First up, I'm a massive fan of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R universe, so this mod has got me pretty damn excited.
This mod has HUGE potential. Great job so far! The first time I ran into a bloodsucker and heard their scream I nearly browned my pants. Freaking awesome. It could, however, do with more creatures. I played for about 5 hours and covered about 20km in total and only ever ran into a bloodsucker and a few stalker camps. Any chance of adding fleshes, boars, roaming dogs, and all that good stuff?
How many types of anomalies and artifacts are there? I kinda like how you can't really see anomalies, it makes navigating anomaly fields pretty scary and intense.
The biggest improvement to this mod, for me, would be to have one scenario that has many, many dynamic missions inside of it, rather than having the user have to make missions. I can't feel immersed if I have to load up another mission after the next. It should be seamless.
The map is good, but I don't think it suits S.T.A.L.K.E.R all that much. It does feel like something from the stalker series, but everything is too spread out. I don't think it should be an island either. Something like Chernarus would be more suited I think. The camps and landmarks should be a little closer together, either that or put more stalkers on the map.
Here's a quick list of things that could improve this mod dramatically.
- Money and trade system
- More dialog between the player and NPCs. There's already some that you can talk to, but I think it should be more. If they shared their personal stories and what not that could help immersion
- Bandits
- More mutants, and mutant types. Make traveling a risk
- Seamless scenario, one where you can keep playing the same scenario for as long as you want
- Please, DON'T add drivable tanks and helicopters. I wouldn't mind being able to drive a Skoda, but that's about it
- A working Geiger counter, perhaps
- Emissions!
- Changing weather
I don't know much about modding, but how is the respawn of stalkers handled, if at all? Can new stalkers come into the zone every few days?