GSC GameWorld has just announced that the remastered trilogy of the first STALKER games, STALKER: Legends of the Zone, will come out on PC on May 20th. To celebrate this announcement, the team also shared a new trailer, which you can find below.
STALKER: Legends of the Zone has enhanced lighting with godrays, screen space reflections, and global illumination for a more immersive atmosphere. It also comes with upscaled textures and detailed 3D models for NPCs, weapons, and environments. Players can also expect advanced shaders for water and wetness effects, paired with upgraded skyboxes for a more dynamic world. Moreover, there will be 4K pre-rendered cinematics and improved weapon FOV for better combat visibility.
The trilogy also comes with some PC-only features. For instance, it will support Steam Workshop. As such, players will have easy access to a vast library of user-generated mods. The game will also have cloud saves. Plus, it will be optimized for Steam Deck.
Now I have to be honest here. This official remaster does not look as impressive as some of the STALKER mods I’ve seen. I’m not saying it looks bad. However, it cannot compete with STALKER Anomaly or STALKER Complete Mod. At least in my opinion.
It’s also worth noting that these remasters won’t have any co-op support. I’m mentioning this because there is a Co-Op Mod for STALKER: Call of Pripyat. So, it’s kind of a bummer that the devs have not added such a feature to these older STALKER games.
All in all, I was kind of expecting something a bit more from these remasters. If you’ve never played a modded version of STALKER, these remasters will appear great to you. But for those who have played heavily modded versions of the older STALKER games, this feels like a nothing-burger.
Let’s at least hope that the trilogy will come out in a polished state. Otherwise, it will be a nightmare to fix it as the team should be busy right now with STALKER 2. In May or June, we might get a new patch for STALKER 2 to improve its A-Life 2.0 system. This will be 6-7 months after the game’s launch.
The devs have also shared the official PC requirements for this trilogy. PC gamers will at least need an Intel Core i3-7100 or AMD Ryzen 3 1300X with 8GB and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX960 or AMD Radeon RX 560. With this kind of PC system, you’ll be able to run these remasters at 1080p/Low Settings with 60FPS.
For gaming at 1080p/Max Settings with 60FPS, you’ll need an Intel Core i5-6600K or AMD Ryzen 5 1600X with 16GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580.
Enjoy the trailer!
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It's still supposed to be vanilla John which is why they only improved the lighting system and upped the texture res.
The addition of Workshop support is thr only thing I'm interested on this, but the fact that they censored posters and other assorted worldbuilding due to being Russian is a really sh**ty move.
STALKER had tons of Russian input, including the main composer, Mooze.
in clear sky when the bandits take over a location they say "we got the fggts" i wonder if they censored that.
Also isnt that the guy who insisted that they dont put russian language in the game even though he only speaks russian?
I remember reading about Clear Sky having the word "f*ggot" in the ESRB website back in the day when I used to regularly go there just to have some fun (long, long before they made saying that simple and harmless word a "crime" that would get you murdered over it). I just checked the ESRB website again but sadly it doesn't have a separate rating for the (((F*ggots of the Zone))) demasturd made specifically for the console f*ggots who worship their favorite child grooming gayme company ((($oyny))).
It's 100% guaranteed they censored it because you can't have even the tiniest ATOM of free speech in this upside-down, JuDEIzed world we live in and only getting worse than what it already is by the day. Next step to ramp up their JuDEIst tyranny, you'll be required to ask the Joo subhumans for permission to breathe, and they'll only allow you to breathe when they point a gun at your head and force you to say something (((THEY))) want in public and not something YOU want to say in your normal every day life.
No surprise here, given how the Ukrainian nation has been traumatized by the katsap tyrant's invasion.
