Can you smell the air? It is the smell of home baking, and family atmosphere. It’s finally here. A time when we can forget about our worries for a while and focus on what is really important in life. Presents!

And while we are talking about them… A lot of work and new challenges await us in the new year. So we use this holiday season to relax a bit and gain strength for what awaits us in 2022. But before we went for a well-deserved rest, we wanted to give you a present. And it's quite big one. Because we gave you a free update called "Ghost Town"! And it gives you the opportunity to visit a completely new location - Pripyat Residential Area.


Thanks to the technology we use in the production of the game, you can discover the surroundings of Pripyat recreated in a virtual world. You will wander the narrow streets between apartment blocks…








…which can sometimes be accessed for resources.



Also outside, you will find a lot of interesting (and necessary) items.



Of course, as befits Chernobylite, there will be plenty of interesting views ...



...as well as numerous events.



Do not forget to visit one of the main attractions of the new location - the "Lazurny" Pool. There is a lot to see there. After all, we’re talking about a really large sports complex. You can read the history of this place here.

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On our Steam page you can watch a pre-record showing our walk through the Pripyat Residential Area. However, if you want to experience this journey yourself, feel free to do so - "Ghost Town" is available for download by everyone, absolutely for free.

Of course, the new location isn’t the only new thing we are introducing to you in this free update - check out the post below and read what else we have in store for you for this holiday season.

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Chernobylite is now 25% off during the Steam Winter Sale. Get the game by January 5 and enter the hyper-realistic, 3D-scanned recreation of Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone to uncover the truth of your tortured past.

See you in the Exclusion Zone.

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The second free DLC update is coming with best Christmas wishes from the whole Farm 51 Team! As a part of the Ghost Town DLC, we have prepared a completely new level based on the Pripyat Residential Area. It invites you not only to explore Pripyat, but also to face off against monsters and soldiers in new side missions.

Hope you’ll enjoy!



Below you will find the complete changelog for this Christmas patch:

Additions:

• New level: Pripyat Residential Area. This new level is full of new events and resources to collect. Players will be able to explore the 3D scanned recreation of Pripyat’s neighborhoods and visit new iconic locations such as the Azure Swimming Pool.
  
• 3 new side missions: Supply drops. Explore the new level and find lost NAR resource dumps there.
  
• 3 new side: Monster hunts. Do you enjoy hunting monsters? So chase them on the newly added level and restock your Chernobylite supplies while you’re at it.

Technology:

• The lighting in some parts of Pripyat Port was too aggressive, we’ve optimized it.
  
• The same applies to Power Plant, hope you’ll notice the difference!

General:

• We have fixed markers in the previous free DLC, Monster Hunt. Monsters are now easier to find.
  
• Kozlow’s quest: it was possible to poison and stab Kozlow at the same time. Hope you didn’t get too attached to this overabundance because it’s fixed and no longer available. Choose one!
  
• Speaking of overabundance: it was previously possible to obtain an infinite amount of resources by using the recycling machine. But it can’t be that easy so we’ve fixed it!
  
• Cameras related to weapons and upgrades have been tweaked.
  
• Previous weapon skin packs have been improved and beautified.
  
• We’ve fixed reported crashes on Heist.
  
• One particular Shadow was constantly getting blocked while walking through the door to the Power Plant - we took care of the poor bastard.
  
• Dialogue blocker next to Power Plant: it was very rare but we decided to fix it as well.
  
• We’ve taken care of levitating objects and landscape distortions.
  
• We’ve fixed the encountered misspells.
  
• We’ve added some missing lines in translations from English
  
• We’ve fixed some bugs related to icons in tutorials

+ A whole bunch of smaller bugs you've reported to us, too many to list them all. Thanks! And enjoy your Winter Holidays with Chernobylite game. See you next year, with many more free content updates to come!

We also have new DLCs for you:

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This is another of many DLCs we are preparing for you. See what awaits you in the coming months.

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It’s a bit ironic that a city of science and engineering now looks like a supernatural being, isn’t it? Buildings overgrown with chernobylite seem to be from another dimension. It’s even more eerie with all the remnants of Pripyat’s residents—abandoned cars, forgotten toys…

Interestingly, those few who returned to speak of Ghost Town mentioned dolls specifically. There are real, deadly monsters around, and all they can talk about are dolls? The radiation must have affected their brains.



Explore the new area carefully—who knows what secrets are hidden there. Will you be able to survive? Enter Ghost Town on December 21.




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The streets of Pripyat are no longer a destination for a relaxing afternoon stroll. This is a place you come to die. At least that’s how the monsters living there will see it. If you’re going to visit Pripyat and want to live to tell the tale, you can never lose your focus.

Besides the lurking threat of hidden supernatural creatures, the Pripyat Residential Area is the only place in Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone with a huge amount of chernobylite structures. Here you’ll find the largest chernobylite crystals in the Zone.



What horrors will you find inside? Make your way through the thicket of chernobylite and search the floors of buildings one by one. Enter Ghost Town on December 21.




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Another fantastic addition to the Chernobylite world in the form of a DLC will soon appear in our game. The pictures that we showed you in the previous report prove that we’re not exaggerating - this is going to be a big deal.

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We actually planned to surprise you by showing the contents of the new DLC before we officially release it into the world. That’s why we sent our correspondent to take some photos of the new location for our report. However, we made one miscalculation...

