Yeah the mod. I wanted something new something harder but hey.. You need to use 1000 items to do 1 thing is not harder. It is just time consuming.
Guess i'll see myself as 100% done with CoP now and maybe it's time to go back and do the few things left for SOC and even try the second one as i never did that.
It's not even hard once you learn to cheese the AI, I've done three playthroughs where I completely cleared every mission in Zaton and Yanov with bad/difficult weapons, once with the model 1911, once with the revolver, and a final time with the obrez. It just limits the ways you can fight to corner peeking and makes it less fun.
They also did it so the snorks etc damage you by being close to you, You can get 5 hits from knocking into an enemy running away from you.
That is the only dangerous part besides the first times you step into an anomaly you don't have protection agains i have seen and i pretty much 100% the first area and 50% the second one before getting bored the first time.