Yeah, i thought about CoP with "-_-" face before its relase, coz CS was fail and i thoght GSC will not "repair" Stalker (those will make new addons "better and better" xD). When i found, how CoP story starts and what is task i've LOLed - true Priboy Story. Oh, no, Dektyarev Story, OK?
Do you know why LA is greatest mod? It has it's own 26 levels, uncopied from somewhere else. Maybe for SoC are few mods with 26+ levels (SoC+CS+CoP+few own), but that is not totally new game! There was one mod with it's own levels without any others, but that mod is sucks coz those levels were poor. And there were only few levels.
It's hard to count relase date, i don't depend on my "relase_date.script" because all development stages needs different time to be completed. And there may be few problems, those will need extra time to be solved.
After all, i want ask you :"did you finished weapon upgrade system for all weapons, or you still need to write upgrades for many weapons?"