Stalker 2 Looks AMAZING
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- So Stalker 2 has had a rough development cycle to say the least but with the most recent trailers and the developer deep dive things are looking alot better than they were a year ago and I am cautious but hyped. Let's get into it.
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I'm glad this game got popular in the west too, otherwise we might have never gotten a sequel
@babute21 Perhaps. I've loved Stalker ever since I 'discovered' it around 2014.
It quickly became one of my favorite games.
I'm not, when anything becomes popular these days it becomes just another prostituted, political propaganda tool.
Nothing wrong with delays. Let them complete it.
thank you for covering STALKER 2!
@@Handler9 thank you for watching
I think the development of Stalker 2 is a product of Ukrainian national pride, no way the devs aren't passionate about it
@@babute21 Probably. Really hope this war ends.
I've been playing Stalker since 2010 and I'm also a former Halo fan. I too was very skeptical about Stalker 2 at first. Now, I'm glad it's atmosphere looks as awesome as it should be.
@@lordnandor3274 Thanks for watching
One thing more which I like is that game is available on GOG day 1.
@@ishanagarwal475 Yes this is a big thing.
I'm on a few fan groups in Facebook and you have people who've only ever played anomaly or gamma saying and I quote"if it's not like gamma or anomaly the game's going to be trash" which I have to chime in that is the dumbest thing I've ever heard cuz that's not the game that they originally made you can't get mad at a company because they don't want to change their game to be like a mod
The Anomaly/GAMMA crowd are genuinely the worst. Super toxic mainstreamers who came to Stalker knowing nothing about it and demanding it change for them.
I made a video about it a while ago where I pointed out all the BS in Anomaly and why I didn't like it and people got mad at me telling me it's a skill issue or that I shouldn't complain when in reality Anomaly and it's playerbase have tried so aggressively to redefine what stalker is and as you pointed out demand change.
They do not respect what Stalker is. I've seen this type of audience come into another franchise that is now a shadow of its former self in the form of Halo. I hate those people.
I was not with Stalker originally. I first discovered it around 2014 but I went and played the original games first, accepted them for what they were flaws, bugs, and weird gameplay design at times. I learned to enjoy and even love them. I didn't ask the game to change for me.
TL:DR I hate Anomaly players and all the 'broader audience' people that refuse to respect a games legacy.
@@BrokenCircle1 💯 🤣
Good video, i hope this plays good as it looks
@@aeMaico Me too! Thanks for watching!
I'm so proud of my country 🫡🇺🇦 because of the people here! Projects like the STALKER or METRO series have shown me that we can achieve anything, even in tough times. I hope we all get to play this masterpiece 🥹🙏🏻 We must always remember our fallen Stalkers who never got the chance to play STALKER 2
@@awdey Stay safe. Thanks for watching.
100% feel this vid. on the same page but I have pre ordered and I don't regret it I honestly think this game is going to be a smash hit
It looks amazing and I’ve finally decided I’m going to preorder
I personally wouldn't just yet but to each their own. Hopefully the game is good.
@@BrokenCircle1well tbh I haven’t yet I’m probably gonna wait till the 21st to see
You never know what the game is going to be like until it actually comes out. It could be a buggy mess for all we know, you can preorder if you want but you should see it as just supporting the developers without expecting a flawless well cooked game.
Def not skeptical. I know it puts everyone on edge when games do this but they've been upfront about why and have shared a lot of great trailers and dev vids that clearly demonstrate that this game is going to be worth the wait.
Hopping in to say sound reverb was a feature back in 2007 and it was amazing. Although it was broken at launch, you can fix it with a mod. It plays different with reverb and EAX.... So much better
@@LuisC7 good to know I never knew that
@@BrokenCircle1 yeah I'd suggest you give it a try just open shadow of chernobyl with this fix and go to the cave in the rookie village and test it
these 3 months are probably gonna be used for bug fixing, optimizing and final touches
Hopefully. Cool profile pic. Love the cat with the ww2 helmet on lol
@@BrokenCircle1 thanks its my cat c:
Halo Infinite is proof that even a delayed game can be forever bad. 😂
@SunnyMitten Infinite wasn't delayed enough.
IMHO I think Infinite should have been cancelled and started over from scratch but Microsoft wouldn't do that because they put too much money from the project.
@@BrokenCircle1 It had 6 years, got delayed by 1 and still failed.
That had alot to do with the fact that 343 was extremely disorganized and it was reported that several different internal teams were all working on their vision of what the game should be rather than working on one game. Firings needed to happen and it needed to be restarted.
@@BrokenCircle1 Nah, straight up blacklistings needed to occur, they broke promises they made blatantly apparent and since they have no good qualities or potential they must be disposed of to go find another field entirely.
