STALKER 2 Releases Replace 1.0.3

STALKER 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl has launched its newest replace, patch 1.0.3, its third since November 27. The brand new patch continues GSC Recreation World’s aggressive rectification of errors, bugs, and high quality of life points for the reason that launch of STALKER 2 in late November.

After years in fitful improvement, STALKER 2, the Ukrainian-developed first-person shooter survival horror sport launched to largely constructive opinions and sturdy gross sales. STALKER 2 offered 1,000,000 items inside 48 hours of launch however was affected by a number of technical points. The developer has promised to handle what it calls the “tough edges” of the preliminary launch and has up to now stored true to that dedication with a string of main updates.

Introduced on the STALKER 2 web site on December 3, patch 1.0.3 is targeted on crashes, reminiscence leaks, mission and save errors, person management tweaks, and some different objects. Whereas not as sturdy because the STALKER 2 patch 1.0.1, the brand new replace ought to nonetheless do a lot to enhance gamers’ expertise with the brand new title.

Regardless of modders already turning their consideration to STALKER 2‘s motion controls, the builders have immediately responded to participant suggestions with changes to manage and motion defaults, which have been tweaked throughout a lot of parameters. Moreover, most important and aspect missions have gotten numerous love, with a variety of extremely specific glitches having been addressed. A couple of points with AI glitches, gameplay balancing associated to ammo availability, and a recurrent situation with lacking gamers saves have additionally been tended to.

The sport, set in a fictionalized model of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone, follows Ukrainian Marine Corps soldier Skif as he navigates the extra-natural occurrences within the Zone as a stalker, the casual title given to explorers of the radiated area. The sequence is predicated on the 1972 Soviet science-fiction novel Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, and takes inspiration from the Andrei Tarkovsky movie Stalker, additionally based mostly on the novel.

Regardless of STALKER 2‘s quite a few false begins, funding shortages, and the Russian invasion of the developer’s house nation of Ukraine, the long-awaited sequel to 2009’s STALKER: Name of Pripyat has principally received over customers and critics. If it continues its assertive response to bugs and participant suggestions, it could pave the best way for longer-lasting success. GSC Recreation World is constant to solicit participant suggestions by means of its Technical Assist Hub in its ongoing effort to handle points with the sport.

STALKER 2 Patch 1.0.3 Full Notes

Consideration, stalkers!

Thanks in your suggestions and help. We proceed to work on the sport to make the Zone a greater place so that you can take pleasure in and discover. The most recent 1.0.3 patch we ready will tackle following points:

Crashes and reminiscence leaks:

• A number of ACCESS_VIOLATION_ERROR fixes.
• A number of LowLevelFatalError crash fixes.

Controls changes:

In line with your suggestions, we adjusted following parameters/values to lower enter lag on keyboard+mouse enter:

• Mouse Smoothing is disabled by default.
• Mouse Acceleration is disabled by default.

Moreover, default values of mouse sensitivity have been up to date to permit a predictable default expertise for our gamers with new values of two parameters talked about beneath:

• Digicam sensitivity: 25%.
• Intention sensitivity: 15%.

Foremost and Aspect missions:

• Fastened situation with Monolithians that have been capable of chase participant exterior the X-5 lab in the course of the In Search of Previous Glory mission.
• Fastened a problem the place the NPCs Hamster and Ricochet would die after making an attempt to enter a constructing in the course of the mission On the Edge.
• Fastened situation with Bayun cat which might despawn earlier than participant loots a collar from it throughout Within the Title of Science mission.
• Fastened situation with participant doubtlessly locking oneself throughout Harmful Liaisons mission.
• Fastened situation with Roosevelt turning into hostile upon noticing a participant going stealthily by means of the Commissary throughout King of the Hill mission.
• Fastened a problem when Sava despawns in entrance of the participant after the dialog within the bunker throughout A Heavy Burden mission.
• Fastened situation with NPC’s despawning when participant efficiently finishes Legends of the Zone mission.

AI:

• Fastened a problem with mutant our bodies stretching after a shot from an computerized weapon.
• Fastened a problem that induced NPCs to dam the doorways in the course of the Again to the Slag Heap mission.

Stability:

• Fastened situation with Sidorovich not promoting sure ammo varieties.

Saves:

• Fastened points with lacking participant saves after a tough reboot of the PC/Xbox.