S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl

[Readher]

3 month Xbox exclusive. Dumbed down consolized turd confirmed.

Only mods can save it now.

Again, that's console exclusivity as in it won't be on the playstation in that time. It has nothing to do with the PC version.

They've confirmed that over and over.

Got a source? Everything I'm reading calls it a 3 month Xbox console exclusive.

It's still going to be consolized though, regardless.

Says right on their official website, and it has been confirmed multiple times by GSC. The topic has only crept up again because court documents have confirmed that M$ has paid for the console exclusivity, which wasn't exactly difficult to work out considering all the M$ sponsorship stuff that was being posted.

https://www.stalker2.com/

The game will have a simultaneous release on PC and Xbox Series X. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will also enter Xbox Game Pass on console on day one.

Microsoft doesn't factor PC in when they talk about exclusives, it's just a more or less given that any new title on Xbox will be on PC as well.

Thanks for clarifying. "Console exclusivity" is confusing language to use if they're still intending to release on PC simultaneously.

"console exclusive" means that the game only releases on a certain console (lifetime or for a certain time), but is on PC as well. If a game only comes out on a certain console, it's simply "exclusive".

"Console" in that statement isn't a clarification of the platform (because it's already obvious), but rather a scope limiter. The exclusivity is limited to the console space and doesn't impact a PC or, for example, a mobile release.

 

[CappenVarra]

if it's on consoles and not PC-first, it's a console game: move to retardo land where it belongs (if the console controller allows you to select the destination with any precision haha)

fuck this, fuck that, fuck everything

 

[vibehunter]

if it's on consoles and not PC-first, it's a console game: move to retardo land where it belongs (if the console controller allows you to select the destination with any precision haha)

fuck this, fuck that, fuck everything

https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/stalker-2

The award-winning PC franchise loved by millions of players is making a true next-gen console debut with S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2. Experience a unique blend of first-person shooter, immersive sim, and horror.

Oh, it is almost certainly "console-first".

Not to mention they are leaving the charming XRay engine behind for Unreal of all things.

 

[Konjad]

I hope it's gonna be a decent shooter, but have no hopes for it being a decent stalker.

 

[Spacer's Nugget]

Design documents, concept art and an early build of the cancelled version of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 have leaked online

You can download it here: https://ap-pro.ru/forums/topic/2632-materials-stalker-2-2011/

 

[Spacer's Nugget]

Mirrors:

https://disk.yandex.ru/d/vMURcorDb_s8fA

https://cloud.mail.ru/public/3SBJ/YiFYgshZ3/

 

[jebsmoker]

THE SONS OF THE BUILDS STRIKE AGAIN

i thought i would never see the day that a stalker 2 prototype would leak

 

[kites]

As I said earlier, these materials, which the Scam wanted to sell, do not cost even a hundred rubles.
A bunch of references, unfinished assets, and a curve unfinished engine. My compliments, here's $ 15,000

In general, dudes, this sink is more for enthusiastic modders. There just isn't much to see.

And what is there to mod?

Crooked unfinished engine in which it is impossible to spawn an actor (!) 3 models - a long-time man in an exe, a bandit with a latex jacket and a neutral stalker.
One model ak74 with additions for it
3 cards. Factory, bomb shelter, checkpoint.

google translate of that thread was a bit rough to get through

 

[Spacer's Nugget]

Maybe canning this project was the best course of action after all.

 

[ADL]

Wonder if we'll ever get the full source to X-Ray 2.0 as it stood at time of cancellation. The footage I've seen is impressive.

 

[Konjad]

Wonder if we'll ever get the full source to X-Ray 2.0 as it stood at time of cancellation. The footage I've seen is impressive.

The only *impressive* aspect of this video is the music...

I mean, I don't need stalker 2 to be impressive, i just want it to be good, but so far only the music came out as being worthwhile waiting...

 

[ADL]

The new engine looks like it supports physically based rendering and a new IK system. If they released the source perhaps it could be ported to Open X-Ray. Whatever improvements could come from X-Ray 2.0's source I want in the original.

 

[kites]

The only *impressive* aspect of this video is the music...

it's from the SoC/CS/CoP vanilla OST

 

[Immortal]

New interview, not much that we didn't know already

Do you have any plans to eventually bring the game to PS5 as well? Why did you decide to launch as an Xbox console exclusive?

No plans for now. We negotiated the possibilities with Microsoft and saw several good opportunities for the brand — including Game Pass.

That’s said, we’re concentrating on the Xbox Series X/S version.

Actually I think due to language barrier and Russians just not giving a fuck - they sort of inadvertently revealed Microsoft's thought process here.

I think most people have probably already guessed / assumed this but..

I read this as basically confirmation that any IP Microsoft controls including anything by Bethesda and Obiidian / InXile are going to be banned from the PS5 unless Sony allows gamepass services. Again the writing on the wall was there - but this is further confirmation in my mind.

 

[ADL]

 

[GrafvonMoltke]

Look how they massacred my boy

 

[Curratum]

It is no longer the year 2003 laddies. This new game costs many times what the original Stalker cost back then. They're not making a game for you, they are trying to make an edgy "Russian biohazard sign mutants gas masks" shooter for everyone, because that baby will need to sell a lot more copies than there are old Stalker fans to be even close to successful.

You can just spare us all the pointless moaning, as though the game could have ever been anything like the old ones to an extent old fans would enjoy.

 

[Parsifarka]

Nothing in that video is real gameplay, though it looks nice. Rather than a "gameplay trailer" this is a trailer of the gameplay, how they dream it would play and look like. Given this quality, at this point maybe they should transition into a movie studio in order to avoid risks as whatever they show of the actual game after this (if ever) will raise a great wave of butthurt bemoaning the downgrade and the fruitless long wait.

 

[Tacgnol]

I really want to see the inventory screen (or lack of) it will be very enlightening to how artefacts, outfits and weapon storage actually work.

 

[Malamert]

Maybe STALKER should've been left dead and abandoned.

 

[Tacgnol]

Maybe STALKER should've been left dead and abandoned.

Just leave it to the modders at this point. With all the work they chuck into openxray and the big projects they'll end up making their own sequel at some stage.

Still, I hope this one might turn out to be "good for what it is" or even alright.

 

[vibehunter]

Visually, I like it. But that’s where it ends.

As soon as I saw the endless wave of “lul looks like metro and Tarkov” comments I knew it was all over.

 

[Malamert]

When Stalker 2 was first announced you should've already known it was all over.

 

[Outlander]

What I just saw was disgusting. They could have at least script the AI to do... something. But no, enemies just stand there waiting to be popped. Huge step backwards from the original games.

On top of that they were playing with a controller. When the player was looking around for the bloodsucker and that 180º turn took soooooooooo damn long...

Sure, looks pretty, but if that's all you care about, you're better off playing Metro or whatever AAA shooter the industry pumps out.

 

[Immortal]

I honestly felt Stalker 2 had the best showing of everything so far.
This event was a train wreck and I knew immediately in the back of my head that it was missing that "Stalker" aesthetic. But I kinda wonder if maybe having low end graphics is part of the aesthetic. I wonder if a modern engine that isn't jank as fuck can even deliver what people expect from a Stalker game.

The minute they enable Linear PBR lighting it stops looking like Stalker.

 

[Silva]

Fuck the naysayers, I'm excited.

 

[Perkel]

yeah defnitely the best trailer out of those.

What is more important it got right zone and STALKER theme. There are some cinematic story bits in trailer but i doubt they will go into game, probably for trailer only.