Reviews - Borovos

I'm a member of Team Epic, authors of CoC.
I didn't play a single mod for CoP since the last official release of CoC several years ago. I pasted too much time in the Zone, I leave it to work in my small farm, lost in nowhere, far a crazy world.
I publish here my first review for a mod since a very long time.

You can't imagine my pleasure when I arrived in the True Stalker Zone.
Here, everything is almost perfect for a great storyline mod. Imo, it's really close to a official game (better than LA in all case). 

The new UI is fine and easy to use. The bleeding, rad and hit icons are misplaced but it's nothing for a veteran. 9.9/10

The difficulty with the economic balance remember me the progress in my first SoC game, the player is not a super hero after 5 min of gameplay. Perfect. 10/10

The level design with new and old places is great, I see a lot of nod to SoC builds, new models for npc and object are fine too, in the pure Stalker mind.
My travel enjoy me hours after hours. Sometimes, it remember me some old mods as AMK... This work respect two decades of stalker universe. 10/10

The 2D art for loading screen is beautiful, according to Stalker 2 concept art. 10/10

What about anomalies, particles and lighting? Electrical are perfect, gravitational are really hard to see as they have to be. It's nice. The player can find anomalies fields and random anomalies, the better choice regarding gameplay. 10/10

Arties, they are not so much and powerful but enough as the diversity of weapons. Here, no gunporn or artifactporn. Not thousand of useless items as in crazy giant modpack. There is toilet paper in a bandit camp, but we can't use it. We're safe. It's a game, not a virtual life. 10/10

The technical support and english version, very good. 10/10

What about Sid? I hate this crook man, manipulator and slavery, always hidden in his safe bunker. But I have no choice, no other path. I have to work for him, just for a time. 
I'll not stay in Cordon for a long time. I have to make my own way to the Center.
I meet bandits, terrible. Military, mercenary, scientist, duty, freedom or stalkers... This guys are always here, always the same. They are the reflect of us, of our humanity, with our beauty, our weakness, or worse, our madness & evil. Each one have his own character stroke, his personality. 10/10

True Stalker is not a mod as all that we can see. The core is not in the gunporn, the 3D, the full 4k, the dream of a realistic alife, a full openworld available in multiplayer or the restoration of unrelease content from 2003... It's a story with severals protagonist. A book. A novel, between science fiction and fantastic (as Roadside picnic or Le Horla from Guy de Maupassan).

It's linear with the adequate liberty of movement. As SoC was in his time.

As everybody, I can complain about few choices from the devs that I don't agree, but a skin or a color for a monster doesn't matter, it's anecdotal regarding the overall result. 

By the way, it's time for me to go back in the Zone and finish my game.
All my respect to the ap-pro team for this work. Thanks you so much.

During my sleep, I'm dreaming about the Zone, once again. Regards.