STALKER 2 player gets hilariously blocked by NPC who won’t get out of a doorway

What you need to know

• GSC Game World’s highly anticipated open-world survival shooter STALKER 2 has finally come out on Xbox and Windows PC, but it’s got its fair share of issues.
• Some of the game’s bugs are more serious in nature, though many are relatively inconsequential and quite funny.
• One of the latter glitches is a bug in which NPCs can get stuck in doorways permanently, preventing players from moving through. One such issue has affected the military game YouTuber OperatorDrewski, who’s uploaded screenshots and clips of it on social media.
• In them, a Freedom stalker named Mark Joint is seen standing in a door for days on end, refusing to budge no matter what OperatorDrewski does. Thankfully, there’s another door he can use nearby to get in and out of the building he’s in.

While GSC Game World’s recently released STALKER 2 is hardly as broken as the original STALKER games were when they launched, the new Xbox and Windows PC sequel does have its fair share of glitches and issues. Some of them, such as the dynamic AI simulation system A-Life not working properly or the lack of controller deadzones on Xbox, are major problems the developer is working hard to fix ASAP. Others, though, are relatively inconsequential and downright silly bugs that add some appreciated — albeit unintended — comedic relief to expeditions in The Zone.

One of the latter mishaps has been encountered by the military game YouTuber OperatorDrewski, who’s recently shared a few clips and screenshots of an NPC from STALKER 2’s Freedom faction blocking a doorway and refusing to budge — even after days of waiting. You can watch one of them in the embedded social media post below, in which the stalker comically stands vigil for days on end as hardbass EDM music plays. Cue the “DOOR STUCK! DOOR STUCK!” jokes.