Decided it was high time for me to finally man up and go through a playthrough of this. So I got SoC and the Complete mod. So far, loving the hell out of it. The atmosphere is insane. And the Complete mod really does some insane things. I'm running it on max and my god it is absolutely gorgeous. Also really love the AI and just all these small details I'm finding. I love walking around and seeing a pack of animals kill a bandit or stalker, and start to drag their corpse off. Or how other people will loot dead people. Or how the animals react to the weather or situation. Just all these small things the AI do that make it so much more immersive, it's like an actual food chain type deal. Pretty cool. I also got a side mod for Complete that increases realism in weapon ballistics and such, really liking that so far. Enemies drop a lot faster (loading an entire magazine to kill one guy really killed my fun) and so do I. One good bullet to my head, or even a quick burst and I'm dead before I know it. Even with the ballistics/damage mod I really didn't like how long it took to kill some enemies at longer ranges but then I just realized it's because the starter weapons have absolutely atrocious accuracy.
Definitely not excited for the bloodsucker or any of the other infamous enemies. I'm a bit of a pussy when it comes to FPS's but I'm hoping I can push through those parts so I can enjoy the other parts. I remember I first tried a playthrough with the complete mod when I first got this PC and I ran into some creature in a tunnel (the one that like zooms your camera onto his face and screams or whatever) and got scared shitless. Paused, saved, quit, and never really had the balls or motivation to touch it again. Hopefully this time I can push through.
EDIT: Came home today and tried to change my carry weight, looked up how to do it and proceeded to do so. Now it crashes everytime. Having to do a full re-install of the Complete Mod and may have to re-install base game as well if that doesn't work. Ugh.
