After 17 years of playing stalker, i finally could play Stalker 2. I mean, literally. I went to GSC Gameworld and could not only meet the team, but also play the game! I fell in love with this. The amount of detail is just INSANE. Thank you GSC Gameworld for creating this masterpiece!
Stalker 2 has long since taken the crown, if you could call it that. For the most turbulent, hellish development ever. As someone who's been with the franchise since its beginning in 2007. Its been absolute torture for something like 15 years. We never thought we'd see this day come. This is a game that died and returned from the grave, then went through a full scale war, by all rights it shouldnt exist, but by some kind of miracle. It survived. This is akin to a Half Life 3 moment, for some.
This is way bigger than Half-Life 3 would be for me. And I'm absolutely stunned that it's actually good on release without mods having to do anything. I would have been happy if it was passable on release It's looking like it's going to be a game of the year contender which is preposterous.
This 100 %! I highly recommend GSC Gameworlds feature documentary called "War Game" here on UA-cam. It's a really eye opening and very interesting watch.
This will be my first time playing the Stalker series but I am completely stoked. Not only for the game but to support a dev team that has been through so damn much and to just keep pushing so they could put out an amazing game for us.... "the player." I am proud of them for overcoming some truly tough trials and still keeping their sights on creating something amazing for us. I can't wait to load this game up and probably get my ass handed to me over and over again. But that is Stalker and I am ready.
Welcome to the Zone Stalker. Whatever you plan to do, expect it to fail at least three times over, and never go underground without double the resources you think you need. Far to many previous stalkers gear now hang on the backpacks of others. * pats his bag and the nightvision strapped to it * Now if you'l excuse me, i have an apointment with a trader, and it's already getting dark outside. * slaps him on the shoulder and heads out of the cantina *
Can’t wait! I think this is number one in my wishlist besides Doom: Dark ages. S.T.A.L.K.E.R is one of my favorite franchises of all time. It has inspired numerous stories I have been writing over the years for projects and just really happy to be back in the zone again but in next gen.
Gotta use shotguns and HP rounds to counter mutants. There's two damage systems, stopping power and armor penetration. Mutants and unarmored get wrecked by the former, while the latter is necessary for armor.
Its awesome to see Xbox support the devs through this relish development. And its equally awesome to hear their thiughts on the support, gamepass, and optimizing for the series s. I encourage folks to read the windows central article. They even mention how they reached out to Phil Spencer regarding bringing the series to console by finding his email randomly on a reddit page and nearly instantly was contacted.
Not one game based on UE 3,4,5 has a signficant amount of mods who change the gameplay. Not even the really big sellers like Mass Effect or the Batman:Arkham series. I dont see why Stalker 2 should be different.
Another GAMMA enjoyer :) Man I hope the developers are aware of Anomaly, EFP and GAMMA and took some inspiration from it. I know Anomaly is not the "vanilla Staker" experience, but imho that mod made the game better
Honestly the fact he mentioned some critiques of Fighting Monsters being less nuanced than Fighting Humans but his Praise of the Survival Gameplay, Quests, and over all Polish was consistent with other outlets impressions gives me more confidence that they really nailed the Latter.
I Remember Playing the Pre Alpha Build of Stalker in December 2003, back then it was called version 1096, the game was leaked onto file sharing platforms, at the time I was playing the game on my Radeon 9800 and AMD Athlon XP 2200+ processor. I remember thinking this demo has the best graphics I have ever seen in a game, at the time it pushed the radeon 9800 to its limits, and that was considered the "king" of graphics cards (like what a 4090 is today) and now judging by the system requirements for stalker 2 we are now witnessing history once again, its a modern day crysis, people will be buying new PCs and upgrading just to play this game. very excited about stalker 2! obviously a PC player, Steam Has no pre load so I'm waiting for download to unlock!
Considering the literall hell the devs went through and still being able to deliver is nothing short of a miracle. Most AAA studios can't even do this under normal circumstances today lol. Their games are failing one after the other it seems. Besides I can't remember the last time a game of this scale came out bug free. Those days are gone for open world games and have been for years. They couldn't even do it 15 years ago with GTAV, Skyrim or a bit more recently with The Witcher 3. I pre-ordered.
