Veteran player here with some tips, with over 700 hours of playing the last 3 STALKER games. 1) Turn off your flashlight off at night if you don’t need it. NPCs can see it from far away and will engage you. Use night vision once you get it. Careful with the ones that have night vision though. 2) shoot the lights out, and stay in the shadows. NPC’s have a hard time seeing in the dark as well. 3) you don’t have to pick up every gun you see, if it’s under 40% condition you cannot sell it, you’re just draining your stem in the bar faster.
@@JappaChow not my experience. I checked this just an hour ago. It definitely costs more to repair a badly damaged weapon then what you get for selling it.
Same. Three hours in no bugs, runs buttery smooth with DLSS as well. I think most reviews are on the pre patch version which is a real shame as those 7/10s would easily be 9/10s
"15 things the game doesnt tell you" *proceeds to list the moat obvious survival game mechanics that even a rookie will figure out almost immediately...
Yeah like “they give you bolt, use them” It’s literally a requirement to proceed past loosing your inventory. LoL It’s like they’re not trying anymore.
I’ve had no bugs so far, tho it seems they released a day 1 patch so maybe it’s more stable than many reviewers experienced. It’s funny to see people complain about the difficulty, I personally wanted it and love it so far
My experience so far: crash 12 times trying to cache shaders. Keep telling me the game is verified, but at the 4th attempt download 34 gigs, crash again during patch due to corrupted files. Then boot the game, but auto-connect a controller that isn't even connected crashing the game. Then reboot, having to wait again on the shaders. Get into the game, for some magic reason, the graphics are pre-set on epic. Performance is atrocious. Change the graphics, be forced to reboot again. Game has to redo the same 15 minutes of shader loading. After downloading for 4 hours, attempting to play for almost 2,5 hours I finally get to play the game for 2 minutes, realize I still have to tweak the settings. Try to go change settings, game crashes. Reboot, change settings, reboot again, more waiting on shader loading (...). Get to play the game until you fight the poltergeist. Graphics are noticably worse than before, but seems to run 40-60 fps on medium to high settings. After downloading the game I've spend 15 minutes playing the game. Almost refunded it twice.
@@douwe4254 I would think vram or ram limitations but I’m unsure, there are new drivers from like a week ago specifically for Stalker, maybe that’ll help
@@patrickyoung3643lmao my god this has really ruined your day, hell I'm not even that good and games and I have no clue what you're talking about, it's not THAT hard
@ it’s literally just the fact that every time i loot a body they only have like 2 bullets and you have to waste so much time trying to unload the guns on the ground while mid gun fight. yeah you have to run away from nades and even then sometimes but it really shouldn’t take as long as it does to kill enemies and why did they put an invisible enemy in the game? 😂. i play on xbox so it took like 4 hours to download and when i died in the beginning it just made me mad 😭
Tip, that may or may not help you... Did you know, that all of those previous Stalker vanilla games had hidden "Bullseye" system. You can kill MOST of the mutants, and enemies in ANY armor, with ONE SINGLE bullet from ANY gun, if you shoot them right into the eye(mutants have to have eyes though). And yes... Rely on your binocular more then on a gun while traveling.
Business idea. You open a firearm magazine manufacturing company named “Clips” Profit from all the people harassed by fuds. Now mags are clips and clips are the best mags you can buy 😂😂😂
"don't fight everything" me: as a STALKER, Anomaly and GAMMA veteran with who knows how many hours...piece of cake. also me: wasted 70 bullets, 2 grenades, 2 bandages and 2 medkits just to kill one bloodsucker...only to realize I could've just sprint out of the fight into the next section of the cave ( I thought it was a mini boss fight💀)
After years of being a stickler for this (magazines!) I’ve started to think that it’s just so part of the culture that trying to correct people is like screaming at them for “boneless” wings. Or like saying “hey guys” even though some lady’s are there. We all know what they mean.
And these dang updates on top of the downloads. Downloaded 140 gb game and then the same size for an update and then I hear there’s another 30 gb update now too!
Idk if anyone else has noticed this but if you drop all your gear b4 finishing the prologue you can go back and collect them, just drop em in a room nearby before doing the 3rd and final anomaly all but 2 specific weapons were still there it's not much but having all those meda ammo and a gun other than your pistol is a nice Jumpstart
@CoFRTheGamerXxX i had those disappeared to but you get to keep everything else i wonder if u never pick em up if you'd be able to run back and grab em after the prologue
Well they missed the most obvious one where controllers would have game related stick drift and because of it you act as if you're playing drunk. I mean it makes it whole new level of immersion being drunk the entire time you're playing.
@bradenhagen7977 there's some sort of bug with how it's registering the input. I was on Black ops 6 and I set the dead zone 0 and I had no stick drift. I also tried two other controllers tried multiple settings I've gone into the recalibration tool for the series 2 elite controller and it shows absolutely no drifting as well so yes it's something with stalker two.
