The Russian authorities’s brutal assault on Ukraine has destroyed the lives of numerous folks. Nonetheless, the folks of Ukraine have stood sturdy, fought again, and have even continued dwelling their lives, regardless of the menace. One such instance is GSC Recreation World, the developer of Stalker, which is presently engaged on the sequel. As you possibly can think about, the developer has endured horrible circumstances, however remains to be engaged on pushing the sport out, virtually as if in defiance of Russia’s assault.
Nonetheless, now the developer can also be coping with hackers from Russia, who aren’t pleased with its pro-Ukraine feedback. A hacker going by the title NF Star on Discord has leaked a couple of photographs of Stalker 2: Coronary heart of Chornobyl, however claims that they’ve “tens of gigabytes” extra that they will leak if GSC does not meet their calls for.
As noticed by ReFlectioH on Reddit, their calls for have been posted on Russian social community, VKand have been as follows (translated):
“1. Change your thoughts, rethink your angle in the direction of gamers from Belarus and Russia, apologize for the unworthy angle in the direction of odd gamers from these international locations.
2. We propose unbanning the NF Star profile in your official Discord – you banned me for nothing, due to this I needed to cease holding again.
3. A separate challenge is bringing again the RU-localization. Followers are ready for it out of your official firm. Do not spoil the sport for folks due to politics.”
The hacker goes on to pat themselves on the again, saying that they have not leaked the content material but, and that exhibits their “pleasant angle”. Nonetheless, if the calls for aren’t met by March 15, they’ll launch no matter content material they’ve, in an try and “let the Stalker die”.
“The leak contains locations which might be fairly acquainted to you from a special angle, in addition to beforehand unseen and moderately fascinating ideas,” they added. “Whereas we won’t give plot spoilers, possibly GSC Recreation World will hear us and reply appropriately – on this case, we’ll maintain the supplies till the discharge of the sport.”
GSC Recreation World and the folks of Ukraine have been coping with a hostile invasion by Russian armed forces. They have not bent all the way down to them and it is unlikely that they’ll bend for somebody throwing a hissy-fit over a online game.
