*IMPORTANT TO KNOW* The MOLD ARTIFACT very slightly reduces your resistance to radiation. If you killed the quest NPC to keep it, sell it off for 1125 money! If you gave it to the NPC, you're golden! -BoomstickAlex
I have a dinky little channel, I streamed yesterday on Xbox Series S.... if you want to see what it's like... also, I have no problem, and give full permission if you want to use some of my content, to do a comparison... up to you, but I thought I'd respond, as you asked, here you can just see for yourself... I found it fine... but I'm hardly an expert... cheers...
If you place all of your gear in the safe in the house where you place the last sensor during the prologue. You can come and back and get it after you wake up. So you can keep the m4 and the AK
Heres a little tip for you: At the start of the game pick up everything you can before you put down the charger thing at the third objective, after that drop everything in a safe place(doesnt matter where to my knowledge but be able to acces it) after that activate the objective get captured and get out of the anomaly run back to where you stashed your things and you can get them back early.
By the spot where you place the emitter for the third time in the prologue, directly behind you there's a large building. Before placing the emitter, skirt around the building to the right where you'll see a broken window where you can jump through into a room which has a large blue safe. You can store some items in that. If you run out of space and still have more stuff to stash, return to the emitter placing locating and face the large gate with the tower behind it. Walk forward and to the right and you will enter a small garage space with a broken jeep in it. To the left of that jeep is a smaller blue safe which can hold a few more items. After you place the emitter watch the cut scene careful and determine where the shots come from, you may want to visit that spot when you go back to collect your stored gear.
at the third scan position dont start to scan, POut your complete inventory into the safe, that is in the house at this scan location. you can pick back up all that youve put there after a certain event.
Playing on series S, and I’m absolutely shocked at how great its running. Better than starfield in performance which doesn’t say a lot but it feels pretty good. Some odd stick drift that’s not coming from any of my controllers though.
@ if you’re aiming down sight while walking and barely touch your right stick left it seems to just go rogue. I tested my controllers and everything and it’s not from them so it has to be the game freaking out for some reason lol
@@iiGraySquirrel that is honestly such a relief to hear 😅 thought I was gonna have to buy a new controller for this game. Other than this issue tho I absolutely love the game so far!!
@ same man, I’ve tried two different controllers that have no drift in the tester or any other game and they both do it but differently. So I think it’s a dead zone thing that they really need to add to the options. Only issue I’ve had too love the game so far
Still one of the best games I have played. Is it perfect? Not at all, realistically no game is perfect but is it what we needed? Fuck yeah. There's a reason the entire S.T.A.L.K.E.R series is held on such a pedestal and it's because of the depth of the systems, just hidden mechanics waiting for you to find them in the dead of the night. Bravo GSC, bravo. I look forward to the progression of this beast and wasting my free time away in The Zone.
Great tips, I learned a lot👍 Xbox review; I’m fortunate enough to have a very fancy TV with VRR and after tuning the HDR a bit I’ve played just over 5 hours on XSX in performance mode and it’s been creamy smooth with zero stutters. One dude claims that it fluctuates between 50 and 60fps on Series X but if so then VRR is totally hiding that from me. Very smooth. 2 bugs so far were sound dropping out once when talking to Warlock and every time I pressed X to talk to this one dude who was doing pushups he hopped up… and then dropped straight back down to continue pushups. I love SOC and Pripyat and this is just what I hoped for. Just watched your video at 2160p, 60hz I can’t tell any difference in graphics setting or quality but I know Digital Foundry will be able to zoom in side-by-side and show me heaps of PC improvements but on TH-cam with its compression watching you PC guys my eyes can’t tell any differences at all even pausing and looking right up close. So I’m sure playing on a hot PC in person would blow my mind but it’s still really good on XSX. So far it always looks great and looks absolutely stunning at times. I get some guys are getting lots of bugs so I understand their complaints but I’m in heaven. Normal difficulty is proving to be hard enough for me for my 1st run and with no reticle I feel like I’m totally in The Zone😎🤓
Thanks for video. You skipped right past the bit i was hoping to see. After you kill the first 3 human enemies theres some invisible thing pounding you. Any tips on that? I cant seem to see it at all and get killed in seconds.
You can get the toz through a side quest given by the tech in beginning area. You’ll eventually encounter some not nice people through the quest holding them
Pretty ridiculous the amount of people saying how it’s plagued with bugs. Haven’t had one single issue. Oh wait the bartender was cleaning the bar but a cup was stuck to his hand. Whole game is trash nvm.
