Question about the end game

[TheRebelGreaser]

Without spoiling the game for me cuz I'm still pretty early in the game.

I'm wondering can I play the game after I finish the story meaning can I explore and do radiant quests as well as hunt for artifacts or is it like the older games where just ends right then and there after the story and goes back to the main menu.

I ask because I have found no information online anywhere saying that we can and I have found no information saying that we can't also when I asked in other places like on Reddit and when I've seen similar questions I get mixed messages some people say that you can some people say that you can't play the game after the story.

So do I have to pick a specific ending to continue playing the game after the story or do I have to go back to stalker anomaly in order to explore the zone and search for artifacts and do quests.

[TheRebelGreaser]

Originally posted by voloeb100500:

You get those ending cutscenes, you stay there.

No free roam, no ng+

So it's just like the old games in other words I should just go back to stalker anomaly after I finish this game is that what I am understanding

[BoraBruxão]

You have a point of no return before last missions, that's mean... if you have to do something before that, do it. You know what happen after.

[Rootbeer Safety Team]

Short answer. No. when you reach the end of the game. It's over no matter what choice you make.

Stalker games generally have a definitive ending, the only one that ever had an option to keep playing after the main quest, was the third game, call of pripyat.

The point of no return is the mission "Down Below"

[Fireserpent7]

Originally posted by Kastrenzo:

Short answer. No. when you reach the end of the game. It's over no matter what choice you make.

Stalker games generally have a definitive ending, the only one that ever had an option to keep playing after the main quest, was the third game, call of pripyat.

The point of no return is the mission "Down Below"

the game def needs the option to continue, it just feels outdated and like you wasted your time when you reach then end and it just kicks you to the main menu

[TheRebelGreaser]

Originally posted by BoraBruxão:

You have a point of no return before last missions, that's mean... if you have to do something before that, do it. You know what happen after.

Thank you that sounds like I'm going to be heading to stalker anomaly I finished stalker 2 unless they happen the patch it in later cuz I can kind of understand why the original games didn't have a free roam but this one I feel like should I'm not going to lie.

With that being open world with no loading screens and all this new stuff I kind of thought it would have that I'm not going to lie I don't mind it doesn't but I kind of would have liked for them to bluntly have said that oh that's not a possibility cuz there was nothing said about that like at all henceforth my question I didn't know if we could or couldn't cuz just no information was out there.

I'm a little surprised that people didn't really ask about that before the game's release.

[TheRebelGreaser]

Originally posted by Kastrenzo:

Short answer. No. when you reach the end of the game. It's over no matter what choice you make.

Stalker games generally have a definitive ending, the only one that ever had an option to keep playing after the main quest, was the third game, call of pripyat.

The point of no return is the mission "Down Below"

Yeah I have all the games that I've played all of them and I knew call of pripyat had that but I didn't know at the time if this game had it I figured they would have I hope they patch it in cuz this game can definitely benefit from that cuz that would just mean more hours played.

But anyway it kind of sounds like I'm just going to have to head back to stalker anomaly after I finished this game

[soul like that be capable of]

Originally posted by TheRebelGreaser:

Without spoiling the game for me cuz I'm still pretty early in the game.

I'm wondering can I play the game after I finish the story meaning can I explore and do radiant quests as well as hunt for artifacts or is it like the older games where just ends right then and there after the story and goes back to the main menu.

I ask because I have found no information online anywhere saying that we can and I have found no information saying that we can't also when I asked in other places like on Reddit and when I've seen similar questions I get mixed messages some people say that you can some people say that you can't play the game after the story.

So do I have to pick a specific ending to continue playing the game after the story or do I have to go back to stalker anomaly in order to explore the zone and search for artifacts and do quests.

i think at least in original games you couldnt some of endings were so life changing you couldnt cont no idea about this game . i assume that reason you have 3 slots of saves . basically you can try different runs. go look at endings of original game they were really sick and choices you made really mattered. i assume this game will have same things.

[TheRebelGreaser]

Originally posted by Mika:

Originally posted by TheRebelGreaser:

Without spoiling the game for me cuz I'm still pretty early in the game.

I'm wondering can I play the game after I finish the story meaning can I explore and do radiant quests as well as hunt for artifacts or is it like the older games where just ends right then and there after the story and goes back to the main menu.

I ask because I have found no information online anywhere saying that we can and I have found no information saying that we can't also when I asked in other places like on Reddit and when I've seen similar questions I get mixed messages some people say that you can some people say that you can't play the game after the story.

So do I have to pick a specific ending to continue playing the game after the story or do I have to go back to stalker anomaly in order to explore the zone and search for artifacts and do quests.

i think at least in original games you couldnt some of endings were so life changing you couldnt cont no idea about this game . i assume that reason you have 3 slots of saves . basically you can try different runs. go look at endings of original game they were really sick and choices you made really mattered. i assume this game will have same things.

Honestly it doesn't make a difference which ending I just kind of want to know if I could play after I finish but from what I'm hearing here it's a definite no so it sounds like I'm just going to have to go back to stalker anomaly if I want to continue playing stalker outside the story, unless they happen to patch in the ability to play the game after the story mode for stalker 2.

[soul like that be capable of]

Originally posted by TheRebelGreaser:

Originally posted by Mika:

i think at least in original games you couldnt some of endings were so life changing you couldnt cont no idea about this game . i assume that reason you have 3 slots of saves . basically you can try different runs. go look at endings of original game they were really sick and choices you made really mattered. i assume this game will have same things.

