Wait for a couple months before picking up the game. I am new to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R franchise so I'm not sure if this is how most stalker games are, but, this game has a lot of issues with optimization, graphical glitches and enemies spawning constantly. So far in 3.5 hours of game play my game has crashed 4 times, I've encountered numerous graphical issues and have found that after killing a group of enemies in a base, I can turn around and another group will spawn. Not only that shooting at one enemy will sometimes spawn 3 more which I find very annoying considering a lot of these enemies are extremely bullet spongy. I've put 15-20 AK-74 rounds into an enemy once and he still came at me full force, had an enemy survive 2 grenades in a watch tower and put 12 buckshot rounds into a cloaking enemy and then dumped half a viper mag into it before it died. I understand the troubles the developer has went through but at the same time I think some changes need to be made and you should definitely wait for bug fixes before purchasing this game. Once the bug fixes are implemented I'll consider changing my review but until then I cannot recommend.

Wait for a couple months before picking up the game. I am new to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R franchise so I'm not sure if this is how most stalker games are, but, this game has a lot of issues with optimization, graphical glitches and enemies spawning constantly. So far in 3.5 hours of game play my game has crashed 4 times, I've encountered numerous graphical issues and have found that after killing a group of enemies in a base, I can turn around and another group will spawn. Not only that shooting at one enemy will sometimes spawn 3 more which I find very annoying considering a lot of these enemies are extremely bullet spongy. I've put 15-20 AK-74 rounds into an enemy once and he still came at me full force, had an enemy survive 2 grenades in a watch tower and put 12 buckshot rounds into a cloaking enemy and then dumped half a viper mag into it before it died. I understand the troubles the developer has went through but at the same time I think some changes need to be made and you should definitely wait for bug fixes before purchasing this game. Once the bug fixes are implemented I'll consider changing my review but until then I cannot recommend.