100% true, but I also feel like Stalker 2 has pandered more to those casual gamer audiences since they clearly can’t survive as a game developer off of us fans alone.

Stalker 2 definitely feels less abrasive and challenging than previous titles and mods.

But I also have hundreds of hours in GAMMA and Anomaly so I’ve got my biases and know how Im suppose to play. I am use to being aggressively abused and punished by the game, which is a very different experience from the casual “mainstream” gamers.

I think that heavily depends on what is being defined as “mainstream”.

Is it the same buggy, broken mess it was during the first week of launch…no.

Is it a smooth bug free well optimized game. Not even fucking close.

You still need a pretty decent beefy system to play it comfrontably and even then it’s still littered with problems.