S.T.A.L.K.E.R, Anyone playing it? Options

[Backgammon]

Anyone else pick this game up? I've played a bit so far, and it's pretty awesome. I have some big bugs, but they fall under "seriously annoying" and not "can't play the game".

Gunfights are really awesome, the AI is absolutely amazing. As good as FEAR's was, I'd say the AI is twice as good in this game.

Veteran difficulty level is the best experience. You'll die a lot, so save often, but it's still worth it. The highest setting, Master, is not fun. I've tried it (accidentally..) and dead people have like 4 rounds of ammo on them. So you never get ammo, so you have to basically make it through the game with your pistol and knife. At veteran you get enough ammo to at least have the same weapons as what is used against you.

Bug-wise, it's hit and miss. The game either runs super smoothly on your system, which doesn't have to be high-end, or you get massive problems, like me. For some god unknown reason the game won't load for me if I change my user preferences, and my system had huge fps problems at very precise places. I've managed to get around it, but it wasn't easy.

All in all, get it know if you have courage to potentially fight bugs, else wait till a patch. But eventually get it, it's an amazing game. I'd say it's a merge of FEAR, Fallout and Deux Ex - a pretty awesome combination.