Thinking Of Modding Stalker 2? You're Probably Going To Need To Free Up Some Space — Around 700GB's Worth

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl's 1.5 Patch is here, introducing assorted tweaks and fixes, but it's the archetypal signifier of GSC Game World's modding instrumentality that's dominating our interest… and our hard drives.

"Shape the Zone successful Your Way with the Stalker 2 Zone Kit," GSC Game World said. "Modify existing contented oregon make caller experiences — animations, weapons, mechanics, and adjacent wonders of the Zone."

Sounds great, right? Which it is, if you hap to person 700GB of abstraction free… connected top of the 160GB you request to tally the basal crippled itself.

The reason, GSC said, is due to the fact that arsenic portion of its concern with the modding community, the squad is sharing a slew of uncompressed files truthful modders are utilizing archetypal assets successful the improvement of their mods, which is amended for everyone, of course.

"The size of the mod kit is simply a effect of the in-game assets being uncompressed for the mod makers," GSC told PC Gamer. "It's a large game, and the assets are many, resulting successful a sizeable size of the download. The Zone Kit is presently successful signifier one, truthful we'll research the opportunities to optimize its size (if possible) successful the future."

"Yeah, we launched the Zone Kit arsenic Phase 1, due to the fact that we privation to make it unneurotic with Mod Makers," a assemblage typical explained connected Reddit. "It already has a batch of features, but inactive this is Phase 1. On Phase 2 determination volition beryllium adjacent much things to bash with the Zone via the Zone Kit."

"Underneath the method problems that plague STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl is simply a unsocial greatness," we wrote successful our S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl review, giving it 8/10. "It emerges arsenic a refreshingly brutal shooter that strives to hook you with its unthinkable ambiance and permission you invested by the extremity of this long, arduous journey." Read much connected however S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 has changed everything for the workplace amid the full-scale penetration of Ukraine here.

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