Hello Stalkers!
In our reports, we often refer to what we are preparing for you in the near future. This way we revealed the content of Ghost Town step by step a few weeks before the release of this update - little things that didn't say much, but were quite enough to satisfy your appetites. Today we would like to look a little further - a few months ahead, to talk about something really big. Literally and figuratively. Here are the unfinished cooling towers of units 5 and 6 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant!
When the construction was planned, the towers were supposed to help cooling two yet-to-be-built new reactors (5 & 6) in the future. The existing ones used water from the Pripyat river in an open-cycle. But those towers were never finished - the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 stopped not only the power plant, but all the works around it. What about the towers? How big are they? The diameter is 120 meter with the height of about 150 meters.
Recently, during our last trip to Chernobyl, we had the opportunity to take a closer look at this structure. Literally, from the very inside.
We were able to take a lot of photos and record a lot of film material there, and also - which is equally important - record a lot of sounds.
However, the best views were outside. Especially near the water reservoir - here we had to be really careful not to fall into the water.
The reference material we collected during this trip was not in vain. Soon after returning to Poland, we started to transfer these views to the virtual world. We started modestly, with the preparation of assets...
…and then we went on to designing the entire level from scratch.
Do you see the differences?
It already looks pretty good. But there is still a long way to go until we give this area over to your use. From the very beginning, we wanted you to feel as if you were there when playing Chernobylite. We intend to keep our words to the very end.
That's it for today!
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