Is It Recommended To Start A New Game?

[Savanna Staxx]

In regards to all the patches, I mean. I've been on the same save since November 2024 and I never noticed much of the updates.

[Nesmoth ☢ The Dude]

I recommend uninstall it, in it's current state still run like garbage. Wait at least 7-8 months until good mods come out, devs are a bunch of areseholes.

[Lamby]

i agree, i downloaded it again to see if they made it playable but it hasn't changed at all since it came out. the "major" update is a massive lie and you should wait at least 2 years for it to be playable.

[WhiteSnake76]

Try this: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1643320/discussions/0/594013930994553470/

3 Systems i got access to and build, and all 3 run fine now after Patch 1.2.1
All are AMD CPU/GPU though...

[Savanna Staxx]

Okay I don't have issues with performance... it runs fine, for what it's worth, I just meant LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE. Glitches, bugs, broken and missing content, AI issues, balancing, all that. Is it a technical recommendation to start a new game to experience the fixes?

[WhiteSnake76]

Originally posted by Lulu Devine:

Okay I don't have issues with performance... it runs fine, for what it's worth, I just meant LITERALLY EVERYTHING ELSE. Glitches, bugs, broken and missing content, AI issues, balancing, all that. Is it a technical recommendation to start a new game to experience the fixes?

Depents on how for you are into the game...
I planed to start a new game (as i finished the storyline) but loaded my save just before the Point of No Return) and went back to test stuff, and now i am having to much fun with my heavy armor/weapons, and am just hunting loot and doing some side missions i had not completed.

[VeraNoa]

Originally posted by Lulu Devine:

In regards to all the patches, I mean. I've been on the same save since November 2024 and I never noticed much of the updates.

Honest advice: Do what Nesmoth said—wait a few months, then start fresh. Trust me, this game gets super repetitive and exhausting. It tricks you into thinking there’s freedom to explore, but it’s actually super linear. You’ll just burn yourself out trying to pretend otherwise.

Exploring every nook and cranny for hidden stashes sounds fun at first… until you realize 99% of them just give you cans of sausages, bandages, medkits, energy drinks, or four bullets. It gets old fast.

I beat the game once, then restarted after the last patch (like you’re planning to). But guess what? Softlocked again in the main quest. Couldn’t progress. Tried to 100% everything like my first run, but nope—same grind, same loot, same burnout.

TL;DR: Don’t rush. Wait it out, let them fix this mess, then come back with mods to make it bearable. Save yourself the frustration.

[WhiteSnake76]

Originally posted by VeraNoa:

I beat the game once, then restarted after the last patch (like you’re planning to). But guess what? Softlocked again in the main quest. Couldn’t progress.

Yeah, thats what i am afraid of, if i restart the game from the start that i might encounter a missing/non responsive storyline NPC.

On my first playtrough i did not experiance this because wen it started raining reports about it, i was wel passed Sircaa mission and all these isues where at point i already passed.

Didnt mind the gameplay and walking back and forward to much, but i did not like doing a lot of work to get to a Stash and it just had worthless loot in it, also looting dead bodies usualy give you the same useless junk and just a few bullets (makes you wonder what they where planning to do with so little ammo)
But wen you engage them alive they never ever seem to run out of ammo or grenades, just like the Burer picking up empty weapons that are sometimes completly broken, but he can fire them just fine...

[gassperuk]

Originally posted by Nesmoth ☢ The Dude:

I recommend uninstall it, in it's current state still run like garbage. Wait at least 7-8 months until good mods come out, devs are a bunch of areseholes.

^this is the typical degen answer

[firemanfrankb]

I have 40+ hours in the game, no glitches whatsoever.

It's a 100% clean install with zero mods, been that way since day one.

Everyone who says they have issues should include "modded/not modded."

If you have mods, best to uninstall all of them before reporting alleged issues.

[WhiteSnake76]

Originally posted by firemanfrankb:

I have 40+ hours in the game, no glitches whatsoever.

It's a 100% clean install with zero mods, been that way since day one.

Everyone who says they have issues should include "modded/not modded."

If you have mods, best to uninstall all of them before reporting alleged issues.

Agrea with that, sometimes people dont realize the problem is not the game but a mod they installed, especaily if they updated a game with Mods installed, this can ruin the install completly.

[ZaRDi]

This game is trash, and the company is the office of scammers, those guys were promising the game of the year, but someone in the GSC just doing "money laundering". Game is dead

[Damokl]

Originally posted by VeraNoa:

Honest advice: Do what Nesmoth said—wait a few months, then start fresh. Trust me, this game gets super repetitive and exhausting. It tricks you into thinking there’s freedom to explore, but it’s actually super linear. You’ll just burn yourself out trying to pretend otherwise.

idk about that "thinking theres freedom to explore" i managed to get out of zalissya by jumping over the fence at eastern checkpoint and the moment story let me out into garbage i went astray and never came back in 70 hours, still running around

[JDumbz]

I would just wait until A-Life is properly put in.

This still isn't a good Stalker game currently, anyone who says they don't run into glitches is mad coping and it shows, lol.

[Damokl]

the only real issues i've encountered are the artifact not spawning after save reload in prologue and unending mental breakdown until death after controller in a cave

[Arisen242]

i swear i played the heck out of stalker COP for the exploration story and gameplay i guess i didn't pay much attention of the world with the A-life system, yes random gun fight npc looting the dead npc those happen but i did like the radio message from other npc that pop up on screen from COP thats not in this game.