Got some mails recently, plus seeing many ppl ask about progress EVERYWHERE, decided to sum it up the situation here, for those, who like numbers.
In our theory, the game consists 3 parts, the levels, features, and storyline with tasks.
The levels were finished last year, we are just fixing bugs now, so we can safely say, its 100% ready. There won't be more maps, nor less, the final number of levels is 26 (with 2 surprise levels ...nah actually all the 26 levels are big surprise, but that 2 will definitely bring a huge smile and "omfg!!!!" on stalker fan's faces).
Features. The main features were finalized last summer, and finished in autumn. Currently we are bugfixing them if necessary, but not adding new ones, nor removing any we made so far. There are some really big surprise for the old stalker fans, but probably will be refreshing for newbies too. I can more-or-less safely say 100%.
Storyline and tasks. We have a ca. 100 pages long design document, which will be released with LA. We are following the storyline prescribed in that document, and filling the maps with alife-quests according to that order. Our beloved game designers are doing their freetime job pretty well, they just started to work with the 20th level of 26. I could say 6 levels left to do, but first we only implement the main storyline with alife, camps, general lagers, lairs. Later, if we finish all 26 levels, we will have ti fill them with side quests as well, and adding stashes, blowout shelters for ai and player, and many small things, which require a little bit more work
Progress is around 75%.
So if we sum the 3 values, we can say, that overall progress is around 90% ... but as you know, in this last section, each % is hard to achieve
We really don't care about numbers, because you can't do much with them, the real material is important, but since all development goes internally, closed to public, without any public betas to test, probably these numbers mean a lot more to You, fans, than to us.
Finally a note - without any anger on our side - to some stalker-portal.ru and lost-alpha.com forumers - in regard to the exception - , we don't ask you anything in charge, no need to help us, no need to wait for us, but in change, please behave a bit more cultivated, and stop being pretentious, because that won't help in this case. Waiting will bring it's 'fruits'... or how to say it