Patch 1.0.3 is game playable?

[Makal]

Hi.

So, is it possible to complete the game without problems right now?
Saves don't disappear, quests don't break?

[HiggsLP]

No it is not.
I spent 115h just restarting the game.
It doesnt have 25 optics for each weapon like CoD kiddies would like(from which only 1 would be used for META weapins anyway?)
The game had crashed 10x per 100h instead of all the BF/CoD games crashing 10x per day.
The loot is so scarse that I found only 3mint condition guns/armour and 1 leg named gun in 1 run.
The houses are so empty that I spent 1h to cleat 1 factory with "puzzles".
There are no missions etc...

[Morghy]

No.

[Nite69]

You can complete it on ward side but it seems like stalker side is bugged, I finished it once on ward

[zpc]

I finished it twice as Stalker, working on my Ward right now. No major problems, even that Zalissyia mission is doable.

No crashes, only memleaks in certain situations (doing a lot of shopping / selling) which can be solved by restarting the game. Devs are on the case and have already adressed some of those in the previous patches.

Don't use 3rd party item mods if you want to avoid savegame losses, then you're good. (never had any of those).

[toughskin]

Originally posted by Makal:

Hi.

So, is it possible to complete the game without problems right now?
Saves don't disappear, quests don't break?

Playing as Stalker...

I have played nearly 20h without any saves being deleted. I have had one crash that was before I could think to save, as soon as I entered Garbage from the Lesser Zone below. I loaded up a previous save and have been fine.

I did have a loaf of bread that was the first "jacket" I found and wore until people started dropping equipment. I sent this in to the dev's, this was found in 1.0.2 though.

I have had a reasonable experience, however, when there are multiple (8+) bad guys (the Ward) in the area, the graphics for the characters get a bit dicey. Their "sprite" or "model" can freeze in weird formations almost like they are gingerbread men. But eventually it is playable.

I am running Epic or High on graphics with a RTX3080 and AMD Ryzen 9 5900 processor on my Lenovo Legion.

Not the best experience with graphics, sometimes it is pretty bad but only if there are Looots of enemies in the area. Unreal Engine 5 definitely pushes the boundaries but the game does what it can, it seems, for the most part to save you from crashing out.. however, I do have a fairly nice setup so YMMV.

[Nite69]

Originally posted by toughskin:

Originally posted by Makal:

Hi.

So, is it possible to complete the game without problems right now?
Saves don't disappear, quests don't break?

Playing as Stalker...

I have played nearly 20h without any saves being deleted. I have had one crash that was before I could think to save, as soon as I entered Garbage from the Lesser Zone below. I loaded up a previous save and have been fine.

I did have a loaf of bread that was the first "jacket" I found and wore until people started dropping equipment. I sent this in to the dev's, this was found in 1.0.2 though.

I have had a reasonable experience, however, when there are multiple (8+) bad guys (the Ward) in the area, the graphics for the characters get a bit dicey. Their "sprite" or "model" can freeze in weird formations almost like they are gingerbread men. But eventually it is playable.

I am running Epic or High on graphics with a RTX3080 and AMD Ryzen 9 5900 processor on my Lenovo Legion.

Not the best experience with graphics, sometimes it is pretty bad but only if there are Looots of enemies in the area. Unreal Engine 5 definitely pushes the boundaries but the game does what it can, it seems, for the most part to save you from crashing out.. however, I do have a fairly nice setup so YMMV.

I remember that loaf of bread jacket I sold it to a trader and it bugged them out and gave me unlimited money lol

[kheops]

after finished game on Stalker side without major bugs, then i replay to try on Ward side, there are a lot of bugs after sircaa include zalissyia then Duga " get to location D" quest doors locked .... cant go even further. waiting for the patch. Performance is fine for me 9800x3d and rtx 4090 on 4k.

[Leif]

ive put it down since progressing the main quests still did and does not work for me at patch 1.3 even with the help of console commands. not on the ward-path, if that matters; reading these both seem not to function properly