GSC GameWorld has shared an official Gamescom 2023 gameplay trailer for STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl. In addition, the team revealed that the game will be now targeting a Q1 2024 release date.
STALKER 2 will be using Unreal Engine 5 and promises to feature incredible graphics. Furthermore, here are some preliminary PC requirements. Below you can also find the game’s key features.
STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl Key Features
- A unique mix of first-person shooter, horror and immersive sim.
- A non-linear storyline with a variety of paths leading to one of several possible endings
- Stunning graphics that set new standards with state-of-the-art photogrammetric and scanning technologies
- Next-generation graphics developed with state-of-the-art photogrammetric techniques and scanning technologies
- Advanced artificial intelligence systems that will keep even the most hardcore gamers on their toes
- A-life 2.0 life simulation system makes the game world more lifelike than ever before
- Immersive survival mechanics for hunger, sleep, bleeding injuries and the effects of radiation enrich the gameplay experience
- A dynamic day-and-night cycle and realistic weather effects make the game a true-to-life experience
- Mod support gives creative players the opportunity to expand and enrich the game universe
- Multiplayer mode to be added as a free update shortly after release
Enjoy this Gamescom 2023 gameplay trailer for STALKER 2, and stay tuned for more!
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That’s all? This looks like another Far Cry. Hell, it looks worse than Metro Exodus.
“Looks worse than Metro”
Lets not go that far, but yeah, it looks bad.
Like any other generic title out there.
Metro Exodus still looks great to this day. This matches Far Cry 6 at best.
nah far cry 6 for all its faults has plenty of little details which is what this game lacks.
cheeki breeki, brat!
The magic of Cheeky Breeky is gone.
“the game will be now targeting a Q1 2024 release date.”
will be turned in to q2 and then q3 and q4 and 2025 if ukraine lasts that long.
Speaking of which, i love when a rpg starts by beating you off and throwing you in the gutter like new vegas or atom rpg. But why is everyone speaking in english accents when the game is called CHORNOBYL, which is so stupid by the way, might as well ukranize heart and stalker, so no one has any idea wtf you saying.
This does not look good to me, it looks a mix between a good unity asset flip and using enb mods for anomaly and gamma, i guess the new engine wont crash as much when it runs out of memory but overall the visuals are heavily downgraded and i dont think anyone liked stalker and anomaly for the constant talking and cinematic events. Look how accurate the weapons are. I ll be honest the game looks less and less impressive with every trailers. I went from “wow this is a next gen game” to “whatever nice indie game, ill check it out at some point when they patch it a guess”
The american accent is very off putting. Then again americans have been complaining about metro’s russian accent, so the devs are caving in most likely
It prob have the option of having native vo and subtitles, always do that with the RGG yakuza-judgement games just feels weird with english vo, not as much personality and such.
Ukraine has now become a vessel state of America. It is only surviving because of USA.
For one it’s vassal not vessel …..
There isn’t a single former Soviet republic still aligned with Russia that is better off than any of the former Soviet republics now aligned with the US and NATO …. Every NATO member is far better off today than they were 30 years ago which is why everyone wants to join and no one hardly sides with Russia and their dystopian society
Russians and their allies don’t understand Freedom having never had it, they’ve just stumbled from one form of dictatorship to another for hundreds of years ….
If you like infinite bantus and gay marriage, sure, go for that NATO membership.
not a single? really? georgia, transnistria or whatever its called, belarus,chechnya.
Also the idea we have freedom in the west is laughable, “democracy” is now defined as agreeing with the foreign policy of america or you are “anti democracy” if you are pro american foreign policy you can be a dictator and thy dont care, many such examples the saudis for example.
That’s what happens when the gaming market in the US is bigger than the rest of the world combined. You are going to tailor your project for the largest market, that’s just Business 101 stuff ……
I’ll buy it only to support the devs.
Aren’t You going to say anything edgy this time?
No
You’re my number one fan, I don’t need attention.
I only need entertainment.
That’s so sweet of you.
Don’t waste it, eat it while it’s hot.
Aren’t You going to say anything edgy this time?
I hate that the player’s character has a voice.
The accent is not Russian either, the MC looks like an American stranded in the zone.
Beyond the awful dub (no sane person would play this with english voices when the ukranian are available), it takes me out of the immersion, when for me STALKER is immersion above anything else.
