STALKER 2 in development? seems so (HOLD THE PHONE)

Can't wait to get OHK'd by leaping mutants.

2021 is a really far away date, and what's more puzzling, why are they coming with this out of the blue? You want to make sure you're releasing the game so announcing it for a date so far in the future when you do not know what could happen is a bit rushed I think. This would make more sense if they wanted to kickstart the game or something and are trying to get backers, but to my understanding that's not the case. I'm actually concerned about the budget, where they got the money from?
Here's what happened to GSC:
They went pseudo bankrupt, at some point after the last Stalker released. Closed doors. Some guy was hoarding the Stalker IP and refused to sell it/sell it at a reasonable price.
Many devs fucked off and opened a new studio, those worked on Survarium which turned out rather badly, to the point that you don't really hear about the game no more. I don't even know if the game is still alive.
Old scraps of the team re-opened shop, got to work on a sequel to a very old strategy game made by them called Cossacks (similar to AoE), they got the game out, apparently well received, but obviously the strategy market is very niche and honestly I doubt they made much more money as to cover the development.
And now, out of the blue they announce STALKER 2.

It would make more sense to announce it one year prior to release, or get a kickstarter campaign going if you just want to announce you're working on it which seems to be the case imo.

Finally!

When GSG made that awful MP arena STALKER rippoff, I feared for the future of the series.

Good to see I was wrong.

Wonder if the Zone will finally cover Europe as the last game was hinting at.

That reminds me of the old days of Star Craft 2.
I think the same happens in TES Oblivion, I remember I tried the game a couple of years back with some mods, I was getting 1500+ fps. Worst part is that you'll never know if you don't turn on the fps counter.

I don't think a new GPU can be fried though, it will surely shut down at some point, pretty much like the CPU. But who knows.

Yeah, that's kind of a bummer. Because it essentially means they've got not much done hence the absurd announce+release date, even more so because I have no clue if any publisher is realistically speaking interested. Which all translates into danger zone again for the project, plus I'm super sure they don't have a good budget for the development.
On top of all that, they're going to use Unreal Engine 4 apparently? which sucks because it means little to no support at all for mods, a very important part of the first games.
Don't mean to be a downer, but this does not bode well...

There're actually 3 games, they're all standalone, although second and third are kinda "DLC" type of games. They use about the same assets, same engine and graphical fidelity.