S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - coming September 5th

[Spacer's Nugget]

There is a written interview featured on the IGN website (that went under the radar) in which it's stated that the game is content complete, and the studio is moving to the polishing/bug-fixing phase (which is a bold-faced lie, since they moved to Czechia, not Poland).

Trivia: GSC's main PR dude is a... Russian traitor.

Make borscht, not war.

 

[Ivan]

Not included in the video - random Monolith soldier who managed to sneak behind you and spray you all over the wall
unless you've been playing on anything below Master like a filthy cashuall

I'd be shaking in my boots if they could actually hit the broad side of a barn. Or sneak. It's kind of hard when you shout "Vrag Monolita!" or something the moment you see the enemy.

this shit is like if Bethesa made a stalker game. They'd start you w/exo and HMG

 

[Iucounu]

There is a written interview featured on the IGN website (that went under the radar) in which it's stated that the game is content complete, and the studio is moving to the polishing/bug-fixing phase (which is a bold-faced lie, since they moved to Czechia, not Poland).

https://www.ign.com/articles/the-st...ian-hackers-and-death-threats-wont-break-them

"Of the 360 or so people working at GSC Game World, around 160 are in Ukraine."​

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"After deciding to make narrative changes to the game, it had to build a new motion capture studio in the Prague office. "​

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"“We need a new motion capture studio. We need to build it. When we build it, we need to test it. When we test it, we can do these changes in motion capture. The full-fledged war starts, and we cut off Russian voiceover. Then we decide to dedicate additional time, money, and value to English voiceover. And we decide to hire English speaking actors to do so. We hire them, we need to do the voiceover, we need to have an audio studio, we need to rebuild the audio studio in Prague."​

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Sounds like they're wasting too much time and resources on cutscenes that nobody needs. Narrative changes after already doing all(?) the cutscenes sounds a bit worrying as well.

 

[Gerrard]

Are you telling me there is no motion capture studio that they could've rented? In fucking Prague? And a recording studio?

 

[Infinitron]

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Sounds like they're wasting too much time and resources on cutscenes that nobody needs. Narrative changes after already doing all(?) the cutscenes sounds a bit worrying as well.

Need to paint Ukraine army as a hero and Russian invasion into the game

 

[ADL]

https://www.vortex.cz/v-prazskych-kancelarich-autoru-hry-s-t-a-l-k-e-r-horelo/

The GSC Game World studio suffered a fire that destroyed one of the floors used by the company. The authors of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl from the studio GSC Game World moved largely to Prague after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

According to our information, there was a fire in the team offices last night.We received the report from two independent trusted sources who wish to remain anonymous.An electrical installation fire broke out in a high-rise building in Na Pankráci Street. Five fire units responded to the scene. Several dozen people were evacuated. According to the Prague municipality website, there were 30 people, according to the Požary.cz website, 20 people.

Fortunately, there were no injuries in the fire and the damage was tentatively estimated at 1.5 million crowns. One of the three floors of the GSC Game World studio was said to have been affected by the fire. We have a photo from the scene which indicates that the fire devastated the office equipment and the interior itself. However, we cannot publish it.

It was said to be the most important floor with backup servers.The other two were not affected by the fire. We have no information at this time as to whether this event may affect the completion of the game in any way. We are investigating further details. If we learn something new, we will update the article.

 

[Gerrard]

Sergiei can't keep getting away with it.

 

[InD_ImaginE]

Eh these days I would assume they would have cloud backup

 

[Spacer's Nugget]

https://www.vortex.cz/v-prazskych-kancelarich-autoru-hry-s-t-a-l-k-e-r-horelo/

The GSC Game World studio suffered a fire that destroyed one of the floors used by the company. The authors of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl from the studio GSC Game World moved largely to Prague after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

According to our information, there was a fire in the team offices last night.We received the report from two independent trusted sources who wish to remain anonymous.An electrical installation fire broke out in a high-rise building in Na Pankráci Street. Five fire units responded to the scene. Several dozen people were evacuated. According to the Prague municipality website, there were 30 people, according to the Požary.cz website, 20 people.

Fortunately, there were no injuries in the fire and the damage was tentatively estimated at 1.5 million crowns. One of the three floors of the GSC Game World studio was said to have been affected by the fire. We have a photo from the scene which indicates that the fire devastated the office equipment and the interior itself. However, we cannot publish it.

