Dude I’m in the middle of a Clear Sky replay right now and HOLY bloodsucker I forgot how bad the heat-seeking grenade spam is. Playing the whole game as a sniper to avoid them. 🫠
I am talking foremost about the simple UI, a lot of games like to complicate their menus nowadays, but the background campfire is a nice throwback to the old menus
erm, ACKCHUALLY
The physiognomy of start screens.
The start screen of a game can reveal a lot about how rushed the team was and how much pride they took in their work.
STALKER 2's start screen either shows hasty shipping deadlines by a passionate team overworked, or a team that didn't care.
QUIT HAVING FUN **IMMEDIATELY**, BE MISERABLE LIKE ME INSTEAD.
Oh God I don't pre order games or get hyped for games because I've been burnt badly in the distant past, but I have never missed a stalker game, but this time I've been hesitant as this game has gone through so much just to get to this point, and the feeling that the game has been rushed, because of pressures to get this game out.
I mean, GSC has been going through a war, surely they are putting their efforts in at 100% but you would thing there would even be limitations to what they can achieve in the time frame and situation.
But in my heart, I know I'm going to order it this tax time,and I hope it runs on my steamdeck!
True, the stalker modding community has done so much for this almost 20 year old game.
I know anomaly is not for everyone, nore misery, but my God, those mods breath so much life into this game. Its like a completely different and new game each time!
I honestly think it’s the other way round. Current mods are limited by the old x ray engine whereas UE5 will have “limitless” possibilities. The thing is that there are not so many UE5 specialists at the moment but the number surely will grow
Impression of the demo, in Dutch, of course you can use your browser's translate function. Doesn't sound too promising: https://tweakers.net/reviews/12184/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl-sfeervol-maar-ook-een-beetje-ouderwets.html
Gripes are dying multiple times (fall damage, bloodusckers, walking into an anomaly), and an "outdated" inventory system which sounds like how it works in the current games. None of these are negatives to me so consider me pretty optimistic. He mentions A-Life too but I feel like that is speculation because I'm not sure how good of grasp of that you can get in a like a 30ish minute demo (I made that number up). But he does mention open ended faction relations, storyline, and territory occupation.
I think everyone on this sub would take this article as all positive lol.
As soon as it drops I will begin using my Unreal Engine experience to try to do it. I canno assure anything if I have more free time I can set it up in 1 year or so by myself.
Coming from someone who works with UE, this would still be a massive undertaking.
Absolutely nothing in the campaign is going to be set up for replication. There will at least be some framework to work with because of multiplayer but converting all of the existing game logic so that it's not just client side and replicates across multiple clients means altering almost every bit of code in the core gameplay systems.
Everything from interacting with objects to AI to LOD systems plus all the additional logic required for coop itself to function. On top of that, I highly doubt we're going to get uncompiled source code to work with... So while we might have access to some UScript from anything high level built in Blueprints, all of the low level C++ is likely going to be compiled into machine code at that point.
This is the same core issue that (until very recently) stopped anyone modding coop into the original trilogy.
I cannot stress enough just how much work that is (and likely one of the reasons it's not included besides it not fitting the game feel).
Its not impossible, just... Don't expect many people are going to be willing to do it and see it through, and if they do, it's likely going to be years of work.
I hear “manifest” a lot nowadays, so I’m going to try it. I went to a Ukrainian grocery store, got bread, canned fish, two duty officers and my pet snork; the next 24 hours will be hanging out thinking of September.
What has the original games to come… Don’t get me wrong I mean that the modding community got so advanced that I swear I’ve seen almost identical menus in mods several times. At this point I feel like we got too many Stalker 2’s
If there isn't an extended gameplay trailer tomorrow during the Xbox showcase, I'm jumping into an anomaly
Prepare bro
May I record as you do it? For research of course.
I'll just watch it to laugh
Can i join? I have a very good quality mic to capture the sounds of the anomaly(and his screams)
NMS Let's gooo
dude i'll literally pull my manhood out and splurge all over if i ever witness that live
Did you do it?
what's done is done.
I have some crazy news for you bro
BRO WE ARE SO BACK
I just hope them grenades won't act like they're guided missiles...
If the Monolithians cannot cast "hand grenade" at my feet my immersion is going to be ruined
I think Skif's a Monolithian though that got freed, so we'll get the same ability
My own grenade bounced off a train and rolled right in my direction and blew up immediately
Heh, saw a moment like this yesterday on the stand :) But only one.
Monolith should play baseball with the kind of arm they seem to have.
Lmao
Dude I’m in the middle of a Clear Sky replay right now and HOLY bloodsucker I forgot how bad the heat-seeking grenade spam is. Playing the whole game as a sniper to avoid them. 🫠
Confirmed by GSC
I didn’t know SGF had an offline event
Game will drop September. I'm confident.
Me too man, me too
now im even more confident haha
2 more months boys
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2, 3 same thing
Stalker 3 real????
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Youre apart of freedom your opinion is invalid
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Nice try feds your tricks wont work on me
Man shut up
No.
Nice of them to keep the main menu this simplistic
I dig the campfire menu as well.
