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I played this a while back when I ran through all three games and it was extremely fun. I'm glad to see it's finally going to be finished.
Also, if you ever wanted to just play through the games normally, look for the Complete mods (SoC is just called Stalker Complete 2009). If I remember correctly 2009 and CoP Complete actually fix a lot of the bugs in the game, but Clear Sky Complete just improves the graphics and adds dynamic weather. It didn't fix any bugs that I'm aware of because I lost a save file with 7 hours after I got stuck in a loading zone that crashed upon entering which corrupted my save file.
I think I was one of the few who were able to finish all three games without any major issues, even though people complained about CS being broken to the point it was unplayable. I just remember God Rays brought the game to a screeching halt (and even on my system now I was still lagging with everything maxed out).
You could ignore the raids and it didn't really affect much once you pushed the bandits back into their little camp. You could also stay neutral between Freedom and Duty or pick one and obliterate the other. The story was actually pretty fun and I think it has a better single player experience than SoC. They did go in a weird direction with Clear Sky with the story, but it was still fun. I personally still love playing Clear Sky even with its major bugs.but I hated Clear Sky. I wanted to explore and not be bothered every 5 minutes because bandits were attacking some camp I didn't care about. I never finished that game, did it ever get better?