Global mod for STALKER SHoC, intended to recreate a highly atmospheric Zone with highest possible quality, stability of the game, rich gameplay and loyalty to the canons of the Sci-Fi genre.
OGSE 0693
This mod is truly amazing. Haven't played too much yet, but so far, I'm totally blown away!
10/10
UPDATE:
After playing some time (Kordon, Garbage, Agroprom), I'm still amazed by this mod. The amount of features added to the game is truly massive. And everything seems to work very smooth on the technical side (this is not standard with STALKER ShOC mods).
The mod is definitely much harder as the original. And it can lead to very frustrating situations like being killed by enemy grenades very often.
All the new quests are awesome, although they feel a bit raw around the edges... lots of "don't know where to go or what to do"-moments.
All in all, still 10/10 !!
UPDATE 2:
After playing even more, I feel like I'm really "getting into" the mod now. In the beginning, I was just blown away by all the new, exciting stuff. Now, I come to understand how some things work.
The mod is really, really good and very well done.
However, some aspects aren't as good as others. Here are the cons:
1) The translation is not of superior quality. There are quite some errors here and there. Most of them don't do any harm, but sometimes, it can lead to a situation, where you have to guesstimate if you want to solve a quest. (Example: looking for a "pipe" in the village, when it should have been "chimney")
2) The new quests are truly amazing and very creative. However, there are LOTS of situations, where you have to search for a specific item and, for the love of god, can't find it. It such cases, the item is usually there, but super-well hidden. TOO well, if you ask me. The developers got a bit carried away here.
3) There are lots of design choices, which werde made in order to make the game harder for the player. A good challenge is never a bad thing, but all these changes lead to an atmosphere, where save/reload will occur frequently among most players. I would say, the game was un-balanced in disadvantage for the player. (Examples here are the economy, missing zoom when using iron sights and detection of enemies with radar and PDA)
All in all, these three negative aspects combined make me change my rating to 9/10. (Btw, I don't list pros, since almost everything else about this mod is great so far ;)