Massive Stalker 2 patch starts chipping away at the notoriously glitchy game's worst problems, including over 80 cutscene problems and nearly 2,000 more bugs

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Stalker 2 is getting a makeover

Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl
(Image credit: GSC Game World)

Stalker 2 released this November with a swarm of game-breaking bugs attached to it, so developer GSC Game World just issued an enormous update to start the arduous pest control process. 

"Just before Christmas and New Year's, we are ready to present Patch 1.1," the developer writes on Steam, the first patch of its kind. It apparently impacts over 1,800 issues, starting with a much needed upgrade to the FPS survival horror game's NPC AI system A-Life.

NPCs should now no longer be able to suddenly spawn behind you or out of thin air, ending many players' frustrations with Stalker 2's unstable combat scenarios. NPCs won't appear so unnatural anymore, either (outside of their radiation tumors, at least). Improvements to a wide range of visual problems – including mutants flying like planes after being killed with a shotgun, or NPCs being unable to find their way through battlefields of corpses – make sure of that.

Ashley Bardhan
Ashley Bardhan
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Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.