Look for us in Entertainment Hall – 10.1, Stand E050. Our amazing team will be waiting there to give you a high five! For press and business meetings visit us in Business Hall 4.1, Stand D071.
We’re extremely happy to announce that we launched Late pledges for those who missed the campain! After receiving so many messages from you we decided to create a place where you can jump in and make a late pledge!
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We did not expect to make such a great success on Kickstarter and we can’t thank you enough. It took us a while to set this pledge manager but we hope that you will find everything you need there. In case you encounter any problems don’t hesitate to contact us.
Disclaimer: All backers who pledged below 40$ were not included because they already received the digital content as well as the keys. Gamefound is mainly used to manage physical shipments, but if you want to choose a late pledge - we encourage you to do so.
We are very pleased with the positive feedback from you and we want to thank you for all the surveys you sent to us. We are now solving bugs with which you are flooding us every day and we are improving things that irritate you. Here is the newest demo update:
- We have added support for high resolutions, including 4k. - FPS should be about 10% higher and a lot more stable. It may be not much, but it’s always a step forward. - We have solved a lot of issues related to the broad FOV. Widescreen owners should be able to play now in greater comfort. - Most of the problems with New Game and Continue that you have reported have been resolved. - Random crashes that you have reported should now stop appearing ... or at least appear much less often. - Evgeniy says the time limit for missions is irritating. It takes some time to refine this mechanics, but to reduce its irritation, we have increased the limit from 20 minutes to 30 minutes. Have fun exploring! - We had to temporarily disable hacking. Do not worry, it will be back!
We are very happy about the success of the kickstarter, but at the same time we are working very hard!
The first effect is update on STEAM, which will be available for everyone today!
A short changelog: - FOV change option (it will help players with ultra wide screens) - Texture optimization (let us know if it solved your problems with smudging textures!) - Your favorite Evgeny NPC is offended to everyone and will no longer distribute an unlimited number of lootboxes - We opened a new building right next to the Duga Radar. Let us know what you found there!
Right now we are still working on optimalization with priceless AMD support.
Watch our live gameplay stream with developer comment TODAY! Tuesday, 07.05.2019 starting at 5 PM CEST.
We are sooo close to hit another stretch goal with 170% of our goal funded! This calls for a celebration! So on Tuesday, 07.05.2019 at 5 PM CEST on our TWITCH channel you will be able to meet one of our devs in person, watch him play and ask him all the questions you want!
We can already start preparing our backpacks, Geiger counters, stalker’s equipment and our Reality 51 3D scanning technology to get back to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone as the gamers have spoken!
By funding Chernobylite on Kickstarter in just nine days, and still continuing to support it,
Players have sent a clear message: they believe in the project and want to virtually visit the Ghost City of Pripyat with it looking as real as possible.
And Chernobylite developers are here to deliver exactly that, and more, with a list of newly revealed stretch goals that include:
• EFIGS localization – after reaching the $120,000 mark, so it’s already secured! • Weapon craft system and content – available once the $130,000 milestone is reached. • Real Zone sounds added to the game when it hits $150,000. • Tarakan, a recruitable NPC, will show up in the game once pledges are at a level of $180,000. • And a whole new Red Forest level will also be added to Chernobylite with the final $200,000 stretch goal.
The last two especially deserve more detailed explanation, so here’s what gamers can expect once those final stretch goals are reached:
Proof the Zone changes people. Tarakan is a man who spent many years in solitude. Who is he? What secrets is he hiding? The only sure thing is that he did not meet the main character by accident... He does not remember his true identity, and delusions combine in his head with solid scientific knowledge, making him a kind of techno-shaman. He thinks he is a cockroach competing with the mysterious King of Rats, whom he blames for his present condition. Thanks to Kickstarter support, it will be possible to recruit Tarakan to our team of stalkers and use his specific skills during the game’s missions.
The Red Forest
One of the most dangerous places in the Zone. The area of death in which the vegetation died and took on a reddish color. Due to the very high radiation, nobody ventures there any more... And that's why it’s an excellent place for a group of settlers who are hiding from soldiers. The Red Forest is a huge level of exploration, filled with mysterious figures that hide from the world, despite the extremely high contamination.
