Well, overall the impressions are positive. A redesigned and seamless, and most importantly more detailed world, more fierce mutants with changed attack tactics, new anomalies and artifacts. What more does a Stalker fan need?!
Of course, there are also a lot of minuses so far. Here you have no optimization, half-finished A-Live, bugs, and other nasty things. Of course, fans of Stalker are no strangers to this; all this was present in the entire previous line, but “new stalkers” may be scared off. On the one hand, it’s good that the developers did not waste time on trifles and immediately put the game on the rails of the latest Unreal Engine 5, this opens up the possibility of later implementing some new graphics and gameplay features, on the other hand, the above-mentioned bugs and problems with optimization. But for me personally, as an old stalker, the game in general really suited me, fortunately the modders are already doing their best, both in terms of optimization and gameplay.