- enemies even on hard difficulty hit you across half the map with a sawed off shotgun
- shooting feels awful, your bullets literally fly everywhere else than where you aim
- even when sniping you can literally fire 20 shots before killing a single zombie, because 17 shots randomly miss
- almost every hit you take causes you to bleed
- to stop bleeding, you now have to use 2 bandages
- bandages are now rare, you'll have only handful of them
- you don't find info on hidden loot from looting dead enemies, now you pay for that info with money
- stashes that you pay for, mostly contain a medkit or useless cheap gun, not artifacts like in previous game
-upgrade system for weapons and armor, where you spend thousands of rubles on getting the gun to maybe hit an enemy
- mandatory sequences, where you lose everything, money and guns
- NPC help and AI in general, atrocious, they're supposed to help you capture an area, you kill all enemies and they come 10 minutes later and you're supposed to wait there for their glorious arrival
- even when you join a faction and raid the enemy's faction base and kill everyone in it, there's generic Congratulation to everyone who's participated ... you were there alone, your faction friends then take 10 mins to show up and just go to a corner of the base, they don't even capture the area - and the reward for it is, frankly laughable
- NPCs scam you even harder for when you're trying to sell items, be it even your faction, 5k for a gun that costs 50k, 250 for 6k gun and so on
- artifacts are now basically non existent, they're right next to anomalies and you have to "detect them" by switching a mode on anomaly detector, which isn't even in the settings on how to do it, so you google: Shift + G
- anomalies are now often almost invisible and most instantly kill you, but enemies don't run into them, wild life doesn't run into them, it's there just to annoy you and you alone
- scripted events of "HEY, help us defend this point from enemies", aimboting enemies that hit you across half the map, cause you to bleed, you're very low on bandages which are the only things that can stop bleeding, you kill all the bandits / other faction, get thanked by the people you've just saved and ... you get little bit of money, NOT from them directly, no you have to go visit their base ...
- running is pain, welcome to slow walking everywhere, your stamina depletes very quickly even with just two guns and some ammo for them, god forbid that you'd like to loot the enemies you've just killed and sell the weapons in order to make a bit of money in order to upgrade your guns or armor, no no no
- story, is somehow really bad, now there's tons of long paragraphs of "story" and nonsense events, you don't really have choice in it and it's not enjoyable or interesting, especially for Shadow of Chernobyl stalkers
- literally copy pasted game, it's so hard copy pasted that most time they call you "stalker", but you play as Mercenary
- enemies throw grenades, while yelling stupid insults - and these grenades kill you instantly, sometimes you don't even have chance to move, don't forget to quick save before even the stupidest encounters

[h1]Far weaker and worse than the first S.T.A.L.K.E.R., not worth the nerves and cheap instant deaths, slow walking around, looting mostly useless junk instead of artifacts or frustration from missing most shots because "upgrades" exist...[/h1] - enemies even on hard difficulty hit you across half the map with a sawed off shotgun - shooting feels awful, your bullets literally fly everywhere else than where you aim - even when sniping you can literally fire 20 shots before killing a single zombie, because 17 shots randomly miss - almost every hit you take causes you to bleed - to stop bleeding, you now have to use 2 bandages - bandages are now rare, you'll have only handful of them - you don't find info on hidden loot from looting dead enemies, now you pay for that info with money - stashes that you pay for, mostly contain a medkit or useless cheap gun, not artifacts like in previous game -upgrade system for weapons and armor, where you spend thousands of rubles on getting the gun to maybe hit an enemy - mandatory sequences, where you lose everything, money and guns - NPC help and AI in general, atrocious, they're supposed to help you capture an area, you kill all enemies and they come 10 minutes later and you're supposed to wait there for their glorious arrival - even when you join a faction and raid the enemy's faction base and kill everyone in it, there's generic Congratulation to everyone who's participated ... you were there alone, your faction friends then take 10 mins to show up and just go to a corner of the base, they don't even capture the area - and the reward for it is, frankly laughable - NPCs scam you even harder for when you're trying to sell items, be it even your faction, 5k for a gun that costs 50k, 250 for 6k gun and so on - artifacts are now basically non existent, they're right next to anomalies and you have to "detect them" by switching a mode on anomaly detector, which isn't even in the settings on how to do it, so you google: Shift + G - anomalies are now often almost invisible and most instantly kill you, but enemies don't run into them, wild life doesn't run into them, it's there just to annoy you and you alone - scripted events of "HEY, help us defend this point from enemies", aimboting enemies that hit you across half the map, cause you to bleed, you're very low on bandages which are the only things that can stop bleeding, you kill all the bandits / other faction, get thanked by the people you've just saved and ... you get little bit of money, NOT from them directly, no you have to go visit their base ... - running is pain, welcome to slow walking everywhere, your stamina depletes very quickly even with just two guns and some ammo for them, god forbid that you'd like to loot the enemies you've just killed and sell the weapons in order to make a bit of money in order to upgrade your guns or armor, no no no - story, is somehow really bad, now there's tons of long paragraphs of "story" and nonsense events, you don't really have choice in it and it's not enjoyable or interesting, especially for Shadow of Chernobyl stalkers - literally copy pasted game, it's so hard copy pasted that most time they call you "stalker", but you play as Mercenary - enemies throw grenades, while yelling stupid insults - and these grenades kill you instantly, sometimes you don't even have chance to move, don't forget to quick save before even the stupidest encounters