@@Kelshandoi thought i was going crazy. I thought when i was looking around it had something to do with animations but it just feels a bit delayed some how
Got about 2 hours in after tinkering with my settings and getting comfortable, it is already becoming one of my favorite games. My first combat scenario felt really damn good. One bug where I couldn’t get out of inventory but otherwise it’s butter on a high/epic setting. 4070s with an I710700f
between the haystack mission and the antenna mission. to the east, there will be a question mark. You will find an artifact. If you zoom in into the map, you will see its surrounded by a wall. check the southest part.
Playing on series s, only bugs I’ve had after 4 hours are audio ones like a guy’s radio voice switching to an in person voice or the bullet sounds from my gun going silent for a few hits, it’s my first stalker game and it’s such a vibe, feels like a throwback to 2010s games
@Huhwhips I bumped the aim sensitivity up to 50% as the default 35% felt a little sluggish for me (maybe that was devs intention?) 50% feels better for me, more fast and fluid and makes gunfights feel just a little bit more frantic, so I guess just tinker with the % until it feels right for you
For anyone on an Xbox, I'd highly recommend if your setup would allow it to look into a mouse and keyboard setup. It makes a difference in the game especially with the inventory. I'm not sure if wireless ones exist for the Xbox yet so you might be stuck with wired ones but it definitely makes the game more manageable
Haven’t had many bugs but one was 2 enemies were able to stick their guns through a brick wall and shoot me and phase through doors. Another was a folding chair launched me in the sky.
Here’s a good hint Hold R and it brings up the hud and shows you what buttons do what, and shows your quest info etc… One thing they dropped the ball on imho is having subtitles for war grafitti or maps in Ukrainian… I mean we don’t all read serialik (sp?).
They can't see you through walls, they can see your light and they can hear you moving around. I think the amount you're carrying also makes your movement noisier
Probably one of the best games I've played in a decade. Day 1 patch, only issue i've had on series X is slight frame drops (instead of 60fps, sometimes as low as 40 in highly dense areas).
@@IAmNotARobotPinkySwear I wanted a game that captivated me with its open world the same way Fallout 3 and Skyrim did. Those were simpler times when you just put in the CD and it worked. This game took 30 minutes of my time just trying to get stable fps at 60 or above and it's still completly inconsistent. The game is mediocre at best and it seems much of the playerbase are full of praise and leniency towards all the bugs purely because it's Ukrainian. Many big review sites are all like "they made this in a war zone!!" despite the fact it was announced and worked on 10 years ago. It's Eurovision all over again with a completly mediocre piece of media getting songs of praise from brainwashed people that seemingly have their entire worldviews dictated to them by whatever current narrative the TV feeds them.
@@PrimeNPCsurely you aren’t saying you wanted a game to launch like Skyrim…? the bugs in that game are arguably still worse today than Stalker on its first day of release
@@PrimeNPCI’m playing on a series S at 30fps with no issues. I just had one crash and im about 10 hours in lol. Slight bugs but from what I remember I soft locked multiple starting play throughs with early game breaking bugs in fo3, nv, Skyrim. If you didn’t enjoy the first game, and if this one doesn’t do it for you. It’s not for you 🤷♂️ it’s slavjank
@@steveharvey441 I played Skyrim for 300 hours over the first 2 months of it's release. On xbox 360, no patches or changes. It captivated me wheras this game just frustates me. The bait and switch they did with the A Life 2.0 and removing it from the Steam description only to give us braindead AI spawning is the scummiest thing I've ever seen a dev do.
I played all Stalkers, SoC right at Release. They had and have problems, but gave a spezial feeling that no other franchise can. I hope Stalker 2 can do that.
I play without compass, ammo count and crossair. I wished it was a chievement but nevertheless I prefer the hardcore style. Its like singleplayer Tarkov lol
To those with the means but waiting for perfection-consider this: This game could be the "Game of Your Life," one you’ll mod and love forever. But greatness needs support. By helping the developers now, while they’re still building, you could fuel their vision and turn potential into reality. What if they’re on the brink of collapse, unable to finish without your help? Don’t wait for perfection-help create it.
So far got 12 hours in and only encountered one bug where I was holding a bot and artifact finder tool and I tried opening my inventory and it broke the game. Couldn’t drint, heal or open my inventory again. I reloaded back to a quick save and it fixed it. This game is if tarkov and fallout had a baby. Thats a compliment btw
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is a masterpiece. The story’s gripping, the Zone is hauntingly atmospheric, and the gunfights are top-notch. It’s tough, rewarding, and insanely immersive. Huge respect to GSC Game World, a Ukrainian studio, for delivering this gem despite the challenges they’re facing. Absolute must-play!
I know right, as a veteran I get so pissed. The moment I heard it, I know that this “journalist” knows nothing about the game and is just doing it for clicks.
