Stalker: Legends of the Zone

It's out, I guess. I didn't even know about it until I woke up just now.

Looks good based on the comparisons I saw.

Censored Soviet imagery. Not interested.

NOOOOO MY HECKIN SOVIET PROPAGANDA KEEEP ITTT

99% of people who are going to play that shit were born after ussr fell who cares nigga

Yeah, I just opened up Steam to a notification that the Enhanced Edition of each game was ready to install. Giving SoC a go to see what they've changed. It's been a hot minute since I've played it. Might've been like two or three computers ago.

Undermines it's own aesthetic

I think the guns might be more accurate? I just tried Chernobyl on Veteran and the military squad guarding the gate went down well enough with just a basic pistol and double barrel.

bro it's missing this specific soviet propaganda poster in this random ass building it's over, immersion: ruined

anon I'm gonna say you are overreacting slightly
yeah it's dumb that they decided to focus on this instead of fixing bugs I'll give you that

fucking ukrops managed to botch something as simple as remastering the trilogy, amazing, bepis man should've left the company dead

achievements

neat

I have no idea what they removed but anything they take out lessens the soviet ruins look the game has.

What? They did enhanced editions of the old Stalkers? That could be good

They smeared vaseline all over the screen and removed anything soviet/russian from the games.

Have you actually played any of them? I was honestly surprised at how little Chornobyl looks different compared to the base game.

Have you actually played any of them?

lmao

Chyronohoholbyl

Cringe. It’s Kiev.

Just install misery instead.

Area literally known as a time capsule for its untouched soviet architecture

Removing all that is retarded, on par with removing swastikas from wolfenstein

Mostly negative for all three

Lmao

Why are Prypyat keys so expensive in comparison to the first 2?

Because it's the only game out of the trilogy worth playing

from what i remember the pistol and the shottie were ok. the aksu was the issue.

mostly negative

stalker can't catch a fucking break, man

its blurry as all fuck, and this is with aa and fsr turned off

because it's the hard requirement dfor any of the Analmeme and big combined map mods.

Superior way to play the game still seems to be modded from my impressions so far. This feels like it was a desperate attempt to raise money but I don't think they'd give you free copies if you owned the old ones were that the goal. Maybe it's a marketing strategy they think will generate more revenue than they potentially lost. Maybe it's customer loyalty. Dunno, but disappointed.

Anomaly is stand-alone, you retarded monkeyfuck

Doesn't look better than the X-ray mod for soc.

Really? Since when?

Since forever, are you mistaking it with some other mod?

Might be thinking of most of the other mods. CoC requires CoP to work, I guess I just never imagined NAlmeme would just be the full fucking game with no strings attached.

This literally looks basically the same except the skybox looks poorly uprezzed, why did they bother?

shitposter has no idea about the thing he shitposts about

many such cases

why the fuck everything feels inverted????
i can’t make sense of the inventory

how the fuck do they keep making these typos. they dont have spellcheck in the ukraine?

how does it look blurry but still jaggies everywhere?

wouldnt it be better to turn off MLAA or whatever TF and just down sample to 4k?

they're trying to stay relevant
realize that the majority of the original devs don't work at gsc anymore
they delisted the originals from steam already and it's only a matter of time before they're unavailable to buy too

game about the remains of the 80s era soviet union taking out everything russian

lol. very ukrainian thing to do I guess and with predictable results like in irl; a war

CHORNOBOL

check reviews

it's all russians crying that they removed the russian VO

there are actually some genuine issues with the remasters (i saw people having save file issues), but those reviews aren't indicative of it

apparently the default settings are shit and you can make it look not blurry

Fucking faggots.

The enhanced version comes with the original according to what I read on GOG

Buy this Enhanced Edition and receive the original version as a gift!

when you buy the new version you get both the old and the new added to your account in separate entries.

imagine going to x country and WANTING censorship of their own history. This is just as pozzed as wanting a ww2 shooter and going to germany just to get censored swastikas. Stop playing games if you don't like them lil bro

it's all russians and people who care about immersion complaining that they removed the russian VO and soviet imagery

fixed that for ya, pal

This is just as pozzed as wanting a ww2 shooter and going to germany just to get censored swastikas.

