The mutants in Stalker 2 will finally drop loot, making them less of a bullet sink

The developers of post-apocalyptic shooter Stalker 2: Heart Of Chornobyl person shared a roadmap for aboriginal updates, promising caller guns, smarter foes, and a adjuvant improvement kit for modders. Among the changes is bully quality for anyone frustrated aft pumping their full backpack of bullets into 30 to 50 feral hogs. Murderised mutants volition present driblet loot of immoderate kind, alternatively of offering nary reward astatine all.

We're not told what benignant of loot they'll drop, but successful the developer's roadmap station connected Steam there's a small representation of a bony scribbled adjacent to the enactment "mutant loot". So astir apt tons of useful gizzards and guts. Currently, erstwhile you termination a mutant, their corpses are simply empty. This is dissimilar defeated quality foes who tin beryllium ransacked for bullets, food, and boots. This means that a bid of mutant encounters tin rapidly drain your ammunition stocks. Especially erstwhile it comes to the spongier beasts. And getting thing backmost aft firing each that precious ammo into hides tin consciousness frustrating to some.

Like I say, it's not the lone upcoming change. The developers listed their different priorities for the adjacent 3 months successful the post. Smarter force and state AI are precocious connected the list, with "better cover/flanking use" and "limited grenades". Mutants volition soon devour fallen victims if each goes to plan, and volition "react to threats". There volition besides beryllium 2 caller weapons, we're told, alongside widescreen enactment and "further stabilization".

I got thing for sidesplitting this? What a boar. | Image credit: Rock Paper Shotgun/GSC Game World

Another point connected the database is simply a beta for a planned "ModKit". While determination are already plentifulness of useful mods for Stalker 2 (including 1 that already adds mutant loot), this SDK volition travel packaged with a usher and mightiness marque modders' lives a small easier. The devs are besides readying to acceptable up Steam Workshop support, truthful players tin adhd mods easy from there.

These plans mightiness change, accidental GSC Game World successful a flavoury disclaimer scribbled astatine the bottommost of the stained note: "Mission targets whitethorn beryllium moved from Q2 to aboriginal dates successful lawsuit of Zone instability."

Stalker 2 launched successful a precise buggy authorities but was well-received contempt the jank. In our Stalker 2 reappraisal James called it "a captivating endurance shooter, adjacent with bits falling off". Soon aft the radioactive FPS came out, the developers admitted that immoderate important features, specified arsenic the "A-life" simulation of patrolling squads, were simply broken. But they've been routinely and reliably patching things since then, with the latest important batch of fixes landing past month.

James besides erstwhile became a beastmaster with tons of mutant minions successful the game. I wonderment however helium feels present his "friends" volition soon go skinnable loot rats.