vanilla stalker is not hard at all on any of the games. the worst it ever got was clear sky towards the end where grenades were being flung at you every five seconds in compact areas. closest outside of what is what, your first bloodsucker encounter in soc because the room's so big? controllers are the hardest the game ever gets and that's only because of their high damage and the way they mess with your screen, and even then for the most part they're only in very specific areas where you can just unload full magazines into them from a mile away. modded stalker is the only time it ever becomes difficult, and that's solely because they pile on a billion features to either make you dehydrated in five seconds from looking at water, hungry from sprinting for one second, make enemies cause you to bleed out in seconds, or rework the first aid system so that bandages and first aid kits are extremely rare and being damaged at all is extremely crippling. for crying out loud, one of the first things you typically do in soc is grab the armor from the roof near where you spawn, walk to the army base blocking the way into the zone, kill a guy, steal his gun, and then gun down the entire army base because of how dumb the ai is and how easy it is to headshot one of them. even better if you kill some bandits on the way there to upgrade to a rifle before you do it.
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