For players with weak PCs: try Stalker Anomaly. It only looks like a big mod, but it's a game (free). And it has everything Stalker 2 can offer, except for modern graphics.
console seems to be doing ok! i see some people having performance issues in the xbox reviews. but my game play has been a good experience so far! so glad this came to console!! good video!! thanks for all the great info! it helped on console as well!
Haha I had windows ME as well! It actually wasn’t bad, I was like 10 or 11 or something so I don’t remember too well, but I feel like it was a budget edition for sure haha. Even though it came out after 2000. All my friends had 2000 and we had ME, and I feel like I was always getting viruses and stuff and my friends never did (but I was downloading roms and stuff back then and my friends knew nothing about computers) it makes sense in hindsight, I just checked online and it was apparently known for having instability issues 😂. Oh well! It worked lol
Never played a stalker game , i have played Metro and all souls games but this game was the most punishing opening to a game ive ever played. I play on the middle difficulty, o forget what its called. But by the time i was placing my 3rd becon ,about 9 deaths later and reasing trough the damn tutorial 3 or 4 x i restarted and went through it no prob. Its quite a learning curve and people not use to games where youre getting your ass handed to you left and right until you get firmilar with the game will probably put it down. Literally counting down hours at work so i can get back into it
Hi, just started watching, very good commentary thanks. Recalling other stalker commercial games and mods, often mutant parts are worth collecting; are they available in Stalker 2, please? Regards JB
I love that I cannot even progress in the game at all. I have no bolts. Can’t pick up the one thing at the start of the game after you pick up the anomaly.
I play on Xbox on gamepass. It’s awesome! I notice this stick drift only happens when realistic out of stam while trying to move and aim. I don’t think it’s stick drift but more real life movement
I have 1 complaint, the day/night cycle is way too fast for me. I just start vibing on the night and the sun comes up, then I start really enjoying the sights and the sun goes down. WAY too fast. For me.
Hey there boomstick. I picked up that first ar and equipped it in my inventory but i can't use it.What am i doing wrong here? Could you help me out pls or anybody? Thx for the video and grts...
Potato potato. Some languages like french don't make a difference between a shotgun and a rifle. They both have long barrels and aren't a handgun/pistol.
How do you walk in a straight line? I’m playing on Xbox series X and I cannot walk in a straight line. Anytime I move forward it’s at kind of an angle.
About the console performance....I'm playing it on my crappy lil series s and the graphics are a lil blurry and just not very crisp, I'm sure series x is clean but the controls on this is very touchy, like simply putting my thumb on the stick will make you zig and zag lol but I'm loving the actual game
I'm trying to enjoy this game but it's just doing nothing for me. I hate when I have to force myself to keep going in a game and waiting for something to change my mind.
I want to like this game but the janky Ai and apongy enemies are ruining the immersion for me. Enemies seem to be able to see you far far too easy and every fight devolves into you just healing through it. Also every attack causing bleed is just tedious.
Windows ME wasn't budget windows it was just similar to Windows 2000 (but more like windows 9X. 2000 was the business edition). I've used every version of Windows that's came out (including server versions / NT). Windows ME, 2000, vista are the worst.
I've been watching gaming reviews on this game but as soon as I saw that fortnite type of setup what your weapons and all that and that call of duty setup I'm not digging that set up no more I crap looks like a pain to deal with lol I'm good I'll pass game looks good though but not for me
Wow the Controller and keyboard and mouse feel is absolutely horrific on console, this isn't a oh it's janky issue this is a it's absolutely fucked and literally unplayable, haven't found anyone talking about it, especially since all these TH-camrs have had the game for a week
*IMPORTANT TO KNOW* The MOLD ARTIFACT very slightly reduces your resistance to radiation. If you killed the quest NPC to keep it, sell it off for 1125 money! If you gave it to the NPC, you're golden! -BoomstickAlex
I have a dinky little channel, I streamed yesterday on Xbox Series S.... if you want to see what it's like... also, I have no problem, and give full permission if you want to use some of my content, to do a comparison... up to you, but I thought I'd respond, as you asked, here you can just see for yourself... I found it fine... but I'm hardly an expert... cheers...
If you place all of your gear in the safe in the house where you place the last sensor during the prologue. You can come and back and get it after you wake up. So you can keep the m4 and the AK
Heres a little tip for you:
At the start of the game pick up everything you can before you put down the charger thing at the third objective, after that drop everything in a safe place(doesnt matter where to my knowledge but be able to acces it) after that activate the objective get captured and get out of the anomaly run back to where you stashed your things and you can get them back early.
