All 3 S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Games Enhanced Edition now available on steam (free if you own the older games)

I've just seen them in my library. It was a wonderful surprise.

nice

Nice! I love when they give enhanced versions to original fans!

Time to play through them again, I guess!

Those reviews are... not good

Reviews are a damned mess because of review boosting based on the original games, the goodwill of the devs and to honor a dev who passed away in the fights against the invading Russian army, while there is also review bombing for cutting out Russian language and "being political".

There are some proper reviews about performance and features, but it's in the minority. At least with the first game I'd wait for the reviews to clean up, if you didn't get it for owning the original games, and planning on buying.

Does that also mean that if you activate keys for the stalker games after this initial release you'll still gett access to the enhanced editions?

Judging from reading reviews they're trying to make it fit for modern audiences by blurring the historical Soviet Russian aspect. While understandable for an Ukrainian studio such historical distortions are too Orwellian for me.

Oof! the reviews are brutal. Better to ignore and check back after a couple of years.

The original game had Russian voiceover, was written and voiced in Russian, and that's all gone - also, now the Soviet posters were blurred etc
You're altering the original product. That's not "Enhanced edition", that's a "remake"
Which is sad given you neglected the games for decades, only to change the title spelling, do some political/language changes, slap some "modern" graphic filters and throw them out there
These might be the games with the most amount of mods to fix the original to a playable state. I'll wait for the mod community to restore the original audio/ fix the blur issues/ other technical problems and give it a go

Was the original ever called S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of ChOrnobyl?
I always thought it was called S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of ChErnobyl?

natasha doesen't understand ukranian speech, lenin invented really very difficult language lmao

Wow I'm glad people got them for free because looking at reviews - no one would pay for them

Not much gained, more lost or worse...
I'll keep using my original+mods.

now I regret not getting the Fanatical bundle for the OG ones

witch was the correct order to play them?

I had the original games on GOG and the Enhanced Editions have been automatically added to my library there.

Stalker fan here.
The sole upside of the remaster is Steam Deck support and the addition of achievements. In every other aspect, it’s a downgrade: the visuals are heavily blurred, old bugs persist while new ones have surfaced, and all references to the USSR—Soviet posters, certain buildings, and wall art—have been excised. The Russian voice-over is gone as well. Even offering it free to owners of the original can’t salvage such a slap-dash release.
Examples:
https://imgur.com/a/TgBU5Bl
https://imgur.com/a/FJNremw

How to fix the awful blurry look in SoC
https://steamcommunity.com/app/2427410/discussions/0/600779107615124228/
Post by Set-115689 #4

[quote=Set-115689;600779107615124976]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VEdASIiwfA

• Turn motion blur all the way down
• Depth of field off
• Set Antialiasing to FXAA
• Set Anistrophic Filtering to max
• Disable Global Illumination (disabling this allows you to enable SSAO)
• Set SSAO mode to HBAO, and SSAO quality to High
• Enable FSR Sharpness and set it to max
• set FSR to Native

additional/alternate step

turn anti aliasing off

• In AMD Adrenaline (AMD's GPU driver) I enabled "Radeon Image Sharpening" for the game
  and set it to 100%. Nvidia Control Panel should have the option for sharpening as well but
  it's been a couple years since I used it so I'm not sure what they call it. [/quote]

Could someone say is that worth to download and give a try? I saw that all 3 games got massive negative reviews

When u boughjt Ultimate edition 3y ago...

Tried the first one on my Steam Deck and while it worked fine with controller controlsr, I got some delay.

I'll be interested in trying these out at some point after some patches drop.