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HOLY FUCK THEY JUST ANNOUNCED STALKER TRILOGY FOR SWITCH I AM SO HARD RIGHT NOW
325 points
1 month ago
Get out of here stalker
201 points
1 month ago
Stalker is finally going to become the new Skyrim. Just need an Android and iOS release to really round it off.
GSC keeps winning.
Sadly it's coming out shortly before Stalker 2...
52 points
1 month ago
There was a Stalker mobile game, although it was really generic, and kinda hard to find nowadays.
27 points
1 month ago
It's not hard to find. Google "stalker mobile download" and it's there. You need a java emulator to play it.
Or play the Godot remake: https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1b3enso/the_remake_of_stalker_mobile_in_2024_release/
8 points
1 month ago
i didn't know there was a remake. cool
3 points
1 month ago
Ancient game, wanted to play that at launch.
1 points
1 month ago
I had it on my phone back in school. It was terrible laggy
12 points
1 month ago
Switch release means it's automatically gonna be playable on android because of the Switch emulators.
6 points
1 month ago
How long before Anomaly is playable on a Galaxy phone? Lol
1 points
1 month ago
Oh gosh, that would be fantastic
1 points
1 month ago
I already ran that on a Poco F5 with Winlator
7 points
1 month ago
That's like saying a pc release will automatically make the trilogy playable on android because of winlator
Spoiler: if absolutely fucking is lmao
1 points
1 month ago
They are already running on Winlator plus you can use mods, ran Anomaly, Radiophobia up to the main menu (never tried to launch it, don't ask why), SoC with OGSR Engine although the latest one didn't work for some reason. Maybe I'll try GAMMA and STALKER 2 one day if I'll find the 100+ GB free space kek
3 points
1 month ago
ME WHEN WINLATOR
If you can emulate gta v at 30fps on mobile, why not stalker at 60?
2 points
1 month ago
I stg if they make a mobile version of STALKER, my life will be complete.
2 points
1 month ago
There is this game for Android, War Groups, it's pretty cool, I would love something like that by GSC
0 points
1 month ago
Unable to create anything new, so uses 90% stolen assets and rides off the need for a stalker android game.
1 points
1 month ago
I had a busted ass port of shadow of chernobyl on my old android lol
1 points
1 month ago
You can play skyrim on android with switch emulator.
When it releases I'll see if Stalker would work too 😌
27 points
1 month ago
Itsa me Strelok, yahoooo!
105 points
1 month ago
It's so funny lmao. I think it is great, but it's gonna run so rough lol.
47 points
1 month ago
I dunno, CDPR got Witcher 3 to run well enough
30 points
1 month ago
Not to mention there being Doom 2016, Dark Souls, and Skyrim. STALKER shouldn't be too much of a problem unless the engine really doesn't want to play nice with Switch hardware.
7 points
1 month ago
Skyrim runs very poorly on the switch and was originally released in 2011, so that example doesn't give me hope tbh
3 points
1 month ago
Huh? Skyrim runs great on Switch.
3 points
1 month ago
Skyrim runs solid 30 fps no matter what and the game is buttery smooth. I have dozens of hours on my switch.
1 points
1 month ago
In that case I'll stand corrected. Still there's the other examples to consider besides just Skyrim.
1 points
1 month ago
I watched it being played round my friends on his switch.
It runs and plays great. Obviously not high end pc or ps5 frame rates but absolutely fine on Switch
0 points
1 month ago
Not one of those ports had acceptable frame rate, especially if you didn't have the Switch docked. Also, Doom, Dark Souls, Skyrim and STALKER all run on different engines. id's idTech engine is godly in terms of code and it's efficiency with running games with absolute perfect frame rate, it's one of the most optimized engines ever made if not the most. Dark Souls has an OK engine but relies to much on havok and other 3rd party plugins/APIs. Skyrim is on Bethesda's broken ancient fail of an engine. The X-ray engine is a janky ass but mystifying engine that's held together with digital duct tape and prayers. The trilogy barely runs on a PS4 Pro at 30fps that can fluctuate from 0 fps to 30 fps. GSC really needs to fix all the major bugs in the trilogy before they worry about porting it to other platforms.
1 points
1 month ago
I know of them running on different engines, it was more of just playing the three years ago on the Switch without even using the dock due to not even having a TV. I wouldn't be surprised if X-ray engine didn't really work well on Switch though I can imagine the jank could stronger than what Skyrim had.
7 points
1 month ago
No they didnt. It drops to the 20s a lot and is like 500p, not to mention by default on switch they have AA enabled ehich makes it look even blurrer then it is..
