The goal of Wind of Time is to take all the best bits from every S.T.A.L.K.E.R. This mod is great because it's not as big to download as some of the other mods on this list.

mod) and then you have to backtrack to find your vehicle in the aforementioned countryside map (if you walked or ran through it, that's less bother for you, but I don't envy you as it must have taken forever). The story is also supposed to be like the original, but I think I share the same sentiment as many others out there when I say that it ultimately is rubbish, and it is plagued by inconveniences, just outright strange plot directions, like driving through the massive (and beautiful) countryside map only to wind up in the concrete factory (which you may recognise as Yantar in SoC and Clear Sky or any other S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Some criticise OGSE for its combat, but in my experience anyway, the shooting mechanics in Lost Alpha feel somewhat strange, sluggish even. This, of course, is mired by the ugly looking character models and especially old weapon models. Cranked up to maximum settings, the game place does at least look gorgeous, and the maps are larger than what you'd be used to if you've ever played Shadow of Chernobyl or perhaps even Clear Sky. There are few other mods that can stand up to it in this regard. Graphically, the game doesn't disappoint, at least as far as lighting effects and environments go.

It became an obsession among many fans of the series to see what the zone was originally supposed to look like, and Lost Alpha was the ticket to experience just that. A Challenge-But Overly Frustratingįor those looking for challenging gameplay, lots of new content, and new areas to play around in, Soup may be the mod for you, but in the end, the experience may prove too frustrating as your game will likely crash often, and on top of that, you cannot sprint anywhere in the game-I mean, you can actually sprint, but you likely wouldn't want to, because you'll just run into yet another anomaly which will kill you forcing you to load another quicksave (which, if you aren't in the habit of doing so, will be somewhere around 15 minutes ago). The creator of Soup is helpful and always available (something I don't see with most mod authors), but it seems as though TecnoBacon is trying to plug leaks in a ship, and when one leak is plugged, water just springs from another hole. I like some of Soup's content, which is often based off of ideas that other mods have tried to add in to their game, like a decoder that takes money off stalkers that you kill (or from their PDAs, to be exact), but sometimes it can mean that a game becomes oversaturated, because for every good idea, there are plenty of ones that aren't so good, and I think that is in essence why Soup is so broken and unstable, because with more content is just more stuff to go wrong. 'S.T.A.L.K.E.R.' Screenshot More Content = More Bugs

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