A new patch has been released for Stalker, moving the games version number to 1.0003. I have no idea why they selected such a ridiculous version number system, one may worry at the number of fixes the team thinks it will take to get to version 1.1 😉 .
This patch doesn’t break previous savegames and your saves from 1.0001 should all work just fine. There are some AI tweaks as well as general game stability issues, including multiplayer features and stability tweaks.
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