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Notorious hack Sergey Grigorovich is back in black. Will he be able to release a decent game now that all competent employees left him to working on Metro series? Discuss!



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holographic sights will always look gay in the stalker setting
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Game looks gay and tarkovified.
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r u dumb, complaining about Tarkovsky's influence in a game series based on a Tarkovsky movie
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revenant wrote: March 12th, 2023, 11:59
r u dumb, complaining about Tarkovsky's influence in a game series based on a Tarkovsky movie
I assumed he meant escape from tarkov
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With that ******** spelling it can go **** itself
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revenant wrote: March 12th, 2023, 11:59
r u dumb, complaining about Tarkovsky's influence in a game series based on a Tarkovsky movie
still ******** i see
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if you think I follow the news of **** modern ruski games you're the one being ********
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revenant wrote: March 12th, 2023, 18:28
if you think I follow the news of **** modern ruski games you're the one being ********
STALKER is an Ukrainian initiative.
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I know that, I was talking about Escape from Tarkov which is a game about whose existence I first heard here
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Russian hackers threaten to leak STALKER 2 infoz if GSC doesn't learn to love Russia and also unban them from Discord.
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media didn't care an ounce that a denuvo-free build of atomic heart leaked, now kvetchmaxxing
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This leak is good for PR purposes - 99% of potential buyers aren't going to check it anyway, but its existence proves that the game is being developed and that it's not a scam.

Still a ****** thing to happen. Russian STALKER fans should've just accepted their rejection without throwing a tantrum. They won't achieve anything anyway.
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Apparently, the development was temporarily put on ice after the recent leak due the lack of trust in the team. Regular devs were barred from accessing the gamedata. GSC also plan to completely remove russian language from the game, though it's impossible at this moment since the current build has no other languages.

https://ixbt.games/news/2023/03/18/insa ... gre-p.html

The source is very questionable, so take it with a grain of salt.
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wndrbr wrote: March 19th, 2023, 10:20
Apparently, the development was temporarily put on ice after the recent leak due the lack of trust in the team. Regular devs were barred from accessing the gamedata. GSC also plan to completely remove russian language from the game, though it's impossible at this moment since the current build has no other languages.

https://ixbt.games/news/2023/03/18/insa ... gre-p.html

The source is very questionable, so take it with a grain of salt.
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https://dtf.ru/life/1923160-v-ixbt-game ... game-world

a dev from GSC just managed to ban a belarusian videogame journo youtube channel by abusing copyright strikes, because the youtubers in question were making videos criticizing studio's development strategy. The formal reason for copyright strikes were STALKER 2 gameplay videos (even though the footage was taken from the official trailers GSC released themselves, not from the leaks). After getting bombarded with fake strikes, their channel was automatically closed by Youtube. When journos asked GSC "wtf are you doing", they received a typical answer "russian warship, go **** yourself".

Journos are now forced to move to Rutube and VK.

Very normal behavior.
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This reminds me that I got harassed from 2 of my Steam "Friends" for having Atomic Heart on my wishlist.
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1998 wrote: July 1st, 2023, 12:30
This reminds me that I got harassed from 2 of my Steam "Friends" for having Atomic Heart on my wishlist.
Fair to harass someone for wanting to buy a bioshock infinite clone.
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Play the demo of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl at #gamescom2023 on 23-27 August

the picture they've made for this announcement looks pretty bad tbh.

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I was hyped for this game but.. now I'm getting worred :ukraine_flag:bros.. That "vertical slice" they releases looked fake as **** and now their work force / velocity has been decimated.
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New gameplay trailer. Looks way too cinematic.

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https://www.escapistmagazine.com/fire-t ... er-report/
Fire Tears Through Offices of STALKER 2 Developer – Report

A fire has reportedly torn through the Prague offices of STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl developer GSC Game World overnight. The report comes from Vortex (translated via Google), which cites two anonymous sources and claims to have a photo of the damage, which it is not able to publish. It says that the fire “devastated” the equipment and interior.

According to the report, GSC Game World occupies three floors of the building. While only one has been affected, that floor hosts the back-up servers for the studio’s data.
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GSC's roadmap has leaked.

It says that the game will see the light of day in february 2024.
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Sergei Grigorovich is fleeing the sinking ship. Dude sold GSC Game World to... a shady guy named Maxim Krippa.. Krippa owns NAVI cybersport team, and allegedly has ties with the russian oligarchs and gambling businesses.
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wndrbr wrote: November 16th, 2023, 00:08
Krippa owns NAVI cybersport team
NAVI's not doing that well either, but okay... it is what it is... :lol:
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wndrbr wrote: November 16th, 2023, 00:08
Sergei Grigorovich is fleeing the sinking ship. Dude sold GSC Game World to... a shady guy named Maxim Krippa.. Krippa owns NAVI cybersport team, and allegedly has ties with the russian oligarchs and gambling businesses.
Oh god, it hasn't been looking good so far has it? The Stalker series is an all-timer for me. Loved them all. I've played some Anomaly and a few other standalones I can't remember the names of, and they're decent but a full fledged updated Stalker is needed. No reason to get hopes up though, based on how many issues they've had. The chances of a great game are slim, but if one is to come it would most likely come from a region that doesn't embrace cultural marxism to the max. I don't care much for voiced protagonists and that's in the trailer so... hope it stays there.
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The best thing that could happen to the STALKER franchise is for it do die so fans can just keep modding the old games.