"This is the most reasonable and wise thing to do": survival shooter Road to Vostok's dev plans to recharge a bit before tackling fixes and larger updates

"We privation to support that 1 developer successful moving information for galore years to come"

Finnish survivashooter Road to Vostok has fared precise good since wandering retired of the aboriginal entree gates past week, and its solo developer Antti Leinonen's present turning his thoughts towards however he'll physique connected that going forwards. However, he's keen not to unreserved into immoderate fixes oregon enactment connected overhauls/additions, alternatively taking immoderate clip to get backmost to 100% pursuing what sounds similar an aggravated propulsion to this archetypal build.

While Leinonen wrote successful a Steam station implicit the play that he's "already tempted" to commencement fixing and tweaking, but he's resisting that impulse owed to past experience. "Getting to this aboriginal entree required beauteous insane enactment hours and worldly that I would not urge for others, but I made those decisions since I wanted to springiness this merchandise the champion alteration for the motorboat and I anticipation the effort shows successful the game," helium wrote. "And however is this related to hotfixes? Well, based connected my anterior acquisition if you commencement making tweaks and particularly code-changes nether this heavy-load, you tin easy hole 1 thing, but you accidentally make 2 caller problems oregon immoderate unexpected issues erstwhile you are not moving connected 100% intelligence clarity.

"Since the crippled is performing truly good connected Steam and works similar intended for [the] bulk of the players, I truly don't privation to screw things up by making accidental mistakes. I person decided that I volition person this archetypal idiosyncratic betterment archetypal and lone aft that I volition leap backmost into the code. I deliberation this is the astir tenable and omniscient happening to do."

The developer reckons it'll instrumentality different week for him to beryllium acceptable to commencement dishing retired hotfixes, with that clip giving him a accidental to sift done an inbox that helium says is overflowing with astir 11,000 emails he's not had a accidental to look astatine yet. Then, erstwhile the archetypal hotfixes are out, Leinonen plans to instrumentality a "proper break" from development, thing helium says he's not had successful the past 4 years, starting enactment connected 2nd build, which'll see an AI overhaul and immoderate different "major additions".

Road to Vostok's website presently lists this 2nd physique arsenic aiming for merchandise sometime betwixt that commencement of July and the extremity of September this twelvemonth - Q3 successful corpospeak. Dubbed Nomads, it'll adhd a caller map, shelter, and a affable faction. A "Driver (Trader)"'s besides planned, which I presume is simply a bloke who sells worldly retired of the footwear of his motor. Finally, the aforementioned AI overhaul volition let NPCs to combat each different and adhd caller "variants" of AI, which I presume means much assortment successful behaviours.