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Weekly Report #146

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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.

We hope we whetted your appetites?

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Road to Season 3: Green Walls Part #3 - Brute Force

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Pick up a new weapon in the new free update Green Walls, coming to Chernobylite soon.

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Weekly Report #145

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The launch of Season 3 (the next pack of cool stuff we're going to give you as part of the free DLC) is almost upon us. That is why we decided that it is time to shed some light on what we have prepared for you.

We'll start with something that made our team scream profanities and smash keyboards on the wall. Not because we're uncultured or something like that. It's all to do with the new difficulty level. Because with something like Gate of Madness, the Insane level sounds like a walk in the park on a summer morning.

There are several reasons why many of you will be swearing under your breath when playing Chernobylite on the Gate of Madness level. The most important ones:

you will only have ONE save file
if you don’t have enough Chernobylite, the death is permanent

And that’s it. No undoing of wrong decisions, no return to the situation from before a few saves. If you die and have no way to pay - it’s game over, man. Game over. It is therefore worth considering each step you take. But that's just the beginning.

From now on, each weapon will have to be crafted by yourself. No more getting guns from the bodies of dead NAR soldiers! And every new weapon is always useful, especially since from now on it can be damaged and require repair. And while we're on the subject, good luck with finding resources to build the necessary equipment and repair - with the new mode, we've further lowered the chance of finding resources on the maps.

If, after reading the above information, you think it will be safer to sit in the base, you are hugely mistaken. The base is heavily damaged from the very beginning and has only negative stats. It's like buying a house with a broken pipe, no balcony, no windows, no door handles, and no floors! As if that were not enough, every time you go to sleep, the radiation level rises a little. Always!

If you remember our previous reports, you know that the overall condition of the base has a huge impact on the health and morale of our comrades. Also, if you don't act quickly, you can lose them just as quickly. And the probability of this happening is quite high, considering that our comrades' morale is very low from the very beginning of the game. Oh, and did we mention a new stat for our character - madness? Thanks to it, the level of Igor's psyche will be lowered forever. Oh the joy…

We hope you’ll have a great time with this difficulty level. We certainly have.

Not.

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Road to Season 3: Green Walls Part #2 - Cooling Towers

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A new free update Green Walls is coming to Chernobylite soon. Discover a new area and side missions.

Also, check out some screenshots from the new location:

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Weekly Report #144

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In some of our previous publications we’ve been comparing the real world Chernobyl and its surroundings to what you can see in the game. Throughout this process we devoted a lot of space to the most famous locations near the famous power plant, e.g. Pripyat, Duga radar, the "Azure" swimming pool, and even the "Energetik". But there is also one other location that plays a fairly important role in Chernobylite. For some reason it didn’t gain the notoriety it deserved. And it’s a shame, because Kopachi is a unique place and its history is worth knowing.

It’s a small village located near Chernobyl, southwest of the Pripyat River basin. Before the Chernobyl power plant disaster, it was inhabited by just over a thousand souls. Kopachi was also one of the first towns to be evacuated from the contaminated zone. Residents hoped to the end that they would return to their homes one day, but that wish never came true. The village was buried due to high levels of contamination.

When we talk about burying, we mean houses and streets. The radiation level in the village was so high that the houses and farm buildings became unusable in any form. Almost every building was made of wood. Radioactive dust was clogged in every crack in a fence, beam, or any crossbar. Therefore, leaving them posed a threat to the surrounding animals. Therefore, the authorities decided to demolish every house in Kopachi, and bury their remains and the contaminated topsoil in hastily dug pits.

This solution wasn’t without flaws. The contaminants from the buried structures penetrated the groundwater and caused the radioactive isotopes to spread further into the ground.

The only buildings that lasted were a local kindergarten and another brick building with a war memorial, which until today are looked after by the employees of the power plant. There are a number of mounds bearing the international symbol of radiation in this area. As you can guess, digging in them would be ill advised. These mounds are all what’s left from most of the buildings within Kopachi.

This is the story of a place buried under tons of earth.

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