STALKER 2 Review is up IT'S BAD

[NIGHTHEAD]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRCLRAJkqjg

Some takeaways from video:
- not recommended for casual PC's
- extremely buggy mess
- requires high end hardware 4090 + DLSS + Frame Gen to reach 60 fps with drops in town
- glitches and annoying pop ups
- terrible AI
- T-Poses
- underwhelming and boring story
and many more

[Wozherd$🐧]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von niralamart000:

not a fan of the gore, there is like no skeleton and the blood has that censored red look to it, didn't realize this was a game for kids

I can't shotgun blast a head off a corpse or living person, mutants don't decapitate either.
Dead Island 2's gore system would be very nice, maybe Dead Space Remake's gore.

[Swato85]

just a question because all of the negatives here. Is it at least better than DA:Veilgard? That game set a new record for "low" as far as I heard, so how much space ia between them?

[ᛈᚢᛒᚲᚱᚨᛚᚱ13]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Swato85:

just a question because all of the negatives here. Is it at least better than DA:Veilgard? That game set a new record for "low" as far as I heard, so how much space ia between them?

I haven't played Veilguard and I have no intention of doing so, but I think it's safe to say that 90% of that game's criticism comes from a political place, and the remaining 10% has to do with how different it looks/feels as compared to previous games in the series. It's probably not a good benchmark comparison for actual quality.

[OGPG]

Skill Up is a f*cking clown

[AtticusMaximus]

FYI: I play the game over XboX Game Pass, where it is free to play with said pass, thats why I dont own the game here

Played one hour and encountered several gamebreaking bugs, you can‘t play it with controler, because it‘s always auto walking back, first time i reached a gunfight, in which zhorik was involved and when he died the camera permanently focused on the doorframe?! Some fps lags are very serious and gamebreaking. One time I load a game I was stuck in the Zone of prologue and couldnt even reload my save because it wasn’t possible to open the menu with escape.
The Landscape is really cool, but thats all this game does good right now. Can‘t recommend to play until they fixed some of the gamebreaking bugs..

[Wozherd$🐧]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von AtticusMaximus:

FYI: I play the game over XboX Game Pass, where it is free to play with said pass, thats why I dont own the game here

Played one hour and encountered several gamebreaking bugs, you can‘t play it with controler, because it‘s always auto walking back, first time i reached a gunfight, in which zhorik was involved and when he died the camera permanently focused on the doorframe?! Some fps lags are very serious and gamebreaking. One time I load a game I was stuck in the Zone of prologue and couldnt even reload my save because it wasn’t possible to open the menu with escape.
The Landscape is really cool, but thats all this game does good right now. Can‘t recommend to play until they fixed some of the gamebreaking bugs..

There should be a controller layout fix just add non steam version to library, go to community layouts, click show all, and use that one. I got no dead zone or stick drift with it.

[niralamart000]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Wozherd$🐧:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von niralamart000:

not a fan of the gore, there is like no skeleton and the blood has that censored red look to it, didn't realize this was a game for kids

I can't shotgun blast a head off a corpse or living person, mutants don't decapitate either.
Dead Island 2's gore system would be very nice, maybe Dead Space Remake's gore.

i was talking about the aesthetics then the mechanics but yeah dead island's liquid gore system was nice but the blood there too looked so brown red and low quality like they were afraid to have it there

[rustypup]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von NIGHTHEAD:

- requires high end hardware 4090 + DLSS + Frame Gen to reach 60 fps with drops in town

Ignoring all the other lies, this one remains the most obvious

i9-9700k/GTX1660 - 80>100 FPS with zero issues.

Some folks just can't build decent rigs.

But sure,. let's listen to rando on Dumbtube.... that's where "the facts" are found.

[podge112]

fishing...........

[SaltyBalls]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von ᛈᚢᛒᚲᚱᚨᛚᚱ13:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Foamed:

It's not bait, watch the Skill Up video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRCLRAJkqjg

To give you a TLDW about "some" of the issues:

• Performance is terrible, even with a 4090 using DLSS Performance.
  
• Awful texture pop-in and warping.
  