I think that’s halos problem and not the game look at cyberpunk came out buggy and flawed but the game always was good it’s character world and stories were always good so I guess we will see
Pre Purchased.
@@iangillon6981 To each their own. I get it. I'll probably eventually get it no matter what. Just been burned by pre ordering so many times.
Ok
“50k people used to live here now it’s a ghost town”
it does!
Thanks for watching!
i am excited AS F!!!
i think we all really played to death the original stalker series/anomaly
so we need something more polished more newer, new story new experience!
i also can't wait when modders get their hands in it and do even more cooler immersive stuff in it!
@@helioshyperion8077 There's alot more mods than Anomaly.
So far pretty excited for the game im hoping their show more of the open world in the gameplay again maybe showing some of the ALIFE feature cause right now the trailers have been very story based from what ive seen besides the locations trailer they showed recently
There are really only 2 things I'm mildly concerned about with Stalker 2. Firstly, I'm concerned about the size of the UI. It seems like it was designed for consoles. It's nowhere near as eggregious as many other modern games, but I personally don't like the size of the crosshair and compass etc. I hope there would be some UI customization or at least a UI scale option. Lastly, I'm a bit worried about performance. I do believe GSC will try their absolute hardest to get the game to run as well as humanly possible. However the game is an Unreal Engine 5 title, and the developers have not given any detailed or updated system requirements. I hope this won't be a Starfield moment where the system requirements are some phantom mess that are not at all representative of what hardware you need to actually have a smooth experience.
I think reverberation of a beep is a trailer effect to pump up atmosphere, not ingame effect.
Let's hope not. If that was the case I think it's a pretty scummy and deceptive tactic. I think it was actually there.
I forgot Stalker existed.
As a Ukrainian, I really want everyone to like this game, but I agree with the warning about pre-orders. In general, regarding any game, do not rush to make pre-orders, especialy too early. However, the game will be in Game Pass and if you will really like it, I'll be very grateful if you buy it to support the developers.
That sounds like a good overall solution. Thanks for watching and stay safe!
@@BrokenCircle1 thank you!
Good video bro :)
I have never played or even seen stalker gameplay, but I might check it out.
@Theoneuknow7 Check out Lost Alpha. It's a free mod that basically gets the story of the first official game in there+adds in loads of cut content.
@@BrokenCircle1 have you tried Oblivion Lost Remake 2.5? It`s very close to the first builds, it`s really cool to see how different it is
I think...is that one with very basic visuals and alot of fog? Think I tried it but it was a bit too primitive for me. Been playing one recently called Improved Weapon Pack which is ALOT more than what it sounds like.
@@BrokenCircle1 Sorry i think i said the mod name incorrectly, It's Vector of Alienation (that is based in OLR 2.5), it's does restore the full old questline, rework all OLR quests and make it look good. It's fun experience because is different from the SOC we get.
Also, Improved Weapon pack looks cool. i finishing clear sky rn, and want to play the story mods that people praise for being good, like dreamcatcher, golden sphere, fotograf, etc.
Something I don't like is the very typical compass at the top that's gotten very popular with open world games over the years
@Neros_light To be honest I didn't notice it. Will have to check out the gamescom footage later to see more.
@@BrokenCircle1 I did but only cause I've seen it so much.
I've been playing Gamma for a year or so, and am quite used to the difficulty. I don't find it that hard to be honest, just time consuming with needing to find all the parts for your weapons.
Then I recently tried Anomaly Custom, since it seems to be very hyped.
And I died.
And I died.
And I died.
And I died.
That is difficult on a totally different level.
Still would consider playing IWP once it goes standalone.
Uhm...I released an IWP video yesterday lol.
Despite the fantastic graphics and preservation of areas from the original games I couldn't put my finger on what was giving me this sense of worry. Upon visiting their site however I understood. The game itself seems to be great, however the practices used by the company seem to be scummy and in my opinion unacceptable. No where in the latest trailer was it mentioned to have pre-order tiers, so if you don't pay double the price you wont get all the content on release. Expansions after the games release in the form of DLC is acceptable, but stopping players from accessing content has already been made for the game before release is wild. In tandem with the skins and all these little bonuses trying to make people shill out more money for the pre-orders makes me wonder if Stalker2 is just going to be another modern triple A cash grab.
I truly hope this will not be the case as I greatly enjoyed call of pripyat and later the mods based on anomaly such as GAMMA.
@fireblox7775 Yeah I agree the practices behind the scenes are scummy. Especially the pre planned dlc and pre order bonuses.
@@BrokenCircle1 Yeah, the plan to make content unavailable at release is kinda scummy, and it's not just some extra random missions as it "continues or expands the main story" And with the story and lore being (atleast for me) one of the main attractions of the stalker series it's sad to see that this is behind a paywall.
