This mod aims to make the game of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. more enjoyable by promoting realism, tactics, and longevity. Accomplished through extensive tweaking of default files, and various items added to the game, Redux is an extensive overhaul of the GSC PC game designed to please both the hardcore, and the casual, gamer.
The largest changes to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. come in combat, where firefights are now frighteningly realistic. Weapons are more powerful, enemies are more tactful, and bullets fly true-to-life. If you're the stealthy type, an array of integrated and attachable silencers that mask your attack from the foe will come in handy, as will the ability to equip them to many more weapons than normal. Armor will be your best friend, but will degrade more and more rapidly as you take fire, and you're no longer limited to the standard array: 9 new pieces of body armor have been added as a means to protect your miserable hide from the onslaught for another minute. Even artifacts will play a larger part in your survival, as you quickly realize your belt only has room for so many enhancements.
Even the economy is against you as you struggle against the Zone itself, with stalkers paying an all-time low for jobs offered, and just as ready to stab you in the back as to pay up. Weapons in the Zone have become little more than pieces of scrap, and traders are quickly getting sick of paying top dollar for old equipment. Enemies, too, have taken to using less ammunition, and you'll be hard-pressed to keep your handful of bullets in your pocket. Your one saving grace is in artifacts, what every stalker is here for. Traders will be glad to pay out many rubles for a high-grade artifact, and it's very much worth your time keeping an eye out for them as you attempt to regain your memory.
In recent years, the area around Chernobyl has gone from unstable to volatile, and anomalies that once agitated stalkers now kill them with deadly randomness. Invisible thanks to a new wave of radiation, traders have taken to stocking special radiation detectors to combat the growing threat.
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Redux aims to make the Zone into the place we all wanted it to be, but be careful what you wish for, stalker. You just might get it.