>still no A life
>still no NVG
>still no binoculars

no refunds
it looked shit and you still bought it

>>713075913 (OP)
one of the most anticipated games that failed so horribly at launch that it was forgotten about in like 10 days.

If I ever play it, I'll pirate it or buy it extremely cheap

CSG can suck my asshole after what they did to the original trilogy. Petty niggers

>>713075982
kinda like game of thrones where it was forgotten over night, i think both of these cases should be studied because of how brutal the fall off was

>>713075913 (OP)
>still no A life
never getting added
>still no NVG
might get added
>still no binoculars
never getting added because there won't be a-life and everything spawns within 100 meters of you, so you won't need binoculars.
they overtuned the bullet drop on every gun to compensate for this and make the distances seem longer, you have to aim for the 3rd notch on the pso with the as val to hit a shot at a 100 meters, meaning it's zeroed for around 35 meters, lmao

>>713076479
kek what a shitshow

>>713075913 (OP)
the originals were shovelware and stalker was never good. the only reason /v/ deluded themselves into liking it is because they wanted a grittier more serious apocalyptic survival game than fallout but no one is making one that's actually good

modded fo4 is a better stalker 2

Isn't it curious how every criticism of this game comes from Russians?

>>713076708
and gamma players

>>713075913 (OP)
>Still the worst NPC combat ai I have ever seen

>>713076708
>>>/pol/
shut up

>>713076770
and og stalker players
or anyone with taste and common sense really

>>713076667
The series really was carried by the gritty atmosphere and later on by the modding community.
If someone managed to make a game that is even marginally better with the same sort of atmosphere, it would immediately dethrone stalker, but seems like investors aren't interested in this sort of a gamble so the only people even going for something in the same vein are indies like road to vostok for example.
Kinda hard to beat years upon years of mods as well.

>>713076851
calm down Ivan
Stalker 2 is just a decent-to-mediocre underwhelming game, not the absolute shit you claim it to be
maybe if you didn't invade Ukraine they could make a better product

>>713075913 (OP)
Imagine waiting over a decade to just get a worse version of an already-released game. Embarrassing.

>>713076983
>-mediocre underwhelming game,
cope harder ivan

>>713077097
you understand that pretending to not be russian won't get you those shilling rubbles, no?

>stalker 2 is full of bugs and has meh gameplay
>just like the other three stalker games GSC released
>secondaries lose their shit because they only ever played highly modded versions (probably complete edition too)
The funny part is people complaining about the performance are also underage b&.

>>713075913 (OP)
It's not STALKER it's a Fallout 4 mod

>>713077156
stalker 2 is kino, ziggy

>>713075982
>most anticipated
By PC retards maybe, those people that literally worship games when they are clunky, unfinished crap with shit graphics.
Only PC faggots could have bought enough copies of this shit franchise to warrant this game.

Stalker games are just alpha builds of Metro games, games that are actually finished, polished and dont require 200GB of mods that only add immersive shitting and pissing mechanics.

>>713077213
fallout 4 has functional a-life

>>713077213
Fallout 4 had better gunplay than Stalker games. Way better mods too.
Hell, Fallout 4 modded into Stalker is the best Stalker game of all.

>>713077367
>>713077371
this poster is ukrainian

>>713076907
Or maybe is because there's no potential for sales since only a handful of slavic PC faggots who dont even buy games care about this franchise.

>>713077185
>muh underage
>completely ignores the fact that ogs were good games despite the jank
>nugame is soulless shit bathed in jank

>>713077367
It doesn't, but A Life isnt needed, having NPCs spawned at all times is an absolute waste of CPU cycles that only slavic devs are stupid enough to do.

RDR2 has a far superior and livelier open world than Stalker and didnt need to do this stupid crap.

>>713075982
It really is amazing how horribly it crashed. I can't think of another game with a huge amount of hype that fumbled the ball very fucking hard like that.

wait im confused, ziggers like stalker 2 and ukies hate it or what? who is who

>>713077481
>games exclusively known for being clunky, buggy pieces of shit with a modding community composed of stupid slavs who do retarded shit like porting Doom 3 guns or Fallout monsters
Stalker is slavic Fallout, with everything that entails, aka shit gameplay, shit graphics and shit open world.

