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- A-Life 2.0 in the heart of Chernobyl in STALKER 2 currently does not work as intended due to performance issues.
- The mention of A-Life 2.0 was not removed from the game's Steam page to mislead players, but because someone in the marketing department thought it would confuse newcomers to the franchise.
- There is currently no timeline for when A-Life 2.0 will be fixed, but the STALKER 2 developer is committed to making it happen.
STALKER 2: Heart of ChornobylSenior officials at GSC Game World have said that the A-Life 2.0 system is currently down due to performance issues. The revelation was shared as part of a recent interview in which GSC developers also addressed misleading fan claims about A-Life's status in Stalker 2 Before the release of the game
A-Life is an immersive life simulation system that is widely regarded as the original flagship. stalker Triple The heart of Chernobyl It originally promised an improved version of this feature, called A-Life 2.0 by GSC. However, mention of it was removed from the game's Steam page just days before its November 20th release. In addition, the first day edition of The heart of Chernobyl It apparently lacked the simulation aspects of its predecessors—let alone improved simulation features—which led some players to question whether A-Life even existed in the game.

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GSC CEO Evgeny Grigorovich and Creative Director Maria Grigorovich have addressed these concerns as part of a recent interview with IGN, stating that the system is indeed in the game, but it's not currently working as it should. I. Grygorovych said that the developers made some temporary sacrifices while optimizing the game before its release in order to ensure an acceptable level of performance. The CEO explained that retention Stalker 2A-Life 2.0 was as difficult to perform as originally thought. As a result, the NPC spawn radius has been significantly reduced while the team explores other optimization methods.
GSC committed to making A-Life 2.0 Stalker 2 work as planned
I. Grygorovych confirmed that the GSC is determined to address the current situation. We are committed to building players [A-Life 2.0] It works,” he said. However, there is currently no timeline for when this promise will be made Stalker 2 The feature will be fixed Optimization efforts aimed at freeing up more resources for the system are currently underway without GSC Senior Programmer Dmitriy Isenov, the creator of A-Life 1.0, who is currently deployed to the Ukrainian military due to the ongoing Russian invasion. is
We are committed to building players [A-Life 2.0] to work
The A-Life 2.0 name was not removed from the STALKER 2 Steam page to mislead players
Reflecting on the recent removal of the A-Life 2.0 name from the game's Steam page, M. Grygorovych insisted that this was not done to mislead players. Instead, someone from GSC's marketing department decided to change the promise of A-Life 2.0 to advanced AI systems that would engage even the toughest players, believing that newcomers stalker The franchise has no idea what A-Life is.
M. Grygorovych only found out about this change due to Reddit complaints, noting that the description was rewritten without his approval. “Honestly I was shocked,” he told IGN editor Wesley Yin-Pool, while showing him a picture of some internal company communication apparently corroborating his story, which he thinks would be hard to believe otherwise. However, GSC will not add the A-Life 2.0 name to the game's Steam page until the feature is fixed, M. Grygorovych said.