Germany literally does that and has been doing it for as long as WW2 games have existed.

they removed the soviet symbolic but why? this tragedy happened out of nowhere with no context? its stupid

no, it's not people who care about immersion, it's legit just mad russkies. I agree that it's questionable, and they also did it in a pretty hamfisted way (completely removed some russian graffiti instead of translating it lmao). but i've read a ton of the negative reviews and that's not what they're complaining about. they're calling ukrainians racist and saying they should all speak russian anyway.

The UI looks whack.

the review purge just happened and steam forums are unavailable lol

I don't get the negative reviews, plays exactly the same and looks exactly the same. Maybe the UI is a bit stretched.

they're calling ukrainians racist and saying they should all speak russian anyway

to be fair, most ukranians do speak russian

removing soviet symbolic undermines the message. no better when wolfenstein removes swastika

The Zone is abandoned Soviet territory

erase all marks of the Soviets

Lul. They turned The Zone in to some generic video gamey location. I bet they even added LGBT flags to the Freedom camp.

there is no russia. there is a russian-ness but russia is not even a state

they used AI upscaling for it, same with most textures

Germany literally does that

No, this has stopped in 2018 after the Wolfenstein debate. People realized how stupid that kind of censorship in video games is.

yeah, that's clearly not what they mean by that though.

i agree. i think it's good they let you install the previous version, and i'm sure people will mod the russian/soviet content back in the new one eventually.

They shouldn't have removed the old soviet symbols but other than that, considering it's free, it's fine. Gave me an excuse to play through SoC again.

The main thing is that they updated the engine to use DX12, which could allow modders to do some interesting stuff.
However, I think most of the modders have moved to Anomaly by now.

they should all speak russian anyway

To be fair, they do that without needing to be told.

ruin the game with terrible graphics mods

delist the originals

Many such cases

the fact that people complain about removal of content in faggoty ways does not mean that it was not a faggoty thing to do, it's also hilarious reading some of the posts on steam forums made by westerners acting like they know shit about the confilict. Stay in your lane, Billy.

russian-ness

even that makes ukes really insecure lol

Russians aren't people

I bet they even added LGBT flags to the Freedom camp.

To be honest that just makes clearing those stoner retards out even more satisfying.

that's the plan for stalker 3 actually

god rays

This already exists, at least in Clear Sky and CoP.

screen space reflections

This is a downgrade.

Cмepть хoхлoблядкaм

Enhanced Edits popped up in my library but they both say "this item is not yet available" where install button usually is. Is this a US thing?

Long as we don't care about a bunch of jewery of Europe supposedly dying, sure.

Are you on GoG? I'm on Steam and they're there in my library, but I've heard there's some foibles going on with GoG right now.

I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters I hate remasters

SoC is only app number 4500 on Steam

Damn.

Neither are you nigger

Fuck off back to the shithole that dares to call itself "2ch"

I really don't see the point in using this when you can just use mods that make the game look better along with improved versions of the engine and actual bugfixes.

it's probably a restart Steam sort of thing. the 3 EEs all popped in my my Library and have an Install button

He плaчь тoлькo

It doesn't matter that they made it worse in nearly every regard

Just blindly consooom!!

Erased all Soviet imagery with empty textures despite being set in a post Soviet shithole

Russian VA's from original developers removed despite the language being spoken in a post Soviet shithole

Botched graphics despite that being the whole reason for the upgrade

Replaced corrupt Ukrainian military faction with American ICE agents despite being 6000 miles away from the Mexican border

Monolith replaced with white christian nationalist organization despite the fact that the brainwashed rock worshippers are key to the story

And most egregious of all

They couldn't even spell the damn reactor's name correctly

I'll stick with the original. I don't have the sensibilities of a delicate European so this downgrade is totally worthless to me. And don't even get me started on the clear sky faction's new goal to deliver PReP to all the LGBTQ+ stalkers in the zone, I didn't even mind that as much since they are technically a GLOBOHOMO faction.