Damn wish i knew that 😭
Is there a container to put the stuff in? Or just drop it all on the ground?
Get off the game to answer this gentleman ^above
By the spot where you place the emitter for the third time in the prologue, directly behind you there's a large building. Before placing the emitter, skirt around the building to the right where you'll see a broken window where you can jump through into a room which has a large blue safe. You can store some items in that. If you run out of space and still have more stuff to stash, return to the emitter placing locating and face the large gate with the tower behind it. Walk forward and to the right and you will enter a small garage space with a broken jeep in it. To the left of that jeep is a smaller blue safe which can hold a few more items. After you place the emitter watch the cut scene careful and determine where the shots come from, you may want to visit that spot when you go back to collect your stored gear.
It's worked, but I still strangely lost a few guns
at the third scan position dont start to scan, POut your complete inventory into the safe, that is in the house at this scan location.
you can pick back up all that youve put there after a certain event.
There is a free ak with a psu scope near the town on a thin silo or whatever that thing is
I love the fact you can take the ammo from loot instead of having to pick it up
Playing on series S, and I’m absolutely shocked at how great its running. Better than starfield in performance which doesn’t say a lot but it feels pretty good. Some odd stick drift that’s not coming from any of my controllers though.
Okay so the stick drift isn’t just me!!! Thank god I thought I was going crazy 😂
@ if you’re aiming down sight while walking and barely touch your right stick left it seems to just go rogue. I tested my controllers and everything and it’s not from them so it has to be the game freaking out for some reason lol
@@iiGraySquirrel that is honestly such a relief to hear 😅 thought I was gonna have to buy a new controller for this game. Other than this issue tho I absolutely love the game so far!!
@ same man, I’ve tried two different controllers that have no drift in the tester or any other game and they both do it but differently. So I think it’s a dead zone thing that they really need to add to the options. Only issue I’ve had too love the game so far
Same with me my stick doing it also
Been playing for a few hours now and im loving the game!
The performance is better than i expected. And im completely immersed. Havent seen a bug yet.
Still one of the best games I have played. Is it perfect? Not at all, realistically no game is perfect but is it what we needed? Fuck yeah. There's a reason the entire S.T.A.L.K.E.R series is held on such a pedestal and it's because of the depth of the systems, just hidden mechanics waiting for you to find them in the dead of the night. Bravo GSC, bravo. I look forward to the progression of this beast and wasting my free time away in The Zone.
Finally someone with some sense. Gamer internet is filled with spazzes. I'm having a blast rn
The game wants you to go left...... Go right.......just gamer instinct NEVER go where you're told bc possible loot
Good on series s. Ive seen very little fps issues so far.
Awesome to hear !
Great tips, I learned a lot👍
Xbox review;
I’m fortunate enough to have a very fancy TV with VRR and after tuning the HDR a bit I’ve played just over 5 hours on XSX in performance mode and it’s been creamy smooth with zero stutters.
One dude claims that it fluctuates between 50 and 60fps on Series X but if so then VRR is totally hiding that from me. Very smooth.
2 bugs so far were sound dropping out once when talking to Warlock and every time I pressed X to talk to this one dude who was doing pushups he hopped up… and then dropped straight back down to continue pushups.
I love SOC and Pripyat and this is just what I hoped for.
Just watched your video at 2160p, 60hz I can’t tell any difference in graphics setting or quality but I know Digital Foundry will be able to zoom in side-by-side and show me heaps of PC improvements but on TH-cam with its compression watching you PC guys my eyes can’t tell any differences at all even pausing and looking right up close.
So I’m sure playing on a hot PC in person would blow my mind but it’s still really good on XSX.
So far it always looks great and looks absolutely stunning at times.
I get some guys are getting lots of bugs so I understand their complaints but I’m in heaven.
Normal difficulty is proving to be hard enough for me for my 1st run and with no reticle I feel like I’m totally in The Zone😎🤓
I wish you could perform fun stealth kills and that the dogs and invisible monster were not bullet sponges.
You can perform Stealth kills on the humans if you equip the knife.
@@Draclord35this
Windows ME, its an old code, but it checks out...
played warcraft II on my friends PC with windowsME.
Thanks for video. You skipped right past the bit i was hoping to see.
After you kill the first 3 human enemies theres some invisible thing pounding you.
