Full concept MODIFICATION of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat that touches every game aspect including textures, sfx, music, weapons, A.I., items, weather, mutants, difficulty and much much more!
So I recently got this mod, I'm running 2.1.1 and I have to say the gameplay is pretty great. It is however extremely punishing for small mistakes or even just unwise decisions. However this is a good thing as this is going for realism, and the micromanagement of ammo, buying, selling, repairing and looting/farming really appeals to me. I do however find that some enemies are particularly strange, For example bandits in Zaton wearing nothing but a light overcoat take 2 or 3 headshots to kill, whereas masked enemies will go down in 1 hit. Mutants are also quite unpredictable, as shooing them up the arse seems to be more effective than their heads (looking at you fleshes) but the higher tier mutants actually seem weaker than before, with controllers being easily dealt with if prepared. But my main problem with this mod is its performance. Upon loading, if it makes it that far, it will run at a nice ~60 FPS with a fair amount of stutter as you move across the map for the first time. After 10 mins it seems stable. But then it just exponentially declines in quality until it crashes or I get to sub 20 fps and it is no longer playable. I think the amount of time I've spent playing is the same as when I spent fixing broken NPCs with the Alife settings. If this mod ran at a quality similar to say, all the other mods for stalker, then this would be an 8 or 9. Hopefully this next patch will fix the main problems because if it doesn't I fear that this promising mod will be replaced by better working ones.