S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl received the first patch in 2025 – it eliminates the “most critical problems”

As promised, the first patch in 2025 for the post -apocalyptic shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl from developers from the GSC Game World studio was not long in coming.

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GSC Game World reported that she released an update 1.1.4 for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl. A patch weighing 13 GB (we are talking about Steam version) is already available on the PC and Xbox consoles.

In the first update of 2025, the developers of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl eliminated “the most critical problems”, according to users reviews in Steam and at other sites.

The fight against the compilation of the shaders, according to the developers, was especially difficult

The GSC “cured” the departures and hoverings during the compilation of the shaaders, “shut up” the memory of the memory at the Rostock factory, solved the problem of missing conservations on the Xbox and eliminated the bug with animations in the interface that led to the application failures.

In addition, users should no longer encounter performance degradation during firing/aiming at conservation with a large amount of the time played.

Earlier it was reported that the first major patch for playing in 2025 will be released until the end of February

«We spent time to assess the situation and prioritize our next steps. This update became the first in the year, and very soon we will release another major patch for the game, ”assured GSC Game World.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 was released on November 20, 2024 on PC (Steam, GOG, Microsoft Store, EGS), Xbox Series X and S, and Game Pass. Sales in two days after the release exceeded 1 million copies – according to the co-owner of GSC, the game has already paid for itself.