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Q3 Progression Update 1
🕑 Added 2025-08-17 17:22:47 +0000 UTCHi, here's a new progression update.
Like most of you probably know, I'm currently building the necessary early access maps and at the same focusing on the next milestone which is the Steam Next Fest demo in October.
This specific demo will be the "final demo" before the early access release and first week of September, I will release a new devlog video which will cover the specific features that are provided with this demo and most importantly what events and timelines are going to eventually lead to early access trailer, game shows and launch windows etc.
When it comes to this map building process, here's roughly how things are progressing:
Village (95% done)
School (100% done)
Apartments (100% done)
Island (50% done)
Border Zone 2.0 (50% done)
Radar (10% done)
Highway (10% done)
Minimum requirement for Next Fest demo: 4 maps Minimum requirement for Early Access: 7-8 maps
Each of these maps is 4x the size of the old demo maps and some maps like Island (water area) and Border Zone are even larger.
Along with this map building, I have updated a huge number of textures and assets to get an "uniform visual style" which was quite sloppy implemented in the demo. In the upcoming Next Fest demo, you should (hopefully) feel that the game world is now much more balanced in terms of color grading, textures and general visual look.
One final thing that I would like the mention is that there's a lot of preparation work already taking place for the early access trailer.
I have personally felt somewhat annoyed that I have never taken the proper time to make a good trailer for the game, so this time will be different and there's custom music being made, there's specific voice acting and I have hoarded a bunch of "secret" content for that trailer, so there's few surprises definitely coming.
More details in the next devlog :)
-Antti (Developer)
Comments
Road to Vostok
Even the word engine change makes me feel a bit dizzy, I have no idea how I manage to pull through that phase of the development :) But exciting times are indeed coming fairly soon :)
MatkaajaMT
I'm so happy that already (Yes time has moved so fast) we are at the point of Early Access release being upon us, after all these updates and engine switch we are still here. I really hope that i will enjoy the final game and put hundreds of hours to it. Thank you for everything Antti, this has been pleasant 3 years of following this journey :)
Road to Vostok
Thanks for supporting and testing the demo even though that demo is already really far from the current progression :)
Florian Schmidt
Just wanted to say thank you for buildung this game, played the demo today for the first time and well, directly ended up here (first patreon ever in my life) keep up the good work, proud of you and patiently waiting for whats coming next !
