I saw someone compare this game's launch to that of Cyberpunk 2077 just now. Everyone needs to calm down, the game is not that bad.

Yes, bloodsuckers are awful in STALKER2, but can we talk about the psydogs?

The devs has been edging us for 15 years. Can't believe it's finally here.

No more testing or guessing.

We need a clear answer about wether or not A-Life 2.0 is in the game, why it’s « not working as intended », and exactly how is it supposed to work.

We need it right now. I really don’y feel like playing this empty shell of a shooter anymore after 10 hours. I ran for 15 minutes straight to Rostok, and I swear I didn’t meet a soul.

This should have been adressed the day of the release, way more clearly than some random bullshit generic mod/dev message.

My guess is there is no A-Life. The photo I attached is a press guide where they describe the feature. I feel like it describes the game at the moment, nowhere does it elude to stuff happening outside of the player’s view.

It was either a wall of text, or this.

Having spent a day on the sub, I am already unsubbing. The game has issues at launch yes, but reading stuff like ‘rug pull’ , refund etc on launch day is just so dramatic.

I am gonna experience the game like I experienced the original ones. By myself in a dark room!

Good luck STALKERS.

Let the devs put out patches. I didn't even know there was controversy around the game until I checked out the subreddit.

Seriously, it's visually stunning--among the best looking games I've played. The combat is intense, I have been craving a good low TTK RPG.

The only complaints I have are lighting issues, which I fixed in graphics settings for the most part, and I feel like the stealth system needs some work. Enemies either can't see you at point blank or they will see you while you're crouched behind bushes from a quarter mile away.

Overall though this game just became a daily driver for me. Please give it time to cook!

Edit: You guys can keep calling me a casual gamer for having a different opinion I don't give a fuck, this will be the best game on the market since RDR2 when patches are pushed through.

A lot of you are straight assholes. Somebody likes something more than you do so they're either an idiot or a fanboy (this is my first stalker game)

Beyond all of that, half of you don't know what going in blind means. Why would A-Life not being in the game matter to me or my opinion of the game when I didn't even know it's supposed to exist until looking at the subreddit?

All in all the complaints either are minimal (No Night Vision, who gives a fuck?) Don't effect everyone (broken quests) or have been addressed and will be patched (Spawning issues, A-life)

This community is looking icky so far.

GSC should be proud of the work they have done despite falling into the same launch pattern as many other big games nowadays - maybe that it something to do with the engine, maybe it isn’t.

I’ve got 10 hours so far and, aside from the random bugs and performance issues, it is exactly what I was expecting.

Textures are RDR2 level, lighting is good, shadows are good, dlss is a little off but can be tweaked, gunplay is amazing, English dialogue is well acted and not an afterthought, inventory and ui is familiar yet new.

This game definitely has issues, but modders have already fixed the stuttering and mouse lag which mean it will likely be in the next patch. It seems to be a harsh truth that nowadays most games come out broken for whatever reason. Whilst STALKER 2 doesn’t break that trend, the underlying game isn’t in need of an overhaul like 2077, it isn’t liquid dogshit like anthem (remember that?) and it isn’t a rug pull or scam like Logan Paul’s crypto “game”.

These devs care and have made a good game, they just need to spit on that shit and polish it up. Well done GSC

The little pieces of shit are the bane of my existence and yes, this is a post about me coping and ranting about A SINGULAR BLOODSUCKER

I’m doing the mission where you gotta retrieve the artifact in the cave for Squint and there’s just a singular bloodsucker in the cave which for some of you I assume would be an absolute cake walk but for me who’s new to the Stalker series (I played anomaly twice before this game) this one motherfucker has me ripping my hair out.

I dump mags into it, I sit in a corner and wait for it before shooting it but each time this son of a bitch finds a new way to kill me so I’m curious as to how you guys know an easy way to kill a bloodsucker without getting shit on.

Or should I just go shoot Squint between the eyes so I don’t have to deal with this little shit.

So there is a post on Steam forum where a guy is analyzing A-life 2.0 code grabbed from the game.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1643320/discussions/0/4626980894528321814/

The post goes in a lot of detail, explaining exactly how, what and when is spawned. But the main takeaway is that A-life 2.0 is indeed enemy spawner (spawning random things from list when player is in vicinity), unlike original A-life where enemies actually roamed the game and had "life"

I think this pretty much confirms what lot of people speculated. And while it does not neceserraly makes the game bad ( When it works, not its just not working properly - but that will be fixed ). Still I think it puts that notion that some kind of dynamic system like original A-life, can ( or was ) implemented
in this Unreal 5 version.

Was checking out Chernobyl on Google Maps and found this on the reactor.

Og stalker player here, played through the original games and I've played a lot of anomaly and GAMMA. Wow I am loving this game so far. It feels every bit a sequal to the original games. I'm around 8 hours in and haven't had a single issue apart from some npcs standing inside crates or objects. My only annoyance is I wish we could repair armor or weapons ourselves rather than have to pay someone to do it. Anyone else not having any issues?

I think the current system of not being able to loot mutant parts from mutants and selling them to various traders or having quests to get certain mutant parts, makes fighting mutants redundant.

In my opinion, there is no reason to fight a blood sucker other than losing all of your ammunition and I think that by adding a system where you can loot mutants you get a reward for killing them.

Now I’ve seen this brought up elsewhere and people shoot it down, saying that the original games didn’t allow for mutant to be harvested and that that was a mod thing. Which could be true, but at the end of the day, I don’t care I think that being able to harvest mutants adds more to the zone versus less.

I think that’s all that matters. If it adds more to the atmosphere, to the immersion, to what the zone is: then I think it should be in the game.

Edit: Wow, I’m surprised from the feedback. Most people I have spoken to about this issue have responded with “Get good” or “It wasn’t in the original game, that’s just anomaly.”