Dev Update (11/04/2025)

Hi!

Here's a quick dev update.

I have been dealing with some minor health issues lately and I'm currently on antibiotics. Ever since that artic circle trip there have been all kinds of small annoying symptoms but I should be hopefully recovering this fairly soon.

There have still been bunch of progression development wise, since these symptoms have been fairly minor and there's contractors working on stuff even if my work output hasn't been 100%.

First, the work towards the first early access map has begun and that map is going to be Vostok map called Apartments (voted by Vostok tier supporters).

Here's few key reference images from that location, so you can get an idea what it's going to be like:

RE3MR is helping me to produce some of the props related to this map, like the playground areas and multiple modular elements that are related to the area.

Once I fully heal from this health thing, I will start blocking out the terrain and those key apartments buildings for this map.

Then next week, Military voice acting work will begin and once that's done all the three factions are voice acted for the early access.

In general, the goal of this month is to have the following things done:
- Apartments "Blockout" version + props
- Dynamic Events (100% implemented)
- Military voice acting
- Main menu (early access version and different modes)
- Interface / UI work & bug fixing.
- New items

Related to some main menu work, I will be also implementing "Ironman" / "Hardcore" mode which can be selected through main menu and this mode will start without any starting gear and every death is permadeath, like it's with some of the Stalker mod related Ironman challenges (I'm a big fan of those). There will also be some achievement patch for surviving certain number of days in this Hardcore / Ironman mode.

Starting next month, my priority will focus totally on map building since that's the most critical element related to early access timeline. In parallel to that, there will be quite a massive amount of animation stuff related contractor work both for weapons, fishing and AI.

ps. Once I have the Apartments map done, there will be a dev build from which should then mimic the early access performance, visuals and overall experience when it comes to roaming these updated map sizes etc.

Have a great weekend!

-Antti (Developer)