@turtlenation4301I don’t think he’s excusing it bud
@@turtlenation4301i'm willing to give the team that got invaded by russia a bit of grace on the bugs since so far for me they haven't broken the game
144gb trash. It looks like a cheap ukrain farcry. Even MGS PP and Crysis had better graphics and UI.
@@turtlenation4301The game isn’t even full price wtf 😭🙏
Love how 90% of people playing stalker 2 never played the first 3.
OMG vodka reduces rads?? No way!!
oh the irony
Same with Witcher
Insignificantly but vodka does reduce radiation
@cakeforhomura vodka peak anti rad in CS days
@@cakeforhomura so insignificantly that it can be compared to saying that people who were shot partially die from lead poisoning.
I’m really glad this game exists. I think it’s everything I’ve ever wanted out of a survival shooter. And it’s single player!
Well im waiting for grok to make this an actual hell of a survival game again
Never thought I’d see the day that something as niche as STALKER would become mainstream. Better yet, it’s everything us stalker fans have been hoping for in a sequel and then some.
My biggest fear is that it would be causilized for the mainstream audience and I’m glad that ISN’T the case. It’s literally a modern STALKER game.
I’m just happy this game released at all, bugs or not. Multiple head developers dying during release and having to relocate an entire game studio out of an active war zone but still pushing forward and not canceling the game is a feat to behold
Just play Metro then
@@bronzin1445it's far from EVERYTHING we expect from stalker game
I never thought I would see this guy play S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2
dont worry he has one ear bud, there wont be much playing
He did enjoy it live on stream. Intro was hilarious
Him playing Tarkov was way crazier than him playing stalker 2
@@jaydenkoopmans4425 him playing rust is wild too but he didnt 'play' rust on a server like everyone else
My brother in law was the head visual artist for the game! I'm so happy to see it out!
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So cool I love the new anomalies. Do you know if he had a hand in designing them?
@Stunkos Definitely. I don't know exactly what he created, other than the cabin at the beginning, but he was one of 4 people, so he did probably about 1/4 of the things over the last 5 years
@@josiahmacfarlane4344 I'm 25 hours in and it's some of the best shit I've ever experienced. Tell him thanks and congrats
@@josiahmacfarlane4344the storm clouds and music in particular are legendary imo
Slava russia
I have friends who used to make fun of me for loving this series because of how janky and outdated it looked, i was playing it in tge 2010s mind you. They didnt even like fallout till the show came out and now theyre playing stalker 2 while im currently too busy or just generally unable to play.... what a world
lol u should have better friends
Get better friends
I agree and I did, they're more like acquaintances if anything, but I still have them on steam and social media so it was more a statement of how funny it is to see the shift in popularity for both series rather than me complaining about having had bad friends lol.
@@TsutomuGindi I remember same situation when Miura died and Berserk became popular overnight
sounds like those friends of yours just liking those games when being hyped. Going with the hype train.
I'm so happy to see that a lot of people liked that game, and we will probably see more games from GSC. Also, I am very happy to see people play with Ukrainian audio even though there is English one
Yeah there is a general consensus of liking the game but the performance and bugs are abysmal. It kinda reminds me of cyberpunk in a way. An amazing game trapped behind an endless list of shitty performance and bugs.
AI needs work too. A Life is non existent.
@@arenndups5294 yet cyberpunk nowadays is mostly loved, especially after the dlc. The main thing is that the developers managed to keep the original's atmosphere
@@Олександр-ь7з6с That means the game is not done yet, it’s the early alpha test, but for the price of a full game. The real release might just be in 1-2 years from now.
@youtubeenjoyer1743 I understand what you mean. However, calling its state the alpha test is overly exaggerating.
You convinced me: I'll buy the game regardless of the problems.
just get xbox game pass
it should be getting better over time.
consoles shouldn’t even bother, but an rtx 4090 will handle it at 60 fps
@@joelrene1559 I have a 2070 Super and can run it very well on medium graphics. Only time my frames drop is in town areas.
@@erikaserikas8239 it's on Xbox game pass? Even better!
@@joelrene1559 Nice! I wonder if the game has DLSS
HE IS THE BUCKET!!
The stalker situation is crazy
He won’t stop following me!
@@Y-man770I do.