Any tips on that? I cant seem to see it at all and get killed in seconds.
Run from the invisible thing and come back later
I've since learned that toying with the radio gets a response and you can take it out then.
But the reward wasn't worth it so yeah... I ran on by
This happened to me, too 😭💀
Him; I’m playing on veteran
Me; Yeah me too…💀
Forgot about this gaming honestly. was stoked when I saw it initially. Thanks for the video! Probably gonna pick up this weekend.
Great tips, had no idea how to open the medic boxes with the knife, I thought they were static!
Your channel disappeared from my feed for the last year. Still subbed still bell on. All the sudden here you are. So wild.
weird. I've put out tons of stuff this year
Console looks extremely similar, I am playing on my aw monitor Xbox series x. I may have to get it on pc as well. Love the video.
You can get the toz through a side quest given by the tech in beginning area. You’ll eventually encounter some not nice people through the quest holding them
Pretty ridiculous the amount of people saying how it’s plagued with bugs. Haven’t had one single issue.
Oh wait the bartender was cleaning the bar but a cup was stuck to his hand. Whole game is trash nvm.
same here, i keep hearing about the terryfying bugs while encountering maybe 5 very minor ones
The performance isn't perfect, but I can't stop playing it regardless! I'm very grateful for this 🙏
Yea, no big bugs on my end. I honestly don't mind bugs if the fun factor is well beyond what they detract
@@BoomstickGaming im having a BLAST so far, been playing for 13hrs already and it is a treat of a game
Well done and thank you
If you don’t loot prologue you can go back as far back as you can after you wake up
Can anyone confirm this? How far back can you go?
Just put everything in the safe then take all your loot after you wake up
Do we get are gear back after being knocked out at the end of intro?
Your gear goes away but you can find other gear
If you place it in the safe before the cutscene you can go back and get it.
For players with weak PCs: try Stalker Anomaly. It only looks like a big mod, but it's a game (free). And it has everything Stalker 2 can offer, except for modern graphics.
console seems to be doing ok! i see some people having performance issues in the xbox reviews. but my game play has been a good experience so far! so glad this came to console!! good video!! thanks for all the great info! it helped on console as well!
Great video! Nice for making it.
I need a new monstaaa huntaaaa video
I used up all my footage in my video 2 weeks ago! NEEED MORE ACCESS TO WILDS!
@BoomstickGaming oof
Haha I had windows ME as well! It actually wasn’t bad, I was like 10 or 11 or something so I don’t remember too well, but I feel like it was a budget edition for sure haha. Even though it came out after 2000. All my friends had 2000 and we had ME, and I feel like I was always getting viruses and stuff and my friends never did (but I was downloading roms and stuff back then and my friends knew nothing about computers) it makes sense in hindsight, I just checked online and it was apparently known for having instability issues 😂. Oh well! It worked lol
Windows ME users RISE UP!!
Never played a stalker game , i have played Metro and all souls games but this game was the most punishing opening to a game ive ever played. I play on the middle difficulty, o forget what its called. But by the time i was placing my 3rd becon ,about 9 deaths later and reasing trough the damn tutorial 3 or 4 x i restarted and went through it no prob. Its quite a learning curve and people not use to games where youre getting your ass handed to you left and right until you get firmilar with the game will probably put it down. Literally counting down hours at work so i can get back into it
Hi, just started watching, very good commentary thanks. Recalling other stalker commercial games and mods, often mutant parts are worth collecting; are they available in Stalker 2, please? Regards JB
I love that I cannot even progress in the game at all. I have no bolts. Can’t pick up the one thing at the start of the game after you pick up the anomaly.
just walk around it avoidng the anomaly lmao. you get the bolts later.
Damn this helped me sooooooo😮much
I play on Xbox on gamepass. It’s awesome! I notice this stick drift only happens when realistic out of stam while trying to move and aim. I don’t think it’s stick drift but more real life movement
Seirs s. The little white xbox. Its been running well
hydro ammo doe more damage to mutants.
Who wants to tell him he's cooking himself with that artifact at the end of the video?
I know. I sold it!
I LOVE BOOMSTICK GAMING
Is this a follow on from the older stalkers?
I have 1 complaint, the day/night cycle is way too fast for me. I just start vibing on the night and the sun comes up, then I start really enjoying the sights and the sun goes down. WAY too fast. For me.
ME was just millennium edition because it was released on or just before the year 2000
Hey there boomstick.
