S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Cost of Hope

This DLC was great, honestly prefer the story of this compared to the main game. All the new areas the game added were spectacular. One area in particular had me hooked like never in this game before, spectacular level with the Duty Storyline. I love duty.

la parte de lymansk está god

Гра перестала запускатись (модів не встановлював раніше)

Покупал длс на сталкера, не понял токо как в бекрумсе оказался

amazing addition to base game, so many new gameplay features created for this storyline. fantastic locations, solid quests, somewhat emotional story, thanks GSC, that was incredible.

The story is mumbo jumbo, just like the plotline for the main campaign. There is very little new. Just some cutscenes and some bad voice acting. A few quests that drags you across the world to pick up this thing or talk to that person. You're constantly served techno babble for dialogue, nothing makes any sense. The new enemies and weapons aren't anything special or interesting. And don't get me started on the infuriating new Amok mutant. Frustration incarnate. The expansion released alongside the big 2.0 update for the main game, which promises big performance improvements, bug fixes and an overhaul to the game's AI. I see none of those improvements. The AI is still brain dead (shooty enemies stand in the open and shoot at you still, chargy melee enemies charge at you still). The performance is OK, but not good. It hasn't improved. Major bugs still prevail. This "expansion" costs way too much, took way too long to release, and offers way too little both in terms of gameplay content and storytelling. This DLC costs more than most expansions and even a lot of really good full g ames, and yet it's just a few hours of actual gameplay. It's a DLC. Not an expansion.

Great story and atmosphere. What could be a great game if it were not still held back by technical issues and bugs (old and new). That this game is aging and still is not what most reasonable players would consider finished is a bad look for the studio. Basic core features that made the original games so iconic are now painted on instead of integrated into the experience. The current A-life is a mask for the substandard AI instead of a real feature, where the original was groundbreaking. Too much talent has been lost to time and the war in Ukraine. A treat for Stalker fans but not worth the time or money if you're not invested enough in the lore to suffer through the experience. This expansion is truly the cost of hope. About 30 bucks to just find out this game is still broken in so many fundamental ways.