This game has rightfully been described as janky, buggy, engaging, and beautiful. This game shipped in better shape than I was hoping and yeah it still has a lot of bugs. Sometimes people spawn into each other, items disappear, and certain side quests won’t detect that you completed them forcing you to reload the last save. In pure S.T.A.L.K.E.R. form, I have a pistol that I got as a quest reward that I can’t remove because the game has it flagged as a quest item. Many people are complaining about the A-life system. It does seem much more basic and buggier than before. Enemies often spawn into an area after you have cleared it. Also, enemies need a serious DT reduction. Some enemies such as dogs will take an entire magazine of early-game weapons to go down and bloodsuckers are really OP. To their credit, GSC has already started releasing patches and acknowledging that fixes are needed. However, given the past state of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, I wouldn’t expect everything to get fixed. But if bugs really bother you hold off for now but if you can push through the janikness there’s a great game here.
