Stalker 2’s First Big Patch Has Dropped, and It Makes Over 650 Fixes

GSC Game World has launched Stalker 2’s first large post-launch patch throughout PC and Xbox, making over 650 fixes.

Stalker 2 loved a powerful launch with over a million copies bought, but it surely suffers from a lot of game-breaking bugs. Check out IGN’s Stalker 2 evaluation for extra.

Now GSC has launched patch 1.0.1, hopefully Stalker 2 gamers are in for a smoother trip. The replace contains fixes for quest blockers, reminiscence leaks, crashes, and minor bugs, GSC said. Check out the patch notes beneath.

“Thanks to your ardour and assist for the reason that launch, it’s actually vital to us,” the developer added.

GSC stated future updates will make A-Life system bugfixes. Free in-game content material can also be coming to the sport – count on extra on that when GSC shares its roadmap later in December.

To assist you to survive within the Zone, we have got a listing of Essential Stalker 2 Tips and Tricks, plus a information on Things to Do First in Stalker 2 that will help you by way of the early recreation, and Things Stalker 2 Doesn’t Tell You – every little thing we want we knew earlier than we began taking part in. Save time scouring the wasteland with our Artifacts guidelines and areas information, and each Stash location we have discovered to this point.

Stalker 2 suffered a lot of comprehensible delays, most just lately in July when the sport was due out in September. GSC stated on the time that the additional two months would give the builders the prospect to repair “surprising anomalies,” aka bugs.

GSC has additionally been vocal concerning the challenges the studio confronted getting Stalker 2 as much as scratch after a blended response to its debut public displaying final yr. At gamescom 2023, GSC addressed what some had referred to as a “downgrade” sparked by Stalker 2’s then newest gameplay trailer. At the time, GSC advised IGN it was nonetheless concentrating on a visible high quality and degree of polish steered by Stalker 2’s eye-catching 2021 trailer regardless of the horrendous circumstances suffered by the workers amid the struggle with Russia.

Stalker 2 replace 1.0.1 patch notes:

AI fixes:

• Fixed teams of NPCs getting caught and dying close to Shelter throughout lively Emission.
• Fixed concern when Burer might drop any mission objects out of the participant’s arms.
• Added lacking sound results for Burer’s ‘Telekinesis’ means.
• Fixed points with NPCs sometimes getting caught and never reaching the mission location. This might need triggered incapacity to work together with NPC or progress to the following mission stage on account of idle habits of mission NPC.
• Fixed points with efficiency drops/potential out-of-memory crashes in hubs and areas crowded with NPCs throughout lengthy play classes.
• Fixed concern when NPCs would transfer to A-pose or begin flying after loss of life.
• Fixed concern when NPCs couldn’t observe whether or not a goal in cowl was coated from photographs, which triggered them to shoot into cowl.

And different, greater than 20 completely different points with AI.

Optimization fixes:

• Fixed concern with invisible NPC/Mutants showing in FOV whereas the Player is scoping.
• Fixed hearth visible results that weren’t rendering at sure digicam angles.

Also, we mounted roughly 100 completely different crashes, together with potential reminiscence leaks and EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION points.

Audio & Sound fixes:

• Fixed concern when fight music was nonetheless taking part in whereas fight was completed.

And 7 different minor audio & sound bugs.

Balance changes:

• Weapons and armor restore price is decreased.
• Significantly elevated price of artifacts (extra income from promoting).
• Money reward for many missions is elevated from 2 to three instances.
• Rookie problem armor and weapons buffs.
• Damage from mutants is reasonably decreased on Rookie problem (extra mutant well being stability adjustments in Combat Balance part).
• Damage to participant’s weapon is decreased by 23 % on Rookie problem.
• Armor sturdiness is elevated by 12.5 %.
• Added silencer attachment for PTM to particular stash on Lesser Zone.
• Fixed promote costs for Exoskeletons, they’re now costlier to promote.
• Fixed promote worth of upgraded weapons.
• Rebalanced Hercules consumable: participant pace debuff eliminated; elevated the impact parameters (now extra weight may very well be carried by participant after consuming).

Some further minor bugfixes.

Combat Balance:

• Reduced some mission objects’ weight (together with weight of scanners)
• Slightly rebalanced Bloodsucker’s injury.
• Decreased Bloodsucker’s strike safety rank (extra injury from weapons).
• Reduced Boodsucker’s HP regeneration outdoors the fight.
• Controller HP is reasonably lowered.
• Burer HP is reasonably lowered.
• Boar HP is reasonably lowered.
• Flesh HP is reasonably lowered.
• Damage to Boar from headshots modified to 100% of physique injury.
• Damage to Boar from photographs to the limbs is elevated.
• Damage to Flesh from photographs to the limbs is elevated.
• Significantly elevated weapon melee distance.
• Slightly elevated knife melee distance.

