EDITS: I referred to the game as a tactical shooter, but obviously would be better described as a survival horror shooter. Also, just to clarify about the original a life system, all npcs would be in an offline mode until a certain distance from the player.
@ thank you. I do a bunch of research, but I always end up missing something and I don’t want to spread misinformation or get things wrong and tarnish my integrity. But, you’re right. I probably shouldn’t be so nervous and hard on myself. Probably not a big deal.
@Mr_Rage_Official Stalker is a community where very few people play the original games, and most have memories of mods that take the game in different directions. Sometimes, there will not be a straight answer to a question in certain communities because of this. Many games of established franchises will be a hotbed for disagreement.
Literally the first thing I figured out in the game lol. I was like "damn, hitting L for my flashlight is pretty stupid, should just be middle mouse if that isn't melee already" Pressed MMB and I was surprised that the developers made the obvious common sense decision.
Good video, I appreciate it! Could you kindly turn the music a bit the f down lol, it is definitely distracting, like talking to a bro in a rock concert
@@OptimizingNetwork lol I always think music in others videos is not loud enough. I personally enjoy it. But, I know a lot of others don’t. Haha I gueeeesss I could turn it down in the future.
This is an awesome rundown - Long time fan of the series and I've been loving this game despite its current shortcomings. Quick question, with the GSC putting out significant updates quickly, have you noticed any mods breaking along the way? Have you had to uninstall any to keep things running smoothly? Thanks much.
The thing with stealth i found its kind of realistic, if you can see them, they can see you, the AI has basically the same light/dark perception as you, in pitch black no one can see each other, I'm saying this not messing with gamma,
Interesting coming back to this review a month later, and even after 3 patches early on, the game is actually in worse shape after bug ‘fixes’ fixed practically nothing, and broke even more stuff. Loved the vanilla game initially, but it took 30 hours or so to realise without functioning A-life and the old npc AI, it’s just another generic arcade fps, and is a STALKER title in name and map only. Haven’t played since before Xmas and won’t bother again unless it becomes playable, at which time I will be throwing your excellent mod list at it.
You mentioned rebinding flashlight --- you should be able to access it by default with middle mouse button. It's never pointed out during the tutorial, for some reason.
Frankly how I see the game now is that the Unreal Engine 5 is too much gpu stress and cpu stress to expect level of Stalker: Anomaly enemy spawning I am running TSR (Resolution Upscalling) in-game setting, FSR 3 (frame generation) in-game setting, and I am running 7900XTX and 9950X, this in itself is likely to perform better than RTX 4090 DLSS, based on insane stutters on Nvidia GPUs in this title. (You can see benchmarks of the game on my channel) With that said, A-Life would be a complete horror experience, because Unreal Engine 5 is too tough, you will need to turn tons of textures down, you will need to remove lots of lighting, you will need to do a LOOOOOOOOT of shi to optimize this game with that scenario. Considering that I average 180-219 fps average with like 30-52 fps 0.1% lows, and if I was to turn on Native Resolution instead, I would be at 88-90 fps average. AND that's WITHOUT A-Life! Now imagine A-Life with 500 unique units spawning on the map, and engaging other units. Crash galore. Modders would need to have complete rehaul of that engine and get rid of TONS and TONS of features visually, and that's the only way man
@@OptimizingNetwork Yes, well said. I’m just so surprised in 2024 with all the other powerful insane tech we have in this world, we don’t have gpus powerful enough to run this kind of stuff? We already have pretty advanced a.i. robots. I don’t get it.
You're right, A-Life naturally has a high performance cost and I believe expanding the online mode diameter up to where it should be is gonna take up quite a bit of the performance gains we'll see in upcoming updates.
The only thing I disagree is the directional audio. It’s great for me on pc and two speakers. Even not on headphones. Might be something from the mods you use. And the mod I hope someone can create is auto hud hide when not in combat. May be show up when pressing right mouse button to ads to bring it up. Playing with hud and all other bs off is great. The most immersive way to play and enjoy the game.
@@La4o21 I formed my opinion on the audio before I even used any mods. And yes, I think customizable huds should just be standard. Dynamic like you said would be good. The only thing I feel I would want permanently on screen or when I take damage, is the health. Because I take so much damage all the time.
