Clear Sky is the only game where this isn't true, even in fully upgraded exo you can die to one unlucky burst, because the gun damage and armor was overhauled from SoC.
Stop playing these games vanilla. Most mods solve that problem, be it Autumn Aurora, Misery, Anomaly, etc.
Ex-russian slav jank is pretty nice, Russia itself mostly just makes freemium games in all flavors from mobas, mmos, tank/plane games, battle royales, and shooters. They're almost a step below China in doing anything besides just chasing trends and money.
Clear Sky also had some crazy impressive texturework in its original areas. As silly as this may sound, I still recall how initially impressed I was when seeing the textures on the wooden bridge up close in the opening area.
It's supposed to be the same area, at least that is how it is taken by the folks posting that comparison elsewhere.
Not only that, Clear Sky is generally the most technically impressive title in the trilogy. It was one of the first games to implement Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (well), volumetric smoke, new dynamic sun rays, soft particles looked very nice. All of this made the atmosphere great. Crysis might have been the most advanced game at the time, but Clear Sky had areas that looked more immersive. The only bad aspect was the overused depth of field that was ugly, but luckily it can be turned off. When GSC released the DX 10.1 patch, few cards could handle it, but the ones that could would reward the player with impressive visuals.
Limansk was pretty boring, dude. It turned into Call of Duty. However, I do like the battles with the Monolith troopers.
What's the source of that, and from where does that second image come from --the leak? The building, road geometry and viewing angle look the same, but nothing else.
Can't say about style, unless the entire Zone looks more like one or the other image... All the buildings are different too, even the left one appears to have two small windows on its left side in the top image, but three in the bottom image.
True. Graphics technology is just a tool, it's how the artists use it that makes all the difference. Clear Sky still looks great today, even without mods: https://cs.stalker-game.com/en/?page=screens
No it's great. Just as atmospheric as SoC and with more gameplay mechanics. But I agree there's a difference. Both have similar ambience music, so maybe it's because SoC has less noises from wind, birds and insects than CS and CoP (less is more). Also the voice acting in CS is more humoristic compared with SoC. A fun experiment is to stand close to an NPC in CS without opening a dialog and enjoy their randomized vocal reactions (especially with bandits).
It's from the leaked build.
I mostly know the Zone from the original games, so I don't mind that look in Stalker 2 even if it's different from the real world. But I can't really say which one of the two pictures that looks more like the original games, the top one reminds me of Metro Exodus as well... More vegetation may also change the gameplay, since you can't see anyone hiding in the grass --if that's good or bad I have no idea.
I'd be shaking in my boots if they could actually hit the broad side of a barn. Or sneak. It's kind of hard when you shout "Vrag Monolita!" or something the moment you see the enemy.
I enjoyed it for what it was. You had Soviet standard and NATO standard, which was a nice touch. And there was enough gun variety to use whatever you enjoyed the most. Personally I loved FT-200M. I also used a sniper rifle in addition to my "primary" wepaon. While the main advantage of using Soviet guns was that ammo was more common (you could find it on looted enemies), but you could always buy NATO ammo from vendors and be more conservative with its use. Gunplay wasn't perfect, sure, but sure as hell it was fun to engage in.
What is bad about it? Shotguns are the best choice against mutants throughout the game, and AKMs can be looted from military NPCs from the start.
Only some let you use scopes, grenade launchers, silencers or 2/3-burst modes. I think other stats differ as well, but haven't looked into it.
It's a great (but rare) weapon for close/medium range, but the Vintar has better accuracy and damage. I suppose you can bring only the Tunder 5.45 and use it against both humans and mutants to keep down inventory weight, but perhaps the extra ammo required for spraying mutants would offset the weight gain.
Its barrel is almost 1.5 time as long as stock AK. It would have higher damage and longer range at a cost of weight (which should hurt time to aim and wobble when not in lowest possible stance) and length (a handful of games properly implement minimum gun distance, but most don't).