I picked up that first ar and equipped it in my inventory but i can't use it.What am i doing wrong here?
Could you help me out pls or anybody?
Thx for the video and grts...
My man called a shotgun a rifle. But I get it 😂
Potato potato. Some languages like french don't make a difference between a shotgun and a rifle. They both have long barrels and aren't a handgun/pistol.
The game calls it a rifle. I called it what the game calls it
Xbox Series X here.... I've lost the ability to sprint after dying and save being reloaded.
I did to but it came back short after I just walked normally and jumped and my Sprint came back idk just what I experienced
This in THAT type of video where I can say ' I wish I knew before...' :(
Can we not do anything with broken weapons besides pay a small fortune to repair them?
i have a question. how did u keep alll ur stuff at 440min mark and how is it day? all my stuff was taken, and its night.
He stored in a stash before he put down the 3rd thing in the prologue
How do you walk in a straight line? I’m playing on Xbox series X and I cannot walk in a straight line. Anytime I move forward it’s at kind of an angle.
About the console performance....I'm playing it on my crappy lil series s and the graphics are a lil blurry and just not very crisp, I'm sure series x is clean but the controls on this is very touchy, like simply putting my thumb on the stick will make you zig and zag lol but I'm loving the actual game
I felt the same on the series x about the controls so I turned the sensitivity way down and that helped
I'm trying to enjoy this game but it's just doing nothing for me. I hate when I have to force myself to keep going in a game and waiting for something to change my mind.
Can we upgrade carry storage
I want to like this game but the janky Ai and apongy enemies are ruining the immersion for me. Enemies seem to be able to see you far far too easy and every fight devolves into you just healing through it. Also every attack causing bleed is just tedious.
He says dont miss the assault rifle and i missed it😂. I dont see where he shows if
boy is looting 😂😂😂 6.13
Should you sell things like PDA's for extra $$$?
Ok were u find that gun
The Debut Suit wasn’t there for me…
Interesting.
Console controls are clunky. The deadzone is way too high and there is no way to adjust it.
Windows ME wasn't budget windows it was just similar to Windows 2000 (but more like windows 9X. 2000 was the business edition). I've used every version of Windows that's came out (including server versions / NT). Windows ME, 2000, vista are the worst.
I knew 0 people who had ME when i was growing up lol
I like this game
Thx
how do you turn on the flash light in the game
Rb button
How to switch firing modes on xbox?
Don't buy that rifle you can find a better one in the north and spend money to repair it
Shouldn't this guide start AFTER the tutorialized intro, since you lose your gear? everything in the tutorial is useless, no?
Store your gear in the building safe and you lose nothing.
I've been watching gaming reviews on this game but as soon as I saw that fortnite type of setup what your weapons and all that and that call of duty setup I'm not digging that set up no more I crap looks like a pain to deal with lol I'm good I'll pass game looks good though but not for me
Anyone else having trouble rebinding keys? Idk what physcopaths are okay with z and c to lean lmao
Swap lean to Q and e and put the consumables on z and c
@ its just not applying, i tried a few times last night. Ill try again tonight though
It’s not a rifle, it’s a shotgun…
tell the devs. I called it what the game lists it as
Was that diddy at 6:10 ? Very frightening
I've been playing GAMMA for so long I forgot what the OG Stalker menu looked like
Never mind haha i found it duh 😂
On veteran I'm on easy. N I'm stuck on a mission easy mode is no diff than reg difficulty game is way to hard
I died a lot on medium mode but then I just started to go really slow. Like way slow in the first side mission and that helped. Happy stalking!
Wow the Controller and keyboard and mouse feel is absolutely horrific on console, this isn't a oh it's janky issue this is a it's absolutely fucked and literally unplayable, haven't found anyone talking about it, especially since all these TH-camrs have had the game for a week
must be a you thing
Sorry bruh probably just you lol if no one else is really talking about it😊
I’m playing on the series s and I’ve had no problems so far
Yeah there is alot of imputs sure, but they did it right for controller. Just gotta experiment a bit
Ppl been talking about it. There's awful drift on controller due to the dead zone being 0 in-game. It's supposed to be getting patched for it soon.
Thos comment section is like two videos worth of tips thanks boys
Heres a tip get ahead of the game and just dont play this garbage. I have never been so bored playing a game in my life.
That's a you problem I'm running the game fine over 60 fps and no bugs
LsComment
Found the COD player
But you die and lose everything after the prologue.
You don't die you get robbed