The pop in is pretty bad once you get to Pripyat, whole buildings pop in directly in your view as you look around. There are some engine.ini tweaks you can use to get rid of tree and foliage pop in, but doesnt seem to be any way to fix the buildings pop in.
honestly 5 shots to the body to someone wearing good armor isnt insane. (body shots i mean, not defending headshots). theres a difference between lethality and stopping power. people in real life get shot and remain in the fight even if they die later to their wounds
Lumen is a core feature of Unreal 5. Every Unreal 5 game has lumen. Lumen uses software ray tracing. The engine also utilizes the nanite geometry system along with several other technological advancements.
A-Life 2.0 as it exists currently in the game will obliterate your CPU, even though you can fully activate it, and it would work, you shouldn't, because it would only work if you have a data center grade CPU otherwise this is all great, but i can't stop my OCD from asking - why would you have 2 different png's of the game title?
@@xanazf You mean the thumbnail and the very beginning of the video? The thumbnail title was a png I got quick from the internet and the opening title of the video is directly from the game. I really just needed to get this video out. It had been over a month since my last upload. Sometimes I just live with little things like that if they’re not that important, just to get the video out.
Thunderberry artifact eliminates stamina concerns tbh, hell even the starfish artifact makes you no longer need energy drinks as stamina refills in like 3 secs
@@MarvoBro Yes, I didn’t understand how artifacts work. All I knew was whenever I equipped one, I would get terrible radiation. So I just haven’t used them and just sold them instead. But, after learning more about them from commentors like you, I’m going to experiment with them.
3 mnts in and already everything you said is completely wrong or partly. First: in originals, Alife never spawned all NPC at once, it was same as now. NPC were spawned only when you entered zone, it all worked in background (aka offline mod, just as it should here). Second: Alife didnt "broke and thats the reason why they turned it off". In reality it was too brutal for optimisation, so they purposedly wanted to NERF it for release, before they optimise game enough to get it back to full strenght, but the nerfing broke the Alife. Third: This game is not deffinitely not tactical shooter as you said. Its stil arcade by shooting design. You need only one shot to kill by headshot, if you use proper weapon four your game part (aka early, mid or endgame) and proper ammo (forexample, AP ammo adds 1 to penetration). You cant use AK or AR (with only 1 penetration) against better enemies. You have to get better weapons. GP37 and Fera have 2 penetration, its completely ok for MID game. For Endgame, you need Dnipro or Kharod, with 3 penetration. You will need max 2 shot to head (with AP ammo only 1). Or just use snipers, SVU MK 3 and M701 have 5 penetration, you will kill every human with one headshot even with regular ammo. So in the end, jokes asside, but its rly just your skill issue, that you cant kill someone just by one headshot.
Well, when I googled a life, that’s what it said, they all spawned in at once. Not a Stalker expert. I trusted the internet. Guess that was a bad idea. Second, I literally said in the video and even quoted the ign article on screen about how the optimization process made a life buggy. Third, what qualifies a game as a tactical shooter? This game has tactical equipment with the ability to mod weapons. I know it could be described a little better, like horror sci fi fps I guess, but I really just needed to get the video out. Sometimes you dont have time to make insignificant little edits that aren’t really a big deal. And no, enemies do not die with only a single shot to the head, and any ammo should kill them with one shot to the head. Except for maybe .22 ammo if it lands shitty, but I don’t think there’s even .22 ammo in the game. This is supposed to be a hardcore shooter. I was shooting enemies in the head and body SO MANY times and they wouldn’t die. And yes, npcs are in offline mode when out of range in the original. However, one could argue I’m actually still right, because they do kind of spawn, they’re just in offline mode.
@@Mr_Rage_Official Bcs many ppl think it works like that, but it doesnt. I know that IGN video, but it doesnt say whole picture. What i said to you we have as information straigh from devs. It has tactical equipment, but tactical shooter is something like ready or not. Stalker is a lot arcade by its roots, its just hardcore arcade. Btw, about headshots. Thats what im telling, you cant look at gun based on ammo, bcs this is not game, where it matters. Gunplay is based on weapon stats, not ammo. If you have AK with penetration 1 and then MP 52 with penetration 1,3, even when it use much weaker ammo, it will be much better. Thats why you have to use weapon based on stats, not based on ammo and etc. And yes, i litrealy kill everything with one headshot, you just need good weapons. And yeah, they spawn badly, bcs spawner is broken AF and it doesnt communicate with offline mod. Thats what they need fix. RN it is a big letdown compared to OGs.
