Get in here, stalker. STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl just got its meatiest patch in months, the Sealed Truth update, which has added a spooky, story-based new questline along with various bug fixes. …
STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl is getting its first proper expansion this year, titled Cost of Hope, and it looks stuffed to its icky mutant gills with classic STALKER series beats that the base game – while a powerfully engrossing survival FPS – missed out on. …
… And Andrii Verpakhovskyi, designer on the original Stalker games, doesn't think such jank should be geologically categorised. …
… What I'm most interested in is its "stalker" system. …
… Or the mysterious Shadow, a Carja covert operative who commands a fearsome Stalker machine." There's a full episode to try out too, little morsels of story that apparently "play a central role in the game’s narrative campaign by introducing new mysteries, characters, and mechanics." Details are sli… …
… Even the Ukrainian-made STALKER 2 , a developer of which was killed in action after joining the armed forces, chose to subtly celebrate Ukrainian’s own culture instead of gunning for the those who'd erase it. …
… And with apologies to former STALKER dev Andrii Verpakhovskyi , Follow the Light regularly descends into Eurojank, only without the usual charm or depth. …
… RPS tradition demands I declare him wrong Mark, can we have a word later - James , but honestly he came to Rebellion’s creation as a Stalker-loving bald man with a beard, while I’m a Fallout-pilled head hair haver Seriously Mark, a word who struggles to grow anything beyond thin chin pubes in three… …
… X, AKA the Tyrant stalker enemy of RE2! …
… And in games where I’d bound a Grip Sense sensor to a command, I’d keep accidentally activating it by absentmindedly adjusting my hands; having it as the jump button in STALKER 2 meant I was recreating the sensation of traversing Pripyat on a space hopper. …