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Stalker 2 is looking great.

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New trailer for stalker 2, in game footage and it is looking very nice. I have been waiting for this and looks like it will be worth it.
 
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Great, I remember Stalker 1 back in the day, playing it on a core2 duo system!
Just hope they offer 21:9 format for your monitor out of the box. The immersion will be... nerve racking. :laugh:
 
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I wishlisted it on GOG a long time ago, hope the wait will be worth it. But, from that trailer it seems to be a bit more on the Metro 2033 side, with QTE and a lot of hand holding. Meh, we will find out in about three months, that is, if they don't delay it to Christmas again :)
 
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droopyRO said:
I wishlisted it on GOG a long time ago, hope the wait will be worth it. But, from that trailer it seems to be a bit more on the Metro 2033 side, with QTE and a lot of hand holding. Meh, we will find out in about three months, that is, if they don't delay it to Christmas again :)
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I really hope they didn't make this a casual piece of shit. This game needs to throw surprises at you, immerse you and allow you to land yourself in impossible situations. Trial and error was its strength...
 
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droopyRO said:
I wishlisted it on GOG a long time ago, hope the wait will be worth it. But, from that trailer it seems to be a bit more on the Metro 2033 side, with QTE and a lot of hand holding. Meh, we will find out in about three months, that is, if they don't delay it to Christmas again :)
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QTE? Are you serious?
Quick Time Events? They are so 90s!
 
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Splinterdog said:
Quick Time Events? They are so 90s!
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muck like Zubaz pants, some 90's things never go out of style!

 
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Needs less cutscene
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Exactly. It's been 10 years since i played STALKER, but there were few cutscenes and i don't think there were any QTE's like Metro had, i hope they keep those to a minimum or zero.
 
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Vayra86 said:
I really hope they didn't make this a casual piece of shit. This game needs to throw surprises at you, immerse you and allow you to land yourself in impossible situations. Trial and error was its strength...
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Exactly this will make or break this game for me :] It's just needs to be more sim, survival than typical sandbox. Simply like original games. If it's like that, anything could be customisable, possible to turn off or make easier to please casuals too. But it may not work opposite direction. Like I love awfuly casual Far Cry series since 3, but only played my way: highest difficulty; all hud except of health bar off; not using/upgrading anything making things easier. Then those games are the best sandbox shooters with great and purely essential stealth and combat. The only problem is, each game has one or two missions definitely not meant to be played like that, making them absurdly hard. One or two is not a problem, especially when you can always lower difficulty, but it could be ten or few tens, so definitely not working.


QTE may serve well immersion with some nicely thought out controls. Rather gone are the times of them having extremely short reaction time and needing to repeat or, even worse, memorize them... like in this beautiful classic with QTE feeling like some bad joke:

 
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An update from the Devs, looking forward to Aug 12: Deep Dive with the Devs. Love this vid heheh
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I am hoping for all original locations e.g Yanov station and Quarry, Jupiter plant, X-Labs, Cordon and ofc Pripyat + CNPP.
 
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As I generally think, I would like to see all games launched in the state not needing even a little patching. Obviously for the price of launching them however later. There's always something to play in the meantime.

And btw earlier discussion, concerns of 2 turning into casual route, it doesn't seem likely to happen. I red impressions of few guys who played the game after some industry show (Game Fest or something). One was complaining that he needed to repeat few times the fight with like three enemies, because they were killing him or throwing grenades without any indicator (other than sound) showing where it landed :D I looks like all Stalker vets, wanting game to be more sim-like, can get a little more relaxed... But I can't wait for this August showcase - I don't want to watch the game before I play, I want to experience all without knowing about it, but I have to lol
 
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