I’m kinda not disappointed in that it’s as broken as OG games. That’s a part of #TheStalkerExperience (and kinda understandable rn). If anything, the engine makes it look too polished for my liking as it loses it’s previous 00s aesthetic that can probably be fixed with some shaders.

Going back to the topic… Do you know why belarussian WoT, russian War Thunder and such got funding and protection? Because ukrainian Stalker before them was in itself, for young men like me, a promo for exploring abandoned buildings and forests, buying equipment, doing strikeball and participating in mockup camp training. Many volounteers in this war circa 2014 probably got there after being interested in Stalker stuff all over ex-USSR, started to partaking in such hobbies before shit hit the fan. And the slav axis of evil then tried to copy it, but I’m not sure what products like World of Tanks can cause in a person besides knowing all tanks by their shape, alcoholism and a soon-coming kidney failure.