Become one of our backers and get amazing rewards!
First of all, we are very grateful to all of you who supported us already! Thanks to you, we hit over 1240+ backers and collected over 76% of our goal!
You are amazing! We hope that more and more of you will notice us and believe in our work.
Also, every day we're pushing new project updates. We try to answer all the questions in forums, comments, direct messages. You can check out one of our fresh video updates below.
Here is a link to our Kickstarter campaign with lots of amazing and limited rewards to choose from!
We are very happy that we receive so many questions and support from you. Due to a huge number of questions about the Chernobylite boxed version, we have decided to add another pledge to our campaign! "Kickstarter exclusive boxed edition" is already available! It will contain:
Steam Early Access Digital Key
Kickstarter Exclusive Demo Access
Kickstarter Exclusive Closed Alpha Access
Chernobylite Wallpaper
Digital Artbook
Special thanks from the Team
Printed Chernobylite Postcards
Printed Tatyana's Photos
Printed Map of the Zone
Early Access Boxed Edition
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Another good news is the launch of our Discord channel! From now on, you can contact us directly! Get in touch with our developers and don’t be afraid to ask questions! We will try to answer as many as possible!
We would also like to invite you to the upcoming AMA (Ask Me Anything) session, which will take place on our brand new Discord channel. TODAY, April 17 at 07:00 PM CEST at: https://discord.gg/mehRmzY (don’t forget to prepare your questions!).
Soon we will also start developer livestreams and AMA sessions on our Twitch channel. You can find us at: https://www.twitch.tv/thefarm51
Our game is being developed in a small, but very experienced team of 20 professionals who work both in the office and in the rogue wastelands of Chernobyl Exclusion Zone using laser scanning, photogrammetry, drones, movie equipment and hand-crafted props and costumes.
We've already went through the pre-production phase and we have a playable demo version of our game that we want to share with our Kickstarter backers, giving them possibility of experiencing Chernobylite world in 1-2 hours of pre-alpha gameplay.
Our goal is to raise $100k dollars, which will allow us to broaden the game content, but above all reach as many future players as possible. Those additional funds will allow us to expand the game.
For this to happen, we need your support, which will give this first kick. Just spread the word about the Kickstarter Campaign, or simply back us!
The Farm 51, the studio behind games like the promising online shooter World War 3 and the uneven Get Even, has finally turned the light on Chernobylite, a "science fiction survival-horror experience" it teased last year. In case the title isn't a dead giveaway, the game is set in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, 30 years after the events that led to its creation, and it bears more than a passing resemblance to that other Chernobyl-based shooter series, Stalker.
Like Stalker, Chernobylite promises to let players freely explore a "beautiful and horrifyingly accurate" recreation of the Zone, which is populated with stalkers (yes, that's what they're called) who you can work with but probably shouldn't trust. You'll do battle with strange, dangerous creatures (not mutants, though—these beasts come from an alternate reality), craft equipment and manage supplies, and pursue a strange, semi-supernatural story in the ruined remains of an overgrown, poorly-lit town.
Chernobylite's story has a more personal bent, however. You were a young physicist when the incident at Chernobyl stole your girlfriend from you. 30 years later, you remain haunted by the event, and so you do the reasonable thing and seek out the services of a good therapist. No, wait, that's not it—actually, you suit up and head to the Zone, where the decades you spent in a laboratory will surely prove useful as you try not to die.
I dig the premise, and I have reasonable hope that The Farm 51 will be able to pull it off. It's an experienced studio—prior to Get Even, it released Necrovision and Painkiller: Hell and Damnation—and while its games, with the possible exception of World War 3, are what you might call "offbeat," you want a little jank in your irradiated Soviet bizzaro-shooters or you're just not getting the full experience.
Speaking of World War 3, the studio said that Chernobylite will not impact the work on that game. "Since the beginning of both projects, work on Chernobylite was never interfering with the development of World War 3 and vice versa," a rep said. "Chernobylite is developed by the team that previously worked on Get Even. World War 3 was initiated much earlier than Chernobylite and is managed by entirely separate staff."
There's no indication of a release date at this point, but there is a website at chernobylgame.com, and it's also listed on Steam.
