Stalker 2

The original was using the in-house x-ray engine, only the stalker games used this engine and it was buggy. The new game is using UE5 so the only things they need to make sure are sorted is the typical UE5 shader and traversal stuttering.
 
Yes, but it's a modified UE5.

Technical Producer Yevhenii Kulyk shed light on the how they wrangled the beast.

"To make [a] world this big, we had to adapt and [rewrite] and upgrade some tools that were provided by... the basic Unreal Engine to fit our needs to create [this] world."

"To meet our expectations… for optimization for Xbox and PCs as well, we made [a lot] of changes to basically render threads, some CPU optimisations, a lot of RAM optimisations."
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They are working on UE 5.3, so relatively up to date and modified for CPU optimisations, so fully expecting smooth frametimes as shown in the latest videos.
 
AI is still the big worry for me, few days from release and I’ve still not seen any gameplay footage which suggests the AI is challenging or that their bullets actually mess you up in a significant way.

Have they talked about difficulty settings at all ? Hopefully it’s scalable. I want to die a lot, it’s a requirement of a stalker game for me.
 
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I liked it, just couldn't run it very well as it only ran on one core.

Performance was utterly dreadful.

Never got very far into it for that reason, but the few hours I played were enjoyable nonetheless.
 
shamus21 said:
With this game like many over the last few years it is better to wait then preorder. Just to many bad release's or unfinished games now.
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but it could be as good as starfield was, I bet no one regrets a preorder of that...
I got the expansion included with mine for that and still never tried it yet...

TNA & MRK have me convinced this is going to be good so I'ma upgrade my monitor to a new oled monitor for maximum enjoyment and true blacks.
this games probably a 5/10 on a TFT
 
opethdisciple said:
This is going to sound like blasphemy to some but I did not like the original stalker game back in the day.
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I was never very good at it and never got particularly far in it either. It did an amazing job of capturing the atmosphere though.

arknor said:
but it could be as good as starfield was, I bet no one regrets a preorder of that...
I got the expansion included with mine for that and still never tried it yet...

TNA & MRK have me convinced this is going to be good so I'ma upgrade my monitor to a new oled monitor for maximum enjoyment and true blacks.
this games probably a 5/10 on a TFT
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This kind of game is built for an OLED. You won’t be disappointed, it’s a huge upgrade.
 
What would have been really cool is if when plaing single player, other stalkers you encounter are also people playing the story in their own games and you can cross paths.
 
I'm all set for the zone :)

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CaptainRAVE said:
This kind of game is built for an OLED. You won’t be disappointed, it’s a huge upgrade.
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But will they get the HDR right? Too many games have awful HDR on PC. I nabbed Callisto Protocol while ot was free on EGS and the black levels are raised far too high, same with Cyberpunk and Helldivers 2. Is that just on AMD or does it differ on Nvidia?

Either way I'm sure it'll look grand in SDR on an OLED anyway.
 
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mrk said:
What would have been really cool is if when plaing single player, other stalkers you encounter are also people playing the story in their own games and you can cross paths.
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Hmm, sounds dangerously close to Tarkov where some high level dude will gun you down and pinch all your precious gear!
 
Kirby Wurm said:
But will they get the HDR right? Too many games have awful HDR on PC. I nabbed Callisto Protocol while ot was free on EGS and the black levels are raised far too high, same with Cyberpunk and Helldivers 2. Is that just on AMD or does it differ on Nvidia?

Either way I'm sure it'll look grand in SDR on an OLED anyway.
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RTX HDR will sort it. I rarely use built in HDR on games now.
 
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