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[Arsic]

The amount of “I’m fine with mediocre shit running game posts” is alarming.

None of you who post that this is fine for THIS game should be allowed to complain on minor things in other games.

The cheek bleeki meme is cute but not a reason to accept a crap running product that needed another delay.

Gaming has changed since the first games launch. You may be fine with it but the majority are not— nor should this be accepted or normalized.

This game had so many delays already that going Q1 2025 to focus on stable performance would be in everyone best interest honestly.

Similar to week one launch issues for helldivers 2, where ANY other game would’ve been lambasted for it, but hurr durr democracy memes so it’s cool you get kicked out of matches to lose any progress and rewards. If it was made by Ubisoft? 0/10 never play again. Dead on arrival.

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TLDR- Gamers are retards.

 

[Roberts]

Played it for what feels like two hours and I'm sold. Totally lost the sense of time, especially after finishing the prologue. I hope they are going to improve the performance mode a bit - it certainly never runs at 60 fps.

 

[Buggy Loop]

The amount of “I’m fine with mediocre shit running game posts” is alarming.

None of you who post that this is fine for THIS game should be allowed to complain on minor things in other games.

The cheek bleeki meme is cute but not a reason to accept a crap running product that needed another delay.

Gaming has changed since the first games launch. You may be fine with it but the majority are not— nor should this be accepted or normalized.

This game had so many delays already that going Q1 2025 to focus on stable performance would be in everyone best interest honestly.

Similar to week one launch issues for helldivers 2, where ANY other game would’ve been lambasted for it, but hurr durr democracy memes so it’s cool you get kicked out of matches to lose any progress and rewards. If it was made by Ubisoft? 0/10 never play again. Dead on arrival.

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TLDR- Gamers are retards.

What other studios were smack dab in the middle of a war?

You come off as a huge douche with that post. What a giant asshole. Fitting tag.

 

[calistan]

If it was made by Ubisoft? 0/10 never play again. Dead on arrival.

But wasn’t it made by devs whose entire country has been turned into a warzone? If anyone deserves a bit of slack…

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

Played an hour or so. Visuals are fucking dark. Then again I had no idea how to turn on my flashlight until about fifteen minutes in. Didn't have any technical issues but obviously it's very early tutorial type territory.

 

[SlimySnake]

But wasn’t it made by devs whose entire country has been turned into a warzone? If anyone deserves a bit of slack…

That’s correct. However, the last few years they have been developing the game in Czech republic.

 

[adamsapple]

Played an hour or so. Visuals are fucking dark. Then again I had no idea how to turn on my flashlight until about fifteen minutes in. Didn't have any technical issues but obviously it's very early tutorial type territory.

If you're on a monitor instead of a TV, go to the display settings and change the image encoding option.

It'll fix it, had the same issue.

 

[rajkosto]

HDR is very oversaturated for me, the orange on the AK-47 and medkits is like blood red and it seems to be very contrasty too making things too black... SDR is fine so I guess I'm playing it like that cuz there's no saturation control

 

[Buggy Loop]

That’s correct. However, the last few years they have been developing the game in Czech republic.

And lost key members who went into the war. Or the mental state you would be in knowing friends or family are still there. I work with an Ukrainian for years now, he’s totally changed since the war. If you think 20 days in Mariupol is tough watch, imagine for them getting news daily about the war.

Quite the state to optimize a game…

Seeing some of the tantrums around here for not being an optimized game is peak fucking first world problems. It’s a miracle this thing can even be completed from start to finish.

 

[MacReady13]

The amount of “I’m fine with mediocre shit running game posts” is alarming.

None of you who post that this is fine for THIS game should be allowed to complain on minor things in other games.

The cheek bleeki meme is cute but not a reason to accept a crap running product that needed another delay.

Gaming has changed since the first games launch. You may be fine with it but the majority are not— nor should this be accepted or normalized.

This game had so many delays already that going Q1 2025 to focus on stable performance would be in everyone best interest honestly.

Similar to week one launch issues for helldivers 2, where ANY other game would’ve been lambasted for it, but hurr durr democracy memes so it’s cool you get kicked out of matches to lose any progress and rewards. If it was made by Ubisoft? 0/10 never play again. Dead on arrival.

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TLDR- Gamers are retards.

Spot fucking on. Gaming today, on the whole, is a fucking disgrace. We have been beta testers for a while now. Games that are made fine on day 1 get patched to become fucked up (hello Silent Hill 2 remake)...

 

[DanielG165]

I mean, they are not perfect ( i admit it was a strong word on my part) but i had much worse in the past so i can't really complain too much.

The game already crashed 3 times tho.

