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

It had it's moments but overall I didn't enjoy it. Way too much platforming, generally annoying mechanics/enemies, and the boss fight against [spoiler]Zulu[/spoiler] was horrible. I didn't even like either main character; I just looked up the rewards for killing them and decided who to side with that way. Not sure if it was from the DLC or 2.0 update but I kept getting 2 quick hitches in rapid succession every so often. Also, had some minor bugs with bodies or weapons floating in the air. No other major issues. The game still needs mods to be enjoyable and resemble the original games. I'll give them credit for the mod support but most of the vanilla game is meh.

10/10 ABSOLUTE CINEMA 地图设计完美 剧情完美 氛围完美 新机制完美 演出完美 除了仍有奇异搞笑bug和俩人闹掰的过程有点闹麻以外都是完美

It's parkour rubbish, don't buy it. The developer is clearly Miyazaki levels of smug ♥♥♥♥. The simp bait really doesn't even have compelling reasoning. The other guy is just soy for the sake of it. Every bit of this is not 'How cool was that?'. It's all 'Christ, I am so glad that ♥♥♥♥ is over.'. Skip this one lads... Oh right, I am not even done. The Duga skip... You still have to fight Faust. Jesus, so they are pro actively filling the game with ♥♥♥♥ experiences and the skip litterally drops you off hours from another ♥♥♥♥ experience.

7.5 (maybe 8) out of 10. Well fleshed-out new NPC's, some of the storyline is cool, some of the side quests are great too. Some cool new locations. But a few things here and there made me not want to play it as much as the base game. Didn't like the trip through the bubble (whatever that displaced Resident Evil town was, repetitive and didn't feel like I was playing a STALKER game anymore). Can't stand fighting AMOK when they appear (overpowered and doesn't feel like something from STALKER lore to me). Having to run from cover to cover everywhere because of that yellow flare makes me want to play it less when I have to deal with it. And what are binoculars even for? I can't remember any place I needed them. Didn't like the main story final battle. Overall, this DLC is well done though and worth the price of admission. Just a few major things I didn't like that lessened the whole overall experience for me. Solid, but could have been even better.

ТУПА СИНЕМА

Sorry but no. The fight with the Amok is just horrible. I can deal with the first two weak points, but the third is just ridiculous. You have no time to react to be able to shoot at the third weak spot at all. I searched online and some forums said to bait it into a charge by standing still, like when it initially comes out of its room, but that is the only time it does that throughout the whole fight, and I've tried standing still in a straight line to it from across the arena multiple times. How am I supposed to get behind it when its jump HOMES IN ON YOU! I do not know who is responsible with playtesting and greenlighting this fight, but they need to given a serious conversation regarding their competency. I stand by what I said above - it is a horribly-designed fight. I will add that this is not my first Stalker 2 go-through; I was paying attention to weight vs speed, and was wearing a SEVA-V and using Sledgehammer. Not BIS, but not terrible either. I did get past the fight; he glitched on a corpse and I used underhanded-tossed grenades for them to end rolling just behind him, nailing his last weakpoint and finally downing him. The I hit F5 like a crack addict in a whorehouse. He is not hard to avoid if you keep your distance and judge your speed wisely, just impossible to do so AND aim (NOT ADS) and hit his last weakpoint. The first two weakpoints are easy/manageable (for Stalker). The rest of the DLC is beautiful and a must-get. It also runs butter-smooth. So I'm moving my thumbs-down to thumbs-up. I don't know; maybe I was just having a bad day. My best wishes to Ukraine.

it was worth every penny!

This gets a negative review just because of The Forgotten side quest and the fact the game is forcing player to perform terrible jumping puzzles scatterd all around a big area just to actually open the said area for exploration (if you skip it you will die in almost any open area because of the terribly designed Flare anomaly). This is extremely bad game design and genuinely I have never seen something that dumb in an open world game. The DLC itself is pretty mid with introducing a few decent guns and not very interesting plot taking place in the new CNPP area. If you have this already with buying ultimate edition I guess it's fine to play but actually spending money for it as a separate purchase does not sound like a good idea.