Finally feels like a worth sequel

It took a while, about 9 months after launch, now July 2025, for a lot of major patches to come in and also mods as well, but I feel now you can really get a great and customized experience with this game that feels like a worth sequel to the original stalker games The performance is quite bad, hopefully Unreal Engine 5.6 update eventually fixes this, unless you have a beefy CPU, the game runs much better on my 9800 X3D now at least since it can just brute force through the game, but I think middle range CPU will do better with UE5.6 updates which is apparently a big performance boost The game itself is impressive imo, it really utilizes UE5 in a great way, the detail is impressive, character models and shading look excellent at ultra/epic settings and so on, it feels very immersive when interacting with the world and characters due to the incredible detail, and they did pretty well with some of the narrative scenes and facial animations to make it look convincing, even if slightly in the uncanny valley territory, There are other random issues like enemy ragdolls flying all over the place after dying which is immersion breaking Controller support is pretty good, but there are some issues with overlapping controls, jump and "focus" aim are the same button, so aim focused basically can't be used Not all older mods work well with the updated game, like weightless mods, which I really like to use, most mods work pretty great though You need another application to get proper widescreen FOV adjustment which is a nuisance, especially FOV adjustment on the gun model, flawless widescreen is needed for that, that really shouldn't be necessary in such a new game But anyway, trailing off here, after that 9 months I feel the game with the A-life updates and game simulation updates and so on is a lot improved and finally feels like a proper sequel to the original Stalker games, it feels a lot more polished now even though not perfect