Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl has just received a new patch titled 1.5.1 that’s focused on fixing a wide range of gameplay issues including NPC behaviors and several in-game crashes. However, there’s no performance improvements in this patch so don’t expect any boost to your FPS and that’s understandable as the previous patch for Stalker 2 had already included multiple performance fixes so it’ll take a bit of time for developer GSC GameWorld to come up with more performance enhancements but that could certainly happen with the next patch or so.
The fixes included in patch 1.5.1 are improvements for Stalker 2‘s NPC behaviors in many instances during gameplay for example sometimes after a headshot, an NPC’s corpse would end up flying and many other little quirks like those. The new patch also fixes two in-game errors that were previously causing Stalker 2 to crash, so yes the patch does make the overall experience more polished and smoother for all players.
However, the new patch is not compatible with some of the mods released for Stalker 2 as the devs have stated that in case of stability or performance issues after installing the new patch, you should disable all your mods.
Check out all the patch notes below:
STALKER 2 Patch 1.5.1 Release Notes
- Fixed an issue when some NPCs didn’t go to shelter in offline mode during Emission.
- Fixed an issue when interacting hints could disappear after save/load.
- Fixed issue when NPC could get stuck walking in one place.
- Fixed an issue where two bandits at Varan’s camp attacked Player without any reason during the King Of The Hill mission.
- Fixed an issue when Player was able to leave X-17 lab via elevator without any way to return during Visions Of Truth mission.
- Fixed an issue when NPC corpses could get misplaced after picking it up for the second time.
- Adjusted position of money and weight indicator icon in Player inventory.
- Fixed an issue when Faust could freeze during his bossfight after his emitter was destroyed during special attack ability.
- Fixed an issue when the context menu was impossible to open twice for the same item in the looting window.
- Fixed an issue when an NPC’s corpse could fly away after killing them with a headshot.
- Fixed 2 EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION crashes.
- Fixed an issue when the The Assault On The Duga mission could be stuck if the player had slept before talking to Scar.
- Fixed an issue when the FOV value automatically resets to 110 on ultra wide monitors.
- Fixed an issue when the A-life mutants and NPCs could be found in the restricted areas (such as Hubs, Main Quest locations, etc.).
- Fixed an issue when the NPC’s left hand could be in an improper position when the NPC holds a pistol.
- Fixed an issue when NPCs could stuck in each other during patrolling.
- Fixed an issue when the Windows Scale option affected the game in the Fullscreen Borderless and Windowed modes.
- Fixed an issue when Scherba could not have a dialog option to receive collars during the In The Name Of Science mission.
