No more delay. After years of waiting this STALKER 2: The Heart of Chernobyl made. The post-apocalyptic action game has officially entered the GOLDEN phase. The developers of the GSC Game World studio have completed development and are devoting the remaining weeks to optimization and fixing bugs/issues.
Recently, technical producer Evgeniy Kulik spoke about game optimization. In an interview with Radio Times Gaming, he spoke about the problems of games created on Unreal Engine, which suffer from stuttering on computers.
“To achieve the expected optimizations on Xbox and PC, we made many changes to rendering threads, some CPU optimizations, and many RAM optimizations. We are now almost at the end of the entire improvement process. Our goal is to create a game that runs at a stable frame rate and consistently delivers satisfactory performance.”
The game is made on Unreal Engine 5.1, but inside it is called 5.1 GSKas they rewrote and updated some of the tools to suit their worldbuilding needs.
The announcement of the golden phase is accompanied by a short trailer with an invitation to an exciting but dangerous Zone nearby. Chernobyl nuclear power plant. This 64 km² area is full of dangerous enemies, deadly anomalies and powerful artifacts.
The development of the second Stalker was initially announced in the summer of 2010, and the release was supposed to take place two years later. However, after just a year, development was stopped and the team disbanded. In 2018, the GSC Game World studio was recreated and work on the game resumed. It was supposed to be released in 2022. But then it was first postponed to 08/12/2022. However, after Russia invaded Ukraine, some developers stood up to defend their country, while others remained. forced to move to Praguewhich again extended the development.
But now nothing should prevent the release of STALKER 2: Heart of Chernobyl on November 20 this year on Xbox Series X/S and PC with with Czech subtitles. The game will also be part of the subscription Game pass. Another big news this month is Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024.
Microsoft has three months of exclusivity for the console. PlayStation 5 version it has not yet been announced and it is not certain that it will debut three months after the first platforms.
Source :Indian TV