Key Takeaways
- Stalker 2’s first patch is coming in a few days.
- It will address issues such as game crashes, visual bugs, and errors that prevent progression.
- This comes after Stalker 2 launched with a fair amount of bugs and performance issues, although this doesn’t appear to have hurt its sales at all.
Stalker 2 is getting its first patch in the coming week after its launch was plagued with bugs and performance issues. This first patch will address numerous issues encountered by players, including bugs that halt progression or even softlock the game.
On top of this, the patch will try to curb issues with the visuals and game crashes, while also improving the UI. All in all, the patch will go over a lot of areas of the game, hopefully addressing most of the issues that players have reported in the first week of its release.
GSC Game World Outline First Stalker 2 Patch Details
The full patch notes were posted on Steam (as spotted by VGC), and explain that the update will be rolled out on PC and Xbox. It will aim to fix game crashes, including “issues and memory allocation failures” which “caused the game to exit unexpectedly, particularly around rendering, skeletal meshes, and quest-related cutscenes.”
Another frustrating issue players have encountered is softlocking, preventing progress until a previous save is loaded. The devs say they will fix this by addressing an issue where “players were unable to close the trade screen after putting ammo in a wrong slot while playing on a gamepad.”
Then, there will be fixes for “several bugs blocking the main quest progression”. This includes addressing “NPCs getting stuck in objects, incorrect quest markers, and issues with quest cutscenes”.
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We should also notice improvements in how the game looks, with the patch aiming to address bugs with the character models, while also making “quality and stability improvements of the visual effects”.
Despite all of these issues being found in Stalker 2 at launch, it doesn’t appear to have overly harmed its critical and commercial success. It opened to average reviews, now sitting at a 74 on Metacritic. Scores are all over the place, ranging from 2/5 to 5/5.
Stalker 2 has also already surpassed one million copies sold. This doesn’t include those playing through Xbox Game Pass, so the real player figures are going to be even higher.
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