Thanks for the feedback!
Yea I do get how you felt like you were not playing a new game. Some ambient sounds were ripped off stalker as placeholder until I have time to find replacements. Dr Sidorovich was actually a pun - he's supposed to be stalker's Sidorovich's father if you ask Dr Sidorovich about his story lol. But perhaps one day I'll change his name to someone else.
The village is not really a rookie village, it belongs to a faction who's in war with another, because Dr Sidorovich did something something... but I'm not gonna spoil it lol.
Thank you for spotting the bugs! As for water, later on I'll put some invisible walls around the lakes so you don't really get into them. There are a lot more things I need to fix, it just takes time as I work on this by myself :)