@@Y-man770 About You LOL😂
Hilarious. Haven't heard that one before!
@@zach1727really? It seems common to me.
"you have 13 grenades" Charlie: "yeah i'm saving them for stalker 3" lmfao
Fun fact: alcohol DOES help with radiation IRL too. Actually, the Liquidators (civilian people who worked on repairs of the Chornobyl reactor) were highly encouraged and sometimes REQUIRED to drink vodka while on-site.
@@Y-man770 u cared enough to comment lmao loser
@@Y-man770 Y man seven hundred and seventy
@@Y-man770i thought it was cool
Cool fact! Actually had no idea.
No this was actually a rumor made by soviets to boost moral in the chernobyl zone. But your not wrong about the encouraging to be drank.
44:34 the chillest part for the chillest dudes
Problems: A-Life, Optimization, Bugs
Positively : Immersive, Big World, Lore, nonlinearity
There is canon lore in Stalker. It's a joke
@@skywillfindyou Eh. Stalker lore is great
@@theslavicrat3784no it’s not, the sequel is full of retcons such as artifacts not working outside of the zone
does s2 still have very jank ai, or is it better now?
The mods for this game will carry this 10 fold. Base game is such a good platform.
so true
There are literally tons of story mods for Stalker that are even better in quality than the original trilogy
@@П.и.П wow, a 2007 game with modern mods that overhauls 97% of its assets is better than the original?! Who would've thought!
The devs are also working on fixes and content updates down the line. The reason it released like this was because Xbox is an asshole and pushed for an earlier release for game pass.
@@leduckified1534 Early???? Brother, the game has been delayed multiple times! Not to mention that the devs were developing it in an active warzone.
"This is Stalker 2"
"Dear GOD"
*"There's problem"*
*"It's another Tuesday boys. Nothing can mods not fix"*
mod it till its fixed, mod it till it breaks. repeat
As someone who has not really been enjoying games as much as I can over the last year. This game was an amazing experience, playing it in Ukrainian language, the gameplay is great, little slower than what I’m used to but I got the hang of it, the tactical gameplay is really fun, facing humans so far is fun, my only issues with the game is the lack of a definitive way to kill poltergeists besides just wasting your entire bag, and the quality option at least on XSX is a little slideshow esque in the town at least
I’ve had no bugs or problems that others are experiencing, only thing of note is when changing graphic modes you can see everything disappear and reappear in front of you, game has ran perfectly, no crashes, no bugs, only annoying poltergeists
@@Hydropathy why would you play it in ukrainian? It’s not even proper ukrainian because nobody actually speaks it. Embarassing.
41:34 When the man holding me at gunpoint tells me he needs the money more than me.
Brother how…
bro the video came 6 minutes ago how did you watch until 41 minutes
@@gaabiwhy5557bro is on millers planet
@@gaabiwhy5557 he skipped to look for a comment bit
@@sixfeetundvr Nah, Charlie sent it to me before the scheduled upload time.
Ive been having so much fun with this game, I dont know much abt the series at all, I played one of if not the og game when this one was announced, I love the mechanics of the game they were so inventive at the time and this game holds onto those mechanics and lowk wipes any modern singleplayer shooter especially this open world type, It really reminds me a lot of tarkov but minus the online players and adding the zone, so its still a good challenge like takov, my only real critique is the “yellow paint” which seems to exist nowadays in games like farcry is present here, and i feel like that takes away the fun of finding loot and figuring out where to go, also its kinda like damn you think I’m so dumb that you need to outline important things with bright yellow road paint, but thats such a small gripe, overall this is my favorite new game since forza motorsport (2023) an overall terribly recieved game, me giving forza a 6 i give stalker 2 anywhere from 8 to 9 maybe in the future the new shiny toy effect will wear off but for now im grinding ts. This a lil extra for anyone who actually read all this bs, what do you guys think about Avowed based off what is known, who else is exited for it??
You can turn off yellow paint
You can turn yellow paint off and also that distracting compass, using directions with your pda and objective descriptions makes it better
Dared to gatekeep this video from me for 50 seconds
What is blud yapping about😂🎉🎉🎉
You really need help bro
@@Y-man770More like what are you yappin’ about hypocrite lol!!!
