More Anomaly
New games don't look this good, don't have simulation systems this intricate, don't have this level of persistence, and don't run as well. What is happening?

Not much big has happened, just little anecdotes like the only viable emission shelter being occupied by a pseudogiant. Had the team hide while doing business with bandits. More safe areas being overrun, old allies wiped out.

Bought a Kar98 and ammo for some animal control, another pseudogiant living under the bridge and some cats near Skadovsk.

The big news, I finally have the artefacts needed to complete Hip's contract. It was mostly a matter of logistics, gathering the artefacts I had found in stashes across the Zone. Wrenched, Fireball, and Moonlight, which I'll need to bring in myself to get my share.

Calming trip to the Cordon, allied shelters always within reach. A cat ambush managed to knock out both of my weapons.

Rookie Village has been wiped out, probably retaliation from the military for that time we destroyed the armored vehicles on this road. At least Sidorovich is still alive.

Transaction complete, feels like an anticlimax

There's a little more to this. We have a talk outside of the bunker. Apparently she needs to cross the Barrier for her next contract, and once again I can get in on a 50% share for joining. I'll come back here after running some more errands.

Finally, back on the worksite, no more nagging wife

To those confounded by the first post in this thread:

This is the best a new game is going to look on my PC, with constant framerate issues. Physics and effects are awful or entirely disabled. Nothing is simulated outside of a 50 foot radius, I can turn around and shit despawns.