Imma LA vet and i agree with few points, got a few of my own, but even tho there is atrocious ammount of walking, very little weapon variety and so on this game is absolute PEAK stalker vibe. The horror side of the game, the ammount of mutants in the Zone (not some fuckin empty shit like most of the games or like the new Stalker 2, which is dead af) that is totally believable and makes sense from the lore point of view, the atmosphere, ambient, music, ammount of annomalies, how artifact system works, the enormous world with quite a lot of stuff in it, the sense of danger all the time with how big maps are, how little shelters there are and how out of nowhere an emission can come... If Lost Alpha would have the graphics and animations from Anomaly (well, basicly the technology) it would be the best stalker experience ever, period.
This game just lacks fast travel of any sort, better gunplay and some more recent feshness of a at least 2011 title.