@ You’re right. I think I had the wrong idea about what kind of game Stalker is supposed to be. This is why I’m nervous to do reviews, honestly. I don’t want to get anything wrong. I might just stick to funny gameplay from now on lol
@@Mr_Rage_Official nah. Thats ok. Around Stalker its complicated, bcs years if mods shifted ppls idea about what Stalker is, also a lot of players didnt even play OG games, only mods and bcs of that, there are everywhere videos with shifted ideas and opinions and if you dont know enough, you are just lost.
@@wojtekkozak2822 because stamina and repair costs are ABSOLUTELY INSANE! Completely unreasonable. The mods make things more BALANCED. Balancing is very important for games. And threat indicators are just lame. Takes no skill to find enemies when the game tells you the exact directions.
@Mr_Rage_Official i got you, but is not as bad when you have stamina artifact, and overall cost can live with too when have power artifact which help you lift more items to sell
@ hm. Good points. I honestly haven’t wanted to use artifacts because the couple times I did, I just got radiation the whole time. Those artifacts are tricky. Maybe I just have to understand how to use them better.
@@Mr_Rage_Official upgrade your armor / suit, you can get like 1-3 green slots - when you put artifact in green slot it does not make you harm from radiation, also there are artifact which reduce radiation effect, is nice in game mechanic worth a try
Stamina mechanics are designed you to find proper artifacts and not to loot everything as goblin. Repair mechanics are ok for now, nicely balanced, money here is valuable enough. Basically almost all mods in list are garbage that turns stalker into far cry😂
This review is a bit outdated. 1. Humans are easily killed and they always were as far as my game goes. All you need is one headshot to kill them, unless there is a helmet, then it's 2~3 shots. Some wear body armors, and take longer to kill with bodyshots, some don't. Common, man, fix your aim. 2. Performance, again, different people have different issues and even though the game is DEFINITELY in need of further optimization and tuning, some of the problems with performance are self-inflicted. For example, if you don't have high-end PC, don't play on Epic Settings. I have 3070 Ti and I play on Settings - High / Mode - Quality and with nearly 40 hrs in I've had not a single crash, occasional stuttering and some frame drop in outposts, that was before patches came in. Now I still get a rare stutter and that's it, so far anyway. Of course I haven't seen the entire game and it's possible that some problems may be waiting ahead but that's what I have right now. 3. Stealth is hit and miss. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Usually they don't see you if you come from behind. But if they are facing you, they might see you from far away even in the dark. (some do have night vision gargoyles, by the way, but I doubt that's the thing right now). 4. There IS a directional audio, otherwise I'd never pass a single bloodsucker. The only problem I have with the audio is that abrupts sometimes, just cuts itself off (music and radio only), not a smooth experience and IS annoying, but to say there is no directional audio is pure misinformation. It would be nice, if people in their reviews localised some of the problems to their own experience without making it seen as everybody is bound to run into this.
Please dont buy this untill its fixed, you will be standing there then litrally you will get 3 people spawn in right next to you they dont miss and you cant see them, then for good luck a dog will spawn at your feet,bleed and health is garbage, just absaloutly broken in every way ,shame as first stalker is in my top 5 games of all time,
EDITS: I referred to the game as a tactical shooter, but obviously would be better described as a survival horror shooter.
Also, just to clarify about the original a life system, all npcs would be in an offline mode until a certain distance from the player.
Since when? It's not yet implemented though there are plans to do so
* Slavtical shooter
Lmao, just do research before you do a review.
The tactical shooter was fine. Don't be to sensitive
@ thank you. I do a bunch of research, but I always end up missing something and I don’t want to spread misinformation or get things wrong and tarnish my integrity. But, you’re right. I probably shouldn’t be so nervous and hard on myself. Probably not a big deal.
@Mr_Rage_Official
Stalker is a community where very few people play the original games, and most have memories of mods that take the game in different directions.
Sometimes, there will not be a straight answer to a question in certain communities because of this.
Many games of established franchises will be a hotbed for disagreement.
Thanks!
@@anadigregorio4821 Thank you!
3:06 all the humans downs after one head shot in stalker excluding armored with helmets
Dope edit my dude, gives me inspiration to keep at it
@@GabrielWalkerGaming Thanks so much! Yeah man, I just watch other peoples stuff and that’s how I keep learning better editing. Keep at it!
fantastic review
@@carlbroker Thank you so much! That member badge is looking crisp!
Great video dawg.
@@AnthonyPompa Thank you so much!