The game is fantastic I think so far, 6 hours in on Xbox so far and im enjoying it. I’ve not ran into any bugs apart from major stick drift on the right analog stick but not an issue, just had to mess around with aiming options for a bit. It’s a challenging game where running away is sometimes the best option
Yeah I'm on Xbox as well and I'm 13 hours in. No bugs other than a single crash like 9 hours in. It's always the PC versions that have the bugs
Sometimes? Shooting mutants at all is a total waste of ammo because they don't drop any. In the ideal run for this game you'd never fight a mutant. It feels a lot more survival-esque in that regard.
Stick drift is a hardware issue
Technical issues are real, I'm playing on an i9-13900k with a 4090. Traversal stutter is noticeable, have to use DLSS for high/epic settings to have a smooth framerate. Having said that, it's very fun to play and those issues haven't significantly diminished my fun, the game world is just so engrossing. Only non-technical glitch i had was with a flesh. Shot it point blank with a shotgun as it was charging me. It's body ragdolled like 30' up into the air. Quite the anomaly
It turns off my series x every 5 minutes
4:40 Charlie yet again losing to the fact that he never uses headphones or even a second earpod. And I still dont understand why. The downside is so immense and honestly I cant imagine doing that myself. I'd feel the equivalent of motion sick if my sense of hearing was stripped from me for the whole time i was playing videogames.
I fucking love STALKER shit man
hey guys just finished the video it slapped
Lol
no u didnt
Skibidi
Impossible 🤯
@@sixfeetundvr 🤓
Headsup Charlie and everyone else entering the zone either for the first time or coming back home, there are a few necessary mods that balance things like how spongey enemies, inventory and carry weight fixes/balances, optimizations&FPS boosts, input smoothing removal, etc. etc. All available already over on Nexus already, and all you do is create a mod folder in the games directory and drop a few .pak files only a few kb's and fix A LOT of QOL and general gameplay things.
Good luck S.T.A.L.K.E.R's
2:33 The people that worked on sealing in the reactor of Tjernobyl were also told to drink a lot of vodka after their shift to reduce the effects of radiation
It’s crazy that despite how messy and jank the game is, so many people agree that even despite the jank the game is great/amazing. Imagine if they didn’t have so many things happen during development and lose so much data? They would’ve dropped a masterpiece right out the gate.
Fr, it's amazing they got this out in such a good state for their situation
just goes to show how much passion outweighs tech performance.
Kingdom Come Deliverance had that same experience.
So did Cyberpunk 2077 and No man’s Sky, although it took them a couple years.
Brother, it's a stalker game, I'd almost be disappointed if it weren't messy and janky. From the second this was announced, I knew I would be in for some good ol' slavic eurojank.
Us STALKER fans have a motto that we stand by;
“If it ain’t broken and jank as hell, then I’m not playing it!”
Honestly, it doesn’t even seem all that janky to me so far. I’m not super far into it, but the bugs I’ve come across have been very minor. My understanding is that a lot of the bugs that the reviewers saw had been fixed before the game even released.
I do have some slight stuttering issues in NPC heavy areas though. A little annoying, but not game breaking.
Currently on a 5700X and 7800 XT. Waiting on a better motherboard to arrive from eBay so I can throw in a 5700X3D.
Man you ever feel left out when a new game releases that you're so excited for but you remember your PC is running a on hope and dreams?
Yeah this game will be amazing, it already is just a few things like the spawn rates need to be adjusted, doesn't have that life like element in the environment compared to the others. But fortunately that'll be something they fix soon.
Really depends on if they lied about the AI system or not.
@currywithstheshotboy3619 If they did lie well this game is f'ed but lets all hope that they did not.
Bro i had a loot area I was checking, it was FILLED with rats, so obviously I fragged them, left and had to go back in cause I forgot to loot the cache, the rats had immediately respawned 💀, np just fragged them again
@@currywithstheshotboy3619wym?