Visually the game looks dated, considering is UE5. But with all the delays and troubles it doesn’t surprise me, at this point i expect at least a good story, the mods will do the rest as usual (gameplay/visuals)
The accent is not Russian either, the MC looks like an American stranded in the zone.
Looks quite cheap, imho.
And the english VO is just as bad.
they definitely cut down on the graphics. It’s quite visible. As always, pleasing the console fanbois.
It won’t feel like stalker without the odd UI and jankiness, those games were really time and place type of thing. It was kinda like being in the zone, make do with what you have, not rolls royce RT and convenient UI and smoothness. Would have been so cool to make it with the old tools and graphics imo another stalker story in stalker universe idk hard to get across what I mean if you didn’t get it from above.
Objective compass
Enemy markers
Enemy line of sight indicators
Scripted cinematic moments
DPAD looking quick item UI
Hans Zimmer drums
Yep this is a dumbed down console sequel.
Expect them to miss that Q1 deadline as well, the game is will come out late 2024 at the earliest, the inventory system isn’t even finished considering they showed a placeholder.
Still can’t tell if even the penetration and ballistic system is returning at all or if they have just gone with simplified hitscan now.
I very much doubt the ballistic system is returning.
This has to run on an Xbox with it’s pathetic CPU limitations.
To be fair the original stalker also had objective compass and enemy markers on the minimap but you are right about that weird Hans Zimmer audio and cut-scenes.
It just doesn’t feel like good old stalker.
STALKER had a minimap, very different from this
Way less intrusive and had great art design
this game was gonna come out in 2022.
That all was in original, exept cinematics.
Enemy line of sight indicators
Scripted cinematic moments
DPAD looking quick item UI
Hans Zimmer drums
None of these were in
probably will be options to turn those things off. and if not, guarantee there will be mods to make it a true stalker experience
Did you play the originals. It may be bad but your points dont make sense.
The number of times I finished SoC is bigger than your age number.
oof
Why you lying then ?
Only thing previous games did not have was cinematics
U dumb Ape.
But it did have cinematics you dumb monkey
Unreal Engine was a bad idea for STALKER. It just doesn’t feel like the ZONE I know from Shadow of Charnobyl.
This just looks off.
X-ray engine for some reason looks more realistic and atmospheric to me than this.
But we will see.
one thing you can give to the trash ray engine and source engine is that they look like they take place in eastern europe.
Yup!
I mean even now with mods, STALKER looks better than what we see in this trailer imho!
i am not holding any hope out for this game. Regardless i’ll gladly try it out on gamepass. looks like it will still be fun if even not a true stalker experience. I am sure you can turn off the compass markers and hud anyways to tune it however you like
Seriously! What the F**** This is not the survival horror STALKER game I used to know. It’s just another Call of Duty. The original STALKER captivated me for being atmospheric, dark, mysterious, and almost no “cinematic experience.” It was a mature game for a mature audience, now it is being developed for console kiddies and their “cinematic experience.”.
PS: The MC looks like an American stranded in the zone.
It reminds me too much of Metro Exodus/ Far Cry
all the talent left for 4A games.
I will buy 10 copies to support the genocidal corrupt qeef maffia in its endevour to become an anti-russian Nuke storage for NATO in the name of peace and Blackrock prosperity
when i saw the media complaining about ukranian civilians getting bombed calling it a war crime, my immediate reaction was “oh yeah? what about when the ukranian neonazis were bombing russian civilians for years what then? was it not a crime or do russian lives not matter because russians are subhumans or something?” Stupid ware the media is covering for nazis and selectively telling us to care about one side of “Bad guys” but not the other one.
Doesn’t feel like S.T.A.L.K.E.R. at all.
Uh, I’m obviously talking about what we’re seeing in the videos…
Still, you can get a pretty good idea of what the game will be like. That’s the point of trailers, after all, otherwise they wouldn’t exist.
Those who dislike the graphics and think it’s everything in the game, go play C*ck of Dooty MW III. Visuals are top notch there so the game must be great, right?
Maybe it was taken on Xbox Series. STALKER 2 on GamesCom is part of Xbox show after all.
What the heck happened to Youtubes 4K video quality? This amount of compression is laughable: https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e38284ed92df09b4e8de4564c0ae10f700dee2af95f3c2732cb2cbe257cbc943.jpg
STOLKOR CHORNOBOL LOOKS UOGLYO.
“Incredible graphics lol” Game looks like s#1t