GSC’s return to the Zone is ambitious, atmospheric, and astoundingly buggy We’re probably all past “And in the game” jokes by now, but it is fitting thatS.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart Of Chornobylis about venturing into a shattered world and enduring the worst of its logic-defying hardships to find the treasures within. This is a bold, uncompromising survivalFPSthat can easily capture you for days on end – but I can’t invite you back into the Zone without hammering in a few hundred warning signs reading “DANGER: BUGS”....

Which side should you take at the end of “A Needle In A Haystack”? Should you give the Ward Sensors to Richter or Captain Zotov in Stalker 2?Stalker 2has a great many minor choices to choose between, and a small handful of very important choices. And the very first choice with important, real consequences is deciding who to give the Ward Sensors you procure fromSquintin the “A Needle In A Haystack” main quest....

Here are the consequences of killing Squint in Stalker 2’s A Needle In A Haystack quest Wondering whether to kill Squint in Stalker 2?Squint is a Stalker you’ll meet early on in the main story ofStalker 2, in the quest “A Needle In A Haystack”. Your aim is to get the Ward Sensors that are on Squint’s person, but whether you take them by force or gain them as a reward for completing his errand, the choice is yours....

Here are all the outcomes to your choices in the “King Of The Hill” main quest Wondering whether to kill the Shah or Roosevelt in Stalker 2’s “King Of The Hill” quest?This main quest takes place early on in the story, within Garbage - the second major region of the Zone which you explore as Skif. In it, you must gain information from a kingpin called Varan, but first he wants you to do him a favour: kill either of his rivals, the other kingpins vying for control of the region....

But you can still use them in private lobbies Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2is making changes to how it handles mods in order to address server stability issues. Come the next big update in December, mods “will be prohibited from public online sessions,” according to an update from the game director. “We wanted to make a game that was moddable from the start (this is why our game pack files are not encrypted, for example)....

How to open the “Stick Cobra Porthole Infinity” stash in the Electric Field Wondering how to open the Electric Field Safe in Stalker 2?The Zone inStalker 2is jam-packed full of well-hidden and well-defended Stashes, but few are as initially confusing as the Electric Field Safe, found inside the Electric Field a short distance southeast of the Slag Heap. Getting to the building itself is tricky, given the many electrical anomalies on the ground surrounding the building....

Summer Eternal, Dark Math and Longdue continue to fight over the RPG’s legacy All three new studios owe their rise to the sad break-up of the original Disco Elysium team – a torturous series of events involvinglegal proceedings, firings, allegations ofmisconductand claims ofa fraudulent studio takeover. All three new studios claim to have former Disco Elysium devs on the books, though Longdue have yet to share any names. Dark Math’s founding members include former Disco executive producer Kaur Kender and art director Timo Albert, while Summer Eternal’s members include former Disco writersArgoTuulik (who resigned from ZA/UM earlier this year, apparently because he suspected he was about to be fired for talking to the press) and Olga Moskvina, together with several former ZA/UM staff - principal writer Dora Klindžić, senior concept artist Anastasia Ivanova, and graphic designer Michael Oswell....

Mewtwo likes Neko Odyssey goes for a familiar nostalgic Japanese game look, employing a 2D pixellated style overlaid on a 3D backdrop. It really captures the heart, what with pleasant boppy music and an authentic-seeming town in the demo. Solid vending machine work. Good ramen restaurant layout. Strong abundance of cats. Cats that you’ll want to take photos of, largely by walking up to them and pressing the space bar. The aim?...

Based on anonymous sources and datamining “Codename for Steam Controller 2 is ‘Ibex’. Separate product from Deckard’s “Roy” controller(s),” Lynchtweeted, as spotted byThe Verge. “Both are being tooled for a mass production goal in their factories right now. That’s why I know they’re in later stages of productization”. Deckard is reportedly the codename for a standalone VR headset from Valve. They have madeoccasional and dull patent filingsin recent years that could be for such a headset....

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A heady mixture of roguelike and FPS A long while ago I wrote aboutVampire Survivors-likes needing tostop overwhelming you with visual clutter. I’ve since played a few games of a similar ilk that don’t hammer you with a chaos that’s impossible to dissect with your eyeballs. One of these isBloodshed, an old schoolFPStake on the VS formula that actually works pretty well and did have me thinking the treacherous phrase “just one more run”....

What even is an RPG these days Remedy’sControl 2will be an “actionRPG”, the developers have announced, and while I have already caved and written it up, I’m not sure this is really news. Wasn’t the first game an action-RPG? True, it was a third-person shooter, but it also had a progression system with unlockable abilities and boosts. Besides, isn’t every action game an action-RPG these days? Levelling-up has become an industry-wide syndrome....

Here is all the information on an online multiplayer mode in Stalker 2 Looking for a Stalker 2 multiplayer mode?Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobylsets you up as a Stalker, set to survive ‘The Zone’, an open-world post-apocalypse area full of dangers like mutants, anomalies and dangerous factions vying for power. Amongst this chaos, you may find yourself wishing for some company to help shoulder the burden of survival. If you’re enjoying the single-player story but wondering if there is a Stalker 2 multiplayer or co-op mode, we have all the details listed below....