Stalker games getting very good these days.

User made mods based upon the Stalker franchise are getting very complicated and very detailed these days. There is Stalker Anomaly, Misery and Dead Air. Anomaly and Dead Air offer many more maps and weapons as well as a lot of new items. Also, the Last Stand mode that is a world empty of other stalkers, and populated just by Mutants and anomalies. That is very challenging. There is no way to spawn a Trader, so you just have to loot the world for cool stuff and hope that zombies have supplies on them. But it is still a very good game mode. There is no-one at Rostok. So you can investigate the area behind the bar. With no one guarding the entrances, it would be possible for zombies to get in and wreck your day.

But that would be part of the fun of such a game mode. The new maps, such as Generators, which was cut from Shadow of Chernobyl, and Dead City, are great examples of map making. Generators is a very empty map in terms of stalkers and mutants, but there are Anomalies. And the Monolith War Lab. Dead Air adds poisonous gas in Wild Territory and Lab X-18. this means that the player needs an oxygen tank or a SEVA suit to survive. This adds to the difficulty, and if the player encounters a strong psi field, they die instantly. That makes Lab X-16 difficult without the psi helmet.But you can order one from the scientist in the bunker. You need the fully tuned psi helmet to go into X-16. Otherwise you will die instantly when you come into view of the big brain room with the spiral staircase.

Some maps like Truck Cemetery are just a huge field full of wrecks of trucks, and helicopters. All of the vehicles used in the cleanup of the Chernobyl accident were dumped here. There are zombies and mutants here. A lot of them. Very dangerous place. But fun to explore. Use the trucks as islands to jump onto to avoid Snorks and Bloodsuckers. A couple of high watchtowers to use for sniping enemies from a distance. Some anomalies, especially in the ravine. There are also piles of junk, rather like the ones in the Garbage map. Radioactive though. The main use of the Truck Cemetery map is a way to get to the Army Warehouses from Rostok. But dangerous though. I guess it is a good place to look for loot crates, there are a few around, and explosive barrels that can be pushed down on top of mutants and then shot. That is a lot of fun. Blowing up Bloodsuckers and Snorks with a barrel never gets old. The biggest mod for Stalker is NS OP2. That has countless quests and runs for over 600 hours playtime. That is a lot of game-play.