Nice one! I am so ready for this game. After years and years of Anomaly and it's various offshoots, I need that mainline Stalker fix. Hopefully the game is not so different from what a lot of Stalker fans are used to now with the total conversion mods, but also not too similar.
Why is every one of these previews recently the same commentary-wise? Everyone "bled to death after a shootout because no bandage" and everyone had "dogs appear in another shootout". Then saying, they are hardcore fans before saying Call of Pripyat was the first game, even though Shadow of Chernobyl was. All of these previews seem bought and scripted and gameplay is yet again provided by GSC in all of them. Doesn't shine a good light on it, tbh.
Ngl.. Very concerned about poor performance on pc seeing as it’s built in UE5. Every single UE5 game I’ve experienced is a stuttering mess. My pc is high end and runs everything else flawlessly. Fingers crossed this one doesn’t follow suit ..
Never played the originals but I’ve played every fallout and metro game, I’m so hype to finally become a Stalker. Pray for me brothers I just know I have many learning deaths to get use to the zone 🙏
I'm super-excited for this. Not a fan of these previews though. They all talk about the emergent side quests yet describe the exact same one with the stalker assaulted by bandits, plus a few other beats you would expect to have some variation from playthrough to playthrough being described the same. I wish they were more transparent with the fact that this is a scripted preview.
hmm, bloodsuckers arent supposed to be bullet sponges, or atleast in the orignial sense of the term. Sure they soak up bullets as they circle you, but what made them so fucking deadly was that there usually never alone, atleast a pack 2-3 of them, circle you, only one shows itself and gets your attention, the other swoops in from behind and gives you a staggering backstab attack leaving you at 50% hp in most cases, or even worse, in some modded games, grabs you, stuns you and digs his fangs into your neck. That usually did less dmg but that gave time to the other guy to also hit you. I doubt Stalker 2 will have any of this as this Bloodsucker behavior is carefully modded and cultivated by the community over years. Oh and there almost exclusivelly nocturnal, in some mods theres also the "night terror" a pitch black redish version of a blood sucker thats only active at night so you have even more of hard time seeing him, and hes actually a bullet sponge, but hes alone, so yea. I love this bloodsucker behavior as its absolutely terrifying, and it makes me skip every night time in my Game, but sometimes for some characters like when im playing UNISG or Mercs i dont, some jobs are best done at night time, and Mercs or ISG have some crazy tasks in my game.
Wish this game had the same gear/weapon personalization as Tarkov... well, hope devs make their word true and modding community will have their tools soon so they can improve on it
I cant stand those game journalists, they talk like its the most hardcore experience on the planet.... blud I know as a fact this game wont be like anomaly or gamma it will be the same casual stalker game from 20 years ago. You are just bad at the game that's it. I will say it again this wont be a hardcore game! It just wont be but if you count buying limited ammo and actually looking at your amount of roubles a ,,hardcore experience" then idk what to tell you.
This isn't true though. I can't speak to all the videos you've watched, but I've seen several that had different gameplay segments. IGNs preview had different gameplay
One of the games that made me buy an xbox. Question that may trigger some, I love that the world is big beautiful and dense, but must I walk everywhere?
OK. 2:21 You played The Game, and where is the video of how you did it, because here you show what was at the exhibition and in the videos from the GSC channel. 😂
possibly a way to avoid licensing, or because having it on the left side lets the player see the bullets fly out and it looks "cooler" I am a weapon artist in AAA games so that could be one of the reasons
1) looks cooler to see ejected casings 2) the weapons ingame are not licensed, so no 1:1 recreation 3) if you don't like it, i guarantee there will be mods that fix it shortly after release
In FPS games? 80% of them are "shoot this bad guy from another country" and have the most generic stories imaginable that usually boil down to 1. Bad guys have missiles, 2. WW3 or 3. bad guys have super virus.
The first game was: Shadow of Chornobyl. Not Call of Pripyat.
Game journalists when they have to search couple of words for the most basic information
and it has been 17 years am I right?
