Instead of biting on someone's rage therapy session, let me give you a realistic view of the game:
There are a few bugs that they've been ironing out quickly in patches. 2 weeks in and I have crashed exactly once. No quests were unfinishable. Imagine buying a day one release and then being horrified that -gasp- its in the state of a day one release! I must let the internet know how angry I am at this unforeseeable consequence. Truly, unimaginable anguish, I should sue GSC.
Get a grip loser.
The game itself is absolutely fantastic they knocked it out of the park. The atmosphere is so engrossing. The prologue had me very slowly walking through expecting an ambush or mutant at any moment just because of how much dread they have in the ambient soundtrack and visuals. Travelling feels dangerous, carrying too much loot WILL get you killed sometimes and the difficulty of this game is incredibly high compared to the previous 3.
Mutants are actually very threatening now, all of them. They have new attacks, are faster, hit harder, and all have AI that makes them good adversaries. Mutants will run and hide behind cover if you get out of their reach on top of something. That's an absolute game changer, this game is much harder to cheese than previous iterations.
The story initially I was kinda soft on like "do we really need a story in a stalker game" but after making it to the re-activation(No spoilers) the answer is YES. Its really fun watching this unfold.
The repair costs and rewards have been fixed (Oh no, patches within the first week fixed issues? What will we whine about now?!) and now the economy is pretty tense. Money matters, mutants eat a ton of ammo and its not dropped in massive quantities like it used to be. Its not "scarce" but you can run out of it for your favorite gun, and your favorite gun can wear out pretty quickly at that.
There's just so much to this game I am so happy with how seriously they took the challenge of creating a STALKER 2 that STALKER fans would immediately embrace. Ignore the static from the people who bought this product without realizing that no, its not Cawadoody 25 under a new name. If you like STALKER, survival games, tense atmosphere and some pretty challenging combat, you'll like this game.
Also it was on Xbox Gamespass if you just want to try it out. May still be depending on when you read this.
100% recommend buying. Game of the Year locked down no question.