It was said to be the most important floor with backup servers.The other two were not affected by the fire. We have no information at this time as to whether this event may affect the completion of the game in any way. We are investigating further details. If we learn something new, we will update the article.

 

[Beowulf]

Eh these days I would assume they would have cloud backup

We are talking about a company that shared builds via torrents.

 

[cvv]

Jesus this game is never gonna come out is it.

 

[Rean]

https://www.vortex.cz/v-prazskych-kancelarich-autoru-hry-s-t-a-l-k-e-r-horelo/

The GSC Game World studio suffered a fire that destroyed one of the floors used by the company. The authors of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl from the studio GSC Game World moved largely to Prague after the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

According to our information, there was a fire in the team offices last night.We received the report from two independent trusted sources who wish to remain anonymous.An electrical installation fire broke out in a high-rise building in Na Pankráci Street. Five fire units responded to the scene. Several dozen people were evacuated. According to the Prague municipality website, there were 30 people, according to the Požary.cz website, 20 people.

Fortunately, there were no injuries in the fire and the damage was tentatively estimated at 1.5 million crowns. One of the three floors of the GSC Game World studio was said to have been affected by the fire. We have a photo from the scene which indicates that the fire devastated the office equipment and the interior itself. However, we cannot publish it.

It was said to be the most important floor with backup servers.The other two were not affected by the fire. We have no information at this time as to whether this event may affect the completion of the game in any way. We are investigating further details. If we learn something new, we will update the article.

"The dog ate my homework"

 

[Modron]

You dare call vatniks dogs?

 

[Stavrophore]

GOTHIC REMAKE: DEVELOPERS WANT TO GIVE MODERS SUPPORT, BUT THE ENGINE MAY NOT ALLOW Alkimia Interactive would like to provide modders support in Gothic Remake, but Unreal Engine 5 restrictions may get in the way. The creators don't want to promise anything.

https://cdaction.pl/newsy/gothic-re...wsparcie-moderom-ale-silnik-moze-nie-pozwolic

Most likely same will happen with stalker 2. What you see is what you will get, don't get your hopes up for mods fixing it.

 

[toughasnails]

I could swear that folks were actually claiming that UE5 will be easier on modding support than 4?
In any case, blaming the engine might be an excuse for building your game with modding in mind. Doesn't mean that we ought conclude anything about Stalker 2's moddability.

 

[ADL]

My only concern is potentially not having low level access to the game's systems which would suck if modders had to fix A-Life 2.0 for example. A lot of the things modders have spent their efforts in building within Open X-Ray are native to Unreal 5 so modders can focus on making cool shit instead of fixing technical issues and such. Adding new weapons and enemy types and rebalancing things should be a piece of cake assuming they distribute their tools to a degree of acceptable openness.

Even if they don't deliver, unofficial UE modding is so trivial these days I doubt there's anything out of reach for a community like the STALKER series.

 

[deuxhero]

GOTHIC REMAKE: DEVELOPERS WANT TO GIVE MODERS SUPPORT, BUT THE ENGINE MAY NOT ALLOW Alkimia Interactive would like to provide modders support in Gothic Remake, but Unreal Engine 5 restrictions may get in the way. The creators don't want to promise anything.

https://cdaction.pl/newsy/gothic-re...wsparcie-moderom-ale-silnik-moze-nie-pozwolic

Most likely same will happen with stalker 2. What you see is what you will get, don't get your hopes up for mods fixing it.

Give us mod support for the original Gothic. PB confirmed they have the source code to the original/2 still with that patch for the Switch release, and have been clear in the past that it was an entirely in house product.

 

[jebsmoker]

itz over for grigorovich. stalker 2 is cancelled cuz theres no more soda to fuel his soda addiction:

 

[soutaiseiriron]

shoulda been the coke factory
pepsi max clears coke so fvcking hard

 

[fantadomat]

itz over for grigorovich. stalker 2 is cancelled cuz theres no more soda to fuel his soda addiction:

Fuck,putin is such a nice guy,such an act of philanthropy....tctctc

 

[Jrpgfan]

I see Putin is more of a Coke guy.

 

[CthuluIsSpy]

Coca Cola clearly has their claws in Russia. American corporate imperialism strikes again!

 

[Iucounu]

Can we please keep politics out of Stalker 2?

 

[janior]

Can we please keep politics out of Stalker 2?

devs themselves started politicize their vaporware game