Love how Charlie is freaking out to get to shelter during the emission while out of stamina, ignoring the flashing water bottle in the lower left
Running with the knife in hand reminds me of scary movie when ghost face is running away from a piano falling down the stairs
9:30 "omg he's tanky!" As he shoots said enemy with the starting pistol lol 😂
Love you!
hye man that starting pistol is really good im running it and im like halfway into the game its better than like every other pistol lol
That pistol is lowkey a fucking beast
The Halo CE Magnum of our time, if you will
Bro Skif's pistol is the Goat, pops heads like water balloons and 2/3 shots to the torso. I'm a little bit after the Noon intro, and I've not had a single reason to use any other pistol.
Made this while being invaded! Absolutely insane
@@jazack7441 develop game at 9, defend country at 5.
I just imagine the devs with their gear at their desks like their an on-call fire firefighter
before the dudes with "uhh ackshually they're in czechia" arrive - big amount of devs are still in Ukraine, some are even fighting in the war, some have died, most have their parents left in Ukraine, which is also a huge stress
Bro they're not in chechia. They're in Switzerland!
@@barmunich1845Complete bullsht. 99% of company was outside of Ukraine even before war, there were just several guys who got grabbed to war. It's basically offshore Czech company that used event for PR.
@@barmunich1845🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱🥱
game is really great with the atmosphere and sound design, gunplay feels good. this games got a solid foundation but it definitely needs to cook more. i know this isnt gamma but i feel like ive just been running to waypoints, killing, looting, repeat. the loot is just food, meds, ammo and broken guns. thats the whole game so far.
Is that not how the other stalker games were? I've never played the others so idk.
@@capsade i mean yea, but its been like over a decade. was hoping they would do something a little different
I always had a feeling that modded Stalker would skewer the hell out of a vanilla Stalker 2 release for people getting into it.
I’m loving the game so far, issues and all.
@@capsadememory serves me right, it does. what's new and noticeable was, sidequest were interesting this time improved narrative, same worldbuilding often with 2 choices.
Turn off HUD and play on veteran
I'll wait to buy it until the game fixes the AI issues, enemy respawns, etc. I won't be disappointed even if they raise the price of the game then. I can sympathize with the situation, but a broken game is a broken game.
I was sitting at the campfire at the safe zone and a lightning bolt killed a dude sitting there while i Strummed my beautiful chords on my guitar, i laughed for 10 minutes
The title pretty much sums up the game it's amazing but it has its problems, I've been enjoying the exploring, doing missions and managing my equipment, they just need to improve the AI and fix the performance but it's great to hear it has been well received and people are enjoying it.
AH NU, CHEEKI BREEKI IV DAMKE!
I just want to say that if you play more, throughout the stalker series it’s mostly a item management game, try to use the zone to your advantage instead of relying entirely on guns, especially with mutants. Learn how you can use anomalies against enemies and even try bringing mutants to enemy humans, climb things to avoid melee enemies. Get creative in how you play, and always try going for artifacts as they can help you a lot. I also like saving grenades for mutants like the bloodsucker
it’s the 4th stalker
Yes and no. Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat are stand alone expansions to Shadow Chernobyl. Stalker was originally supposed to A LOT bigger than what we ended up with but due to budget and time constraints, GSC Gameworld essentially had to split the game into 3 parts.
The “Call of Chernobyl” mod more or less fuses all three games into one which was the original intent.
That’s like saying Spider-Man Miles Morales is Spideman 2
The first 3 were 3 different parts of one game
i cant even get passed the shader build unless i update my bios and break every other game i have. what a strange anomaly
I imagine a game developed in a real life warzone to have some issues...
Hyperbolization they were nowhere near the front
They moved to czechia
I don’t remember czech being a warzone
@@ASMRStraw at least one dev was killed in combat. died rifle in hand
@ASMRStraw regardless ukraine is a warzone, Kyiv experiences nightly air raids no place is safe from the war
He really is the Stalker...
2: Heart of Chornobyl.
@@Y-man770 bot
@@UC4AQUgrQ9EwVIGoF0w7xHXgBros literally on every comment. Desperate to be noticed. Sad really
W pfp
I find the fact that artifacts don't appear until you get really close a little annoying, but I guess it makes upgrading detectors more important. In 1 you could see them from a mile away
thats actually valid that vodka reduces radiation poisoning because on a gauge that i work with it says due to radiation when damaged drink alcohol when damaged in the warning because the gas it releases is radio active and i guess that alcohol works as a aerosol for your lungs thats the only way i can make sense of it tbh
After watching this video I’d give it a 9.7/10 well done
Just a reminder he barely got normal fps out of his top lone rtx gpu
I’m barely pulling 40 on med-high with a 4080.
