18/07/2025
No wonder Scar went crazy later
Took me longer this time because patch 1.2 fixed some major quests in the game, and it kinda did, still buggy though but it worked.
My thoughts on CS Enhanced Edition:
- definitely buggier than original CS (and if you disagree, you clearly did not try CS EE yet), but not game breaking, just infuriating on some parts
- for the faction war, it is all good, same as usual
- achievement triggering is weird, it gets out of place or does not trigger at all, maybe just on my end - and i know it is a bad look, but i had to use the item spawner in Workshop because
1. not all unique gun quests appears on squad commanders (i only got the quests for inscribed pistol and tank MG, and other gun quests did not)
2. artifact spawns are still messed up (never found stone blood for the whole session)
3. not all unique item quests appear on squad commanders (never got the special medkit quest, the echo detector quest, and most importantly the scarlet flower quest)
- they fixed the integer overflow bug that affects the money (that one bug that can end up as negative, then if a bandit mugs you, your money will become 2 billion or so);
- they introduced a new bug (well i saw it in the community), where you can steal stuff from traders' inventory (and boy this is a fun bug)
I will continue playing it and try to win the faction war siding on the bandits. All in all, it is a fun experience.
I hope said bugs gets fixed if we get patch 1.3
On a related note, here is my playthrough back then where I only have a Makarov, and i cannot use medkits and artifacts (bandages are allowed because they only stop bleeding and not heal HP), and relies on food for recovery: https://youtu.be/Zsc2bsdn1fQ
Good Hunting!