GSC GameWorld has released the first developer deep dive video for STALKER 2, which shows 30 whole minutes of gameplay footage from it. STALKER 2 is one of the most anticipated games of 2024. So, make sure to watch this video.
STALKER 2 will be using Unreal Engine 5 and promises to feature incredible graphics. Back in June 2021, the team also shared the game’s preliminary PC requirements. Do note though that these PC specs do not represent the final ones.
Contrary to other Unreal Engine 5 games, STALKER 2 will be also available on Steam. According to its Steam store page, the game won’t have Denuvo. So, that’s good news for those who boycott the games using it.
STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl promises to have a huge, realistic world to explore. You’ll get to wander around a massive 64-square-kilometer radioactive zone. This zone will be filled with all kinds of post-apocalyptic environments. Not only that but players will get to decide how their story unfolds. Additionally, the devs claim that the game will have a highly branching epic story.
STALKER 2 will have a dynamic day-night cycle and weather system. The game also promises to have an advanced AI, and a life-simulating system “A-life 2.0”. Furthermore, there will be modding support, as well as a multiplayer mode (which will be added soon after release as a free update).
GSC GameWorld plans to release the game on November 20th.
Stay tuned for more!
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Now i understand why the people who played it recently said it was the least impressive thing in the show. The visuals are downgraded, unreal engine makes everything look clean and shinny and this game is no exception if anything it looks old, Robocop rogue city has far better graphics. The Xray engine really sold the setting, it matched, now they just use unreal engine for everything. The gameplay looks like your typical generic open world gameplay with tons of exploring pointless side areas with audio logs that dont add anything of value, feels like far cry now. The hud is also simplistic with no character or identity just like all modern games. Who thought it would be fun to show off shooting rats who are tiny and hard to hit and zombies which are slow and ineffective? Weird how this game got a tavor before stalker or new vegas did with mods. They say its only 35 weapons, didnt the last game had about that much? Most stalker mods have more weapons than this, this is pathetic, it feels like i watched a pre alpha that some how looks worse than the trailer they showed us all those years ago. The devs are talking about some completely different game, what they showed does not much what they claim they are making. Completely unimpressed, i sent the original trailer to a friend of mine, this video however i dont want to share with anyone.
Imagine STALKER but made using Hunt: Showdown's Cry Engine build … that'd be something
i dont want to imagine, its clear this industry is cooked.
This is how you show a game.
30 minutes of gameplay with proper dev commentary about mechanics and game direction.
It honestly looks good but it is very strange to see console UI and cut-scenes in a STALKER game.
You know that the original trilogy received a surprise console port this year named Legends of The Zone ?
Damn, never heard of that console port before; wonder how it did commercially?
Don't know to be honest, but the ports are great
Isn't Microsoft the one funding the development of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2?
If so, no wonder the game will be downgraded, because it has to run on the Xbox Series S with its 10 GB of RAM.
Even the Steam Deck has 16 GB…
sure but they showed the worst footage or the game sucks, i have no interest in this anymore.
Why show off a sequel to a game known for being a longtime PC exclusive game with controller gameplay!? Typical 2024 low IQ dev move.
well its clearly a console game now, look at the inventory system.
Couldn't handle the recoil in some parts with a gamepad
Not only that, but they've used the english VO.
How fvcking dumb can these lads be?
I pre-ordered the Ultimate Edition of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 back in January while many of these clowns will still pirate the game after release. Denuvo is necessary.
You pre ordered this game knowing its history and you call others a clown. Look in a mirror moron. Theres the clown.
well said, the idea this will come out as a full functional product is nonsense.
https://media2.giphy.com/media/oY4nrnUckm9Pz5Ga7D/giphy-downsized-small.mp4
since you always downvoted my posts…i havent even played stalker anomaly, all the excitement i had since the first trailer is gone, this is a deep sale at best now.
It's what I always say.
DENUVO has been nothing but a net positive for games and devs.
Fock pirate scum!!
The AI looks braindead…why it reminds me of a lower populated Far Cry with Metro Exodus atmosphere and animations?. The radio thingies to get the audiologs look so out of place…
Not sure about this one…
Yeah, keeping an open mind and all, but showing off the AI by using rats, pigs, and dogs (all enemies who wouldn't be expected to act in an intelligent way,) isn't a good sign.
Audio logs don't bother me in general, but the way they did it was too average: we don't need to be told that a guy is having a crises of faith twice, it's easy to infer that's what's going on from the third entry. A good set of audio logs will build up tension or a story, and that didn't really happen here…
I can understand that with the zombies, pigs and the rats, but the blind dogs will mostly attack in packs and try to surround you, overwhelm you in the OG. And if you hurt them or kill a large number, the rest would run away…and that didn't happen in this footage.
Not sure if these are ruzzian biased trolls nitpicking every tiny detail. The game looks fantastic. The art design is tops. It will have some problems sure. Just like the first game. Nothing that cannot be fixed.
And mods will transform this game. I can already imagine MW2019 animations ported right away! oh the joy playing STALKER 2 with those weapons!!
". The game looks fantastic. The art design is tops"
you cant be serious?
Then again everyone who sees something wrong with a game is a russian troll or racist or transphobic or whatever.
Also "ruzzian" really? What about azov?
The mods will fix it is not a compliment dude…and the game looks dated, so you end up with art direction…which looks meh.
If you told me that was the Chernobyl mission on the COD MW remake i would believe you. Not even the UI has personality like the OG.
Art design and looks are not fantastic. there is a downgrade since the first one they presented, you (specifically) can't see it however or else you wouldn't have said that.
Companies do this every fking time.
Looks interesting. Definitely worth checking out on gamepass at the very least.
LMAO check out those hitboxes at 19:54!! Pathetic, it's Far Cry in Ukraine.
Solid shooting, I'm excited to see it. I will be playing with the controller of course. Only playing MP games with mouse+kb.