vaibhavpisal
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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
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ClanOfNone
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I agree. I foresee most of the negative reviews will be due to performance issues, which isn’t something I care too much about as an old fart.
As long as it isn’t an unplayable slideshow I suspect I’ll enjoy it just fine.
Infested Goblin
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Stop releasing unfinshed products for fuck sake idiots
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
It launches in 2 hours from now, it's not live yet.
Heaven Angel
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alife
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Note: Impressions and overview covered in the first 12 minutes (Spoiler free). Rest of the video showcases a side mission that is meant to demonstrate the typical gameplay loop players should expect (Cutscenes removed to avoid story-related spoilers). Overall, the game seems to perform well enough on PC (No signs of massive micro stuttering or large FPS drops and Frame Gen actually helps a lot).
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Dr.Morris79
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analog_future
Resident Crybaby
Wow, the game sounds straight up broken.
- Performance is terrible, even with a 4090 using DLSS Performance
- Awful texture pop-in.warping
- Lighting is regularly busted
- Reflections are glitchy
- Light sources often don't work correctly (many areas that are clearly supposed to be properly lit are just black as if there's no light on)
- NPCs and objects often glitch and just float in mid-air
- UI elements flicker in and out for no apparent reason
- NPCs will regularly stand on top of eachother during cutscenes
- Weapon audio cuts out regularly and just straight up doesn't make any sound
- Positional audio is completely borked and is completely inaccurate
- Enemy AI is poor
- When you complete an objective, it oftentimes won't update in the UI so you are unable to see that it's actually been completed
- Map markers are regularly inaccurate (such as where stashes are, etc..), leading you to completely inaccurate locations
- Stealth is totally busted; enemies can see you through walls
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As Eurogamer has stated already the reviews have been conducted without the day 1 patch so there's still some hope for a better experience once it becomes available:
www.eurogamer.net
Where's our Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl review?
Hello! It's one of these again. You may have started to see some reviews going live for Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl r…
www.eurogamer.net
Tokio Blues
Gold Member
Welp, is a broken game. We should wait for a patch.
Dr.Morris79
Member
Name me a Stalker game that isn't. It's probably the only series that gets a pass from me being a pile of shit
No other games have their atmosphere.
They'll be work around, patches and mods I don't doubt
Kvally
Member
Best PC settings for graphics?
www.pcgamer.com
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl best graphics settings guide
Know how to prep your gaming PC before it heads into the Zone.
TintoConCasera
I bought a sex doll, but I keep it inflated 100% of the time and use it like a regular wife
Might try it out of curiosity but it's probably better to wait on this one for a while.
Plus I still have to play the original trilogy.
Plus I still have to play the original trilogy.
Dr.Morris79
Member
You should of been there for the originals disc release in 2007. That shit was brutal..
But captivating
It was akin to self torture you couldn't stop yourself from trying
Mister Wolf
Member
Mozart36
Neo Member
I will copy part of the review, that is talking directly about the technical problems (xbox) and how it got much better during last hours. It's from different language, I used google translator, because I'm tired to translate that myself, sorry...
The game arrived for review just a few days before release, and the whole process was strikingly reminiscent of Cyberpunk 2077: it was almost unplayable on day one, mainly because enemies would literally teleport and spawn around you out of nowhere, which was extremely frustrating. In addition, the dialogues also got stuck, the fluidity on the console dropped to 10 fps for some more demanding sequences or bosses. My guess is that if you run the disc-pressed version of the game offline without the patch, you'll see these "joys" for yourself. However, almost every day a new patch arrived, often many GB in size, with an iteration number several tens higher. Even the night before release, I was planning a different verdict for the game, as one of the last missions couldn't be completed due to broken scripting logic. But a patch arrived that same night that fixed it and improved a lot of other things as well. But I will not be at all surprised if some reviews will complain about problems that are no longer in the game - not every reviewer can play and edit the text literally until the last hour before the embargo, larger media often have more complex editorial processes.At this moment (I am writing the review literally a few hours before the game is released to the public) the game is in a noticeably better condition. Compared to how it worked and ran a week ago, it's a huge improvement. If you can turn on VRR support on your TV, the smoothness in performance mode is very good most of the time (50-60 fps by eye), which is truly a miracle, considering the vastness of the environment, the detail of the graphics and the occasional intensity of the action. At the same time, all kinds of flickering of surfaces and the user interface and other problems that the game suffered from a week ago disappeared. So the process of reviewing it was relatively painful, but I'm really amazed at how much things have improved and how well the game runs now.
TLDR: Thanks to the updates before launch the game is now in much better state (technically wise), than it was days ago and a lot of reviews will not take that into account, because of how the editorial processes are and those updates were "last minute".
Btw. The review I posted that translation from ended with 10/10 rating.
