A little over a week ago, GSC Games World celebrated the highly anticipated release of its first-person shooter survival horror title, Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, a game that has been in the making for well over a decade. Today, the Ukrainian studio showed they are by no means done supporting the sequel just because it was finally released, as they’ve implemented a patch that fixes 650 issues.
Those issues included everything from crashes (over 100 variations) to bugs that block entire questlines. Alongside this, there are a slew of memory leak issues that have been resolves that will lead to improved stability and overall improvements. You can take a look at some of the highlights below.
- Fixed issues with NPCs occasionally getting stuck and not reaching the mission location. This might have caused inability to interact with NPC or progress to the next mission stage due to idle behavior of mission NPC.
- Fixed issue when combat music was still playing while combat was finished.
- Damage from mutants is moderately decreased on Rookie difficulty (more mutant health balance changes in Combat Balance section).
- Fixed issue with the ‘Nvidia Reflex Low Latency’ option not being saved on subsequent boots of the game.
- Adjusted hostile NPC behavior during the Arena missions, including bandits’ tactics and increased ammo for the Tyrant fight.
- Resolved movement issues, including getting stuck in certain locations during missions like Once More Unto the Breach and A Tough Awakening.
Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl was originally announced in 2010 but was ultimately canceled. It wasn’t until 2018 that GSC announced that the game was back in development and that they were hoping for a 2022 release date. It was eventually released on November 20, 2024, to a resounding success, passing the 1 million copies sold mark just two days into release.
The developers ended the blog post by thanking players for feedback and support, stating they’d continue to monitor any issues with the zone and gameplay so that they could implement further patches and updates where necessary.