Loving the game but the fact that they think these visuals warrant such ridiculously high hardware is laughable. This shit looks like any other cookie cutter game visually speaking. Nothing special whatsoever. Like, when I saw the specs (and the screenshots -_-) I knew better than to think "omg this is going to be soooooo gorgeous" yet there I was saying exactly that. Idk why I thought GSC would be any different bullshit-wise than other devs. If this game was properly optimized, it could run perfectly on a 2060super and 16 ram. But no, they instead insist that you have a fucking juice cannon of a setup to run mid graphics. Really upsets me. Game is cool though, deff a nostalgic kick in the teeth in a good way.
For sure I have a 2080s and the it’s like a jet engine compiling on every start up. I have tuned things in to get decent play experience hope nvda helps em out with some optimization
@@mikeyswift2010 pro tip for you 2080 S users, reduce your voltage / power using the overlay. My Gpu was cooking at 85 degrees until I started reducing the power. It doesn't affect performance but massively reduced temperatures and the fan noise. I'm playing Stalker 2 at 50% power, 120fps and it's 61 degrees. If I up it to above 75% power the temperature goes up to 88 but fps or performance does not improve at all. In fact I suspect that if I ran it at 100% at 90 degrees, performance would actually be worse.
@@mikeyswift2010 I also have msi afterburner set to 50% power because my pc sometimes prioritises one program over the other and defaults to 100%. I've been running like this for over a year and had no issues. I play a lot of graphic / action intensive games and the gpu runs fine at near 100% utilisation. No idea how it works but honestly it saved me during summer months and I no longer have to listen to those damn fans going crazy!
I'm not a big fan of survival games or shooters for that matter but something about this game is super intriguing to me idk what it is but I might buy it.
1. dont bleed out..... NO CRAP... give some better tips dude not the obvious... people are so fast to jump and make videos right when games come out and end up making stupid videos on things we already knew
Even under Russia terrifying attacks they didn't give up on the game, I dont mind weather the game will flop or not, the studio already have my Respect.
Press V to melee bash with your gun, so you don't have to switch to knife on every boxes. It's hard coded, not in keybinding settings. If you mapped V to other thing... congratulations, you've lost such great ability!
The reason Stalker doesn't tell you not to bleed out is because it's expecting its audience to have common sense. I realise this video is capitalising on the lack of that in society today.
I think people who are saying its laggy nd stuff js got shitty pcs cuz I havent lagged a SINGLE time, no screen tears, nothing js pure beautiful gameplay
ha, so a i7-12700K, 32GB, 4070TI is a shitty PC, I see ... what would I need to get a decent performance in this game then? ... anyway - I hope the next update will fix the many issues I have encountered in the 1 hour I have been playing. I will definitely go back once that is fixed.
@@jkristia9478 Sadly the devs seem to have not bothered with actually working on optimisation and left it to AI up scaling and frame generation to "work". I don't have a top end pc for today's games, 2080s and 3700x, I can play games with equally as good graphics in 2k resolution without DLS or frame generation at higher than 60fps. The fact the game coats AAA price and I have to downgrade graphics and use AI generation just to get a basic working 60fps is outrageous. If this game was made by Hungarians it would be getting 5s across the board. The amount of leniency and cope being shown towards all the bugs and the terrible performance is insane.
Game isn’t anything special so far. Shooting is okay. Ai does a lot of damage. There’s no sneaking. Literally snuck behind a enemy n knifed him n every one was alerted n knew my location
If you can, join the family. Yeah, Xbox may not have the titles that PlayStation does but they do have their good few. if you love gaming, there is no silver lining, game on EVERYTHING! Series s is a nice cheap insert into the next gen at a good price, but the series x is worth it.
I wish I had known there wasn’t any night vision in the game. Legit probably wouldn’t have bought it. Creeping around slowly with night vision was my favorite part of the previous games. Now I can’t do that at all. Even the flashlight is bad. Especially bad because of how fast the day/night cycle is. I don’t know why they made the choices they did with that. Really disappointing.
Well with they didn't tell u. That on a 4090 with 4k at high settings it's goes below 60 fps. It's bugging and crashing. To be able to play at 4k 60. U need 4k high settings dlss and help with frame generation. . Their is a pc review already
I would like to see DayZ style magazine loading. I'm not a fan of the magic reload, shooting a ¼ clip and magically pooling together the rest of the ammunition. Especially in a game that values immersion.
Mods will fix all of the areas that lack attention of detail, just look at how good Anomaly is with its visor wiping and all the little immersive additions that make the game feel great to play.
damn stalker 2 has such a good tutorial and UI that every single "tip" in this video was just obvious stuff And the fuck was going on in this house 2:00 everyone is shooting at each other for 10 seconds point blank and nobody dies? Even stormtroopers would be able to kill things in these conditions.
Repair cost way to much, i just throw them away and pick up another weapon when they break....it can be hard earn money for repair all your stuff when you not even can carry everything you find because of the weight/inventory system.
I had an extremely unfortunate time with this game, but I’m gonna give it another try cause I can tell it was a well made game. Not sure what I’m doing wrong.
