Yeah, I played a decent amount and quit when I realized the first boss isn’t the lead-in to the story. I’ll come back when there’s more to it (especially since the Game Pass version is out of date).

mistaking Baltics for Balkans twice

No, they mistook it for Balkans once. The other time they mistook it for “Balkins”.

where 90% of them are procedurally generated with nearly identical enemies

It’s worse than that. The POIs are recycled almost exactly. They’re made in a way where they could have been procedural, but instead we get the same dozen-ish of them repeated with the same things in the same place.

I really regret thinking the extra time to polish would result in a game where we don’t need modders to make things decent. The mod tools aren’t even out and people have rebalanced multiple systems to be way better than Bethesda came up with.

Wikipedia cites this book: https://libmma.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p15324coll10/id/174106