Company heads reflect on the game’s release and Ukrainian pride.

“You have no energy at all and you decide - should we take one more marathon?

“We didn’t have a chance to say let’s do it more.

A Stalker looks down, his eyes glowing, in the key art for Stalker 2

After that, further patches and story expansions can then always be added, he continued.

The film follows development of the game during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

I had to ask, then: has that feeling changed since the release of the game?

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It’s hard but you will do it.

Because we don’t have any options.

Why is Ukraine even fighting with big evil Russia?

Photo of a panel event after the BAFTA Stalker 2 documentary screening

Because we don’t have any options.”

“We did something for our home country, something good for them.

“It’s not perfect, we need to fix everything, it has some problems.

But it’s a game!

It’s a game with soul, with feelings there, with love there.

Even the problems, you’re able to’t fix them if you don’t have a game.”

Grygorovych believes the studio is now forever changed.

“It’s like an evolution,” he said.

Yesterday,Stalker 2 received its third major patchin less than a week, bringing crash fixes and more.