People talk about bugs but I don't see bugs. I think it is inferior system specs that can't run the game properly that's the true culprit here. If you can't afford a high-end machine that's fine but don't claim the game has bugs
Question mostly about weapons but applies to armor too, can weapons be repaired indefinitely? Or will they eventually wear out completely? Second question, well I'm sure that armor will get progressively better, can early game weapons be viable in the late game? Or does stalker do that typical video gamey thing where around the second half of the game you'll suddenly find magically better weapons of either the same type or different that just somehow do more damage?
First question Yeah you can repair indefinitely. Second not sure but I wouldn't want to use a double barrel shotgun or mp5 forever, I did use the AK for a long time since it was so reliable.
I keep getting killed by packs of dogs and packs of wild boars literally can't walk around without getting hurt is this normal I was expecting a lot more creatures and ppl trying to kill you but for me it's really nothing going on.
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Veteran player here with some tips, with over 700 hours of playing the last 3 STALKER games.
1) Turn off your flashlight off at night if you don’t need it. NPCs can see it from far away and will engage you. Use night vision once you get it. Careful with the ones that have night vision though.
2) shoot the lights out, and stay in the shadows. NPC’s have a hard time seeing in the dark as well.
3) you don’t have to pick up every gun you see, if it’s under 40% condition you cannot sell it, you’re just draining your stem in the bar faster.
Thanks, I was wondering whether NPCs can see the flashlight. They were using it in the video to stealth enemies with the silenced pistol.
I have heard the gun Smith will repair for cheaper than the gun sells so good way to make money early.
@@JappaChow not my experience. I checked this just an hour ago. It definitely costs more to repair a badly damaged weapon then what you get for selling it.
Thanks for The 3 tip i was wondering if i should collect the guns or just throw them
Thanks
Been playing for a few hours now. Encountered no bugs. Game made my day, looking forward to playing more, it's a vibe
Same. Three hours in no bugs, runs buttery smooth with DLSS as well. I think most reviews are on the pre patch version which is a real shame as those 7/10s would easily be 9/10s
@ absolutely, it's a new game guys, stop playing it on your Windows XP haha
Only bug I ran into was a stalker telling a joke with no audience. Absolutely gamebreaking, unplayable
Same. Literally 0 bugs even on xbox
@@colevandyken2871it wasn’t a bug, the Stalker is just a schizophrenic from encountering the horrors of the zone
"15 things the game doesnt tell you"
*proceeds to list the moat obvious survival game mechanics that even a rookie will figure out almost immediately...
ye at leat after the 1. tip "dont bleed out" you know its one of those vids so you waste 1min tops
The game tells you much of this 😅
Yeah like “they give you bolt, use them”
It’s literally a requirement to proceed past loosing your inventory. LoL
It’s like they’re not trying anymore.
Yea after don’t bleed out and, basically, don’t starve I was like ok I think I’m done here
Yeahhh, bare bones minimum effort video, they are just posting low effort to jump the hype train.
*is taking notes*
"try not to bleed and if you do, bandage up"...
Stop your going to fast for me!
*You're
@@kingeryck1 get a life
"Write that down! Write that down!" -Spongebob
@@kingeryck1 he also used the wrong "to" it should be "too". If you're going to be an ass, double down.
@@th3thatguy631no, he used the right “to” in this situation.
I’ve had no bugs so far, tho it seems they released a day 1 patch so maybe it’s more stable than many reviewers experienced.
It’s funny to see people complain about the difficulty, I personally wanted it and love it so far
My experience so far: crash 12 times trying to cache shaders. Keep telling me the game is verified, but at the 4th attempt download 34 gigs, crash again during patch due to corrupted files. Then boot the game, but auto-connect a controller that isn't even connected crashing the game. Then reboot, having to wait again on the shaders. Get into the game, for some magic reason, the graphics are pre-set on epic. Performance is atrocious. Change the graphics, be forced to reboot again. Game has to redo the same 15 minutes of shader loading. After downloading for 4 hours, attempting to play for almost 2,5 hours I finally get to play the game for 2 minutes, realize I still have to tweak the settings. Try to go change settings, game crashes. Reboot, change settings, reboot again, more waiting on shader loading (...). Get to play the game until you fight the poltergeist. Graphics are noticably worse than before, but seems to run 40-60 fps on medium to high settings.
After downloading the game I've spend 15 minutes playing the game. Almost refunded it twice.
@@douwe4254 I would think vram or ram limitations but I’m unsure, there are new drivers from like a week ago specifically for Stalker, maybe that’ll help
Well what are your specs? If you dont meet the required specs then that makes sense it doesnt work.@douwe4254
I realised theres nothing wrong with running, it may sound cowardly an alive stalker who runs is better than a dead stalker
@@bigfloppymonster ong that’s all you can do bc if you don’t they’ll beam you from every direction and you can’t even tell where they are.
With how many grenades they throw, yeah... You gotta run sometimes.
@@patrickyoung3643lmao my god this has really ruined your day, hell I'm not even that good and games and I have no clue what you're talking about, it's not THAT hard
@ finish the game and come back reeree.