GoG's got them, just checked my account.

We need to remove the Soviet imagery from a game based on a movie based on a book about the failings of the Soviet era

Kneejerk reactionary bullshit that misses its own point.

You are such a basic bitch, lol

Replaced corrupt Ukrainian military faction with American ICE agents

wait what

What the fuck are you talking about retard the military is still there

Replaced corrupt Ukrainian military faction with American ICE agents despite being 6000 miles away from the Mexican border

Monolith replaced with white christian nationalist organization despite the fact that the brainwashed rock worshippers are key to the story

this can't be real the fuck

Плaкca

Anons...

Controller implementation is great but literally what does any of this accomplish that even the fucking Complete mod didn't already 10 years ago?
Are the enhanced editions even moddable as well?

What the fuck are you talking about retard the military is still there

If you head south from the starting area in SoC the new ICE faction calls you a "dirty sp*c border hopper" and opens fire on you while yeehawing. It's so overtly political.

you almost had me

I have them on Steam. I stepped away for a minute and suddenly I can install them.

Have you met their leader yet? I was actually pleasantly surprised that they didn't go for a tired Trump parody and decided to make an homage to Bush Jr. instead

if this were true enhanced edition would be 10/10

It says "broader modding support", so maybe they're giving modders more tools to adjust shit?

I cant believe they replaced strelok with elon musk wtf

I give less of a shit about changing the names of locations, but changing the maps themselves is annoying.
soviet propaganda littering a miserable place like the zone gave a vision of "yeah look at how they fucked up." it was more than just being part of the aesthetic.

steam deck implementation

So how well does it play with a controller really?

Since they are so butthurt about Russia they erased every form of Soviet imagery from the game, are they going to remove all Soviet weapons too? Since these weapons are, you know, Russian.

Fuck off they did not remove the Lion from the game did they?

yes they did

Post a screenshot right now

broader modding support

probably just steam workshop shit, although I imagine it'd be limited compared to what people already do with the stalker games.
Seems like the original stalker games are an open book. With customized engines, standalone mods etc. being around for a long time, what else can they really give?

yup

Yes, after all cartoon lions are the biggest war criminals

remove Russian localization from their game

can't remove the Russian localization from their country

taking russia out of stalker is like taking nazis out of wolfenstein lol. how butthurt are the devs?

I have genuinely reached Ukrainian fatigue.

wahh my censorship

Not defending the censorship, but if the game is still moddable, just mod what was removed back in?
That way you get the best of both worlds: no censorship and all of the other enhanced improvements.

just mod what was removed back in?

implying Nexus won't take it down

Monolith changed from insane scientists to religious zealots

huh?

at that point just mod the OG games to look better

so why not just play the original lol

How hard would it be to just add some splash screen about how "yadda yadda we don't agree with the iconography of the setting but are leaving it untouched so it better represents the post-soviet collapse etc etc proper historical representation"?

who the fuck uses nexus for stalker mods
moddb nigga

I think the console version did something like that, but might've still removed some stuff

who even cares about this? hell odds are 99% of pro-ukraine people playing stalker don't give a fuck about soviet imagery in chernobyl

Because you HAVE to mod the originals barring Pripyat, and even then they're incredibly fucking janky. I haven't gone far enough to see how buggy or not the remasters are, but the Shadow and Clear Sky are both notoriously fucking broken.

Big if true and also turbo gay they removed it for this version.

Not even true.

stolkor coll of chornobol

I wonder if the Clear Sky enhanced edition actually fixed that game. Something tells me it didn't lol

Very true.
T.happened to me when I played through the games two years ago.

>wahh my censorship

just mod it bro xd

absolute nigger cattle mentality, genuinely kill yourself
if you're already going to mod the game why the fuck would you use this shitty version that's incompatible with the decades list of mods you retard?

