Each mission takes place in a relatively small map with a set objective (e.g. As Igor, you’ll take on a series of story-led missions that introduce you to new characters and leads in the search for Tatiana. Highway to the danger zoneĮvery morning, you’ll survey the Exclusion Zone with a pair of binoculars and assign each of your team mates to a particular task. There’s something meditative about turning a heap of scrap into your own enclave amongst the horror of Chernobyl. I’m a sucker for crafting in games at the best of times, so it’s no surprise that I got quite addicted to constantly upgrading and bettering my base. It also offers a brief but welcome reprise between missions from the chaos of the Exclusion Zone. Poor lighting or a lack of beds for example will bring their mood down, so the answer is to craft some home comforts.įar from being a tacked-on mechanic, managing your base is a worthy extension of survival out in the field. It’s important to keep your pals happy and well-fed as the success of each mission fluctuates depending on their health and wellbeing. Here, you can use materials collected out in the world to improve your base with new items and craft weapons and armour for your companions. This glowing, green crystal lets you create portals through time and space that aid you in your search for Tatiana.Īt the centre of the game is your base – an old, abandoned factory on the outskirts of the zone. Returning to the Zone in the present day, you harness the power of a strange residual material, ‘Chernobylite’. In Chernobylite, you play as Professor Igor Khymynyuk, a former Chernobyl physicist whose wife, Tatiana, went missing during the disaster in 1986. To the developer’s credit, all profits from their most recent DLC is being donated to Ukrainian humanitarian aid projects to directly support victims of the war.Įither way, the game’s 3D-scanned recreation of the Ukrainian Exclusion Zone is impressive, providing an immersive world to explore made all the more haunting by recent events. Although, I don’t exactly know when the right time would be. The release of the next-gen version this month may seem like poor timing then. Yet here we are, less than a year later as Russia wages an illegal war in Ukraine. Through new events and treasures in ‘Memories of You,’ players will discover more about Tatyana and Igor’s tragic tale.ĭid anyone grab this at launch, If you did we are curious about what you think of the game? We reviewed the PC version back in July and the console experience was also positive from personal experience.When Chernobylite first released in July 2021, Russian forces occupying the former nuclear plant would’ve been unthinkable. Blue Flames will include a free content update called ‘Memories of You,’ as well as a new weapon called the Silent Assassin crossbow and a premium content pack. But this is what Blue Flames provides.īlue Flames, the first of four content drops planned for 2022, will be available on all platforms. More information about the road map may be found here. The new DLC included in this update is one of four pieces of post-launch content. Additionally, for those playing on PlayStation 5, the announcement states the upgrade will “ additionally add features for DualSense Controllers such as advanced vibrations and adaptive triggers as well as compatibility with PlayStation’s Activity Card feature.” Blue Flames DLC: The next-gen console versions will be getting two graphic modes. The publisher confirmed console and PC updates will “introduce ray tracing”. However, as of the time of writing, no response has been received. We’ve reached out to both stores for confirmation. In the United Kingdom, the physical version listing is available at a few outlets on April 22nd. Those using a PlayStation will almost certainly need to seek the game and download the PS5 version separately. The Xbox update is planned to use Smart Delivery for their Xbox consoles. The PC Enhanced Edition, Blue Flames DLC, and a physical edition of Chernobylite for the PS5 will all be available to accompany the launch. Stalkers! Chernobylite’s highly anticipated next-generation console version will be published on April 21. Thanks to recent information we now know the release date due to the game’s Twitter account and the publisher’s website. However, road map announcements late last year indicated that Chernobylite Enhanced Edition is still on the way.Ĭhernobylite Enhanced Edition was set to be released in the first quarter of 2022. It is, of course, backward compatible with the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. Chernobylite is a STALKER-like game that was released on PC last summer that was then released on Xbox One and PlayStation 4 a few months later.
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