Stalker 2

[Vimes]

Yup, 110GB for me, glad it was only a "patch".

I do wonder how those without FFTC /P of decent capacity have to manage these days.
The GB's that typically get queued up just in Steam these days has become the norm.

When Epic is launched, one of my grandsons will comment about the amount that needs to be downloaded with Fortnite. That seems to be a regular one. Not really patches, but accepted regular chapter changes etc.....

 

[ICDP]

Had some time to see if there are differences post patch. Before I give some details I should point out I always felt some sort of AI pathing/behaviour was in the game. Many of the complaints were from people was saying it was just a random spawn generator, so I knew they had not actually played the game, because on occasion I would follow stalkers or friendly patrols to see where they went and what they did. Even pre patch they may go to set places, or even the odd guy would split from the group and go to a secluded corner for a pee. I would frequently find corpses of opposing factions as if they had been in a firefight. I would reload and go back and the corpses may not be there. So it was at least to me obvious something was happening “offline” in regards to AI behaviour.

Post patch I am finding a lot of the times I notice NPC patrols, or groups of mutants at much larger distances. So now I can plan my approach, or my getaway. Whereas previously they would be too close for me to react in anything but an encounter if they were hostile. So I can understand why some would mistake this as being totally broken.

As a result the zone seems a lot more random rather than scripted. I suspect the a-life offline aspect was busted and they were spawning far to close to the player. So close that they could not fail to spot the player. This gave the impression all AI encounters were pure spawns around the player.

Initial impressions are very good post patch. Well done devs.

 

[nands]

@ICDP any noticeable performance hit?

 

[ICDP]

None here. I suspect a lot of people reporting problems on Steam were using mods that disabled the shader compilation. I am playing on a 4080 with a 7900X3D at 4K with upscaling quality. I am seeing decent performance well inside my monitor VRR.

 

[Goose]

I cant get the game to load after the new patch, Compiling Shaders gets about 40% of the way done and then never goes further.

 

[Brun]

Downloading with baited breath to see if they've fixed the invert Y axis option.

 

[El Jimben]

Downloading with baited breath to see if they've fixed the invert Y axis option.

This is the main bug I want fixed

 

[something daft already!!]

Why is this new patch seemingly downloading the whole game again? My internet here is worse than a wet bit of string. I wont be able to play for 7 hours!

 

[HRL]

I do wonder how those without FFTC /P of decent capacity have to manage these days.
The GB's that typically get queued up just in Steam these days has become the norm.

When Epic is launched, one of my grandsons will comment about the amount that needs to be downloaded with Fortnite. That seems to be a regular one. Not really patches, but accepted regular chapter changes etc.....

Still stuck on 16Mb copper here.

Luckily I’m still playing Indiana Jones most evenings so this will have to take a backseat and download over the next couple of nights or else everyone else at home will complain!

It’s a whopper if it really is a 110Gb patch.

 

[Kelt]

Downloading with baited breath to see if they've fixed the invert Y axis option.

Hah, yeh, had to reset that every time the game launched.

I'm hoping this is the fix.

• Fixed that output device option resets after restarting the client.

 

[Vimes]

Still stuck on 16Mb copper here.

Luckily I’m still playing Indiana Jones most evenings so this will have to take a backseat and download over the next couple of nights or else everyone else at home will complain!

It’s a whopper if it really is a 110Gb patch.

An annoyance could be in a few days time when they patch the patch.....
To do it all again

 

[HRL]

An annoyance could be in a few days time when they patch the patch.....
To do it all again

Don’t give them ideas!

 

[Brun]

Y axis invert still not fixed :/

 

[Vimes]

Don’t give them ideas!

A released game often seems these days to be a means to fill the coffers whilst development continues......
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[mrk]

That's a big patch, was expecting hardware RT and Ray Reconstruction.........

 

[Goose]

The game was running fine for me pre patch and now I cant even get the game to load. First it just froze during Compiling Shaders and then it started crashing during Compiling Shaders. I even uninstalled and redownloaded the entire freaking game and it's still crashing during Compiling Shaders.

 

[hornetstinger]

Is there a shader cache dir you can delete?

Or maybe to fix shader cache, make the files read on?

 

[HRL]

The game was running fine for me pre patch and now I cant even get the game to load. First it just froze during Compiling Shaders and then it started crashing during Compiling Shaders. I even uninstalled and redownloaded the entire freaking game and it's still crashing during Compiling Shaders.

I may wait a day or two before beginning to download this patch then. Sounds like they may need to patch the patch after all!

 

[CaptainRAVE]

That's a big patch, was expecting hardware RT and Ray Reconstruction.........

Priorities.

 

[ICDP]

I cant get the game to load after the new patch, Compiling Shaders gets about 40% of the way done and then never goes further.

Make sure any mods that use non standard files and file structures are removed if you have any. I was not using any mods and the game loads and performs very well for me.