Honestly it doesn't make a difference which ending I just kind of want to know if I could play after I finish but from what I'm hearing here it's a definite no so it sounds like I'm just going to have to go back to stalker anomaly if I want to continue playing stalker outside the story

i dont think you can . dev always clear . for example in original endings were so dramtic to point the main person coudlnt possibly comeback and cont playing . its not ubisoft game where u coming back to cont playing after you beat main story. i am sure game will prob hint to you a no turning back point . i cant imagine anyone finished game . game is massive even if someone did finish it there prob at least 3 endings if not more that its hard to spoil

[TheRebelGreaser]

Originally posted by Mika:

Originally posted by TheRebelGreaser:

Honestly it doesn't make a difference which ending I just kind of want to know if I could play after I finish but from what I'm hearing here it's a definite no so it sounds like I'm just going to have to go back to stalker anomaly if I want to continue playing stalker outside the story

i dont think you can . dev always clear . for example in original endings were so dramtic to point the main person coudlnt possibly comeback and cont playing . its not ubisoft game where u coming back to cont playing after you beat main story. i am sure game will prob hint to you a no turning back point . i cant imagine anyone finished game . game is massive even if someone did finish it there prob at least 3 endings if not more that its hard to spoil

I mean I see what you're saying and I'm not disagreeing but if we are talking just main characters or whatever I don't think that should stop us from continuing to play the game because it was fine for the original games but I feel like we should have the ability to have a choice to go back to the zone and just explore.

Like I really enjoy the stalker series and I feel like this game should allow us to continue playing I mean the only gain that allows us outside call of pipiyat I believe, is stalker anomaly because with that game given its a mod but it's basically a separate game you can turn off the story mode and still continue to play I would just really hope they would give us a patch that allows us to play the game if they don't, they don't.

I'll just have to go back to stalker anomaly but I just feel like they have all this new stuff for the second game and then it just gets wasted after you're done with the story if you choose to play all the endings

[soul like that be capable of]

Originally posted by TheRebelGreaser:

Originally posted by Mika:

i dont think you can . dev always clear . for example in original endings were so dramtic to point the main person coudlnt possibly comeback and cont playing . its not ubisoft game where u coming back to cont playing after you beat main story. i am sure game will prob hint to you a no turning back point . i cant imagine anyone finished game . game is massive even if someone did finish it there prob at least 3 endings if not more that its hard to spoil

I mean I see what you're saying and I'm not disagreeing but if we are talking just main characters or whatever I don't think that should stop us from continuing to play the game because it was fine for the original games but I feel like we should have the ability to have a choice to go back to the zone and just explore.

Like I really enjoy the stalker series and I feel like this game should allow us to continue playing I mean the only gain that allows us outside call of pipiyat I believe, is stalker anomaly because with that game given its a mod but it's basically a separate game you can turn off the story mode and still continue to play I would just really hope they would give us a patch that allows us to play the game if they don't, they don't.

I'll just have to go back to stalker anomaly but I just feel like they have all this new stuff for the second game and then it just gets wasted after you're done with the story if you choose to play all the endings

you can always finish story load to an old save before you take last mission and play game forever . i dont see an issue with that

[TheRebelGreaser]

Originally posted by Mika:

Originally posted by TheRebelGreaser:

I mean I see what you're saying and I'm not disagreeing but if we are talking just main characters or whatever I don't think that should stop us from continuing to play the game because it was fine for the original games but I feel like we should have the ability to have a choice to go back to the zone and just explore.

Like I really enjoy the stalker series and I feel like this game should allow us to continue playing I mean the only gain that allows us outside call of pipiyat I believe, is stalker anomaly because with that game given its a mod but it's basically a separate game you can turn off the story mode and still continue to play I would just really hope they would give us a patch that allows us to play the game if they don't, they don't.

I'll just have to go back to stalker anomaly but I just feel like they have all this new stuff for the second game and then it just gets wasted after you're done with the story if you choose to play all the endings

you can always finish story load to an old save before you take last mission and play game forever . i dont see an issue with that

I mean true but I just don't want the story marker to be there I mean sure I could on track it but like I just want the ability to go through the story and then come back

[Chaos]

Nah, no freerom endgame apparently.
But then again, this game doesn't have any system to accomodate it at all so maybe it's better this way.

Just wait for a better/modded version later.

[TheRebelGreaser]

Originally posted by Chaos:

Nah, no freerom endgame apparently.
But then again, this game doesn't have any system to accomodate it at all so maybe it's better this way.

Just wait for a better/modded version later.

Well honestly I do have stalker anomaly so I'll probably just head back to that until there is a mod or a patch

[Rootbeer Safety Team]

Originally posted by Fireserpent7:

Originally posted by Kastrenzo:

Short answer. No. when you reach the end of the game. It's over no matter what choice you make.

Stalker games generally have a definitive ending, the only one that ever had an option to keep playing after the main quest, was the third game, call of pripyat.

The point of no return is the mission "Down Below"

the game def needs the option to continue, it just feels outdated and like you wasted your time when you reach then end and it just kicks you to the main menu

S2 isn't a sandbox game, it has an open world and sandbox elements, but it still has a definitive beginning, middle and end. That was the intention of the developers and writers.

and speaking to general spoilers. Once the main quest ends, regardless of what path you took, it doesn't make sense or for it to even be possible to keep on playing.

Will just have to wait until some free roam+ whatever you want to call them, mods get cooked up. For now, devs are looking to patch the bugs crashes and performance issues so that the original vision can be experienced the way they intended.

all in all its really no different than where we were in 2006 with SOC. GSC isnt obligated to make their game (and change the writing of a singleplayer story) to conform to gaming trends Just because other games have a shoehorned NG+ / Free roam after the title slides.

They're going to give people the tools to modify the game, and let the creatives in the community take it from there, if they want something other than what they make. Thats saying a lot for most games in general, because most games dont give you mod tools.