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Game at its core is a multiplayer game and still in early access, If you are making in a multiplayer game you probably should of thought about the server costs before moaning about people with many hours in the game not wanting to buy bogus DLC's and to make it worse announce a paid PvE DLC. Maybe you should of done it the other way around or just not be scummy and give everyone who paid for the game PvP and PvE modes.

Overall the game is pretty mid, the graphics are very pretty but its riddled with problems, enemy's are bullet sponges, quick slot system sucks, FPS isn't that great and the game stutters on a 3070, English dub is terrible, economy sucks, weight limit is very low, lighting is buggy, AI re-spawn is out of control similar to how cyberpunk 2077 police were on launch.

I followed a group of stalkers seeking shelter during an emission into a building. The emission still killed me whilst in the building.

Graphics bug out and walls and other textures flash.

The aiming feels completely off, the mouse settings and the sway are so bad.

You cant cheese AI monsters if you get on-top of a box/car they just run away into cover.

NPCs smoke with masks/helmets on, I guess it gives them an extra filter from that toxic tobacco.

Theres NPCS that lock you in dialog like Lt. Mateus at the chemical plant, it wont let you press escape so you have to close the whole game and open it again.

Theres some NPCs that are the leaders of that particular area, you go in make a bunch of noise kill all their henchmen and when you get to the main dude they are just stood there without their weapon drawn and you just pop them once in the head.

Theres some cool parkour type climbing places they have designed in the game which must of took some time, only at the end of it to be rewarded with a medkit and a few rounds of ammunition.

There is basically no point in killing mutants, they give no to little reward. Theres some side-quests that give like 600 tokens, which is basically nothing you will spend more in ammo/repairs and to make it worse you have to accept the quest and then find these mobs before you do it, you cant skin/gut mutants and hand over their parts.

The first 30mins of the game is ok, its passable but after that the game is just slow and boring, people say it picks up after 20 hours, I don't really care. If its a single-player game I want and I assume most people want a game to draw you in and have interesting stuff to keep you hooked and coming back.

It kind of feels like nobody at the studio gave this game a full play-through before launch, I think it would be near impossible to do a 0 death run due to how much damage some enemys take to kill. Also although you can change the key-binds a lot of the keybinds are all over the place.

I challenge GSC to stream a full run through of the game with default key-binds on Stalker difficulty (medium).

I wholeheartedly believe that this game will never completely be fixed by the developers its got so many problems and so much content just feels like it missing. Whats going to happen is they push out some patches and DLC the "vocal" majority will slurp it up and say its amazing and bless the devs, but the rest of us will know its still trash.

I'm quite disappointed about it even more than I was with dragons dogma 2. I'd wait a year or until it's on sale or get it for $1 on Microsoft PC game pass in the Microsoft store and there's been bug fixes, balance patches, new content and plenty mods namely Gamma 2. If you don't have the game now don't bother buying it until Gamma 2 modpack is made.

I think a lot of people are high on the Copium, how this is Mostly Positive with a 78% review score is beyond me.

Also a quick rant about Nvidia, they have been screwing over and misleading players for a while now. Showing off how smooth and great a game looks in trailers etc then the game launches and its an utter disaster, The Day Before, Gray Zone Warfare, Star Wars Outlaws, No More Room in Hell 2, Cyberpunk 2077 and now with S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2. It makes Nvidia look so scummy as if they are just trying to push RTX and DLSS to sell their cards off these trailers and not caring about their reputation or whether the game runs good or not. I really hope it catches up with them.

I don't know how they are doing things at Nvidia but what they should do is get a build of the game from the developers and if the quality/fps and other things like stuttering etc isn't up to standard whilst they are recording for the trailer they don't release a damn trailer for it and if possible give feedback to the developers or any advice to help improve.

Its alright but Bugs that make the game unplayable I cannot recommend and also Nvidia lying to us once again like they did with their Advertisement of The Day Before. The Optimisation is terrible.

Also very misleading trailer clip chimping all the glazing content creators did and zero of the criticism from the game. Should of waited a few more months before releasing into Early Access.

Has potential, but needs so many basic things adding or improving on such as;

- Vaulting
- Cover
- Melee Combat & Melee Weapons
- Performance Improvements
- VOIP
- More Zombies
- Cheaper cars
- Server Queue
- Bug Fixes such as fix Giant Characters, Duping, Silent sliding footsteps, Keybindings not saving after loading the game back up.
- More Storage
- Turn down the Alarm sound
- Keyrings to put your keys on
- Make the timer longer on player body despawn, currently the despawn within 1-2 minutes of death make it 10-30minutes.

Made it to the Raven Finals, Wants me to play on mobile, change this so there is a Mobile League and a PC League. What kind of BS is this?

Matchmaking is broken, Can't team up with anyone, even solo match making is broke.

Stonks go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Good game, Hope they keep adding content and fix some performance issues.

However some things I would like to see are:

-Fix roads so they all connect.
-Add the Ability to place map markers.

The UI is extremely bad, I can't even find the option to go back to the main menu, I am not quite sure if it even exists.

The save function is terrible also you cant even load from the same menu.

The building mode bugs and because there is no return to main menu screen I have to save the game, exit the game, open the game and load my save back up. This happens ALOT!

A lot of what you see in the trailer even the old trailers isn't even in the game yet, which is crazy to me and its kind of misleading, seeing some of these things in trailers from upto as far as 2 years ago in the game but still not available to use.

Lets go over some.

The Truck is not in the game, its heavily featured in a trailer from 2 years ago (source: https://youtu.be/OBVE1eMEuQ8) You can't even use the pickup truck yet either which is shown in a trailer from 5 months ago (source: https://youtu.be/Ysw-LZuURaw)

You can't make a Cocaine Operation or a Meth Lab like in the 2 year trailer either, only 1 item to make meth so far in the game. These Operations are even featured in the .Gif that is in the games steam page under the "About This Game" Section.

At the moment only 3 guns currently in the game, Sawn off Shotgun, Pistol and a Submachine Gun. But the trailer from 2 years ago also showed the Heavy sub Machine gun so far the game only has 3 out of 11 guns.

A lot of business you cannot make in the game yet such as The Lobster Restaurant, Nightclub and Casino.

There is a lot more things missing from the game and I am sure they will add it in later down the road but I have to be honest and I am pretty fed up of being mislead by the gaming industry today whether it be AAA or Indie devs both are guilty of it.

I may edit some things in the review as I play more but for now this is it.

Should you buy it now? Probably not maybe in a year or 2.

Good concept but don't buy in its current state its pretty much unplayable due to stuttering.