Gamepad Input:

• Increased gamepad useless zones

Characters:

• Fixed eyes and tooth on NPC fashions.
• Some minor fixes of NPC fashions and animations.

Cutscenes:

• Added lacking footage to TV shows within the closing cutscene.
• Fixed concern with deer animation within the opening cutscene.

And 20 different completely different bugs within the cutscenes.

Game Settings & Menus:

• Adjusted unreadable textual content on the backside of the Shader Compilation display screen.
• Fixed concern with the ‘Nvidia Reflex Low Latency’ possibility not being saved on subsequent boots of the sport.

And 10 extra minor points.

Interactable Objects:

• Fixed physics points with destructible and movable objects, together with these floating within the air.
• Fixed interplay immediate with glass doorways in SIRCAA’s interior yard, which triggered a walkthrough blocker.
• Fixed lacking interior doorways within the X-11 laboratory elevator.

And extra minor bugs.

Main and Side Missions:

Resolved quite a few mission blockers and bugs encountered below particular circumstances. Key fixes embrace:

• Fixed lacking interplay with useless Blind canines within the Nightingale’s Hunt mission.
• Fixed uncompletable targets within the Seek, and You Shall Find mission.
• Fixed a number of points within the There and Back Again mission, together with one the place the artifact couldn’t be discovered.
• Resolved dialog loop with Zotov through the A Needle in a Haystack mission.
• Fixed development blockers within the Answers Come at a Price mission, together with points with bandits after an emission and lacking the Heavy Key merchandise.
• Corrected mission markers for NPC areas in Hot on the Trail mission.
• Fixed door-related points within the In Search of a Guide mission and The Side Hustle mission.
• Fixed concern when cutscene doesn’t begin through the Just Like the Good Old Days mission.
• Fixed concern when Lodochka is lacking in Quite’s Camp through the Just Like the Good Old Days mission.
• Fixed a problem throughout Just Like the Good Old Days when Lodochka acts aggressively after bringing him the Emitter.
• It is now doable to show off electrical energy within the flooded space through the To the Last Drop of Blood mission.
• Fixed a number of points within the On the Edge mission, together with idle NPCs, caught doorways, and the Monolith assault development.
• Fixed development blockers within the A Minor Incident mission, together with points with Bayun’s collar and locked doorways.
• Addressed efficiency drops and complicated targets within the In Search of Past Glory mission.
• Fixed points within the Visions of Truth mission, together with caught NPCs and blocked development after dialogs.
• Resolved caught cutscenes and blocked development within the Dangerous Visitors, Gray’s Last Hunt, and The Eternal Shining missions.
• Corrected spawn behaviors for NPCs and enemies in The Boundary and Escape from the Cage missions.
• Tweaked missions like Down Below, Budmo!, and A Big Score to resolve caught NPCs, misaligned markers, and lacking dialog choices.

And roughly 120 different points inside the principle line, aspect missions, and encounters.

Open World Experience:

• Fixed stretched or lacking limbs on humanoid corpses.
• Fixed lacking quick journey routes, together with to the Concrete Plant for Toadstool.
• Resolved isses with loudspeakers, quick journey, and NPC interactions in numerous areas, such because the Scientists’ Bunker, and Chemical Plant.
• Adjusted hostile NPC habits through the Arena missions, together with bandits’ techniques and elevated ammo for the Tyrant battle.
• Corrected mission development within the Black Sheep and The Key to Freedom missions.

And roughly 50 different points had been mounted.

Player Guidance, Gear, and Weapons:

• Fixed a bug that permits to promote objects to the dealer for extra money that they really price.
• Fixed enter blocking points with the PDA, stock, and attachments when interacting with artifacts.
• Corrected flashlight habits after saving/loading.
• Resolved points with grenade kind choice, compass marker overlaps, and lacking mission markers.
• Fixed inconsistencies with weapon and armor improve results, together with pricing and improve reversals.
• Improved HUD habits and extended the length of “Point of No Return” hints throughout Down Below mission.
• Fixed a bug the place participant might promote mission objects utilizing gamepad.

And roughly 50 minor “anomalies”.

Voiceover and Facial Animations:

• Restored lacking facial animations for Sava within the Hot on the Trail mission and Mugwort in The Eternal Shining mission.
• Fixed lacking voice traces through the Let No One Leave Unsatisfied mission.
• Corrected radio name results so NPC voices correctly replicate distance throughout communication.

And a pair extra issues are mounted.

World:

• Fixed flickering textures in numerous areas, together with the Sphere, Military Base and Chemical Plant.
• Resolved motion points, together with getting caught in sure areas throughout missions like Once More Unto the Breach and A Tough Awakening.
• Corrected artifact spawn factors in some areas.
• Fixed NPC habits throughout encounters.
• Adjusted voice quantity throughout storm climate for improved audio stability.

And roughly 50 extra bugs.

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