Recent reviews by Aherys

Horrible gunplay/feeling, totally outdated/cluncky
🔸Player movement are also... very meh
🔸Immersion is also meh
🔹Nature Environement is gorgeous, really.
🔸Indoor are sometime good, sometime bad
🔹Quest are well written, audio is really cool
🔹It's stalker universe
🔹Some anomaly are awesome/original, love it
🔹Weapon customisation is very cool
🔸A-Life is not A-Life.
🔸You can't scavenge mutants...
🔸Loot is mostly boring
🔸Stalker difficulty isn't interessing, game is still easy, no feeling of "survive"
🔸Human models are out of space
🔹OST and music is awesome, nailed it.
🔹The open world is large cool, and coherent. You feel free.
🔸Sound design is very meh. From environemental to gunfight, to monsters
🔹On my run, game isn't buggy as people said
🔹Run totally well outside some stutter in ultra with my configuration
🔸Animation overall is pretty bad
🔹VFX are great
🔹Weather can be very, very cool, but too short

Tbh, after playing stalker vanilla, then stalker with mods, stalker 2 seems... not an improvement. The game is an excellent base for them however. I've got exactly the same skyrim/fallout feeling which is a bit... weird.

If you are a fan of stalker like me, this is a vouch but i'm not charmed at all. Quest and story save everything for the moment, but the game miss a lot of feature to be a memorable game imo. Feature mods will obviously bring as Stalker modding community is awesome, but well... i was not hopping too much specially knowing what GSC go trough, and impressed from performance/stability of the software, i was excepting waaay worst.

However, on a gameplay side, i was really excepting something better, even vanilla.

no.

Well... incredible game and tactics.

Best in his style.

A eviter, c'est a des annees lumieres des sensations de MoW:As2, sauf au niveau des bugs.

Game sound excellent with a lot of good idea.
However quite buggy for the moment (like, a lot of blocking issue who force to restart the game). Probably fixed in less than one month.

Got a 4090, an I9 13900KF, got 50 FPS in 2k.

Everything maxed, it's not an "issue" for myself for a city builder... except that i've got the very latest hardware possible and i feel a bit for people who doesn't have it.

Howver, i think it will be fix, and CS2 has EXCELLENT fondation, i'm really charmed by the new features, they are mostly QoL, and some dumb thing in the past game who has been fixed, but it's totally worth it.

Masterpiece

Game still unplayable month after release, starting online match, match freeze after 3 turn -> refund.

Reunion.