New Stalker 2 trailer arrives, developer confirms early 2024 launch

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl, one of the maximum anticipated games in years, is in its final development stage and can be released during the first quarter of 2024. In addition to revealing the launch home windows, GSC Game World unveiled a brand new trailer known as "Strider" that appears visually very astounding.

Speaking on the PC Gaming Show, GSC Game World CEO Yevhen Grygorovyc showed Stalker 2 is in its very last stages of development before arriving someday among the begin of January and the end of March.

"This sport stands as the most important and most complicated sport in our lives. It turned into formidable from the start but evolved into an last assignment," Grygorovyc said. "It holds excessive importance and a deeply personal connection for us, crafted amidst the maximum stressful conditions possible."

To say Stalker 2 has had a hard improvement would be an underestimation. Russia's invasion of GSC Game World's domestic of Ukraine meant the organization needed to deal with the chance of artillery hearth and other attacks on Kyiv. Development changed into paused while employees were evacuated and the studio relocated to Prague.

Back in December 2021 when non-fungible tokens were being shoehorned into the entirety, GSC Game World changed into pressured to drop plans to include something NFT-associated in Stalker 2 following a fan backlash.

In January 2022, the studio stated that Stalker 2 wished seven greater months of development, but that also wasn't enough. In March, the corporation suffered a information breach at the arms of Russian hackers, who threatened to leak the fabric online if their needs had been now not met. The most current incident got here in September while a fireplace on the Prague office destroyed one of three flooring the group uses. Thankfully, nobody was hurt or killed.

Stalker 2 received the award for the Most Wanted upcoming recreation on the PC Gaming Show, as chosen by means of a set of 70 enterprise professionals.

"Stalker 2 turned into critical for us even earlier than the struggle, but now it stands as a country wide product aiming to convey Ukraine's unbreakable spirit to the world. Today we rejoice our victory here, whilst concurrently striving for our place of birth's remaining triumph inside the destiny," said Grygorovych "I am beaten with the joy to apprehend that Stalker 2 enters the final section of improvement. Fellow Stalkers will quickly reunite in The Zone yet again. Thank you all for this award."

Stalker 2's recommended device necessities include an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X or Intel Core i7-9700K or higher, and an AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT 8GB / Nvidia RTX 2070 SUPER 8GB / Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti 11GB or better. It additionally asks for a hundred and fifty GB of SSD space. In addition to Steam and the Epic Games Store, it is going to be to be had on PC Game Pass, which simply were given any other exquisite name within the form of Remnant 2.