Stalker 2 seems to be mostly the game we were waiting for. There are a few baffling design choices that really piss me off though :
1) The curse of the yellow paint : yellow paint vomit all over environmental interactable objects. Stop it. Get some help.
2) Let's make the game time x2.5 faster than in the original games, even though the map is x10 bigger. Now a full in-game day cycle equals 1 hour IRL. You like to play during night time to infiltrate a base or just to bask in the atmosphere? Well too bad, you've only got about 10-15 minutes of night time before sunrise now. Yay.
1. I didn't notice that. Personally doesn't bother me much but I can see why it bothers some. Really hope they add a toggleable option for that.
2. YIKES! I did not know that AT ALL. Again definitely needs some options for that to be changed.
Thanks for sharing that info and watching!
Yeah, that day/night cycle seems to be too fast. IT was too slow in OGs imo. It needs to be somewhere between. But we will see.
@@BrokenCircle1 people just watched Dugout's review of DDD, where he made these calculations & assumed that's how the cycle is gonna work on release. I say devs have sped up the cycle specifically for the showcase in order to demonstrate the weather changes & how the game looks under those different weather conditions 🤷🏻♂️
I thought it was just right in the OGs myself. I think the best solution...I saw it in an indie game I played recently is allow the players to scale how long the day/night cycle is. Have maybe a short, medium, extreme mode. Say 30 minute cycle short, 60 min medium, extreme could be 2.5 hours or something.
@@BrokenCircle1 they never actually said it was sped up but either way if they did seeing backlash they’d probably change it
Delays aren't a problem. Incremental delays are. If the game had been delayed by a whole 2 years, that's enough time for a game-wide restructure of the codebase, improving efficiency in the long run. If the game is delayed by just a few months, you can only add bandages on top of your currently broken game. Then another couple months delay is more bandages on on the previous one, and so on until the whole game is just a bandaged patchwork of buggy mess where a small change in the code requires a lot of work. This is why despite Cyberpunk being delayed like 8 times, all those delays were incremental, so the game still came out a buggy shitshow. I fear the same for Stalker 2...
@inxendere Good point. I agree with you.
Like I said the game looks good. Everything I'd want from a stalker game is there.
Like I also said I have no idea if it will actually function and these consonant few month delays are annoying and as you pointed out concerning.
Well have to wait and see and hope for the best.
The original Stalker and all its mods will always be there if this one sucks.
You know who actually said the quote in the thumbnail? That's a quote by Shigeru Miyamoto, one of the greatest game producers known. He's not just known to any fan of Nintendo, he's known as a legend in the industry.
@BaxterAndLunala Yes but I used the quote because it's a good one.
@BrokenCircle1 Yes it is, though it is a little flawed. While Cyberpunk did eventually become good, an infamous example of a delayed game that released bad is Duke Nukem Forever.
Where did the game footage come from
Which footage? The Stalker footage? That's a mod called Old World. S2 footage is all from different trailers. The other is as stated in the video from a game called Chernobylite.
@@BrokenCircle1 thx
like this guy
stalker 2: heart of chernobyl GOTY 2024 💚
Hopefully
Still would be cool for stalker 2 to be like anomaly, as like an additional mode or just through mods. I still have my fingers crossed that the multiplayer will be DayZ and anomaly
@@capturedbrush2852 No it wouldn't. The game isn't made for you. Go somewhere else if you want that.
@@BrokenCircle1 what I've been telling y'all about "DayZ+Tarkov" wet dreamers? 😏
It looks like Farcry in the zone lmfao.
How do you figure?
@@melaninfarmer cope
I'm not hyped, but cautiously optimistic. The last game I truly got hyped for was Cyberpunk, which, still to this day, still a subpar product and a testament of missed potentials. I hope Stalker 2 will be good, but I refused to get hyped.
@@YamaikoHiro Fair enough and probably for the best. Thanks for watching.
Stalker 2 looking fire for real, however i still think additional paid content they have going is kinda crazy, sure I understand normal edition is cheaper than most games we see coming out, like in my region it’s 30 dollars, yeah sure GSC needs money because of situation they ended up in but it’s still bothering
Also farm51 announced chernobylite 2
@mcelfy1006 Agreed and yes I saw! Planning to do a video about that too! Just been super busy. I am hyped!
@@BrokenCircle1 i haven’t finished first chernobylite yet lol, but will come around eventually
I Think selling skins DLCs for MP it's ok, seems normal this days. I just don't like losing some camp stories and a quest because i didn't get the game in pre-order (even through i did it, still think this sucks)
Yeah that is total BS the camp stories thing. Feels very cheap.
I "smashed" - and continue to "smash" - Anomaly, the gigantic stand-alone and... free mod of Call of Prypiat; I can't help but take Stalker2 on the first day, I owe it to them (I'm not even a gamer, I only play Anomaly - heavily modded -, coming from the Strugatsky novel and Tarkovskij film).
