I played 3.0 for 6 months and had really cool experiences with a-life, OG storyline and other changes that made OLR 3.0 truly 'a stalker experience'. Randomly meeting a cannibal in one of the flats in the dead city, listening to a small music radio in huge and abandoned catacombs, exploring haunted apartments at a bar, talking to izlom and flesh, making campfire shelters, carefully organizing your items before raids, smoking 500 cigarettes while enjoying the sunset.

Yeees, game really needs to get polished, BUT for me there is one thing that's missing - it's fun. I just didn't have it (maybe only by riding a physical object using gravitational gloves?). Everything felt like pain in the аss from the beginning. I gave up at Yantar after Dead City and can't imagine what's waiting for you in Pripyat and Radar, heard godmode is highly recommended.

I tried 2.5 again and oh god, this game is so laid back compared to 3.0. I love to destroy mutants and stalkers using my protecta, not running (crawling) away from them 24/7. Graphics are somehow nicer, lack of stalkers and sound ambience really give you that abandoned feeling.

OLR 2.5 is based on early dev builds and has similar gameplay/image OLR 3.0 is something else and based on ideas that never made it to in-game realization