S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2's Next Major Patch Targeting Early February Release

The next major patch for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl is expected to arrive in early February, according to a post by GSC Game World community manager, Mol1t.

The studio employee stated that the upcoming update will, among other things, address numerous bugs encountered within the game’s main storyline. A full list of changes will likely be published on the day of the patch's release. A precise release date has not yet been given.

This follows a previous patch released on January 27th, which focused on fixing issues such as shader compilation problems, a memory leak on the Rostok level, performance during shooting and aiming, save game loss on Xbox Series X/S, and other issues.

Previously, performance tests surfaced online showing S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl running on an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, revealing its framerate (FPS).