>Complete garbage enemy soldier AI that can see you in pitch black through 100 meters of ray traced realistic brush, but they just add damage fall-off so it's not a 'problem'
>Bloated story that was 4x longer than it needed to be
>Soundtrack leaves me completely 'whelmed' compared to the first game
>Horrible bossfights
>Not enough guides and bases so the stamina system just becomes a mandatory time sink between cool places that you want to see
Every time an immersive-sim game series goes open world it just becomes complete flaming dogshit

Yea. Everyone who bought it and was a stalker fan got scammed.

Really just thank putin for bombing them. They ruined the stalker series with unplayable unreal slop with no resemblance to the original game, they get what they deserve.

>if you criticize this game you are russian
This is a great tactic

>Chornobyl

Why haven't they fixed the spelling error yet?

>>712767303
When the game launched all discussion was either Russians mindlessly hating it or Ukrainians mindlessly praising it.
I blame their shitty war for ruining Stalker 2 being good by muddying up all feedback throughout development and even now as it still updates.

Here's hoping modders can do something with it unlike Starfield

>>712766993 (OP)
>immersive-sim game series
wrong videogame series then anon
stalker games were always just simple fps games

>>712766993 (OP)
>Run off the road for 5 seconds
>Enemy patrol spawns at the edge of your minimap and already knows you're there

>>712767782
>Simple FPS
>Inventory systen with multiple layers of weapon, armor stats and item stats
No brain

could be worse, could be Metro Gayxodus

>>712766993 (OP)
was gunna argue but then i remembered i have 20 mods installed to make the game playable

>>712767672
>modders
They can't.

>>712766993 (OP)
>Enemies always shoots at you and you can't do anything about it because you suck at fending for yourself

Literally git gud faggot.
Get better armor, a good weapon, and aim better. Problem solved.

>>712773641
No I'm saying that damage falloff is band-aid style game design, bullets should do the same damage over distance and enemies should just miss more often

>>712766993 (OP)
It wasn't perfect but I enjoyed it as a fan since 2008 that also played tons of CoC, Gamma and of course I am also a Dead Air chad. You guys are just fags. I have a 4090 so maybe that's why I was able to enjoy it without the awful performance experience on top of the bugs. AI and ALife is easily for me the most glaring problem but everything else it does I was pretty happy with. Sucks but they've been improving it over updates. Its a pretty ok game that with some more updates and proper mods/tweaks could be god tier. And GSC claims those are both part of the plan for stalker 2.

Holy shit someone else started a thread about this game. Currently playing it, currently loving it. Great atmosphere, incredibly immersive, and probably the best looking game I've ever seen.

>>712774801
youll start hating it in roughly 6 hours if that screenshots yours. the last 3rd of the game is a horrible slog of unfun

>>712774801
Why aren't you in the trenches? What part of "too the last man," didn't you understand?

>>712774939
The screenshot is indeed mine. I've spent about 20 hours in the game but I'm unsure how far I have progressed in the story. Spend most of my time wandering around and just exploring areas. What is unfun about the last third of the game?

>>712774365
this game doesn't need a good GPU, it needs a good CPU

>>712766993 (OP)
>>Bloated story that was 4x longer than it needed to be
I hard disagree it needed to be chunky to flesh out all the endings and their affiliated characters.
It's the gameplay that makes it feel bloated since you are just running from one objective to another.
Of course the game itself tries its hardest to demystify the Zone as hard as it can while pulling every single fanservice zinger from the trilogy, in the process making some bizarre retcons that make the Clear Sky story dementia-core.
Oh and Skif, eh I don't think he should have been voiced.

>>712766993 (OP)
The game reached its peak with analmeme, gameplay wise. I don't know why people expected consolized farcry in the zone to be better. Story wise it had nothing going for it after the first game. The other two add nothing and feel like fan fiction.

>>712776074
I have a amd ryzen 7 7800X3D and 32gb ram so that also probably helps

>>712775217
A lot of running across the map doing errand boy shit for no reason, scripting breaks hard after a certain storybeat which irreversibly fucks the game's progression and enemy ai up, everyone starts running around with exos so you'll be dumping half your ammo supply every engagement, faust becoming a character you're forced to interact with, and in classic stalker fashion the last hour or so of the game is just complete abysmal dogshit with no redeeming qualities

>>712766993 (OP)
>v/ hyped this for a decade
kek