Waiting for stable version before buying? - wait no longer with patch 1.2 - here is why:

[RPlasticPirate !]

TL:DR: You can buy it now. Most likely best officially patched game in the series and basically every major issue I can think of and lots of others are fixed or imprpved.

I completed the game this week mainly walking every where. This was before 1.2 patch released.

I played all the past games.

Patch 1.2 is very major and fixes as close to 100% of my main mission series or major performance issues either generally or at major locations.
There is no feasable way to confirm all fixes but most players have experinced softlocks where you have to reload saves to progress main quests or progress as intended or performance issues or weird NPC bugs in fights. They have all been fixed now and several if not all of the most common complaints for balancing late game etc. has been giving a good overhaul.

If you start from new today this will be a great but it will cost you many hours and for the weak it will require many hours of daylight playing.

If you want the right ending don't trust anyone - anyone at all. Save well just before starting point of no return mission.

[Palicai]

ehm....no. A-Life still isnt A-Life, the staple of the Stalker series. Its still just some placebo bubble spawner. I know you wanna shill for the game and bait people into buying it, but im gonna causion everyone who hasnt played this yet: Its not Stalker.

Its a open world shooter with a Stalker skin, without REAL A-Life.

Shills will say im wrong, and that A-Life is in here, but the fact still remains that its not.

A few guys on here will support my claim, but i assume most peole who play this, will defend it.

I like it, i do, but its not Stalker.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

If you don't already own it; then just wait until it goes on sale.

[Molesworth.Houghton]

The mouse lag which is caused by Frame Generation is still there. Without Frame Gen. the game is running with 40 fps in villages on medium settings in 1080p on a Ryzen 5700x and RX 6750XT. Do your own personal experiences shpow another result, guys ? For my taste = Unacceptable. If they supply us further experimental fixes, maybe in half a year or at the end of 2025 hopefully playable.

[Toombs]

I stopped playing this game shortly after launch, i came back to see whats about, but i take it is still unplayable,just updated it and launched it same laggy ♥♥♥♥♥ and bugged that i left behind , wanted to start a new game because the old game ruined it for me , but i guess still isn't fixed.

[nick1997ms]

Nice try GSC

[KaneKool]

Yes, this is good time starting playing second game before next one is coming out. Developers are now working very fast on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 3

[Flachdrache]

well .. you can trust Strelok :))

[cisco™]

Originally posted by Palikai:

ehm....no. A-Life still isnt A-Life, the staple of the Stalker series. Its still just some placebo bubble spawner. I know you wanna shill for the game and bait people into buying it, but im gonna causion everyone who hasnt played this yet: Its not Stalker.

Its a open world shooter with a Stalker skin, without REAL A-Life.

Shills will say im wrong, and that A-Life is in here, but the fact still remains that its not.

A few guys on here will support my claim, but i assume most peole who play this, will defend it.

I like it, i do, but its not Stalker.

Nah you're unfortunately on point. Love the game. Really enjoying it, but from the perspective of all the old Stalker games I've played since release - this is definitely NOT a Stalker game. Kinda waiting for the G.A.M.M.A Anomaly variant :-)

[professor shit lips]

i think theyre honestly just going to ignore optimizing the game

[Flachdrache]

Originally posted by cisco™:

Nah you're unfortunately on point. Love the game. Really enjoying it, but from the perspective of all the old Stalker games I've played since release - this is definitely NOT a Stalker game. Kinda waiting for the G.A.M.M.A Anomaly variant :-)

Nah .. lets make it full misery .. no more buying ammo or gear, only food .. lets start with removing the pda (just kidding) :p

[RPlasticPirate !]

honestly I was not expecting anybody saying this is not a STALKER game at this rate. If you are reading this please ignore internet randoes above not having played this or having a PC not up for the task - like all other PC games it requires hardware and intelligent user as it is not perfect at all.
I played a few hours around after the minor patch that fixed some new major bugs. Everything is close to as good as it gets and A-Life is not reinvented in 2022/2025 version no - its more of a build something new like the old system which as some upsides and downsides with modern thinking. I'd tend to say there is some downsides with this A-Life system in terms of permancens of some decisions but 90% of people will not notice or care. This is some stuff I can't discuess without spoilers but it's largely a bitter veteran issue expecting certain things we can't expect anybody else to really care about.