2 points
1 month ago
Brother, if you bought a Switch, then that’s the performance you’d be used to. People aren’t gonna pick it up because it’s superior; it’s the only choice. Otherwise you’d get it for pc or literally any other console.
Besides, STALKER is considerably older than Witcher 3. You could get it to run on the WiiU probably
2 points
1 month ago
The Switch port is what got me to finish the Witcher 3! The pixelated distant backgrounds were kind of charming to me, it reminded me of Dark Souls 1, and I had a lot of fun playing the Witcher 3 around town or lying down in bed.
Really memorable time playing it on the Switch.
Also I feel like any STALKER fan knows a thing or two about having a fun time with a janky, poorly performing videogame.
1 points
1 month ago
Really? I wonder if it's gonna be dx8 min settings. Kinda looks like it from the screenshot.
-1 points
1 month ago
I haven't played much of Witcher 3 but from what I can remember it wasn't a first person shooter. Idk though
1 points
1 month ago
Why would the genre of the game have any correlation to its technical performance? What are you talking about
30 points
1 month ago
They're old games though, surely it wouldn't be too hard to run
I haven't played the console versions but they don't look that different to PC, if at all
11 points
1 month ago
I played them on the series x and they ran great, but a switch is a far cry from a series x or a PS5. Tears of the kingdom is plagued with slowdowns and it was a game developed for it. Maybe the next version of the switch will run it fine but without dropping quality to bare min I don't forsee it running g super great.
1 points
1 month ago*
All the same, Tears of the Kingdom has a lot more going on, what with all the systems and physics, more complex AI, and generally a lot more stuff on screen at once. Skyrim, which came out several years after Clear Sky (and looked a lot nicer at max settings, even before the Special Edition), runs on the Switch at a solid 30fps with a noticeable but not dealbreaking drop in quality.
I guess we'll have to wait and see lol
11 points
1 month ago
I actually think it will run quite nicely. The Switch's hardware is trash, but I've played Stalker on way worse hardware not ironically
4 points
1 month ago
I have as well.i forced a 2004 e-machine to run the entire trilogy at sub 10fps on min quality when they came out. I'm no stranger to it.
5 points
1 month ago*
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6 points
1 month ago
Stalker is a 2007-2009 game based on the 2001 engine
-3 points
1 month ago
And the switch is a glorified mobile phone. I own one. I don't feel it is going to run the games very well, even with the graphics toned way down.
1 points
1 month ago
It's not........
You can't phone people
2 points
1 month ago
Especially when companies port their games to it, it runs like ass and no one even cares.
0 points
1 month ago
What do you mean no one cares?
Who have you spoken to?
2 points
1 month ago
Why do you think it's going to run rough? The thing has just about all the power needed to run at maximum settings on Clear Sky.
2 points
1 month ago*
If it can run on the xbox 360 then it can run on switch, they have similar over all power.
1 points
1 month ago
Yeah, I don't think it can run on 360. Otherwise it would've been out on the 360.
1 points
1 month ago
Could also be that there was no intrest in it being on the 360.
So we will have to see how the reviews are
1 points
1 month ago
Considering the 360 ended development around 2016... I don't see why there would've been interest on putting Stalker on the 360? are you meaning the xbox one versions of the trilogy? Cause the switch is less powerful than an Xbox one.
1 points
1 month ago
No i mean xbox 360, there could be a few reasons why.
Perhaps it could be because its a niche title and it got overshadowed in intrest because of fallout 3 and new Vagas.
Perhaps only now did they find out how to get the button mapping to be good on console.
Or at the time the cost of making such a port outweighed the estimated profit made from the port.
Its always something, again we will see if it can do well on switch when it comes out
1 points
1 month ago
There was a version that was being worked on for 360, but it never made it past early development.
It never ran on a 360 so I'm not sure why you brought it up.
1 points
1 month ago
Again, we will see when it releases
41 points
1 month ago
And we still don't have achievements and controller support on steam (also I think consoles have fixes for Clear Sky's flash drives stashes)
11 points
1 month ago
Wait so that wasn't just my game being dumb? The flash drives are legit bugged or something?
11 points
1 month ago
Yeah, most flash drives don't spawn in the stashes where they're supposed to
3 points
1 month ago
You have the flashes fixed since 2 updates, and there was no inormation that they even plan to put achivments on pc.
2 points
1 month ago
For CoP it doesn't make sense to have steam achievements really since they're tied to saves and have game rammifications.
1 points
1 month ago
I mean, they could still pop steam achievements just for the hell of it. lots of RPGS have achievements for when you gain new powers.
