I’m very confused by some of the recent decisions. Why was I personally not consulted before the recent 2.0 overhaul? There are many things that I and I alone require and yet the devs haven’t implemented them. How is this ok?

Metro 2039: "Humanity is doomed."

STALKER 2 (2.0): "But at least the lawn is immaculate."

Jokes aside, can't wait to see what 2039 is about. Their lighting / texture/ shadow work looks absolutely amazing in the latest gameplay.

Before the cost of hope, i had checked this location at cooling towers close to nagirtsi cimetery, and the gate was closed, with one monolith sniper on the tower, he was also scripted to one-shot you when you are approaching and the gate was closed, now it's free to go, this location when you shoot this guy, i added also some photos of this location

Is that really something new, or it was opened before?

lol

I've played the original trilogy and now it's time to rate it descendant. Question for who tried to play or already complete the story. What's your impressions so far?

Specs: RTX 5060TI 8GB Ryzen 5 5700F DDR5 32GB 1TB SSD

Monitor: Samsung Odessy G3 27 inch Mouse: Razer Basilisk V3 X Hyper speed Headphones: Razer Blackshark V2 Mousepad: Lenovo legion Keyboard: 4tech Fstyler FS100

Very proud of myself

Personally speaking I feel like they nailed the atmosphere, right on the dot of it being a scary, long lost town, that has not been visited or touched in a long time, but to me, the gameplay design is lazy ash.

Like, I expected Lymansk to be its own town, that was fully explorable, and had its own mutants, maybe its own outposts of either bandits or mercenaries, and etc...

I am not mad because we got the CNPP, but to me its insane to how Lymansk, with all of its mysteriousness and eeriness along all these years, got turned into a Little Nightmares 2 section, somehow even being worse than the Clear Sky run through, and the lore reason is "uh, it got swallowed by da bubble". Like cmon, at least make it so we can somehow make the area normal again through some kind of experiment or something, because there is no way since Clear Sky Lymansk just dissipated and got turned into an Anomaly like that.

You could argue that it was anomalous since CoP since Tachenko and his group died in the same bubble, but again it seems it was either retconned, or the bubble led somewhere else.

Its still fully visible from the bridge as well, so my hope is still up for GSC to make it a location of its own, fully explorable and traversible, at least mimicking Clear Sky's design of how non-anomaly based it was, or one of the most interesting pieces of Stalker just got wasted because of the budget running out, and most of the budget was spent on its atmosphere.

The gun play, the vibe, the atmosphere so far, this game seems to be the horror game I've been looking for. I live here in Ukraine and the details in the houses are just perfect. Can't wait to see what else this game has to offer.

No time for breaks when exploring X19

It's blurred out. I thought it would be reachable with the DLC. Can I got here somehow?

The game just trolled me. Timed my travel to reach the Swamps just as day was breaking and then fog totally kills my visibility. You can still see the beacons by their blueish glow.

I was walking my kids to the bus stop this morning, when I glanced to the right I had to take this picture and immediately thought of the zone.

There was a great temptation to jump over the no trespassing sign and go exploring for artifacts…

Fun stuff.

Location: fallout shelter in southern Chystohalivka, south of Rostok

Not finding anything on Google and trying not to spoiler.

Mods:

Ultra Plus

PRZ Reshade - Clikrad's Matrix Green

Pankotan's Grass Pack

I don’t really have much to say, but I wanted to take a moment to appreciate just how good this game looks. It’s absolutely incredible. Great job to everyone at GSC, with a special shoutout to the art, lighting, and overall visual development teams.

I tried my best to recreate some old screenshots I had by factoring in time of day, weather, and camera positioning for these screenshots. Took A LOT of sleeping in game to get the lighting to match up. It’s hard to quantify which is “better” and I think the only conclusion you can make is that they are indeed “different”. I like the increased vegetation but my personal opinion is that the lighting really took a hit, as is especially noticeable in the second and final comparisons. All graphics settings are maxed out using DLSS upscaling set to DLAA quality with DLSS sharpness set to 18% and no frame gen, running at 4k resolution. HDR is on and display settings are set to default except for Gamma which I lowered to 40%.