dezodor 2hours 54mins ago replied:
I think it was obvious that we are not doing a build-merge mod for very long. Lost Alpha could have been released in 2009 summer if we only aim to do such remake, because the maps and basic random alife, weather, r1 render already existed back then. But we wanted more, something unique, which differs from the mayority, because after we released all betas the whole essence became a little bit obsolute. If you want to see the old, then either download all the old builds and play in them, you will get bored very soon, or download one of the mods who only aim to return the maps to a newer engine (soc, cop) with their own faults and bugs. Our game has a lot of common things with the old stalker, such as several story quests, remade features like pda chat, weapon shaking, cars with openable doors and trunk, (just to mention some) and the remade maps, even if they were remade, they are based on the old one, just they were updated to nowdays standards with hd/hq models, and better design. So what now? We have tons of more features, not only those which existed in 2003-4, or were in the plans back then, is that a big problem? We have 30 maps instead of 18 redesigned old maps, is that a big problem? We have a nice long story based on the old, but with many new parts. It cannot be accepted? We are surely DEVILS :)