I really enjoy the game (6.5hrs in), the atmosphere, the side and main quests. What I do not like is the open world ... or A-Life 2.0. The game just spawns enemies behind you and the wildlife/mutants in the early game are real bulletsponges. Once you dealt with them, have healed again, and reloaded all your weapons - some bandits spawn few meters away in the undergrowth just to open fire at you immediately not giving a damn whether you are behind trees, bushes or kneeling in some gras. Just WHY? And the walkways are quite long ... seeing the whole map, I hope they add a function to wandering, friendly stalkers to fast travel with them to already discovered locations or hubs. Otherwise this will be a running simulator. I had some sound bugs (suddenly stopping atmosphere tracks, radio sound switching to close by sound) and the shadows create sometimes funky visuals. But so far nothing gamebreaking. If the developers fix the issues I can see me changing it to 5/5. At the moment I would say if you are not a hardcore fan, wait a bit.
The game is very immersive, so far (3.5hrs) there have not been many bugs (some shadowflickering, some minor sound bugs while chating over the radio). If these get fixed I would give it a 5/5 so far. The game runs very smooth on my rig (5800X, 32gb, RX6950XT) on epic settings.