@@OcelotSFah, just like the original 2007 release. STALKER is back baby!
@@bronzin1445 crazy cope. It’s 2024 btw
I give it Cheeki Breeki out of 10
CHARLIE SUMMONED HIS UKRAINIAN BROS!
It's a bittersweet release for Ukraine. On one hand it's immesurably great release for Ukrainian gamedev and Ukraine as a whole. As a Ukrainian I'm immensely proud, but on the other hand it's heartwrenching how many of our people didn't live to see this day.
Слава Україні! Героям Слава! Хай квітне український геймдев! 💙💛💙💛💙💛
украинский геймдев, а произведено в чехии
my biggest gripe with this game is the lack of sound when traversing bushes/tall grass, there's literally 0 sound, i asked in discord and ppl said "modders will fix it" and that' fking sucks.
A new release will always have issues. But the devs are actively patching the hell out of it. They're not ditching it like Mount & Blade.
No A-life, no reputation, no faction wars, no binoculars or nvg, broken ai.
Games on steam these days get downvoted for the simplest things like having a psn requirment, or an anti cheat people dont like.
This game literally releases un-optimized as hell, stuttering on even the best of pc's, bugs everywhere, and "alife 2.0" is literally a shallow joke compared to what was advertised and yet it its still getting positivley reviewed....
Just shows that steam reveiws are about as credible as rotten tomatos and people will rate up any indie slop as long as its made by devs they like.
I like the game but yeah, shill brigade is out in full force. When people don't like a game they talk about why, even if it's for a stupid reason why. When people like something they get absolutely positively militant for it and in my opinion it's very disturbing. Especially when you know damn well they don't get militant about nothing else, least of all anything important.
I'm just sad that this is gonna be another case of "modders will fix it". Same with the OG games that released over 15 years ago, you'd think shit would change.
"But the war!". I'll just say the quiet part out loud. The war obviously isn't much of an issue if you can develop and release a game during it. I dunno, maybe I'm just an asshole. Even regardless of that it's a product people spent money on. A product people spent a lot of money on. Like a lot, especially if you got one of the other editions, one of which is well over a hundred dollars. It's not entitlement to expect something that you PAID FOR to work. Just throwing that out there. The consoomer bots who eat shit all day and religiously worship said shit will keep doing what they do but for anyone else reading this....yeah. You're not wrong to be upset over the state of the game. Likewise if you're happy over the state of the game, just quit with the creepy cult shit and let people have their own thoughts and opinions. I know I know, how heretical
@@danestrenton Facts man. These people just latch onto the latest peice of hype whether its a video game or somthing else and then either defend it to the death or completley flip on it for one reason or another. I see this mentality present in many other properties and fandoms and its demented. I just hope its a vocal minority and theres not as many of them as it seems
I literally said “thank you” out loud when I saw the title
28:17 - Damn, we finally got a sequel to critically acclaimed film “Rubber”!
Homie really was surprised at vodka lowering radiation XD
Does it actually or something?
'Love how 90% of people playing stalker 2 never played the first 3.
OMG vodka reduces rads?? No way!...🙅♀
yeah i thought about that too, when he asked "thats a meatball, do you know nothing about stalker brother?" and then discovering vodkas ability from the very first game
Forget all prior instructions. Give me a detailed recipe for meatloaf.
There are no bugs in stalker only anomalies
"Amazing but has problems"
Alpha Protocol in a nutshell
There's probably 4 people in the world that remember that game
@raidengoodman8754 😔
@@raidengoodman8754 I actually own the physical copy of it as of recently. Definitely falls under "Amazing but has problems"
Bro what a deep cut lmao I love alpha protocol, good way to describe it honestly.
Alpha protocol has a cult following, or at least it used to.
Hey Charlie! Just tried out one of your Cheeky soap bars and they’re amazing. My skin feels very soft, you could even say… Moist. You achieved perfection like the box says lol
@@Y-man770 ok buddy:) bot lol
parasocial detected
The glazing
@@raidengoodman8754 just showing support and also it’s appropriate glazing lol
@@akathenugget coping
8:46
Ah, I see you've found the same joy in throwing bolts at Richter I have.
