How does this game have better reviews than Stalker 2?

[yaboimccoy]

HOW IN THE ♥♥♥♥ does this middle of the mall game have better reviews than a game like Stalker 2. No, this is not ragebait or trolling, I know someone is going to come here and say "lol dude just cause u dont like the game doesnt mean its bad" or something like that but seriously. how tf?

[Zodiak]

Simple answer: Go back to Stalker 2?

[Goof]

its much tighter than stalker 2 in a lot of ways. The game is far more balanced than stalker 2 was, the writing and voice acting is much better as well. On top of that, atomfall has a completely nonlinear quest system, allowing you to be able to play literally however you want. you can speedrun, take it slow, you can kill everyone, you can play a pacifist, and complete the game in any order you'd like and still get to all the endings. In that respect it is much more unique than stalker

[Dr. Peppermill]

Less bugs I guess. And better price.
I had to choose between the two and I went with Atomfall on base user reviews.
Stalker 2 will wait until the number of people complaining about bugs goes down.

PS
I haven’t seen any bugs so far. The AA is awful but I don’t have any other serious complaints so far.

[SunBeam]

Play the game, man. Stop comparing A with B and form your own opinions. Bending ear to gossip makes it dull. Not to mention all these remarks come from people who "review" games only on the surface. Never talk about BUGS, never talk about inconsistencies in the quests, random NPCs vanishing and progression broken, technical issues with drivers, FPS, etc. - a TON of problems you don't see in Atomfall. Play it fully, don't skip side-quests, read the texts, listen to the audio recordings, discover the ingenuity and plots and you'll surely realize why.

[Mobile Suit God Damn]

While I love both games there is no doubt that Atomfall runs a million times better and is pretty much bug free. STALKER 2 still needs more time in the oven but it'll get there in a couple of years.
Oh and AF has proper British voice acting and not just a bunch of yanks not even pretending to be Slavs.

[jV]

This game has soul. STALKER 2 is soulless garbage

[Deranger]

Why compare two conpletely different games?

And Rebellion don't have an army of Hate Trolls trying to disrupt things (well, they have them but seemingly smaller numbers and not related to world events).

Candy Crush is still more popular so all PC games S U C K, apparently.

[Caldrin]

Originally posted by yaboimccoy:

HOW IN THE ♥♥♥♥ does this middle of the mall game have better reviews than a game like Stalker 2. No, this is not ragebait or trolling, I know someone is going to come here and say "lol dude just cause u dont like the game doesnt mean its bad" or something like that but seriously. how tf?

Not everyone likes the same things... I guess that is how.

[Molesworth.Houghton]

These game is well playable without bugs and doesn't even need upscaling to get playable framerates on non-highend hardware. That's the difference.

[Deranger]

Just checked: it doesn't have better reviews.

Stalker 2: 83k reviews, 83% rating
Atomfall: 1.3k reviews, 76% rating

Que? (Not bad for a "first teams" outing in a older franchise, while Rebellion have been active 32 years and the huge AA series of Sniper).

I personally enjoy both games (was not enamored with Atomfall but got into it) but won't be getting over 400 hours in Atomfall.

[archonsod]

Stalker 2 was a bug ridden mess on launch, which won't help. It's also carrying the usual baggage of any franchise, which invariably means you're going to get those who complain it's changed too much, and those who complain it hasn't changed enough.

[Specky4eyes]

Stalker 2 is a good game but it was bug fest released 6 months earlier than it should.

I played Stalker 2 for about a week after release but just lost patience with it.It's now on my to do list.

[Deranger]

So observable fact is out 🤡🤡🤡🤡

1300 > 83000
76 > 83

[Dasmortas]

Its run great on any PC config

Stalker 2 crashes and I can't get pass the shader cache screen

[Deranger]

Originally posted by Dasmortas:

Its run great on any PC config

Stalker 2 crashes and I can't get pass the shader cache screen

That is a shame. Odd since in 1.1 they set it so if shader fails it bypasses it on the next go.

Never had it fail on 1080Ti/7980XE or 7900xtx/9800x3d systems, just takes less than 30 seconds.

You should contact support for such a specific issue (as I doubt you are the only one).

Funny that Atomfall has "worse reviews" yet people have fell for the fake take.