Preparing for Stalker 2

[Blitz4]

Are you planning on beating the trilogy before September?

That sounds like fun, count me in. I want to hit all the endings and story content possible. Even the Lost Alpha mod (2014).

When do I start?


Using the Completionist times from How Long to beat and being realistic about the experience as that's what I'm going for right? (be sure to click on 100% completion if you follow the links)

• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl[howlongtobeat.com] - 60 Hours
  
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky[howlongtobeat.com] - 45 Hours
  
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat[howlongtobeat.com] - 50 Hours
  
• S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Lost Alpha - 70 Hours

And Steam gives me a running 2 week total of time spend in Steam games, on my profile, to help figure out when to start. I'll jump in beginning of May. Hope that list helps someone.


The story we I want to hear. From console players that never played the game at all and are committed to beating all 3 games before September.

[PsyWarVeteran]

Why did you add Lost Alpha to that list?

[Blitz4]

Originally posted by PsyWarVeteran:

Why did you add Lost Alpha to that list?

Cause it was worked on by devs that worked on the original game and it takes place after CoP.

Beyond that I've no clue. I'm limiting any and all spoilers to Stalker 2.

[PsyWarVeteran]

Originally posted by Blitz4:

Cause it was worked on by devs that worked on the original game and it takes place after CoP.

That's false. It's fan made but GSC shared some assets with them, which they promptly discarded and made their own fanfic nonsense.

SoC > CS > CoP, that's all.

[Blitz4]

Originally posted by PsyWarVeteran:

Originally posted by Blitz4:

Cause it was worked on by devs that worked on the original game and it takes place after CoP.

That's false. It's fan made but GSC shared some assets with them, which they promptly discarded and made their own fanfic nonsense.

SoC > CS > CoP, that's all.

That was mentioned by 2-3 different sources, one being a youtube channel. 10 years ago though. Here's the credits. Look at the bottom.

https://lost-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Credits

[PsyWarVeteran]

Originally posted by Blitz4:

That was mentioned by 2-3 different sources, one being a youtube channel. 10 years ago though. Here's the credits. Look at the bottom.

https://lost-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Credits

Surely you didn't really think that GSC section meant all those names worked on the mod, did you?

They are crediting GSC and it's employees because the mod is based on their game, not because those guys worked on that mod.

[Preacher]

nah, not gonna bother with s2.

[Blitz4]

Originally posted by PsyWarVeteran:

Originally posted by Blitz4:

That was mentioned by 2-3 different sources, one being a youtube channel. 10 years ago though. Here's the credits. Look at the bottom.

https://lost-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Credits

Surely you didn't really think that GSC section meant all those names worked on the mod, did you?

They are crediting GSC and it's employees because the mod is based on their game, not because those guys worked on that mod.

no. but when the mod came out. youtube channels did, but they phrased it as "one or two gsc employees worked on the mod"

if they still work there, they could have creative influence and have this mod matter. i just don't want to miss any bit of the story leading up to stalker 2

[Blitz4]

Originally posted by Preacher:

nah, not gonna bother with s2.

why?

[Preacher]

Originally posted by Blitz4:

Originally posted by Preacher:

nah, not gonna bother with s2.

why?

devs are kinda being weird with it, doing all the sus AAA stuff, such as:

Really expensive DLC (which cuts off some of the story)

Obscenely large game (pretty pictures are nice but get boring if the gameplay is boring/tedious)

AI didn't look to be a promising upgrade as seen in the trailer (might be better now or on harder difficulties)

It's been in preorder for a year now? Preorder is an overall slezzy FOMO tactic (especially if you get "exclusive content") and for it to take this long is even more sleazy.

They are selling skins already lol

So for now I'm not interested in Heart of Chernobyl.

[JansenStar]

test

[Monni62]

I've been doing a trilogy playthrough on Master difficulty for maybe a week and today I finally started Call of Pripyat.

Shadow of Chernobyl took me 13.7 hours, but I think I could've played it slower.
Clear Sky took me 18.7 hours.
If you're planning on experiencing every single thing the games have to offer, then you might be looking at those completionist times, but otherwise you can expect the first two games to take around 15 hours. Presumably COP is the same.

[Blitz4]

Originally posted by Monni62:

I've been doing a trilogy playthrough on Master difficulty for maybe a week and today I finally started Call of Pripyat.

Shadow of Chernobyl took me 13.7 hours, but I think I could've played it slower.
Clear Sky took me 18.7 hours.
If you're planning on experiencing every single thing the games have to offer, then you might be looking at those completionist times, but otherwise you can expect the first two games to take around 15 hours. Presumably COP is the same.

put your times up on how long to beat and add some note for each one, any note, most people just list their times

The times mentioned in the OP, each one is linked to how long to beat, are Completionist times, and they're not the average time either, but a cherry picked average excluding all times without a note or a description that justifies the run.

Since I beat each one before, it'll be much faster I feel.

I only am redoing them to get the story.

[Gunslinger ☢]

Originally posted by PsyWarVeteran:

Originally posted by Blitz4:

That was mentioned by 2-3 different sources, one being a youtube channel. 10 years ago though. Here's the credits. Look at the bottom.

https://lost-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Credits

Surely you didn't really think that GSC section meant all those names worked on the mod, did you?

They are crediting GSC and it's employees because the mod is based on their game, not because those guys worked on that mod.

Before Lost Alpha was leaked in 2014 (which was why it released as "early access" after the fact) GSC was looking to sell Lost Alpha along with their actual lineup, however later reconsidered this offer (probably in part due to the writing and quest design), it was more than just being nice and crediting them at that point.

In another timeline LA would be considered a Stalker game in official context.

[PsyWarVeteran]

Originally posted by Gunslinger ☢:

Before Lost Alpha was leaked in 2014 (which was why it released as "early access" after the fact) GSC was looking to sell Lost Alpha along with their actual lineup, however later reconsidered this offer (probably in part due to the writing and quest design), it was more than just being nice and crediting them at that point.

In another timeline LA would be considered a Stalker game in official context.

Sure, but they still didn't work on it as a company is what I'm saying. They provided assets to the LA team and such, not take over the development.

[Blitz4]

Originally posted by Gunslinger ☢:

Originally posted by PsyWarVeteran:

Surely you didn't really think that GSC section meant all those names worked on the mod, did you?

They are crediting GSC and it's employees because the mod is based on their game, not because those guys worked on that mod.

Before Lost Alpha was leaked in 2014 (which was why it released as "early access" after the fact) GSC was looking to sell Lost Alpha along with their actual lineup, however later reconsidered this offer (probably in part due to the writing and quest design), it was more than just being nice and crediting them at that point.

In another timeline LA would be considered a Stalker game in official context.

huh?

can you provide a link to explain what you're saying. I've too many questions now.