What I'm hoping is that the devs made enough money with the initial sales so that they will have the resources to finish the development.
Yeah, I heard from another commentor there are some funding issues?
Nice mod list. I also recommend “more tolerable beeping sound”, it makes the beeping sound much more tolerable.
@@limarchenko96 Oh, yes! I do use that mod! I forgot to put it in the video. Also, an essential.
middle mouse button for the flashlight
I'm glad I randomly figured that when I was playing
Oh, good. That’s better than N.
Literally the first thing I figured out in the game lol. I was like "damn, hitting L for my flashlight is pretty stupid, should just be middle mouse if that isn't melee already" Pressed MMB and I was surprised that the developers made the obvious common sense decision.
@@Mr_Rage_Official they also have the button on controllers wrong for the flashlight...and still haven't fixed it.
Good video, I appreciate it!
Could you kindly turn the music a bit the f down lol, it is definitely distracting, like talking to a bro in a rock concert
@@OptimizingNetwork lol I always think music in others videos is not loud enough. I personally enjoy it. But, I know a lot of others don’t. Haha I gueeeesss I could turn it down in the future.
@@OptimizingNetwork and thank you for the compliment!
This is an awesome rundown - Long time fan of the series and I've been loving this game despite its current shortcomings. Quick question, with the GSC putting out significant updates quickly, have you noticed any mods breaking along the way? Have you had to uninstall any to keep things running smoothly? Thanks much.
@@jakobc1998 thank you! I haven’t had any issues so far with updates effecting mods.
good vid rage keep it up
@@BongHitsLongRips thanks, bro!
The main story reminds me a bit of half life, with an open world and survival aspects
The thing with stealth i found its kind of realistic, if you can see them, they can see you, the AI has basically the same light/dark perception as you, in pitch black no one can see each other, I'm saying this not messing with gamma,
@@RCompleto good point!
Question this 4 icons on the left screen how do you access them or change them awesome game
In the inventory you can drag and drop items to the quick slots.
Interesting coming back to this review a month later, and even after 3 patches early on, the game is actually in worse shape after bug ‘fixes’ fixed practically nothing, and broke even more stuff. Loved the vanilla game initially, but it took 30 hours or so to realise without functioning A-life and the old npc AI, it’s just another generic arcade fps, and is a STALKER title in name and map only. Haven’t played since before Xmas and won’t bother again unless it becomes playable, at which time I will be throwing your excellent mod list at it.
You mentioned rebinding flashlight --- you should be able to access it by default with middle mouse button. It's never pointed out during the tutorial, for some reason.
Will the performance mod break my game when updates come out?
@@agentnukaz1715 I personally have not had any issues yet.
Frankly how I see the game now is that the Unreal Engine 5 is too much gpu stress and cpu stress to expect level of Stalker: Anomaly enemy spawning
I am running TSR (Resolution Upscalling) in-game setting, FSR 3 (frame generation) in-game setting, and I am running 7900XTX and 9950X, this in itself is likely to perform better than RTX 4090 DLSS, based on insane stutters on Nvidia GPUs in this title. (You can see benchmarks of the game on my channel)
With that said, A-Life would be a complete horror experience, because Unreal Engine 5 is too tough, you will need to turn tons of textures down, you will need to remove lots of lighting, you will need to do a LOOOOOOOOT of shi to optimize this game with that scenario. Considering that I average 180-219 fps average with like 30-52 fps 0.1% lows, and if I was to turn on Native Resolution instead, I would be at 88-90 fps average. AND that's WITHOUT A-Life!
Now imagine A-Life with 500 unique units spawning on the map, and engaging other units.
Crash galore.
Modders would need to have complete rehaul of that engine and get rid of TONS and TONS of features visually, and that's the only way man
@@OptimizingNetwork Yes, well said. I’m just so surprised in 2024 with all the other powerful insane tech we have in this world, we don’t have gpus powerful enough to run this kind of stuff? We already have pretty advanced a.i. robots. I don’t get it.
You're right, A-Life naturally has a high performance cost and I believe expanding the online mode diameter up to where it should be is gonna take up quite a bit of the performance gains we'll see in upcoming updates.
The only thing I disagree is the directional audio. It’s great for me on pc and two speakers. Even not on headphones. Might be something from the mods you use.
And the mod I hope someone can create is auto hud hide when not in combat. May be show up when pressing right mouse button to ads to bring it up. Playing with hud and all other bs off is great. The most immersive way to play and enjoy the game.
