I have been called a stalker once, so I can identify with this game.

1. Atmosphere and sound - Amazing 100/10
2. Bugs - didn't find anything critical
3. Optimization - it's just bad. Waiting for patches.
4. A-LIFE - there's no A-LIFE. Game just spawns enemies within 50-100 meters. Hope patches will make it work like in previous games, because without it it's not STALKER and the world is empty and lifeless without it.
5. Enemies are just sponges for bullets. Need rebalance. 4 mags to kill a bloodsucker? Really?
Other things to mention that I would like DEVs to change/add:
- Day/night cycle is too short
- No sleeping bags
- It costs a fortune to repair weapons and suits
- No dymanic shadows from the flashlight
- eneimes just spam you with grenades all the time
- would be cool to have more food/drinks options and cook monster parts like in GAMMA or order some meals in the bars
- weapons/suits condition goes down waaaaay to fast (shot 2 mags from AK and got -3%. Whaaaaaat?)
- when you sit at the campfire you cannot eat/drink/open PDA/inventory etc.
- you get hungry every 5-10 minutes. I assume longer day/night cycle would be a great option as well to fix the issue.
- mutants AI is strange. If you're being chased by the mutants and jump of the car for example they just run away. When you get down they appear again. They don't try to jump or at least swarm around the car waiting for their meal.

For now the game is medium rare. Waiting for the DEVs to cook it properly and then it will be the game of the year for sure.

Looks like Metro's dad finally came back from getting milk and cigarettes

And the Moment of silence for those STALKER fans who have passed away before they could've seen this including Vladimir Yezhov, the original dev for STALKER, passed away recently fighting in Bakhmut. Dude was a commander for an air recon unit.