Comments - nMiiller

Indeed. Testing servers is of not much use if the servers in the end cannot handle all the additional content.

I honestly thought that by now they have a lot more to show for than just the normal Stalker multiplayer on a big map. If that is really all they have for now, this mod has still a very long way to go.

From what I saw it seems they just took the normal multiplayer mode as basis and modified it a bit. And since there were no mutants and quests in the regular multiplayer modes, all that client intern stuff like RP and the AI has to be ported to the server code. And that is A LOT of work, because a server operates differently and has to keep sync between all the interactions.
If they haven't worked on those yet, this mod will sadly not get the promised features and content any time soon. And the server-load will increase by a lot until then.
However, if they have it all done already except for the spawners as they say, it may become interesting in a couple of months.

Got to play the mod by now on Russian server. No quests, no anomalies, no artifacts, no mutants. Just a team deathmatch on a big map. It seems they took the multiplayer mode as basis and there were never mutants in multiplayer, so there is no server code for it and they have to write it from scratch.

Got to play with the account of a Russian friend.
If you have an account here Stalker-roh.ru you can download the launcher at Drive.google.com but registration is currently closed.

Currently it has no quests, no anomalies, no artifacts and no mutants. So it is basically just a team deathmatch on a big map. Judge for yourself if that pace of development satisfies you.

So Russians have open access to the game? Or who is currently playing and how can new players get access?

On the most important date for the mod, the international release, which has been scheduled forever, in the middle of the week, the team leader, who is responsible for the release and holds all the necessary and important information, decides to take some time off to spend with his son in the mountains. And then he even receives a fatal injury (a chance of one to a million?), which makes a release in the near future impossible.
Yeah, doesn't sound suspicious at all...

True, but since they are reworking the AI and the map, they won't be able to use the mutants without additional effort. I also haven't seen them on any of the screens or videos, so I wouldn't actually be too surprised if the current build has no mutants.

Really excited about the mod. I hope it won't be another disappointment full of empty promises like Cryzone/Neya7 or Survarium.
Are there already mutants/monsters in the current state or will they be added later?