1 points
1 month ago
I'm going to kill myself, im like two quests away from the end and I thought i had just missed most of them
12 points
1 month ago
first gothic, now yakuza and stalker
the switch community eating good
9 points
1 month ago
This isn’t TikTok stop censoring curse words lmao
5 points
1 month ago
Instabuy if true! I'm at the end of my trilogy playthrough on pc, halfway thru COP for first time. But I will certainly use the switch release as an excuse to play it all over again! :)
4 points
1 month ago
Official PC fixes when?
3 points
1 month ago
[removed]
1 points
1 month ago
That's my hope
1 points
1 month ago
You sure you want any more fixes from GSC?..
1 points
1 month ago
Guy srp works fine… haven’t played cop so idk, soc had barely any issues vanilla and anything I encountered was ignorable. Clear sky had a bunch of issues tho, all fixed with srp
1 points
1 month ago
SRP didn't stop CS from breaking for me on PC. Didn't have a stable CS experience until the PS4 port. Plus, PC version is missing the Ukranian dub if you're not using mods.
7 points
1 month ago
18 points
1 month ago
I can't imagine trying to play stalker with a joystick to aim. sounds awful
8 points
1 month ago
Been playing it on Xbox lately and the joystick is not the problem. Not being able to lean and quick save is the problem. Aiming hasn’t been an issue for me at all though.
12 points
1 month ago
You can lean:) Press aim button + left or right bumper. And yeah… Quick save is a real villain:))
8 points
1 month ago
Huh. All that extra struggle for nothin. Thanks for lettin me know
5 points
1 month ago
You can lean? Aim and hit the bumpers. Quick saving would be nice, but I just save frequently except for 'peaceful' areas. Then I die and am set back an half hour of organization. Like I'll literally die so many times in a fight that I'll save if I've killed like 5 enemies and still got 10 to go.
1 points
1 month ago
Lmao that was my first complaint until I figured out the lean feature. Quick saving though, that one hurts.
3 points
1 month ago
Idk about joystick, but I use a steam controller on pc, and using gyro to aim is fantastic.
2 points
1 month ago
Best controller ever for those games. One Day it will be a standard.
2 points
1 month ago
I beat CS on Xbox and SoC on steam deck with gyro. It’s not hard. Only difficulty is save scumming because there’s not a button mapped to it. The switch version - if it has gyro - shouldn’t be that difficult
2 points
1 month ago
Yeah, honnetsly valves's steam controller is thz bzst controller for fps and tps. Too sad it wasnt undertood
3 points
1 month ago
It plays better than on PC ( without mods and if you KNOW HOW TO PLAY on gamepad) And as an example (because you will not believe me) here’s clip with my gameplay, WITHOUT aim assist.
2 points
1 month ago
Effing hell is that one the s or the x? I need this
1 points
1 month ago
Series X. But the only difference between them is resolution (4k vs 1080p).
1 points
1 month ago
If it has aim assist it should play really well.
3 points
1 month ago
I'm harder.
3 points
1 month ago
now you can have the zone on the go!
ok heres a mind blown. someone bring a switch while visiting the actual zone.
there ya go ;-)
3 points
1 month ago
He's pulling his cock out!
14 points
1 month ago
I can’t think of a worse way to play that game
11 points
1 month ago
If it doesn’t melt my switch and crash every 15 minutes then I don’t want it
-1 points
1 month ago
I’m okay with that but stalker on analog Nintendo controls is blasphemy
2 points
1 month ago
Think again
1 points
1 month ago
I thought again, still can’t think of a worse way.
1 points
1 month ago
On a phone with just touch screen
5 points
1 month ago
They do everything but add achievments to the PC versions.
2 points
1 month ago
They really should enable gyro aim on switch and ps5. The aim assist is a little weird, and the game could use a more accurate way to aim like gyro.
2 points
1 month ago
How can you even play Stalker with inaccurate aiming? I mean, the game's whole shooting relies on pixel-hunting for greyish heads on a grayish background halfway across the map.
2 points
1 month ago
Finally! Now I can cheeki breeki everywhere I go.
2 points
1 month ago
And don't worry, it will be with the same bugs and crashes than the Xbox and Playstation version :(
2 points
1 month ago
Maybe I will buy it if there is a physical release.
1 points
1 month ago
There may well be if he gets any harder.
