So as a STALKER fan with 1000s of hours in all 3 of them, who purchased all of the collectors editions and too much merch from GSC, I can say it is a STALKER game, and for that I love it.
However.
What I think GSC will eventually fix:
Performance is gay.
I've had 3 CTD early on in the game.
The mouse feels floaty? I think that's just UE5.
General bugs like my cursor disappearing half way through inputting codes.
What I hope the community will fix with mods:
The british accents are gay and I hope someone makes a mod to change them.
Enemies (Esp mutants) are too bullet spongey on Veteran. I want my bullets to be lethal both ways.
Human enemies seem to always fall backwards in the same death T pose.
Nothing has surprised me about this launch and I think it's gone a lot smoother than Clear Sky's, which was a complete disaster. I'm really enjoying it and I'm looking forward to the modding community getting stuck into it.
Can anyone confirm if they saw any negroids yet?
I killed one outside of the Old Factory above X18.