• Lighting is downright broken more often than not.
  
• Glitchy reflections.
  
• Light sources often don't work correctly (many areas that are clearly supposed to be properly lit are just black as if there's no light on).
  
• NPCs and objects often glitch and just float in mid-air (T-poses).
  
• UI elements flicker in and out for no apparent reason.
  
• NPCs will regularly stand on top of eachother during cutscenes.
  
• Weapon audio cuts out regularly and just straight up doesn't make any sound.
  
• Positional audio is completely borked and is completely inaccurate.
  
• The enemy AI is bad.
  
• When you complete an objective, it oftentimes won't update in the UI so you are unable to see that it's actually been completed.
  
• Map markers are regularly inaccurate (such as where stashes are, etc..), leading you to completely inaccurate locations.
  
• Stealth doesn't work at all; enemies can see you through walls.
  
  This is yet again a classic Stalker release like we've seen three times before; downright broken and full of performance issues, bugs, and stuttering.
  
  I'm grabbing this game in two or three years down the line during a sale when all the patches, DLC, and potentially unofficial patches have been released.

Just played for a short while. While I can't speak to all of these just yet, I can tell you that most of them are complete BS.

Performance is terrible, even with a 4090 using DLSS Performance.
I'm on a 4090 and didn't go below 125 FPS, with everything on epic settings.

Awful texture pop-in and warping.
Not a single pop-in or warp yet.

Lighting is downright broken more often than not.
Seems fine to me.

Glitchy reflections.
They're all perfectly fine so far.

Light sources often don't work correctly (many areas that are clearly supposed to be properly lit are just black as if there's no light on).
What I've seen so far is fine; could be worse later but as of right now, it's fine

NPCs and objects often glitch and just float in mid-air (T-poses).
Haven't encountered enough NPCs to comment on this one, but no objects have glitched and/or floated yet.

UI elements flicker in and out for no apparent reason.
Not even once.

NPCs will regularly stand on top of eachother during cutscenes.
Again, can't speak to this one yet

Weapon audio cuts out regularly and just straight up doesn't make any sound.
Perfectly fine so far.

Positional audio is completely borked and is completely inaccurate.
Complete false, it's perfectly fine.

The enemy AI is bad.
TBD

When you complete an objective, it oftentimes won't update in the UI so you are unable to see that it's actually been completed.
So far, not true at all.

Map markers are regularly inaccurate (such as where stashes are, etc..), leading you to completely inaccurate locations.
Sounding like a broken record here. So far, not a single issue with this.

Stealth doesn't work at all; enemies can see you through walls.
TBD.

Take it for what it's worth.

Edit: to be fair on point #1, I also have a 14900KS and 96gb of RAM, so that's probably a factor as well. Just being transparent.

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To be fair OP made game sound some what worse than it is but on the other hand you made it sound a lot better than it is...It's a ok game but it does have lots of bugs and my pc ok
i9-12900KF
32GB DDR 4
RTX 3080Ti
1TB m.2 SSD

[Kaiser Waffle]

Wasn't too optimistic about the game but I was able to play it on gamepass (thank God I didn't buy it on steam) and man I really wanted this to be a good game but it's just frustrating and not fun for me. Well back to the original stalkers it is for me.

[TomasaurusREKT]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Flickmann:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von ♂TheBlasterMaster™✞:

How many seconds play time did you have before posting this insightful review?

Are your reading comprehension skills so BAD that you forgot he wrote "some takeaways from the video" before you got to the end of the post? Is your attention span that short?

They used to be good reliable source. Now it's "HEY THIS IS SPONSORED BY XXXX, HEY LOOK BUY THIS PRODUCT". That and they bleep out every little cuss and blur out gore so oH mY gOd i NeEd tO bE MoNiTiZeD!!

[Wozherd$🐧]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Kaiser Waffle:

Wasn't too optimistic about the game but I was able to play it on gamepass (thank God I didn't buy it on steam) and man I really wanted this to be a good game but it's just frustrating and not fun for me. Well back to the original stalkers it is for me.

Same but as someone who barely tried Stalker before this release i just have too many Stalkers to play now.

