Atmosphere, missions, story, gunplay, graphics, sound, exploration are all amazing! Feels very faithful to the previous games as well, while adding some great bits from mods like Anomaly. Yes there are bugs and performance issues. But the game is still a work of art. For someone who loves the previous Stalkers and the mods, Metro series and Shooter open world games, Stalker 2 is a truly unique experience.
Great video! I can’t wait to play the game once the crashes that cause lost progress and stuff get fixed, the attention to detail and the world looks fucking incredible. still a miracle the game even got finished given what the studio/employees went through
@@duncancreamer8251thank you! I hope you enjoy it as much as I have! It is crazy what they were able to pull off with everything that studio had to go through. Still one of my favorite devs out there! It’s hard not to love stalker!
On performance: The 3080 in my real computer gets consistently above 100fps everywhere, and 120 outdoors, after the recent patch and updating my drivers. I have everything but motion blur cranked to the max. My laptop's 3060 gets 50+fps everywhere and 70+ outdoors. I think that massive stuttering problem that everyone was calling a memory a leak was just a driver/patch issue. At least that's what fixed it for me. It got really bad during the cutscene between Faust and Strider, ruined that whole otherwise awesome scene. So I went and tried and succeeded at fixing the issue. There are definite nostalgia goggles in some places, I'd keep running to new areas and squeeing 'I member that!'; but I've read from people who're playing this game first it still seems to be a very cool world for them. The enemy spawning issues are real. They couldn't get 'A-Life' working in time so they slapped in this shoddy 'spawn enemies when player is near' system that everybody hates but makes the game playable. Otherwise there'd be no enemies outside of hard scripted encounters. Hopefully they get that working soon. A lot of the environment you and the enemies are supposed to be able to shoot through. A bit of plaster or a quarter inch of sheet metal isn't going to stop a 7.62 round. There's even an achievement for it. But yeah, I've had enemies shooting me through several feet of dirt or concrete and stuff too. They're also too accurate on higher difficulties and too stupid on easy difficulty. Plus on all difficulties they seem to notice you instantly, or not at all. I've crept into rooms and headshot 9+ guys while they all stared at the wall in front of them, then other times I'll try the same thing and they're shooting me before I even round the corner. It's very obviously fake/cheating AI. The AI needs to cheat (for now), but it doesn't have to be that obviouis. They should just rip the AI from FEAR, that was great and still better than most of the AIs I've seen around. Also the callouts are laughably bad. "I'm hiding here!" and the grenade spam. It wasn't so bad till they start using the F1s on later areas. I've had like 3 crashes in 60+ hours. 1 soft-lock where I had to kill the process. All of them were when alt-tabbing. The saving is weird. Most of the time it's great, several rotating quicksaves and autosaves plus unlimited manual saves and they're usually timed great so you don't lose too much progress. But occasionally I'd get in a spot where it wouldn't let me save, probably due to an enemy hunting me, and a few times I did lose 10+ minutes progress when I thought it should've saved. Twice, near the end of the game, you'll get into some really unfair shooting sections where you can't save for the whole thing. Took me 2 hours to finally beat that, kept getting one-shotted by the dudes with railguns. Are you on an SSD? What CPU do you have? How much RAM? For having a 3070 you do seem to be having a lot of issues. I've got a Ryzen 7 and an I7 respectively. 64gbin my rig and 16GB in my laptop. It takes maybe 30 seconds for the shader compile for my real computer. Still only a minute or so for my laptop. There's a mod to disable that if it really bugs you, just be sure to disable it at least once every patch or PC update. Oh, technically it's on an M.2, but they're not that much faster than standard ssds. The texture 'z fighting' and money issues were mostly fixed. Also the money issue is moddable. Ammo wasn't a problem for me outside of very early and very late-game; BUT I added one mod to lower consumable's weight and one to slightly increase the backpack weight limit. Plus I go around looting everything, like grid searching the zone. Haven't beat veilguard yet, but given how stalker grabbed me and didn't let go all weekend while veilguard did not, I can be reasonably sure this is my goty. Could just be a poor start on veilguard, but I've heard (from non-wokebsnoise sources) that it's pretty preachy and tutorial like all the way through.
