r/stalker • u/FONIXpt • Oct 05 '25
Bug First time playing Stalker 2 - sun is speeding across the sky and the day/night cycles are going by in seconds
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I am in my first playthrough ever of a Stalker game, and I have just met Richter at the crane in Slag Heap. Every time the cutscene ends, the sun start moving super fast across the sky and the day/night cycles last around 10 seconds. At first I thought "wow that's a cool anomaly", but then after playing for a few more minutes I realised "damn ok, I think the game is just messed up". So when looking up this issue online, I did not find anyone with the same issue; the threads about the short day/night cycle or the sun moving too fast were complaints that the cycles were lasting only a few hours (I wish that was the case for me).
I tried basically everything:
1- Verified the files on Steam;
2- Deleted all the mods (although I only had the flashlight customiser, simple BP mod loader and the most endorsed stutter remover from Nexus);
3- Updated my drivers;
4- Reinstalled the game from scratch.
Every time I go through the abovementioned cutscene, this happens and the game basically becomes unberable. Has this ever happened to anyone? Any ideas on what to do?
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u/KingxMIGHTYMAN Oct 05 '25
Just another anomaly, carry on stalker.
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u/Stoff3r Oct 05 '25
I'm in the bad-fps anomaly.
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u/KingxMIGHTYMAN Oct 05 '25
Drink more vodka, your eyes will start to adjust.
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u/iekather Oct 05 '25
MADEEE IN HEAVEEEEN
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u/SergeantRogers Loner Oct 05 '25
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u/susnaususplayer Oct 05 '25
HELLSING MENTIONED
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u/AloneUA Noon Oct 05 '25
Two GOATs in one place
This comment space is now a consecrated holy ground
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u/ASValourous Oct 05 '25
Did you try not speeding through the cutscene, just let it run at normal speed? Does it make a difference at all?
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u/Outside-Substance-30 Ward Oct 05 '25
How can you even skip cutscenes like that?
I swear on the release I had that function, but then after some update it just didn't work for me and to this day I can't do it.
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u/AdNew4181 Oct 05 '25
Game no longer has the option to skip/skim fast-through the cutscenes, only skip normal in-game dialogue, for some reason they removed that after the first major update, probably to increase stability.
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u/FONIXpt Oct 05 '25
Yeah, I've done it plenty of times without speeding through and it still happens unfortunately
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u/4308Traditions Loner Oct 05 '25
Made in heaven.
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u/Neither_Situation_36 Merc Oct 05 '25
like in outer dimension, a outer heaven
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u/Interesting-Effort12 Oct 05 '25
Itโs JoJo reference
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u/Neither_Situation_36 Merc Oct 05 '25
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u/SergeantRogers Loner Oct 05 '25
Is it not loading for anyone else or is this some kind of invisible gif?
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u/BADSTALKER Freedom Oct 05 '25
Itโs so beautiful and moody though, compliments the zone perfectly
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u/ostapenkoed2007 Freedom Oct 05 '25
yup. constant sadness just tires. when you get that hope, it dillutes the sadness, letting you feel it better.
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u/BBQ_HaX0r Oct 05 '25
This happens a lot to me in games where the world is so beautiful and gorgeous it makes me hate playing in the weather or at night. RDR2 was another one like that.
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Oct 05 '25
I had the rain bug for a long time. I found a fix, but I don't remember it. For me it was all areas.
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u/Week_Head Oct 05 '25
On my fourth playthrough, the three previous playthrough's I swear it rained every damned minute of every damned day and every damned night.. This time, SUNSHINE! Can't believe my luck, the zone is beautiful!
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u/the007connoisseur Loner Oct 05 '25
Something similar happened to me as well recently, I think it's new a bug, because I haven't had such an experience in over 230 hours of gameplay.
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u/FONIXpt Oct 05 '25
Did you manage to fix it somehow?
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u/the007connoisseur Loner Oct 05 '25
Nope, It just happened once and It got fixed after 30 seconds, I havenโt played much recently so I canโt say if itโs gonna happen again or soโฆ
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u/Busy_Ad_3480 Duty Oct 05 '25
meanwhile in another part of the planet, a black preacher just reached HEAVEN while a marine biologist, 2 felons a planktoon and a unwanted boy contemplate in horror as the earth itself started spinning at an incredibly fast speed
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u/TheDarnook Oct 05 '25
Get the mod for day cycle duration, preferably 12h or straight to 24h version. It might fix your issue. Yours is really broken, but I felt sick even with the not-broken duration from release.
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u/BodaciousBadongadonk Oct 05 '25
i wonder if that could affect anything else, i remember certain timescales in fallout 4 would affect other stuff like respawns and weather. hard to tell what was caused by that because that game has so many other bugs and issues that may not even be repeatable, so kind of a crapshoot haha
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u/TheDarnook Oct 05 '25
One thing I did notice was that barkeep took a long time to offer me new missions. And artifacts might have also been not respawning too much. But I have full stash of them anyway, so I don't see any issue - unless you are farming for the "all variations" achievement. And it could probably be mitigated by sleeping long and regularly, which I didn't do.
I also play CP77 with 24h cycles, and I wouldn't want to go back for anything.
