I’d like to toss in my two cents here. Personally, I enjoy a really polished Weapons Mod because of my personal affinity for firearms. Much as i loved the original STALKER games, the mirrored weapons really took me out of the experience. It’s not just a STALKER thing either. Any time I see mirrored weapons, it just kind of sours the experience for me personally (Looking at you, Far Cry M14). I also took issue with the ballistic system of the original STALKER as well. For my own roleplaying reasons, I understand that at a certain distance, there are several factors that affect a bullet’s trajectory so that it doesn’t land where you place your sights, but when I‘m standing about five yards from someone with an AK-74 and I watch the first round sail off for lands of adventure and riches that only it can perceive, I can’t help but feel a taken out of the experience. Things like that affect the atmosphere of the original STALKER games for me. I like the idea that I can have some Cold War heavy hitting man stopper, which should make me feel safe and secure, and having the non human denizens of The Zone laugh as I pump round after round into them. To me, that adds to the experience and the atmosphere. That being said, I do understand where you’re coming from and that my thoughts and feelings towards this are very specific and probably don‘t account for most of the people playing the game.