S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 over the weekend broke the record for the number of simultaneous players. The developers are already preparing a new patch with fixes, which should appear in the coming days

According to the analytical service SteamDB, on November 24, STALKER 2 recorded 121,335 simultaneous players. 4 days after the release, the game remains in the top 3 sales of the Steam store. So far, the game has already received more than 30,000 «mostly favorable» reviews from players — 78% recommend the project.

Despite the words of the founder of the GSC Game World studio, Serhiy Hryhorovych, that the game «has so few bugs that it is no longer a shame to release it», the technical side of STALKER 2 remains the project’s weakest point, which many reviewers and players complain about.

According to the developers, «Heart of Chernobyl» will receive the first post-explosion patch within the next week. He may appear before Wednesday.

The patch will bring the following technical and gameplay improvements:

• Fixed memory allocation crashes that previously caused unexpected game crashes, particularly during rendering and quest scenes.
• Fixed several bugs blocking the main quest, NPCs getting stuck in objects, incorrect quest markers, and issues with quest cutscenes.
• Reviewing mainline quests (such as Images of Absolute Truth or A Minor Incident) to ensure smooth transitions and to avoid rare cases where players are unable to continue through the quest.
• Fixed most upgrades, not affecting the cost of the weapon or suit they are applied to. The cost of the items will change accordingly according to the installed upgrades.
• Fixed the behavior of NPCs in the absence of cover during ejection.
• Fixes for rare facial animation skips, incorrect NPC placement, and visual inconsistencies like detached heads and torn clothing.
• Improved quality and stability of visual effects.
• Fixed an issue where players could not close the trade screen after inserting ammo into the wrong slot while playing on a gamepad.
• Quest notifications will now display correctly during dialogs.
• Correction of texts and missing interaction prompts.

In addition, in future updates, GSC promises to fix «dead» areas of sticks on gamepads and errors in the operation of the A-Life system.

We will remind that earlier the developers reported 1 million copies sold in less than two days after the release of the game. There were so many people willing to try STALKER 2 in Ukraine that there were interruptions in the work of Ukrainian providers.

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