@ it’s literally just the fact that every time i loot a body they only have like 2 bullets and you have to waste so much time trying to unload the guns on the ground while mid gun fight. yeah you have to run away from nades and even then sometimes but it really shouldn’t take as long as it does to kill enemies and why did they put an invisible enemy in the game? 😂. i play on xbox so it took like 4 hours to download and when i died in the beginning it just made me mad 😭
Tip, that may or may not help you...
Did you know, that all of those previous Stalker vanilla games had hidden "Bullseye" system.
You can kill MOST of the mutants, and enemies in ANY armor, with ONE SINGLE bullet from ANY gun, if you shoot them right into the eye(mutants have to have eyes though).
And yes... Rely on your binocular more then on a gun while traveling.
"Clips."
Opinion Discarded.
Business idea. You open a firearm magazine manufacturing company named
“Clips”
Profit from all the people harassed by fuds. Now mags are clips and clips are the best mags you can buy 😂😂😂
@@Thorrbo87 lol was looking for the comment
"don't fight everything"
me: as a STALKER, Anomaly and GAMMA veteran with who knows how many hours...piece of cake.
also me: wasted 70 bullets, 2 grenades, 2 bandages and 2 medkits just to kill one bloodsucker...only to realize I could've just sprint out of the fight into the next section of the cave ( I thought it was a mini boss fight💀)
"Bullets from their clips"
*turns off video*
After years of being a stickler for this (magazines!)
I’ve started to think that it’s just so part of the culture that trying to correct people is like screaming at them for “boneless” wings.
Or like saying “hey guys” even though some lady’s are there.
We all know what they mean.
Same lol
I love how it counts my deaths. DS2 vibes.
I brought my laptop to school to get a head start on downloading it and I had an eta of about 3 weeks before it would be fully downloaded lol
At least you’ll be fully prepared by it’s done lol
Hehe
Prob be another patch at that point
@@starscream6629 lol seriously
And these dang updates on top of the downloads. Downloaded 140 gb game and then the same size for an update and then I hear there’s another 30 gb update now too!
Never use a knife on pack of dogs unless you playing on easy difficulty
Idk if anyone else has noticed this but if you drop all your gear b4 finishing the prologue you can go back and collect them, just drop em in a room nearby before doing the 3rd and final anomaly all but 2 specific weapons were still there it's not much but having all those meda ammo and a gun other than your pistol is a nice Jumpstart
Tried 4 times, only saved the AKs the AR and the 107(?) both disappeared though.
@CoFRTheGamerXxX i had those disappeared to but you get to keep everything else i wonder if u never pick em up if you'd be able to run back and grab em after the prologue
Well they missed the most obvious one where controllers would have game related stick drift and because of it you act as if you're playing drunk. I mean it makes it whole new level of immersion being drunk the entire time you're playing.
So stalker is giving your controller drift?
@bradenhagen7977 there's some sort of bug with how it's registering the input. I was on Black ops 6 and I set the dead zone 0 and I had no stick drift. I also tried two other controllers tried multiple settings I've gone into the recalibration tool for the series 2 elite controller and it shows absolutely no drifting as well so yes it's something with stalker two.
@@Kelshandoi thought i was going crazy. I thought when i was looking around it had something to do with animations but it just feels a bit delayed some how
Got about 2 hours in after tinkering with my settings and getting comfortable, it is already becoming one of my favorite games. My first combat scenario felt really damn good. One bug where I couldn’t get out of inventory but otherwise it’s butter on a high/epic setting. 4070s with an I710700f
between the haystack mission and the antenna mission. to the east, there will be a question mark. You will find an artifact. If you zoom in into the map, you will see its surrounded by a wall. check the southest part.
Where?
Playing on series s, only bugs I’ve had after 4 hours are audio ones like a guy’s radio voice switching to an in person voice or the bullet sounds from my gun going silent for a few hits, it’s my first stalker game and it’s such a vibe, feels like a throwback to 2010s games
Do you have any tips on some of the controller settings? I can’t seem to get it to feel right. Especially sensitivity
@Huhwhips I bumped the aim sensitivity up to 50% as the default 35% felt a little sluggish for me (maybe that was devs intention?) 50% feels better for me, more fast and fluid and makes gunfights feel just a little bit more frantic, so I guess just tinker with the % until it feels right for you
The controller settings is bugged it wuz confirmed by devs I hast a nasty drift in it rite now to the point it’s really unplayable
For anyone on an Xbox, I'd highly recommend if your setup would allow it to look into a mouse and keyboard setup. It makes a difference in the game especially with the inventory. I'm not sure if wireless ones exist for the Xbox yet so you might be stuck with wired ones but it definitely makes the game more manageable
Just plug any mouse and keyboard in
Haven’t had many bugs but one was 2 enemies were able to stick their guns through a brick wall and shoot me and phase through doors. Another was a folding chair launched me in the sky.
Here’s a good hint
Hold R and it brings up the hud and shows you what buttons do what, and shows your quest info etc…
One thing they dropped the ball on imho is having subtitles for war grafitti or maps in Ukrainian… I mean we don’t all read serialik (sp?).
