In the “Bulletin of the Same Stalker” community, they stated that they are not “Russian hackers”, which Ukrainian studio GSC Game World accuses of leaking the test build of the shooter game STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl. Post on social media “in contact”.
“We’ve said it a hundred times, we’ll repeat it a hundred and one times: we’re not all Russians, we’re not Russians, and we’re not even hackers. The company, of course, did not provide proof of its promises. “We have no idea what kind of “year and a half attacks” we are talking about in this case,” said players from the community.
According to Vestnik, the developers themselves at GSC are responsible for leaking an early version of the game to the network. “The compilation was torrented by GSC 6 days ago and they forgot to set its privacy,” the group administrators said. According to them, the download did not require any attack on the developer’s network infrastructure.
The authors of the community also pointed out that the first to discover the leak were American data miners from Discord, and after the news from them, Vestnik participants found the public domain structure.
The test build of the game went online on May 30, 2023. Initially, the project data was encrypted, but after a few days, snoopers they were able to decipher install and play. June 1, STALKER 2 developers from GSC Game World commented on the leak games and accused Russian hackers of hacking.
STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl will launch in 2023 on PC, Xbox Series X and S, and Game Pass. The game will not be officially sold in Russia.