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takes place in 2026 with players attempting to survive and defend themselves against the forest in destroyed cities and encampments. Players can choose to join a faction to gain access to supplies and resources. There are currently four factions, although Vostok Games has stated that they intend to
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A worldwide ecological disaster occurred in the year 2020, wiping out approximately 90% of the human race. The disaster takes the form of a fast-growing forest, that actively seeks out threats to its growth and destroys them. Such targets include weapons manufacturers, military installations and
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The free play game mode will contain a large, session based map with limited numbers of players in it at one time. Players will enter the map at a random point and can freely explore the map to scavenge supplies and uncover components of the story. Players can choose to work together with other
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On 13 May 2013, the alpha test started in Russian and Ukrainian-speaking territories. The alpha launched internationally a few weeks later. The closed beta testing for the PvP mode began on 20 December 2013 although it did not have even have 50% of the planned content implemented at the time.
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The PvP mode is intended to allow players to represent their chosen factions and combat against rival factions. There are currently five modes available: Team Deathmatch, Artifact Hunt, Research, Battery Retrieval, and Slaughter. The latter was added in
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have nine factions upon completion, however not all will be playable as some are intended to add support to the story as players progress. The factions all follow different ideals and often conflict with that of other factions, creating hostilities.
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The cause of the disaster is not known, stated to be discovered by players as they progress through the game. The story itself is intended to be shaped by choices made by players while representing their chosen factions.
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into one massive game world," but no mention has been made of increasing the number of players allowed to interact simultaneously in the game world to achieve the status of being a true MMOFPS.
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and dissolved the company. In March 2012, former employees from GSC Game World founded Vostok Games with capital from Vostok Ventures Ltd, and announced subsequently the development of
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laboratories that are working on methods of stopping the spread of the forest. No manmade efforts to stop the forest worked, with only natural barriers being able to slow it down.
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during a meeting with employees. Despite the company's initial denials in response to press inquiries, the media widely reported that senior management had officially cancelled
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players, fight against them or avoid them altogether. Players will be able to leave the map with all earned items by getting to one of the exit points located around each map.
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If a player is killed, they lose all items found during that session and are moved back to the lobby where they can enter another free play instance.
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series, the developers intend to include comparable features, notably the anomalies and artifacts that reference the Russian science-fiction novel
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both in written and video form. There are three planned game modes announced so far.
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On 9 December 2011, video game journalists reported that Sergei Grigorovich, the
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Vostok said in March that it was taking "a break from our work" because of the
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were made by the founder of the Ukrainian melodic death metal band Firelake.
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The cooperative game mode is intended to contain the main story arc of
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s servers went offline for good at 11:59 pm Kyiv time on 31 May 2022.
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through a venture capital following the purported cancellation of
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At this point in development and for the foreseeable future,
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Developer(s)
Vostok Games
Publisher(s)
Platform(s)
Microsoft Windows
Steam Early Access
Genre(s)
First-person shooter
Multiplayer
free-to-play
online
first-person shooter
role-playing
survival
Vostok Games
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2
GSC Game World
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
Roadside Picnic
massively multiplayer online
first-person shooter

IgroMir
chief executive officer
Russian invasion of Ukraine

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