Bullshit. V21 keeps crashing randomly.
Everytime I try to end run I get "Fatal Error" message box. AMD GPU.
Welp, I'm on a 10 years old Intel i5 overclocked to 4.2GHz, 16gb DDR3 ram and have had 0 crashes and honestly v21 runs beautifully on my PC (MUCH better than v20). Have you updated your drivers? When was the last time you did a reformat of C: and a fresh install of your Windows? I generally do it at least every 6 months (I got lazy, before I used to do it every 2 months) to keep everything running smoothly. Garbage collects in your installation over time that slows it down.
Stalker 2 was developed during a very difficult period of time. Yes, there are political references, but if you are not from Russia, you will not be offended.
If you find the game too casual, try looking for modifications on Nexusmods that will make the game more difficult. If there are none, then it is worth waiting.
I'm not gonna go into the politics cause it will get my post deleted, but I just rolled my eyes as I've been following both events in Ukraine since 2013 and politics and actions of Stalker 2 devs. Political references my fanny, what they did was faaar more than just references, they waded deep into the shit with eyes wide open and all barrels blazing. I will not support them for various reasons, much less give them my money. Anyway, my point still stands. Stalker Anomaly has graphics that are just as good, it's FREE (completely free) and far more realistic (which is what I like). Escape from Pripyat knocks it out of the park. And then there is Stalker GAMMA which is just wow.
Honestly Delta Zone is more realistic than Stalker 2. The gunplay and real stuff like recoil is like a post-graduate student compared to kindergarten ward Stalker 2. Then there is also the new medical injury system; primary needs that are fucked up right now but will hopefully be fixed. Your body changes, you get slower or faster depending ground type and the state of your body, your vision gets obscured, etc.
Graphics are nicer, I have a very sexy Ryona I can play with and that I can make even sexier with more of an hour-glass figure, her clothes get destroyed (slowly revealing her luscious body to my lecherous gaze) and I can play the game in multiple ways: sexual corruption to avoid combat; stealth or combat. If there were some kind of negative repercussions to getting pregnant aside of just walking slower in order to motivate me to be even more careful and try to avoid enemies at all costs the game would've been perfect.
No wait, if there were negative repercussions AND the maximum size of her tits and belly was bigger than it is now, then the game would be perfect. And if she had an upturned button nose (I don't like her nose).
instead of making a story and game mode, all that wasted time on useless stuff like cyborg crap and survival crap
Okay, I'll give you the survival crap, BUT you're wrong on the first part. He DID make a story. Not background story, but current times to give you something to do. There is quite an interesting quest line where Hawker (the closest trader) has problems with someone sabotaging her and you have to help her uncover and defeat the enemy. Through that quest you have to visit all the maps and raise your rep with other traders (which has you researching those maps more thoroughly and you even have to go into the radiation zones).
I can't say anything for easier modes of the game cause I haven't played them, but on the two toughest modes I was literally unarmed and naked for most of the early playthrough. Giving up to the enemies was the only way to survive until I got enough stuff and honestly I've built up such a good rep with all factions that I didn't even need to have sex or even run/fight with them; the only times I actually used a gun was for the latter parts of Hawker's questline. It was weird tbh, cause before v21 throughout all the years I've played this game I've been solely focused on upgrading my guns and killing everything over and over.
Strangely I'm happy about the new injury system, with the damage the tentacles now do during struggling I actually have VERY strong incentive to avoid them as much as possible. I've actually died from the damage they've done during struggle minigame and that after a long run when I had a shit-ton of stuff on me. Didn't expect it, but they did a lot of damage before I could even get my struggle up to 60%. Maybe I'm a masochist, but I liked that they're not so lame anymore. Now if only dev would do the same for the human enemies.
Also, you can suffer injury if you do really high jumps with the hover bike (I bled out cause of jumping like an idiot on Outskirts and having no med stuff), so be careful with that. Basically carry at least 4 bandages and 4 reconstruction gels with you at all times.
I hate the primary needs though, that shit is still broken and there is no way it should go down that fast. At least thank god you can run around for a long time even with water, food and energy at complete 0.