Had the exact same reaction to the mind fucker in the basement ! I came from dayz myself so i have a higher tolerance for bugs and jank compared to most gamers for my 1st stalker game been having a blast ! 💪🖤
the game is great but it has glaring performance issues mainly due to devs crunching to release the game on time so they relied on check mark developing as mean as that sounds to make the game look good and get it to market faster. Glad they could do that, just wish that meant taking note of areas to optimize it. bc theres no way in hell stalker 2 should be running worse than games like battlfield 5/1 with how static the world is. Stalker 2 needs more time to cook at the hands of modders/devs to try to tweak the issues unreal engine has. and most of the issues are bc of Unreal.
@@spakentruth 100% agree. They ran into a lot of issues with their company ( the war and stuff ) and with development, it has major issues but with time this will still easily be a game I come back to many times in the future
@lavaislame954 100%. The crazy thing is the performance issues can actually be addressed as some of the potential fixes have been documented. Threat interactive does deep dives critiquing unreal and coming up engine level solutions to unreal development. This game will improve no doubt about it. Let's hope GSC is willing to collect feedback from the community to try and rectify the issues with the game bc there's a great experience here. It just doesn't need to look AND run like buns bc unreal engine tells developers optimizing is as easy as a click of a button
you only need to compile shaders once (when you boot up the game the first time). and you can then use the mod to skip shader compiling HOWEVER, if you patched the game or updated your gfx drivers, you need to remove the mod (its just a pak file) so the game will recompile the shaders or your game will glitch and crash. then reinstall the mod.
@@169Aquarius well my channel is about me and the games I like, and I go in depth about the game, what I like, what I don’t, so both brother, do you think peoples opinions on something are separate from the person???
@@russia4biden221 the hot fix they put out today helps Alot with my performance I don’t need performance mode to run it well on top of making things like the AI work better, the game in terms of overall difficulty isn’t super hard but I didn’t think the older ones were super hard either, I played them after making this for a while and I didn’t really have a issue, if ya want a more hardcore experience try gamma or anomaly, also the guy who made gamma has been releasing difficulty adjustments for people who like that more hardcore experience
Atmosphere, missions, story, gunplay, graphics, sound, exploration are all amazing!
Feels very faithful to the previous games as well, while adding some great bits from mods like Anomaly.
Yes there are bugs and performance issues. But the game is still a work of art.
For someone who loves the previous Stalkers and the mods, Metro series and Shooter open world games, Stalker 2 is a truly unique experience.
Great video! I can’t wait to play the game once the crashes that cause lost progress and stuff get fixed, the attention to detail and the world looks fucking incredible. still a miracle the game even got finished given what the studio/employees went through
@@duncancreamer8251thank you! I hope you enjoy it as much as I have! It is crazy what they were able to pull off with everything that studio had to go through. Still one of my favorite devs out there! It’s hard not to love stalker!
On performance: The 3080 in my real computer gets consistently above 100fps everywhere, and 120 outdoors, after the recent patch and updating my drivers. I have everything but motion blur cranked to the max.
My laptop's 3060 gets 50+fps everywhere and 70+ outdoors.
I think that massive stuttering problem that everyone was calling a memory a leak was just a driver/patch issue. At least that's what fixed it for me. It got really bad during the cutscene between Faust and Strider, ruined that whole otherwise awesome scene. So I went and tried and succeeded at fixing the issue.
There are definite nostalgia goggles in some places, I'd keep running to new areas and squeeing 'I member that!'; but I've read from people who're playing this game first it still seems to be a very cool world for them.
The enemy spawning issues are real. They couldn't get 'A-Life' working in time so they slapped in this shoddy 'spawn enemies when player is near' system that everybody hates but makes the game playable. Otherwise there'd be no enemies outside of hard scripted encounters. Hopefully they get that working soon.
A lot of the environment you and the enemies are supposed to be able to shoot through. A bit of plaster or a quarter inch of sheet metal isn't going to stop a 7.62 round. There's even an achievement for it. But yeah, I've had enemies shooting me through several feet of dirt or concrete and stuff too. They're also too accurate on higher difficulties and too stupid on easy difficulty. Plus on all difficulties they seem to notice you instantly, or not at all. I've crept into rooms and headshot 9+ guys while they all stared at the wall in front of them, then other times I'll try the same thing and they're shooting me before I even round the corner. It's very obviously fake/cheating AI. The AI needs to cheat (for now), but it doesn't have to be that obviouis.
They should just rip the AI from FEAR, that was great and still better than most of the AIs I've seen around.
Also the callouts are laughably bad. "I'm hiding here!" and the grenade spam. It wasn't so bad till they start using the F1s on later areas.