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u/FONIXpt Oct 05 '25
I have checked the page on Nexus but the latest comments state that it has not been updated, thus not working anymore, but I guess I could still give it a try
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u/TheDarnook Oct 05 '25
Damn, I didn't play after the last update. But make sure to check all the mods concerning this, it was one of the first made, and there are several versions by now, by different modders. Even if the one most recent is not updated yet, I hope it's a matter of days at most.
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u/TheDreadPirateBonnet Oct 05 '25
Give this one a try instead: https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/35?tab=description
The mod author states in the comments section that it works with 1.6.
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u/DemonicShordy Oct 06 '25
Typical. S2 is a gold-plated window dressing of mechanised shit. It looks nice on the outside, but underneath it's running like shit
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u/GreenRanger_2 Merc Oct 05 '25
Itโs probably because you skipped that cutscene. Youโd be surprised how many anomalys are still left in the game.
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u/pantherausfg215 Duty Oct 05 '25
This happened to me as well but I just sort of presumed it was connected to what richter was saying in the dialogue for it lol
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u/FONIXpt Oct 05 '25
Did you somehow fix it?
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u/pantherausfg215 Duty Oct 06 '25
If I can remember correctly I only had an issue in this cutscene of this happening all the other ones didnโt have this happen so I think itโs just this cutscenes coding or whatever is glitched
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u/postal_dude_lizzard Merc Oct 05 '25
Scary ass anomaly, reminds me of those trippy cutscenes from stalker SOC
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u/AcanthocephalaDue431 Oct 05 '25
Bit out there but try installing a 1.6 compatible achievement enabler mod and then a mod that tweaks the games day/night time scale. It may help resolve this.
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u/bflan13 Oct 05 '25
The day/night cycle is dynamic. It's not consistent and it snaps to night often for certain missions and milestones. Legit 80% of the game is at night. There are a few mods to make it more realistic day/night
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Oct 05 '25
The game sucks compared to previous titles, its basically just an open world generic looter shooter.
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u/Sorry-Ad1410 Noon Oct 05 '25
Whatโฆ have you not seen the 1.6 patchnotes, which states (Added new visual anomaly called the โSoaring Sunโ)??? You should always check the patchs notes, but don't overdo it, though, or you might end up with a busted PDAโฆ or a busted noggin. ๐
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u/The_Sleeper_One Oct 05 '25
This game is broken at a core level ... it will never be fixed and will always be in Beta. That said ... I am gonna play it some point, but I am in no hurry. I think it will be in a good place in 2-3 years :)
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u/Gentleman_stalker Oct 05 '25
Dsl for you ๐๐ the only bug I had before the last update of the night vision glasses was on the weight.... When I exceeded 92% the movement penalty due to the excess weight was canceled I could run and move normally it was really good.... Then there was an update ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ๐ญ
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u/SambelJengkol Oct 06 '25
And here i am, always seeing rain goes inside the buildings and underground lol
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u/andizzzzi Oct 06 '25
I scrolled very quickly over this post and thought I was looking at KCD2 (guy kinda looks like Henry, or maybe it was the colours ๐ค), I was a bit confused for 1 second.
I miss Stalker 2 but am still waiting for the AI and performance issues to be fixed, I donโt mind bugs. How is the game atm?
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u/CartographerExotic40 Clear Sky Oct 06 '25
The zone is a strange place.
Seriously though, this entire franchise is bug city, just roll with it.
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u/WebNational8861 Oct 06 '25
Just wait for the real life hour mods to come back, since the nvgs I havenโt minded the fast day/night cycle tho
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u/According_Ad_1173 Oct 06 '25
There are many paths you can choose, ed boy. Such is life in the zone
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u/Rare_Ad_649 Oct 06 '25
I haven't seen this, but maybe using one of the longer day mods might work around it?
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u/DeepRoy_ChocBoi Loner Oct 06 '25
Caught in the nightcycle anomaly. Should have brought some bolts ััะฐะปะบะตั
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u/Rel_Tan_Kier Oct 06 '25
Most absurd thing is that early versions of Stalker Shadow of Chornobyl had secret button that did the same mess with day length
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u/Terrible-Scratch5714 Oct 06 '25
you can skip cutscenes???
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u/robk636 Oct 06 '25
Is the cut scene timed in away to be dusk or just when ever time you go to the location to meet Richter? I feel like it was when I played that part twice.
Unrelated to the issue, but I had a video meeting and used a sunset screenshot after that cut scene from the top looking towards Chornobyl for the background.
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u/Educational_Fee4737 Oct 08 '25
Got 80% of the way through the game until a glitch would not allow me to continue. Tried for a couple months to fix it. Uninstalled. Not a fan of unreal engine so far in most games. Unreal engine 3 was the king.
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u/Prophecy_RE Oct 08 '25
If you have a fresh install with no 3rd party files (mods, mod loader, etc...) and you even removed your local settings in the local/stalker2 folder (just make sure you don't delete the steam folder with your saved games) and it's still broken, then it could be related to your specific PC config. You could try starting your PC with selective start up so it only loads the basic system and graphic drivers and see if that fixes it (under run then msconfig).
They do have trainers that can regulate the speed at which time passes, but I don't condone these as they can be hazardous to your PC. If you are just out of options and want to try it I can recommend a trainer I've tested, just PM me.
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Oct 05 '25
Add in longer days mod. I chose the 1 hr (real-time) but am thinking of going for something longer. Like 3 hours or so.
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u/WhatAYolk Oct 05 '25
Why are bugs in stalker always so fuckin weird