Sorry to hear. So far I haven’t gotten any crashes after playing for about 30 minutes now or so. But I agree on the controls, there’s a bit too much inertia and momentum when moving from side to side, and up and down, but otherwise they’re not bad. I don’t know if it’s just me taking things awfully slow, but I’m not struggling with them.

I’m used to Metro Exodus, so maybe that helps.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

The amount of “I’m fine with mediocre shit running game posts” is alarming.

None of you who post that this is fine for THIS game should be allowed to complain on minor things in other games.

The cheek bleeki meme is cute but not a reason to accept a crap running product that needed another delay.

Gaming has changed since the first games launch. You may be fine with it but the majority are not— nor should this be accepted or normalized.

This game had so many delays already that going Q1 2025 to focus on stable performance would be in everyone best interest honestly.

Similar to week one launch issues for helldivers 2, where ANY other game would’ve been lambasted for it, but hurr durr democracy memes so it’s cool you get kicked out of matches to lose any progress and rewards. If it was made by Ubisoft? 0/10 never play again. Dead on arrival.

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TLDR- Gamers are retards.

U ok hun?

 

[DanielG165]

The amount of “I’m fine with mediocre shit running game posts” is alarming.

None of you who post that this is fine for THIS game should be allowed to complain on minor things in other games.

The cheek bleeki meme is cute but not a reason to accept a crap running product that needed another delay.

Gaming has changed since the first games launch. You may be fine with it but the majority are not— nor should this be accepted or normalized.

This game had so many delays already that going Q1 2025 to focus on stable performance would be in everyone best interest honestly.

Similar to week one launch issues for helldivers 2, where ANY other game would’ve been lambasted for it, but hurr durr democracy memes so it’s cool you get kicked out of matches to lose any progress and rewards. If it was made by Ubisoft? 0/10 never play again. Dead on arrival.

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TLDR- Gamers are retards.

Your tag certainly makes a whole lot of sense. Bravo man, look at the empathy just oozing from this post.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

And lost key members who went into the war.

As shit as that is, it's not even that. It's like reading posts from people who've never played graphics intensive pc games, pc games in general or people who've lived a Nintendo life

Fuck knows how these people would've coped in the early 2000's.

The only real stinker this year in the unplayable department has been MS flight sim 24. I still can't even play the fucking thing..

 

[tommib]

Looks cooked to me.

wtf man

 

[diffusionx]

And lost key members who went into the war. Or the mental state you would be in knowing friends or family are still there. I work with an Ukrainian for years now, he’s totally changed since the war. If you think 20 days in Mariupol is tough watch, imagine for them getting news daily about the war.

Quite the state to optimize a game…

Seeing some of the tantrums around here for not being an optimized game is peak fucking first world problems. It’s a miracle this thing can even be completed from start to finish.

they're asking money for the game, and as such it is fair to criticize it, and it is fair to hold it to standards.

 

[clarky]

The amount of “I’m fine with mediocre shit running game posts” is alarming.

None of you who post that this is fine for THIS game should be allowed to complain on minor things in other games.

The cheek bleeki meme is cute but not a reason to accept a crap running product that needed another delay.

Gaming has changed since the first games launch. You may be fine with it but the majority are not— nor should this be accepted or normalized.

This game had so many delays already that going Q1 2025 to focus on stable performance would be in everyone best interest honestly.

Similar to week one launch issues for helldivers 2, where ANY other game would’ve been lambasted for it, but hurr durr democracy memes so it’s cool you get kicked out of matches to lose any progress and rewards. If it was made by Ubisoft? 0/10 never play again. Dead on arrival.

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TLDR- Gamers are retards.

Tone deaf.

 

[Buggy Loop]

they're asking money for the game, and as such it is fair to criticize it.

And you can wait until it performs better if that's too buggy. What's with day 1 FOMO?
Bought it and regret? Refund.

There's been games more buggy than this from major AAA studios that were at their peak of comfort with employee assistances from psychologists, massages, playgrounds and so on as perks, with their biggest mental juggle of the week was if they were gonna add pumpkin spice on their triple espresso latte. Pulease.

 

[ZehDon]

... None of you who post that this is fine for THIS game should be allowed to complain on minor things in other games...

You've complaining about some folks understanding that STALKER of all games - the poster child of cult slav-jank - has technical issues at release? Folks who came up alongside the OG trilogy knew what was coming and if they've calibrated their expectations accordingly, so be it. It's up to the individual to decide what's acceptable for them or not. There are plenty of reviews docking the game for not meeting the quality standards for today's titles, so it is absolutely being held to that standard by and large. But knocking people for understanding what this is - a studio with a history for jank swinging for the fences - and jumping in anyway? Reign it in, my guy: you're not the arbiter of who's allowed to have what opinion.

