Escape From Tarkov “motivates” FPS Road to Vostok’s big demo update

The upcoming survival FPS game impressed by the likes of Escape From Tarkov and DayZ, referred to as Road to Vostok, has up to date its present free demo following loads of neighborhood suggestions, and you’ll anticipate the shooter to play fairly a bit higher than earlier than forward of its second demo and early entry launch.

The Road to Vostok demo was released last year, with the developer saying that over 300,000 individuals examined the shooter. After collating all of the suggestions, capturing, looting, and AI are the areas of gameplay that may see probably the most deal with enhancements. In keeping with the roadmap, the second public demo ought to arrive within the third quarter of this yr, with early entry and the complete launch nonetheless to be introduced.

The capturing mechanic enhancements additionally come from the bar set by video games like Escape From Tarkov, in keeping with the one developer. “I see this as an excellent factor, video games like this inspire us to enhance our FPS mechanics and set higher-quality objectives in direction of weapons and capturing in videogames.”

Try the Highway to Vostok replace under, with the developer nonetheless making ready to launch the second public demo sooner or later.

The Highway to Vostok public demo 1 v2 additionally has a brand new attachment system, with up to date weapon inspection UI, a recoil overhaul, and all the weapon audio system being reworked as nicely. The looting system has additionally been given an entire redo, with hotkeys, new merchandise icons, and many fewer bugs as nicely.

In keeping with the developer, Highway to Vostok public demo 1 v2 “appears actually optimistic and there have already been nice improvement options relating to the core mechanics,” so anticipate extra adjustments over time and with the second full demo launch. In case you already personal the Highway to Vostok demo it is best to have v2 mechanically at this level.

There are a number of new additions in v2, like winter map choices, an growth to the village space, water mechanics, ladders, ambient zones, a night-vision goggles filter, variable optics for weapons, nature shaders, and a much bigger choices menu. That stated, swimming and fishing nonetheless want sprucing so have been eliminated, and the village map growth is smaller than it may very well be as a result of deal with AI adjustments.

“Despite the fact that the principle demo content material is usually the identical, the so-called ‘sport really feel’ ought to be a lot better now,” says the developer, and after taking Highway to Vostok for a spin myself, I can see the way it’s been improved. Most weapons are a delight to make use of, and whereas there isn’t that a lot to do within the demo itself, the promise of this sport, and the way it takes inspiration from the likes of DayZ and Escape From Tarkov, is fairly clear.

With no launch date in sight, the Steam Early Access page is the most effective place to start out with Highway to Vostok. You may obtain the present demo, wishlist the sport, and browse extra about what early entry means for the DayZ, Escape From Tarkov, and The Day Earlier than-type sport.

Will Highway to Vostok wind up being probably the greatest indie games accessible on PC? Will it stack up in opposition to the plethora of upcoming PC games as nicely? Solely time will inform, however we’ll be right here the entire manner.