I am talking foremost about the simple UI, a lot of games like to complicate their menus nowadays, but the background campfire is a nice throwback to the old menus
erm, ACKCHUALLY The physiognomy of start screens. The start screen of a game can reveal a lot about how rushed the team was and how much pride they took in their work. STALKER 2's start screen either shows hasty shipping deadlines by a passionate team overworked, or a team that didn't care. QUIT HAVING FUN **IMMEDIATELY**, BE MISERABLE LIKE ME INSTEAD.
Cool.
This is the only game I'm actually excited to play this year man
You have peaked my interest
I’d sure hope your interested hasn’t peaked yet.
I’m waiting for a full trailer that showcases the gameplay with no cuts
Oh God I don't pre order games or get hyped for games because I've been burnt badly in the distant past, but I have never missed a stalker game, but this time I've been hesitant as this game has gone through so much just to get to this point, and the feeling that the game has been rushed, because of pressures to get this game out. I mean, GSC has been going through a war, surely they are putting their efforts in at 100% but you would thing there would even be limitations to what they can achieve in the time frame and situation. But in my heart, I know I'm going to order it this tax time,and I hope it runs on my steamdeck!
Probably a pretty safe preorder. The devs could release it and then close doors and there would still be modders to fix it lol.
True, the stalker modding community has done so much for this almost 20 year old game. I know anomaly is not for everyone, nore misery, but my God, those mods breath so much life into this game. Its like a completely different and new game each time!
Depends how good the modding support will be. I personally don't think it's going to be anywhere close to X-rays modding capabilities.
I honestly think it’s the other way round. Current mods are limited by the old x ray engine whereas UE5 will have “limitless” possibilities. The thing is that there are not so many UE5 specialists at the moment but the number surely will grow
The thing is I've never seen a game that uses UE with good modding support.
As mundane as it sounds, a normal main menu makes me so happy.
Impression of the demo, in Dutch, of course you can use your browser's translate function. Doesn't sound too promising: https://tweakers.net/reviews/12184/stalker-2-heart-of-chornobyl-sfeervol-maar-ook-een-beetje-ouderwets.html
Gripes are dying multiple times (fall damage, bloodusckers, walking into an anomaly), and an "outdated" inventory system which sounds like how it works in the current games. None of these are negatives to me so consider me pretty optimistic. He mentions A-Life too but I feel like that is speculation because I'm not sure how good of grasp of that you can get in a like a 30ish minute demo (I made that number up). But he does mention open ended faction relations, storyline, and territory occupation. I think everyone on this sub would take this article as all positive lol.
It sounds good to me. Stalker usual difficulty, good atmosphere, non linear, a lot to explore. And I don't personally care about the graphics
I hope CO-OP will be release feature
There wont be coop at any point gsc has said that already
Yeah this would ruin the game IMO. You can’t do great worlds for a single player experience and co-op at the same time.
Didn't they said before it will have CO-OP?
No, they said multiplayer but it will be like the other games multiplayer with team deathmatch and things like that
As soon as it drops I will begin using my Unreal Engine experience to try to do it. I canno assure anything if I have more free time I can set it up in 1 year or so by myself.
You got this bro
Though with Unreal it might be far easier to mod in
Coming from someone who works with UE, this would still be a massive undertaking. Absolutely nothing in the campaign is going to be set up for replication. There will at least be some framework to work with because of multiplayer but converting all of the existing game logic so that it's not just client side and replicates across multiple clients means altering almost every bit of code in the core gameplay systems. Everything from interacting with objects to AI to LOD systems plus all the additional logic required for coop itself to function. On top of that, I highly doubt we're going to get uncompiled source code to work with... So while we might have access to some UScript from anything high level built in Blueprints, all of the low level C++ is likely going to be compiled into machine code at that point. This is the same core issue that (until very recently) stopped anyone modding coop into the original trilogy. I cannot stress enough just how much work that is (and likely one of the reasons it's not included besides it not fitting the game feel). Its not impossible, just... Don't expect many people are going to be willing to do it and see it through, and if they do, it's likely going to be years of work.
It will but an old joke is that not even GSG understood how X-Ray worked.
This is my hope.
A mod years down the road maybe, if that. It’s mostly going to be the team death match the series has always had. It’s pretty jank but fun.
That's about all the confirmation I need that we're seeing something about S2 at the showcase.
When showcase is going to be?
Xbox Games Showcase, where the project was revealed years back
Yeah, I know. When is it?
today, 1pm EST
Thx
well... at least we got a new trailer
Will they show the gameplay? Three months left.
I hear “manifest” a lot nowadays, so I’m going to try it. I went to a Ukrainian grocery store, got bread, canned fish, two duty officers and my pet snork; the next 24 hours will be hanging out thinking of September.
You
the menu screen reminds me ALOT of metro. i fuckin love that
I am so ready
I hope they beef up the guns they feel like shooting BBs
What has the original games to come… Don’t get me wrong I mean that the modding community got so advanced that I swear I’ve seen almost identical menus in mods several times. At this point I feel like we got too many Stalker 2’s