Unreal Engine 5 vs 17 Years old X-Ray Engine | Stalker 2 vs Stalker Anomaly Custom Graphics Comparison
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In a lot of ways the old X-Ray engine actually looks better in some of these side by side comparisons.
With shaders and mods, you can achieve almost, if not the same, look in Anomaly. In fact, you can have a more robust game with Anomaly and GAMMA at the moment. Even better, I can make it winter time when I want to in Anomaly, giving it a more realistic feel for the seasons.
that rusty xray engine is just crying to be put down at this point
I don't think we can stretch it anymore…
next time turn off the hud so it doesn’t subliminally look worse
Надеюсь, через 17 лет благодаря талантливым мододелам СТАЛКЕР2 тоже станет красивой игрой, в которую будет интересно играть.
anomaly ambient looks dead but alive, while stalker 2 looks alive but dead at the same time. idk its just a feeling i get watching the 2 at the same time
Modded looks way more realistic and eastern oriented while stalker 2 looks very "western"
Сталкер 2 пососное дерьмо, которое не стоит внимания ещё пару лет, пока его не допилят до конца 😢
Gamma at Garbage at night in a storm can never beat.
Stalker 2 is a joke, Its a ubisoft inspired console shooter. The UI sucks enough to kill the rest. Having English voice actors an a farcry hud completely messed up some thing that could have been special Also using the UE5 was doomed from the start.
3:50 si me dices que esto es STALKER 2, yo te creo :O
I see that the Anomaly creators have some kind of weird fetish for puddles.
The biggest difference are the missing inscriptions in Russian. The whole damn world is based on a Russian book and a Russian film. The Chernobyl NPP and the Chernobyl disaster were both products of the USSR. Yet everything Russian has been removed, even the Russian audio track. Even if it is the native language of most of the game's developers and even of the current and the two previous Ukrainian presidents.
hááát ez ilyen formában elégé inkorrekt cycu 🙂 a stalker anomaly enginenek nem sok köze van már a 17 éves enginehez. azt grokék gyakorlatilag újra írták. s2őt meg még nem nagyon éri meg bemodolni, mert 1080p/30fps lesz pikk pakk 4090-el 😀
stalker 2 is a flop
Anomaly gets better textures some times, that's awesome.
Same problem as in ARK Ascended, unoptimized blurry graphics…. what a shock.
Next time maybe begin your clip with 30 mins dark scenes where nobody can see anything, gods sake. Also, noone can nail the view model fov of the guns right… both anomaly and stalker 2 gun distance from the camera is a joke, Escape from Tarkov gun size on screen is total rubbish and even worse.
Who is keeping the place clean in Stalker Anomaly? The bloodsuckers?
2:36 the tree just spawned in Stalker 2
I hate how every single mod HAS to use the Sidorovich model from bloody Clear Sky, in CS he looks like a damn orangutang, in SoC he looks like an actual human and is more memorable
Played both, although those modders did an amazing job with the X-ray engine, I still find stalker 2 to be better simply because of the lighting. It's not perfect, far from it, the lighting has a lot of issues with bleeding and ghosting, but I still find stalker 2 to look much more gorgeous than a lot of games out there right now. Playing at Max graphics on a 4K TV with those rich colors, it's quite the experience.
what stands out for me is how S2 have a better sense of scale rather than the older games, in anomaly the player felt small compared to the environments, and in my experience sometimes it make a short distance felt like a long walk, but in S2 everything seems in scale to the player, the building felt tighter, the roads looks narrow, the fields doesn't overwhelming
Самое удивительное это как добавили лужи и подобие отражений в них и это на 15 летнем движке использующем полтора ядра.
Music is really good dude,great video
S2 sucks, anomaly is goated. Sorry fanboys
Now compare NPC animations
stalker 2's problem is its art design. i dont feel like i'm in zone. weather is failure too. just look at this sky its soo…. not zone..
I've found myself wishing the Stalker 2 story could be ported over to Anomaly…
It looks almost the same if it wasnt for the map quality, if someone figures out how to import photoscaned assets onto Xray probably Anomaly will look better
I love the song in the beginning! Where did it came from?❤ great video!
Just increase gamma in settings guys
Makes you realize how terrible the trees looked in the old games lol
I love the clean and crisp look of the XR engine. UE5 is way too grainy and shimmery and is no god at all when you're panning around quickly because the popping in and out can't keep up. Such a shame they had to go with UE5 engine for this amazing game. UE5 is really the worst game engine ever.
Some things look better in each. The colors and filters look better in anomaly. The clutter amd debris, better 2. Lot more rusted piles of shit and garbage strewn around.
GSC should have stuck to their X-Ray engine for Stalker 2. Modders shown us what it can achieve with some dedication and time.
Is it just me that thinks it looks too arcadey? Like it doesnt have the grim and dark atmosphere.
If STALKER 2 was made with anomaly, we would have A life 2.0
S2 better, nice
в очередной раз убеждаюсь что люди которые топят за аномали долбятся в глаза. есть несколько пунктов по которым сталкер 2 проигрывает но я думаю они легко поправляются и на общем фоне не так критичны.
now do same comparison with gamma version and shaders enabled 😀
еще учитывайте, что карты в игре 2007 года, они мало изменены в аномали
Back in the good old days game companies created engines specifically designed for the development of their game nowadays it seems that every game uses the same engine and all the development costs are forwarded to the consumer who has to purchase new computer every time a new game gets released.
A shame you didn't show comparison with flashlight from modded Anomaly vs STALKER 2. My biggest gripe in terms of graphics in STALKER 2 is Lumen. Global illumination and screen space reflections are 100 times better on modded Anomaly, which is sad. Hope they give us hardware ray-tracing in the future.
Не играл в аномалию но кажется она выглядит сочнее ?
I can't stand the blur and ghosting of UE5, Anomaly looks so crisp and detailed!
Anomaly: too much of a grey color, Feels like we are playing as a colorblind person. A bit strange weapon position. Stutters and probably crashes(not sure if they fixed them all.
Stalker 2: terrible optimization and terrible lightning that makes impossible to shoot from a building, it also make trees and building appear fight in front of your eyes. But it can make some beautiful views from time to time.
Anomaly is not xray engine is monolith
You guys seem to ignore that probably the biggest reason for trading X-ray for UE5 was big, first person, action setpiece cutscenes. Stalker 2 has lots of those, and I find it hard to believe that they could've done the same thing with X-ray. Still, it's honestly very impressive how a 17 year old engine can produce such amazing graphics if worked on properly.
I wish I could try Anomaly, unfortunately as I'm console the only way would be to hope the devs make an official console port which is as likely as pigs flying.
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