S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2

[67510d71a054bsarge945]

As tragic as the real-life situation is, you can't overlook issues with quality due to external circumstances. If they needed more time to iron out bugs/gameplay, I'm sure people would have understood if they delayed it further.

[67510d71a071efox]

Pretty sure that the vast majority of costumers would've understood and agreed. But most likely some sales suits and/or Microsoft (or whoever has stakes and influence in it) didn't because they saw christmas business approach and a lot of people looking to upgrade their systems at the moment. Even if they claimed otherwise. I would be surprised if there wasn't some corporate wankery at the root of it. As it always is.

[67510d71a087fZylonBane]

Buggy and unoptimized is the authentic S.T.A.L.K.E.R. experience, after all.

[67510d71a0a03voodoo47]

hmm, checked a few streams for a bit, not liking that some world interactions are basically animations seeing the player character's hands actually doing the thing (like climbing a ladder).

a true first person experience is a disembodied experience (as far as I'm concerned).

[67510d71a0b0afox]

I love it, when they have well done and varied animations for your avatars' actions. One of the better examples (in that regard) would be Far Cry 2 for me.

[67510d71a0c0avoodoo47]

reminds me of quicktime events, and I don't like those very much. but yeah, this is personal preference of someone who comes from the times of Half-Life.

graphics look ok, how would I put it.. not overdone? I actually prefer that.

[67510d71a0d02ZylonBane]

I'm fine with first-person hands and feet as long as their animations follow what I'm doing rather than dictating it.

[67510d71a0e48sarge945]

I'm also in the "hands and stuff can add flavour" camp. As long as we don't have SS Remake-style repeated canned animations.

[67510d71a0f2eZylonBane]

And cringelord melee weapon hover-fingers.

[67510d71a1037sarge945]

hover-fingers?

Is that where the character holds a melee weapon in one hand while having a "floating" empty hand on the left that just sort of sits there doing nothing?

[67510d71a139bvurt]

disappointed that they never did the A-Life 2.0 stuff they used to hype the game up with, it's just a basic spawner which seems like something they made in the last minutes since obviously the game needs enemies/mutants. they even removed A-Life 2.0 from the Steam page (and all other pages) like the day before release.

This is pretty rotten imo. Not that you would expect anything else from game devs though, this scummy behavior is a standard practice almost, Bethesda has done this a few times too. "oh look at the cool dynamic shadows we have for this game", "oh look at this super advanced AI we have for you" to then not include it. CDPR are absolute scum too when it comes to this.

[67510d71a1653icemann]

vurt
Apparently A-Life is in there, just broken, as a RPS article here discusses.

[67510d71a17b8vurt]

someone also broke down how A-Life 2.0 works, i think it was on reddit, he looked at the code, his conclusion is that it's a very, very basic spawner.

no idea if that's true or not but it would absolutely not surprise me the least if it's a last seconds(well, days, week, whatever) work to get the game out, but that they also plan on doing something better with it. Of course their answer will never be "we did it in the last second" they have advertised the game with A-Life 2.0, so the system must be called this, no matter if its ultra basic.  "Broken" is the way they would portray it, if its not in..
 

[67510d71a198fZylonBane]

hover-fingers?

You've never noticed how the player poses when the laser rapier is equipped?

[67510d71a1b16fox]

It's a shrug-and-wait-another-year kind of situation for me. My current rig couldn't run it and I have put my system building plans on hiatus for the moment. The current Intel-CPU generation sucks, AMD's current gen is expensive and/or even hard to obtain while they themselves artificially drive up the prices for their last gen - just like the more worthwhile Nvidia RTX graphic cards. Both, AMD and Nvidia will launch new generations next year. I've decided to wait and see how those turn out. Just like I did when the RTX4xxxs were released. They can go fuck themselves for a little bit longer, I guess - just like the games industry.

[67510d71a1d96icemann]

You've never noticed how the player poses when the laser rapier is equipped?

That really irked me on my play through. Why in the world would they put the laser so close to the players fingers. Gah.