The release of STALKER 2 – Heart of Chornobyl is getting closer, the preload is already possible and the PC system requirements have been updated again. Good thing it’s almost Black Friday.
After a long and arduous development odyssey, marked, among other things, by the Russian attack on Ukraine, GSC Game World is finally bringing STALKER 2 – Heart of Chornobyl onto the market on November 20th. It was already foreseeable that the survival shooter wouldn’t be particularly easy on the PC hardware and in an update to the system requirements they were increased a little again.
If you are happy with 1080p30 and low settings, you can still get along quite well with older hardware. An Intel Core i7-7700 or AMD Ryzen 5 1600X with 16GB RAM (instead of the previous 8GB) with a GeForce GTX 1060 or Radeon RX 580 should be enough for this. For 1080p60 at medium settings it becomes a bit more excessive. With an RTX 2070 Super or RTX 4060 or a Radeon RX 5700 XT you don’t even need to start.
At 1440p60 with high settings it starts to get more expensive. i7-11700 or Ryzen 7 5800X are popular, with 32GB RAM and RTX 3070 Ti, RTX 4070 or Radeon RX 6800 XT. If you want to enjoy the full splendor, i.e. in 4K with 60 fps, you need the latest chunks like the i7-13700KF or Ryzen 7 7700X with an RTX 4080 or Radeon RX 7900 XTX. But nothing works without an SSD – if you still have an old hard drive in your computer, you can safely forget about the game. And it takes space, a whopping 160GB of storage space is required.
How convenient that it’s Black Friday time, which may give you the opportunity to spruce up your PC a little to meet the game’s requirements. Otherwise, you also have the option of switching to the Xbox Series It might be a little cheaper than a new gaming PC or a new graphics card. Not that pretty either, though.
The new trailer “Smoking Barrels” introduces you to weapons and equipment in STALKER 2 – Heart of Chornobyl.