Tell that to Palestine that was illegally invaded over lies (remember Iraq and Afghanistan, same Jewish lies since the stone age to justify more Jewish wars and aggression, different day) and are being genocided and exterminated by the ugly, disgusting, subversive, parasitical, zoophile, vampire, terrorist and rapist genocidal butcher Rabbi tranny cockroach INFANTOPHILE ((("innocent chosen people pacifists who aren't capable of scratching even an ant"))) subhumans that suck 0-year-old infants' blood out of their peepees and infect them with herpes because your "hOlY tAlMuD!" that you never read even a single letter from in the first place told them to do these Satanic rituals, got kicked 109 times throughout history because no one on the entire planet could handle their awesomeness that only strive to cause hate, subversion, war and destruction just exactly in accordance to the Talmudick plans of world domination as written in the Protocols of the Elders of Zion 120+ years ago and are committing the literal worst genocide of the 21st century supported by the entire so-called ((("free, peaceful, innocent pacifist and civilized Western world"))) before their sad, pathetic and miserable "lives" come to an end and end up thrown and rotting in Hell alongside their beloved Satan that you worship and adore.
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BTW, your beloved Jewkraine in particular is the literal 2nd most corrupt country in Jewrope BOTH BEFORE AND STILL IS AFTER THE SO-CALLED "WAR" and is the money laundering and child porn capital of the world just in case you didn't already know that because of its Jewish pedophile dictator because your Jewish ((("AmeriKKKunt Noozpaper and TV"))) propaganda intentionally didn't put it there to manipulate you.
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This is just an example of how the Joo subhumans manipulate the opinions of the simple-minded goyim normies such as yourself:
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Ukraine is an ex Soviet state, pretending otherwise to own the Ruskies is f*king re**rded.
What’s next? Censoring Rurik from national media?
Ukraine is an ex-Soviet republic, not state.
And so are Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
Putin's Katsapstan is what is left of the Russian Empire.
As for the Kyivan Rus, it wasn't Russia. There was no Russia a thousand years ago, nowhere in sight, and Moscow was just a small village.
A republic is a form of state.
Pretending the USSR didn’t influence these countries (for the worst) literally hurts the atmosphere of the game.
STALKER is grim, removing USSR utilitarian iconography is a disservice to it’s atmosphere.
John doesn't make the difference between a remaster, a remake or a re-release, he also doesn't understand the importance of the Vanilla aesthetics, he always expects UE5 graphics every time an old game gets a new treatment
Looks very bad for a remaster in 2025, is for sure a cash grab with minimal effort put into it.
At least is free on Steam if you have the originals.
It's a console port pretty much
Kind of amazing considering how ancient and hard to work with thr X-Ray engine is honestly.
Hard sell since there is so many free stuff stalker related out there to download
isnt this on console? Doesnt hat mean that they changed the gameplay to be playable on consoles?
Great, prepare for yet ANOTHER POS re-release made specifically for the console gaymer normies (that never knew even heard about this game before this in the first place because of how much brain dead they really are and still won't even care about the game even after seeing this re-release) that will split the modding community in an otherwise mod-friendly game, just like Skyrim, Doom 3, etc.
Up next is a Fallout 3 re-release just right around the corner for just exactly the same reason. I'm just so glad that Valve did the right thing and made a major update for HL2 for its 20th anniversary that is logically compatible with all of the mods released in the past 20 years instead of making a (((demasturd))) for consoles specifically for the aforementioned and so-called ((("oppressed minorities"))) that don't even play video games at all in the first place and hopefully NEVER EVER will.
I don't think it will split the modding community, they already work with modified 64 bit engines like X-Ray and other forks and don't even need the base game most of the time.
I don't know why you expect a remaster to beat a mod graphically, maybe for a remake, that's not mandatory for a remaster but i know you're often confusing these terms… All you have to expect here is a better platform for modding and a more capable engine as the original games have a lot of issues out of the box, if these remasters manage to fix some of these issues like the heavy stutters, sh*t or inexistent multithreading and none-efficient AA solutions while still being mod-friendly then they become the definitive way to play them.
Also Anomaly is a standalone STALKER game that doesn't have to be compared with the original games at all.
All the negative Nancys in the comments. PC market has shifted, a lot of PC gamers use controllers and on top of that everyone is getting into steam deck or one of it's many competitors.
having updated the game to run on these and a controller scheme is a huge selling point
i would gladly reply these games on my steam deck with controller support. And steam workshop integration, that is just a cherry on top.