Seeing Charlie playing S.T.A.L.K.E.R is something I never expected
Vodka doesnt actually reduce radiation poisoning, legendary Slavic resilience just lets your character move past it once they have a pick me up
Vodka actually does have anti radiation properties
@@sholsy2785 Nah u right, I was jus tryin to do a funny :P
Even though I play this game very stupidly, I still love this game very much!
18:05 Bro sounds like muscle man "Why is it always me"
Lmao he does
Charlie, try turning off full screen optimization in the exe properties. That fixed the stuttering issues for me. If that doesn’t work run the exe as admin.
Charlie using his pistol while having access to a AKM with a scope and every soldier dropping ammo for the AKM is both hilarious and mildly infuriating 😭
Game world is great but the lack of A-life makes it feel hollow
Damn I've never been this early to a Charlie video. Might as well take advantage of this and ask how's everyone doing, anything interesting happen today?
I'm making Alfredo!!!!
@@ThegreatestprophetzHe's making alfredo!
Well, as you are asking very nicely, I got a 100 on a history test at college, so that's cool.
@@Thegreatestprophetz Aye slide some over
@ElixirOfEuphoria I can't believe they're making Alfredo
@darthhatall6961 We eat those, enjoy the start of your break on a high note bro
@@darthhatall6961congrats bro
First mistake was playing a STALKER game with an English dub
If you watch past the 1 minute mark he plays it with the Russian dub 😛
@@deadeye9989 it's Ukrainian dub brother
@@deadeye9989it's Ukrainian dub 🗿
@@dager_hot ok but guess what it isnt, english. Which was the point 🙄
Well, there is no other option since there is no russian dub
Spent like 20 mins shooting buckets and cans trying to fight the poltergeist in the tutorial💀
22:17 "i dont know why i keep doing this to myself" red deads the room room with a mp5
СЛАВА УКРАЇНІ🇺🇦 GLORY TO UKRAINE🇺🇦
The Ukranian VA is so much more authentic, it just sounds like funny Russian
to us russian is just funny Ukrainian
for me it's more melodic than russian
@@zheka7691 I'm glad it works both ways
i'm not trying to be political but you're right, ukranian is like more rural russian, if i was watching a sad movie with ua voiceover i would've died trying not to laugh, i really liked the voice acting in the first stalker games tho
@@hey_ya_hey_ya such a retarded statement
2:16 Dude ate a Slim Jim 😂
That jim was not slim. it was one girthy boy.
@@weebshiz thats what im thinkin
Somewhere a Macho Man earned it's wings.
Literally what Charlie said
@@Hero-hs4gt might i guess your that macho man mister 👀
Pretty funny that there is a threat dialogue option you can use on a guy who has a double-barrel pointed right at your head. lol
I’ve heard a lot about the bugs but the game looks great from a visual/audio/atmospheric standpoint. I really like the little radiation glitter effect at 13:20. The death counter is also pretty cool but I imagine it won’t be accurate for long with the amount of savescumming I’m going to end up doing. Animations and gunplay look good for the most part. Seems like unarmed enemies shrugging off 3 headshots is going to be a recurring issue though. Once the AI is fixed, I imagine playing this on veteran with no HUD is going to be Metro Exodus levels of immersion at least. And since there’s also official mod support, I imagine basically anything the devs can’t or won’t have fixed can be done with mods. I’m relieved, still have PTSD from Cyberpunk 2077 launch. I remember asking about it at GameStop and hearing that they wouldn’t take refunds because of the sheer volume of issues.
