nevertheless Stalker: The Legend of the Zone Trilogy Released on May 20th, the expanded edition offers free “full remastered and optimized” upgrades to all owners of the original trilogy. The world of developer GSC games is surrounded by a review bomb campaign after players discover Russian voice acting and the landmarks of the “Soviet Era” have been quietly removed.
Stalker: Legends of the Zone Trilogy – Enhanced Edition features remastered versions of Shadow of Chornobyl (2007), Clear Sky (2008), and Call of Prypiat (2009) with upgraded visuals, next-gen console optimizations, and extended mod support. However, shortly after its release, all games plummeted to Steam’s “almost negative” ratings as players flooded the review section to complain about the blurry visuals and registered that the game was disappointed that the game had. now “Adds added blurred, censored, fixed, added.”
“So I owned the originals and played them deadly. Once I get the enhanced edition, I’d be excited when I launch it. One player explained. “The graphics are not upgrading to the point of excitement. There are mixed feelings about stripping Russian references. Honestly, I consider the original game a product of their history.
“So it’s free so I have nothing to complain about, but it’s not a big step out of the original. To be honest, if you want an edition of Enhance, you can modulate things into the content of your mind or play anomalies.
GSC Game World is a Kyiv-based Ukrainian video game studio, but some staff working in Prague have ended up temporarily suspending development of Stalker 2 after a full-scale invasion of Russia’s Ukraine in February 2022. At least one former GSC developer, Volodymyr Yezhov, was killed while active.
Although it has not officially admitted any negative reviews, GSC posted an update and patch today saying that it fixed crashes on unsupported PC hardware and some consoles, and that it can fix, repair and repair missing geometry at some levels.
“Stalker, we are interested in your feedback and are working to fix the most important issues,” the team said. “We really want your comeback to be special to the zone,” he said, “continue to work on improving the trilogy.”
We believe that “Lost Geometry” refers to Soviet relics that have lost the Soviet relics found in all three games. It is not clear whether the GSC chose to revise the Soviet iconography or was forced; PC Gamer We were able to confirm that at least the monument/sign outside Chornobyl, which reads “Chaes in the name of Vi Lenin” has been removed. All that remained was “the two concrete blocks that it stood there.”
This update did not specifically mention any missing audio or blurry textures.
“They listened! They heard! They heard!” shouted one happy player reddit. “There are still some issues with EE, but Goddamn is, so I’m happy to be working on fixing the game and not ignoring feedback.”
1 player I said: “It’s a million-hour solution than simply removing it without traces. It’s not censoring what was previously existed, but to praise the current abolition efforts.”
“This is a good first step. Hopefully we’ll see some other fixes to noteworthy things like popular blur issues and items that don’t appear in marked stashes.” Added Another.
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