I've finally started on this game (after having bought it in September, five whole months ago), and I'm digging it. I'm just barging through the main story first of all though, getting used to the STALKER universe again, after having had a great time playing the original STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl. I'm still relatively early on into the game, but I'm currently hanging out doing tasks for Freedom so I can see their boss in the Dark Valley. And when I entered The Garbage, I get held up by a gang of Bandits, initially I complied but found they took all my sodding cash - so I wasn't having that - went back to the prevous save, came back and slaughtered the lot of them with my hunting rifle, muahahahaaaaaa.