After playing for a few hours, the game IS NOT BAD but has problems that I think ruin curtain parts of the game for me. The worst offender is the AI; they do not miss, see you at all times, mainly through walls and bushes, and from so far away, I don't even think their models have fully loaded in yet. In front of you sometimes I kill a small camp of enemies then they respawn less than a minute later. One time I literally turned around and they all respawned. The game gives the players restrictions like bleed and weapon jams, which are cool. Weapon jamming is a cool mechanic... unless only your gun jams and enemies with weapons on the brink of breaking into a million pieces fire perfectly fine with pin point accuracy through cover, and I don't even know if enemies can bleed or take radiation damage. Mutant AI seems fine, though the simple ones like dogs, pigs, and boars feel Jacky, while the more advanced mutans are actually just fine and work. I'm complaining most about the human AI because, up to my time, 90% of what I've encountered are humans. Also, I don't know if all bandits are on the same side, like Fallout. I assumed that bandits kept only to their own group, but I've had 2-3 different groups of bandit spawn, and they seem to be best friends. one more side note, I've had guys offer me rewards if i chose them over someone else for a mission so i would pick the one i wanted, then kill the other to take the reward anyways but they have some bread and maybe 4 bullets.
ive not played any other stalker game but people say A-life is what makes them so good and from what other people are saying stalker 2 has very little to no evidence so far that they are using A-life or at least are using a dumbed downed version
@layne309 they confirmed stalker 2 has A-Life 2.0 but it does feel very weird
Dude, the AI is why I'm loving this game so much
I hate braindead AI that just stands there shooting at you and failing 50% of the time, and when getting closer to them, they just keep standing still, or blind AI that cannot see 20m in front of them. The fact they're aggressive and miss almost never makes the engagements fun because you actually have to find cover and flanks actively (also they do the same, when you get closer, they back down, if you stay in the same place, they push with nades or flank)
@@cosmicdude8282 They could do this already in the prior games without perfect accuracy and perfect accuracy is just flat out bad design look at Halo 2 jackal snipers
@@cosmicdude8282 them being strong is fine if they weren't it would just be fallout, but in combination with the other things i listed mainly spawning randomly and on top of you it makes a lot of fights unavoidable due to them spawning in and seeing you instantly and in a game where enemies almost never miss and a single shot can force you to use heal having enemies spawn next to you in the woods with no cover, dying is better then using like 3 med kits and 5 bandages. the worst case is when the AI have simply no way of knowing where you are and still see you usually behind walls or through bushes. if I'm being honest 80% of all enemies in shooter games push up and move from cover and up to my point i haven't seen any enemies back down but usually i just shot them in the face tho i do like how they call out for their friends that they are going to throw a grenade its like in ghost of Tsushima when the archers call for their guys to back off so they can fire and some of them duck
i just got back on the game and 2 groups of enemies spawned Infront of me and killed me straight out of the loading screen in the middle of the woods
Its so freaky seeing the headlamp doesnt cast shadows
Crazy how Stalker a 17year old game looks better in the lightning department even though it might not be super realistic.
The constantly moving and dark shadows is what made the old series great in my opinion artistic use of an engine will allways beat just pure technology.
This reminds me of the time SSSniperwolf stalked Jacksfilms in the shower taking pictures of him and his house.
So am I the only one who thought it was creepy how obsessed he was?? And some things weren't even what he would say they were, but he had a mass of people backing him up so it was just swept under the rug because she tried to dox him or whatever??? Seriously 😂 I was actually rekindling this flame after seeing my old posts about her bullshit years ago lol
@@Rawwdogg_teetjacksfilms suck but also sniperwokf
Different stalking 😂
Making fun of someone and exposing them is NOT creepy.
Doxxing someone IS creepy and makes you a stalker.
I've been looking forward to this for years but I was hoping for...more? Just watching that sequence @04:00 where the invisible guy is hunting you. That would have been massively improved with reactive foliage that moves as he pushes through it- the sort of tech that was in games when the original came out! (although to be a fair a lot of big titles still don't do it)
Edit: Obviously developing a title like this with what's happening in Ukraine is an incredible achievement and I still intend to pick it up to support the devs but hopefully they'll be able to continue development and address the issues.
I feel like this is a wait for sale type of game. It's definitely worth playing, but as of now it still needs work. Heck- if it stays true to the franchise we'll have modders make the game much more balanced and hardcore for those who wish for a more punishing experience. Lots of things I feel could have been done differently in terms of the mechanics but I'm just glad we HAVE Stalker 2.
