Stalker 2 simply received a free pre-DLC to gird you for its very first DLC

Stalker 2 will get its first DLC—Value of Hope—at an indeterminate level later this yr, however earlier than the DLC comes the pre-DLC: a free replace that bolts on a brand new scary lab so that you can discover, in anticipation of the presumably many scary labs you’ll encounter in Value of Hope.

The replace known as Sealed Fact and it is out now. It opens up the decrease ranges of Lab X-18 and duties you with not dying in them for cash. “Deep beneath the Zone, locations like X-Labs stay sealed behind huge doorways or buried below the implications of failed ‘analysis,'” the blurb explains. “Rumours are actually spreading amongst stalkers that Diod, a technician from Slag Heap, has someway gained entry to the decrease ranges of X-18.

“Nobody is aware of what is admittedly occurring down there. That is your probability to seek out out.” In all probability nothing. Undoubtedly not a 24/7 Controller soirée.

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Poor Skif (that is Stalker 2’s predominant character, when you forgot) is not simply popping all the way down to X-18 on a jolly. Diod’s tasked him with investigating the place, in return for a fats stack of money. Or coupons, I suppose. “Anticipate a high-risk, high-reward tour stuffed with thriller, hazard, and unknown penalties. Apart from the cost, extra might await—misplaced data, helpful gear, or one thing way more important hidden deep throughout the lab.”

So GSC is making it sound fairly meaty: a bonafide mission moderately than a minor bagatelle, but it surely’s all to moist your whistle for the discharge of Value of Hope. “It serves as a complimentary replace in celebration of the upcoming Value of Hope DLC announcement, and is supposed as a thank-you to the neighborhood for staying with the Zone.”

Which sounds good to me. I fell head-over-heels for Stalker 2 even in its most ludicrous and buggy pre-released section, and GSC’s been exhausting at work banging it into form within the time since then. Personally, I am holding off returning to The Zone till the studio will get by with its reimplementation of Unreal Engine, which guarantees to convey the sport from Unreal Engine 5.1 to five.5.4.