The upcoming survival FPS sport impressed by the likes of Escape From Tarkov and DayZ, referred to as Highway to Vostok, has up to date its present free demo following loads of neighborhood suggestions, and you’ll count on the shooter to play fairly a bit higher than earlier than forward of its second demo and early entry launch.
The Highway to Vostok demo was launched final 12 months, with the developer saying that over 300,000 folks examined the shooter. After collating all of the suggestions, capturing, looting, and AI are the areas of gameplay that may see essentially the most deal with enhancements. In response to the roadmap, the second public demo ought to arrive within the third quarter of this 12 months, with early entry and the total launch nonetheless to be introduced.
The capturing mechanic enhancements additionally come from the bar set by video games like Escape From Tarkov, in keeping with the only developer. “I see this as a superb factor, video games like this encourage us to enhance our FPS mechanics and set higher-quality objectives in direction of weapons and capturing in videogames.”
Take a look at the Highway to Vostok replace under, with the developer nonetheless getting ready to launch the second public demo sooner or later.
The Highway to Vostok public demo 1 v2 additionally has a brand new attachment system, with up to date weapon inspection UI, a recoil overhaul, and your entire weapon audio system being reworked as nicely. The looting system has additionally been given an entire redo, with hotkeys, new merchandise icons, and lots fewer bugs as nicely.
In response to the developer, Highway to Vostok public demo 1 v2 “appears actually optimistic and there have already been nice improvement solutions relating to the core mechanics,” so count on extra modifications over time and with the second full demo launch. In case you already personal the Highway to Vostok demo it is best to have v2 routinely at this level.
There are loads of new additions in v2, like winter map choices, an growth to the village space, water mechanics, ladders, ambient zones, a night-vision goggles filter, variable optics for weapons, nature shaders, and a much bigger choices menu. That mentioned, swimming and fishing nonetheless want sprucing so have been eliminated, and the village map growth is smaller than it could possibly be because of the deal with AI modifications.
“Despite the fact that the primary demo content material is generally the identical, the so-called ‘sport really feel’ must be significantly better now,” says the developer, and after taking Highway to Vostok for a spin myself, I can see the way it’s been improved. Most weapons are a delight to make use of, and whereas there isn’t that a lot to do within the demo itself, the promise of this sport, and the way it takes inspiration from the likes of DayZ and Escape From Tarkov, is fairly clear.
With no launch date in sight, the Steam Early Entry web page is the very best place to start out with Highway to Vostok. You’ll be able to obtain the present demo, wishlist the sport, and browse extra about what early entry means for the DayZ, Escape From Tarkov, and The Day Earlier than-type sport.
Will Highway to Vostok wind up being among the finest indie video games accessible on PC? Will it stack up towards the plethora of upcoming PC video games as nicely? Solely time will inform, however we’ll be right here the entire method.
