Despite bugs, Stalker 2 has been a pretty big success, selling over 1 million copies with even more players joining in from Game Pass. I can't imagine how long it took for the first game—Shadow of Chernobyl—to sell a million copies, but it certainly wasn't "pretty much overnight."

Stalker 2 devs have released early patch notes that outline a series of upcoming fixes for crashes, progression errors, and more.

It was nighttime and I was creeping through grass of S.T.A.L.K.E.R 2's digital recreation of the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. I needed to meet up with someone, but getting anywhere in the “Zone”— the eerie,

Modders are already hard at work improving Stalker 2, from performance enhancements to changing some of the game's more challenging systems. Stalker 2 has only been out for a day, barely over 24 hours,