Public Demo 2 Situation Update

i! Here's a little Public Demo 2 situation update.

I have been taking notes and watching as many videos / streams about the demo as possible and going through feedback emails and here's few thoughts so far:

1. There's 2 major bugs that are going to need asap patching next week, here's an explanation of those if you want to test the demo and avoid them:

- If you use a consumable straight from the container and close the interface before the item use time is finished, you will get a pretty nasty bug which kills you once you get hit or go through a transition. You can avoid this by only using items through your inventory.

- If you insert cartridges to bolt-actions or shotguns and you run out of ammo at the same time (meaning you used the last remaining cartridge), the inserting mechanic will get stuck. You can avoid this by having plenty of ammo available or just by not using those specific weapons.

2. The initial gameloop idea for this demo seems to be working. Procedural loot system and trading provides enough randomization with 100 items, so there's some level of loot progression available even though there's hardly any "loot balancing" with different types of containers etc.

3. Performance and build stability is pretty ok. There's few stutters at the beginning but then it irons out and seems to be working with most systems. Some older AMD cards / Ryzen CPU's might have graphical issues but other than that it's pretty stable and playable.

4. There's bunch of "easy-to-fix" small issues that are going to be addressed in these upcoming patches and overall most of the bugs are simple and straightforward to replicate.

5. The shelter ideology seems to somewhat unnecessary with this amount of content since most players don't utilize that for saving or loading. I think the shelter system will get more useful when there's more maps, bigger maps, additional stuff to do (like crafting and tasks) and the travel distance to the border zone increases.

6. Ammo is pretty rare in some playthroughs, I like that it's not an arcade style shooting game with unlimited ammo, but the RNG can make it a bit too difficult sometimes, especially when there's not melee system yet available.

To summarize this, I think the Public Demo 2 is behaving liked I hoped at this stage, it will indeed require patching but there's that glimpse of the vision still available which was the whole point of this demo.

I will provide more info about these upcoming patches next week and there's also that new website release with updated roadmap and more info about the project. Thanks for testing and all the feedback so far.

If you have provided a comment, email, social media post, video, stream, there's a high change that I have seen it and took notes from that, whether it's good, bad or something between :)

ps. I posted this same message to YT-community section but you have been especially helpful here in Patreon and I have took notes from all of your comments and bug findings, thank you!

-Antti (Developer)