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Originally Posted by StainlessSteelCynic
The saddest part of the endgame is that the area behind the CPP was meant to be an area for missions/to explore but with the developers always falling behind schedule, they cut a lot of things to actually make a release date.
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That IS a heartbreaker. BTW, there are lots of Artifacts around the front of the plant; Complete removes the timed blowouts and gives you ample time to explore once you've killed off the Monolith cultists and the military assaulting them. They REALLY didn't want you to see much out there, did they? Like the CP for the military operation - complete with an Asus branded laptop, a few random guns and other equipment lying around directly across from the big door that opens into the "garage" where the sarcophagus entrance is. I'm sure you know what I mean.
But playing the game without any mods means you'll never, ever
see those areas with the massive blowouts that happen once you enter the NPP zone.
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The original Cordon map was supposed to be about half as big again as what we got for example and there was also supposed to be a section of forest that you had to traverse from Dark Valley back to Cordon.
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That's just depressing, knowing it's not there anymore.
Speaking of incomplete things, in the Brain Scorcher lab up near the NPP, there's a couple of locked doors that there are no codes for that were meant to open into more areas to explore, and also the big pipeline area just down the street from the area where you enter Pripyat, if you climb up that long monorail-looking thing there's another pair of coded locked doors; I found the code for one somewhere on-line, it opens into a couple of rooms filled with broken down electronic gear; there's another door that clearly was supposed to open into the interior of the monorail-line looking corridor that runs the length of that part of Red Forest, but there's no code to open the door, and as far as I know in vanilla SoC, you can't use the weapon drop trick to open the door, either
SO much potentially cool stuff we'll never see now. The mod communities for SoC have pretty much moved on to other games.