It was night and I crawled across the grass Stalker 2‘Digital reconstruction of the Chernobyl exclusion zone. I need to meet someone, but entering anywhere in The Zone—the game’s eerie, desolate, yet eerily beautiful fallout environment—is dangerous. To make sure I was going the right way, I pulled out a map and mapped out my next route. Then a big wild boar came out of nowhere and crashed into me, almost killing me. I stood up, shot the pig a few times, and recovered, just before another pig knocked me down.
Then the framerate dropped and my game crashed, and when I launched my save it crashed again. I loaded up again and was surrounded by more pigs appearing out of nowhere. Another car accident. I sighed because this was not the first time Stalker 2 I get frustrated with bugs, crashes, or performance issues. That’s a shame, because when the game is running, it’s a special and challenging survival experience that forces you to think twice before you act or be killed in seconds.
Still, in many ways, my playing is a miracle Stalker 2 It’s not available on my Xbox Series X at all.
long and painful road Stalker 2release
This open world FPS survival game was first released in 2010 with a 2012 release date. But the developer GSC Game World closed down in 2011. and that version Stalker 2 Canceled the following year.
Then in 2014, GSC Game World was restarted, and the team developed and released an RTS sequel. cossacks 3. In 2018, the studio announced plans to produce this new version of Stalker 2. Years later, the sequel was unveiled on Microsoft’s E3 2021 stage. Things are looking good.
Then in February 2022, Russia invaded Ukrainethe country where GSC Game World is located. This disrupted developers’ lives and had a huge impact on development. Stalker 2 When people try to escape the war or stay and fight back. Eventually the development of GSC Game World moved to Stalker 2 out of Ukraine and Prague, but had to be recast due to deaths or missing persons. Stalker 2The original release date of December 2022 was pushed to 2023 and then 2024.
I say all this because I want to set the record straight: Stalker 2 This is a game you can play on Xbox and PC right now, and it looks good and is fully functional, which is an impressive feat. GSC Game World and its developers deserve a lot of credit for launching this product.
Stalker 2 It was an impressive and humble experience.
However, having said that, currently Stalker 2 What a mess. On Xbox Series . I’ve talked to other people who have played the game on PC, and while things seem better there if you have a reliable rig, it’s also pretty confusing. I mean the most popular mods Stalker 2 Now everyone is focused on making the game work better.
Yet, I keep coming back to Stalker 2 Because this is a truly immersive, tense survival game, with all the bugs, glitches, and lags buried inside.
exist Stalker 2 Every firefight feels painful and dangerous. when you hear gunshots Stalker 2In a real wasteland, you don’t spin and run towards it like you do in the game fall out or Borderlands. Instead, when I heard gunshots, I would sneak into the bushes or dilapidated buildings and try to see what was going on. You feel very vulnerable in this world. Enemies can take a lot of damage, mutants can kill you in one or two hits, and bullets and health items are limited and precious.
at a certain moment Stalker 2 I needed ammo so bad that after killing someone in a shootout, I had to unload the enemy’s weapon so I had more bullets to use. Crawling through mud and darkness, grabbing a few stray bullets while slowly bleeding out and without a bandage to save yourself, is an experience you won’t find in most open world games in 2024.
So, unfortunately, my performance dropped into the mid-20s during that firefight, and the mission marker didn’t disappear from the map when I completed it. After 20 minutes, the game crashed again. (Thankfully, this is less common since the Day 0 update.)
Stalker 2 Not ready for prime time yet, but you might like it
This puts me in a strange situation. recommend Stalker 2 It seems irresponsible now. It’s been a long time since I’ve encountered a video game that looked so broken and janky. GSC Game World sounds committed to improvements and fixes Stalker 2considering they were able to launch a game like this in War, I have no doubt things will get better. final.
But it’s also a game that I can’t even finish a full review of because I only got it a few days before release and numerous technical issues and performance issues frequently stopped me.
Despite the difficulties experienced by the developers, I must make it clear Stalker 2especially on Xbox, is an extremely broken and unstable thing.
If you can live with all the bugs and performance issues and crave an open world game and not just another RPG-lite collect-a-thon game far cry, Then you might want to check it out. (The game runs on Game Pass PC and Xbox.)
For everyone else, it’s better to wait and see how future updates and mods improve Stalker 2.
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