I don't think SoC is as borked as some say, at least with the later patches. CS might be a different story

That would require the ones in charge to either be reasonable adults or to not have ukrainian government goons threatening their loved ones.

clear sky is the only broken one, soc and cop are perfectly playable vanilla

iirc the recent Tomb Raided remasters had this

Very not true.

I played vanilla SoC for the first time like a decade ago and genuinely did not have a single crash or major game breaking bug through my entire playthrough. Can't speak for Clear Sky. Maybe I was blessed by the zone or something idk.

Idk, modern improvements and controller support?

Why do Ukrainians hate lions?

It'll take less than a week for the Russia stuff to get modded back in and less than 8 days for the mod to be deleted for being on the wrong side of history.

Why the fuck are you playing a PC FPS with a controller?

modern improvements

I heckin love my games censored and blurry as shit!

HairWorks

PhysX

I'm not old...

Just because you don't want to doesn't mean that audience isn't out there. Lots of people are going to be wanting to play these games on their Decks now I'm sure

just bring a keyboard and a mouse to your deck, what is the problem? I don't see how it can be comfortable to play vidya on a deck though, with all the sun and insects and shit

I actually ordered a Japanese physical copy for Switch which has English subtitles/controls. I
For some reason I assumed Legends of the Zone wouldn't make it's way to steam. Hopefully it doesn't have DRM on Steam Deck. Neat.

Steam reviews are all negative

What happened with the Steam version? Should I just stick to the Switch version?

read the thread

You have been able to play stalker on the steam deck, what the fuck are you talking about?

apparently the default settings are shit and you can make it look not blurry

You can't. It's fucked up.

just defeat the purpose of your portable console entirely

yeah ok dude

Sure but now it has actual proper controller support which is a good thing.

missing the joke

Didn't the Bandits speak Russian in the English VO? Or did they speak Ukranian? Idk the difference but they better not have removed the iconic Bandit lines.

RUSSIA BAD REMOVE ALL MENTIONS OF IT REEEE - the dev

LOL
nice downgrade

Why would leftists hate soviet i thougt they loved communism?

No cheeki breeki for you ruschist

G R I M, thank god I have the originals.

Ukrainians

leftist

very American post

ukrainians

lefties

lol. all those guys got sent to the front first. probably without weapons

given the seethe I'd be surprised if they don't retroactively update the originals to remove this shit too

those guys

you dont know their pronouns bigot.

Unless you were playing some modded versions or you went out of your way to install Ukrainian voices, you probably never even heard the Ukrainian voice lines of anyone other than some soldiers.

do i get the new versions for free if I already own the old ones or is it the other way around?

Both apparently, if you own the OGs you get the "Enhanced" versions but if you buy them you get the OGs.

Oh, the heck, yeah, I see them on my library now.

It's both.
For PC and KBM players, there's no reason to play Enhanced, unless you really care about achievements.
The one good thing about it is that they added more subtitles and you can select different audios and text separately.

Did they make it so you can't review the game anymore?

Russian bot babies getting mad

Lmao

RUSSIANS IN MY WALLS

Because you HAVE to mod the originals barring Pripyat

No, you do not.
Stop parroting 2007 meme posts. Latest patches are LITERALLY all you need. No buts, no jokes. Fact.

So what's "enhanced" about it?

CHORNORBOL

Not interested sorry. When Ukraine gets annexed the Russian government will nationalise GSC Game World and force them to fix all the misspellings and missing textures.

russians really do live rent free in their heads kek

Strelok's cataracts apparently

Censored, blurred to shit and removed the originals from steam. That will be 20 bucks per game, pleased.

intentionally writing Russian with lowercase r

mindbroken or just virtue signaling to retard fans and the UKR government

Yeah just read through the thread. This might be the most egregious rerelease I've ever seen in my life. I've never seen a game get downgraded this blatantly before.

It's Tuesday maintenance, pal. First week on Steam?

Absolutely soulless.
Urkainainism is a mental illness and it has spread to westcattle. Some of them are shouring a 20th century rural banderist slogan (in Russian) from parlament tribunes now, slava ukrainin' their feeble brains.
Censoring historical archetecture is the terminal stage of ideological hysterics

What % of posters here are bots/Putin bootlickers?

how many dicks did you suck?

