Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and the Christmas gift he's delivering is "the first major patch for Stalker 2." Patch 1.1 is out now, and its bulging, anomalous sack is full of over 1,800 fixes for AI, game balance, crashes and, most importantly, the first pokes at the game's busted A-Life simulation systems.
The bad news is that, in inimitable GSC Game World fashion, the full patch comes in at 110 GB, so you might actually be waiting until Christmas Day for the whole thing to squeeze itself down your net pipes.
