GSC Sport World has launched Stalker 2’s first huge post-launch patch throughout PC and Xbox, making over 650 fixes.
Stalker 2 loved a formidable launch with over a million copies bought, but it surely suffers from quite a lot of game-breaking bugs. Try IGN’s Stalker 2 overview for extra.
Now GSC has launched patch 1.0.1, hopefully Stalker 2 gamers are in for a smoother trip. The replace consists of fixes for quest blockers, reminiscence leaks, crashes, and minor bugs, GSC said. There are a variety of blanace adjustments, too, which total make the sport simpler. Try the patch notes under.
“Thanks in your ardour and help because the launch, it’s actually necessary 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 – anticipate extra on that when GSC shares its roadmap later in December.
That can assist you survive within the Zone, we have an inventory of Important Stalker 2 Ideas and Tips, plus a information on Issues to Do First in Stalker 2 that can assist you by means of the early recreation, and Issues Stalker 2 Does not Inform You – every little thing we want we knew earlier than we began enjoying. Save time scouring the wasteland with our Artifacts guidelines and places information, and each Stash location we have discovered thus far.
Stalker 2 suffered quite 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 exhibiting final yr. At gamescom 2023, GSC addressed what some had referred to as a “downgrade” sparked by Stalker 2’s then newest gameplay trailer. On the time, GSC advised IGN it was nonetheless focusing on a visible high quality and stage of polish steered by Stalker 2’s eye-catching 2021 trailer regardless of the horrendous situations suffered by the workers amid the conflict with Russia.
Stalker 2 replace 1.0.1 patch notes:
AI fixes:
- Mounted teams of NPCs getting caught and dying close to Shelter throughout lively Emission.
- Mounted problem when Burer may drop any mission objects out of the participant’s arms.
- Added lacking sound results for Burer’s ‘Telekinesis’ skill.
- Mounted points with NPCs sometimes getting caught and not reaching the mission location. This may need induced incapability to work together with NPC or progress to the following mission stage attributable to idle conduct of mission NPC.
- Mounted points with efficiency drops/potential out-of-memory crashes in hubs and places crowded with NPCs throughout lengthy play classes.
- Mounted problem when NPCs would transfer to A-pose or begin flying after dying.
- Mounted problem when NPCs couldn’t observe whether or not a goal in cowl was coated from pictures, which induced them to shoot into cowl.
And different, greater than 20 completely different points with AI.
Optimization fixes:
- Mounted problem with invisible NPC/Mutants showing in FOV whereas the Participant is scoping.
- Mounted fireplace visible results that weren’t rendering at sure digicam angles.
Additionally, we mounted roughly 100 completely different crashes, together with potential reminiscence leaks and EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION points.
Audio & Sound fixes:
- Mounted problem when fight music was nonetheless enjoying whereas fight was completed.
And seven different minor audio & sound bugs.
Stability changes:
- Weapons and armor restore price is decreased.
- Considerably elevated price of artifacts (extra income from promoting).
- Cash reward for many missions is elevated from 2 to three occasions.
- Rookie problem armor and weapons buffs.
- Harm from mutants is reasonably decreased on Rookie problem (extra mutant well being steadiness adjustments in Fight Stability part).
- Harm 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.
- Mounted promote costs for Exoskeletons, they’re now dearer to promote.
- Mounted promote value 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.
Fight Stability:
- Diminished some mission objects’ weight (together with weight of scanners)
- Barely rebalanced Bloodsucker’s harm.
- Decreased Bloodsucker’s strike safety rank (extra harm from weapons).
- Diminished Boodsucker’s HP regeneration exterior the fight.
- Controller HP is reasonably diminished.
- Burer HP is reasonably diminished.
- Boar HP is reasonably diminished.
- Flesh HP is reasonably diminished.
- Harm to Boar from headshots modified to 100% of physique harm.
- Harm to Boar from pictures to the limbs is elevated.
- Harm to Flesh from pictures to the limbs is elevated.
- Considerably elevated weapon melee distance.
- Barely elevated knife melee distance.
Gamepad Enter:
- Elevated gamepad lifeless zones
Characters:
- Mounted eyes and enamel on NPC fashions.
- Some minor fixes of NPC fashions and animations.
Cutscenes:
- Added lacking footage to TV shows within the ultimate cutscene.
- Mounted problem with deer animation within the opening cutscene.
And 20 different completely different bugs within the cutscenes.
Sport Settings & Menus:
- Adjusted unreadable textual content on the backside of the Shader Compilation display screen.