@@La4o21 I formed my opinion on the audio before I even used any mods. And yes, I think customizable huds should just be standard. Dynamic like you said would be good. The only thing I feel I would want permanently on screen or when I take damage, is the health. Because I take so much damage all the time.
Modern developers will be just releasing their developer documents in the near future, so the players can build the "AAA" games themselves🐿
@@michaelclawson6576
you cant rebind many keys if you are lefty :(
@@KaitKybar Oooh, I never thought of that :(
The pop in is pretty bad once you get to Pripyat, whole buildings pop in directly in your view as you look around. There are some engine.ini tweaks you can use to get rid of tree and foliage pop in, but doesnt seem to be any way to fix the buildings pop in.
@@hardwatergaming7965 damn. I’m sick of unfinished games.
honestly 5 shots to the body to someone wearing good armor isnt insane. (body shots i mean, not defending headshots). theres a difference between lethality and stopping power. people in real life get shot and remain in the fight even if they die later to their wounds
Does installing mods block achievements ?
No
What ray tracing what lumen? What latest technology?
Lumen is a core feature of Unreal 5. Every Unreal 5 game has lumen. Lumen uses software ray tracing. The engine also utilizes the nanite geometry system along with several other technological advancements.
A-Life 2.0 as it exists currently in the game will obliterate your CPU, even though you can fully activate it, and it would work, you shouldn't, because it would only work if you have a data center grade CPU
otherwise this is all great, but i can't stop my OCD from asking - why would you have 2 different png's of the game title?
@@xanazf You mean the thumbnail and the very beginning of the video? The thumbnail title was a png I got quick from the internet and the opening title of the video is directly from the game. I really just needed to get this video out. It had been over a month since my last upload. Sometimes I just live with little things like that if they’re not that important, just to get the video out.
@@Mr_Rage_Official gotcha, ye i understand, personally it would bother tf out of me, but it's cool
Thunderberry artifact eliminates stamina concerns tbh, hell even the starfish artifact makes you no longer need energy drinks as stamina refills in like 3 secs
@@MarvoBro Yes, I didn’t understand how artifacts work. All I knew was whenever I equipped one, I would get terrible radiation. So I just haven’t used them and just sold them instead. But, after learning more about them from commentors like you, I’m going to experiment with them.
I hope they can now hire more people and finish the game... Tens of gigabytes of a-life code won't be fixed by modders
@@AndrewLacarra true
3 mnts in and already everything you said is completely wrong or partly.
First: in originals, Alife never spawned all NPC at once, it was same as now. NPC were spawned only when you entered zone, it all worked in background (aka offline mod, just as it should here). Second: Alife didnt "broke and thats the reason why they turned it off". In reality it was too brutal for optimisation, so they purposedly wanted to NERF it for release, before they optimise game enough to get it back to full strenght, but the nerfing broke the Alife.
Third: This game is not deffinitely not tactical shooter as you said. Its stil arcade by shooting design. You need only one shot to kill by headshot, if you use proper weapon four your game part (aka early, mid or endgame) and proper ammo (forexample, AP ammo adds 1 to penetration). You cant use AK or AR (with only 1 penetration) against better enemies. You have to get better weapons. GP37 and Fera have 2 penetration, its completely ok for MID game. For Endgame, you need Dnipro or Kharod, with 3 penetration. You will need max 2 shot to head (with AP ammo only 1). Or just use snipers, SVU MK 3 and M701 have 5 penetration, you will kill every human with one headshot even with regular ammo. So in the end, jokes asside, but its rly just your skill issue, that you cant kill someone just by one headshot.
Well, when I googled a life, that’s what it said, they all spawned in at once. Not a Stalker expert. I trusted the internet. Guess that was a bad idea. Second, I literally said in the video and even quoted the ign article on screen about how the optimization process made a life buggy. Third, what qualifies a game as a tactical shooter? This game has tactical equipment with the ability to mod weapons. I know it could be described a little better, like horror sci fi fps I guess, but I really just needed to get the video out. Sometimes you dont have time to make insignificant little edits that aren’t really a big deal. And no, enemies do not die with only a single shot to the head, and any ammo should kill them with one shot to the head. Except for maybe .22 ammo if it lands shitty, but I don’t think there’s even .22 ammo in the game. This is supposed to be a hardcore shooter. I was shooting enemies in the head and body SO MANY times and they wouldn’t die. And yes, npcs are in offline mode when out of range in the original. However, one could argue I’m actually still right, because they do kind of spawn, they’re just in offline mode.
