Zone of Alienation mod review by C-zom

What's up with the negative votes? If you have 1.0004 this is THE SHOC mod to get. If you're on 1.005 or steam and don't feel like doing registry edits, you're missing out. I'm a huge stalker fan down to the launch-day times. I'm hooked on the atmosphere, gunplay, a-life, immersion, eeriness, and ZoA exemplifies all this much better than any other shoc mods I've played with, perhaps, the exception of AMK Complete but ZoA will surpass that with consistent patching. The magazine mode is fine, it gives you stuff to do besides die--I mean wait to die -- at campfires. Stealth works with his tweaked AI, so you can sneak the hell around at night. Monster hitboxes are sturdier and a-life for them is superior, so you can get hunted by bloodsuckers for a while like old times. The new medical system has way too little documentation and it seems cool, but I just sell all the crap and buy medkits. :V New weapons are tweaked, I love the depth of field and visuals -- they blow CoP out of the water once you get out of Cordon with it's vomit green ground texture. Nothing quite like a rain coat, ppsh, mosin nagant, anti-rads, and dying at the hands of bloodsuckers. My only complaint is headshots are not brutal enough. I put 4 precious bullets into a bandit when starting out and blood flew out of his head, but he only died from having no freaking bandages like 15 seconds later. I'm not the only one to notice this. This is fixed in Garbage onwards, when you get sturdier guns. Unarmored combatants simply need to die quicker or get stunlocked easier to decrease their proneness to RAMBO BLAST your ass in Cordon. Download ZoA soon, Stalker? NOW.What's up with the negative votes? If you have 1.0004 this is THE SHOC mod to get. If you're on 1.005 or steam and don't feel like doing registry edits, you're missing out. I'm a huge stalker fan down to the launch-day times. I'm hooked on the atmosphere, gunplay, a-life, immersion, eeriness, and ZoA exemplifies all this much better than any other shoc mods I've played with, perhaps, the exception of AMK Complete but ZoA will surpass that with consistent patching. The magazine mode is fine, it gives you stuff to do besides die--I mean wait to die -- at campfires. Stealth works with his tweaked AI, so you can sneak the hell around at night. Monster hitboxes are sturdier and a-life for them is superior, so you can get hunted by bloodsuckers for a while like old times. The new medical system has way too little documentation and it seems cool, but I just sell all the crap and buy medkits. :V New weapons are tweaked, I love the depth of field and visuals -- they blow CoP out of the water once you get out of Cordon with it's vomit green ground texture. Nothing quite like a rain coat, ppsh, mosin nagant, anti-rads, and dying at the hands of bloodsuckers. My only complaint is headshots are not brutal enough. I put 4 precious bullets into a bandit when starting out and blood flew out of his head, but he only died from having no freaking bandages like 15 seconds later. I'm not the only one to notice this. This is fixed in Garbage onwards, when you get sturdier guns. Unarmored combatants simply need to die quicker or get stunlocked easier to decrease their proneness to RAMBO BLAST your ass in Cordon. Download ZoA soon, Stalker? NOW.