Cheeki breeki
Shadow of Chernobyl
Once I heard it, I was like "What, am I tripping?" They can`t even get a name right. Bruh
After 17 years of playing stalker, i finally could play Stalker 2. I mean, literally. I went to GSC Gameworld and could not only meet the team, but also play the game!
I fell in love with this. The amount of detail is just INSANE. Thank you GSC Gameworld for creating this masterpiece!
Stalker 2 has long since taken the crown, if you could call it that. For the most turbulent, hellish development ever. As someone who's been with the franchise since its beginning in 2007. Its been absolute torture for something like 15 years. We never thought we'd see this day come. This is a game that died and returned from the grave, then went through a full scale war, by all rights it shouldnt exist, but by some kind of miracle. It survived.
This is akin to a Half Life 3 moment, for some.
Heck, it's _better_ than a HL3 moment since it's actually (finally) coming out. The next 35 days can't pass quickly enough for this Loner!
If it hadn't been for Microsoft, it would have died from the war
And the final game is the antithesis of the original one. Enjoy!
This game is very symbolic for ukrainians, you right it survived and Ukraine will survive aswell.
This is way bigger than Half-Life 3 would be for me. And I'm absolutely stunned that it's actually good on release without mods having to do anything.
I would have been happy if it was passable on release It's looking like it's going to be a game of the year contender which is preposterous.
tbf they have done well considering they've worked on this during a war and lost devs in said war.
This 100 %! I highly recommend GSC Gameworlds feature documentary called "War Game" here on UA-cam. It's a really eye opening and very interesting watch.
The most anticipated game of 2024 is nothing to say ( my personal opinion )
Thats not your opinion, it's a fact
I got a proper PC setup just for this game.
One of the games (besides Microsoft flight sim, starfield and forza) that made me choose xbox over ps5. Saving up slowly to buy it.
I've already pre-ordered Stalker 2 and can't wait to try it myself. The game must be epic!
This will be my first time playing the Stalker series but I am completely stoked. Not only for the game but to support a dev team that has been through so damn much and to just keep pushing so they could put out an amazing game for us.... "the player." I am proud of them for overcoming some truly tough trials and still keeping their sights on creating something amazing for us. I can't wait to load this game up and probably get my ass handed to me over and over again. But that is Stalker and I am ready.
Play Call of Pripyat at least first.
Welcome to the Zone Stalker.
Whatever you plan to do, expect it to fail at least three times over, and never go underground without double the resources you think you need.
Far to many previous stalkers gear now hang on the backpacks of others. * pats his bag and the nightvision strapped to it *
Now if you'l excuse me, i have an apointment with a trader, and it's already getting dark outside.
* slaps him on the shoulder and heads out of the cantina *
@Grihmmy Will do and thank you Stalker. I hope I make you guy's proud.
I've always felt this channel doesn't get the view counts it deserves, they make quality contents
6:00 gordon freeman is back, this time with no hev-suit
(i know, it's not gordon...)
Don’t worry, he’s still a trained professional
I NOTICED THAT TOO LOL
gordon freeman is actually cannon in stalker, you can find his corpse in a tunnel in shadow of cherobyl
Can’t wait! I think this is number one in my wishlist besides Doom: Dark ages. S.T.A.L.K.E.R is one of my favorite franchises of all time. It has inspired numerous stories I have been writing over the years for projects and just really happy to be back in the zone again but in next gen.
Gotta use shotguns and HP rounds to counter mutants. There's two damage systems, stopping power and armor penetration. Mutants and unarmored get wrecked by the former, while the latter is necessary for armor.
Awesome, thank you for the preview.
The game looks exciting and promising, can't wait for the release!
this games separates children, call of duty slinding and crazy spray of bullets's players from adults hardcore Stalker anomaly players.
stalker is pretty fast paced and casual as well
@@cloacky4409You’ve definitely not played stalker…
Bruh said stalker anomaly. Have you even played the og stalker series?
Wow, so thrilled to finally play STALKER 2.
The first one was a real legend.
Ukrainian developers know how to make epic games ❤️
I will definitely be playing it at launch. Been waiting a while for this game to drop.