@@Mr_Rage_Official Bcs many ppl think it works like that, but it doesnt.
I know that IGN video, but it doesnt say whole picture. What i said to you we have as information straigh from devs.
It has tactical equipment, but tactical shooter is something like ready or not. Stalker is a lot arcade by its roots, its just hardcore arcade.
Btw, about headshots. Thats what im telling, you cant look at gun based on ammo, bcs this is not game, where it matters. Gunplay is based on weapon stats, not ammo. If you have AK with penetration 1 and then MP 52 with penetration 1,3, even when it use much weaker ammo, it will be much better. Thats why you have to use weapon based on stats, not based on ammo and etc. And yes, i litrealy kill everything with one headshot, you just need good weapons.
And yeah, they spawn badly, bcs spawner is broken AF and it doesnt communicate with offline mod. Thats what they need fix. RN it is a big letdown compared to OGs.
@ You’re right. I think I had the wrong idea about what kind of game Stalker is supposed to be. This is why I’m nervous to do reviews, honestly. I don’t want to get anything wrong. I might just stick to funny gameplay from now on lol
@@Mr_Rage_Official nah. Thats ok. Around Stalker its complicated, bcs years if mods shifted ppls idea about what Stalker is, also a lot of players didnt even play OG games, only mods and bcs of that, there are everywhere videos with shifted ideas and opinions and if you dont know enough, you are just lost.
@ That’s exactly the case with me! I only played Stalker Anomaly a little bit. I had a different idea of what Stalker was supposed to be.
Lmao dude turn off enemy indicator because feel like cheating then download stamina and repair cost mod 😂
@@wojtekkozak2822 because stamina and repair costs are ABSOLUTELY INSANE! Completely unreasonable. The mods make things more BALANCED. Balancing is very important for games. And threat indicators are just lame. Takes no skill to find enemies when the game tells you the exact directions.
@Mr_Rage_Official i got you, but is not as bad when you have stamina artifact, and overall cost can live with too when have power artifact which help you lift more items to sell
@ hm. Good points. I honestly haven’t wanted to use artifacts because the couple times I did, I just got radiation the whole time. Those artifacts are tricky. Maybe I just have to understand how to use them better.
@@Mr_Rage_Official upgrade your armor / suit, you can get like 1-3 green slots - when you put artifact in green slot it does not make you harm from radiation, also there are artifact which reduce radiation effect, is nice in game mechanic worth a try
Stamina mechanics are designed you to find proper artifacts and not to loot everything as goblin. Repair mechanics are ok for now, nicely balanced, money here is valuable enough. Basically almost all mods in list are garbage that turns stalker into far cry😂
This review is a bit outdated.
1. Humans are easily killed and they always were as far as my game goes. All you need is one headshot to kill them, unless there is a helmet, then it's 2~3 shots. Some wear body armors, and take longer to kill with bodyshots, some don't. Common, man, fix your aim.
2. Performance, again, different people have different issues and even though the game is DEFINITELY in need of further optimization and tuning, some of the problems with performance are self-inflicted. For example, if you don't have high-end PC, don't play on Epic Settings. I have 3070 Ti and I play on Settings - High / Mode - Quality and with nearly 40 hrs in I've had not a single crash, occasional stuttering and some frame drop in outposts, that was before patches came in. Now I still get a rare stutter and that's it, so far anyway. Of course I haven't seen the entire game and it's possible that some problems may be waiting ahead but that's what I have right now.
3. Stealth is hit and miss. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Usually they don't see you if you come from behind. But if they are facing you, they might see you from far away even in the dark. (some do have night vision gargoyles, by the way, but I doubt that's the thing right now).
4. There IS a directional audio, otherwise I'd never pass a single bloodsucker. The only problem I have with the audio is that abrupts sometimes, just cuts itself off (music and radio only), not a smooth experience and IS annoying, but to say there is no directional audio is pure misinformation.
It would be nice, if people in their reviews localised some of the problems to their own experience without making it seen as everybody is bound to run into this.
Please dont buy this untill its fixed, you will be standing there then litrally you will get 3 people spawn in right next to you they dont miss and you cant see them, then for good luck a dog will spawn at your feet,bleed and health is garbage, just absaloutly broken in every way ,shame as first stalker is in my top 5 games of all time,