Gaming News Despite mixed feedback and its availability on Xbox Game Pass, STALKER 2 hits hard on PC
A few days after its release, STALKER 2: The Heart of Chornobyl has already found its audience, and it's not on Game Pass! Even if subscribers can play it without paying a cent more, it is actually a completely different platform that will be tied into the GSC Game World game…
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A long and difficult development phase
Fifteen years later Call of Pripyatthe license STALKERS is back in force. The fourth game in the series was released a few days ago and is now available on PC et Xbox Seriesbut also in the Xbox Game Pass. But the road passed STALKER 2: The Heart of Chernobyl before its release it wasn't always straight and smooth, and GSC game world had to go down some very convoluted paths before he could share his work with fans.
First announced in 2009, shortly after the launch of Call of Pripyat, The heart of Chernobyl was supposed to see the light of day in 2012, but the developers announced the cancellation of the project in the same year of its supposed release. We had to wait until 2018 The heart of Chernobyl announces its news again, this time in development l'Unreal Engine 5with a planned release window of December 2022. Unfortunately, the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 forced the developers to pause the project again, culminating in multiple postponements and an official release on November 20, 2024.
A warm welcome to STALKER 2
For fans of the series, the start of STALKER 2: The Heart of Chernobyl is a true wonder, despite the mixed reviews the game has received in recent days. In fact, the video game press seems quite happy with the version Xbox Series of the GSC Game World title, but opinions differ somewhat when it comes to the version PC. In fact, it would be much more unstable and would have a certain number of bugs, resulting in the release of numerous patches to solve the most persistent problems. However, this doesn't seem to discourage players The heart of Chernobyl reached a significant milestone barely two days after its release.
In fact, the game is over more than 1 million copies within a few days. An impressive number, especially since the players who benefit from a subscription are not taken into account Xbox Game Pass to play it. But the most interesting thing in all this is success The heart of Chernobyl To steam. Despite being available on Game Pass, the Polish studio's title has a large fan base almost 118,000 competing players on the day of its release, and on a weekday at that! Currently and according to the figures of SteamDBit is the 9th most competitive game on Steam, overtaking platform giants like Throne and freedom and ''Apex Legends''.
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