GSC Sport World has launched Stalker 2 replace 1.1, and it comes with a fully astonishing variety of fixes for over 1500 of the sport’s bugs, together with adjustments to the controversial A-Life system and extra.
Earlier this month, GSC Sport World defined that very like the remainder of Stalker 2, the sport’s A-Life AI system (that is AI within the trad sense, not the generative sense) is riddled with bugs, however a few of these bugs have been addressed in right now’s replace.
You must now encounter extra roaming NPCs within the Zone, and NPCs ought to now not spawn behind your again. Moreover, A-Life NPCs ought to now be seen at higher distances, and teams exploring the Zone needs to be “extra various relating to attainable factions and group sizes”.
It is not simply A-Life, both. Different adjustments have additionally been carried out, like a discount in quantity for Pseudodog clones, which may threaten to overwhelm you in sure circumstances.
Rewards for “a number of missions” have been elevated, and “a number of enhancements” have been made to characters’ facial animations and voice work in “a number of cutscenes”.
You too can look ahead (or maybe that is the fallacious phrase) to Stalker 2‘s infinite cash glitch being gone from the sport. No extra are you able to exploit the Zone’s bizarre logic to make your self wealthy. You may simply need to do it the old school approach.
Since there are nearly 2000 fixes on this replace, there are far too many for me to record right here. You should definitely try the total Stalker 2 replace 1.1 patch notes if you wish to see all the things that is modified.
If you happen to’re not acquainted with Stalker 2, it is the sequel to 2007’s influential cult traditional Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl (which was the spelling getting used on the time, and it hasn’t been retroactively modified at time of writing).
The sport was in growth for a while; initially introduced in 2010, it went via a prolonged growth cycle and no less than one growth reboot earlier than being totally re-revealed in 2021.
Following that, the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 led to many growth setbacks for Ukrainian studio GSC Sport World, inflicting the sport to be delayed quite a few occasions earlier than its eventual launch earlier this 12 months.
You possibly can try Stalker 2 proper now on PC and Xbox Collection X|S, and it is also on Sport Go (for sure tiers, anyway). Make certain to check out our very personal Robert N. Adams’ evaluation right here to learn the way issues have modified within the Zone over the past 17 years or so.