Just before the Christmas break, I capped off 2024 with a news piece about GSC's surprise announcement that it would be putting out gleaming "next-gen patches" for the original Stalker trilogy—Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky, and Call of Pripyat—on PC.
The studio was maddeningly vague about what the heck that actually meant, though, so I idly speculated—as a Christmas treat to myself—that it probably meant stuff like "higher-resolution cutscenes, nicer visuals and performance, and controller support" along with garnishes like Steam achievements.
