S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl

The announcement of NVIDIA's new RTX 50 series graphics cards at CES 2025 has been met with enthusiasm across the internet. Many social media users were pleased with the advertised features: improved gaming performance with ray tracing enabled, higher clock speeds, and access to the latest and greatest versions of DLSS and frame generation. However, not all gamers, hardware reviewers, and industry experts share the general enthusiasm. Their main argument is that if you strip away all the "crutches" of the new cards, the actual performance increase might not be as significant as expected. And there are concerns about those "crutches" too.

The announcement of a console from one of the market leaders is always an exciting event that sparks heated discussions online. Everyone talks about the device's design, specs, and features. However, gamers primarily purchase gaming platforms not for their looks, screen size, or special buttons, but for the games. Unfortunately, there’s little official information about future titles for the Nintendo Switch 2, and it’s unlikely we’ll learn much before April. So, while we wait, let’s analyze the situation and speculate about what we might play on this highly anticipated hybrid console in the coming years.

Over the past few years, the graphics in games have hardly changed. We have become accustomed to high detail, high-quality textures, and realistic faces of characters. Perhaps the situation will change after the release of new video cards, but in 2024, the graphics remained at about the same level as before.

That is why, when compiling this article, we primarily paid attention not to the number of pixels in the hero's boot, but to the artistic component. Combined with advanced technologies, it is able to impress even today.

The fourth year of the ninth console generation, 2024, has clearly shown that the performance of gaming systems has once again become a bottleneck for PC game development. While in 2022 and 2023 developers amazed us with cutting-edge graphics technologies and occasional innovations, the past year's major releases seemed to abandon the race for visual revolution. However, we’ve still found 10 games capable of pushing any modern PC to its limits.

If you read reviews of the second «Stalker» from the Western press, you might have noticed that all the journalists criticize the game for having bugs. Some critics suggest ignoring technical flaws, while others advise waiting for patches that should fix everything. Otherwise, you risk being disappointed in «Heart of Chernobyl». In this article, we have collected the funniest glitches that were encountered in the game.