Development halted to help employees and families survive

GSC Game World employees struggle to survive and that of their families. Accordingly, the development of “Stalker 2” was stopped.

The development of “Stalker 2” has been put on hold as the Ukrainian development team is exposed to the Russian-initiated war once morest Ukraine.

In a new video posted to the official YouTube channel, developer GSC Game World explains how the war is affecting employees and their families.

“For the past week, we’ve been editing the video through our motion capture studio,” the video reads. “We wanted to show how the cutscenes are created. We took the time to watch videos, write scripts and talk to actors. It’s been a long time since the last week.”

Further on in the video is it[called: “On February 24, Russia declared war on Ukraine and sent missiles, tanks and soldiers to our homeland. Our country is forced to fight once more for its existence. That seems to be the price of freedom.”

development should be continued

In the video that you can watch below these lines, there are some footage of explosions in different areas of Ukraine. According to GSC Game World, it is an answer to the question of how the developers are doing right now.

“Now we strive to help our employees and their families survive. The development of the game was pushed to the sidelines. But we will definitely continue. After the win. Glory to Ukraine,” it said.

The illegal war once morest Ukraine has also had an impact on the games industry in recent days. Numerous developers and studios spoke out and condemned the invasion, which has already killed a number of people, including children. Hundreds of thousands are on the run.

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Big publishers also decided to set an example. Electronic Arts announced today that all Russian teams from FIFA 22 and all Russian and Belarusian teams from NHL 22 to remove. In turn, the Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine asked Xbox and PlayStation to support platforms in both Russia and Belarus to be temporarily discontinued. So far there has been no reaction to this.

“Stalker 2” should be released for Xbox Series X/S and PC this year. Plans for additional platforms were not shared.

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