 

[diffusionx]

And you can wait until it performs better if that's too buggy. What's with day 1 FOMO?
Bought it and regret? Refund.

There's been games more buggy than this from major AAA studios that were at their peak of comfort with employee assistances from psychologists, massages, playgrounds and so on as perks, with their biggest mental juggle of the week was if they were gonna add pumpkin spice on their triple espresso latte. Pulease.

Yes and people can criticize a buggy release on game discussion sites, and the developer can be criticized for it.

 

[Wolves hunt in packs]

2 hours in, 20 deaths. Going to be wild.

Playing on XSX, it's nice, not the best looking and certainly doesn't hold 60fps, but very much playable.

I'm having fun but at the same time it's frustrating game so far, every enemy need gazillion shot to die, and you die after a few, i hope by progressing you become stronger and have better weapons. All in all it's nice and i'm going to play a lot this weekend.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

You've complaining about some folks understanding that STALKER of all games - the poster child of cult slav-jank - has technical issues at release? Folks who came up alongside the OG trilogy knew what was coming and if they've calibrated their expectations accordingly, so be it. It's up to the individual to decide what's acceptable for them or not. There are plenty of reviews docking the game for not meeting the quality standards for today's titles, so it is absolutely being held to that standard by and large. But knocking people for understanding what this is - a studio with a history for jank swinging for the fences - and jumping in anyway? Reign it in, my guy: you're not the arbiter of who's allowed to have what opinion.

A Quality, spot on post.

 

[Buggy Loop]

Yes and people can criticize a buggy release on game discussion sites, and the developer can be criticized for it.

Well no wonder you put a thumbs up on the juicy stink trail post. Thumbs up for a post that calls peoples who can see a situation as being exceptional and deserver a bit of slack, "retards", even though you CAN discuss its crashes & bugs, is peak tone deaf. But not surprising.

Calls for delays again? Do you understand that studios can sometimes get to the finish line with a penny remaining in the bag? What do we even know of their situation? Not happy with the game, please vote with your wallet. Don't call peoples retards for seeing the situation for what it is, probably the first game to have been in this situation in modern history.

Also see ZehDon 's post.

 

[diffusionx]

Well no wonder you put a thumbs up on the juicy stink trail post. Thumbs up for a post that calls peoples who can see a situation as being exceptional and deserver a bit of slack, "retards", even though you CAN discuss its crashes & bugs, is peak tone deaf. But not surprising.

Calls for delays again? Do you understand that studios can sometimes get to the finish line with a penny remaining in the bag? What do we even know of their situation? Not happy with the game, please vote with your wallet. Don't call peoples retards for seeing the situation for what it is, probably the first game to have been in this situation in modern history.

Also see ZehDon 's post.

They could have released it as early access if it was such a problem. But yea, it’s a full price release, it can be treated like a full price release. If you want to give them slack for this and that it’s your perogative but not everyone will.

I do think people who are saying like “totally rad, game is a buggy mess just like the old ones” to be kind of retarded, yea.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

Here's the whole game if you can't get it running yourself I guess

He ran through it in 16 hours so it's a pretty long game as FPS go

 

[gtabro]

Turning off motion blur completely while testing settings gave me this beauty

 

[adamsapple]

PSA, any weapons you have with red durability, you cannot sell it to the traders. So, it might be worth it to just not pick it up in the first place.

You can repair and sell it, but repairing costs more money than how much you'll get from selling it, so it's a waste.

 

[Bulletzen72]

Ah! I look forward to playing this but I will wait! I adored the original games. I bought the first one way back in what? 2007? I remember picking up Dark Messiah of Might and Magic on the same day. The jank was real and was basically unplayable, but I loved the atmosphere. Glad I had Dark Messiah to fall back on. Later patches and mods for S.T.A.L.K.E.R : Shadow of Chernobyl made it a joy to play and explore. And that is what I have done with the later sequels. Just waited until it was fixed bout them and loved them! Well....maybe not "Clear Sky".
I'll wait for this and then I'm sure I will love it.

 

[UnrealEck]

Have you been living under a rock?

It was sarcasm.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

The ambient music is on point

I hope the don't nerf the darkness either. I love it, personally. Absolutely sick of games being bright at 2am.

 

[Wolves hunt in packs]

I don't like the dynamic hud, would have preferred an option to have it on at all times.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

I don't like the dynamic hud, would have preferred an option to have it on at all times.

Hud?