Playing FPS with a controller should be punishable by law…
While I agree that just using analog sticks to aim in a FPS game is truly bad, keep in mind that the Steam Deck offers additional options like the trackpads & gyroscope.
In fact, the very first game I played on the Steam Deck was the single-player campaign of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero (Deleted Scenes), and once you get used to fine-adjusting your aim with the help of the gyro, you can be surprisingly effective at handing out headshots.
Plus being able to play a PC game on the couch is just way more relaxing, especially when you are otherwise sitting in front of your PC most of the day because work…
Nothing wrong with having options and/or preferences, but using a gamepad over a mouse and keyboard for shooters is barbaric.
Playing FPS games with a controller is an heresy and should literally be BANNED.
I haven't played any FPS with a gamepad since the mid-90s, but I did try some FPS on PCSX2 emulator (like NOLF), and it was abysmal. I'll never be able to get back to this horror.
I understand the appeal of "couch gaming", but for me, FPS + controller is a huge nope.
Maybe I could try again IF there was a good mouse-gamepad controller hybrid (haven't been convinced yet).
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IMO, it depends on the game and how it plays; some FPS games are better played with a keyboard while some others are better played with a controller.
For example, playing a modern FPS, probably that has a gameplay similar to COD like Killzone, Resistance, Homefront, etc.? I prefer playing those with a controller.
But playing an old FPS where you can carry all the weapons like Doom, Quake, Serious Sam, etc. or probably an FPS that relies on using so many buttons like ARMA? Of course I'd rather play those with a KB/M.
FPS made for consoles aren't FPS. They are third person shooters with first person camera. And that includes Halo.
i hate how third person shooters all have shoulder camera because its easer to control with the thumbsticks.
no fps are better with a thumbstick. Source? mouse injector for emulators.
This is big BS. Even cinematic military shooters you listed off play better on KB+M and that's an objective fact.
OK groomer.
This is big BS. Even cinematic military shooters you listed off play better on KB+M and that's an objective fact.
Playing with a controller and/or on a Steam deck isn't really the PC market. It's just a mistake you made by paying more for a poor console experience.
AGREE. What is the the KBM "master race" crowd lmao
WHO. THE F***. PLAYS A FPS. WITH A GAMEPAD???????
Last time I played a FPS with a gamepad was on Sega Saturn in 1995-1997.
ONLY cos I didn't have a choice back then, and didn't even have a PC.
I would never, EVER want to experience that traumatizing pain anymore.
I don't understand how can anybody enjoy this.
Gamepads are great for most sport games, fighting games, racing… that's it.
Everything else is infinitely better with a mouse + keyboard, the ultimate combo.
Are you a Top or Bottom ?
She/he is the top to your bottom
Is it really playing with controllers in fast paced shooters? I mean the auto-aim is often so heavy its almost like having an cheat aimbot enabled just to get anywhere near a mouse in speed and at that points its less player skill and more just directing the game while it plays itself for you.
Don't get me wrong, i like controllers in certain game types but should be banned by law in fast paced shooters – Period!
Looks like a comment from a console peasant
The usual suspects in the comments here always crying about the woke being tyrannical, now here calling to ban and to outlaw people with a simple different preference of controller inputs…. You can't make this sh*t up.
That system requirements jump is big.
From C2D E7400 to i5 6600K, from 9800 GTX to freaking RX 580. LOL
the real reason they are releasing this is because of consoles never got these games . there are no real enhancements.
I played the og's back in the day with kbm BUT now I have an old laptop I DO NOT NEED more keys problems with an almost NON FIXABLE keyboard on a laptop. So gamepad support is wonderful news!
Why people gotta haet on what makes PC best? OPTIONS. sheesh.
I'm interested in the more natively polished game, but we'll have to wait a bunch o patches which i this will surely need, and for the mods to be ported, which is a drag… But yes, I'll replay the original with this at some point.
They saw that STALKER 2 was a massive failure and decided to remaster the better old games. 😂
And they manage to make it look worse than the modded versions.
Man, they sure have fallen down…
failure? Did they not make their money back?