5.5 hours so far, no bugs but performance is really unstable
Depends on what your playing on im on series x it's running pretty well
Guns are fun af in this game and it’s immersive and well fun 😁
Only problem I run into is enemies can see me through walls, so sneaking is basically a no go for me right now.
They can't see you through walls, they can see your light and they can hear you moving around. I think the amount you're carrying also makes your movement noisier
Probably one of the best games I've played in a decade. Day 1 patch, only issue i've had on series X is slight frame drops (instead of 60fps, sometimes as low as 40 in highly dense areas).
@@IAmNotARobotPinkySwear I wanted a game that captivated me with its open world the same way Fallout 3 and Skyrim did. Those were simpler times when you just put in the CD and it worked. This game took 30 minutes of my time just trying to get stable fps at 60 or above and it's still completly inconsistent. The game is mediocre at best and it seems much of the playerbase are full of praise and leniency towards all the bugs purely because it's Ukrainian. Many big review sites are all like "they made this in a war zone!!" despite the fact it was announced and worked on 10 years ago. It's Eurovision all over again with a completly mediocre piece of media getting songs of praise from brainwashed people that seemingly have their entire worldviews dictated to them by whatever current narrative the TV feeds them.
@@PrimeNPCsurely you aren’t saying you wanted a game to launch like Skyrim…? the bugs in that game are arguably still worse today than Stalker on its first day of release
@@PrimeNPCI’m playing on a series S at 30fps with no issues. I just had one crash and im about 10 hours in lol. Slight bugs but from what I remember I soft locked multiple starting play throughs with early game breaking bugs in fo3, nv, Skyrim. If you didn’t enjoy the first game, and if this one doesn’t do it for you. It’s not for you 🤷♂️ it’s slavjank
@@steveharvey441 I played Skyrim for 300 hours over the first 2 months of it's release. On xbox 360, no patches or changes. It captivated me wheras this game just frustates me. The bait and switch they did with the A Life 2.0 and removing it from the Steam description only to give us braindead AI spawning is the scummiest thing I've ever seen a dev do.
@@12gaugekenshin Boasting about 30fps in 2024. You're not a serious gamer.
You forgot to mention that water is wet. Useless list ever.
game runs great, no issues with AI or textures, then suddenly fps drops from 90 fps to 3fps
Task manager shows GPU usage as 0% :/
Skill issue
Well, at least you can repair items or get someone to repair them. Oh wow, I heard english.
My advice would be to play on highest difficulty. That's how its meant to be played.
I played all Stalkers, SoC right at Release. They had and have problems, but gave a spezial feeling that no other franchise can. I hope Stalker 2 can do that.
I play without compass, ammo count and crossair. I wished it was a chievement but nevertheless I prefer the hardcore style. Its like singleplayer Tarkov lol
its so dope🔥
When my game gets done downloading i’m trying that👍🏻
Please do not call it single player tarkov xDDD
A Tarkov style game in the Zone with anomalies and mutants would be awesome
@@darcinek Tarkov has no HUD by default and Stalker seems to have one. Curious why you say that :)
To those with the means but waiting for perfection-consider this:
This game could be the "Game of Your Life," one you’ll mod and love forever. But greatness needs support. By helping the developers now, while they’re still building, you could fuel their vision and turn potential into reality.
What if they’re on the brink of collapse, unable to finish without your help? Don’t wait for perfection-help create it.
And I thought Captain Obvious was obvious...
So far got 12 hours in and only encountered one bug where I was holding a bot and artifact finder tool and I tried opening my inventory and it broke the game. Couldn’t drint, heal or open my inventory again. I reloaded back to a quick save and it fixed it. This game is if tarkov and fallout had a baby. Thats a compliment btw
im actually shocked it runs good on the series s
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl is a masterpiece. The story’s gripping, the Zone is hauntingly atmospheric, and the gunfights are top-notch. It’s tough, rewarding, and insanely immersive. Huge respect to GSC Game World, a Ukrainian studio, for delivering this gem despite the challenges they’re facing. Absolute must-play!
A side note on the unlimited bolts, you can use them to also distract the human ai.
2:54 It’s called a “magazine”
I know right, as a veteran I get so pissed. The moment I heard it, I know that this “journalist” knows nothing about the game and is just doing it for clicks.
I came to the comments as soon as I heard it lol
@@Downs4fudd
Loving the game but the fact that they think these visuals warrant such ridiculously high hardware is laughable. This shit looks like any other cookie cutter game visually speaking. Nothing special whatsoever. Like, when I saw the specs (and the screenshots -_-) I knew better than to think "omg this is going to be soooooo gorgeous" yet there I was saying exactly that. Idk why I thought GSC would be any different bullshit-wise than other devs.
If this game was properly optimized, it could run perfectly on a 2060super and 16 ram. But no, they instead insist that you have a fucking juice cannon of a setup to run mid graphics.
Really upsets me. Game is cool though, deff a nostalgic kick in the teeth in a good way.
