Will Stalker 2 be hard like the originals?

[Blazkowicz]

Would love to see if it makes it easier like Metro franchises.

[PsyWarVeteran]

The originals were hard?

[piet11111]

I love the difficulty curve they had where at the start without good equipment you where struggling but after getting better gear and learning how to handle certain situations things get easier.
Always a good time getting the first AK-74.

[PsyWarVeteran]

Originally posted by Tazor:

I remember using god mode cheats as a kid cos it was too hard.

Which cheat would that be?

Originally posted by Tazor:

Just because you are good at STALKER now, doesn't mean you always were. Just because you find the vanilla games easy now, doesn't mean they were easy. I have a hard time believing you just strolled through SOC the first time around without a care in the world. Never forget where you started.

Believe what you want to believe, it was easy the moment I played it. Even on master, go ahead and try attacking the bandits with nothing but a leather jacket, see how many shots it takes to drop you. And you can eat bread or sausages to heal up too.

STALKER was never about difficulty.

Originally posted by Tazor:

Now I have become a god in GAMMA, one of the hardest STALKER mods out there.

[Wei]

Originally posted by Tazor:

Now I have become a god in GAMMA, one of the hardest STALKER mods out there.

GAMMA isn't even close to being one of the hardest STALKER mods, unless you consider tediousness as part of the difficulty.

[Retrado the Barbarian]

Vanilla Stalker is easy game for modern Stalker community. I don't think Stalker 2 will be much more difficult and also you can always drop difficulty setting. The modding community will then bring the game up to high difficulty standard of modern Stalker mods but people not interested in that can play without mods.

[Iamlegend]

The gamescom demo was as hard as Stalker 1 on PC, no more (like Anomaly or Gamma), no less (like a Call of Duty), and I also read that the devs are planning to make different levels of difficulty (can't say that for sure until the game comes out).

[Belmont]

Originally posted by Tazor:

Originally posted by PsyWarVeteran:

The originals were hard?

Yes. They were hard. Much harder than other shooters at the time. I remember using god mode cheats as a kid cos it was too hard. Especially in CS, so much fighting. I sort of got gud by the time COP came out and didn't cheat.

Now I have become a god in GAMMA, one of the hardest STALKER mods out there.

Just because you are good at STALKER now, doesn't mean you always were. Just because you find the vanilla games easy now, doesn't mean they were easy. I have a hard time believing you just strolled through SOC the first time around without a care in the world.

Never forget where you started.

Anomaly/Gamma isn't about Stalker. Anomaly/Gamma is about tedium, it's about lengthening game progression by artificially inflating it with inane, boring tasks involving micromanaging repair resources to the millionth degree. There is no real difficulty there. It's just boring, and it's not what Stalker has ever been about. It's the result of the Misery crowd fusing together with the Call of Chernobyl crowd and appealing to the Tarkov playerbase.

The original trilogy wasn't about difficulty at all, and they weren't "hard". I think you need to go back and replay them to refresh your memory, sounds like you have Anomaly-wash on the brain that's clouding what the originals were like.

[Napoleon Solo]

Originally posted by Iamlegend:

The gamescom demo was as hard as Stalker 1 on PC, no more (like Anomaly or Gamma), no less (like a Call of Duty), and I also read that the devs are planning to make different levels of difficulty (can't say that for sure until the game comes out).

Did you play in person? If yes, what was the difficulty? NPCs people or mutants or something else?

[Iamlegend]

Originally posted by Napoleon Solo:

Originally posted by Iamlegend:

The gamescom demo was as hard as Stalker 1 on PC, no more (like Anomaly or Gamma), no less (like a Call of Duty), and I also read that the devs are planning to make different levels of difficulty (can't say that for sure until the game comes out).

Did you play in person? If yes, what was the difficulty? NPCs people or mutants or something else?

I did play the demo when it was showcased in Paris, actually (Paris Games Week).

There were dogs, anomalies and humans. The humans were definitely the hardest for that trial. It really gave me the feelings of S1 on PC.

Linking you a message where I tried to recollect precise memories about last November :
https://steamcommunity.com/app/1643320/discussions/0/4292566649767888874/?ctp=2#c4292566649772118774

[lagfx]

I want it to be harder than the 3 games. being able to get one shot, and can be killed easily but only one dog is perfect! this isn't like the other games where you're the center of the story and somehow you are stronger than everyone else.
I just want it to be like the 3 games or Anomaly, where you're just a weak dude in the zone.

[Belmont]

Originally posted by lagfx:

I want it to be harder than the 3 games. being able to get one shot, and can be killed easily but only one dog is perfect! this isn't like the other games where you're the center of the story and somehow you are stronger than everyone else.
I just want it to be like the 3 games or Anomaly, where you're just a weak dude in the zone.

Stalker =/= Anomaly

People need to stop this comparison, seriously.

The original trilogy and Anomaly are nothing alike with the exception of locations and re-using characters with a fanfiction level plot that many don't even engage in. They most certainly are *nothing* alike in difficulty.

Stalker 2 is not going to be Anomaly 2. Stop having the expectation that it will anything to do with, or be remotely similar to Anomaly in ANY way. Anomaly is not Stalker.

[Retrado the Barbarian]

Originally posted by lagfx:

I want it to be harder than the 3 games. being able to get one shot, and can be killed easily but only one dog is perfect! this isn't like the other games where you're the center of the story and somehow you are stronger than everyone else.
I just want it to be like the 3 games or Anomaly, where you're just a weak dude in the zone.

Maybe it will be harder because a lot of years have passed but it will likely have difficulty modes so that more people can play it just like the originals did. We'll have to wait some time for modders to raise difficulty to standards that Anomaly players expect.

[-GK- Paladin]

Originally posted by lagfx:

I want it to be harder than the 3 games. being able to get one shot, and can be killed easily but only one dog is perfect! this isn't like the other games where you're the center of the story and somehow you are stronger than everyone else.
I just want it to be like the 3 games or Anomaly, where you're just a weak dude in the zone.

Modders can do that. GSC will make the game as they always have in the past. All 3 are legendary. I'm 100% convinced this will be their best work yet.

[Sean Cockery]

I'm looking forward to Anomaly 2 / Gamma 2

[Stalker2010]

Originally posted by Sean Cockery:

I'm looking forward to Anomaly 2 / Gamma 2

Sure you are...