I'm a newb who started with GWX, never played stock at all. Can't say I regret the decision.
It's hard, but then, I chose to go near-full realism right out of the gate (I leave on event cam, since I need to see what's happening while I learn). I've added some other mods that give me more tools for plotting and calculating (OLC Gold, ACM+ACM Lite map).
GWX has a lot of optional mods with it, an amazing manual, plus many of the other mods I've seen in the downloads section are either compatible or built specifically for it.
GWX seems similar in concept to the Complete mods for the STALKER games. Those are basically super-vanilla. They fix the bugs, add features that should have been in the game but weren't due to time constraints or whatever (or could have been but weren't due to limitations of technology or whatever), and pretty it up a whole bunch. They're kind of like the game as it should have been, had the developers had infinite time and money.
Any STALKER players here? Does that comparison fit?
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