STALKER: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition Quietly Makes a Fan Favorite Change

GSC Game World has recently removed the STALKER 2 ads from STALKER: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition. This decision will likely be popular with STALKER: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition players, as most fans did not enjoy the advertising in the game.

STALKER: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition was released on May 20, and it’s currently available for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. Collecting the original STALKER games from 2007 to 2009, STALKER: Legends of the Zone Trilogy was originally launched in 2024, and the new Enhanced Edition was free for gamers who already owned it. One of the problems that gamers had with the edition, however, was the presence of adverts in the games’ menus, which would show the recent STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl.

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Now, in the latest patch for STALKER: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition, GSC Game World has quietly removed the annoying ads, as spotted by VideoGamer. The ads, which appeared in the menus of all three remastered games, Shadow of Chornobyl, Clear Sky, and Call of Pripyat, are now entirely free of these ads.

STALKER: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition Removes Ads

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Advertising was only one of the problems that enraged the STALKER fanbase, though, as STALKER: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition was review-bombed soon after the launch. Players were originally unhappy with multiple aspects of the product, which was rated as “Mostly Negative” on Steam at the time. The main complaints included the lack of DLAA/DLSS support, blurry visuals, and some controversial changes made to Russian and Soviet architecture in the game.

Fortunately, STALKER: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition has come a long way since then, improving the overall experience. In a previous STALKER: Legends of the Zone Trilogy Enhanced Edition update, for example, stability improvements were made, a number of bugs were fixed, and some save-loading problems were corrected.

Apart from working on enhancing these classic games, GSC Game World continues to work on STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl. The recent Update 1.5 for STALKER 2 brought major enhancements to the A-Life system, which is used to make the Zone feel more realistic with NPC behavior. The update also affected AI and combat, making significant improvements, and rebalanced some parts of the popular post-apocalyptic game, as well as corrected issues like bugs and crashes. Hopefully, GSC Game World will continue polishing the games of the franchise, supporting these popular titles.