Recently discovered Goldsphere, it's a standalone mod for Shadow of Chernobyl that is an acclaimed completely new big adventure that got recently fully translated in english.
https://www.moddb.com/mods/goldsphere-completionget the "full repack" and make sure to get the hotfix too as it fixes several bugs and mistranslations (another hotfix is on the way too)
there are mirrors to google drives for both the mod and the hotfix in their description if moddb is too slow for you
(you must start the game with the "XR_3DA.exe" that is found in ...\Goldsphere\bin\ )
So far i'm enjoying it a lot and i understand why so many people think it's one of the best Stalker mod, nice story, nice developped characters.
The start puzzled me for a bit as everything i was trying was resulting in my character being killed until i finally found exactly how to finally enter the zone without dying, so if you need it at the start :
Once you start the game, you're outside of the zone, you must sneak into it without the military checkpoint noticing you, excepted that from the start it's scripted so they actually spot you and will send a full heavily armed squad to arrest you or kill you if you try to resist.
I tried to still sprint north and jump over the wire and it worked to my surprise , but after some distance you will always get script-killed despite you evaded the whole army checkpoint :/ meaning you don't have any choice but let yourself get caught by the military squad.
Once they take your equipment, you're now locked and stuck in the barracks, look for the items that are on one of the furnitures.
A guard is regularly patrolling around the windows, talk to him and you'll fail to convince him to let you go with your badly excuse of being sick.
That's where the items you just picked up will help, absorb the one that has a side effect giving you palpitations, then wait until the guard move again near your windows and talk to him, this time he'll be convinced by your face that you're sick and will open the door to give some help.
Once he'll finally come to open the door, do not run (you will not have time before the whole checkpoint population starts shooting at you if you only run) but sprint toward the exit of that barracks then continue sprinting toward the stairs (there's some kind of sniper on top but for now he's not hostile) don't enter the room (you have no time for that) and jump over the border where the sniper is and land outside.
By the time you land you should hear (and see) the message telling the soldiers they're allowed to shoot to kill, so never ever stop sprinting and zig zag as much as you can , using trees as shield when you can to escape all the bullets coming your way.
At some point a guy will contact you and tell you to join him on the small hill , that's where you'll finally be safe from the bullets rain.
Now that adventure in the zone can finally begin
If the exagerrated "head bob" (a common annoyance of the stalker games) disturb you as much as it did to me, you can tone it down by pressing the tilde key and enter
cam_inert 0
(default was 0.7)
to disable it completely :
edited : just get the no Head Bob addon that is now available on the mod page