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

mondblut

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Someone leaked the map screen. And as expected, it's DECLINE.
It's basically consolized generic slop. Say hello to Skyrim: STALKER Edition
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Original game the map was on an immersive PDA.
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Blame apple and borderless design. PDAs went a long way since 2008.
 

MasPingon

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Castle Rock
Some Australian guy streamed the first two hours of gameplay lol

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2306378970
Lol, this fov is ridiculous, 1/4 of screen space is your weapon. Looks unplayable. Also, another faggot playing an fps game on gamepad. Is there any footage of this game where someone is playing with mouse and keyboard? Even in official gameplay presentation you can clearly say they play on gamepads and it looks terrible.
 

ferratilis

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The entire UI looks like it was designed for consoles. You still see the animation of PDA being pulled up, but then it switches to a world map straight out of something like modern Far Cry. Lame.
 

Turisas

Arch Devil
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Some Australian guy streamed the first two hours of gameplay lol

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2306378970
Lol, this fov is ridiculous, 1/4 of screen space is your weapon. Looks unplayable. Also, another faggot playing an fps game on gamepad. Is there any footage of this game where someone is playing with mouse and keyboard? Even in official gameplay presentation you can clearly say they play on gamepads and it looks terrible.

PC version can't be played yet, that guy just got his xbawks copy early because of a retailer fuck-up.
 

Drakortha

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The entire UI looks like it was designed for consoles. You still see the animation of PDA being pulled up, but then it switches to a world map straight out of something like modern Far Cry. Lame.
You're just a Gamma player!

You're just looking at the old STALKER with Rose Tinted Glasses. You are delusional!

The game is made in Ukraine, cut the dev's some slack.

STALKER 2 is new thing. New thing is always good.

You can turn off the yellow paint and quest markers in the settings. You don't have to use them!

Mods will fix it

Etc.
 

ArchAngel

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Take note that Xbox gameplay you see is without that day 1 patch. Who knows what version they put on those DVDs . All the bugs seen could have easily been fixed in the meantime.
 

Jenkem

その目、だれの目?
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Make the Codex Great Again! Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. I helped put crap in Monomyth
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First few impressions seem to say there's is no real A-Life 2.0
As expected from this interview it seems like A-life is now completely scripted, and what they call A-life is just "random events" spawning on the map when you approach them.
Also Stalkers don't even react anymore when you point a gun at them, and when you follow them around in the world they just roam aimlessly basically doing nothing like any other open world game.

Between this, the directional arrows showing you where you are being shot from, nav points and other crap it's completely consoleized now. Went from being a rough but ambitious and unique game to subpar generic w*stoid slop. Truly fitting of the Zelensky era.
 

Drakortha

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Also Stalkers don't even react anymore when you point a gun at them
This is new info to me. Seems every new detail about this game that gets leaked points to it being consoleized shit. My expectations were already very low, but this is pathetic..

No A-Life, dumb NPCs, navpoints, enemy compass markers, etc. You might as well be playing Fallout 4 at this point.
 

Jenkem

その目、だれの目?
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Make the Codex Great Again! Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. I helped put crap in Monomyth
Also Stalkers don't even react anymore when you point a gun at them
This is new info to me. Seems every new detail about this game that gets leaked points to it being consoleized shit.

No A-Life, dumb NPCs, navpoints, etc. Might as well play Fallout 4 at this point.
The mention of Fallout 4 reminded me that the MC in Stolker 2 constantly talks to himself...
 

Drakortha

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Also Stalkers don't even react anymore when you point a gun at them
This is new info to me. Seems every new detail about this game that gets leaked points to it being consoleized shit.

No A-Life, dumb NPCs, navpoints, etc. Might as well play Fallout 4 at this point.
The mention of Fallout 4 reminded me that the MC in Stolker 2 constantly talks to himself...
It's the dev's way of insulting the players intelligence. They assume you have no internal monologue of your own, so they offer you a substitute. This trend started with Far Cry 3.
 

Inec0rn

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Also Stalkers don't even react anymore when you point a gun at them
This is new info to me. Seems every new detail about this game that gets leaked points to it being consoleized shit. My expectations were already very low, but this is pathetic..

No A-Life, dumb NPCs, navpoints, enemy compass markers, etc. You might as well be playing Fallout 4 at this point.
goddamn it, please no.

"development restarted and powered by Unreal Engine 5".. didn't realize this, yep so typical AAA stuff - might be a 2h refund demo.
 

Odoryuk

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jebsmoker

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Insert Title Here Strap Yourselves In I helped put crap in Monomyth
i've seen all of the languages that STALKER 2 officially supports for its *text* translations from a stream: there's english, german, ukrainian (duh), russian, serbian, turkish, french, spanish, italian, polish, czech, portuguese, arabic (or possibly persian? i can't really tell the difference between these two), mandarin, and japanese
 

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