STALKER 2 Features a New Main Character, Development is “Progressing Smoothly”

Tardily last year a new "gameplay teaser" for STALKER 2 provided fans with a fresh impression of the game. The teaser trailer didn't stand for existent gameplay, but it was created using Unreal Engine 4, and was designed to give people a notion of how the game will actually look and feel once they practise get their hands on it. Well, now programmer GSC Game World have provided a piddling flake more than detail most what we saw in the teaser (which you can check out once again, below).

Most notably, GSC Game World have confirmed that STALKER 2 volition have a new protagonist – a solitary stalker named Skif…

Yous're seeing this world through the eyes of a stalker named Skif -- remember the codename, you lot will hear it a lot. Following the steps of its predecessors, STALKER 2 introduces a completely new main protagonist. His deportment volition shape the new grand chapter in the history of the Zone.

Here's a bit more context well-nigh what was happening in the teaser.

The brusque scene takes place in the ruined schoolhouse on the outskirts of the dead town of Pripyat. That'south an extremely dangerous place, and nobody would similar to exist here on their will. Still, the place doesn't seem completely abandoned: there is a freshly started fire with a guitar nearby. All the same, Skif inappreciably has time to acknowledge that: he seems in a hurry. It looks like an inevitable danger is following him.

And here information technology is: an emission. A signature part of the STALKER. series, a powerful release of the anomalous free energy from the center of the Zone. Emission happens from time to fourth dimension and information technology's extremely dangerous: it can kill you in the blink of an eye. When a stalker notices a start of emission, they should hide immediately and wait for the terminate of it, hoping they can become through. Then that's why Skif is in a hurry: he is certainly looking for embrace in the nearby building.

The situation is far from condom, though: the building is half-ruined, and the PDA doesn't seem to piece of work: the betoken is lost. All things considered, it'due south easy not to notice someone hiding in the shadows. He does look familiar, though…

According to GSC, the evolution of STALKER 2 is "progressing smoothly," and they're on track to deliver the 4K ray-traced feel they promised for Xbox Series 10. The game volition also be releasing 24-hour interval one on Xbox Game Pass. Hopefully, this means the game does indeed arrive this yr without delays.

STALKER 2 is slated to pitter-patter onto PC and Xbox Series 10/Due south one-time in 2021.