I also uploaded the Absolute texture packs, and installed the version of AtmosFear that comes in CfP. Assault rifles with a silencer are still pretty loud, while pistols get the well known 'pchew' sound. The coolest part of the Darius6 sounds is that silences sound different on different guns. I modded the sound files for all the guns myself in order to use the Darius6 sounds instead of the ones CfP came with (if anyone's interested I can upload them). More enemies spawn, there's firefights between stalkers and bandits all the time. Even when you get radiated, everything gets sort of pixelated and sometimes the whole screen goes either really bright or dark. Completely new HUD, when you wear a helmet you actually see parts of it on screen, there's a lot of play effects added, like blurry vision when tired (that's right, you need to sleep) or when you get shot and health is low the screen gets hazy and your head wobbles. I've since downloaded the Ceanos mod CfP and am thoroughly impressed. Near the end I did run it with high res texture mods (Absolute Nature + Absolute Structures) plus AtmosFear V2 and the Darius6 sound effects mod (which is by far the best IMO!). I recently beat it (33 hrs lol) on the regular difficulty, playing mostly as vanilla version. I know plenty of people on these forums play STALKER, since I see it suggested as a must play in many threads.