I've turned most of it off

 

[Wolves hunt in packs]

Hud?

I've turned most of it off

It makes it harder to see how many medkits i have, and believe me i need those lol.

edit: i like the menus, pretty slick. Inventory is kinda crappy.

 

[Dr.Morris79]

It makes it harder to see how many medkits i have, and believe me i need those lol.

edit: i like the menus, pretty slick. Inventory is kinda crappy.

I'm normally dead before I can use em, I'm playing on veteran, it's pretty damn brutal. That first Bloodsucker was a pain in the ass

 

[Wolves hunt in packs]

I'm normally dead before I can use em, I'm playing on veteran, it's pretty damn brutal. That first Bloodsucker was a pain in the ass

its the one that can go invisible? fucker killed me like 3-4 times... and i'm playing on stalker difficulty which is akin normal, then walk 100 meters to die 6-7 times by 3 stalkers yay

 

[Agent_4Seven]

That’s correct. However, the last few years they have been developing the game in Czech republic.

I wonder if all of the bugs and unfinished nature of the game is to blame for a lack of proper testing and people for this as well as lack of outsourcing for certain aspects of the game (like stealth). I mean, even if we won't count the war with Putin, GSC is not Ubisoft with dozens of studios and thousands of employees to help with development of their giant open world games. Somehow I doubt that moving to the Czech republic to finish the game with the help of just one studio in Kiev helped them in any significant way other than being far away from the war and Putin's bombs, rockets and drones.

The first game was broken at launch and you could't fix weapons and gear for example which was fixed in 3 patches and Clear Sky was.... well, one GIANT bug of a game for quite some time and there was no war back then.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

This probably makes the early game a bit easier for people if they do this

 

[MiguelItUp]

Played for two hours on PC, really enjoying it. Much more than I was expecting. Haven't run into horrible performance or bad bugs either, pleasantly surprised after all I was reading and hearing.

 

[od-chan]

this game is honestly ridiculous. It's astonishing how bad it runs, especially for how mediocre it looks. Also, want to change some settings and restart the game in order to maybe get this into a playable state? Hope you brought some time, retarded devs make you compile shaders on EVERY. SINGLE. BOOT. according to reddit it's akshually not a proper recompiling per se, but some shader verification, which I guess is almost even more retarded in a way.

I'm kinda pissed I wasted 2 hours+ on installing this. Maybe the russians should get a shot at this, product couldn't be much worse.

 

[Jesb]

No gamepass version on gfn. Fuck.

 

[Hey Blinkin]

I keep getting my ass handed to me by the 1st decloaking monster. Lol

The only major issue I've ran into so far is the stick drift. It's really bad.

Game seems like it's going to be great fun once a few of the bugs get ironed out.

 

[DanielG165]

I keep getting my ass handed to me by the 1st decloaking monster. Lol

That asshole came out of nowhere and was beating me down for a while lol. I eventually beat him first try after literally just keeping my head on a swivel and dancing in a large circle lol.

 

[DanielG165]

I’m honestly super impressed by how well the Series X is churning this game out. Quality mode has rock solid after a straight hour and a half of playing.

 

[FoxMcChief]

I’m honestly super impressed by how well the Series X is churning this game out. Quality mode has rock solid after a straight hour and a half of playing.

I only play quality mode when given the option. Give me that higher resolution, higher visual settings and steady frame rate any day.

 

[adamsapple]

Some more Series X.

There's even a Last of Us part 2 style guitar mini-game with similar controls.

 

[Magic Carpet]

PC Gamepass issues,
Every time I restart the game it always does a shader comp, and it also forgets my controller settings, Invert Y.
My rtx 4070 is struggling with 4k Epic settings, with frame gen on and Ultra performance dlss.
I might as well drop it all the way to 1080P.

I can't seem to aim. The guns do little to no damage.
Does the aim assist do anything? It's the same on all aim settings.

The invisible dude moves at warp speed. Is that a game mechanic or a bug?

 

[R6Rider]

Watched a handful of videos on the game.

Game looks fucking ROUGH.

 

[balls of snow]

Guys is it me or the controls are weird? They feel unresponsive and there is some sort of input lag

I am using a controller on pc, something doesn't feel right

Yeah even worst for me I went from Nuketown in cod straight into whatever the fuck Stalker 2 controls were on xbox.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Watched a handful of videos on the game.

Game looks fucking ROUGH.

I watched some pc and Xbox videos and I thought it looked great.

 

[FoxMcChief]

Does the Xbox version support mouse and keyboard? I’ve never played a Stalker game with a controller.

People do seem to be iffy on the controller. Are they like Killzone 2/3? Weighty?