Well, at least I didn't have to pay for this. It's unfortunate that for a lot of new people that this will be their first experience with the original games. Do we have a Duty (hehe) to try and spread the word about this?

Whatever number you come up with, sweetcheeks

Are you aware that 100% of the memes the series is famous for are due to the russian VA, you subhuman nafotroon cattle pretending to be a stalker fan?
Ayyy mlyaaa maslinu poymal
Cheeky breeki I've damki

It's unfortunate that for a lot of new people that this will be their first experience with the original games

You still get the original games if you purchase the new edition. Will newfags play them, however, is another question

Well that's what I mean, unless you tell them they'll likely just ignore the original versions.

Will newfags play them, however, is another question

no they wont because you have a bunch faggots who shill mods that deviate from the original stalker experience and then end up being disappointed when the game is what the modders told them it would be.

Support for a Ukraine is a cult. They absolutely care.

Do they think seeing statues/propaganda etc. amidst a fucked up place like the zone will make people think

hmm, I think these russians had the right idea

All the replies you've gotten so far should show you your answer, anon.

why are you samefagging?

EVERYONE I DISGAREE WITH IS RUSSIAN REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I ain't playing stalker if I can't hear someone say chiki briki

Do they think

no

Samefagging nafotroon.
I'm sure I'd this dogshit board would implement ID it would show one single nafotroon subhuman replying to himself and spamming the thread with his hysterical bile.
Nobody care about Russia , it's about games, cargo cultist. If you care about the Urine so much you can sign up. Stop shitting up stalker threads with your culture war crap.

Hey, take down that image before I get the idea to walk into my fireplace!

All the good GSC devs left to make Metro anyways

What's even more retarded is that they think that soviet history =/= ukranian history. Well, it actually kind of worked, the meme is growing bigger it seems

mod hating is tiresome
those mods you hate were created by people who love stalker (esle they wouldn't have bothered duh)
but at this point SoC was released like 18 years ago can't fault people for wanting something new and different, we all played it to death
no one hates the ogs except the voices in your head

Same.

Good devs

Metro

No.

metro games are all railroaded trash

sad state of affairs

looks 2x worse than enthusiast graphical modpacks from 2010

The absolute state of the slava Ukraini Nu-GaySC

wtf that was sudden, I saw the announcement but didn't notice a release date, I figured it was quite a ways off.

oh I guess I'll take it out of my xbox wishlist then.....

Don't look at the director credits for SoC and Metro 2033 bro.

All I wanted was a larger Kshatrya...

it was made by poles, retard-kun.....

that said, literally NO REASON to remove proper AA and introduce blur filters as the only options

Don't want to be a pariah state, stay the fuck in your own country

I won't. Metro fucking sucks. And SoC is very middling too

Are you aware that 100% of the memes the series is famous for are due to the russian VA

Next level delusion. The only memes 99% of people, aka normalfags, know are the English dub

CHEEKI BREEKI IV DAMKE

If you weren' a larpint Nafotroon faggot pretending to have playing stalker you'd know that the first two games were never fully ENG dubbed. Their original va is russian
Cheeky breeki , the most famous phrase is certainly not in the King's English
It's only lie and gaslight with you "people"

Agree to disagree.

*to have played

Did they remove the Duga array as well?

Definitely very blurry, though I must say it's not quite as blurry as some of the other screenshots I've seen, though that may have just been because compression

It's a mix of both. Cheeki breeki (and the funny bandit dialogue in general) was the biggest meme but "Don't just stand there, come in!" and "Get out of here, Stalker!" were both English.

Pripyat had the least number of super cheap keys sold over the years, it alos never had the 10 cent Indian key that SoC had which flooded the market so the resellers have a much lower stock to run with so they're marked up

youtube.com/watch?v=zh_p20lHqtA

GOD why do the trees in the distance look so bad.

why didnt they add more options to play around with

Wouldn't removing all Russian architecture and signage and stuff just imply that the Ukrainians caused the Chernobyl event themselves? Without Soviet involvement? Doesn't that make them look worse?

it's because you're at 4K. The lower the res the less blurry FXAA/FSR/DLSS/TAA looks.