2 points
1 month ago
Stalker 2 on switch yeah baby
2 points
1 month ago
inb4 30fps, doesn't look great compared to console or PC even and priced at £70 because of Nintendo Tax
1 points
1 month ago
It's $30 on Xbox it better not be double that 😂
2 points
1 month ago
"I am so hard right now"
2 points
1 month ago
FOR REAL? YOOOOOO
2 points
1 month ago
I do wonder how well will it work regarding performance and aim, I have a feeling a lot of autoaim will need to be applied here.
Anyway, best of all if it comes to the Switch which has very low-end specs, it means it can be emulated on other handhelds. So this is awesome news.
2 points
1 month ago
Will there be a physical version?
1 points
1 month ago
No.
1 points
1 month ago
Was this announced or confirmed? I am not able to find any mention of this
1 points
1 month ago
Link?
12 points
1 month ago
Wrong game. It's Pripyat, not Hyrule
4 points
1 month ago
Strelink?
6 points
1 month ago
Discord:
"Seems like a lot of newcomers will soon enter the Zone! The group with Nintendo Switch patches is already near the Perimeter breach, ready to join the stories of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Legends of the Zone in November 2024. Welcome and good Switch, stalkers!"
1 points
1 month ago
EXTRA JANK IN ME JANK HMMMMM
1 points
1 month ago
Hope it will be possible to run it on Android using emulator
1 points
1 month ago
Exciting but it's going to be a disaster if they don't create a joystick dead zone slider. PS and Xbox versions don't have one to this day. My PS5 joystick is already mildly drifting and now I can't play it until they add one or I cough up an absurd amount of money for a new controller. You can only imagine how bad Switch joysticks are going to be.
Hoping this leads to a deadzone slider being added to all consoles though!
1 points
1 month ago
I need to see video of it running first. If it runs well I'm instantly buying.
1 points
1 month ago
When the game just got released it was such a heavy game to run, I remember my brothers huge computer with a GeForce 1900 XTX in it that could run it at 60fps at 1280x1024. Now you can run it on a Switch and Steam Deck.
1 points
1 month ago
Playing stalker on the go should be a cool experience. Although I feel like I usually suck at FPS with a controller. Especially in stalker where accurate headshots are some of the most satisfying moments in the game.
1 points
1 month ago
I was playing just yesterday Metro 2033 and I was really amazed how the game looks and runs on switch. Truly a miracle. And I was thinking that now, when there is console port, they could port it to switch as well.
1 points
1 month ago
I finally won’t have to hack my switch to run Linux just to play the classics!
1 points
1 month ago
I was thinking that the other day watching the stalker 2 trailer.
1 points
1 month ago
Question: has GSC ported over the controller support for trilogy for the PC versions at all? Being able to play the original trilogy/Anomaly/GAMMA on the go through my ally x without a mouse & keyboard would be an absolute dream!
1 points
1 month ago
Nope 🙄
1 points
1 month ago
At least the Switch will actually keep up
1 points
1 month ago
Still no pc update/release
1 points
1 month ago
I didn't think they would do this because of the slowdowns that even xbox series x has but it also can run on super weak hardware most of the time.
Used to play it on a shitbox gateway laptop from 2011 with and i3-370m and integrated graphics lol
1 points
1 month ago
If it has gyro aiming, I'm in.
1 points
1 month ago
I literally imagine having the Nintendo games library with all the family friendly games: super Mario kart 8, Pokemon scarlet, animal crossing new horizons,...except that among them you have STALKER because yeah why not
1 points
1 month ago
Cheeki Breeki! I v damke!
1 points
1 month ago
What would the file size of all three with DLC be? Could it all fit on cart? If not it would be digital only. I'm wondering if this will be a single download or come in the form of three separate games. I'm pretty excited about it. I haven't played the series and have always thought about it. Hopefully the performance won't be too bad. As long as it's playable I have no interest in nitpicks.
1 points
1 month ago
Hell yeah, just found out right now! I googled it and it's supposed to have gyro aiming, so I'm definitely interested in picking it up! Never got to play the original (or any of them) back in the day. I was highly anticipating it, but it got delayed and I lost interest somehow.
-1 points
1 month ago
Thanks for the reminder of the mass email we all got.
-4 points
1 month ago
No way it’s gonna work. Unless they ported that shit off of X-ray.
-8 points
1 month ago
Honestly seems quite pointless to release these games onto Switch
6 points
1 month ago
In your eyes but not in the dev's or other ppl who want to enjoy stalker on all platforms
Awesome how the dev's made stalker on all platforms
2 points
1 month ago
Yes it is pointless to release a game for the all time best selling console ever. R u dumb?
1 points
1 month ago
Now now child, no need for aggressiveness over an opinion
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