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The developers say that depending on your pace, it may take you about five hours to get through the new story bits where you "Discover the mysterious transmission that gives stalkers headaches, nosebleeds, and even hallucinations" that brings "8 new missions, 7 new locations, 6 new characters, 3 new unique items, unique weapon, and more".
On top of that they teased that various previously barren locations are now actually used, and the story may lead you to create a whole new hub in the Burnt Forest region. There's also a new GP37V2 weapon, a modified version of the GP37 with a pre-installed suppressor and a low-magnification scope.
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A number of addition tweaks were noted too including:
- Fixed an issue where multiple artifacts could spawn in one place.
- Optimized multiple mutant models.
- Fixed an issue where NPC could not find a way to the shelter during an Emission at the Cement Factory location.
- Fixed an issue where NPC could not find a way to the shelter during an Emission in Zalissya.
- Fixed an issue that could cause massive mutant hordes to spawn at the Plant location of the Garbage region.
- Adjusted dead zone settings for DualSense controller on PC.
- Fixed an issue where the player could obtain the Heart of Chornobyl artifact from the regular anomalies.
See more in the release notes.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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Cool they are giving it for free, it sounds like a major expansion!
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Awesome to see them support the game like this, especially after the rocky launch. I'll keep holding off until all key A-Life features are implemented.
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Gerarderloper 10 hours ago
I'm just holding out until the NVIDIA driver fix because this is one of the WORST affected by the NVIDIA DX12 performance issues. We talking %37 performance drop compared to windows. So if you got 100fps in windows you get 63fps under Linux, its pretty bad!
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Is this game worth buying?
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Quoting: GerarderloperI'm just holding out until the NVIDIA driver fix because this is one of the WORST affected by the NVIDIA DX12 performance issues. We talking %37 performance drop compared to windows. So if you got 100fps in windows you get 63fps under Linux, its pretty bad!Strange.. is it affecting only 4000 series?
i seem to get very similar perf (within ~5%) to windows with my aging 5800X3D and RTX 3080, by checking people on youtube benchmarking it with the same hardware and ofc same game update.
590.44.01 drivers...allthough i seem to be CPU bottlenecked in many places where GPU utilization is not even near 100%. But seems on line what people get on windows still.
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Quoting: BigJIs this game worth buying?Absolutely, it's amazing (IMO, obviously). However, it's still not 100%. There is an update out in about 3 months or so (I believe) that will update the game engine to a newer version. That will expand the spawn/sight "bubble" which will then introduce binoculars. A-Life still needs some work as well.
What I find absolutely staggering is they haven't fixed a bug that was introduced in the last update where Burers/Poltergeists can now shoot/throw through walls.
The big advantage this game has is the modding. I have no doubt whatsoever that any remaining A-Life issues will be fixed and expanded on by the community. This game has many years of play time left.
One other thing, I actually think this game is better played through Proton than Windows native, from reading the "discussions". The amount of "issues" Windows users have is bewildering 😆
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Quoting: fabertaweOne other thing, I actually think this game is better played through Proton than Windows native, from reading the "discussions". The amount of "issues" Windows users have is bewildering 😆Yeah i completed the game back in launch (105 hours) or within few months of release with zero stability issues. Few quest bugs, animation jankyness only. But reading all the troubles people seem have had with this game, seems like its very solid on linux indeed. I guess people have different hardware/software, so everyone could have different experience but i really cant complain
Hopefully they can improve the performance a bit more with the patches in the future.
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