>>713075913 (OP)
The biggest problem is how enemies can hit you with perfect laser accuracy and there is no way to take cover. So you just have to spam grenades and do full mag dumps into an area. I wanted to play this game tactically getting headshots and flanking the enemy before retreating to a tower and maybe setting up a mine. But the AI is about as smart as the original Doom. >>713076667
The atmosphere was the only good thing about the originals, that and the interior lighting had some technical advances at the time. The story is non existent really and everything feels like an exploit instead of a feature because if how poorly plays tested it was.
>>713077550
I don't think it actually did poorly since it had a console release

>>713077550
Then you must be fucking underage, Stalker 2 was hyped by a handful of PC retards and ended up being what Stalker has always been, a clunky buggy piece of garbage liked by like 10 people.

Look at Mass Effect 3, RAGE, Assassins Creed Unity, Bioshock Infinite, Aliens Colonial Marines or Duke Nukem Forever if you want to see what an actual dissapointmemt that people were hyped for is.

>>713077554
it's just ziggers pretending to be ukies

>>713077185
>4x msaa ultra quality
>still better performance than stalker 2
Thanks for proving everyone's point shillcuck

>>713076479
>zeroed for around 35 meters
Fucking slavniggers.

>>713075913 (OP)
Thank god it was shit, imagine the seething in /v/ if it was good and sold well.
Look at Doom Eternal, it's been half a decade and the retards here are still seething about it daily because it didn't flop like they "predicted".

>>713075913 (OP)
Good. You deserve this.

>>713077778
zigger here, i liked it tho

>>713075913 (OP)
I find it hilarious that this game only got discussion here because /v/ is filled with third world communists crying about Ukraine.

You just know these are the same shitskins losing it over Deltarune and who complain all day that women only go for chad and not for fat, brown manlets.

>>713077830
>10 year old game runs better than a new one
Damn.

>>713075913 (OP)
>still no binoculars
If that's one of the only 3 issues in the game then it must be in a very good state. Imagine if someone said "my only complaint about Elden Ring is lack of hamburgers".

>>713078063
you're retarded

>>713075913 (OP)
>franchise defined by bugs, clunky gameplay and a modding community that after 20 years has only thrived towards making the games tedious as fuck
Good riddance.

>>713078094
No, you're fucking retarded. Fucking binoculars. Retarded OP came to cry that the game lacks binoculars. Not about bugs, performance, plot, gameplay, anything. Binoculars. In a fucking shooting game. No one uses that fucking shit. All major mods even repurposed binocular slot for other utility items and even weapons. If you're OP kill yourself. If you're not OP kill yourself as well.

>>713077609
>calls people underage
>shows his underageness first chance
stalker was the benchmark back then to show off graphics, you'd know if you weren't a zoomer
also comparing stalker and fallout shows how much of a zoomer you are, because before the shit bethesda games no one compared those 2 series

>>713077830
>mid range gpu then 33.7fps
>mid range gpu now 28fps
Old ran sooooooooooo much better amirite

>>713078063
>>713078252
the lack of binoculars is just a symptom of how shit this game is
there's no point in using binoculars when enemies spawn in a 5m radius around you
in the ogs (and mods) you could use them to scout ahead (and identify friend or foes), it was not the most important tool but a useful one to have nonetheless

Love original
Love gamma
Hate "remaster"
Hate stalker2
Simple as
t. Ivan

>>713078475
OG had spawn range 150m.
2 has spawn range 100m.
That extra 50m doesn't require you to use binoculars. No one used them in OG, especially since all NPC spawn locations were static. People who complain about binoculars are smoothbrains incapable of seeing real problems.

>>713078927

>>713078927
I used them plenty in og games, because of the increased spawn range and better made maps that allowed for scouting, in s2 everything past 10m is blurry or hidden behind vegetation
it's like the red forest in cs (you know the map everyone loves lmao) but the whole game through
(also spawn were static, but stalkers were not btw that's like the whole point of a-life)

>>713079157
>no argument

>>713079280
>(also spawn were static, but stalkers were not btw that's like the whole point of a-life)
Stalkers were also completely static in SoC (aside from very few story based triggers).

>>713077519
They're not spawned at all times, retard. The only thing that's persistent is the wondering groups of NPCs with their names, affiliations, stats and inventories, but that's all handled with a text file. The actual models with textures and AI only load in within spawn radius.