@@LucretiusNigro if you expect S2 to be like Anomaly you are going to be dissapointed.
@@BrokenCircle1 What are you referring to? It seems to me that the developers have taken advantage of many of the mods made for Anomaly. The feeling of threat, loneliness, freedom, etc. belong to the entire series. Explain to me better.
@@BrokenCircle1 Ah, wait, if you're alluding to the intricacies of 'Gamma', then it doesn't concern me (I tried Gamma, but I prefer to mod Anomaly myself, and not have that hard-core stuff on the weapon parts etc. then I love HD Models too much and other little things ^^ ).
If you haven’t played anything better than Minecraft, then yeah, stalker 2 looks amazing
Do you have an actual argument? Maybe things about what you dislike about the game based on what you have seen?
@@BrokenCircle1 nah I’m just sad about how many delays game has had
lol
I hope it won't be turned to anomaly and be played like cod/some shitass survival game for zoomer kids.
I’m a metro fan so not interested as much.. But i will buy if they don’t bring the politics of a certain conflict into the game lore to “preach” onto the audience. Still uncertain about the game having any launch.. Just a bad luck scenario.
@charliehotelromeo284 Fair point. I feel sympathy for the people who have lost their lives in the conflict particularly Ukrainians but at the same time I don't want the game to be preachy but I'd also understand if there was something in there. It is their country and their war after all.
Judging by the developer deep dive it doesn't seem like it will be though. Maybe a 'in honor of the heroes who lost their lives' type of thing which I think is fine.
Hate the war. Not the soldiers.
@@BrokenCircle1 *THANK YOU GIF !!!!!!!!!!
last year they dumbed down visuals, this year it was the gameplay. far cry russia is for real now. made for the modern console audience that is okay with controller recoil, yellow navigation markers, oversized UI elements for TV 10 feet away. not to mention it's quite obiovus the "day 1" modding marketing hype is for bethesda style paid mods that also can be sold to console players. the low number of guns at launch indicate official weapon packs down the line. all the hallmarks of a modern AAA release, not angry, just dissapointed.
@NoradNoxtus Hmmm. I didn't think it was a low number of guns. Already it seems like more than the originals.
As for the other things I can see what you mean. Time will tell.
Wow, that's a whole lot of yappin over here - "dumbed down visuals, FarCry Russia", lol 😂 You either trolling or have no idea what you're blabbering about in the first place.
they need to fucking drop it so modders can get it before we never get it at all
@rickmort27 As much as I hate to say it I'd rather them just keep delaying it if it really isn't ready though they should stop with the micro delays. If it needs another year just tell us that.
It did annoy me the fact that less than a year ago they told us the final release date only to delay it again.
@@BrokenCircle1 Stalker the base game sucks they need to drop it , modders made the original fun, this game wouldnt even have traction if it wasnt for anaomly dropping the mod of the decade
Stalker had a cult following long before Anomaly. Anomaly imo sucks and the base games are fine.
@@BrokenCircle1 thats funny cause the devs have stated they are taking inspiration from anomaly's additions to their game
@@rickmort27 I remember they acknowledged the modding community but haven't stated Anomaly particularly. Thats funny.
Anomalies are revamped. There is nothing dangerous about anomalies. The AI is having a hard time with pathfinding. There is loot everywhere, the game has become a looter shooter. The A-Life is nowhere to be found. They are no longer talking about it. The so called mod support is going to be a lame mod io mod support where you have only limited access to the game itself. UI itself looks like it was either designed in last minute or someone’s first ever project.
Yeah they haven't mentioned A life to be fair. I don't think loot is too common it seems. As for the mod support only time will tell but yeah it does seem perhaps the engine wont be as moddible.
Don't see the issue with the UI Though.
Nah man, you are just not reading thing devs says. They are normaly talking about A-life in discord and reddit. Its normaly there and i bet, we will see some showcase about it before release. They would be dumb to show everything at once 3 months from release.
Lol it looks really a dumbed down STALKER.
That's so even guys like you could complete it :->
There's no Ubisoft or Microsoft higher-ups telling them to make the game more casual simply to appeal to a wider audience...
This Ukrainian studio, much like when the Witcher series was being made by CD Projekt, just followed their creative vision without it being watered down, and THAT'S what people want?
I play Starfield, and I think of how much of an awesome space-sim it could have been if they allowed the devs to go full-on with the complexity of having to fuel your ship, pilot it, maintain it's weapons systems etc, but they just dumbed it all down because some big-wig who probably doesn't even play games likely told them the game had to have mass appeal?
I don't worry about that for S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2 after seeing the deep dive 🫡👌