Survarium (MMOFPS)

[STALKERGB]

With it finally confirmed that STALKER 2 is no more. The team have got hold of some funding and moved on to development of Survarium.

To quote their site:

Survarium is a free2play MMOFPS game set in the near future. The game focuses on a mass-scale ecological catastrophe on Earth, the reasons behind vaguely known.

Impassable woods advance onto cities from every side, maddened animals and birds attack industrial complexes, military structures, warehouses and power plants. Strange plants and mushrooms grow through concrete and steel. Scientists all over the world haplessly try to cope with the anomaly sprawling across the Earth with terrifying speed. Countries collapse, anarchy spreads throughout the world. Now force dictates who to survive.

The game is developed with a new proprietary Vostok Engine technology and is planned for release on PC at the end of 2013.

Apparently they will be answering questions on twitter in the next day or two so hopefully a bit more info will emerge then.

http://survarium.com/en/

[Mr Burns]

With it finally confirmed that STALKER 2 is no more.

Noooooooooooooooo!

[OnlyRazor]

Same reaction when I learned about it on my daily PCGamer trawl. Ah, well, on to other games.

[GRS]

Lame that they have to stop with Stalker. I'm not happy but I actually have hopes for this. One of the few groups of devs I still have faith in to deliver something great that stands out.

[froggyluv]

Embarrased to say Ive never tried a Stalker game - is it still worth getting one or too dated? Is combat feel tactically fun or arcadish? I heard the AI is quite good so wouldn't mind giving it a go

[OnlyRazor]

Free-to-play. I do not like that. That's like saying "the game's free, but if you want to have fun, you're gonna have to fork over three games worth of cash to buy our premium pack." I mean, I understand it with a concept like Arma 2: Free, where you get the bare essentials, but free-to-play is just wrong. The wrongest wrongness of all that is unholy.

[maturin]

Embarrased to say Ive never tried a Stalker game - is it still worth getting one or too dated? Is combat feel tactically fun or arcadish? I heard the AI is quite good so wouldn't mind giving it a go

It's not dated at all. The combat is tactically fun if you install a realism mod, up until the part where you fight all dreadnought armor space marines. This the original, btw.

[Smurf]

Embarrased to say Ive never tried a Stalker game - is it still worth getting one or too dated? Is combat feel tactically fun or arcadish? I heard the AI is quite good so wouldn't mind giving it a go

Call of Pripyat or Shadow of Chernobyl (didn´t try Clear Sky... yet) + one of the "famous" mods out there = one of the best SP experience I ever had.
The lighting system is just incredible, casting shadows, day cycles and all; makes the game realy beatifull. If A3 had that kind of system I would be really happy.

[Tonci87]

Embarrased to say Ive never tried a Stalker game - is it still worth getting one or too dated? Is combat feel tactically fun or arcadish? I heard the AI is quite good so wouldn't mind giving it a go

You are not alone, my PC wasn´t good enough at that time so I skipped the experience.

[OnlyRazor]

I just couldn't handle it. I've never had a penchant for horror games. I appreciate my already low sleep levels.