For sure I have a 2080s and the it’s like a jet engine compiling on every start up. I have tuned things in to get decent play experience hope nvda helps em out with some optimization
@@mikeyswift2010 pro tip for you 2080 S users, reduce your voltage / power using the overlay. My Gpu was cooking at 85 degrees until I started reducing the power. It doesn't affect performance but massively reduced temperatures and the fan noise. I'm playing Stalker 2 at 50% power, 120fps and it's 61 degrees. If I up it to above 75% power the temperature goes up to 88 but fps or performance does not improve at all. In fact I suspect that if I ran it at 100% at 90 degrees, performance would actually be worse.
@@mikeyswift2010 I also have msi afterburner set to 50% power because my pc sometimes prioritises one program over the other and defaults to 100%. I've been running like this for over a year and had no issues. I play a lot of graphic / action intensive games and the gpu runs fine at near 100% utilisation. No idea how it works but honestly it saved me during summer months and I no longer have to listen to those damn fans going crazy!
I'm not a big fan of survival games or shooters for that matter but something about this game is super intriguing to me idk what it is but I might buy it.
I only encounter one bug after 4 hours of gameplay. Game is really good and scary so far
First game I have wanted to play all day and call out of work for, in a very long time.
I would say those who are experienced at tactical shooters will probably be at a decent advantage here
1. dont bleed out..... NO CRAP... give some better tips dude not the obvious... people are so fast to jump and make videos right when games come out and end up making stupid videos on things we already knew
It doesn't tell you the game will run like shit when you exceed the recommended specs on PC either.
I wouldn’t say like shit . I’ve seen videos about it it doesn’t look like it runs like shit .
cry about it
You wish you knew not to bleed out? It teaches you that in the intro
Even under Russia terrifying attacks they didn't give up on the game, I dont mind weather the game will flop or not, the studio already have my Respect.
10 hours in, loving it. Ive had a bug or two on the series x, but nothing a reload didnt help. SAVE OFTEN, just in general.
I'm "triggered" every time you say "clip". They aren't clips. They are called "magazines".
you know what he means though at the end of the day
Is it possible to play this game with mouse and keyboard or do you have to use a game controller?
All good comments. But if you played Stalker before, none of this is new. But admittedly, I forgot about smashing boxes.
9hours in the only bug I encountered was the over encumbered one pro tip don’t die in the prologue
Press V to melee bash with your gun, so you don't have to switch to knife on every boxes.
It's hard coded, not in keybinding settings.
If you mapped V to other thing... congratulations, you've lost such great ability!
All I ask for from the devs is a dead zone slider so the Xbox players can play the game without fighting stick drift
Doesn’t the game tell you about bleeding like right away?
Game is fun as hell! Hopefully they don't scrap multiplayer though
The performance is the most dangerous thing in this game, the rest are typical fps and post apocalyptic things
The game is great but when the performance and AI issues will be resolved, it will be freaking great!
The reason Stalker doesn't tell you not to bleed out is because it's expecting its audience to have common sense. I realise this video is capitalising on the lack of that in society today.
Theres a tutorial tip for bleeding...
I figured out the bleeding mechanic pretty quickly without the game telling me how to. Biggest thing was figuring out the controls on Xbox.
Man, you must be super duper smart dude. 👍 Really cool comment.
I think people who are saying its laggy nd stuff js got shitty pcs cuz I havent lagged a SINGLE time, no screen tears, nothing js pure beautiful gameplay
ha, so a i7-12700K, 32GB, 4070TI is a shitty PC, I see ... what would I need to get a decent performance in this game then? ... anyway - I hope the next update will fix the many issues I have encountered in the 1 hour I have been playing. I will definitely go back once that is fixed.
@@soulveska let me guess, DLSS in 1080p on all medium or low settings, 30fps lock?
@@jkristia9478 Sadly the devs seem to have not bothered with actually working on optimisation and left it to AI up scaling and frame generation to "work". I don't have a top end pc for today's games, 2080s and 3700x, I can play games with equally as good graphics in 2k resolution without DLS or frame generation at higher than 60fps. The fact the game coats AAA price and I have to downgrade graphics and use AI generation just to get a basic working 60fps is outrageous. If this game was made by Hungarians it would be getting 5s across the board. The amount of leniency and cope being shown towards all the bugs and the terrible performance is insane.
Game runs great for me in 4k and looks amazing in hdr on my c3 oled, but I do have a 7800x3d / 4090 with 64gb of ram.
I love learning from my mistakes, thanks anyway
So far have been enjoying it yes it’s challenging but not overwhelming at least for me 👍
Also save scum as much ya can
Wait until you meet one of the completely invisible enemies
Thanks! Can`t wait to play it!
Every channel now after Playing game for 2 minutes and watching alot of reviews- 99 things i wished i knew... Before i ruined my walkthrough xD 😂
ESO actually made a great starter video for easy loot locations and starter tips.
"Unload Clips" - On PC - Easy, now try that on console :/ The whole inventory system interface is 100% designed for PC users.
Man that console UI is uuuuuugly lol.
