As we informed you yesterday, two dev builds from STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl were leaked online. So, after decrypting one of the internal builds, PC gamers were able to get into the game and share 53 minutes of gameplay footage from it.
GSC GameWorld has confirmed this hack. From the looks of it, the ones that leaked these internal dev builds to the Internet were the Russian hackers that attacked GSC GameWorld back in March 2023.
A message from GSC Game World team pic.twitter.com/gSslCNxvTb
— S.T.A.L.K.E.R. OFFICIAL (@stalker_thegame) June 1, 2023
STALKER 2 is powered by Unreal Engine 5 and will be using Ray Tracing effects. The game currently does not have any release date, though we might see a new trailer at Microsoft’s upcoming Xbox event.
Now what’s interesting here is that the dev build has a benchmark tool. This is something really cool, so we can assume that the final game will also have one.
Lastly, you should temper your expectations. Since this is a dev build, it’s really unoptimized. It also has numerous placeholders, as well as graphical bugs. In short, this isn’t representative in any way of the final game. Still, I’m certain that a lot of STALKER fans will want to see the game running.
You can find the 53-minute playthrough here. Below you can also find another low-quality video (that GSC GameWorld will most likely take down immediately). Since the dev builds have been cracked, we can expect even more gameplay videos to pop out shortly.
Enjoy!
https://youtu.be/Mx92Bcie2t0
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I guess this will be same in final build , thanks to Unreal shutter engine !
Unreal Engine advertising as best graphic, but worse in game Optimization with shutter and lags
Agreed , unreal engine is good for linear games but fails at open world games
yeah maybe its made for ssds or something but unreal engine and open world=absolute stuttery mess.
Wait, does it work better on regular HDDs? Don’t tell me we need to move back to those to play UE4 games smoothly. ?
No, i am telling you that maybe the new version of unreal engine is made for ssds and nvmes, so you need to have the best modern drives to work well, or maybe its made for consoles who have a unified ram pool so the transfer speed is higher than your typical pc from a few years ago.
Are you in DevTeam? No! So you know nothing about final version of the Game. Do not write messages on topics you do not understand.
there wont be a final version for years.
LOL, people down-voting you must be new to gaming or not gamers at all. Virtually every AAA games takes at least 1 year to be fully patched.
they are simping for ukraine or fanboys of stalker who are coping and refuse to accept the reality of the situation. I on the other hand i am not being irrational, leaks say starfield is in a worse state than redfall, when it comes out we will find out.
All Bethesda games are always completely broken on release.
When game is this laggy while most post processing and other systems are absent shows issues engine which is public knowledge now with Unreal engine games .
And lets go to technical side have you noticed any Unreal engine games with high LOD or View distance ? you know why because its “asset streaming pipeline” sucks . This can be fixed with modifying the render pipeline re written with Vulkan but its too hard for “modern” devs due to its verbosity .
You can play for yourself what Vulkan can achieve if you had played Doom Eternal.
And yes I have experience in working on Unreal Engine as university assignment , yes its an high fidelity engine with varied options but its just not scalable for large projects . You will never see games like GTA in this engine . Fortnite being an exception because its made by Epic themselves !
I’m not a vet but I know a horse when I see one.
What in the fücking hell is your point?
Leak build Game is nothing like we have seen on trailer, let’s hope Final build turn out good
Honestly, gameplay segments from trailers looked pre-rendered.
everything is broken, the lighting is broken, the streaming is broken, textures are broken ai is broken, face animations are broken, hud is broken, weapons are broken, everything is a place holder, this build is years from being finished.
They are gonna release this game in December 2023 , seem like it’s gonna be delay.
So they are gonna release it in this state, like the original?
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Lighting and textures look great.
Only thing is maybe a few minor texture pop-ins, which is probably just related to the hardware used.
are you insane? Tthe lighting is broken and there are missing textures everywhere, included no textures on placeholder objects. The gif you posted showed all of this.
Are you just lying on purpose at this point? There is nothing wrong with the lighting or textures.
The only “issue” is texture pop-in of the grass, but this is likely hardware related.
if you think there is nothing wrong with the textures, you are the one who is lying. In the 56 minute video i saw missing textures on the ground, missing textures on walls, missing textures on buildings, missing textures on furniture.
