Player Tests Whether FPS Improved in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 After Patch 1.6

YouTuber S2Games Bench set out to find how patch 1.6 affected the optimization of the PC version of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl. The enthusiast published a video comparing FPS performance between versions 1.5.3 and 1.6.

The update was tested on the Rostok and Zalessye locations. According to the video’s creator, the patch slightly improved FPS, though this could be due to testing variances.

The game was run on a PC with Windows 11 Pro (23H2), an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition GPU, an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X CPU, 32 GB DDR4 RAM, and an SSD.

The update added several night vision devices, a new laser sight, hip-fire shooting, a new anomaly — the fireball, a new weapon, a new character from Call of Pripyat, new female NPC variants, the ability to sort items in the personal stash, and more. To celebrate the patch release, the developers also shared a new trailer.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl launched on November 20, 2024, for PC (Steam, GOG, and EGS) and Xbox Series X/S. The PlayStation 5 version is set to release on November 20 as well. The game is available on Game Pass.

Earlier, the developers of the Polish open-world shooter about Chernobyl stalkers, Chernobylite 2: Exclusion Zone, revealed details of the upcoming major patch. Prior to that, new screenshots surfaced online for the post-apocalyptic top-down RPG shooter Tunguska 2: Whitefall.