User blog comment:Skaraks/Lost Alpha Directors Cut/@comment-32623441-20170728002526/@comment-10507735-20170728010735

v1.3000 is obsolete, unsupported and you should have used the large patch of v1.3003 (which you probably already did anyway)

There were serious playability issues with the unpatched game but 1.3003 plays right to the end.

See more in Main Mission Strategy.

The biggest diff with 1.4002 is that there is more wildlife everywhere. Countryside(Lost Alpha) is especially lively but still with few Blowout shelters.

The next diff is the "documents plotline" that runs in parallel with the main plot. It is incomplete but functional to include Bandit Mine.

Ignore the Yantar Expedition because it's bugged.

After that the game is the same as LA 1.3003 - because Dezowave released a half finished product by design.

The Swamps Oso cutscene has been axed, which detracts from the plot.

some of the artifacts have decent properties. Guns and suits upgrade in similar ways to those seen in CoP.

Bits and pieces have been added. It's a more challenging game early on. It's HARD to get a scoped gun that has a reasonably supply of ammo. Bandages are in short supply. Stashes are still full of shite (if they come up) and so on.

But then again, why should it be a walk in the park?