The folks over at GSC Game World started the year with a string of awful crunches that, by their admission,almost broke the developer cadre.
After delays and a lot of sleepless nights,that work paid offwhenSTALKER 2: Heart of Chornobylcame out in November.
GSC owner Maxim Krippa revealed earlier this week that the game hadturned a profit within a monthof its release, andthe company’s end-of-year messagerevealed big plans to keep the momentum going.
The company revealed predictable and “boring” goals like continuing to updateSTALKER 2in 2025, following up onPatch 1.1which brought major performance gains and fixed a host of crashes and soft-locks.
Theremastered versionsofSTALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky, andCall of Pripyatare set to get a patch to make the best out of next-gen consoles.
The First Classic STALKER Patches Since 2010
All of that is fun and games, but the real deal is the following passage:
We know you’ve asked us to update the PC versions of the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, and we also plan to do that.
-GSC Game World team
The last release from theSTALKERseries wasSTALKER: Call of Pripyat, released in October 2009 inUkraine.
GSC released a handful of patches between November 2009 and February 2010, but all of these were rolled into the game’s worldwide release that same month.
AlthoughSTALKER: Call of Pripyatis a remarkably stable game bySlavjank standards, the same cannot be said aboutShadow of Chernobyl, and especiallyClear Sky.
The first two entries in theSTALKERseries have crashes, soft locks, bugs, andenough hidden issues caused by the spaghetti code to keep game historians busy for another century.
TheLegends of the Zoneconsole adaptation of the original trilogy has worked on some of the more pressing classic issues, but it is far from removing the glorious jank that made the games so endearing and infuriating at the same time.
So far it seems that GSC does not have a clear public plan for when a PC patch will come, or what it will have, butit is nice to see the classics getting some loveafter all this time.