>>713078486
Based

>>713075913 (OP)
This is how it is with games now
They release a broken product
Most developers have no integrity because they are not White males in a White male space determined and administrated by White males
There are females and Non-Whites everywhere now
This adds a massive measure of deceit, distrust, malfeasance and non-sense
They create a product to syphon as much money as they can in the short term
Then abandon the project
There is a financial calculation done in their mind:
>Is the extra money I make in the future worth the time and effort I will have to put in over and above the money I've already managed to scam from everyone
The answer is almost always NO
So they don't do anything
You see this with games like Manor Lords but there are countless examples going back probably 15 years
The answer is this:
>Don't support early access titles
>Don't buy until it's on sale
Its served me well

>>713079887
>but that's all handled with a text file
That's not how it works, lol.

Launch your favourite CoC/Anomaly mod, open console, and type r_stats 1. Then check what percentage of one frame it taken by A-Life. Popular modpacks like GAMMA now require top of the market CPUs to have stable 100+ FPS purely because of A-Life calculations. If you enable warfare mod and import few new maps then even topc CPUs will not be able to handle it. Yes, the engine is single-threaded, but the point that those calculations are not free.

>>713080228
IATA
The worst part is that there are some many specimens of the dark decrepit members of humanity floating around in all our societies that their degenerate behavior becomes the status quo because now the prevailing working theory is "If you're not cheating, you're not trying"
I wonder how that came about
Certainly not from White Protestant rhetoric

>>713080284
Worked in Clear Sky on my potato in 2010. Incompetence of Alundaio is not my problem.

>>713075913 (OP)
Just release the modding tools and let the community sort it out

>>713080284
Works on my potato
*shrugs*

>>713080810
Then show us your r_stats 1.

>>713080920
*farts*
No

>>713075982
>10

>>713076692
>modded fo4 is a better stalker 2
List those mods then

>>713077332
>Stalker games are just alpha builds of Metro games, games that are actually finished, polished and dont require 200GB of mods that only add immersive shitting and pissing mechanics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzK1gl6UoM0

>>713079548
wrong but whatever, only a retard would defend the mess that is s2

>look at the game's subreddit
>it's some schizoid, overly political retardation cult

>>713082294
>wrong but whatever
They are completely static. Stalkers are assigned to one specific smart terrain on "birth" and they can never leave it. There's no off-line combat. The composition of smart terrains also never changes. If you leave the game open, then return a century later, the game world will be exactly in the same state as you left, with the same NPCs alive and in the same positions.
Any kind of dynamic life was added only in Clear Sky.

>>713075913 (OP)
>no binoculars

>>713075913 (OP)
So 4chan hates this game? Damn i gotta play it, must be a good game!

>>713077776
ahhh mayyyyne i remember when bioshock was the next big thing

also ME was always shit

>>713082009
Metro games are made by an ukrainian studio as well

>>713075913 (OP)
As much as i love SOC, litteraly one of the best games of all times, i would have prefered the hidden ending to be just you shooting the scientists, no explanations, no joining them.
Maybe find one or two documents lying around explaining the noosphere, but that's it

>>713075913 (OP)
Thus I haven't purchased it.

>>713077550
You can't? It happens 5 times a year nowadays.

>>713084376
Yeah, 4K games Kiev, later 4K game Kyiv and now Reburn.
Their lastest game is a single player, Crysis inspired, mexican futurism FPS. It was supposed to be released this month, instead they released paid "early access" of one mission, it's terribly written and somehow even more buggy.

have they fixed the performance?

>>713084619
HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

>>713084934
reeeeee

>>713075913 (OP)
Still runs like shit on my 4080 super and 7800x3d, and yes, with patch 1.4, thank God I pirated the gog version and didn't waste money on this shit.
Unreal Stutter 5 for open world games was a mistake.

>>713085135
Here i was about to buy a 5080

>>713075970
t. ESL

>>713086725
>he lashes out wildly in buyers remorse

>>713077550
>Stalker 2
>with a huge amount of hype
lmao

I didn't think it was bad but I had never played any stalker games before and wasn't hyped for it at all. It ran better than expected on my shitbox but it definitely heated up my card like no tomorrow. It was a janky 7/10 experience.

No hard feelings

>>713089695
Arma III looks great.

>>713075913 (OP)
Does it still run like shit on even the most powerful systems?

>>713090759
Yes its still an Unreal game.