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STALKER 2 Gets Another Big Patch
I have 10 or 15 hours in and It's got potential but has a lot of issues. It a very good looking game with a 4090 and HDR OLED display, exploration is fun but it has a lot of bugs as well as basic gameplay issues make it a lot less fun than it could be.
Things like having mob's pop in literally feet away from you (and no they're not the invisible ones... They're the "game engine issue" type of pop-in). Combat is very old school... Lots of crude design decisions like mobs who can see through walls and see you instantly even when you're in cover, and also walk directly to your location even though there's no way for them to know you're there, detect you even though you're on a different floor of a building and start trying to shoot you through the floor. Then on the other hand you can easily farm mobs by finding a spot they can't easily shoot you from and letting them all race to you with no thought for their own safety (or the fact that they have grenades). Stuff like that... It's been maybe 10-15 years since I played a game with combat logic this crude.
There are also infinite spawning mobs in many areas (weak sauce to increase difficulty), cover seems mostly broken (if you lean around a corner mobs don't seem to have any reduction in detect or hit rate)... Lots of little things like that.
Still fun but it gives the game this odd uneven feeling... Some things done VERY well then others seemingly just mailed in. I'd say it's a game with potential... 6/10 as it currently sits.
I'd say that stealth gameplay is broken (and that's the mode that is most fun with this sort of game).