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[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Behold Her! The Zone blossoms, in her own resplendent yet enigmatic and twisted way: luring, gifting, and taking away. Speaking in many voices, both familiar and new.

How far to the edge will you go in pursuit of what you seek?

 

[ozz ex machina]

God I hope this isn't a buggy mess on launch. Stalker is a masterpiece.

 

[Denton]

Short, but sweet trailer, looks great.

If all the games scheduled for this year make it and are reasonably polished at launch, this could be the best year for me since 2015.

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
STALKER 2
Vampire Bloodlines 2
Avowed
Gothic Remake
Greedfall 2
Black Myth Wukong
Star Wars Outlaws
Ghost of Tsushima

So much WRPG and open world action goodness.

 

[mdkirby]

Looks great, there’s a lot of games out tho, so I’ll prob hold off to buy it on ps5…give the devs some £££

 

[Diseased Yak]

Damn, that gave me chills! Love STALKER so much, can't wait for this!

 

[Flabagast]

Short, but sweet trailer, looks great.

If all the games scheduled for this year make it and are reasonably polished at launch, this could be the best year for me since 2015.

Kingdom Come Deliverance 2
STALKER 2
Vampire Bloodlines 2
Avowed
Gothic Remake
Greedfall 2
Black Myth Wukong
Star Wars Outlaws
Ghost of Tsushima

So much WRPG and open world action goodness.

Don't forget the GOTY FF7 Rebirth (although I think KCD2 will be a strong challenger)

 

[TVexperto]

downgrade incoming

 

[amigastar]

Hey, it's on Game Pass. Awesome thing.

 

[eNT1TY]

This is a full price purchase for me even if its on game pass. It's not the fidelity of the reveal trailer but it looks improved over their last showing. Each following reveal since the initial one has improved visually that by launch it should roughly approximate that first trailer.

 

[Kupfer]

Looks too good to be true.

Please be good, please release for PS5

 

[splattered]

Looks damn good

 

[Ulysses 31]

Yeah, like the first "gameplay" trailer from 2021 I'd be pleasantly surprised if the final game will look like that even on a high end PC.

 

[adamsapple]

It's been a while since a good first person story based game, looking forward to this and wish the best to the team.

 

[poppabk]

God I hope this isn't a buggy mess on launch. Stalker is a masterpiece.

If they have maintained the scale and ambition of the original games, with the resources they have and the things they have had to deal with, bugs are almost guaranteed. I'd hope for a buggy ambitious project rather than a polished game with reduced scope - just no game breaking bugs.

 

[YuLY]

downgrade incoming

You can already see it from that E3 showing with the guys sitting around the campfire, like hard downgrade not just downgrade, Ubisoft style.

 

[SJRB]

Need to see actual gameplay instead of sanitized static panning through areas.

 

[YuLY]

It's been a while since a good first person story based game, looking forward to this and wish the best to the team.

Robocop: Rogue City, Atomic Heart, Trepang2. They are still coming out, but yes, much less than a decade ago.

 

[Denton]

Don't forget the GOTY FF7 Rebirth (although I think KCD2 will be a strong challenger)

For me FF7RB is 2025 release since I play on PC. But FF16 might also make this year I think.

 

[SABRE220]

downgrade incoming

It already suffered a massive downgrade in the last few trailers. Since the e3 showing, they basically gutted the gi/bounce lighting not even sure they are using nanite anymore.

 

[SlimySnake]

Not great, not terrible.

 

[poodaddy]

Don't forget the GOTY FF7 Rebirth

Very much looking forward to this. Trailer was pretty minimal, but I'm completely in.

 

[adamsapple]

New screens copied from Era.

Shaping up nicely.

 

[Bry0]

The truck graveyard looks amazing. So much more scale than the original map.

 

[Denton]

Yeah some fantastic shots and visuals, but I am not gonna lie, I miss those original 2D photographed skyboxes, the new dynamic 3D volumetric stuff just doesn't cut it.

 

[Xdrive05]

So there is there any way that this could be built on the new 5.4 version of UE5? Since that's out already, I don't see why not. Apparently 5.4 is a LOT fast at threading and hardware RT, so there's no reason why they can't have all the UE5 goodies turned on in this game and still be performant. I assume if this game has been built around an earlier build of the engine, they could still at least use the latest version for efficiency in the final shipped product. They probably just won't have any of the new features that were just recently introduced, is all.

 

[RadioactiveLobster]

So there is there any way that this could be built on the new 5.4 version of UE5? Since that's out already, I don't see why not. Apparently 5.4 is a LOT fast at threading and hardware RT, so there's no reason why they can't have all the UE5 goodies turned on in this game and still be performant. I assume if this game has been built around an earlier build of the engine, they could still at least use the latest version for efficiency in the final shipped product. They probably just won't have any of the new features that were just recently introduced, is all.

I guess it is possible if Epic gave GSC early access to the updated engine, or something to that effect.

I don't know how complicated it would be to go from 5.0-5.3 versions of the engine to 5.4.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

hope it's good and difficult

 

[Stafford]

Was it Gamescom last year or even 2022 where it was playable and the downgrade was rather crazy? I don't believe a thing until I'm playing it on Xbox myself.

 

[Alebrije]

Does this Game has something related to previous he games ? Or is a new story on the Stalker universe?

 

[Phase]

Need to see actual gameplay instead of sanitized static panning through areas.

Yes. Still no actual gameplay has me worried. Though I don't preorder games so I'll just wait and hope for the best, then check it out when it finally does release.

 

[Mozzarella]

I loved the first game, it was called Shadow of Chernobyl or something, great menu theme, very dark and depressing setting but ultimately really atmospheric and cool, i think Stalker 1 and 3 are the most atmospheric games ever made, their atmosphere is thick as fuck, beating any other game out there, even Thief.
But they have certain flaws about them that could've made them much better, you instantly recognize the passion in them, i also loved how smart the A.I was in those games.
I think they need a better shooting mechanics, better world design and better side missions.

This game was made under tough situation, so i think it will ship in unfinished and messy state, i will wait for word of mouth before i buy it. Visuals look sick though.

 

[JayK47]

I have my doubts about the release date. Other than that, I am always down for more STALKER.