That correspondent in question was our good old Mikhail. Mikhail took the matter very seriously and with commitment. Unfortunately, when his photos reached our marketing team, we realized that it was probably the first time he had ever held a camera in his hand.

Here’s an example of his "skills": Apparently Mikhail was strolling between apartment blocks with his camera on, without even realizing.



But it’s about to get more interesting. We have no idea what Mikhail originally intended to capture with his camera, but he ended up taking pictures of his own shoes. Maybe he followed the recent Instagram trend and decided to photograph his feet? Who knows? We’ve spent so much time together in the Zone, yet Mikhail still remains a mystery to us.



Of course, as befits an amateur, there were also photos with fingers on the lens. Mikhail, however, is a very unique photographer - he managed to capture a photo of not only his fingers, but his entire hand. And at the worst possible moment! Damn it, Mikhail, did you hide something on purpose?!



Mikhail also discovered the pure bliss of taking a selfie. Let us reiterate: we never asked for this. The good thing is he took the photograph against the background of… well…what is that exactly? It kind of looks like a piece of a basketball court.



We know very well that Mikhail enjoys skulking around the bushes. It was not required on this particular mission, yet he did it anyway. Force of habit, I guess.



The last photo is absolutely perfect because it shows the new location from a slightly wider perspective. Well… it would be perfect if Mikhail knew how to use the autofocus option.



We hope we whet your appetite a little bit for the upcoming DLC. Expect more information soon. And Mikhail won’t be taking any more photographs for our marketing team anytime soon. That’s a promise!

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Have you heard of the Pripyat Residential Area before? It was a symbolic place. One of the nuclear cities of the “peaceful atom” era. Unfortunately, the industry that gave Pripyat its purpose ultimately was responsible for its demise.

With the upcoming free content update, Ghost Town, you’ll be able to visit the neighborhood, now nothing more than a graveyard of dreams. The area isn’t safe either. Are you brave enough to cross the river and discover the unexpected? Make sure you watch your step when crossing—the river is filled with chernobylite crystals.



Come and walk over the bridge, see what’s on the other side. Enter Ghost Town on December 21.




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In the previous report, we gave you a riddle. We wondered if you could recognize the location in the pixelated image that will be featured in the upcoming DLC. Most of your answers were correct. Yes, it was the "Lazurny" Pool (Басейн "Лазурний") located in the 3rd microdistrict of the city of Pripyat. As a reward, we will tell you a bit about this place.



The inhabitants of Pripyat, like almost everyone in the Soviet Union, were actively involved in sports and led a healthy lifestyle. The city had two football stadiums, and numerous sports clubs. The "Lazurny" swimming pool was one of the largest sports facilities in Pripyat.



The pool was built in the mid 70's. The building is divided into two parts: a gymnasium and a swimming pool. In addition to that, the complex has five swimming lanes and two diving towers, as well as a gym for gymnastics (a basketball court or a small football pitch).



"Lazurny" was not abandoned, unlike most of the other buildings and facilities in the city. In the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster the swimming pool was still open and served liquidators until 1998. After the liquidation operations in Pripyat were finished, the swimming pool was finally closed. Its reopening was prevented by the condition of the building, which had not been repaired for a long time. Despite this, it is considered to be one of the cleanest places in Pripyat in terms of radiation.



The "Lazurny" swimming pool is not only a hot tourist attraction. Recently it has been popularized by pop culture. For example, you can see it in the music video "Marooned" by Pink Floyd, as well as in the HBO mini-series "Chernobyl". However, it appears most often in video games, like in the Call of Duty games. And now it will be in Chernobylite as well.



What do you think? Excited to visit this place soon by yourself?

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IndieDB is currently collecting votes for the 2021 Indie of the Year competition to let you choose the best indie game of 2021. Support Igor in his mission and vote for Chernobylite! Thank you for your support.


1. Go to https://www.indiedb.com/games/chernobylite

2. Scroll down and click “Vote now” on the widget.

In addition, you can win selected game keys just for voting. See more information here:
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We’ve reached the hundredth report! We've come a long way - Report #1, which we released on October 24, 2019, is dedicated to the first week after the game's release in Early Access. A few years later, we celebrated the premiere of the full version of the game, the console release, and the first DLC. A crazy and very tiring journey, but extremely rewarding at the end.

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But that doesn't mean we're standing still. We’re very close to the release of the next DLC, in which you’ll find new locations to visit. Can you recognize which place is this?



Of course, this is not the end! If you remember the previous report, we recently went on another trip to Ukraine, to the Chernobyl zone, to collect more materials that we intend to use in the near future.

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Do you remember those photos from the first day of our stay - the ones where you can see us taking pictures of the area, nearby buildings, and things left in them? We rummaged a bit on our memory cards, and it turns out that we’ve many more shots documenting our work. We know from experience that you like this type of photos. So we’re sharing them with you.

We had the most work to get photos from nearby buildings. We photographed everything, including every crack in the wall. Where we needed to, we put up the lights.

















We also took photos around the buildings.








All day's work, but thanks to it we can recreate these objects in our game in a 1: 1 scale.



In the video below, you can see how this magic works.



As we have already mentioned, our work was not limited only to taking photos, but also recording the sounds of the environment, also inside buildings. Each sound designer will tell you how important it is to record the sounds of nature not only in the field, but also in a room with walls. All this to reflect reality in the smallest possible detail.







We do a similar process around the chimney…










...and its interior.














Has the performance of such titanic work (and in the cold) paid off? You will find out about it soon.

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