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Shown is a new screenshot of the mod that brings back the canceled open world STALKER 2

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After several months of silence, the authors of the large-scale modification of STALKER 2: OldConcept, which should return the second part canceled in 2011, congratulated everyone on the holiday and also posted a kind of development diary with a new screenshot from the project.

Shown is a new screenshot of the mod that brings back the canceled open world STALKER 2

In the journal, the mod’s creators said the project “has gone through three iterations of the development approach” in three years. In 2020, a team of modders began building prototype scenes on various versions of the X-Ray engine, including X-RayOxygen, OpenX-Ray, and X-Ray Rentgen Luch. In 2021 she switched to X-Ray v2.0, after which she tested it for a long time, collecting different locations and creating test mechanics. In 2022, the team has already started serious work: creating environment and character models, prototyping first-person and facial animations, and reworking the engine.

The authors also explained why development is so slow. According to the creators of the mod, there are three reasons for this: lack of financial support, the personal lives of team members and problems with the engine.

Finally, the team revealed some key details about the mod:

  • The game world will be completely open and seamless;

  • The size of the world will be at least 6 square kilometers;

  • Events will unfold in 2015;

  • The main character is the Shooter;

  • There will be about 50 weapon models in the mod;

  • First person animations are made from scratch.

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