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Delayed by war, Ukraine’s long-awaited 'S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2' surges to the top of video game purchases (kyivindependent.com)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

I think I'm going to buy it soon as well. Heard it's a little rough around the edges, but the first games weren't exactly stable either. From what I've seen so far it's exactly as hoped: a modern stalker game like the old ones. Atmospheric, dark, hard, and janky. I respect the devs so much for building a game like this during such hard times.

[–] workerONE 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

I'm about to okay for the first time. Compiling shaders zzz... Edit: it's a lot of fun, good combination of environment, action and story (so far) I'm getting about 110 fps with a 3070ti on high settings at 1440p

[–] x00z 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just to add a little insight to this; compiling shaders on your own machine is an absolute win in bandwidth and storage space.

[–] Aqarius 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't the game some 150GiB?

[–] KoalaUnknown 2 points 1 month ago

Thats just UE5 being UE5.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Who on earth worries about bandwidth nowada.... Oh, them. Lol 😂

[–] x00z 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Not everybody has the money for good internet...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That, and there are still many parts of the US that are underserved in internet access. I have a friend who lives ~15 minutes outside of a major city and, until recently, the whole family shared a flaky ~2Mbps connection. They begrudgingly adopted Starlink because that was the only decent option.

[–] HereIAm 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hm. I got a 4070 super and getting 55-60. But I'm also running it straight out the box on Linux, so there will hopefully be a slew of performance gains to be had then. Glad it's not the game itself running poorly! It does feel a bit more streamlined (kinda like the morrowind -> oblivion transition), but I'm still really enjoying the game so far 4 hours in.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Hey fellow Linux gamer, does the game compile your shaders from scratch every time it starts, or it's just me? Started it 3 times so far, 45 minute compilation each time... Absolute PITA.

Edit: forgot to mention I have the GOG version, you may play in Steam with its fancy shader cache updates...?

[–] HereIAm 4 points 1 month ago

I am on steam yes. Good shout about getting it on gog though. I do get a fair chunk of shader pre compilation. But not 45 minutes, maybe like 5? And then there is some once the game has launched in a loading screen as well.

[–] zzx 1 points 1 month ago

3080, runs like shit tbh.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

According to tests its currently pretty buggy, but its following Stalker 1 regarding that XD

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Like Skyrim and Fallout, the genre tends to be buggy.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Personally I’ve found it to be way more stable and performant than any of the prior entries, even after they got patches.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah most reviews from today are with the test version and good reviews state that they where patched daily and that a major patch comes out on release day. Its probability running well now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It runs decently smoothly but I was getting a lot of crashes. Hopefully will be stable by weekend.

[–] Sylvartas 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not hating on the originals but that's not a high bar to clear. But yeah, so far I have not encountered any major bug after 3+ hours so I'd say they cleared it. DLSS is fucked up though for some reason, (I can see the actual (not upscaled) frame every 4 frame or something) which is weird because it usually works pretty well out of the box in unreal.

[–] daddy32 13 points 1 month ago

Fuck russia.

[–] Bosht 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

So I've always heard of but never played the first Stalker. Obviously it has a pretty big reputation. Do I need to play the first? Is there a synopsis of the first that will suffice? This game looks right up my alley. Gritty sci-fi shooter in a similar timeline. Looks gorgeous as well.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This new stalker game re-introduces characters and story for people who don't know them from before, and from what I've heard foes a pretty good job doing it too. So no, you don't need to play the previous games.

[–] Bosht 2 points 1 month ago

Awesome thank you!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Story is the least important part of Stalker series (there's 3 previous games).

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I actually wonder what's up with 4AGames/Metro. Metro Awakening might be nice and all, but it's not an Exodus sequel. And not by 4AGames.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Ukrainian devs with 3 games so far that play entirely in Russia with Russian characters... They must feel they are in a pickle these days.