Game isn’t anything special so far. Shooting is okay. Ai does a lot of damage. There’s no sneaking. Literally snuck behind a enemy n knifed him n every one was alerted n knew my location
XBOX might have one with this one. DAMN!! I don't have one either!!
Xbox live broski!
If you can, join the family. Yeah, Xbox may not have the titles that PlayStation does but they do have their good few. if you love gaming, there is no silver lining, game on EVERYTHING! Series s is a nice cheap insert into the next gen at a good price, but the series x is worth it.
@no-lobesmagee1866 I'm definitely thinking about it.
Finally a W for Xbox, so many underwhelming day one releases but stalker 2 is a certified banger
imagine this game with bodycam graphics...
I hope a mod comes out
Why though?
I don't want to play a camera.
Do you see your world only through a camera? 😅
I wish I had known there wasn’t any night vision in the game. Legit probably wouldn’t have bought it. Creeping around slowly with night vision was my favorite part of the previous games. Now I can’t do that at all. Even the flashlight is bad. Especially bad because of how fast the day/night cycle is. I don’t know why they made the choices they did with that. Really disappointing.
I wish I knew that the developers didn't prefer to expand their player base!
Well with they didn't tell u. That on a 4090 with 4k at high settings it's goes below 60 fps. It's bugging and crashing. To be able to play at 4k 60. U need 4k high settings dlss and help with frame generation. . Their is a pc review already
"Don't fight everything " coward
The game was released like two days ago. A video like this is so pointless and cringe.
I would like to see DayZ style magazine loading.
I'm not a fan of the magic reload, shooting a ¼ clip and magically pooling together the rest of the ammunition.
Especially in a game that values immersion.
Mods will fix all of the areas that lack attention of detail, just look at how good Anomaly is with its visor wiping and all the little immersive additions that make the game feel great to play.
This video's editing felt as janky as the game itself. Are these made with AI or some shit? Lmao
damn stalker 2 has such a good tutorial and UI that every single "tip" in this video was just obvious stuff
And the fuck was going on in this house 2:00 everyone is shooting at each other for 10 seconds point blank and nobody dies? Even stormtroopers would be able to kill things in these conditions.
15 things I wish I knew.....not already knew
Repair cost way to much, i just throw them away and pick up another weapon when they break....it can be hard earn money for repair all your stuff when you not even can carry everything you find because of the weight/inventory system.
I had an extremely unfortunate time with this game, but I’m gonna give it another try cause I can tell it was a well made game. Not sure what I’m doing wrong.
What I mean is getting auto killed from very beginning enemies.
Hate to say it but just keep at it you will get good eventually. Don’t give up
It certainly does not tell you how badly it is optimized
08:52 basically don't play like this guy. 😂 the epitome of, "do as I say, not as I do.". 😅
People talk about bugs but I don't see bugs. I think it is inferior system specs that can't run the game properly that's the true culprit here. If you can't afford a high-end machine that's fine but don't claim the game has bugs
#1 should be press L for a damn flashlight.
Scape from tarkov but single player and you have a +200% incoming dmg debuff
Let enemies fight it out is the same as don't fight everything.
Question mostly about weapons but applies to armor too, can weapons be repaired indefinitely? Or will they eventually wear out completely?
Second question, well I'm sure that armor will get progressively better, can early game weapons be viable in the late game? Or does stalker do that typical video gamey thing where around the second half of the game you'll suddenly find magically better weapons of either the same type or different that just somehow do more damage?
First question Yeah you can repair indefinitely. Second not sure but I wouldn't want to use a double barrel shotgun or mp5 forever, I did use the AK for a long time since it was so reliable.
I keep getting killed by packs of dogs and packs of wild boars literally can't walk around without getting hurt is this normal I was expecting a lot more creatures and ppl trying to kill you but for me it's really nothing going on.
If these are the kind of tips people need to find out about on UA-cam, STALKER 2 is not a game for you.
I'm on a r7 7600 with a rx7600 and running great so far at 1080p
My game is so frickin dark on Xbox. I can’t see anything at night. Hopefully it gets fixed
took me 4 hours to download.
Took me 15 minutes
Your netwerk sucks
@@zenphondamn lucky you mine took an hour and a half to download not as bad as 4 hours but 15 mins holy shit
7 and still counting💀
It's giving low income
"I Wish I Knew Before Playing STALKER 2" ......SO FUNNY BECAUSE IT JUST CAME OUT :)
Great video!
Any ideas on how to fix psi radiation as I’ve been stuck with constant headaches in game
15 Things It Doesn't Tell You...
Thanks, only 932 things to go
I have a 4090, and it ran like dog shit with DLSS turned on.
Same
I have a 3080ti. I runs flawless at 80 fps with dlss on performance
I have an expensive Sony I’m playing on now but I’m getting an oled this weekend just to enjoy this more
game is hard as hell its awsome
Anyone know how to switch fire modes on weapons?
Tell me you're not a Stalker fan without telling me you're not a Stalker fan. Play the oldies, then anomaly and gamma, then you can cry.