As a long time fan of STALKER games (including Anomaly), this game just plain sucks. Even after a multitude of patches so far, it's buggy and poorly optimized. Unreal engine was a poor choice by the devs, it's awful to begin with. Even overlooking all that - the game just lacks the soul and that immersive feeling previous STALKER games had. On top of that just a slew of other bad and lazy design decisions and lack of big and small QOL things all over the place. Don't even get me started on the main quest line and the driving motivations of your main character factored in. And lastly, the so very annoying cut scenes with complete take-away of your character agency and just doing out-of-character stuff. Ughh. I honestly can't believe I'd ever say this, having been so eagerly waiting for this game, but it's a total disappointment and a pass for me.
Good, fun game, with a bit annoyong UI and hint cards gallore, and an unfortunate design flaw that is the savegame system, with limited save slots and absolutely no way to manage and delete older savegames...
The RED launcher you all now decided to force down our throats is crappy spyware that no one asked for and no one wants! Quit it with this trash.
Buggy, stuttering, barely playable mess with pretty bad UI and even worse controls. What a disappointment..
Go away with your stupid spyware "REDlauncher" that no one asked for or wants.
Whatever redeeming qualities the story and dialogs offer in this game gets completely wiped out by the most clunkiest and infuriatingly terrible combat (both ranged or melee) mechanics. And no unofficial patch can help with that. Bleh. I can't believe for my sanity that I managed somehow to finish this game back at it's original release...
Patch 2.0+ and this DLC have made the game even more buggy, unstable and hardly playable. v1.6.3 used to run stable and reliable for me, never an issue. Now, constant crashes and hard freezes. That's not even to mention the very questionable skill tree redesign and other harebrained changes that were not warranted. Awful.
Buggy, annoying game-play.
Are you friggin serious with this trash? Stop embarrassing yourself with things like this, GOG.
All the updates later (1.52), and it's still a buggy as hell game. Getting stuck in spots with no way to get out, crummy controls, ridiculous crafting system. Ughh. It's hopeless.
