S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl

This game got potential. Story is good but mechanics are not up-to-date (I'm european). You could make a better weapon wheel, like Dead island 2. Be creative.

Honestly? It’s a bit of a mixed bag. The game captures that classic S.T.A.L.K.E.R. atmosphere perfectly and feels like a true successor, but the performance is honestly killing the experience for me. It runs poorly in certain areas like Rostok, and other highly dense areas, and it shouldn't 'cause my rig handles games with much better graphics without breaking much of a sweat, yet this one eats my hardware for breakfast. Unless they get some serious optimization patches out soon, I can’t really recommend it in its current state (especially if your PC isn't high-end). Other than the technical issues, it’s a solid 6/10. Hopefully, they fix it down the line.

If your rig falls somewhere between the minimum and recommended system requirements, just don't bother.

The game is 40% fun, 60% frustrating. I'd still continue to play because I really love the gunfights, but I have to push through so much agonizing content in game. Let's see; — AI is like Superman. They detect you really fast even if you stealth. They have x-ray vision. They can scent you like houndogs. They will shoot through walls. They have autobot headshot aim and will shoot you perfectly 100m away with a shotgun. — Game is so buggy. I lost my marbles trying to find artifacts, only to find out they can clip through walls/terrains. Sometimes important stuff you need won't spawn or clip through anything, you will even have a hard time getting items on boxes because the collision shoots stuff to the metaverse. — Sooooo many visual glitches. You'll see your screen flickering very often. You'll see things become blurry af. You'll see lighting twitching like mad. — Stare into the abyss on daylight and watch yourself get headshotted by an enemy npc in the dark bcz your flashlight feels like a mini-penlight. There's something fundamentally wrong with the darkness in game, it takes so long for your screen to adjust to the brightness of light and dark. Also, NPCs can accurately shoot and see you in the dark without any flashlights on. — This game is an unoptimized hell. You'll see memory leaks left and right, it'll randomly play at 5fps in your playthrough and you have to restart to fix it. Even DLSS can't save their game's mess. Honestly, even if an AI fps generator can't provide the game even an ounce of fps, you know it's bad. I still have a ton of hours to go through in this game, but it already has so maany issues in early game. Those stuff I listed apparently gets worse in later stages, especially on performance in populated areas so goodluck to me. To anyone who wishes to play and buy this, do it with precaution. The game can still be fun tbh it really did have potential, but the negatives can outweigh the good. This game really needs to be patched up bcz it feels like a deep laceration treated by bandages. Until then, just wait and see if the devs will live through their promises or fix the core issues of the game. Hence, I can't really recommend the game for its price when the older Stalkers and the modded ones feel, and play better. P.S. I recommend an indie game called Road to Vostok. It performs better and also has intense gunfights, it's insane how that game is developed by one person. It looks really beautiful too. It's also 1/4th of the price of Stalker 2.

alright game terrible boss fights just not fun

this game the best of the world

I really wanted to like this game, but it just doesn't seem like it was ready for release. I had hoped giving the game almost 2 years since release would allow for some of the kinks to be ironed out. However, the core gameplay loop is very boring (loot stashes/anomalies, raid outposts), the whole thing feels very Far Cry. Bullet Spongey enemies and ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on high difficulties and way too easy on lower ones. Seems like there is a general lack of interesting loot, and novelty in the game world. AI having aimbot is also kind of annoying when engagements are happening at 50+ meters. Lack of faction dynamics from older Stalker games. Spent about half of my play time with constant infinite loading screens, and it wasn't until a random reddit comment mentioned lowering texture quality from high to medium. Miraculously, it fixed the issue. However, the game is still riddled with game-breaking bugs causing crashes and stutters left and right. It's a passable open-world shooter, but with very little depth, and it's a buggy mess.