STALKER Trilogy PC Updates

The folks over at GSC Game World started the year with a string of awful crunches that, by their admission, almost broke the developer cadre.

After delays and a lot of sleepless nights, that work paid off when STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl came out in November.

GSC owner Maxim Krippa revealed earlier this week that the game had turned a profit within a month of its release, and the company’s end-of-year message revealed big plans to keep the momentum going.

The company revealed predictable and “boring” goals like continuing to update STALKER 2 in 2025, following up on Patch 1.1 which brought major performance gains and fixed a host of crashes and soft-locks.

The remastered versions of STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky, and Call of Pripyat are set to get a patch to make the best out of next-gen consoles.

The First Classic STALKER Patches Since 2010

All of that is fun and games, but the real deal is the following passage:

We know you’ve asked us to update the PC versions of the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, and we also plan to do that.

The last release from the STALKER series was STALKER: Call of Pripyat, released in October 2009 in Ukraine.

GSC released a handful of patches between November 2009 and February 2010, but all of these were rolled into the game’s worldwide release that same month.

Although STALKER: Call of Pripyat is a remarkably stable game by Slavjank standards, the same cannot be said about Shadow of Chernobyl, and especially Clear Sky.

The first two entries in the STALKER series have crashes, soft locks, bugs, and enough hidden issues caused by the spaghetti code to keep game historians busy for another century.

The Legends of the Zone console adaptation of the original trilogy has worked on some of the more pressing classic issues, but it is far from removing the glorious jank that made the games so endearing and infuriating at the same time.

So far it seems that GSC does not have a clear public plan for when a PC patch will come, or what it will have, but it is nice to see the classics getting some love after all this time.