68/100 - mildly disappointing

I like
- atmosphere is great as ever in the stalker series
- gunplay feels smooth and plausible
- story seems pretty good so far

I dislike

-no humor
- voicelines are robotic and conversations dont sound coherent unless its a scripted sequence.
-game economy is terrible. Upgrades become pointless, if I can not afford to repair the gun - and guns degrade quickly.
- on veteran difficulty every enemies gun is broken down. its impossible to sell them, unless you repair them. getting them repaired is more expensive than selling them.
- in the english voice output NPCs often have a rough British accent. it breaks the immersion and feels out of place. Some people argue that characters should not sound like a stereotypical slavic person. While I agree, i think there is nothing wrong about letting a Ukrainian native speak english voicelines.
- soundtrack is boring but at least fits to the flair. The soundtracks of the trailers were so much better.
- the game is a downgrade compared to Shadow Of Chernobyl in many aspects: no more night vision, no binoculars, no faction designation in the UI, no scripted random encounters and so much more
-enemies spawn out of nowhere in visible range like as if they were food to the player.
- performance/graphics quality of Metro Exodus wins any day. engine efficiency is terrible.
- the map is too big. i feel like a lot of dev time was lost to the sheer size. classic quantity over quality. all locations were seeminglyy randomly placed on the map. there is barely any elevation.
-flashlight is always off, when you reload a savegame
- all dogs attack you
- stashes are usually useless

Performance
been playing for 15 hours and did not experience a single bug or crash. Game feels smooth with Ryzen 7 7700X, 32GB RAM, Radeon 7900 XTX on WQHD. The village is a bit more demanding but outside I get 100 FPS avg. 1% low: 80FPS. no frame time spikes.

68/100 - mildly disappointing I like - atmosphere is great as ever in the stalker series - gunplay feels smooth and plausible - story seems pretty good so far I dislike -no humor - voicelines are robotic and conversations dont sound coherent unless its a scripted sequence. -game economy is terrible. Upgrades become pointless, if I can not afford to repair the gun - and guns degrade quickly. - on veteran difficulty every enemies gun is broken down. its impossible to sell them, unless you repair them. getting them repaired is more expensive than selling them. - in the english voice output NPCs often have a rough British accent. it breaks the immersion and feels out of place. Some people argue that characters should not sound like a stereotypical slavic person. While I agree, i think there is nothing wrong about letting a Ukrainian native speak english voicelines. - soundtrack is boring but at least fits to the flair. The soundtracks of the trailers were so much better. - the game is a downgrade compared to Shadow Of Chernobyl in many aspects: no more night vision, no binoculars, no faction designation in the UI, no scripted random encounters and so much more -enemies spawn out of nowhere in visible range like as if they were food to the player. - performance/graphics quality of Metro Exodus wins any day. engine efficiency is terrible. - the map is too big. i feel like a lot of dev time was lost to the sheer size. classic quantity over quality. all locations were seeminglyy randomly placed on the map. there is barely any elevation. -flashlight is always off, when you reload a savegame - all dogs attack you - stashes are usually useless Performance been playing for 15 hours and did not experience a single bug or crash. Game feels smooth with Ryzen 7 7700X, 32GB RAM, Radeon 7900 XTX on WQHD. The village is a bit more demanding but outside I get 100 FPS avg. 1% low: 80FPS. no frame time spikes.