Not deleted, but temporarily restricted: the developers of STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl revealed the reasons for the problems in the A-Life 2.0 system operation

One of the main elements of the original S.T.A.L.K.E.R. trilogy was the advanced A-Life Zone life simulation system, which controlled dozens of NPCs and created many unique and random events during the passage.

The developers promised that in Heart of Chornobyl this system will not only remain, but will go to a fundamentally new level and even called it A-Life 2.0.

Journalists and bloggers who got access to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl, praised the game for generating unexpected situations, but after a huge patch of the first day it was found that the A-Life 2.0 system practically does not work, and all events in the game occur according to scripts and are not random. Moreover, the mention of this technology disappeared from the game's Steam page, which gave rise to even more rumours that the developers simply removed A-Life 2.0. But this is not the case.

Here's What We Know

In an interview with IGN portal GSC Game World's creative director Maria Grygorovych explained that the developers have not cut A-Life 2.0 and are not going to do so. The functionality of this system is really limited to a small area around the player, but this is due to the fact that in an attempt to improve performance and fix bugs the team accidentally messed up the simulation, because of which the game has even more bugs.

In future updates the developers will fix all the problems with A-Life 2.0 and bring back the booming life in the Zone, but for now this system only controls a small number of characters in the player's line of sight, and the rest are kind of offline.

As for the removal of the mention of A-Life 2.0 from Steam, Maria Grigorovich stated that it was done by one of the marketers to simplify the description of the main features of S.T.A.L.L.K.E.R. 2. The whole team of GSC Game World is against this move and maybe this decision will be reconsidered.

Go Deeper:

• Operation Matryoshka: Russian security services used STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl for information attack on the Ukrainian public
• The third patch for STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl has been released.

Source: IGN