The callbacks are great for all us stalker nerds, fantastic so far

EDIT It took me a little over 70 hours to finish my first play through. I had a lot of side quests still on the table that I never got around to, simply because I was so busy doing the main quest. This has been an extremely enjoyable experience, especially for a long time fan of the series. This game is hard, and I enjoyed the punishing experience of the veteran difficulty. I did have a few bugs which effected some of my main missions. Specifically the defending Zalissya mission bugging out resulting in it being disbanded, and an optional chance to bring a device to the Noonetide bunker scientist, but it simply wouldn't open so I skipped it. There are certainly some sections of the game which feel unpolished compared to others, but the overall package is so far and beyond the original titles. From the cut scenes, to the facial animations, to the environmental effects, this game has been a huge step up for the Stalker series. I really can't recommend this game enough. It is such an interesting addition to the original story, and has a TON of references to the old games. I can definitely see the modding community going crazy with the sheer amount of content the base game has to build off of!

The game is quite graphically demanding. I have the luxury of a 40 series Nvidia GPU, my specs consist of an RTX 4060 Ti 16Gb, along with an AMD R7 7700 CPU. My game defaults to all settings on high, and with dlss enable I get 140 FPS on average. In busy areas with many NPCS, I drop to a low of 90. I have had no issues with performance at 1080p.

Huge thumbs up to the devs dropping fat patches, fixes and changes already

The callbacks are great for all us stalker nerds, fantastic so far EDIT It took me a little over 70 hours to finish my first play through. I had a lot of side quests still on the table that I never got around to, simply because I was so busy doing the main quest. This has been an extremely enjoyable experience, especially for a long time fan of the series. This game is hard, and I enjoyed the punishing experience of the veteran difficulty. I did have a few bugs which effected some of my main missions. Specifically the defending Zalissya mission bugging out resulting in it being disbanded, and an optional chance to bring a device to the Noonetide bunker scientist, but it simply wouldn't open so I skipped it. There are certainly some sections of the game which feel unpolished compared to others, but the overall package is so far and beyond the original titles. From the cut scenes, to the facial animations, to the environmental effects, this game has been a huge step up for the Stalker series. I really can't recommend this game enough. It is such an interesting addition to the original story, and has a TON of references to the old games. I can definitely see the modding community going crazy with the sheer amount of content the base game has to build off of! The game is quite graphically demanding. I have the luxury of a 40 series Nvidia GPU, my specs consist of an RTX 4060 Ti 16Gb, along with an AMD R7 7700 CPU. My game defaults to all settings on high, and with dlss enable I get 140 FPS on average. In busy areas with many NPCS, I drop to a low of 90. I have had no issues with performance at 1080p. Huge thumbs up to the devs dropping fat patches, fixes and changes already