S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl already appears like successful, with developer GSC Game World declaring a million copies bought.
In a (*1*), Ukrainian studio GSC mentioned that along with these gross sales, “rather more” are taking part in through S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2’s day one launch on Xbox Game Pass, Microsoft’s subscription service.
“No surprise it feels a bit crowdy within the Zone,” GSC tweeted. “One million copies had been bought, and rather more stalkers joined the artifact hunt with Game Pass.
“That is simply the beginning of our unforgettable journey. The Heart of Chornobyl emanates stronger with every of us.
“Thank You, stalkers!”
S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl hit the a million bought milestone lower than 48 hours after launching throughout PC and Xbox Sequence X and S. On Steam, it has a peak concurrent participant depend of 117,928, placing it among the many most-played video games on Valve’s platform. Microsoft doesn’t make Xbox participant numbers public.
Clearly, S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl is already successful for GSC even earlier than its first weekend on sale. Nevertheless, the launch isn’t with out issues, with gamers reporting a range of bugs (take a look at IGN’s S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2 overview in progress to seek out out extra). GSC has promised to kind out what it referred to as S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2’s “tough edges” with a gradual stream of patches.
Free in-game content material can also be coming to the sport. Count on extra on that when GSC Game World shares its roadmap later in December.
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S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2 suffered a quantity of comprehensible delays, most lately in July when the sport was due out in September. GSC mentioned on the time that the additional two months would give the builders the possibility to repair “surprising anomalies,” aka bugs.
GSC has additionally been vocal concerning the challenges the studio confronted getting S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2 as much as scratch after a combined response to its debut public exhibiting final yr. At gamescom 2023, GSC addressed what some had referred to as a “downgrade” sparked by S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2’s then newest gameplay trailer. On the time, GSC instructed IGN it was nonetheless concentrating on a visible high quality and degree of polish steered by S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2’s eye-catching 2021 trailer regardless of the horrendous circumstances suffered by the employees amid the struggle with Russia.
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