GSC GameWorld has announced that STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl will be using Unreal Engine 5 and not Unreal Engine 4. The game will release in April 2021 and from the looks of it, it will be one of the first that will be using UE5.
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.
Also, and as we’ve already reported, an older build of the game has already been leaked online.
STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl releases on April 28th, 2022. You can also find here its official PC system requirements!

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I just want actual footage of the game systems, not this story bullsh*t.
Show me the inventory and ballistics system, see how badly they dumbed it down for the Xbox crowd.
Goodbye old bugs, Hello new bugs
hey . you know how fun is Stalker with all the old bugs 😀 its rly fun to se vids about it
“The game will release in April 2021”
Damn, so where I buy it? xD
Can’t wait for this to release. First game was great.
Basically the only new release game I care and am waiting for. Really have not seen anything I want or need to play. Which is good since I just casually enjoy my old favorites
Amen, it just has to be as good as the original, that’s all i ask for (it wont be 🙁 )
Cool, so is that why the full package is $110?
well said you weird latex fetishist
I thought you liked Marxist ideologies… Since you believe in one. Curious.
wtf are you talking about?
national socialism has a lot of Marxist ideology in it. Socialism that we know today, used on fascism, national socialism, communism, maoism et al, has a lot to thank Marx for it.
well obviously fascism derived from socialism.
Yes
Woah no wonder it looks so damn good!
speaking of mods, you guys need to see this, this looks like a completely different game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaI41_q0vZw
Shame Fallout 4 is such an awful game
“so what are we gonna do with fallout 4 devs? Oh i know we gonna copy base building mods and add weapon customization so people can do repetitive stuff instead of making any worth while authored content.”
And a couple of years after, Todd said…what if? Fallout 4 but online!!! with that same speech.
16 TIMES THE DETAIL.
Gimmicks weren’t the issue, removing most of the RPG systems from 3 and adding the worst parts of Skyrim was the issue.
” this looks like a completely different game”
how so? same lame gameplay and guns, “135xp!” pop ups, crappy 3rd person camera, a*s textures and effects.etc looks like fo4 with taticool enemies speaking on a mic like call of duty
why i have feeling that it will not be popular as the first one ?
0 original team left….well maybe 2 janitors are still present…..
Game is made for SexBox, not PC…..
Game looks like Metro Exodus 2…..
Gonna be 10 times worse than original…..
The only good AAA game upcoming??? LMAO….Lost Judgment, SMT 5, Atomic Heart, Kingdom Come 2 are much better.
How in the f*ck will I upgrade my sh**ty RTX 2060 until April with these current ret@rd prices. Thanks coronachan and sh*tcoin-mining peasants. I don’t know who I hate more. The sh1tcoin cultists probably
if diversity is so important for videogames how come stalker is so great and its characters are exclusively white slavic men, mainly Russians and Ukrainians?
Meh, the gameplay reveal was very dissapointing.