Everything looks fine to me on the video in the article.
I wish they would have a more dreaded lifeless aesthetics instead of the default unreal engine post processing/tonemap
Everybody should Respect the Devs and dont watch this. I know its the dark side but you shouldn´t share the content stolen from russian hackers
hahahaha wtf you talking about dude? You acting as if we havent seen unifnished leaked stuff before, from atomic heart to starfield, to crysis 2 to doom 3 to half life 2 to duke nukem forever to prey, to prey 2 to starcraft ghost.
I only mean it in the context of the war between russia and ukraine, it feels like giving these hackers a platform if we share the leaked material.
And this is why we can’t have nice things, people injecting politics into everything they can get their hands on, including friggin’ video games…
The right spelling for “russian(s)” is ruSSian(s), because a lot of those who live in ruSSia are nazis (who support murdering, raping, and all other disgusting stuff)!
The amount of Russian women marrying Russian men has gone up spectacularly in recent months.
Reason you ask? Because Russian women know there’s a high chance their men get sent to Ukraine to die, so they will get their money if they marry them and they die.
That is Russia for you, where human lives have 0 value.
One third supports the regime, mostly older generations that have been brainwashed from a young age. One third opposes the regime, mostly younger generations—some went on to protest and get killed or thrown in jail because ‘peaceful protests’ are useless western propaganda. One third doesn’t care, walks alongside walls heads down and just want to mind their own business.
It’s the same sh*t in every dictatorship.
the young generations have totally not being brainwashed through a young age by western media. LIKE TOTALLY BRO ITS NOT LIKE THEY GREW UP ON THE INTERNET OR ANYTHING.
Come on. Its so blatant.
“ONLY THE NON WEST DOES PROPAGANDA ND CENSORSHIP THE WEST NEVER DOES THAT AT ALL”
-an idiot.
Way to infringe of the memory of the brave fascists who took arms to defend their country against Russian commies. Im talking about Azov and Banderistas. Show some goddamn respect for the people bleeding in this war.
welcome to my block list you utterly subhuman NPC drone
stfu discord troon
i dont think ukraine will exist in 3 years or the game will be finished.
machinegun guitar ahah at this point they purely trolling us :p
first time usable guitar in stalker at least !
Glory to Mother Russia, Glory to Putin , Glory to the Multi polarity world and Glory to free nations !
booooo
Okay, commie.
Slava Ukrayini!
Glory To Bandera, Azov and co.
slava the world’s most corrupt terrorist banana republic
You are talking about ruZZia.
I’ve met more Ukrainians and Russians than you, westoid NPC
Only in your imagination, ruZZian troll.
Dafuq
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Glory to your DEAD brain! because you are zombie aka Brain Dead!
Damn, wasn’t fast enough to save it
you dont miss anything.
You all discussing !STOLEN!, archived for special purposes version of the Game. ruSSians are weak in programming, IT, and other stuff, so all those problems that were captured in a video you watched may be because ruSSians have arms growing out of a$$es.
Isn’t Stalker being developed by Ukranians?
You and all other westers really need to decide whether you count Russians, Belorussians and Ukranians as one people or as three separate ones. Otherwise, it seems like the good old double standards.
What the hell are you talking about?
Of course, Ukrainians are separate Nation! ruSSians are ruSSians but with slavery principles in mind. Belorusians are separate Nation.
The game was developed by Ukranian developers. What do Russians supposedly being “weak in programming, IT, and other stuff” have to do with a game developed by Ukrainians?
Or you simply feel the need to insert your nationalist bias into every comment you write?
are you ret@rded? only ukraine fanboy troons can be so incredibly stupid
Love these Eastern europe gaming news, the amount of coping and seething is always off the chartz. You should make stories about games like War Thunder as well.
Just play GAMMA
Has no storyline and is kind of boring because of it
You are spreading fake news. Developers leaked the build themselves by mistake. It has been confirmed by multiple sources. Nobody hacked them.
Yeah now assuming what you’re saying is true, try and convince western world press brainwashed people. I wanna see you try
what ?
sh*t looks dope
I missed it. Did it resemble the supposed “gameplay” they showed previously with the strangely smooth animations?