The upcoming survival FPS recreation impressed by the likes of Escape From Tarkov and DayZ, known as Road to Vostok, has up to date its present free demo following loads of group 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 Road to Vostok demo was launched final yr, with the developer saying that over 300,000 individuals examined the shooter. After collating all of the suggestions, taking pictures, looting, and AI are the areas of gameplay that can see essentially the most deal with enhancements. According to the roadmap, the second public demo ought to arrive within the third quarter of this yr, with early entry and the complete launch nonetheless to be introduced.
The taking pictures mechanic enhancements additionally come from the bar set by video games like Escape From Tarkov, in keeping with the one developer. “I see this as an excellent factor, video games like this inspire us to enhance our FPS mechanics and set higher-quality targets in direction of weapons and taking pictures in videogames.”
Check out the Road to Vostok replace beneath, with the developer nonetheless making ready to launch the second public demo sooner or later.
The Road 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 properly. The looting system has additionally been given a whole redo, with hotkeys, new merchandise icons, and many fewer bugs as properly.
According to the developer, Road to Vostok public demo 1 v2 “appears actually constructive and there have already been nice improvement ideas concerning the core mechanics,” so count on extra modifications over time and with the second full demo launch. If you already personal the Road to Vostok demo you must have v2 mechanically at this level.
There are plenty of new additions in v2, like winter map choices, an enlargement to the village space, water mechanics, ladders, ambient zones, a night-vision goggles filter, variable optics for weapons, nature shaders, and an even bigger choices menu. That stated, swimming and fishing nonetheless want sharpening so have been eliminated, and the village map enlargement is smaller than it might be as a result of deal with AI modifications.
“Even although the primary demo content material is generally the identical, the so-called ‘recreation really feel’ must be significantly better now,” says the developer, and after taking Road 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 recreation, 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 Access web page is the perfect place to start out with Road to Vostok. You can obtain the present demo, wishlist the sport, and browse extra about what early entry means for the DayZ, Escape From Tarkov, and The Day Before-type recreation.
Will Road to Vostok wind up being top-of-the-line indie video games accessible on PC? Will it stack up in opposition to the plethora of upcoming PC video games as properly? Only time will inform, however we’ll be right here the entire method.