I've had like 3 crashes in 60+ hours. 1 soft-lock where I had to kill the process. All of them were when alt-tabbing.
The saving is weird. Most of the time it's great, several rotating quicksaves and autosaves plus unlimited manual saves and they're usually timed great so you don't lose too much progress. But occasionally I'd get in a spot where it wouldn't let me save, probably due to an enemy hunting me, and a few times I did lose 10+ minutes progress when I thought it should've saved.
Twice, near the end of the game, you'll get into some really unfair shooting sections where you can't save for the whole thing. Took me 2 hours to finally beat that, kept getting one-shotted by the dudes with railguns.
Are you on an SSD? What CPU do you have? How much RAM? For having a 3070 you do seem to be having a lot of issues.
I've got a Ryzen 7 and an I7 respectively. 64gbin my rig and 16GB in my laptop.
It takes maybe 30 seconds for the shader compile for my real computer. Still only a minute or so for my laptop.
There's a mod to disable that if it really bugs you, just be sure to disable it at least once every patch or PC update.
Oh, technically it's on an M.2, but they're not that much faster than standard ssds.
The texture 'z fighting' and money issues were mostly fixed. Also the money issue is moddable.
Ammo wasn't a problem for me outside of very early and very late-game; BUT I added one mod to lower consumable's weight and one to slightly increase the backpack weight limit. Plus I go around looting everything, like grid searching the zone.
Haven't beat veilguard yet, but given how stalker grabbed me and didn't let go all weekend while veilguard did not, I can be reasonably sure this is my goty.
Could just be a poor start on veilguard, but I've heard (from non-wokebsnoise sources) that it's pretty preachy and tutorial like all the way through.
Had the exact same reaction to the mind fucker in the basement ! I came from dayz myself so i have a higher tolerance for bugs and jank compared to most gamers for my 1st stalker game been having a blast ! 💪🖤
game of the year for me too
the game is great but it has glaring performance issues mainly due to devs crunching to release the game on time so they relied on check mark developing as mean as that sounds to make the game look good and get it to market faster. Glad they could do that, just wish that meant taking note of areas to optimize it. bc theres no way in hell stalker 2 should be running worse than games like battlfield 5/1 with how static the world is. Stalker 2 needs more time to cook at the hands of modders/devs to try to tweak the issues unreal engine has. and most of the issues are bc of Unreal.
@@spakentruth 100% agree. They ran into a lot of issues with their company ( the war and stuff ) and with development, it has major issues but with time this will still easily be a game I come back to many times in the future
@lavaislame954 100%. The crazy thing is the performance issues can actually be addressed as some of the potential fixes have been documented. Threat interactive does deep dives critiquing unreal and coming up engine level solutions to unreal development. This game will improve no doubt about it. Let's hope GSC is willing to collect feedback from the community to try and rectify the issues with the game bc there's a great experience here. It just doesn't need to look AND run like buns bc unreal engine tells developers optimizing is as easy as a click of a button
@ I have a lot of faith in GSC and the community they have fostered, they’ll fix it fs
you only need to compile shaders once (when you boot up the game the first time). and you can then use the mod to skip shader compiling
HOWEVER, if you patched the game or updated your gfx drivers, you need to remove the mod (its just a pak file) so the game will recompile the shaders or your game will glitch and crash. then reinstall the mod.
@@optiondezzo1513THANK YOU!!!!
Name of mod for first video part?
@@dziabob584 stalker gamma! It’s a mod for stalker call of prypiat!
So is this about stalker 2 or you my friend cmon man
@@169Aquarius well my channel is about me and the games I like, and I go in depth about the game, what I like, what I don’t, so both brother, do you think peoples opinions on something are separate from the person???
Please don’t promote russn crap called tarkov
Idk game sucks
@@slywolf2025 lmao I counter with I like it
Its trash, runs like garbage, so easy compared to the originals.
@@russia4biden221 the hot fix they put out today helps Alot with my performance I don’t need performance mode to run it well on top of making things like the AI work better, the game in terms of overall difficulty isn’t super hard but I didn’t think the older ones were super hard either, I played them after making this for a while and I didn’t really have a issue, if ya want a more hardcore experience try gamma or anomaly, also the guy who made gamma has been releasing difficulty adjustments for people who like that more hardcore experience
Runs like butter on my mid range PC. 5600x/6700xt. Stupid username btw...