Hello once more, everybody. Blake from Ironwood Studios right here. Today, we’re discussing what goes right into a highway journey within the Olympic Exclusion Zone and the unbelievable information that Pacific Drive is coming to PlayStation 5 on February 22, 2024.
Our gameplay loop has a number of levels – repairing and upgrading the automotive, planning your routes, and making it again in a single piece after raiding the Zone. As you get deeper into the forests, swamps, and different areas of the Olympic Peninsula, you’ll construct the information and abilities it is advisable survive. Let’s speak about what goes into planning your highway journeys.
Repair, tune-up, and improve your automobile
Hopefully, you’ve made it again to the storage in a single piece after your final harrowing journey, and you can begin fixing the automotive earlier than your subsequent outing. Take a minute to evaluate the injury – getting a great have a look at your automotive’s particular person elements will typically let you know what wants probably the most work. It’s attainable you could have a flat tire that must be repaired with a sealing equipment, or you can also make a completely new wheel. If a panel is dangerously near damaged or flat-out lacking, you may craft new ones from the scrap steel and different supplies you gathered in your final journey. If you’re fortunate, a few of these would possibly even be upgrades. It’s not simply physique panels both; your headlights, engine, and wheels can all take injury from the Zone (or your driving), and it’s additionally a good suggestion to look them over.
It’s time for the enjoyable stuff as soon as your automotive is again in a single piece. Spray on a slick new coat of paint, or apply some racing stripes utilizing consumable decals. You may even swap out the bobblehead that adorns your dashboard. There are just a few completely different ones to select from, so preserve a watch out the following time you’re looting containers within the Zone. You must also handle the necessities like fuel and charging your batteries when you’ve made your upgrades. There’s a fuel pump within the storage to replenish with – for those who’ve bought the non-obligatory and helpful side-mounted fuel tanks, these can get topped off, too. Flip the change on the desk to recharge your automotive immediately, and also you’re good to go.
Plan your subsequent highway journey
Well – you’re not leaving simply but. You have to make a cease on the route planner, an enormous map on the wall that tracks your progress by way of the Zone, and it offers you important details about what you would possibly want in your subsequent run. Hover over places to disclose details about the place you’re headed earlier than choosing your closing vacation spot. It’s not all about the place you find yourself, although – you’ll be making stops in your journey alongside these deserted highways, so realizing just a little bit concerning the journey forward of you is a good suggestion, too. Check for atmospheric shifts, radiation density, potential Anomaly encounters, availability of sources, and extra. At the identical time, you have a look at stops on the highway – you’re nonetheless in a position to modify the automotive whereas within the storage, too, so take this chance to adapt the automobile to your route if wanted.
Keys within the ignition? Is the parking brake off? Great. Hit the fuel, and let’s lastly get out and into the surreal world of the Olympic Exclusion Zone.
Generally, you’ll go by way of just a few completely different biomes on the way in which to your closing vacation spot. Forest biomes have quite a lot of foliage a number of sorts of highway surfaces, and altering climate could make driving by way of trickier sections just a little tough. Swamp biomes function just a little extra open house, however there are watery sections that may gradual the automotive down and majorly impede your progress. You’ll go by way of cities and analysis stations in your approach ahead that comprise invaluable gadgets if you already know the place to look. There’s a wide range of lootable containers, some more durable to get into than others – however that’s why you introduced your trusty crowbar, proper?
You’ll even be amassing Anchors – artifacts initially meant to comprise the growth of the Zone. These glowing orbs offer you a particular power that you should use to improve the automotive and escape from the Zone – extra on that later. Eventually, you and the automotive will encounter a wall a whole lot of ft excessive and clearly there to maintain the extra harmful elements of the Zone remoted. However, that’s not an issue for somebody outfitted with one of the best 80’s wood-paneling and sci-fi gadgetry. You’ll discover your approach by way of the wall and into deeper elements of the Zone, however keep vigilant as a result of issues can solely develop wilder from right here.
Hit the highway and dodge hazards
Once you’ve gathered your sources and have sufficient Anchors – it’s time to go away. Assess your environment and have a look at your in-car map earlier than you choose one among many accessible exits – however be good. Some exits can be simpler to get to than others. As you select, a Zone Storm will begin to shut in on you; from then on, it’s a race to security. Crash by way of the foliage, fishtail by way of the mud, and attempt to preserve the wheel pointed straight in direction of the enormous pillar of sunshine ascending into the sky as a result of that’s the place you’re headed. Anomalies and different hazards don’t hand over simply since you’ve discovered an exit, so be sure to dodge the Abductors, Bunnies, and Can Openers – it’s going to harm for those who get caught within the storm’s radiation. As you’re taking that closing drive of religion by way of the illuminated pillar, all the things will go white as you allow the Zone behind.
As the sunshine fades, you’ll end up warped again to the protection of your storage. Ready to fuel up and decide the following location to research on this unusual and fantastic world. After a wholesome quantity of repairs and upgrades, after all. Maybe even some painted-on flames.
Pacific Drive can be accessible for PlayStation 5 on February 22, 2024.