Oh boy it really is coming this time. Time to pack up ammo, some bandages, bolts and lots of vodka
Its awesome to see Xbox support the devs through this relish development. And its equally awesome to hear their thiughts on the support, gamepass, and optimizing for the series s.
I encourage folks to read the windows central article. They even mention how they reached out to Phil Spencer regarding bringing the series to console by finding his email randomly on a reddit page and nearly instantly was contacted.
Im so ready to get back into the zone, I cant wait to see pripyat and get attacked by a chimera or a blood sucker.
Stop you are going to kill me with excitement. It's still 3000 years untill launch day so we need to pace ourselves.
@RealRaslu 30 days bruh. Hold on
Mods are really going to be amazing too!
Not one game based on UE 3,4,5 has a signficant amount of mods who change the gameplay. Not even the really big sellers like Mass Effect or the Batman:Arkham series. I dont see why Stalker 2 should be different.
@@DerTelefonman mod kits make the difference. I'm very good with UE5 make the kit and the files open and it's on!
@@DerTelefonman Conan Exiles and Ark Survival have a huge amount of mods that change everything
Can't wait for Anomaly 2.0 in the new engine.
It's gonna be LIT af
@@DerTelefonman day one modding support will be available according to GSC
I doubt it will be as soul crushing as GAMMA on survival but this sure does sound like my cup of tea.
Another GAMMA enjoyer :) Man I hope the developers are aware of Anomaly, EFP and GAMMA and took some inspiration from it.
I know Anomaly is not the "vanilla Staker" experience, but imho that mod made the game better
Hate to break it to two of you
From the gameplay it's clear
it's not taking inspiration from both the mods
Rather the OG games and upgrading it.
Its original gameplay and approach to it, rather than gamma or anomaly
@@astalkerfreedom567 No way....how could I have missed that and pretend it did.....oh, wait, I didn't.
@@rhodan74 I mean if you're expecting this like Gamma especially difficulty wise
You're going to disappoint yourself
Gamma is different from it
Hint: shotguns are for mutants
Thank you for this video. I’ve already pre-ordered. But I’ll give it a few few weeks before I play it. Give them time to work out some of the bugs.
IGN really is dogshit explaining their experience. This video is WAY better on details and explaining experiences.
GOTY 2024
4:47 there is a counterplay
It's called keep moving and jump.
Honestly the fact he mentioned some critiques of Fighting Monsters being less nuanced than Fighting Humans but his Praise of the Survival Gameplay, Quests, and over all Polish was consistent with other outlets impressions gives me more confidence that they really nailed the Latter.
I Remember Playing the Pre Alpha Build of Stalker in December 2003, back then it was called version 1096, the game was leaked onto file sharing platforms, at the time I was playing the game on my Radeon 9800 and AMD Athlon XP 2200+ processor. I remember thinking this demo has the best graphics I have ever seen in a game, at the time it pushed the radeon 9800 to its limits, and that was considered the "king" of graphics cards (like what a 4090 is today) and now judging by the system requirements for stalker 2 we are now witnessing history once again, its a modern day crysis, people will be buying new PCs and upgrading just to play this game. very excited about stalker 2! obviously a PC player, Steam Has no pre load so I'm waiting for download to unlock!
1:32 that suit looks dope
gamesradar better than ign and gamespot together
Considering the literall hell the devs went through and still being able to deliver is nothing short of a miracle.
Most AAA studios can't even do this under normal circumstances today lol. Their games are failing one after the other it seems.
Besides I can't remember the last time a game of this scale came out bug free. Those days are gone for open world games and have been for years. They couldn't even do it 15 years ago with GTAV, Skyrim or a bit more recently with The Witcher 3.
I pre-ordered.
Nice one!
I am so ready for this game. After years and years of Anomaly and it's various offshoots, I need that mainline Stalker fix.
Hopefully the game is not so different from what a lot of Stalker fans are used to now with the total conversion mods, but also not too similar.
I really hope the game is similar to the first games and nod some insane mods
Thanks gamepass team ❤
Why is every one of these previews recently the same commentary-wise? Everyone "bled to death after a shootout because no bandage" and everyone had "dogs appear in another shootout". Then saying, they are hardcore fans before saying Call of Pripyat was the first game, even though Shadow of Chernobyl was. All of these previews seem bought and scripted and gameplay is yet again provided by GSC in all of them. Doesn't shine a good light on it, tbh.
