Road to Vostok 2023

Hi!

Here's my thoughts about the upcoming year.

Development Videos 2.0

I'm always balancing between content creation and actual development. My goal next year is to find a good one-for-all video format which is kind of similar than the current WIP but a bit more cinematic and creative.

This new video format will be ~2-5min per video and each video will be "universally" named, so they are not named after specific month. Thumbnail style will also change and the main goal is to produce something that fills my need to put high-quality videos but is still effective and easy to make. There's so much going on behind the scenes and cool stuff to show, so I want to nail this concept as soon as possible. 

I have actually studied bunch of development update video formats and I believe I have now this thing figured out for the long run.

Livestreaming

I will be livestreaming more in 2023, I'm now pretty comfortable with live production and it's really good way to answer questions and provide you more development related content.

Public Demo 1 v2

There will be a patch/update to the Public Demo 1 in Q1/2023. 

This update will bring new systems to the demo like:
- Inventory System 2.0
- Equipment System 2.0
- Attachment System (First iteration)
- Medical System (First iteration)

On top of this, demo will have a production ready Village map, environment details, updated AI, actual loot, fishing and seasonal Winter-option.

Cinematic Trailer

There's a high change that I can provide (with some help) a really cool trailer before the Public Demo 2. This cinematic trailer will be filmed IRL and it takes place on abandoned locations that will be featured in the game. This production is not going to distract the actual development, there's a plan how to gradually make this along with game production.

Voice-acting / Audio Upgrades

Thanks to your support and winning that business competition, I have now pretty solid situation to hire some help with audio related tasks. At first there will be some lore-related voice acting and after that I will try find help for weapon related audio. 

In terms of weapon audio, the goal is to have world-class audio quality to shooting and impact sounds to give that extra immersion to gunplay. Hopefully these will be implemented before the Public Demo 2.

There's also already bunch of upgrades happening in the ambient side of things and these new Stalker-like ambient sound profiles will be implemented to the game.

Lore-elements

I will be placing bunch of small clues to the game which will guide you to the direction what has happened in the Border Zone and what kind of factions/characters are linked to the game world. This story is going to be pretty complex and difficult to figure out as player, but mysteries are cool :)

Public Demo 2

This will be the main thing for 2023. Public Demo 2 will be the vertical slice for Road to Vostok and it should provide you that dangerous journey feeling towards the Border Zone and Vostok. This demo will include four different maps, crossing point and possibility to experience the main vision for this game.

Happy new year and huge thanks for supporting me and this project here on Patreon, it makes a big difference and helps me in so many ways.

Thank you!

- Antti (Developer)