S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - coming November 20th

[Baron Dupek]

You won't believe this, but game build got leaked.
What we know for sure:
- Two devs builds have leaked online
- Files are encrypted
- This is legit, but you can't play this build unless it is decrypted (unlikely to happen before the release)
- Some information can still be extracted from this, time will tell

According to the logs, each of these dev builds is around 190GB in size.

And it's problably from the dev himself.

 

[ciox]

inb4 all the A-Life was implemented with Blueprint lego blocks

 

[normie]

 

[Baron Dupek]

Screens are out on 4chan and sometimes on Reddit, but gets deleted faster than red fascists on the left flank.
https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/13xiz58/stalker_2_dev_build_gameplay/
and it looks like a DayZ/ArmA mod than anything

 

[Perkel]

yeah early build got leaked and is playable. 200gb

 

[Gerrard]

Were the encryption keys also leaked? So it really was someone from GSC?

 

[Tacgnol]

There were some interesting things in there. The inventory system looks identical to COP (I think it had shown up briefly in some of the previous videos) and the number of artefact belt slots is dictated by outfit. Separate head and body slots again.

The guy playing brought up the debug menu towards the end of the gameplay, and the game contains a huge amount of outfits with unique subvariants from the looks of it.

Certainly looks like they aren't dumbing down the equipment side which was one of my concerns after Metro Exodus.

 

[Stavrophore]

There's really not much to base any valid opinion. No quests, no monsters, no npcs just desolate maps that look ok. This is way unfinished for any 2023 or even early 2024 release, no wonder they leaked it to get more time and garner sympathy from NAFO crowd.

 

[Perkel]

There's really not much to base any valid opinion. No quests, no monsters, no npcs just desolate maps that look ok. This is way unfinished for any 2023 or even early 2024 release, no wonder they leaked it to get more time and garner sympathy from NAFO crowd.

Development builds don't usually play like finished games. You start quest etc from console or their inhouse tools. Also there might be few different builds focusing on entirely different things so that questing dep can do their own work in peace while graphics guys are hacking away lighting etc.

Game development doesn't look like creating game someone adds stuff to it as it goes but more like detached builds that come together in last months of development. Though it depends a lot on game.

 

[Infinitron]

When they're not breaking into darkpatriot's account:

 

[jebsmoker]

i wish the gameinator forums weren't disabled so that i could look at people canvassing through the freshly-leaked stalker 2 alpha builds

 

[jebsmoker]

scar has big moobs for some reason:

 

[Ghulgothas]

scar has big moobs for some reason:

Cancerous growths, a sign of incubating mutation. The Zone truly does leave it's mark on all Stalkers who wander it's borders...

 

[Wunderbar]

Apparently, the devs were sharing this build with each other through torrent. The "hackers" didn't steal it, they just found it by accident through torrent searchers. They also didn't hack it (it would've taken years to brute force the password), devs just left the key with the encrypted files.

 

[GrafvonMoltke]

Apparently, the devs were sharing this build with each other through torrent. The "hackers" didn't steal it, they just found it by accident through torrent searchers. They also didn't hack it (it would've taken years to brute force the password), devs just left the key with the encrypted files.

Yeah course bruh

 

[jebsmoker]

Apparently, the devs were sharing this build with each other through torrent. The "hackers" didn't steal it, they just found it by accident through torrent searchers. They also didn't hack it (it would've taken years to brute force the password), devs just left the key with the encrypted files.

i can't get over the fact that gsc devs actually did this instead of using an SVN service or something similar

 

[JDR13]

Development builds don't usually play like finished games.

You apparently didn't check out the leaked dev build of Atomic Heart.

 

[ScarredBushido]

scar has big moobs for some reason:

trying to beat the Hot robo twins from atomic heart

 

[Gerrard]

 

[hayst]

The amount of scripted sequences showcased makes me nervous.

 

[Alienman]

Cutscene central, hmmm.

 

[karoliner]

Literally a new Metro game. No thanks.

 

[garren]

God I hate that scripted shit where control is taken away.

 

[Ivan]

The type of camera wrestling that pisses me off the most is when interacting with some puzzle component (e.g. step on pressure plate > camera shows which door/platform it affects). Cinematics are ok as long as they can be skipped.

 

[Spacer's Nugget]

OMG cutscenes in a S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game?!