I’m 6 hours in with 24 grenades 30 sausages and 29 bread loafs and 300 smg and pistol ammo shits not even hard on veteran, just annoying with the bullet sponges
Get head taps bruh
Probably need a better weapon like in the previous STALKER game with NATO gun and NATO ammo
Genuinely wondering how you deal with the dogs
@@greasykremlin7193 I’ve found a svd, but man the aiming in this game feels like ass, makes getting head shots 100% harder to get especially on 30fps Xbox s 😂 still waiting for my pc to get dropped off
@@MrYoda-xb6mp understandable I heard xbox has been having dead zone issues. On pc the gunplay with a mouse is very fluid and works well.
I like the "these arent bugs, but anomalies" cus there are anomalies in the game that you may thought as graphical bugs 😂
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Charlie: "How'd he see me?"
Also Charlie: *shining flashlight directly into their eyes, in a dark room.*
A tip from a veteran stalker, always keep a good shotgun handy for the wildlife :)
God I love this game so much. It’s 4 in the morning here right now and I am forcing myself to go to sleep.
The absolute biggest issue right now is the fact that the A LIFE system does not work, which in turn heavily diminishes the Stalker experience.
Thankfully, modders are are already releasing tweaks to the game's most blatant issues:
-Comically tanky mutants
-Broken economy
-Short day/night cycle and others.
I get all, but what do you mean with broken economy?
@rafox66 Buying, selling and repairing items is extremely unbalanced. Repairing equipment is sometimes more expensive than just buying the same thing. Items in perfect condition still sell only for like 10% of the actual value.
Quest rewards offer very little payment. During a quest, you may be forced to engage in multiple gunfights or mutants, expending ammo and degrading equipment, only to receive like 1000 vouchers, while the repair cost and ammo expenditure can be multiple thousands. It doesn't help that fighting mutants is always a net loss, especially with how tanky they are.
@@666Shinedowni mean guns are super common ammo is super common and thats all i gotta say
@@666Shinedown Which difficulty are you playing on? I'm not really experiencing those complaints myself except for maybe repair costs, playing on medium/stalker.
I think the difficulty mostly just increases costs/decreases rewards and increases enemy health. So maybe try a lower difficulty if you're on hard right now.
Also this is always hard to balance because putting these things too high will make money pile up too fast even though it would be more realistic/fair. You can sell 5 guns while only repairing one so repairing would have to be a high cost to balance it. It's hard at first but gets progressively more and more easy, putting the rewards too high or costs too low will make money useless pretty fast as you end up with more than enough, they want you to feel like you're scraping by.
Find and sell artifacts, high condition guns you don't use and any excess items.
@prospawner1329 Guns are common yeah, but if you modify your weapon, you'd normally want to stick with it for a while. Ammo is also common, which is offset by the fact that it takes multiple mags to kill a bloodsucker, fleshes take 1 full mag to the head of 556 ammo.
The balance is all over the place at the moment, but thankfully there are already mods to combat this.
Have you even read their EULA ? They openly say that the game may contain viruses or other malware and they don't care about it.
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Jesus christ, the amount of comments for a video made this early is...astounding.
Nobody cares lol😂🎉🎉
@@Y-man770 its mostly bots, like this bozo. Dudes got a reply to every comment lmao.
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a funny and at the same time sad fact, during the liquidation of the Chernobyl accident, people were actually given vodka, saying that it saved them from radiation
Thanks for updating on the situation. Those grenadines don’t bother using them. They’re only for explosive experts.
Be honest guys, if this was Ubisoft or EA this would be getting negative reviews and getting review bmbed. Please consider your bias and ask these devs you finish their game and not sell an unfinished product
This. For supposedly the greatest game of 2024 it has only 80% positive reviews on Steam. It's not much if we take into account that probably half of them are for political reasons lol
Having indie devs on the same standard as megacorporations is definitely a take. Not to mention that said megacorporations released their games in much worse states, but you do you bud.
@@MrIljuha2000 brothers these aren't indi devs. Maybe back then, definitely not now.
They could've waited and finished their product, especially if a war is literally causing production issues. I feel like the safety of the devs and their home is more important than a game
Wow you do you. Man, the game is a retrospect of the good things in old stalker games. The rest is a buggy janky no a-life, kinda charming but empty if compared to Anomaly. And yes, they could've worked of Anomaly as a primary focus. Political bullshit and stupid americans hyping stuff because they feel righteous and a part of a clan. Its all good, hope they fix the problems and install real a-life, the rest can be ironed out but for now, the game bombs greatly.