Highway to Vostok is coming again to Steam within the subsequent few months, as solo developer ‘Antti’ shares new particulars on weapon mechanics, fight, places, and extra for the ultra-realistic survival sport. Combining components of Metro, Stalker, DayZ, PUBG, and others, Highway to Vostok has already seen an enormous uptake of gamers as it really works its manner by means of early entry. Now, a brand new demo is introduced, and we get a glimpse of the ultra-detailed capturing and looting mechanics throughout the eponymous survivalist panorama.
The target is easy – starting in the course of the Japanese European tundra, your job is to regularly struggle your technique to the titular area of Vostok. Collect provides, preserve your weapons, and control numerous bodily meters like stamina as you cross the perilous terrain.
In a huge new devlog, Antti, a former soldier within the Finnish army, shares particulars on Highway to Vostok’s shelter system. Shelters act each as waypoints and devoted, inside maps in Highway to Vostok, permitting you to plan journey to the subsequent defensible location. The primary of those, merely titled Village, shall be out there within the sport’s subsequent demo, and act as an essential stopover as you battle by means of hostile border checkpoints en path to Vostok itself.
Shelters additionally mean you can inventory and retailer objects, because of Highway to Vostok’s distinct stock system. Primarily, each merchandise within the sport is a devoted bodily object, and if you take it out of your backpack, you may choose it up and place it onto a shelf or into a cabinet to gather once more later. Shelters save precisely the place you left your objects, so if you happen to pack a bunch of ammo clips or first-aid kits onto a bookcase, if you come again, they’ll be precisely the place you left them.
Much like Far Cry 2, shelters will embrace a pc that you need to use for buying and selling, and naturally a mattress that you simply use for resting and – within the sport’s full launch – advancing time.
As for when Highway to Vostok shall be playable, Antti says that the subsequent public demo, permitting you to check all these options and extra, will launch in Fall 2023. Meaning we could possibly be taking part in Highway to Vostok as quickly as September. Nonetheless, you don’t even have to attend for the general public demo, as Patreon donors will shortly have entry to a brand new improvement construct, which can launch within the close to future. You may take a look at the Patreon right here.
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