AHAHAHAHAHA CLASS!

The fact that you noticed means it's working

Well fuck GSC, gonna just do another vanilla OG run of SoC. Time to get comfy.

more censored garbage for homo's to defend online for no reason, just make all the characters faceless goo next time so nobody can be offended

I'm not seeing any blurriness, but I don't like that I can no longer tie bandages to my mouse anymore.

who cares nigga

Censorship and erasing the past is always bad. No exceptions. Ever.

not everything from the past should be preserved
especially shit coming from a totalitarian inhuman regime and ideology

not everything from the past should be preserved

Wrong. Even if you think something from the past is evil and bad, it should be remembered so people can learn from it. Trying to rewrite the past is nonsense that only jews and their cattle promote.

Volodomir... I don't feel so good

reviews filled with russians seething about their pronouns not being respected

kwab

Zone Reclamation Project is basically mandatory for SoC right?

No

Ukrainian identity

Wrong

I don't see fasisct statues in Italy or nazi flags in Germany, getting rid of that was wrong?

Even if you think something from the past is evil and bad

anon it's something I think as in just my subjective opinion based on... uh.... nothing or something
it's a consensus that communism is a tried (multiple times) and failed inhuman ideology that should never be tested again and that people who follow it in 21st century are straight up retarded, there's not debating that, no there's no "you think....", you don't need to agree with it because it's just a fact and we are well past the discussion/debate part on this topic

Trying to rewrite the past is nonsense that only jews and their cattle promote.

in this case specifically the """past""" is just fictional, it's not a one to one representation of the reality
said that if we want to move forward we must choose what to preserve and what should be removed (because things get old and as generation pass and values shift a random ass statue to a random dude that lived 100 years ago is such a nothingburger might as well put that shit in a museum for historians to drool over)
also, just for record, history is a continious rewriting of things as we discover more information and sources and things that were secret before get released in the public archives
you can either cling to your retarded past of the 20th century or just move on

Okay, are there any mandatory mods/bug fixes for SoC then?

Just play IWP
it's the better mod

i can't believe ukraine nuked their own country

Okay, are there any mandatory mods/bug fixes for SoC then?

Lurk mod 1.0552

I don't see fasisct statues in Italy

Get better glasses next time you go to Italy then.

alright nafofaggot go back to sucking nazi dick

tempted to install the remasters just to review bomb

I'm not even a Russia supporter but this is beyond petty

didnt your funding get pulled? why are you still posting?

Same reason they removed Russian audio. They are seething Ukr*inians and think doing this will help them win a losing war lmao.

i like how he says russian users rather than russian players.

like implying they dont have russian fans and the russian fans dont matter. but im not russian and removing the russian stuff is fucking retarded.

Honestly it's kind of insulting to their long time fans to do such a lazy re-release.

I just played SoC last October since I wanted something wolloween-ish.I liked it a lot.
Thank god I bought CS and CoP last sale before they pulled this shit.

Which way zone man?

Actually kill yourself

That looks so fucking stupid.

teh

Ancient gamer.

>it's all russians and people who care about immersion

Are you saying only Russians played the original games?

there are actually some genuine issues with the remasters (i saw people having save file issues), but those reviews aren't indicative of it

Removing the fucking soviet imagery is indicative of it, the only reason people think of Stalker at all instead of the billion other monster survival shooters that came out during this time is the Soviet imagery.

Steam forums are beyond cucked obviously but it is really sad that people defend the removal of the iconic visuals that help ground the setting as basically being frozen in time more or less after the pullout.

Always death incarnate

seva4life

not getting spooked by Soviet Scar in the middle of a storm

Wew

i agree the soviet shit is part of the appeal but the faction/a-life stuff would still set it apart from other games even if the soviet stuff never existed

Expect when it's about holocaust.