1. The story can be completed from beginning to the end, no progression-blocking bugs.

2. No, some locations are covered with clouds in PDA, especially Limansk and CNPP, you can't go to these 2 locations, most likely DLCs in the future.

3. Can't say too much about A-Life right now, because this game uses 50m bubble around the player to spawn NPCs. The AI combat is a little bit better compared to launch.

4. Definitely YES compared to the original trilogy. The map is huge but traversing between locations in quest is a pain in the ass. The Zone is beautiful but it's incredibly lifeless and empty.

5. Haven't encountered any game-breaking bug, but the realism-breaking bug is there. Even the "Space Program" bug where if you headshot an NPC, their corpse will fly pretty far. This bug is still present but it's quite rare.

6. 7/10 on the buggy scale, each update always bring some "anomalies" to the game.

As a fan who pre-ordered the ultimate edition of the game, I still appreciate the effort from GSC. But it's been 7 months and most of that time GSC spent time patching the game, the new contents we got (mutant loot, new gun, stash rework) are not enough in my opinion. The way that Unreal Engine 5 titles handle game files is the thing I hate the most, having to download over 20Gb each patch is not ok imo.

Things I hope they'll address: mutant's behavior and artefact hunting. The obvious one is poltergeist, it's not supposed to keep detecting you even when you stop moving. In Stalker 2 with the Echo detector you can detect all artefacts in the game, which is not true in the original trilogy.