“STALKER 2 comes out today: what is known about the release of the most anticipated game Today at 18:00 STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl, which has been waiting for 12 years, will be released. The game has already overtaken Counter-Strike 2 in sales on Steam and costs from 1,399 to 2,549 hryvnias.”, — write on: unn.ua
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Yesterday, the developers of the game announced that the release of the game in Ukraine will take place on November 20 at 18:00.
“The STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl release time has been revealed, stalkers. The Zone opens its Perimeter to the world starting November 20, 2024. Check the map for your local launch time and prepare to journey into the Heart of Chornobyl,” it said. in the release.
The game is currently the top seller on Steam among paid projects. The game will be released on the Xbox Series X/S and Windows platforms, becoming an exclusive for Microsoft’s new consoles.
The game is available in three editions. The standard edition costs 1,399 hryvnias, the Deluxe Edition, which equips the main character with the “Monolith” arsenal, a set of operative weapons, specialized suits for diving into anomalies and searching for artifacts, as well as an additional side task for an even deeper dive into the adventure – 1,899 hryvnias.
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The most expensive edition – Ultimate Edition, which costs 2,549 hryvnias, equips the player with exclusive weapons and an elite exoskeleton.
The minimum system requirements for running the game are also known:
- OS: Windows 10 x64 / Windows 11 x64
- Processor: Intel Core i7-7700K / AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
- RAM: 16 GB OP
- Video card: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB / AMD Radeon RX 580 8GB / Intel Arc A750
- Disk space: 160 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Graphics Preset: LOW / Resolution: 1080p / Target FPS: 30. 16 GB Dual Channel RAM. SSD required. The listed specifications were evaluated using TSR and comparable technologies.
For a comfortable game on the recommended requirements:
- OS: Windows 10 x64 / Windows 11 x64
- Processor: Intel Core i7-11700 / AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
- RAM: 32 GB OP
- Video card: Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Ti / Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 / AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
- Disk space: 160 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Graphics Preset: HIGH / Resolution: 1440p / Target FPS: 60. 32 GB Dual Channel RAM. SSD required. The above specifications were tested with TSR, DLSS, FSR and XeSS.
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“STALKER” 2 is the continuation of the cult series of games “STALKER” from the Ukrainian company GSC Game World and will be the fourth game in the series. It should be noted that the Ukrainian studio is also the developer of another cult game – “Cossacks”.
The developers announced the release of STALKER 2 back in 2010, and the release of the game was planned for 2012, after the release of STALKER: Call of Pripyat. Numerous layoffs and general attrition during game development resulted in a 75% reduction in GSC’s workforce. Two years later, the general director of the company Serhii Hryhorovych announced the termination of the development of all projects due to “personal reasons”, probably due to financial difficulties. On December 9, 2011, GSC Game World was officially liquidated.
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After several years of inactivity, GSC Game World was officially reformed in December 2014 to develop Cossacks 3. In 2018, the development of a new “STALKER 2” was announced on the game’s Facebook page.
In total, the release of the game was postponed six times. The last time this happened was on July 24, when the developers announced that the game would be released on November 20, 2024, instead of September 5, as previously planned.
After the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the game’s subtitle was changed from “Heart of Chernobyl” to “Heart of Chornobyl” to reflect the Ukrainian spelling of the region rather than the Russian one.
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The release in the Russian region was also canceled and the Russian localization was removed from the game, leaving only the subtitles. Against this background, the Russians began to “burn out”. In particular, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Anton Gorelkin, stated that the game could be banned on the territory of the Russian Federation due to the fact that the developer studio GSC Game World supports the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is not excluded that the players of the game will be able to be prosecuted under the articles of extremism, justification of terrorism, etc.
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Memes about this are already spreading in the network.
Roskomnadzor announced that they will limit access to illegal information on the basis of court decisions regarding recognition of information as prohibited and decisions of authorized bodies.
“At the moment, such decisions have not been received by the department,” said Roskomnadzor, answering questions about the potential blocking of the game.
Also today, the leader of the Russian LDPR, Leonid Slutsky, called on the “relevant services” of Russia not to allow the game to enter the Russian market.
“Now a continuation of the game is being released from a Ukrainian studio that supports the Armed Forces. I think that our relevant services will give the correct assessment so that similar products do not enter our market,” said Slutsky.
He urged Russians who plan to download a pirated version of the game to “wait.”
“What is installed on the gadget together with the game, only the Ukrainian special services, as well as in the West, know. We need to think about our security so as not to fall under the influence of our enemies,” the deputy noted.
It should be noted that earlier Grigoryovych promised a Rolls-Royce worth 300-500 thousand dollars for the destruction of the Russian frigate “Admiral Grigoryovych”.
“I am ready to give a Rolls-Royce to those who drown Admiral Hryhorovych so that he does not disgrace my family name, my children, my parents,” Hryhorovych said.
One of the users on the X social network said that while the game is banned in Russia, the manager of his company gave him a day off to play the game.
The release of the game also generated a wave of memes among Ukrainians. In particular, today it became known that the embassies of four countries – the USA, Spain, Italy and Greece – announced the suspension of work after the warning of the US diplomatic establishment about a possible powerful air attack on November 20.
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Users have speculated that the embassies have closed because employees want to play the game on release day.
Also, users who are worried that their computers “will not pull” the game, made their own wave of memes.
“Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree according to which Stalker 2 should run on all video cards and Xbox series s in 4k 120fps. Victory,” users write.
Careful players also noticed Ukrainian armored vehicles in the game, in particular the Dozor-B car.