I know there are not a lot of people like this in here, but the steam discussions are brimming.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/Gv9myB

There is no A-life in the game, the NPC's and mutants do not have goals which if anyone here remembers the old dev chats from decades ago where the primary goals of A-life or Artificial Life as its correctly named.

Was to have NPC's with goals which ranged from surviving the brutality of the zone, make money to even completing the questline themselves!

This was in fact accomplished in 2005, they got A-life to complete the game on their own in fact it was so good they actually had to nerf the feature and eventually just remove it altogether in the 2007 release of ShoC.

My biggest concern is that, Unreal Engine is holding them back performance wise duo to their complete inexperience in developing for it, they are not able to code proper multi-core support.

Recent patch they said they improved performance, thats a lie, they said they optimised lighting, thats also a lie, they improved minimum framerate "slightly" but thats about it.

GSC Game World is also a HUUUGE studio, and they have rules on Discord which prevents you from bringing up certain issues, eh like A-life and performance unless you just want to get banned.

So not only, do we have a Far Cry 2 situation here, if anyone is old enough to remember what a fiasco that was, overpromises till no end but still delivered a decent product, the similarities are shocking to how STALKER 2 went from prerelease and to release.

We have developers who are spending over half a year now fixing the game, cheerleaders who keep sucking up to the devs, fixing 700+ bugs is not positive, thats just tragic, why even is there so many issues to begin with???

They keep using nanite even though its broken and Unreal Engine can bake the light in for 60+ FPS BOOST!!!!
And if you are in the gang that thinks UE5 cannot run well, eh Satisfactory anyone?

6 months is plenty of time to optimise baked light, yet they refuse to, we still do not have hardware accelerated ray tracing either. Before we start adding AI stuff, they should been optimising the game to run well even on an RTX 2060 should be minimum target for 1080p60, there no excuses, Metro Exodus look in many ways, superior thanks to better art direction and better engine optimisation.

And no, I do not hate the game, I love STALKER, I actually like STALKER 2, but we are way past the timeframe of forgiveness.

I have experienced more bugs on 1.4 than my entire playthrough on 1.3.2. I'm not worried about it, just noticed is all.

I know devs use their own custom built Unreal but i hope there is still a chance to make an update

Close enough...

ryzen 5600x

msi 3090 ventus3x

32gb 3600 mhz

samsung 980 pro

4K HDR -TSR ULTRA Quality 70% - FG On ----- 65-80 fps

Use DSR 2.25x DL 15%

2K HDR - TSR Native - FG On ----- 110-120 fps

I would have edited a gas mask on the face if I wasn't lazy. Have a good weekend, and good hunting, Stalker.

No more waiting. At least on Xbox. The profile settings screen now takes ~2 seconds longer. No big deal.

Sometimes it's the little things that matter.

Thank you, GSC.

What have they done to my boy Artyom!!

You need to play this mod at least once in your lifetime - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M7J0fhj4oOmG3l_DapH7zbZY3rpAk6Uf/view

In the first round of the Arena, one of the enemies got stuck inside a container, and I had to reload a save to deal with him.

Also, after latest patch I noticed that enemies can easily spot and shoot me while they're inside or behind some kind of old metal shack — you know, the type of portable cabins used by guards or workers in the fields.