GSC GameWorld has officially announced that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl has been delayed until December 8th. The game was originally targeting an April 28th, 2022, release date. However, the team needs more time in order to thoroughly test and polish it.
STALKER 2 aims to feature an epic, non-linear story. Furthermore, your choices will influence both short-term consequences and global outcomes. The game will take place inside the Chernobyl exclusion zone, and it will have new locations along with the old ones.
GSC GameWorld has confirmed that it will be using motion-capture for both bodies and faces, as well as photogrammetry. Additionally, the game will support mods at launch day, and will support Ray Tracing effects.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chernobyl will be using Unreal Engine 5, and you can find here its official PC system requirements.
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The fact that there is ZERO uncut gameplay presentation is a BIG RED FLAG.
this is what i wanted to say too, you know how close it is by wherever they got any uncut footage out, when i saw the trailer i was like “yeah i dont think thats real and it comes out so soon? Probably fake or gonna get delayed”
Between the NFTs, no real gameplay and now this delay. This game is becoming more suspicious than an employee of netflix hanging around an elementary school.
They actually reconsidered that sucker punch
https://www.polygon.com/22841151/stalker-2-nft-content-canceled-reaction
But yeah, when they even consider/defend such BS – It gets on my alarm list at once
Yea … we were rumoring this was going to get delayed … atleast hoping they’re not gonna cyberpunk it.
Who knows in what state the Dying Light 2 is launching
History showed us that publishers never learn from the mistakes of the competition.
Kinda brutal delay.
I CALLED THIS. when they showed their weirdly polished “””gameplay””” it was clear they were overcompensating for being behind schedule. Here we go again. Another game where the devs waste their efforts on fake presentations instead of doing their actual job. And usually these projects do not turn out a classic like Halo 2. Usually these projects turn out an unfinished mess with “potential” that never gets realized, even by modders.
Ah the famous vertical slice to sell the game to investors (basically a lie) and hype costumers….until you get the final product.
Halo 2 was an awful unfinished mess as well
How so? The only thing that is arguably unfinished is the ending, but that’s cliffhangers for you.
P.S. And don’t believe this is about “testing” for a second. That’s the spin to make you optimistic. Testing would be a great reason to delay a game. But the real reason is the game is NOT COMPLETE and they need more time to complete the CONTENT. They’re not sitting there with a buggy, full-featured game (beta state) and thinking about what needs polish the most. They are scrambling to add the missing features and even to reduce the scope where they don’t believe a feature can still be added by December this year. It’s the same panicked perpetual overtime “last push” that Cyberpunk and Halo Infinite went through and we can make a betting game out of which flaws will be the most apparent at launch.
Based on the fake demo I have doubts about the animations and AI. They clearly faked parts of those systems by hard-scripting certain animations, including most or all enemy movement. Now think about how low the bar is for AI. Nobody trashes the AI when the COD devs release new gameplay, and those games have really rudimentary bots. They’re glorified turrets just camping in cover and popping their head out long enough that a bad player can shoot it on the second attempt. So the implication here is, the Stalker 2 devs couldn’t even meet THAT quality bar for their gameplay presentation. Stalker 2’s AI is in trouble.
7 months isnt for testing for sure, then again look at cybermess 2077,
I’m glad at least you learned something from these recent years in gaming. Congrats.
Forget about any kind of A-Life system…the more i think about this, the dire it gets.
rtx 4000 in approach
Look, Dr Jewster disliked your post lmao
Can’t imagine a shill bigger than him
he dislikes all my posts, i dont even notice it anymore.
One shills for jews, and another shills for EGS.
He stopped disliking my posts because he became so mad and blocked me. At this point he just downvote people who expose noses.
Perhaps its time to see them as a seal of quality =P
possibly, everyone else is doing it.
Woah!
I’m very surprised! Like, reaaaaaally surprised by this. Very much, indeed!
Thats great – take their time. Way better vs half arsed release as we have way to many of these buggy mess of games!
I read STALKER 2 has finally been officially delayed until December 8th.
plz no. I’m still hopeful shut up:(
i heard rumors of a mutant with purple hair.
This gives Cyberpunk 2077 vibes, that’s a long delay.
Welp, back to Lost Alpha and pretend STALKER 2 is just a rumor.
According to another site, the game will launch first for xbox on Dec 8th. No pc release date is revealed.
Well, they do have an exclusive deal with microsoft. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6a8b62a936d0f3e0e4203966553c2b5d53f1af5c1e070d861970c0a62d974f28.png
Lady looks like a dude.
Guess why…
Because he is.
Let me guess, the game is close to beta, yet they’re waiting in the shadows to see if some shady company cracks the NFT agenda before implementing it.
I can wait another year as long as we get a good game on release!
On release?! “Eventually” is the new standard.
Even with the delay it will be a buggy mess with a 0 day patch on release. Same was with the original but at least that had the eurojank we all love, this being a console game won’t have that.
This is what I don’t understand when it comes to developers these days. Why can’t they just be honest from the get go and plan releases properly. Surely you know that your game is nowhere near completion, yet you still provide an unrealistic release date, and a few months prior to release, you announce a delay stating that the “game needs extra polishing”. Yes I understand, especially for AAA releases, the pressure that the giants like Microsoft and EA put on the companies to get the release out ASAP so that they can start making money, but it doesn’t help anyone when inevitably, the release still ends up being delayed.
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Does this game even exist?
That was expected. The original Stalker was postponed several times too.
Hopefully this is for the best, game looks amazing.
Rather wait and potentially get a good game rather than rushed out the door halfbaked… but who am i kidding, few games are proper on release nowadays
Now that the NFT ponzi scheme failed, they likely just need time to neatly chop up the real game in parts and sell them as MT’s instead
Everyone knew this was happening.
They need 7 month to hide the nft.
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