Reviews - Despara

L.E.G.E.N.D.A.R.Y. 2.0 is an amazing mod, with an insane amount of mod content, but L.E.G.E.N.D.A.R.Y. 2.0 crashes constantly, and is therefore unplayable.

The first thing you'll notice about Oblivion Lost 3.1 is that it has no atmosphere anymore. You will encounter the military about 65% of the time, and the spawn rates of the military are game breaking. Even in the cordon after clearing a military squad the time it takes to loot the dead squad you will have a 50% chance of encountering another military squad before you are finished looting the military squad you just finished killing if you are by a map exit. Later in the game it gets a lot worse, and Oblivion Lost 3.1 turns into a WW1 style war against the Ukrainian military simulator since that's almost all you will see unless you are in pripyat, or the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. The military spawns are so high that the military will clear the entire map of anything but monolith, and powerful monsters that have spawn rates as high or higher then the military if you are not killing off the military like insects. The Ukrainian military would send in gunships, and maybe even some bombers if they lost tens of men at a cordon location, and the last thing the Ukrainian miltary would do if they were being killed off like insects is send in more squads to get slaughtered by an unknown and highly dangerous threat. All the AI have severely lowered shooting ranges as well, so you will not even have to worry about drawing attention to yourself as long as you are far enough away from your enemies since they will just hold there guns ready to fire, but will not even attempt to shoot you if you are too far away.This is by far the worst version of Obilvion Lost I have played, and it will need a lot of reworking before it is playable again. I really enjoyed a few of the previous versions of Oblivion Lost, and those versions of Oblivion Lost were what really got me into S.T.A.L.K.E.R. mods, so I am very disappointed with the way Oblivion Lost 3.1 turned out.

Autumn Aurora 2.1 abused it's white fog effect far too frequently, and I found the white fog effect too bright to the point my eyes were in ain pretty much whenever I played the Autumn Aurora 2.1, and the lack of decent night vision made this issue even worse. I found the meta of Autumn Aurora 2.1 to be very anal, and almost abusive in how little items sold for, as well as how difficult it was to save currency. I installed Autumn Aurora 2.1 as the instructions told me to step-by-step, but I still recieved crashing every 5-7 minutes after playing the game for about a day.

Narodnaya Solyanka: DMX DKZ is a good mod for any players looking for a total conversion mod within the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. world, but would prefer a good challenge, as well as a different experience then the original gameplay, or most of the other S.T.A.L.K.E.R. mods.

Narodnaya Solyanka: DMX DKZ is not going to be a well-suited mod for people looking for semi-vanilla gameplay since Narodnaya Solyanka: DMX DKZ has on-rails gameplay. Narodnaya Solyanka: DMX DKZ will force you to consult a guide that is unfriendly to non-Russian players, which is something most other S.T.A.L.K.E.R. mods rarely force their player to do. Narodnaya Solyanka: DMX DKZ does not follow the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. meta to the point new characters, and parts of the plot are changed in significant ways frequently. Expect new items that may not function well, and textures that have been purposely reduced for lower end machines.

The main problems I had with Narodnaya Solyanka: DMX DKZ is that I feel too much of the meta gameplay which made the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games so great was too heavily modified. The S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series and most of it's mods follow a similar forumla that will often keep players on their toes since the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. world is naturally very hazardous which can often cause S.T.A.L.K.E.R. players to make quick decisions based on their own good judgement which allows the players to find a solution to a problem they face in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. based on their own choices. Narodnaya Solyanka: DMX DKZ completely changes this forumla by forcing the player to either cheat, or accept unflexable gameplay changes.