First STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl was a lot like CloD when it was released back in 2007. Developed by Ukrainian studio it was delayed several times. It was an incredibly ambitious project and management had to force developer to cut plenty of content only to get the game into releaseable state. On release Stalker was plagued by bugs and poor framerates but after several patches and with community made mods it is easily one of the best games i have ever played. I do not know how things will turn up with CloD but i hope it will become the best flight sim ever.
On topic now from wikipedia
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The X-ray engine uses GSC Game World's proprietary ALife artificial intelligence engine. ALife supports more than one thousand characters inhabiting the Zone. These characters are non-scripted, meaning that AI life can be developed even when not in contact with the player.
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So no scripts my friend STALKER AI is an achievement and also probably one of the things that delayed development.
I believe that Maddox Games had the same problem as STALKER devs. They set way to ambitious goals and they could not do it everything. Resulting in publisher pressuring them to release unfinished game in hope to get back their investment.