GSC Game World has stuck to its word when it promised to fix the issues that Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl was suffering from at launch. The game launched in a pretty rough state, but still got a great reception from fans of the series. Yesterday, in the biggest update since launch, the devs finally addressed the A-Life system that fans have been missing so much.
Stalker 2 was always going to launch in this state.
It was a massive update, which revamped the entire NPC AI system, so it had an understandably large size – and that was only the first round of fixes. However, the devs have already released another patch before most players got to experience the improvements implemented by Patch 1.1.
As with any major update, when you fix one thing, there's a big chance that something else could break – that's just a fact of game development. However, GSC Game World acted swiftly, and has already put out patches that have fixed some crashing issues.
Patch 1.1.1 notes:
Fixed a crash on save load that some players were experiencing.
Fixed some of the issues that led to a crash during shader loading for some players.
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