[hmouskat]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von ᛈᚢᛒᚲᚱᚨᛚᚱ13:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Foamed:

It's not bait, watch the Skill Up video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRCLRAJkqjg

To give you a TLDW about "some" of the issues:

• Performance is terrible, even with a 4090 using DLSS Performance.
  
• Awful texture pop-in and warping.
  
• Lighting is downright broken more often than not.
  
• Glitchy reflections.
  
• Light sources often don't work correctly (many areas that are clearly supposed to be properly lit are just black as if there's no light on).
  
• NPCs and objects often glitch and just float in mid-air (T-poses).
  
• UI elements flicker in and out for no apparent reason.
  
• NPCs will regularly stand on top of eachother during cutscenes.
  
• Weapon audio cuts out regularly and just straight up doesn't make any sound.
  
• Positional audio is completely borked and is completely inaccurate.
  
• The enemy AI is bad.
  
• When you complete an objective, it oftentimes won't update in the UI so you are unable to see that it's actually been completed.
  
• Map markers are regularly inaccurate (such as where stashes are, etc..), leading you to completely inaccurate locations.
  
• Stealth doesn't work at all; enemies can see you through walls.
  
  This is yet again a classic Stalker release like we've seen three times before; downright broken and full of performance issues, bugs, and stuttering.
  
  I'm grabbing this game in two or three years down the line during a sale when all the patches, DLC, and potentially unofficial patches have been released.

Just played for a short while. While I can't speak to all of these just yet, I can tell you that most of them are complete BS.

Performance is terrible, even with a 4090 using DLSS Performance.
I'm on a 4090 and didn't go below 125 FPS, with everything on epic settings.

Awful texture pop-in and warping.
Not a single pop-in or warp yet.

Lighting is downright broken more often than not.
Seems fine to me.

Glitchy reflections.
They're all perfectly fine so far.

Light sources often don't work correctly (many areas that are clearly supposed to be properly lit are just black as if there's no light on).
What I've seen so far is fine; could be worse later but as of right now, it's fine

NPCs and objects often glitch and just float in mid-air (T-poses).
Haven't encountered enough NPCs to comment on this one, but no objects have glitched and/or floated yet.

UI elements flicker in and out for no apparent reason.
Not even once.

NPCs will regularly stand on top of eachother during cutscenes.
Again, can't speak to this one yet

Weapon audio cuts out regularly and just straight up doesn't make any sound.
Perfectly fine so far.

Positional audio is completely borked and is completely inaccurate.
Complete false, it's perfectly fine.

The enemy AI is bad.
TBD

When you complete an objective, it oftentimes won't update in the UI so you are unable to see that it's actually been completed.
So far, not true at all.

Map markers are regularly inaccurate (such as where stashes are, etc..), leading you to completely inaccurate locations.
Sounding like a broken record here. So far, not a single issue with this.

Stealth doesn't work at all; enemies can see you through walls.
TBD.

Take it for what it's worth.

Edit: to be fair on point #1, I also have a 14900KS and 96gb of RAM, so that's probably a factor as well. Just being transparent.

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Saying "TBD" on completely broken and mess up things in the released game that has been in the development for the last eternity. God... This guy will eat anything that looks like chocolate...

[hmouskat]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von NIGHTHEAD:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRCLRAJkqjg

Some takeaways from video:
- not recommended for casual PC's
- extremely buggy mess
- requires high end hardware 4090 + DLSS + Frame Gen to reach 60 fps with drops in town
- glitches and annoying pop ups
- terrible AI
- T-Poses
- underwhelming and boring story
and many more

Can confirm most of that. Although I play on XBOX SERIES X (which is supposed to be optimised but no, Perfomance mode is 40 fps, quality mode is 20 fps)
Poor perfomance, just a dirty mess of raw ideas.
Enemies spawning behind your back is something xd
Booring walking from one point of interest to another through completely empty and large distances.. again with random spawning enemy encounters in the middle of nothing xd
Open any walkthrough on yt and pick any spot on the timeline - if you see something rather than a scene of wandering on the swamp - you won (you will never see anything besides useless wandering on the swamps) xd