Has anyone actually completed the campaign?

[Oedipus's Stepdad]

How many times did you have to reload because of bugs? I'm kind of done at this point with this dogsh*t of a "product". This shouldn't have been released.

[Nite69]

i completed the stalker side (Gaffer) compain twice, I havn't been able to do it once yet on WARD side because it had way more problems

and yes I know that ward endings are possible by switching over on a specific stalker mission, but ward side has different locations on certain misisons then stalker side does so its still worth a full playthrough on ward side when it will be fixed

[Oedipus's Stepdad]

Originally posted by Nite69:

i completed the stalker side (Gaffer) compain twice, I havn't been able to do it once yet on WARD side because it had way more problems

and yes I know that ward endings are possible by switching over on a specific stalker mission, but ward side has different locations on certain misisons then stalker side does

I've completely lost confidence in this game. Spent hours farming for artifacts, fighting and looting, exploring the map, and actually playing the game, thinking I'm actually making some progress? Nope, gotta reload a save hours back because SOMETHING's broken. I'd say wait a few months for the devs to fix this, but I don't think their country is going to exist in a few months so no hope for future patches as well. That they're advertising this as a future multiplayer game is actually insane.

[Opti1cs]

I actually just finished the campaign, on gamepass, and I must say that that it was not worth playing this game. The story was really hard to follow, might be my own fault, but in the end I really didn't care. I think mainly because of the poor gameplay and phasing of the story. And of course the bugs.

But, for me, what really broke this game was that after the first few hours I wasn't having fun. Map is way to big and lifeless, same encounters over and over. No real difference between the different areas. It's like there is a spawn zone around you on like 150 m. Outside of this zone there is no life and entities spawn around you from time to time. But it makes traveling through the zone pointless. I don't know how many times I scouted an area with a sniper rifle and didn't see a single enemy. But when I got there on foot they had spawned in.

The economy is broke. You are forced to pick up weapons, but hauling them back to the merchants is painful due to the stamina bar. Repairing gear cost a fortune and everything weights you down.

Broken AI. The fights quickly became repetitive and "boss" fights felt uninspired. Set pieces weren't that great either, with a few exceptions.

Horrible flashlight in a lot of dark environments. You must traverse the large map with a stamina bar that forces you to stop and rest so i regenerates. No real reward for exploration.

The only thing that I enjoyed was the are direction on the environments. The broken and rusty eastern Europe aesthetic is really nice.

Really such a shame, that they released this game in this state. At least for me.

[Nite69]

Originally posted by Opti1cs:

The economy is broke. You are forced to pick up weapons, but hauling them back to the merchants is painful due to the stamina bar. Repairing gear cost a fortune and everything weights you down.

I at least have a solution for ya on this one, drop them at the nearest yellow box you are too, then access the yellow box in rostok and sell them all to ragman, he buys everything even red gear condition

No need to walk around the entire map with the loot that way

[T-ri(izzy)]

I'm soft locked on the WIshful Thinking mission and it took 3 days and talking to 4* different people from the support team to even get some sort of advice to fix my problem, it didn't work though. What a let down, I'm hoping slightly that it gets review bombed after they told me in an email that future updates may not fix my issue and even cause more.

[Othobrithol]

Twice, although the achievement for my ward run didn't pop. I'm nearly done with my third (Spark) run.

Yes, there were bug and glitches. Was still worth every minute.

If you aren't having fun, don't play it.

[Skillet]

I completed Ward side and am now doing a 2nd playthru (stalker). Had to reload more than a few times because of memory leak, mostly Rostok. Fantastic game minus the bugs.

[T-ri(izzy)]

was about to close the page before I saw someone telling me not to play it, I can't quote for some reason but I will say; not like I could anyways, probably like a lot of other people lmao

[Nite69]

Originally posted by Vi'ir Jul K'hane:

Only 23% of Steam players have killed Faust; so it would be less than that finishing the game.

https://steamcommunity.com/stats/1643320/achievements

the ward storyline gets blocked right at that faust misison is most likely why that number is low, only stalker side can complete it

[Vi'ir Jul K'hane]

Only 23% of Steam players have killed Faust; so it would be less than that finishing the game.

https://steamcommunity.com/stats/1643320/achievements

[Othobrithol]

Originally posted by Nite69:

Originally posted by Vi'ir Jul K'hane:

Only 23% of Steam players have killed Faust; so it would be less than that finishing the game.

https://steamcommunity.com/stats/1643320/achievements

the ward storyline gets blocked right at that faust misison is most likely why that number is low, only stalker side can complete it

Not true. It can get blocked certainly, not arguing that. But that's fundamentally different than it will always get blocked.

Save Early, Save Often. When you revert, go back to before your current quest stage or outside the location if possible.

[Slackerdude74]

Yes about 2 weeks ago I completed the Ward side and it took me about 200 hours, and now I have another 40 hours in my second playthrough.
Didn’t have any major issues just some minor issues like the shader cache issues(fixed) and some odd graphical bugs(fixed) and being in Rostok inventory game freeze(fixed?), and the mutant loot mod issue that crashed the game while in the inventory so uninstalled the mod and then go back to a save before the mod was installed and then the game worked.

[Vi'ir Jul K'hane]

Originally posted by Nite69:

Originally posted by Vi'ir Jul K'hane:

Only 23% of Steam players have killed Faust; so it would be less than that finishing the game.

https://steamcommunity.com/stats/1643320/achievements

the ward storyline gets blocked right at that faust misison is most likely why that number is low, only stalker side can complete it

You can scroll down to see the end game achievements. I used the Faust achievement as a ballpark.

[[Ki]Tsopu*]

I've finished the game about 4 times so far. I had no issues with the Ward side. I sided with Strelok once. I haven't sided with Spark as I just don't like that faction. The Ward side is actually the easiest route in my opinion.

[Othobrithol]

Originally posted by Tsopu:

I The Ward side is actually the easiest route in my opinion.

Totally. Everyone I have talked to about this game, I have told them to go Ward the first run.