- Mounted problem with the ‘Nvidia Reflex Low Latency’ possibility not being saved on subsequent boots of the sport.
And 10 extra minor points.
Interactable Objects:
- Mounted physics points with destructible and movable objects, together with these floating within the air.
- Mounted interplay immediate with glass doorways in SIRCAA’s interior yard, which induced a walkthrough blocker.
- Mounted lacking interior doorways within the X-11 laboratory elevator.
And extra minor bugs.
Foremost and Facet Missions:
Resolved quite a few mission blockers and bugs encountered underneath particular situations. Key fixes embrace:
- Mounted lacking interplay with lifeless Blind canine within the Nightingale’s Hunt mission.
- Mounted uncompletable aims within the Search, and You Shall Discover mission.
- Mounted a number of points within the There and Again Once more mission, together with one the place the artifact couldn’t be discovered.
- Resolved dialog loop with Zotov in the course of the A Needle in a Haystack mission.
- Mounted development blockers within the Solutions Come at a Worth mission, together with points with bandits after an emission and lacking the Heavy Key merchandise.
- Corrected mission markers for NPC places in Scorching on the Path mission.
- Mounted door-related points within the In Search of a Information mission and The Facet Hustle mission.
- Mounted problem when cutscene doesn’t begin in the course of the Simply Just like the Good Outdated Days mission.
- Mounted problem when Lodochka is lacking in Fairly’s Camp in the course of the Simply Just like the Good Outdated Days mission.
- Mounted a difficulty throughout Simply Just like the Good Outdated Days when Lodochka acts aggressively after bringing him the Emitter.
- It is now potential to show off electrical energy within the flooded space in the course of the To the Final Drop of Blood mission.
- Mounted a number of points within the On the Edge mission, together with idle NPCs, caught doorways, and the Monolith assault development.
- Mounted development blockers within the A Minor Incident mission, together with points with Bayun’s collar and locked doorways.
- Addressed efficiency drops and complicated aims within the In Search of Previous Glory mission.
- Mounted points within the Visions of Reality mission, together with caught NPCs and blocked development after dialogs.
- Resolved caught cutscenes and blocked development within the Harmful Guests, Grey’s Final Hunt, and The Everlasting Shining missions.
- Corrected spawn behaviors for NPCs and enemies in The Boundary and Escape from the Cage missions.
- Tweaked missions like Down Under, Budmo!, and A Big Rating to resolve caught NPCs, misaligned markers, and lacking dialog choices.
And roughly 120 different points inside the primary line, aspect missions, and encounters.
Open World Expertise:
- Mounted stretched or lacking limbs on humanoid corpses.
- Mounted lacking quick journey routes, together with to the Concrete Plant for Toadstool.
- Resolved isses with loudspeakers, quick journey, and NPC interactions in varied places, such because the Scientists’ Bunker, and Chemical Plant.
- Adjusted hostile NPC conduct in the course of the Enviornment missions, together with bandits’ techniques and elevated ammo for the Tyrant combat.
- Corrected mission development within the Black Sheep and The Key to Freedom missions.
And roughly 50 different points had been mounted.
Participant Steering, Gear, and Weapons:
- Mounted a bug that enables to promote objects to the dealer for extra money that they really price.
- Mounted enter blocking points with the PDA, stock, and attachments when interacting with artifacts.
- Corrected flashlight conduct after saving/loading.
- Resolved points with grenade sort choice, compass marker overlaps, and lacking mission markers.
- Mounted inconsistencies with weapon and armor improve results, together with pricing and improve reversals.
- Improved HUD conduct and extended the period of “Level of No Return” hints throughout Down Under mission.
- Mounted a bug the place participant may promote mission objects utilizing gamepad.
And roughly 50 minor “anomalies”.
Voiceover and Facial Animations:
- Restored lacking facial animations for Sava within the Scorching on the Path mission and Mugwort in The Everlasting Shining mission.
- Mounted lacking voice traces in the course of the Let No One Depart Unhappy mission.
- Corrected radio name results so NPC voices correctly mirror distance throughout communication.
And a pair extra issues are mounted.
World:
- Mounted flickering textures in varied places, together with the Sphere, Army Base and Chemical Plant.
- Resolved motion points, together with getting caught in sure places throughout missions like As soon as Extra Unto the Breach and A Robust Awakening.
- Corrected artifact spawn factors in some areas.
- Mounted NPC conduct throughout encounters.
- Adjusted voice quantity throughout storm climate for improved audio steadiness.
And roughly 50 extra bugs.
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