Weekly Report #146

21 Oct 2022Developer post

Source: Steam Community (opens in a new tab)

Hello Stalkers!

Season 3 is just around the corner, so we're continuing our mission of revealing (not too much) what we have prepared for you in the next update. In the previous report, we wrote about a brand new, even more twisted difficulty level. Today we present you with a completely new location, although some of you may have seen it before ;)

The power plant cooling towers are two unfinished concrete giants close to Reactor 5 and 6 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Meant to evaporate the cooling water from two reactors, they were never completed as the disaster stopped all works on the site in 1986. The radiation level around them remains high even today.

This spot has already appeared in our reports before. One of them was in fact a teaser showing the very early progress of work on the new map.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1016800/announcements/detail/4521054245224302227

In another report we showed the pictures from our last trip to Chernobyl, which took place at the end of last year. On that occasion, we had the opportunity to see the unfinished towers with our own eyes and collect materials from there that served as references.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1016800/announcements/detail/3123809822937640080

The trip to the place where the unfinished towers stand was also the perfect opportunity to explain to you how we collect ambient sounds and how we then implement them into the game. A piece of interesting reading that should be of interest not only to sound design lovers :)

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1016800/announcements/detail/3203756329339831652

Almost a year has passed since our departure, a lot has changed in our project since then. Soon you will be able to see it for yourself. For now, we're giving you a taste of what you'll see in the latest update.