"We would ask you to stay with us, that is really important to us." STALKER 2 devs promise patches for A-Life, the game's most unique open-world feature

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What you need to know

• GSC Game World's new open-world survival shooter STALKER 2 has a system called A-Life 2.0 that controls how NPCs in The Zone spawn in, move around, and interact with each other and the player in The Zone.
• However, it's not fully working as intended right now, with players reporting NPCs spawning extremely close to players at times and groups of stalkers only moving around The Zone rarely.
• GSC has apologized for the issues, but promises that it's heard all the feedback and is working to improve A-Life with patches and updates.
• One of the studio's community managers, Mol1t, stated that "we are fixing it and we will fix it. This is a very high-priority thing for us and we work on it."