Recent reviews by Rommel

Clause from the license agreement:
"GSC does not warrant that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 will be uninterrupted or error-free, that defects will be corrected, or that the game will be free of viruses or other harmful components."

50 fps at 4090 in fullhd. Is this a joke? The game was postponed 999 times, but the developers apparently didnt intend to optimize the game. Developers think a hundred times there is dlss, then there is no need to bother with optimization.
Even if you turn on DLSS+FSR, the FPS counter will show 2 times more frames, but this doesn’t change anything - everything is sour and jerky, it’s not comfortable to play, it’s almost impossible to shoot normally. All that remains is to wait for patches and mods. I don’t recommend anyone to buy the game in this condition; if you want to try it, it’s better to buy a gamepass.

There are a lot of bugs:
-For the main task you need to talk with one character - this is impossible to do since the button to start the dialogue does not appear. You can't progress through the game. (The button appeared after replaying the quest 10 times and I had to load an earlier save.)
-Bugs with optical sights.
-Bugs with opening doors.
-Characters disappear in cutscenes and dialogues.
-HUD disappears
-Bugs with FOV
-Bugs with textures.
-Characters getting stuck bugs.
-T poses.
-Stutters.
The graphics are worse than in FC5, but the system requirements are 10 times higher:
1. There is no parallax, which is still in SoC (2008), which is why all the walls are flat.
2. There are no shadows from the grass, and the grass does not respond to anomalies. It was all in the SoC.
3. The lodes are going crazy, flickering and buggy.
4 Opponents will spawn right in front of your eyes.
4. The lumen is completely broken. What should be illuminated is black. What should be darkened is light. All this is literally changing and flickering before our eyes. There is no approximation of lighting. Shadows from the sun without smoothing. The shadow of gg is curved and oblique. Reflections are an incomprehensible mess.
Dynamic shadows were in the SoC.

- The chain of quests to save the forest is completely broken. - The story checkpoint at the chemical plant is broken. I could go on and on about this, but there are a lot of critical bugs in the game that will prevent you from completing the game and you will have to look for mods/fixes yourself.

Gameplay:
-Mutants are bullet sponges; it’s easier to run away than to waste all your ammo on one enemy. -The character is a trained military man, but suffocates after 3 seconds of running.
-Can't swim.
-Enemies only drop 2-5 Ammo.
-Weapons always drop broken, merchants dont buy broken weapons, and their repair will cost more than their subsequent sale.
-To improve your weapon, you first need to find flash drives with improvements, where you don’t know where to find them, so you’ll have to go into every trash heap.
-Collecting loot is pointless because of the weight limit, you can’t take anything with you except what you need.
-Here we simply combined all the locations from the previous parts. The map is large. You do the quest for 5 minutes, then go for 20 minutes to the next point, then go another 20 minutes to another point, do another mission there for 5 minutes and go back for 20 minutes, and so on in a circle. The character runs very little and slowly, so walking for 20 minutes each time quickly gets boring. It is pointless to look for loot along the way due to the fact that you cannot carry it due to the weight limit.
-The time of day changes very quickly, but at night nothing is visible.
-The "A-life" system was promised and not added.