You basically have to keep hard terrain between you at all times if you want to actually stalk.
Which brings me to the other problem - AI ignore transparent textures such as grass & trees. I was trying to sneak into the Brain scorcher at 2 AM almost constantly prone in high grass without any noise yet patrols still spot me 90% of the time. Stalkers: Even with Hardcore aim turned off they insta lock on to me in pitch darkness as soon as they see a pixel of my head, making any stealth gameplay (which is the essence of the word STALKER) impossible less than 1km away from them. Now I'm very much aware that vanilla AI wasn't good to begin with but Anomaly devs took that and made it even more broken mess. As gorgeous and rich this mod is, there is one thing that completely ruins any sort of fun apart from exploring - The absolutely horrendous bullsh*t AI.
