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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl ⚠️|☢︎T|⚠️ Don't Be a Menace to Bloodsucker While Trying to Catch an Olive in The Zone

ZehDon

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DanielG165

Member
I have a feeling my 2080 Super will likely suffer with this, but I’ll be switching back and forth between it and Xbox anyhow. Very interested to see both the performance and visual quality on Series X.
 
For those who didn't play the originals and want to know what happened, there's a pretty lengthy video for the first game plot, also liked how the video narrating the plot



For the rest of the games, might watch this short video (Yeah everyone in the comments laughing about him saying Sterlock and not Strelock, but still good and short enough to be up to speed)



The games doesn't have a lot of cutscenes.
 

Agent_4Seven

Tears of Nintendo
Buy it on gog, play offline...and dont tell anybody (except us here). :messenger_winking_tongue:
There's no way to buy it on GOG, SWIFT and Russian cards not working and the game page is not available on GOG.

Even if I'll create Steam account for other region, I'll still leave a trace of the payment from my card cuz I need to add funds to Steam account somehow and it is the only way.

In other words it's fucked up, but we have to pay somehow for everything Putin is doing using the name of our country and people who don't support him at all and can't speak freely. So yeah, I'd say it's fair and I've no problems with it:messenger_relieved:
 

salva

Member
It's not tagged as "Play Anywhere" but saves can still be shared, many games are not Play Anywhere (meaning primarily that buying it on one platform does not give you the game on the other) but share the save.
Like Spyro, Star Trucker and many other games.

As the game has the "Xbox cloud save" tag I expect it to share the same saves on PC and Xbox.
Ahh yeah sweet - that's what I was meaning. As long as saves are shared that'll be great!
 

amigastar

Member
There's no way to buy it on GOG, SWIFT and Russian cards not working and the game page is not available on GOG.

Even if I'll create Steam account for other region, I'll still leave a trace of the payment from my card cuz I need to add funds to Steam account somehow and it is the only way.

In other words it's fucked up, but we have to pay somehow for everything Putin is doing using the name of our country and people who don't support him at all and can't speak freely. So yeah, I'd say it's fair and I've no problems with it:messenger_relieved:
Let's just hope this useless war will end soon and censorship in your country will be a thing of the past.
 
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Josemayuste

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There's no way to buy it on GOG, SWIFT and Russian cards not working and the game page is not available on GOG.

Even if I'll create Steam account for other region, I'll still leave a trace of the payment from my card cuz I need to add funds to Steam account somehow and it is the only way.

In other words it's fucked up, but we have to pay somehow for everything Putin is doing using the name of our country and people who don't support him at all and can't speak freely. So yeah, I'd say it's fair and I've no problems with it:messenger_relieved:

What about if someone buys the game for you and gifts it to you?
 

Agent_4Seven

Tears of Nintendo
What about if someone buys the game for you and gifts it to you?
If this someone is not from Russia, paying for a game / gift without using a Russian credit card and it can be gifted to a Russian account, I think it is safe cuz there will be no trace and there's no way they'll be checking absolutely every Russian on Steam. Ultimate edition will not activate at all though, only Standard and Deluxe.

no preload for gamepass PC, fuck this bullshit
It's fuckin' sucks when there no pre-load and you have to download almost 200 gigs on launch day.

P.S. John Marston John Marston thanks for the gold ma dude!🙏 :messenger_relieved:
 
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AMC124c41

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Excited to be so close to playing a new Stalker game after 15 years of wait. Hope it manages to capture the atmosphere of the previous 3 games and doesn't fall into the trappings of modern open world shooters too much. Also hoping it's not an absolute mess on the technical side of things :messenger_grinning_sweat:
 

GymWolf

Member
Undecited about paying for a month of gamepass pc and risking to have a shitty pc version without framegen or dlss like it happened in the past or paying 40 euros for a key on steam...

I need to know how is the pc gamepass version of the game performance wise.
 
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Luipadre

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Undecited about paying for a month of gamepass pc and risking to have a shitty pc version without framegen or dlss like it happened in the past of paying 40 euros for a key on steam...

I need to know how is the pc gamepass version of the game performance wise.

There is a DLSS3 trailer posted in this thread not long ago.

nvm you talking about the game pass version... well it better have atleast DLSS support
 
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GymWolf

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There is a DLSS3 trailer posted in this thread not long ago
Maybe i wasn't clear, i know that the pc version has that stuff, i don't know if the pc gamepass version also have it.

In the past some games on gamepass pc had worse performance or less settings than the steam version.

Pc gamepass version also has way longer times for patches and hotfixes.
 
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AMC124c41

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Maybe i wasn't clear, i know that the pc version has that stuff, i don't know if the pc gamepass version also have it.

In the past some games on gamepass pc had worse performance or less settings than the steam version.

Pc gamepass version also has way longer times for patches and hotfixes.
Ah shit, I forgot about that. Hope there's some level of parity with the other PC versions. Microsoft, why are you the way you are?!? :messenger_grinning_squinting:
 

mystech

Member
Guaranteed buy for me! This will be my first Stalker game. Just waiting to see how performance is on Xbox. If it’s good, I’ll buy it day 1, otherwise I’ll wait a month or 2 for the patches to kick in.

There’s rumors of a hefty Day 1 patch so hopefully that makes things smooth enough.
 
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