• Sludgehammer@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    I heard that the game sucks you through your monitor and uploads you straight to the Ukranian front lines.

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    23 days ago

    Oh, the game isn’t Russian? Shit, I’ll actually buy it then!

    Fuck Russia. 👍

    Edit: Ultimate edition it is! I am intentional with where I spend my money and I’m super glad to support a Ukrainian company.

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        23 days ago

        To be clear, the rest was developed in Prague (after they fled the Russian invasion).

        No parts that I know of were made in Russia.

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            23 days ago

            I watched the documentary that GSC released about the development of S2… It was a whole struggle. The company rented buses as tensions increased with plans to move the staff and their families to the western border of Ukraine.

            Several devs stayed in Kyiv where GSC’s building is, and some even went to get enlisted.

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    24 days ago

    Ill probably buy the game just to spite Russia. The fuck do they care about some Ukrainian developers game? It doesn’t affect the war one way or the other… unless they’re afraid it’s going to humanize the Ukrainians.

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      23 days ago

      Ukrainians are actively chasing draft dodgers. They asked the UE to send back ukrainians male in military age. My friend in ukraine calls it north korea. Coz they cannot leave.

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        23 days ago

        There’s really nothing like it.

        Stalker takes all of the advantages games normally give you and crush it down to “You ain’t important, bullet-cushion.”

        Firefights feel like they have stakes and risk is intense. Nothing that happens can just be shaken off, everything needs attention. It’s not a normal FPS.

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    24 days ago

    Dammit am I gonna have to buy this game now just to give Russia the middle finger again?

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    23 days ago

    Worst I’ve heard about this game is it lacks some of the charming “soul” of the original. That’s not enough to keep me from buying it after Christmas, though.

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    23 days ago

    I’ve been called a russian troll for saying the slightest thing about america. Now I don’t buy that shit lmao

    Shouldn’t have cried wolf

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    24 days ago

    Russian disinfo is so nefarious it gets Trump elected but at the same time it barely musters a shit opinion on S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 Sounds totally legit and not a shit capitalisation on the Ukrainian suffering for page views. *slow clap

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      23 days ago

      Within psyops it’s much easier to amplify competing ideologies than it is to create new ones. Trump is the former, where information by stupid people gets amplified. This Stalker 2 campaign is the latter, where new information is created out of thin air.

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          23 days ago

          Well you could have just said that, instead of raising a comparison which does not really hold up.

          But yes, I don’t believe everything on the internet either.