The game arrived for review just a few days before release, and the whole process was strikingly reminiscent of Cyberpunk 2077: it was almost unplayable on day one, mainly because enemies would literally teleport and spawn around you out of nowhere, which was extremely frustrating. In addition, the dialogues also got stuck, the fluidity on the console dropped to 10 fps for some more demanding sequences or bosses. My guess is that if you run the disc-pressed version of the game offline without the patch, you'll see these "joys" for yourself. However, almost every day a new patch arrived, often many GB in size, with an iteration number several tens higher. Even the night before release, I was planning a different verdict for the game, as one of the last missions couldn't be completed due to broken scripting logic. But a patch arrived that same night that fixed it and improved a lot of other things as well. But I will not be at all surprised if some reviews will complain about problems that are no longer in the game - not every reviewer can play and edit the text literally until the last hour before the embargo, larger media often have more complex editorial processes.At this moment (I am writing the review literally a few hours before the game is released to the public) the game is in a noticeably better condition. Compared to how it worked and ran a week ago, it's a huge improvement. If you can turn on VRR support on your TV, the smoothness in performance mode is very good most of the time (50-60 fps by eye), which is truly a miracle, considering the vastness of the environment, the detail of the graphics and the occasional intensity of the action. At the same time, all kinds of flickering of surfaces and the user interface and other problems that the game suffered from a week ago disappeared. So the process of reviewing it was relatively painful, but I'm really amazed at how much things have improved and how well the game runs now.
TLDR: Thanks to the updates before launch the game is now in much better state (technically wise), than it was days ago and a lot of reviews will not take that into account, because of how the editorial processes are and those updates were "last minute".
Btw. The review I posted that translation from ended with 10/10 rating.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
You should of been there for the originals disc release in 2007. That shit was brutal..
But captivating
It was akin to self torture you couldn't stop yourself from trying
To be fair they're not using X-Ray engine now, it's UE5
Dr.Morris79
Member
And even that is ballache, I haven't actually played a game on it that's run brilliantTo be fair they're not using X-Ray engine now, it's UE5
Oh there's a crash coming with this game for sure, but..
1 hour to go
Senua
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FoxMcChief
Gold Member
I don’t tend to play games on the tv until the evening, after the brats are asleep. So evening launches have never been an issue. And I’d rather you all have to wait until I can play.
twilo99
Member
Is FSR3 even worth trying?
should be alright with DLSS?
my 6800xt has no such crutches to rely on so I think 25fps "locked" lol
should be alright with DLSS?
my 6800xt has no such crutches to rely on so I think 25fps "locked" lol
Magic Carpet
Gold Member
Use search for stalker will bring it up.
Senua
Member
I don't know dude the game seems a bit fucked ATM in general. Ima wait a while and see how it progresses
twilo99
Member
DanielG165
Member
Are the new reviews taking the patch into account? I’m at work so I can’t really follow along.
Nonehxc
Member
You're tingling my Cheeki Breekis.
Immersive sim is my genre love.
Those aren't stutters.
Those are Framerate 'Anomalies'.
twilo99
Member
Doesn't seem to be the case
Desprado123
Member
PC gamer reports that RTX 3060 Ti is getting more performance on 1440p compare to 1080p by changing CPU.
So again a CPU heavy game.
www.pcgamer.com
So again a CPU heavy game.
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl performance analysis—Everyone gets ray tracing but the entry fee is high
Upscaling is a must; even frame generation will be needed for many gaming PCs.
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DanielG165
Member
Thanks man!
PicoLordens
Member
Ah. 4090 for the win. Thank god.
twilo99
Member
ye but what about my series s ...
King Dazzar
Member
I daren't ask how this runs on XSX in performance mode?
Buggy Loop
Member
The FSR 3 + frame generation, why would it be the same result as without frame gen?
Mister Wolf
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STALKER 2 Benchmarks & PC Performance Analysis
Powered by Unreal Engine 5, it's time now to benchmark STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl and examine its performance on the PC.
www.dsogaming.com
"Regarding AMD FSR 3.0 Frame Generation, although it worked perfectly fine with AMD’s GPUs, it did not work at all on NVIDIA’s GPUs."
dorkimoe
Member
This is like 80% of games now. The second patches became a thing we basically get half assed games now
Dusktildawn48
Member
My shiny new 9800x3d is ready to go!PC gamer reports that RTX 3060 Ti is getting more performance on 1440p compare to 1080p by changing CPU.
So again a CPU heavy game.
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl performance analysis—Everyone gets ray tracing but the entry fee is high
Upscaling is a must; even frame generation will be needed for many gaming PCs.
delirium trigger
Member
So is there dlss on the game pass version?
twilo99
Member
I think all x3d chips should be able to handle this game fairly well
WoodyStare
Member
I’m excited to play this eventually but still haven’t played the original trilogy which I’d like to go through first. I was waiting on the next gen patch but at this point it might be a while before that happens. Pretty sure the update was supposed to be released this past summer but it never happened and they never gave an update, which is understandable given their situation. Might just play them now over the next few weeks while they fix the issues with this one.