Game journos are known for being incompetent and not getting their facts right. It's ignorance, not bought reviews. Take the tinfoil hat off.
Hey so can you loot everything?? Like if your fight long people with guns are you guaranteed to get ammo?? Also guns??
Yes, there is a lot of loot in it
It's key to the experience, and honestly i'm pretty excited
Ngl.. Very concerned about poor performance on pc seeing as it’s built in UE5. Every single UE5 game I’ve experienced is a stuttering mess. My pc is high end and runs everything else flawlessly. Fingers crossed this one doesn’t follow suit ..
Never played the originals but I’ve played every fallout and metro game, I’m so hype to finally become a Stalker. Pray for me brothers I just know I have many learning deaths to get use to the zone 🙏
Call of Pripyat, a quest for three bloodsuckers, when I had to climb some abnormal tree and follow the water to understand when to shoot 😁
I'm okay with some jank given the history behind the development. It's looking incredible so far
I'm super-excited for this. Not a fan of these previews though. They all talk about the emergent side quests yet describe the exact same one with the stalker assaulted by bandits, plus a few other beats you would expect to have some variation from playthrough to playthrough being described the same. I wish they were more transparent with the fact that this is a scripted preview.
Cannot wait for this game to drop
Stalker is rather brotherhood than not showing your back or you will be killed, but yeah, we can’t live without assh*les
5:25 is that still a thing in the game, or did you just put the older trailer in the video?
That's from very first trailer from 2 years ago
@@Zlotykur that’s disappointing
If you mean the animations, it's still a thing
the attachment animation is still there
Looking forward to playing Stalker
There's a month left, I'm really looking forward to it. And then how many more modifications will be made to it, I hope Grot will make a good mod
Great video I’m a veteran stalker player
I loved the Metro games
I never played stalker before. would you guys recommend this
Nothing like Metro except maybe the setting a little bit, But definitely worth a try even if you don't like punishing games imo
Dude, Stalker is literally Metro's grandfather. That is much deeper than Metro imo
DA!
it's absolutely worth the try
Start from shadow of Chernobyl then clear sky then call of Pripyat
@@astalkerfreedom567 thanks dude. I will
Absolutely!
When you complete the campaign do still play after the stoy in the new one ?
hmm, bloodsuckers arent supposed to be bullet sponges, or atleast in the orignial sense of the term. Sure they soak up bullets as they circle you, but what made them so fucking deadly was that there usually never alone, atleast a pack 2-3 of them, circle you, only one shows itself and gets your attention, the other swoops in from behind and gives you a staggering backstab attack leaving you at 50% hp in most cases, or even worse, in some modded games, grabs you, stuns you and digs his fangs into your neck. That usually did less dmg but that gave time to the other guy to also hit you. I doubt Stalker 2 will have any of this as this Bloodsucker behavior is carefully modded and cultivated by the community over years. Oh and there almost exclusivelly nocturnal, in some mods theres also the "night terror" a pitch black redish version of a blood sucker thats only active at night so you have even more of hard time seeing him, and hes actually a bullet sponge, but hes alone, so yea.
I love this bloodsucker behavior as its absolutely terrifying, and it makes me skip every night time in my Game, but sometimes for some characters like when im playing UNISG or Mercs i dont, some jobs are best done at night time, and Mercs or ISG have some crazy tasks in my game.
This Game Looks Great.
Chornobyl
Can't wait!
Looking forward to stalker, thanks for the preview!
Great game
Wish this game had the same gear/weapon personalization as Tarkov... well, hope devs make their word true and modding community will have their tools soon so they can improve on it
It looks like a helluva game!
Cant wait for gamma 2
graphically looks like metro exodus, which is nice. played the originals so big improvement
Waiting waiting waiting ......
The game looks great cant wait to play this on pc
Cant wait 💚
I’m pumped
"Big, Beautiful, and Barbaric" So basically Ukraine right now
I wonder if the survival aspects may be too punishing for newcomers that typically play games like the Far Cry franchise.
