Here is what all house owners of the sport are getting without cost:
Visible Evolution
Replace 2.0 overhauls the Zone’s lighting and visuals:
- Improved lighting. Gamers can anticipate a extra pure and immersive look with extra practical shadows and reflections throughout the setting, each inside buildings and in underground areas.
- Reworked landscapes and foliage to make the Zone really feel extra natural.
A-Life Enhancements
A-Life now brings extra plausible exercise and encounters to the Zone:
- Extra contested factors of curiosity, together with campfires, bus stops, and different areas the place stalkers and mutants can cross paths.
- Quite a few under-the-hood fixes deal with points akin to enemies capturing or throwing objects via partitions and surprising overpopulation in sure areas.
Customizable Expertise
Replace 2.0 introduces Customized Guidelines, permitting gamers to tailor the problem to their most popular playstyle. Alter particular person settings to create something from a extra forgiving survival expertise to a really hardcore problem.
Gamers on the lookout for a fair harder expertise may strive Grasp issue and the non-compulsory Expedition mode, beforehand launched in earlier updates.
Binoculars
Three sorts of binoculars are actually out there to assist stalkers scout the Zone, determine targets, and plan their subsequent transfer. Every mannequin options completely different expertise and performance—discover them all through the Zone or buy them from sure merchants.
New Weapons and Scopes
Replace 2.0 expands the arsenal with 4 new weapons:
- Arev—assault rifle.
- GP3A—designated marksman rifle.
- SKP—designated marksman rifle.
- Fora-230—submachine gun.
A novel variant of certainly one of these weapons will also be found someplace within the Zone.
The replace additionally provides new optics, together with a x3 scope for Western-bloc weapons and a brand new pink dot sight for Jap-bloc weapons. Offset aiming has additionally been expanded past NVG use, giving stalkers extra freedom to customise their loadouts.
Along with that:
- Fog is now greater than a climate impact—it’s a gameplay mechanic. Each stalkers and their enemies have decreased visibility and listening to. The Mild Wet climate situation has additionally obtained a visible overhaul to enhance the up to date environmental presentation.
- A brand new Statistics web page has been added to the PDA, permitting stalkers to trace their exercise throughout the Zone.
- Bloodsuckers and Fleshes can now characteristic completely different appearances relying on their habitat, making encounters with these acquainted threats extra diversified throughout the Zone.
Because the launch of S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2, the Zone has continued to evolve alongside the group. Replace 2.0 brings collectively years of suggestions, technical enhancements, and new concepts to make the Zone a greater, stranger, and extra immersive place.
On the identical day—August 20—the primary main growth for S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R. 2, titled Price of Hope, launches. This growth explores the long-running battle between the well-known factions Responsibility and Freedom. Gamers can sit up for quite a few hours exploring new areas, together with the Iron Forest, CNPP, and Spatial Bubble, whereas experiencing the enduring environment of the Zone. Upon launch, will probably be out there as a part of the Final Version of the bottom recreation, or as a standalone buy for 29.99 USD/EUR (topic to regional pricing).
Celebrating the upcoming launch of Price of Hope, GSC has additionally launched a devoted web site the place gamers can vote for his or her faction of selection. By taking a fast quiz, you will discover out which facet of the battle you belong to, forged your vote, and compete for a collection of extremely restricted and unique S.T.A.L.Okay.E.R.-themed prizes.