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[Gonzito]

I am hearing the game is very, very improved. I dont have time to go back but I want to play it again soon

 

[WX3]

I am hearing the game is very, very improved. I dont have time to go back but I want to play it again soon

Same brother. There's just so much going on right now. I mean, you got ARC Raiders just consuming way too many hours in my life at the moment. But I definitely hope for a time not far off when I have nothing going on and can consume this game.

 

[Paasei]

I am hearing the game is very, very improved. I dont have time to go back but I want to play it again soon

I'm in the same boat. Played the shit out of the first one with the Anomaly mod, but I never got to play this. It launching with quite a few issue's didn't help, either. Especially when I look at the price of this game.

 

[Gonzito]

I'm in the same boat. Played the shit out of the first one with the Anomaly mod, but I never got to play this. It launching with quite a few issue's didn't help, either. Especially when I look at the price of this game.

I played Stalker 2 at launch and it was a great game but very buggy. Apparently now it's not anymore. I definitely encourage you to play it because its really good

 

[xrnzaaas]

I'm planning to return to the Xbox version around December. What bothered me is that the game was constantly getting enormous patches. That's not working very well with my shitty internet since on Xbox they're always mandatory and you can't play the game when the update is downloading in the background.

Hopefully they're done with the major changes and 100 gig+ patches.

 

[Darsxx82]

They've come a long way. I remember the Perf. mode was pretty bad at launch, but it's at 60 most of the time with notable drops being to mid 50's, which is comfortably within the VRR window.

In that area of the game, you'd sometimes see frame rates drop to 40fps and never reach 60fps. Now it consistently maintains a 60fps with the occasional dip to 50fps.

The improvement is definitely noticeable and clear... just as it's leaving Game Pass

 

[nkarafo]

Does the flashlight cast shadows now or is the game still stuck in the pre 2001 era of gaming tech?

 

[Gonzito]

Does the flashlight cast shadows now or is the game still stuck in the pre 2001 era of gaming tech?

If I recall correctly they did fix this

 

[Panajev2001a]

In that area of the game, you'd sometimes see frame rates drop to 40fps and never reach 60fps. Now it consistently maintains a 60fps with the occasional dip to 50fps.

The improvement is definitely noticeable and clear... just as it's leaving Game Pass

Not a coincidence. Good enough to ship is how you lunch things on GamePass by design. People might take fixes and improvements as content updates.

 

[adamsapple]

In that area of the game, you'd sometimes see frame rates drop to 40fps and never reach 60fps. Now it consistently maintains a 60fps with the occasional dip to 50fps.

The improvement is definitely noticeable and clear... just as it's leaving Game Pass

They've been progressively working on performance improvements through the year, not just this patch.

The main update, the UE5.5 one, isn't even out yet. That will be the major CPU reduction one that happens sometime near the end of the year or start of next.

 

[Dorago]

They released a minimum viable product with none of the promised features and now they're patching to Beta because the rubes gave them $100 million. At least it actually happened right?

Every big game spurs this now. Even Death Stranding 2, a competently made game, was content bare and piss easy compared to the first one. AAA teams just don't work anymore. The games are hollow and passionless. You can tell nobody suffered while making them. Just a bunch of pampered, fat, middle aged bourgeois liberals.

 

[SpokkX]

most ue5 games run fine on good hardware. you have the best CPU and the second best GPU. I was running most of these games at 60 fps high to ultra settings on my 3080 because my CPU wasnt some trash Zen 2 CPU everyone on the internet bought back when they thought AMD was killing it.

There are some games that will cause stutters regardless of your CPU but thats mostly due to bugs that are fixed a week or a month after launch. Stalker 2 received several patches where they fixed almost 2,000 bugs. it was an incomplete game that ran like shit because it was simply broken.

you are now playing the fixed version. They are also releasing a new patch later this year that will rebuild the entire game on UE5.5 which has 50-80% better CPU performance. So you might actually be able to play it at 120 fps.

oh so they will upgrade to UE5.5? this makes me want to pospone playing..

 

[SlimySnake]

oh so they will upgrade to UE5.5? this makes me want to pospone playing..

Yep. Should be out soon. Announced back in August for a Q4 release.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Roadmap for Q3 and Q4 2025 — S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl - Steam News

Game Engine update, night vision devices, A-Life updates, and more!

store.steampowered.com

 

[StereoVsn]

They've been progressively working on performance improvements through the year, not just this patch.

The main update, the UE5.5 one, isn't even out yet. That will be the major CPU reduction one that happens sometime near the end of the year or start of next.

Going to give the game a shot then. Really want Stalker 2 to be good and get top mod support again.

 

[Denton]

While the initial release should have been much better, I am at least glad they did not abandon the game. But yeah at launch, seeing the game being unplayable with controller, I decided to wait until it is finished and content complete. So, I guess fall 2026, maybe.

Same thing happening with Bloodlines 2 btw. Also unplayable with controller at launch, also waiting..

 

[Outlier]

Does the flashlight cast shadows now or is the game still stuck in the pre 2001 era of gaming tech?

I saw a video around a week ago, stating that the flashlight derived shadows are "fake".

I'm interested in playing this game, but the unfinished status is warding me away.

 

[Skifi28]

I've been watching lots of videos and impressions, performance seems to finally be good other than some larger settlements which is not the end of the world. I'm waiting for a DF alanysis before buying, fingers crossed.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

still gonna wait

should be fun to play on a $5000 6090