Game of the year
Sounds like single player Tarkov in a metro like world . I can't wait
ironically, both tarkov and metro are heavily inspired by the stalker
Way better than metro or Tarkov
Looks more like Metro than S.t.a.l.k.e.r but we will see
Ah yes, the first game, Call of Pripyat
god i'm so fevered for this.
I hope 8 can affort the game pass when it get released
Hi, tantalising description thanks. Are there any cheats please?
I cant stand those game journalists, they talk like its the most hardcore experience on the planet.... blud I know as a fact this game wont be like anomaly or gamma it will be the same casual stalker game from 20 years ago. You are just bad at the game that's it. I will say it again this wont be a hardcore game! It just wont be but if you count buying limited ammo and actually looking at your amount of roubles a ,,hardcore experience" then idk what to tell you.
I wasn't too excited for this game, but as time has gone on - I am buying the Ultimate edition despite having game pass
It's like RDR, but only in Chernobyl
No it's not
are you mentally ill?
Will it beat Stalker Anomaly IS the question.
no, impossible
stalker anomaly is a sandbox.
One question. Is there a stash box anywhere in the game?
Stashes will be present
Will buy it on PS5 in the future :)
yeah Stalker 2
Is super ultrawide supported?
Time to upgrade my motherboard and processor
I don't know what to think about all these youtubers posting the same gameplay and commenting over it 🤨
it's quite common to avoid spoilers, plenty of independent youtubers have played the game and are saying positive things. Besides, it's on gamepass
They cant show THEIR gameplay only officially released content 🤦♂️
This isn't true though. I can't speak to all the videos you've watched, but I've seen several that had different gameplay segments. IGNs preview had different gameplay
One of the games that made me buy an xbox. Question that may trigger some, I love that the world is big beautiful and dense, but must I walk everywhere?
if I recall correctly, the devs said they don't incorporate vehicles on purpose because it'd ruin immersiveness
clear sky and call of pripyat had a limited fast travel system, we might get something alike again
I want textures to be darker and more evil. Currently game looks too bright 😢
very good!
is there manual leaning in the game?
There should be
ES SIMPLEMENTE HERMOSOOOO!!! :)))))))
OK. 2:21
You played The Game, and where is the video of how you did it, because here you show what was at the exhibition and in the videos from the GSC channel. 😂
Im over the online cheaterville, so im passing up BO6 and this game looks like a good FPS. Now i find out that its X box only. 😢
why MP5 ejection port on left
Because that wasn't an MP5.
possibly a way to avoid licensing, or because having it on the left side lets the player see the bullets fly out and it looks "cooler" I am a weapon artist in AAA games so that could be one of the reasons
1) looks cooler to see ejected casings
2) the weapons ingame are not licensed, so no 1:1 recreation
3) if you don't like it, i guarantee there will be mods that fix it shortly after release
@@ownageDan Seriously, I expect someone'll port AO3 or BaS to it before we ring in 2025.
Grit is wgat the mainstream audience wants, its just not what the "mainstream"(activist) designers want to make.
IGN going to give it a 7
IGN never even mentioned the platforms
6:03 Gordan Freeman ???
Glory to Ukraine
whats ponjon lol 4:40
Guess i buy a new pc xd
The visual downgrading of this game after the first shown footage is criminal
Goty
1st part was Shadow of Chernobyl and its 17 years ago. Way to tell us u have no clue what u talking about, in 1st minute of a video.
Take the monsters out and it’s perfect. Always dumb supernatural stuff in every game. Oh well.
They aren't supernatural. The franchise is 90s style sci-fi at it's core.
It wouldn't be STALKER then.
In FPS games? 80% of them are "shoot this bad guy from another country" and have the most generic stories imaginable that usually boil down to 1. Bad guys have missiles, 2. WW3 or 3. bad guys have super virus.
Find me a post apocaliptyc game able to catch the mindfuck and horror-esque type of sci-fi inspired by Andrei Tarkovskij's works, then we'll talk.
"make it not STALKER and it'll be good!"
what?
This is gamepass
Never played GOD 😂